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According to the [[Abhidharma]] teachings, all human physical and mental '''faculties''' (Skt. ''indriya''; Tib. [[དབང་པོ་]], ''wangpo'', [[Wyl.]] ''dbang po'') can be encompassed in a list of twenty-two faculties.<ref>List based on [[Mipham Rinpoche]]’s [[Khenjuk]]</ref> | |||
*1-6) The six of the eye faculty, ear faculty, nose faculty, tongue faculty, body faculty the mind faculty. These six control the apprehending of their individual objects. | *1-6) The six of the eye faculty, ear faculty, nose faculty, tongue faculty, body faculty the mind faculty. These six control the apprehending of their individual objects. | ||
*7) The life faculty controls the remaining in a similar class [of sentient beings]. | *7) The life faculty controls the remaining in a similar class [of sentient beings]. | ||
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Faculties are therefore called controlling faculties. | Faculties are therefore called controlling faculties. | ||
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Revision as of 10:12, 23 August 2019
According to the Abhidharma teachings, all human physical and mental faculties (Skt. indriya; Tib. དབང་པོ་, wangpo, Wyl. dbang po) can be encompassed in a list of twenty-two faculties.[1]
- 1-6) The six of the eye faculty, ear faculty, nose faculty, tongue faculty, body faculty the mind faculty. These six control the apprehending of their individual objects.
- 7) The life faculty controls the remaining in a similar class [of sentient beings].
- 8-9) The male and female faculties form the respective physical supports [for being male or female] and control the unbroken continuity of births from a womb.
- 10-14) The five faculties of the sensations of pleasure, pain, mental pleasure, mental pain, and of neutral sensation control the experiences of the fully ripened results [of karma].
- 15-19) The five faculties of faith, diligence, recollection, concentration, and discrimination control the mundane virtues or the purity [of detachment].
- 20-22) The faculties of 'making all understood', of 'understanding all,' and of ‘having understood all' consist of faith and so forth in the stream-of-being of, [respectively, someone on the paths of] seeing, cultivation, and no-training. They control the supramundane purities [of noble beings].
Faculties are therefore called controlling faculties.
Notes
- ↑ List based on Mipham Rinpoche’s Khenjuk