6.9 Of the Five Senses as Visible

Controverted Point: That the five senses are visible.

The discourse is verbatim identical with Kv 6.7, “the organ of sight” being substituted for “space”. The opponent's rejoinders are severally as follows:

Andhaka: But do we not see earth, a stone, a mountain? water? fire blazing? trees waving in the wind? The eye, the ear, the nose, the tongue, the body? anyone advancing, retreating, looking forward, looking backward, stretching forth, retracting?