Tuesday, November 19, 2013

The Characteristics

On Page One Forty four, Sayadaw lays out a few more characteristics of the four elements (12 total):

Earth: hardness, roughness, heaviness, softness, smoothness, lightness.
Water: flowing and cohesion
Fire: heat and coldness
Wind: supporting and pushing.

Also he says they are taught in this order (of easiest to most difficult to discern):

pushing, hardness, roughness, heaviness, supporting, softness, smoothness, lightness, coldness, cohesion, flowing; each discerned in one place in the body and then throughout.

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