Eye consciousness (Buddhism)

This is the consciousness that apprehends physical forms as colours and shapes. It is not the consciousness that interprets these forms as "a pot", "a horse", etc; that is the task of mental consciousness. It is twofold, that is: where eye 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.