THE THREE EYES
According to the Buddha, there are three eyes in the world. They are:-
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| The fleshly eye one gets by birth, has a very limited range of vision. It is mostly addicted to surface - seeing and its claims to vision are rather superficial. The divine eye aroused by developing higher levels of concentration goes beyond those limits. It enables one to see even hells and heavens and events happening outside the normal range of vision. Still, it cannot claim to be the perfect vision. It is the wisdom eye developed through insight meditation that is supreme in the world. It gives a perfect vision of the world in its true perspectives of impermanence and conditionality. The hidden law of Dependent arising is revealed to that penetrative dustless stainless eye of truth with a certitude that prompts the exclamation:- ‘Whatever is of a nature to arise, all that is of a nature to cease’. |