what is "wisdom eye"?

• paperflower

  2 Apr 06, 02:02

  is it also referred as the "third eye"?
  
  is there anything such as third eye in buddhism?
  
  what is it exactly? - wisdom eye / third eye
  
  
• maggot

  2 Apr 06, 10:28

  Should be called "vision" instead of calling it an "eye"
  
  
• sinweiy

  2 Apr 06, 10:56

  Five Eyes
  
  

  There are five kinds of eyes or vision
  
  human eye - it is our flesh eye, an organ to see an object with limitation, for instance, in darkness, with obstruction.
  
  divine eye - it can see in darkness and in distance, attainable by men in dhyana (concentration/meditation).
  
  wisdom eye - the eye of Arhat and Two Vehicles i.e. the sound-hearers (Sravaka) and the Enlightened to Conditions (Praetyka-Buddha). It can see the false and empty nature of all phenomena.
  
  dharma eye - the eye of Bodhisattva. It can see all the dharmas in the world and beyond the world.
  
  buddha eye - the eye of Buddha or omniscience. It can see all that four previous eyes can see.

  to add,
  
  

  The Divine Eyes cannot be obstructed by anything it see. The human/meat eyes are however obstruct by even a piece of paper.
  The Wisdom eyes sees the Real meaning of Sunyata, but not at all the Conventional Truth.
  The Dharma Eyes (of Bodhisattva) can see through the Conventional Truth.
  The Buddha Eye Is like a Thousand Suns, where each sun can shine the different mundane worlds. However different the worlds are, the knowing of the sun is also Infinity coming from One source light of Buddha Eye.

  Moreover,
  

  Divine eyes (of arahats) can see 1 Great chiliocosm.
  Dharma eyes (of bodhisattvas) can see 100 great chiliocosm to 1000 great chiliocosm to 1000000 great chiliocosm...depending on which level.
  Buddha eyes has not limit.

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• An Eternal Now

  2 Apr 06, 11:07

  Here's an article on the Five Eyes... which I shared with maggot the other day - http://www.chan1.org/ddp/channews/10-1987.html
  
  I am not too sure about Third Eye though, perhaps someone else here can answer you.
• maggot

  2 Apr 06, 11:12

  One more thing the "eye" is not refering to the human eyeballs
• An Eternal Now

  2 Apr 06, 11:42

  Originally posted by maggot:

  One more thing the "eye" is not refering to the human eyeballs

  According to the Five Eyes, the human eyeball is also an eye, it's called the 'Fleshy Eye'.
• maggot

  2 Apr 06, 12:01

  Originally posted by An Eternal Now:

  According to the Five Eyes, the human eyeball is also an eye, it's called the 'Fleshy Eye'.

  Oops
• Cenarious

  2 Apr 06, 14:41

  Originally posted by An Eternal Now:

  According to the Five Eyes, the human eyeball is also an eye, it's called the 'Fleshy Eye'.

  probably the way the indian language is constructed
• An Eternal Now

  2 Apr 06, 14:53

  Originally posted by Cenarious:

  probably the way the indian language is constructed

  
• Cenarious

  2 Apr 06, 14:54

  i think maybe they didnt have a different word for eye and vision
• An Eternal Now

  2 Apr 06, 14:57

  Originally posted by Cenarious:

  i think maybe they didnt have a different word for eye and vision

  There is.
  
  Eye (the organ) is different from eye consciousness, in Indian terms.
• Cenarious

  2 Apr 06, 14:59

  and eye consciousness is different from vision
• An Eternal Now

  2 Apr 06, 15:00

  Originally posted by Cenarious:

  and eye consciousness is different from vision

  dont get u. vision = sight. sight = eye consciousness. its the same thing
• paperflower

  2 Apr 06, 20:09

  i see i see......
  
  ok i'm starting to understand abit.
  
  
• sinweiy

  3 Apr 06, 15:44

  thus heard, although formless realm is formless. but only Buddha can 'see' formless beings with Buddha eye.
  
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