Classification of Material Elements in terms of their

Characteristics, Function, Manifestation, and Proximate Cause

No.	Element Name	Characteristic	Function	Manifestation	Proximate Cause
1	Earth	Hardness, rigidity, stiffness, harshness	Foundation or support for other material elements	Receiving	Water, Fire and Air elements; Held together by water element, maintained by fire element and distended by air element
2	Water	Fluidity, Trickling, or oozing	To intensify coexisting material states	Cohesion, holding together	Earth, Fire and Air elements; Founded on earth element, maintained by fire element, and distended by air element.
3	Fire	Heat, temperature, maintenance, digestion	To mature or ripen coexisting material states	Continuous supply of softness	Earth, Water and Air elements; Established on Earth element, held together by Water element and distended by Air element
4	Air	Distention, conveyance, movement	To cause motion in other material elements	Conveyance to other places	Earth, Water, and Fire elements
5	Eye-Sensitivity (Subtle-Eye Matter)	Sensitivity springing from desire to see	To pick up visible datum or forms as an object	Base for eye-consciousness	Earth-water-fire-air elements born out of desire to see
6	Ear-Sensitivity (Subtle-Ear Matter)	Sensitivity springing from desire to hear	To pick up sound or audible datum or forms as an object	Base for ear-consciousness	Earth-water-fire-air elements born out of desire to hear
7	Nose-Sensitivity (Subtle-Nose Matter)	Sensitivity springing from desire to smell	To pick up smell or odor as an object	Base for Nose-consciousness	Earth-water-fire-air elements born out of desire to smell
8	Tongue-Sensitivity (Subtle-Eye Matter)	Sensitivity springing from desire to taste	To pick up taste or flavor as an object	Base for Tongue-consciousness	Earth-water-fire-air elements born out of desire to taste
9	Body-Sensitivity (Subtle-Body Matter)	Sensitivity springing from desire to touch	To pick up tactile sensations as an object	Base for body-consciousness	Earth-water-fire-air elements born out of desire to touch
10	Visible Form	Impinging on the visual sense base	To become object of eye-consciousness	Resort of the respective sense consciousness	Earth-water-fire-air elements
11	Sound	Impinging on the sense bases	To become object of ear- consciousness	Resort of the respective sense consciousness	Earth-water-fire-air elements
12	Odor	Impinging on the sense bases	To become object of nose- consciousness	Resort of the respective sense consciousness	Earth-water-fire-air elements
13	Flavor/Taste	Impinging on the sense bases	To become object of tongue- consciousness	Resort of the respective sense consciousness	Earth-water-fire-air elements
14	Femininity	Female sexuality	To show femininity	Sexual structure of the body, male/female features or occupations, reason for the mark, sign, work and ways of male or female	Earth-water-fire-air elements and karma
15	Masculinity	Male Sexuality	To show masculinity	Sexual structure of the body, male/female features or occupations, reason for the mark, sign, work and ways of male or female	Earth-water-fire-air elements and karma
16	Mind-Sensitivity (Subtle-Heart Matter)	Physical support/base for mind or mind-consciousness elements	To support and uphold mind or mind-consciousness elements	Carrying of mind or mind-consciousness elements	Earth-water-fire-air elements and karma
17	Material-Life	Maintaining coexisting matter at the moment of their presence	To make the matter occur	Establishment of the presence of matter	Earth-water-fire-air elements that are to be maintained or sustained
18	Nutriment	Nutritive essence, nutritional substance	To uphold physical body	Fortifying or consolidating of the body	Gross edible food
19	Space	Delimiting of matter, voidness	To display boundaries of matter, to enable perceiving of various matter as distinct from each other	Confines of matter, state of gaps and apertures	Matter delimited
20	Bodily Intimation	Communication of ideas and feelings	To display intention	Cause of bodily movements	Air element born of consciousness
21	Vocal Intimation	Communication of ideas and feelings	To display intention	Cause of verbal expressions or voice	Earth element born of consciousness
22	Lightness	Diminishing of material heaviness, non-sluggishness	To crush heaviness in matter	Light transformability	Light matter
23	Flexibility	Diminishing of mental rigidity	To crush rigidity in matter	Non- resistance to any action	Flexible matter
24	Wield-ness	Calming and diminishing of unwieldiness in bodily action	To crush and to quiet down unwieldiness in matter	Non-weakness	Wieldy matter
25	Production	Launching or arising or setting up of matter	To make matter arise for the first time	Arisen matter or completed state of matter	Matter produced
26	Continuity	Occurrence of matter	To anchor the matter	Non-interruption in arising of matter	Matter to be anchored
27	Decay	Aging or decaying of matter	To lead matter towards termination	Loss of newness without loss of individual essence	Decaying Matter
28	Impermanence	Complete breaking up of matter	Make the matter subside	Destruction of matter, falling away of matter	Matter that is completely breaking-up