Body consciousness (Buddhism)

This is the consciousness that apprehends objects of touch, whether the four elements (earth, water, fire or wind), or objects arising from those elements (smoothness, roughness, heaviness, lightness, cold, hunger, thirst). It is twofold, that is: where body consciousness is pleasant it is associated with indeterminate resultant consciousness with profitable result; where it is painful, it is associated with indeterminate resultant consciousness with unprofitable result.

One of the six consciousnesses defined in Buddhism as dependent on the individual senses, and with objects of sense as their focus.