The (6) Senses Are Prison Next, we come to the most amusing prison, the prison that’s closest to us. There are the eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, and mind: the six āyatanas, the six sense media that connect the inner and outer aspects of life.

In Pāli we call them the ‘āyatanas.’ The root of this word literally means ‘mechanisms for communicating with the external world’ — places, mechanisms, and means for connecting and communicating with the external world. We call them ‘āyatanas.’

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From the book “The Prison of Life”