23. Sāvatthinidānaṃ. ‘‘Sabbaṃ vo, bhikkhave, desessāmi. Taṃ suṇātha. Kiñca,
bhikkhave, sabbaṃ? Cakkhuñceva rūpā ca, sotañca saddā ca, ghānañca gandhā
ca, jivhā ca rasā ca, kāyo ca phoṭṭhabbā ca, mano ca dhammā ca – idaṃ
vuccati, bhikkhave, sabbaṃ. Yo, bhikkhave, evaṃ vadeyya – ‘ahametaṃ sabbaṃ
paccakkhāya aññaṃ sabbaṃ paññāpessāmī’ti, tassa vācāvatthukamevassa puṭṭho
ca na sampāyeyya, uttariñca vighātaṃ āpajjeyya. Taṃ kissa hetu? Yathā taṃ,
bhikkhave, avisayasmi’’nti. Paṭhamaṃ.
Interesting is the part, where the Buddha says "Yo, bhikkhave, evaṃ vadeyya
– ‘ahametaṃ sabbaṃ paccakkhāya aññaṃ sabbaṃ paññāpessāmī’ti, tassa
vācāvatthukamevassa puṭṭho ca na sampāyeyya, uttariñca vighātaṃ āpajjeyya."
- (i.e. who says that he will refuse this definition of all and replace it
by something else, and then asked what that other all could be, will get
into a lot of trouble finding an answer)
If you think this trough, it is a very simple but profound statement. To
think or conceive of something outside the six senses is not possible - not
because of some dogma, but just logically. The moment you start "thinking"
what else there could be, you are already falling back of one of the six
sense spheres.
To answer your original question then, one would finally have to see if the
five khandhas are the same as the six senses spheres. I think that is pretty
easy to prove - it is just another description of the same process: our
moment to moment experience.
For instance SN 35. 204 comes to my mind: Kiṃsukopamasuttaṃ where these
various descriptions of that experiential process we call "life" are
described (from the viewpoint of insight meditation)
metta,
Lennart
PS: I would be curious to hear from anyone who ever found something outside
that "all" :-)
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