IUF 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Filial Piety, Hedonic Treadmill, Ayurveda

• School: University of Florida
• Department: Geological Sciences
• Course: IUF 1000
• Professor: Shehan Connie

Document Summary

Five elements: ayurveda is a 6000-year-old science that originated in india. Search for unity; all elements of the body working together physical health needed for mental and spiritual health: also a way of living the idea of mind, body, and spirit working together. The six arts (ritual, music, archery, chariot-riding, calligraphy, and computation) Ren (compassion for others: de (virtue, he argues that men are responsible for their actions and especially for their treatment of others. We can do little or nothing to alter our fated span of existence but we determine what we accomplish and what we are remembered for. Confucius" position appears to be a middle course between learning and reflecting on what one has learned. Eight-fold path: wisdom: right understanding/insight, right thought/intention 2. Morality: right speech, right action, right livelihood 3. The middle way: avoid putting all of one"s efforts into intellectual or scholarly endeavors; be aware of earthly pleasures while going inward to find answers.