Editing The Buddha (section)

==== The six sense bases and the five aggregates ====
The [[six sense bases|āyatana]] (six sense bases) and the [[Skandha|five skandhas]] (aggregates) describe how sensory contact leads to attachment and ''dukkha''. The six sense bases are eye and sight, ear and sound, nose and odour, tongue and taste, body and touch, and mind and thoughts. Together they create the input from which we create our world or reality, "the all". This process takes place through the five skandhas, "aggregates", "groups", "heaps", five groups of physical and mental processes,{{sfnp|Gethin|1998|p=135}}{{sfnp|Gombrich|2009|p=114}} namely form (or material image, impression) ({{transliteration|pi|[[Rūpa#Buddhism|rupa]]}}), sensations (or feelings, received from form) ({{transliteration|pi|[[Vedanā|vedana]]}}), perceptions ({{transliteration|pi|[[Samjna (concept)|samjna]]}}), mental activity or formations ({{transliteration|pi|[[Saṅkhāra|sankhara]]}}), consciousness ({{transliteration|pi|[[Vijñāna|vijnana]]}}).<ref name="stevenemmanuel587">{{cite book|author=Steven M. Emmanuel|title=A Companion to Buddhist Philosophy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P_lmCgAAQBAJ|year=2015|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-1-119-14466-3|pages=587–588|access-date=23 October 2022|archive-date=11 January 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230111053956/https://books.google.com/books?id=P_lmCgAAQBAJ|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>[http://www.britannica.com/topic/skandha Skandha] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180103012318/http://www.britannica.com/topic/skandha |date=3 January 2018 }} Encyclopædia Britannica (2013)</ref><ref name="Aggregates">{{cite journal |author= Karunamuni ND |title= The Five-Aggregate Model of the Mind |journal= SAGE Open |volume=5 |issue=2 |pages= 215824401558386 |date=May 2015 | doi=10.1177/2158244015583860|doi-access=free }}</ref> They form part of other Buddhist teachings and lists, such as dependent origination, and explain how sensory input ultimately leads to bondage to samsara by the mental defilements.