Hello friends and Venerable Sirs,
I was reading about four elements meditation. It’s stated what is maturing (ripening) or heat is the fire element. My question is how do we feel maturing (ripening)?
So firstly, one of quick understanding who wants to develop this meditation
subject should go into solitary retreat. Then he should advert to his own entire
material body and discern the elements in brief in this way: “In this body what
is stiffenedness or harshness is the earth element, what is cohesion or fluidity25
[352] is the water element, what is maturing (ripening) or heat is the fire element,
what is distension or movement is the air element.” And he should advert and
give attention to it and review it again and again as “earth element, water
element,” that is to say, as mere elements, not a living being, and soulless.
42. As he makes effort in this way it is not long before concentration arises in
him, which is reinforced by understanding that illuminates the classification of the elements, and which is only access and does not reach absorption because it
has states with individual essences as its object.