The five eyes and six powers of Buddhism: the five eyes are the naked eye, keeping precepts pure.The two heavenly eyes can distinguish Hinayana.The three wisdom eyes can distinguish the two vehicles.The four Dharma eyes can distinguish the Mahayana.The five Buddha eyes can distinguish the best.The six powers are also called the six supernatural powers. The six supernatural powers include the heavenly eye power, the heavenly ear power, the other mind power, the fate power, the divine realm power, and the entire leakage power.
What does the five eyes of the five eyes and six powers refer to?
From some Buddhist images, we can see that there are three eyes on the face;That is, at the center of the eyebrows between the two eyes, open another glance.In fact, it is impossible for humans to have three naked eyes, and the so-called third eye is just a symbol;That is, there is a pair of naked eyes, but there is another mentality.The meaning of the mind and the eye can be deep and shallow. The shallow refers to the ideological activities of ordinary people, and the deepest ones must be discussed with the five eyes.Five eyes are four kinds of mental eyes with different levels besides the naked eye.
The so-called five eyes refer to the function of examining the beginning and end of things and phenomena from ordinary people to Buddha.Some people call the eyes "the door of wisdom" and "the window of soul", and the eyes can distinguish objects and increase knowledge.The higher the level of practice, the wider the scope of the mind and eye functions.The distance and range that ordinary people can see through the naked eye born to their parents is quite limited. It is too small, too large, too far, or too close, and it cannot be seen by the naked eye, or too dark or strong light, and it cannot be adapted to by the naked eye.If you can obtain the heavenly eye, you can observe freely in the material world without being restricted by distance, volume, and luminosity.
However, heaven also has levels: earthly residence heaven, empty residence heaven and meditation heaven.The Earth Residence Heaven is the gods of the blessings, ghosts and gods believed by ordinary people, as well as the gods of the Four Heavenly Kings and Trayastrimsa Heaven;The Ancient Heaven refers to the God of Desire from Yemotian to the Other Transformation and Freedom;The meditation heaven refers to the twenty-two levels of the form realm and the formless realm.The higher the level, the more functions the Sky Eye has, the greater the functions.The so-called function of the heavenly eye is to see things that cannot be seen by the naked eye. In addition to being not limited by size, distance, light and darkness, it is not restricted by obstruction, concealment or transparency. It does not need to be reflected by light and shadow, but by reflection or refraction of mental power.
The heavenly eye has different cultivation and reward.Ordinary ghosts and gods have divine eyes of varying degrees of depth, which is called reward.Because ghosts and gods without physical restraints only have spiritual activities, they reduce object obstacles.The ordinary spiritual medium is the person who is entrusted and attached to ghosts and gods. This is the heavenly eye that ghosts and gods can see things that people cannot see.For humans, practicing meditation may lead to the heavenly eyes;However, the purpose of meditation is not to cultivate the heavenly eye. Although there are other methods to specialize in supernatural powers, if you cultivate the heavenly eye, it may not necessarily mean that you have entered meditation.
In addition to the functions of the Sky Eye as mentioned above, there are also events that will happen in the future.That is because any phenomenon occurs, and there is a certain causal relationship. Since a certain karma is created, a certain result will be caused. Often, the phenomenon has not yet occurred, and the power to occur that phenomenon has long been formed. If no other factors are added, it will become a fact that will inevitably occur.Therefore, people with the heavenly eyes can predict the future.The stronger the ability of the Sky Eye, the longer the future it can be seen, and the higher the accuracy.
The so-called accuracy means that the sky eye is not reliable. As long as other factors are added, future events may not produce their expected results.This is like two Go players vs. The higher the number of chess, the more chess you see;The lower the number of segments, the less you see.But no two chess players with equal chess skills can already know the outcome of the victory or defeat as soon as they go to the chessboard.Because there are too many variables in the world, fixed numbers are only partial and short-term phenomena. They are born from causes and conditions of all things, and conditions change.Therefore, Buddhism does not attach to the heavenly eyes, and does not encourage people to cultivate the heavenly eyes in order to use the heavenly eyes.
The so-called five eyes, besides the naked eye and the heavenly eye, also have wisdom eye, Dharma eye and Buddha eye.The wisdom eye is realized by the Arhats, seeing the twelve links of dependent origination and the flow of life and death, so they can be reincarnated in the cycle of life and death, without being bound by the physical and mental world, and away from the five aggregates and out of the three realms.This is obviously different from what ordinary people in the world say, "knowing a hero" and "knowing a unique" function. The wisdom eye that people in the world say is worldly wisdom, and there is still the concept of "I", but it is more profound, sharp and agile;The wisdom eye that the Arhat possesses is selfless and has no attachment.
The Dharma Eye is possessed by Bodhisattvas above the first level, and can see the nature of all dharmas. ──The nature of Dharma, one part of the Dharma body of all Buddhas, or even more, is definitely not as ordinary people say, as they have magic or Dharma eyes;Those who briefly understand Buddhism are also called having the Dharma eye.In fact, the Dharma eye is related to realizing the Dharma body. If you only see the nature, it cannot be called a complete Dharma eye, but you can only be sure of the existence of the Dharma eye and the function of the Dharma eye.
When the Dharma body is everywhere and everywhere, it is neither form nor form, neither form nor form, neither form nor form, neither form nor form, neither form nor form;Say yes, everything is, or it can be said that nothing is.If you have an obsession, nothing is not;Those who have no attachments are everything.A Bodhisattva with a Dharma eye is called a Dharmakaya Bodhisattva, which is beyond imagination by ordinary people.
There are two types of selflessness, namely, people, no self and law.If one witnesses that one has no self and is free from the self-attachment of others, one is an Arhat;To realize that there is no self in the Dharma and to be free from the self in the Dharma, is a Bodhisattva above the first level.Arhats are separated from the self-attachment of others, gain wisdom eyes, and leave the three realms;The Bodhisattva goes further, free from the attachment to the Dharma, realizes the Dharma body, obtains the Dharma eye, and is not trapped by life and death, and is called the Dharma body master.Some heretics who are attached to Buddhism often say that they have obtained wisdom or Dharma eyes. In fact, they are not even the heavenly eyes, but only the reflection of the movement of qi and meridians, or the spiritual power of ghosts and gods.
As for the Buddha's eyes, it has all the functions of the first four eyes. It is the whole of wisdom, that is, the great mirror wisdom itself, also known as the great perfect enlightenment, also known as the supreme Bodhi.
What does the six signs of the five eyes and six signs refer to?
1、Heavenly Eye Power: See Buddha nature and understand the local scenery.
2、Tianerzhi: It is the supernatural power of hearing, and you can listen from a long distance.
3、His Xintong: You can know what others want, which is also the receiving function of the mind body.He doesn't rely on his ears or eyes, and he can know directly what others are thinking.
4、Destiny: It means that you have the function of predicting the past and the future.But you can also know what fate is written in books in the past, what happened in heaven and hell, what happened in the previous life, what happened in the next life, and what changed in this life.
5、Divine Realm Power: also known as Divine Foot Power.You can shorten the distance and run over very far away. There is no obstacle in your body and you can cross the obstacles.
6、The complete loss of leakage;What Buddhism says about ordinary people have miscarriages.If you have all kinds of delusions, you will have all kinds of thoughts. If you have all kinds of thoughts, you will have troubles. If you have troubles, you will have leakage.If the defilements are gone, there is no defilement, and no worries are gone. Troubles generally include greed, anger, ignorance, arrogance, and doubt. They are the most fundamental ignorance and afflictions in Buddhism.
