ED,

Of course in the case of zen you'd have to drop the 'external' and 
'apprehended?' (did you mean 'comprehended' or 'experienced'?).

My definition of 'sentient' is a being that has the ability to experience.

...Bill!

--- In [email protected], "ED" <seacrofter001@...> wrote:
>
> 
> 
> 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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