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The Five Omnipresent Mental Factors
(sarvatraga, kun ‘gro)
These mental factors are called ‘omnipresent’ because they necessarily
accompany all minds, even the wisdom cognizing emptiness. The five omnipresent mental factors are:
- feeling (vedana, tshor ba) - experiences pleasurable, painful, and neutral feelings, the fruitions of
actions
- discrimination (samjna, ‘du shes) - knows the uncommon signs of its object
- intention (chetana, sems pa) - moves mind to objects in general
- contact (sparsha, reg pa) - distinguishes object as pleasurable, painful, or neutral; serves as basis of
feeling
- mental engagement (manoskara, yid la byed pa) - moves mind to particular object
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