The aim of Zen is to open the eye of the "supreme reason", that is, to awaken the inmost sense which has remained altogether dormant since the beginning of the human consciousness. When this is accomplished, one sees directly into the truth of Reality and confronts a world which is new and yet not at all new.Hindu philosophers call this eye of the supreme reason "Mahendra's third eye." It is said to open vertically between our two horizontal ones. What the third eye sees is paradoxical, contradictory. It sees a world of non-duality - things not expressible in terms of relativity, intellection, and mere verbalism.
Daisetz T. Suzuki
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