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The mind, empty, effulgent, and infinite in its potentiality, can be understood as having five basic qualities: emptiness, mobility, clarity, continuity, and stability. These qualities correspond to one of the five basic elements: space, air, fire, water, and earth.
We have already described the mind as non-material: it is indefinite, omnipresent, and incorporeal, a void with the nature of space.
Thoughts and states constantly arise in the mind; such movement and fluctuation are the nature of the air element.
In addition, the mind is clear; it has the cognizing faculty, and this clear effulgence is the nature of the element of fire.
Also, the mind is continuous; everything it experiences is a continuous flow of thoughts and sensations. This continuity is the nature of the element of water.
Finally, the mind is the basis or foundation from which all cognizable things arise in both sansara and nirvana, and this is the nature of the element of earth.
Kalu Rinpoche
BY Meditations of a Yogin
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