Psycho-physical faculties awareness

Description:

In Buddhist thought there are 21 psycho-physical faculties. Each human body is the base for its sense organs (5) and for both feminine and masculine sex characteristics. To these 7 faculties can be added vitality which bridges between the bodily and mental natures. The remaining 14 phenomena are mental. They are: mind (mano, vinnana or citta) including the sub-conscious; the 5 feelings; the 5 mental powers (bala) of faith (saddha), energy (viriya), attentiveness (sati), concentration (samadhi) and wisdom (panna); and 3 supramundane faculties arising in the supramundane sphere - knowledge of the future, supreme knowledge realized at the moment of stream entry and the perfect knowledge of the arhat.
In Hindu teaching, [Indra] plays among the organs by which the world is perceived - [Indriya]. These are eleven: the five sense organs (ear for hearing, skin for touch, eye for sight, tongue for taste and nose for smell); the five organs of action (larynx for speech, hand, foot, and procreation and excretory organs); and thought. These provide [manas], the "messenger of the gods", with material to pass the impressions received from the external world to the inner organ of mind - [antahkarana].

Context:

In Buddhism, these phenomena or faculties are also enumerated among the conditions (paccaya) that all things may take.<

Broader:

Phase-conditions of consciousness

Narrower:

Five powers

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