Brahmin Unnabha's Questions to the Buddha (Unnabha Brahmana Sutra)
While he was residing at Savatthi the Brahman Unnaabha approached the Buddha and after exchanging greetings and polite conversation were over, he sat down to one side and said to the Buddha; "There are these five sense faculties, good Gotama, of different spheres, different action, and they do not share in each other's sphere of action. Which five? The sense of sight, hearing, smelling, tasting and touching. As these five faculties are of different scope and range, and do not share in each other's sphere of action, what is their resort, and who profits from their combined activity?" "There are, Brahman, these five sense-faculties... which do not share in each other's sphere of action. Mind is their resort, and it is the mind that profits from their combined activity" the Buddha explained. It is evident from what the Brahmin Unnabha raised here, his desire to find answers to the questions he faced through his inquiry into such salient Dhamma he had lear...