What do you mean, nothing? What are the "Big Four"?

All four are empty. Where are the four empty ones? People who don't understand Buddhism will blurt out: "wine, color and wealth are empty!" " "In fact, this has nothing to do with what the Buddhists said. It's just a bull's head. Buddhism refers to four material factors: land, water, fire and wind. These four concepts were not invented by Buddhism, but the result of human's initial exploration of the universe itself. There is almost the same trend in the history of philosophical thought between the East and the West. For example, the five elements of "water, fire, gold, wood and earth" recorded in China's Book of Songs; The formation of the world mentioned in this episode of India's ancient Vedas is based on five natural factors: land, water, wind, fire and air. Empedocles, an ancient Greek philosopher, also proposed that "air, water, earth and fire" are the four unchanging elements in the universe. In short, no matter the five elements, the five big ones and the four big ones, they all refer to the basic elements of the material world. If we confine ourselves to this and stick to it, the result of development will be materialism. Therefore, these thoughts are also the pioneers of materialism. Buddhism emphasizes that everything is empty, which is deepened and Buddhistized according to the inherent concept of India, because the four elements of earth, water, fire and wind are cosmic physics. For example, mountains belong to a large area of land, oceans and rivers belong to a large area of water, hot sunshine belongs to a large area of fire, and air flow in space belongs to a large area of wind. If they are turned into human physiology, their hair and flesh are big, their blood secretion is big, their body temperature is big, and their breathing is big; From the four physical properties, hardness belongs to big, wet belongs to big water, temperature belongs to big fire, and flow belongs to strong wind. However, in any case, the four majors belong to the material world after all and cannot summarize the spiritual world. There are also differences between Hinayana and Mahayana in the four concepts of Buddhism. Generally speaking, the four things mentioned in Hinayana Buddhism refer to the basic causes of material phenomena, which are called four kinds. It means that earth, water, fire and wind are the seeds of all material phenomena, and everything is due to the harmonious distribution of the four things; Four major harmonies will flourish and four major contradictions will be destroyed. This is the case with physical phenomena, and so is the case with physiological phenomena. Therefore, Buddhists call patients sick "four major violations." The purpose of observing the four kinds of Hinayana Buddhism is to let people see our four kinds of illusions, not to take color as the truth. We don't create all kinds of life and death careers because color is for me. Once you look at me, you will enter Hinayana nirvana and will not be reincarnated. Mahayana Buddhism refers not to the fundamental elements, but to the phenomenon of the state of things, which is false and untrue. For the formation of objects, it only increases the upper edge rather than the fundamental law. Although it is acknowledged that four is the seed of an object, it is not considered that four is the true face of an object. Hinayana Buddhism, because it is only empty without me, not empty and impossible, still believes that the four micro-"dharma" is true, although it is empty without objects. However, Hinayana Buddhism is not materialism, but pluralism, because the emptiness of Buddhism is not only empty to the big four, but also empty to the five aggregates; Four is just one of the five aggregates. Five aggregates are the law of life and death within the three realms. Only when the five aggregates are empty can we transcend the life and death of the three realms. At the same time, we also prove that Buddhism not only says that everything is empty, but further says that everything is empty. More importantly, the focus of Buddhism is not the four major, but the knowledge connotation. As for the three connotations of acceptance, thinking and action, they are also the foil of knowledge connotation, which is used to show the broad and great functions of the spiritual world.