[MD] Being-Aware

[MarshaV]

At 04:26 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".
>
>Marsha
>You must have missed that when you were studying Buddhism.
>
>[Krimel]
>One of the reasons I quit studying Buddhism is that I value clear thinking.

Krimel,

Okay, I thought you were passing yourself off as a sock puppet who 
had studied Buddhism.  Or does the fact that Case called you his sock 
puppet, and you, Krimel, claimed to have studied Buddhism warrant 
special consideration.

Here is a review:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayatana

I think defining the senses as six is more compatible with this 
statement from LILA

"The Metaphysics of Quality subscribes to what is called empiricism. 
It claims that all legitimate human knowledge arises from the senses 
or by thinking about what the senses provide. "

Marsha





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