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All that exist

Spirit of Light

Be who ever you want
In this physical world we live all that exist is 4 elements

Earth
Water
Fire
Air

How can this be? If you brake down everything all around us including our self is made up by this four elements. Human body is only made up by four elements.

This 4 Element i talk about come from the teching of the buddha in Buddhism.

What is your thought?
 
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ChristineM

"Be strong", I whispered to my coffee.
Premium Member
In this physical world we live all that exist is 4 elements

Earth
Water
Fire
Air

How can this be? If you brake down everything all around us including our self is made up by this four elements. Human body is only made up by four elements.

What is your thought?

They are not elements
 

crossfire

LHP Mercuræn Feminist Heretic Bully ☿
Premium Member
In this physical world we live all that exist is 4 elements

Earth
Water
Fire
Air

How can this be? If you brake down everything all around us including our self is made up by this four elements. Human body is only made up by four elements.

What is your thought?
You forgot space-time.
 

Spirit of Light

Be who ever you want
The hard and solid parts of our body make up the earth element; the liquid and flowing parts, the water element. Winds that pass up and down our body make up the wind element, and the heat in our body, the fire element. Taken together, they compose what we call a “human being”. However, when the body is broken down into its component parts, only these four elements remain. The Buddha taught that there is no “being” per se, no human, no person, but that ultimately, there are only these four elements
 

beenherebeforeagain

Rogue Animist
Premium Member
In this physical world we live all that exist is 4 elements

Earth
Water
Fire
Air

How can this be? If you brake down everything all around us including our self is made up by this four elements. Human body is only made up by four elements.

What is your thought?
for me, they represent states of matter...
Earth = Solids
Water = Liquids
Fire = Plasma
Air = Gas

They are what we experience as reality...along with gravity, electromagnetism, etc....
 

beenherebeforeagain

Rogue Animist
Premium Member
The hard and solid parts of our body make up the earth element; the liquid and flowing parts, the water element. Winds that pass up and down our body make up the wind element, and the heat in our body, the fire element. Taken together, they compose what we call a “human being”. However, when the body is broken down into its component parts, only these four elements remain. The Buddha taught that there is no “being” per se, no human, no person, but that ultimately, there are only these four elements
to me, "things" are analogous to the temporary standing waves seen in rivers, or clouds in the atmosphere...transient and separate only in perspective.
 

lostwanderingsoul

Well-Known Member
The hard and solid parts of our body make up the earth element; the liquid and flowing parts, the water element. Winds that pass up and down our body make up the wind element, and the heat in our body, the fire element. Taken together, they compose what we call a “human being”. However, when the body is broken down into its component parts, only these four elements remain. The Buddha taught that there is no “being” per se, no human, no person, but that ultimately, there are only these four elements
Maybe the Buddha needs a science class.
 

crossfire

LHP Mercuræn Feminist Heretic Bully ☿
Premium Member
I do not reject what you say in your aswer here :) But if you again take it futher down you end up with the 4 in the way i understand it :) But as said before i am not enlighten yet, so there might be details i do not see yet.
Space-time would most definitely be a physical property, imo. I can't see how it could not be, because you can't have solid-liquid-gas-energy without physical space-time to contain them, imo. (Unless, of course, you are just thinking of the concepts, then you need consciousness to contain the ideal concepts.)
 

Spirit of Light

Be who ever you want
Space-time would most definitely be a physical property, imo. I can't see how it could not be, because you can't have solid-liquid-gas-energy without space-time, imo.
I do not mean to sound rude or be an A...s here, but does not space time contain the 4 elements i talk about? I may ofcourse be wrong
 
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