Meditation on the four elements — My second video Dhamma talk. In this talk you’ll learn practical steps: setting a quiet space, reciting the element names, perceiving elemental qualities in everyday experience, and body-scanning techniques to develop insight and inspiration. This talk explains how each element can reveal deeper capacities — earth for confidence and firmness, water for empathy and depth, fire for inner light and clarity, and air for lightness and subtle energy (prāna/chakras). If you’ve practiced ānāpāna and want a complementary method, this guide helps you stay with what works while exploring new insights. Download my booklet on the Four Elements and/or Paramattha for deeper context ➙ https://highermindart.info/books
These are the topics covered:
00:00 Intro – What Are the Four Elements?
03:56 How to Meditate: Setup, Recitation, and Perception
05:53 Using the Four Elements as a Mantra or Prayer
11:32 Body Scanning Techniques for Insight
15:12 Higher Experiences: Superior Aspects of the Four Elements
15:32 Superior Earth Element: Confidence and Strength
18:25 Superior Water Element: Genuine Compassion and Depth
22:05 Superior Fire Element: Inner Light and Visualization
28:00 Examples from Daily Life
30:50 Tummo Practice and Fire’s Power
31:53 Superior Air Element: Being in Tune, Prāna, and Chakras
36:51 Closing Blessing and Resources
Short note on recording/editing:
This talk was lightly edited to remove extended pauses while preserving the natural flow of the teaching. Thank you for listening with an open heart.
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