In dhamma what is referred as “eye” is different from the eye we know and referred to every day life. Its not this meat ball that locates beside your nose.
The eye refers to chakku-prasadha. A sensitive area where the mind is born and dies. This area is located inside this meat ball.
This is a small area inside the eye having several (7) layers of sensitivity. This is where the mind is born when some imagery information comes to the attention – then we call that “some one” becomes aware of what we known as “vision” or “seeing”.
When mind is born in this area, in dhamma it is called the “eye” is born. It was not there before. Born at that instance. When the mind for eye (Chakku Vinyana), sparsha (touch??), and object image separates the “eye” dies (නිරුද්ද / Niruddha).
This is also called “පච්චුප්පන්න වූ ධර්මයන්ගේ විපරිනාමය දැකීම.”
මෙසේ ඇති වූ රූපය:
පෙර නොතිබීම හටගත්තේය.
ස්කන්ධයන්ගේ වැයවීමෙන් හටගත්තේය.
හේතූන් යෙදීමෙන් හටගත්තේය.
හේතු නිරුද්ද වීමෙන් ඉතිරියක් නැතිවම නිරුද්ද වන්නේය.
Eye is one of the centers. None of the 6 centers are live at the same time.
Though we feel like so, most of out sensory organs are dead for the large part of a time.
(Disclaimer: this is an interpretation of dhamma, not my idea. There might be errors due to language issues – so use this only as an eye opener or idea provoker so you are motivated to open and research from the original scriptures and listen to dhamma from maha sangha)
This is what is to be found on the Abidhamma book about Chakku Prasadhaya. In dhamma what you call as “eye” is different from the eye we know. The eye refers to chakku-prasadha.
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