Many years ago, the editor went to a concert. When the band was talking, the drummer joked that listening to music can make people "purify the six senses". The lead singer suddenly took the opportunity to ask: Do you know which six senses are pure?

Speaking of the "six senses", an interesting thing happened to me. Many years ago, the editor went to the concert. When the band was talking, the drummer joked that listening to music can make people "clean the six senses". The lead singer suddenly took the opportunity to ask: Then do you know which six senses are , the six senses are purified ? The drummer was speechless for a moment, and hesitated and couldn't speak out his eyes, ears, nose, mouth...

After the editor went home, he checked it and said, "Wow, there are not only six senses, but also Six Dusts , Six Consciousness ... Can you say what these "six" mean?

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Buddhist human view

66 roots refer to the full range of physiology . Buddhism analyzes a person's composition from three aspects: psychology, physiology and physics. The six senses belong to physiology. Adding the physics of the six dusts and the psychology of the six consciousnesses is the sum of a person. The formation of the six senses, six dusts, and six consciousnesses is called , the eighteen realms, , the three great things of the eighteen realms. Categories form a tripod and use each other. If one type is missing, the other two types cannot exist.

Because the six dusts and six consciousnesses have to rely on the media of the six senses to be effective, the six dusts and six senses have to be valuable by the judgment of the six senses, and the six senses and six senses must be effective by the reflection of the six dusts.

If you want the next metaphor, then the six senses are mirrors, the six dusts are images reflected by the mirror, and the six consciousnesses are those who judge the images reflected in the mirror.

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What are the six senses, six dusts, and six consciousnesses

eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, and mind, from the perspective of the media functions of psychology and physics, they are called the six senses, which are physiological neural functions. The eyes have optic nerves, the ears have auditory nerves, the nose has olfactory nerves, the tongue has odor nerves, the body has sensation nerves, and the mind has brain nerves. These are the roots of the media of the heart and things, so they are called the six senses.

From the objects that the six senses come into contact, it is called the six dusts, which are all kinds of matter in physics. The color and shape seen by the eye root, the sound heard by the ear root, the fragrance and smell smelled by the nose root, the taste tasted by the tongue root, the thickness, heat and wetness of the body root, etc. The mind root is called " Dharma”——refers to extremely small and far-reaching things that are unpredictable, and these are called the six dusts.

The discriminatory power and memory generated by the six senses contacting the six dusts is called the six consciousnesses. If there are no six consciousnesses and only six senses and six dusts, then it is not a living person but a dead corpse. Therefore, the six consciousnesses are the operators of the six senses, and the six senses are the tools used by the six consciousnesses to contact the six dusts.

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What is the six senses pure

Because the six senses are the tools of the six consciousnesses, doing good and evil is certainly due to the proposition of the six consciousnesses, and the fact that good and evil behavior is caused by the role of the six senses. The reason why people suffer is caused by the six senses, such as the eye root greed for color, ear root greed for sound, nose root greed for fragrance, tongue root greed for taste, body root greed for fine and smooth, mind root greed for happiness.

There is greed, and there must be anger. Greed and anger come from ignorance - troubles. Together, it means "greed, anger, and ignorance".

In fact, any greed for the benefit of greed and pursuing the realm of things will always be impure. Whether it is to see, listen, smell, eat, wear, play or use it, as long as there is greed and reluctant to leave. The situation is that the six senses are impure.

If the six senses do not cling to the six dusts, and the six senses are not controlled and tempted by the six dusts, then the six senses will be liberation from the six dusts. The liberated six senses are the free six senses. The free six senses can naturally be mutually exclusive. Use without limits. These free six senses are the pure six senses. Although the free six senses still deal with the six dusts, they are no longer tempted by the six dusts and create the defiled karma of life and death, so they are called the purity of the six senses.

It is clearer that the so-called purity of the six senses is not that there are no six senses, but that our physiological functions no longer follow the illusions of the external environment. This is called spotless - but this is by no means possible in a casual time Something about.

What are the six senses, six dusts, and six consciousnesses? Do you know what are the six senses? Let me tell you to the fellow practitioners around you!

Article source丨Nanputuo Temple

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