A man in a farm makes me wonder about this - Āyatana, the Buddhist term translated as sense base; which I suppose refers to our sense organs, if they are internal sense bases and if external, refers to the corresponding stimuli. There are six in all these sense bases; the five usual; eye, ear, nose, tongue and skin which respond respectively to the visible forms; sounds, odors, tastes and tactile object and in Buddhism, the sixth refers to the mind; a sense organ in its own right since it is sensitive to mental sense objects, things like sensation, perception and mental formations. Said to be the soil where craving and clinging grow and to be objects of mindfulness meditation in the Satipatthana Sutta, I wonder then if when some of our sense bases become incapacitated, like for example, if a man becomes blind or deaf, wouldn't it be that the person's craving and clinging would be affected; say, for instance, diminish; and that probably, will affect the quality of meditation, won't it?
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