Spoken
by Supreme Master Ching Hai, California U.S.A.,
October 14, 1989 (Originally in English)
If we want to see our own Nature or our
Buddha Nature, we have to see through a different eye, through a different
perception. This eye is what we call the wisdom eye or Buddha's eye,
the heavenly eye, or what the Christians call the single eye. Jesus
said, "If thy eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of
Light." What does that mean? Should we put our eyes together
and make them become one like cross-eyed people? No, even like that
we will see no light. So the eye that is mentioned in the Buddhist
scriptures, the Christian Bible and the other scriptures is not the
physical eye, but the single eye within our wisdom, within our ocean
of consciousness. Actually, there is no eye. But because we can see
everything from Heaven to hell, from this world to the Buddha's Land,
we call that an eye. So, to open this eye we need someone who can
show us the way to do it, just like when we want to drive a car, we
need someone who already knows how to drive the car to help us.