“Normally we believe that our eyes are capable of seeing.
But once we fully understand the body’s true nature we know that the eyeball is simply a lump of tissue.
The consciousness that flows through the eyes is what actually sees and knows visual objects.
Consciousness uses the eyes as a means to access the visual sphere.
Our organs of sight are no different from the eyeballs of a dead animal lying at the side of the road.
The fleshy eye has no intrinsic value: on its own, it is basically inert.
This is known and understood with unequivocal clarity.
How then can the body be oneself? How can it belong to oneself?”
-Ajahn Maha Bua
But once we fully understand the body’s true nature we know that the eyeball is simply a lump of tissue.
The consciousness that flows through the eyes is what actually sees and knows visual objects.
Consciousness uses the eyes as a means to access the visual sphere.
Our organs of sight are no different from the eyeballs of a dead animal lying at the side of the road.
The fleshy eye has no intrinsic value: on its own, it is basically inert.
This is known and understood with unequivocal clarity.
How then can the body be oneself? How can it belong to oneself?”
-Ajahn Maha Bua