The Central Conception of Buddhism and the Meaning of the Word "Dharma" c4.3

c4.3

Three of these groups, namely, feelings, ideas, and pure sensation, contain one element (*dharma*) each. They are, nevertheless, called groups because they include feelings, etc., as past, present, and future, proximate and remote, external and internal, morally pure or impure, etc.² The group of matter includes ten elements, ten different varieties of sense-data.³ The group of volitions, etc., includes fifty-eight elements, various mental faculties and general forces.⁴