 In this passage, Xunzi describes the way our sensory organs are related to their targets. Perceptual states have their objects, i.e., what they see, hear, and smell. Yu describes this relational property (i.e., intentionality) of the mind in addition to its original function of desiring “five utmost objects”. That is, yu is not just a natural tendency to satisfy one’s desires but also perceptual intentionality that resides at a foundational (perceptual) level of the human mind. If intentionality, as Brentano (1874) explains, is a distinctive and an essential nature of the mind, Xunzi’s yu and qing include this foundational aspect of the mind (the relationality or about-ness of the mind) from an affective viewpoint.