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Five Taoist Elements for Organs and Emotions

December 28, 2017 by Dan Ma 1 Comment

 
Element Metal Water Wood Fire Earth
Yin Organ Lungs Kidneys Liver Heart Spleen & Pancreas
Yang Organ Large Intestine Bladder Gall Bladder Small Intestine Stomach
Sensory Organ Nose Ears Eyes Tongue Mouth
Body Part Skin Bones Tendons Pulse Muscles
Body Fluid Mucus Urine Tears Sweat Saliva
Sound SSS CHOO SHH HAW WHO
Color White Blue Green Red Yellow
Yang Emotion Courage, Righteousness, and Justice Gentleness & Stillness Generosity, Kindness, and Forgiveness Love, Joy, and Happiness Openess, Trust, and Fairness
Yin Emotion Sadness & Depression Fear Jealousy & Envy Hate, Cruelty, and Impatience Worry, Anxiety, and Mistrust
Season Autumn / Fall Winter Spring Summer Indian Summer
Months August, September, and October November, December, and January February, March, and April May, June, and July No months
Climate Dry Cool Moist Warm Mild
Taste Pungent Salty Sour Bitter Sweet
Sense Smell Hearing Sight Speech Taste
Smell Rotten Putrid Rancid Scorched Fragrant
Planet Venus Mercury Jupiter Mars Saturn
Direction West North East South Center
Trigram ☱ ☵ ☳ ☲ ☷
I Ching Lake Water Thunder Fire Field
Mental Quality Rationality Resourcefulness Spontaneity Passion Honesty
Life Adulthood Old Age & Conception Early Childhood Pre-puberty Adolescence
Animal Furred Shelled Scaly Feathered Human
Combat Splitting Drilling Crushing Pounding Crossing
Ancient Taoism is rooted in the belief of a Universal Force, which has two qualities known as Yin and Yang, the polarities of the primordial force. Taoism believes the universe is made of five physical elements:
  1. Metal
  2. Water
  3. Wood
  4. Fire
  5. Earth
There are five immaterial processes of energy that are expressed in the material elements:
  1. Metal = energy solidifying
  2. Water = energy sinking
  3. Wood = energy expanding
  4. Fire  = energy rising
  5. Earth = energy centered
These elemental processes are expressions of energy that can be found in both nature and the universe. The very same forces that we find in nature with the five elements, can be found In humans we find their expressions in our five major organs. The five expressions of energies can be observed moving the galaxies.

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  1. Rebecca Tolle says

    December 29, 2017 at 3:31 am

    This sentence fascinates me:
    “The five expressions of energies can be observed moving the galaxies.”

    Reply

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