The Four Elements In Theravada Buddhism

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The results revealed that the 4 elements in Theravada Buddhism related into 3 aspects as 1) body 2) mental and 3) doctrines. Whenever four elements are changed inside the body that caused sufferings, happiness and neither pain nor happiness more or less depends on the natural condition. It can be known by one who are practicing or developing the tranquility and insight meditation until realizing the Three Characteristics. They can detachment and achieve enlightenment. Those three relationships depend on the body and can be used as a tool for practicing or considering to the mental factors as they are. The method and path to deliverance, at the first step, ones needs to have the good friends or Kalyànฺamittatà, observing the morality

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