Six Senses

Backgound information

 

Experiments with the senses

Here some useful links to get you start

Links to Buddhist suttas and information

Extracts from a dhamma talk from Ajahn Chah about the senses

A dhamma talk by Ajahn Sumdeho about the senses

This article put the six sense in term of dependant origination
http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/depend.htm

look here for more information of dependant arising
http://www.buddhanet.net/nutshell08.htm
http://www.buddhamind.info/leftside/arty/wh-12-txt.htm

An Analysis of the Six Sense-media
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/sutta/majjhima/mn137.html

The Great Six Sense-media Discourse
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/5354/mn-149.htm

 The Development of the Faculties.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/5354/mn-152.htm

A Mahayana approach to the six senses
http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma/heartsutra.html

The six creatures – a sutta that links to the six senses
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/sutta/samyutta/sn35-206.html

Punna Sutta
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/5354/sn35-88.htm

Want something very technical Buddhism about the sense
Human Existence in Terms of Twelve Spheres and Eighteen Elements
http://www.buddhismtoday.com/english/buddha/Teachings/022-tnt-twelve.htm

First Events After the Attainment. I. The Buddha. Translated from the Mah-Vagga, and constituting the opening sections. Hail to that Blessed One, that Saint, and Supreme Buddha! 1909-14. Buddhist Writings. The Harvard Classics
http://www.bartleby.com/45/3/104.html

The Summum Bonum. II. The Doctrine. Translated from the Majjhima-Nikya, and constituting Sutta 26. 1909-14. Buddhist Writings. The Harvard Classics (this sutta has the quote that Ajahn Sumedhos uses when he gives a talk .. the doors to the deathless are open)
http://www.bartleby.com/45/3/216.html

from the dammapada (about senses and lust)
http://www.bartleby.com/45/3/209.html

 The all sutta- beyond the senses!
http://www.cambodianbuddhist.org/english/website/canon/samyutta/sn35-023.html

 

Non-buddhist links regarding the six-senses

Where is the mind in all of this - where is the no-mind?

Neuroscience for kids- the senses
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/chsense.html

the sense - the body good sight

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/tv/humansenses/

six-senses
http://www.school-for-champions.com/senses.htm

making sense of sense - scientific stuff
http://www.hhmi.org/senses/

lesson plane for the five sense (no mind!)
http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/YLP/97-98/97-98_units/97-98mini-unit/MCurtiss_FiveSenses/table_content.htm

art - some of the links don't work as of (16/12/03)
http://www.artnetweb.com/projects/sbeck2/sixsenses.html

healing thru the six-sense
http://library.thinkquest.org/C007951/

general link for teenagers/parents
the sense
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/mind/index.shtml