 Such speculation considers them as fundamental "aspects" of any physical object, definitely not very "parts" of a touchable object.The Four Elements are used in Buddhist texts to both elucidate the concept of suffering ("dukkha") and as an object of meditation.The earliest Buddhist texts explain that the four primary material elements are the sensory qualities solidity, fluidity, temperature, and mobility; their characterisation as earth, water, fire, and air, respectively, is declared an abstraction – instead of concentrating on the fact of material existence, one observes how a physical thing is sensed, felt, perceived.