Question

2. According to Buddhism, what is the self? What is the sixth sense?

Answer 1

In Buddhism, there is no unchanging, permanent self, soul or essence in living beings. Buddhism denies that there is anything called a “self” in any person or anything else, and that believing that a “self” exists is a source of suffering and pain.

Buddhists treat the mind like a sense faculty or the sixth sense. In traditional Buddhist teachings, the mind is a like a living heart. The mind, as the sixth sense, acts as both the receiver of the other five senses, as well as being a sense in and of itself.