Like Edgar says, you try to understand the world through your sensory organs. 
But how do you know if they are correct? The same world is 'understood' by 
different sensory organs with different results. Sakyamuni says 'beware of your 
sensory organs'.
 
Anthony


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From: ED <[email protected]>
To: [email protected] 
Sent: Tuesday, 19 June 2012, 22:05
Subject: [Zen] Re: What Buddha Actually Did


  

Bill,
I like it.
"(sentiency) sense: the faculty through which the external world is apprehended"
--ED
 
--- In [email protected], "Bill!" <BillSmart@...> wrote:
>
> I disagree.
> 
> 'Sentient beings' are beings that have sensory organs. All the rest of the 
> qualities mentioned like 'mental entities such as perceptions, beliefs, 
> opinions, attitudes,desires, moods, values, prejudices, convictions, 
> assumptions,preconceptions, biases, habit patterns, dispositions, sentiments, 
> judgments, addictions,impulses, compulsions,
> compunctions, obsessions, scruples, delusions, views, concepts, thoughts, 
> ideas, etc....' are illusions and are exactly what zen practice helps you 
> dissolve attachments to.
> 
> ...Bill!
 

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