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How do you understand Earth, Wind, Water, and Fire in Buddhism and Yin-Yang and Five Elements in Taoism? Do they conflict with each other?

Both are analyzing the world from different perspectives, and are not in themselves antagonistic or contradictory. The four great elements of Buddhism refer to four categories of characteristics and uses, and are derived from the ancient Indian Brahmanic creation myths, which aim to illustrate the interconnectedness of the material world to form a unity, not for the purpose of categorization, but to illustrate how the various things in the world can be combined. The Yin-Yang and Five Elements of Taoism came from the Yin-Yang family of the pre-Qin Dynasty and was later borrowed from Taoism, which analyzes all the tangible and qualitative things in the world and then categorizes and summarizes them. Indian thought is to look at things from the subtle, and then know that the thing itself is a combination of dispersion is "not a non-I am very", Taoist thought is to look at the problem from a macroscopic point of view from a large place to see the characteristics of the things know that all have their own characteristics belonging to.