Tag: senses
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Demistifying the No Self
Senses are what enable us to experience life. The well-known five senses are sight, smell, touch, hearing, and taste. And there is one more: the mind. These senses come into contact with their objects throughout our lives. For example, the sense of sight perceives colors, shapes, and other visible objects. However, we can only see…
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Let go ego.
Remember the six senses? Senses enable us to experience life as human. These senses allow us to have feelings when they meet their objects. But can we control these feelings from arising? It might not be easy, but we can acknowledge feelings arise without any judgements. We can acknowledge pleasant contacts as pleasant, without any…
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Like and dislike.
Contacts are happened when senses meet objects. There are nice objects to see, to hear, to feel, to taste, to smell or to think of, the bad ones, and neutral ones. These contacts will cause feelings to arise, whether it is good, bad or neutral. Feelings like these are inevitable, e.g.: we acknowledge a delicious…
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Perception
Perceptions arise by contacts through the senses. The information carried by the senses then processed by the brain to interpret the information into perceptions. Past experiences also might influence with the output (perceptions). Though, there are nothing wrong with perception A, B, or C which all perceptions might valid in certain contexts, but having (specific)…