宗鏡錄 54.18

54.18

Question: If the sense faculties such as the eye have no primordial abode, how can each individual faculty, such as the eye, know sense objects? If all the faculties such as the eye and ear, and all phenomena such as pain and pleasure, have no primordial abode, how does each individual faculty now know sense objects? The faculties such as the eye and ear have no thought; they should not possess knowledge, yet in fact they know sense objects. Thus one should know that, apart from the faculties such as the eye and ear, there must be another knower of sense objects.