Live peacefully through the four great teachings.VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.

The Four Great Elements are not Buddhist explanations for the nature, phenomena of the universe and human life, in which the profound meaning is closely related to the Self, which is beyond the explanation of those who pursue purely on Jiu, Sac, Tai, Qi or other misleading interpretations.

Mahayana Buddhism has a number of terms, such as "The Four Great Elements", "The Four Great Suffering," or "The Four Great Bodies" ... but in everyday life we ​​generally understand that all Names, Benefits, and Talents , Sac then only dust, fake temporary but do not fully understand the profound meaning of the teachings of the Buddha? The misunderstanding repeated and "three stars lost" more and more made many people mistakenly think that the four stages are not Tuu, Sac, Tai, and Qi, taking them to illustrate those who are greedy, greedy, eager to benefit. . Or the trader who sells statues of the Four Great Elements without the images of the little monkeys or the four monkeys of bronze Do not Hear, Do Not Look, Do Not Think, Do Not Say and think that it is the symbol of the highest realm of meditation to ...?

In fact, the "Four Great Elements" is a Buddhist explanation for the nature and phenomena of the universe and human life, in which it implies a profound meaning closely related to the Self. beyond the explanation of those who pursue purely on Jiu, Sac, Tai, Qi or other misleading interpretations.

"The Four Great Elements" means that only the four elements constitute the objects: earth (earth), water (water), wind (wind), fire (fire). and developed from the ideas inherent in Indian philosophy, those elements or some other elements that were also perceived and understood by cosmological philosophy of the West and the East, the theory of the Five Elements, carpentry, water, fire, Chinese earth or earth, water, gas, fire of ancient Greece ...

Geography: There is a solid nature, supporting everything that makes everything not misleading

Water: Being liquid, wet collecting everything to make things unreliable

Fire: Being warm and warm, making everything mature without damage

Phong: Fluidity, growth of all things, no obstacles to regulate

These four elements are called the Four Great Elements because the characteristics of that Four Great are vast, necessarily turning into the Dharma; The appearance of the Four Great Four can be as big as a high mountain, deep sea, whirlwind, and great fire, so it has the meaning of a great form, and at the same time, the usage of the Four Great Elements, as the growth of all things. known as Dia Dai, Thuy Dai, Phong Dai and Hoa Dai.

Everything and phenomena in the universe rely on the four elements to form, for example, if a tree wants to bloom well, it needs fertile soil, the main land is "Dai Dai", and sufficient water is "Thuy Dai". , the warm light is "Hoa Dai", the air-conditioned air is "Phong Dai", without one of the Four Great, the flowers do not bloom well. The body of sentient beings, too, is formed by the four great fathers, just like humans, high-ranking animals in the universe, the flesh and bones of the Earth are solid, the blood of sputum is Thuy Dai has the wet nature, the warm temperature of the body is Hoa Dai, the breathing is Phong Dai. Our survival body is made up of the Four Great Elements, one of the unstable regulation of the Four Great Elements will cause the body to produce related diseases, if the Four Great Elements in the body disperse, life then dies, slightly Breathing back to Phong Dai, the body warmth returned to Fire, sputum blood returned to Water Dai and the flesh and bones returned to the Earth. Therefore, everything in the world or the body of sentient beings are the premiers of the Four Great Elements which combine to form and not have any other entity.

For example, in the rugged mountains and forests, the Dai Dai is relatively growing, in the wet lake, the Water Dai is growing, the other three Dai are waiting for conditions of predestined harmony to manifest on its utility. When the temperature of water is below 0 degrees it will condense into ice and snow, becoming the Earth, when the temperature reaches over 100 degrees it turns into a gaseous state, becoming Phong Dai. Since the four Great Elements meet predestined relationships, their nature is difficult to achieve, so the "Four Great Elements" are the only universal truths of the universe that are all non-reality. the entity that has the form is a fake that becomes successful, when the Four Great Elements dissolve, the entity perishes.

If we do not understand the profound meaning of the Four Great Elements, there should not be much suffering in everyday life, creating a career of delusion. Seeing that the break of the strawberry, the metamorphosis, but the mental chaos, met the separation of life and the plaintive of plaintive plaintive, resentment, facing the fame and fame that deluded the mind, even tormented itself, miserable. Accept things outside the body to own as their own to seek extravagant frivolity, desire to base six pleasures that create karma of samsara, burning and burning in the ceiling of five desires.

Mahayana Buddhism with the four stages is not meant to lead us to understand the temporary illusion of the material world, the unreality of the material world. The Buddha's Emptiness is not greed, ignorance, non-attachment, not grasping in the form of arising and falling away, not the Buddha can use magical power to dissolve everything. Acknowledging that helps us to reflect on ourselves, cultivating the mind and cultivating the innumerable talents in the mind to seek true happiness, to seek eternal happiness in our spiritual life, making our body and mind often peaceful, lucid and pure.END=NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).GOLDEN AMITABHA MONASTERY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.21/7/2020.