Sight, hearing, smell,

Taste, touch, and cognition –

The experiential domain of these six faculties

Are the objects that are seen and so forth. [3.1]

 

Sight does indeed not see

Its own identity.

How can something that does not see itself

See anything else either? [3.2]

 

A solid establishment of sight cannot

Be provided through the example of fire.

With what was, has yet to be, and is being traversed

We have replied to that along with sight. [3.3]

 

When nothing at all is seen,

Neither is there one that sees.

“Sight is what performs seeing,”

How could this be right? [3.4]

 

Sight does not see,

Yet nonsight does not see either.

Know that sight itself

Also explains the one that sees. [3.5]

 

Whether seeing is involved or not,

There is nothing that sees.

Without the one that sees,

How could there be something seen and seeing? [3.6]

 

As there is nothing to see and no sight,

The four, such as consciousness, do not exist.

How could appropriation and other

Such factors come into existence? [3.7]

 

Hearing, smell,

Taste, touch, and cognition;

The hearers, the heard, and so forth-

Know that all are explained through sight. [3.8]     <- Prev    Next ->