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HPI 56 - Who’s Pulling Your Strings? - Buddhaghosa

History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China

CHAPTER

The Active Engagement of the Mind

Exploring how the mind actively processes external stimuli and the coordination between senses for awareness, using analogies like a spider and a web, a man and a mango, and a villager and a king's palace. The chapter discusses the various functions of the mind in sensory perception and revises ancient Buddhist theories on sense faculties.

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