Introduction
The following excerpts come from a book or document titled: “5
Element Meditations” by William Bodhri.
They are essentially about how the elements play a role in
the processes of birth and death.
In the formation of Life
“Following the same
process, before conception you can say we have no body, so we say
"everything is empty." Since the body's initial cause is a thought of
sex on the part of parents, this is the wind element arising. When the egg and
sperm come together and unify through the process of sexual intercourse, this
is the fire element of sexual activity and then the water element of cohesion.
Then of course we have the earth element appearing, which is the embryo. As the
fetus grows, that's the wind element exercising its functioning again, and the
process continues.”
In the Process of Death
“As to the process of
death, we can analyze the disintegration of physical life through an analysis
scheme of the five elements. First we get thinner and feel heavier because the
earth element starts to disintegrate. As the water element leaves our body, we
become thirsty and have difficulty talking. Next the body begins to cool, which
is the fire element leaving us … and when the wind element goes, we finally
breathe our last.”
End (871).
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