SIX SENSE FACULTIES - Salayatana
| "With mentality-materiality
as condition the six sense faculties arise." As the psycho-physical organism grows and evolves, the five physical sense faculties appear; the eye, ear, nose, tongue and body. There is also the mind faculty, the organ of thought, which coordinates the other sense data and also cognizes its own objects - ideas, images, concepts, etc. The six sense faculties serve as our means for gathering information about the world. Each faculty can receive the type of sense data appropriate to itself. The eye receives form, the ear sounds, nose smells etc. Thus we come to the next link. |