The 6 senses

[HermitLoon]

Sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch and awareness (the sense of "being").
And awareness - like the other 5 - does not require the thinking mind in order to function.

[kiki]

Yup!

[snowheight]

yeah, this is actually a great point of meditation ... it'll shut the 'ole churn factory right down ... Thanks for that 'Loon!

One that I used the other day was to discern between the living and non-living surfaces in my line of sight and to contemplate intellectually how what I am was actually aware of the living stuff as the living stuff and how it was the limitation of the illusion of identity which was preventing me from feeling that awareness.

[rachMiel]

That's a nice way to look at it, HermitLoon: awareness as (often dormant) sixth human sense. Helpful, because it presents awareness as a human birthright rather than an esoteric power available only to a few highly trained monks/masters.

[HermitLoon]

Thanks everyone.

[snowheight]

This is nothing more than a blatant bump.

Contemplate the first post as it has the potential to stop the mind dead in its tracks.