Guest guest Posted February 9, 2007 Report Share Posted February 9, 2007 sorry, i meant "possible to link together scientific knowledge in a _holistic_ fashion" > lastly, regarding the sciences, they are taught and practiced in a > disconnected fashion, but > it is possible to link together scientific knowledge in a > scientific fashion, and put things in > a context that science-minded people will understand - its a > crucial task because we have > been and will be dominated by science for a long time to come, and > we need to be > properly prepared to take on the premise of faulty science, not > with mysticism and > romanticism, but with an intelligent, generous and open mind Caldecott todd (AT) toddcaldecott (DOT) com www.toddcaldecott.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 9, 2007 Report Share Posted February 9, 2007 ayurveda, mandv m <mandakiniven wrote: > > I agree with you 100% Todd that ayurveda is practised > everywhere. > That is, where the mind is pure and where holism is > kept in mind. > I would like to say though that in the this modern > day kali yuga we do have the tendency to extract parts > of plants, use chemicals and fillers etc - this is not > holistic herbalism as far as I am concerned. > I feel that this type of herbalism is disconnected and > has the potential to be as harmful as the drugs used > in current day medicine. agreed - BUT, there still may be benefit in this, for e.g. in using isolated plant constituents such as vitamin C, sulphurophane, anthocyanins etc in the treatment of diseases like cancer > Though worship through puja may seem like empty ritual > the pujas are loaded with information on jyotish and > ayurveda. If we understand these two sciences we can > understand why we are offering certain things to the > gods, all puja is offered to a perceivably external > god for the benefit of the antaratma internal God. > Vedi mantras are not just words in Sanskrit, they are > configured by the combining of vibrational seed > sounds that imbibe the plant with deeper healing > properties and heal the plant as we pluck its leaves, > roots and flowers and empower the plant to propsper.. > This is not magic, but rather quantum physics. > \As you say, the same can be done to a degree by any > herbalist who loves the earth and sees the intrinsic > connection between all parts of nature. > But this can not be underestimated or brushed aside., > This component of herbalism is necessary because it > helps us humans remember that we and the earth are not > separate and will then keep us within our realms of > duty so that we do not exploit the planet. please be assured that i meant no disrespect - rather, i have enormous respect for all the vedic sciences and i accept them as truth, a truth that emanates as infinite rays of the sun, each one unique and singular and special i see that in order for an ayurvedic revolution to occur it needs to maintain a unitarian perspective, and specifically needs to be integrated with new social and cultural realities that reflect local and region conditions, as well as science my comments weren't to discount the value of ritual or vedic rituals specifically, but rather, in the tradition of many indian sages (eg. buddha, mahavira, kabir, guru nanak etc) to realize that ritualism is in itself is empty because all things are empty, and that from this emptiness we can create rituals that naturally evolve from an expanded awareness i also believe that all sound is sacred, but can exist in relative purity or dissonance, and that indeed the vedic mantras are created from the purist tones of reality, but that they are not the only expression of this purity and further, that even within this perception of purity another contrasting reality exists (the yin in the yang, the yang in the yin), that perhaps in the end it doesn't really matter so much as it matters that you _believe_ it to be for e.g. the tibetans routinely use and mispronounce sanskrit mantras all the time, and yet stress the importance of pronouncing them (im)properly in tibetan - who will come forward to say they are wrong? for me the common thread is that all this is found within the silence of the breath, the originator of sound, and from this exhalation... ahhhhhh (men) (llah) (ng) what difference is there really? best... todd Caldecott todd (AT) toddcaldecott (DOT) com www.toddcaldecott.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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