Third Eye of the Buddhist
“Third Eye of the Buddhist” is a work that expounds on the esoteric sense of Buddhism. There are several main philosophical traditions of Buddhism: Theravada (“assertion of the elders”), Hinayana (“small vehicle”), Mahayana (“great vehicle”), and Ch'an-Zen (derived from the Pali word jnana, which has been adapted in English as the word gnosis). In fact, a definitive explanation of these terms has never been properly arrived at by either Buddhologists or Buddhist traditionalists. Buddhologists (or those academics who study Buddhist thought) neither know the dates of origin nor the original significance of these terms. This work answers these unknowns. It spans all these schools of Buddhism within 220 pages and offers for the first time a deduction and definition of these Buddhist schools. It also explains the Buddhist affinity with the Veda, the earliest known scripture of humankind, said to be at least as old as 6000 BC. It reveals that Buddhism is philosophically a rerendition of the Veda. It is indeed a variation of the Veda. This is clearly seen in the swastika, the symbol of the Veda, which is in reverse in Buddhism, revealing that the Buddhists assert on the non-existent side of existence (sunya), whereas the Vedics assert on the existent side of existence. The middle path between the two views is of course the Madhyamika as expounded by Nagarjuna. This fundamental difference in philosophy also accounts for the major difference in practice between the Buddhists, who renounce the world, and the Vedics, who embrace the world according to the path of Dharma and the fulfillment of one's life.
Thus this work offers a pristine view on Buddhism through its decoding of the Buddhist scriptures as unknown to the world in the last 500 years. Not only is one able to understand Buddhism from its beginnings in India through its evolvement in China and Tibet, but also one is able to understand the obscurity of such texts as the Kathavathu, the Mahavastu and Bu-ston's “The History of Buddhism in India and Tibet”. One is able to understand the underlying traditional sense of these texts after reading this work. “The History of Buddhism in India and Tibet” by Bu-ston has been given elaborate attention and the passages concerning Asanga and Vasubandhu make sense for the first time in history. Similarly, the Ch'an-Zen text known as the “Ching-te Ch'uan Teng-lu” in Chinese and “Denkoroku ” in Japanese (“Transmission of the Light” in English), which deals with the six patriarchs or founding fathers of Ch'an-Zen, can be understood for the first time in its esoteric sense. Thus all schools of Buddhism can gain a deeper understanding of their scriptures by realising the decoding of this work.
Since this work was written by an initiated Shaivite master, this work holds the key to understanding Buddhism in its original sense, be it Indian, Chinese, Japanese, or Tibetan Buddhism. This is crucial if one is to take a serious Buddhist practice for life.