[MD] Being-Aware

[MarshaV]

At 03:59 PM 9/25/2008, you wrote:
>[Marsha]
>There are six senses: sight, hearing, touch, smell, taste and
>mind.  Perceptual awareness may be of a mental pattern.  These six
>senses of perception seem to cover everything.
>
>[Krimel]
>The number of senses is a bit arbitrary. Them as several senses that get
>lumped under touch: pain, proprioception, balance, and heat to name the most
>obvious. But "mind" is most assuredly not a "sense".

Krimel,

You must have missed that when you were studying Buddhism.


Marsha




>Sensation refers to the activation of the various receptor cells in our
>bodies that convert energy from the environment, (light, motion and
>chemistry) into nervous impulses.
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>Perception is an entirely different process but I often fear that people
>here either do not understand or do not recognize the distinction.
>Perception is, specifically, the process of making sense of the senses. It
>is the mental process of organizing sense data into meaning. Perception is
>the act of creating illusions.
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Shoot for the moon.  Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.........
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