Understanding Sensual Attachment and Overcoming Cravings : หน้า 99/263

Our sense organs [aijhattikäyatana] are implicated in the attachment we have to sensual pleasures. If we want to extinguish the craving arising because of attachment to visual temptations, then we have to extinguish them at the eye. In the same way, if you want to overcome the attachment to pleasures coming via the other senses (sounds, perfumes, tastes, touches and inner experience that falls short of enlightenment) then you have to overcome them at their respective sense organs (ears, nose, tongue, body and mind). Moreover, the sensual objects [bhāriāyatana] are implicated in the attachment we have to sensual pleasures. As attachment to things has roots in the objects themselves, we have to extinguish them also, at the object itself. If we are attached to certain pleasurable sights then we have to extinguish attachment at that visual object too. In the same way, if you want to overcome the attachment to pleasures coming via the other senses (sounds, perfumes, tastes, touches and inner experience that falls short of enlightenment) then we have to overcome them at their respective objects (sounds, perfumes, tastes, touches and inner experience that falls short of enlightenment). Moreover, our consciousness [viññāṇa] is implicated in our attachment to sense pleasure. By consciousness, we mean the awareness of the objects arising in the senses. Each of the senses has its own channel of consciousness — therefore there are a further six areas in which the practitioner needs to extinguish craving — visual consciousness [cakkhuviññāṇa], auditory consciousness [sota-viññāṇa], olfactory consciousness [ghāna-viññāṇa], gustatory consciousness [juhā-viññāṇa] tactile consciousness [kāya-viññāṇa] and mental consciousness [mano-viññāṇa]. Moreover, the contact [sampassa] between the three