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According to the Buddha, the mind has four sublime states. The four sublime states of mind that have been taught by the Buddha are Love or Loving-kindness; Compassion; Sympathetic Joy and Equanimity.

These four attitudes are said to be excellent. These four states are sublime because they are the right attitude towards living beings. They are the ideal way of conduct towards living beings. They provide, in fact, the answer to all situations arising from social contact. Love or loving kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy and equanimity are the great removers of tension. They are the great peace-makers in social conflict, and they are the great healers of wounds that are suffered in the struggle of existence.

Love or loving kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy and equanimity level social barriers. They can build harmonious communities. They can awaken slumbering magnanimity that is long forgotten. Can revive joy and hope long abandoned, and they can promote human brotherhood against the forces of egotism. They should become the mind’s constant dwelling-places. They should become those places in the mind where we feel “at home”; they should not remain merely places of rare and short visits that are soon forgotten. In other words, our minds should become thoroughly saturated by these four sublime states. They should become our inseparable companions, and we should be mindful of them in all our everyday common activities.

The four sublime states of the mind, that is, love, compassion, sympathetic joy and equanimity are also known as the boundless states. The four states should be non-exclusive. They should be impartial. They should not be bound by selective preferences. Nor should they be bound by prejudices. A mind having these four sublime states will not harbour any national, racial, religious or class hatred.

In meditative exercises, the selection for people to whom thoughts of love, compassion or sympathetic joy are directed, proceeds from the easier to the more difficult. For instance, when you are sitting down and meditating on loving-kindness, you should start first for your own well-being.  You should begin with an aspiration for your own well-being, and then use it as a point of reference for gradual extension. Gradually you extend it for others.

 “Just as I wish to be happy and free from suffering, so may that being … may all beings be happy and free from suffering!”

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Since the question is not clear that what does this person wanted to know .But yes from my understanding it may be related to sublimation etc.

Sublimation is the transition from the solid phase to the gas phase without passing through an intermediate liquid phase. This endothermic phase transition occurs at temperatures and pressures below the triple point.

Water is an obvious example: When ice turns into water vapor without undergoing the liquid transformation. Ice cube goes straight to vapor, melting not included which means no liquid product.