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Sanskrit abhijñā, Pali abhiññā. It is transliterated as 旬. It is also called supernatural power, divine power, miraculous power, or simply spiritual power. For example, in the Śūraṅgama Sūtra, the supernatural powers discussed include the five kinds: the divine eye, the divine ear, knowing others’ minds, the ability to travel freely, and the extinction of the outflows. So why did the Buddha discuss these supernatural powers? In other words, what are the supernatural powers taught by the Buddha? 威許移動 the ability to move, 威許移動 the divine eye, 威許移動 the opening of the divine eye? 威許移動 supernatural powers? The Records of the Mirror of the School, fascicle 15, broadly divides supernatural powers into five kinds (the five powers): (1) the power of the Way: after awakening to the principle of the Middle Way, one responds to phenomena without conceptual activity and manifests all things; (2) supernatural power: the power, based on meditative concentration and a tranquil mind, to know such things as one’s past lives through observation and contemplation; (3) dependent power: power obtained through medicines, talismans, or spells; (4) karmic power: power obtained through the karmic results of one’s actions; and (5) demonic power: the power possessed by demons and monsters.

The divine eye is the power to clearly perceive the time of death and rebirth and the various circumstances of sentient beings in future lives; this is called the clear knowledge that verifies death and rebirth. Of the three knowledges possessed by Buddhas and arhats—the knowledge of past lives, the divine eye, and the extinction of the outflows—the most excellent are therefore called the Three Knowledges. 威許移動 the opening of the divine eye? 威許移動 supernatural powers? According to fascicle 20, part 1, of the Essentials of Mahāyāna, there are four methods of attaining supernatural powers: (1) karmic-reward power, naturally obtained as the result of being born in one of the Four Dhyāna Heavens; (2) the power of action, by which immortals freely fly through the sky through the force of medicines—the power obtained through action; (3) spell power, obtained by Brahmins through maintaining spells; and (4) cultivated power, obtained through cultivating meditative concentration. The power of action and spell power are supernatural powers of non-Buddhist paths.