Sanpaku eyes

[Purplerose]

Does anyone know anything about Sanpaku eyes? I was reading about them last night and information is quite sparse.

Thanks,

-Purplerose

[Sowelu]

Hiya Purplerose!

I don't really know anything about them specifically, but whenever I used to draw faces from intuitive inspiration (of energetic beings "within"), I seemed to draw them with a yin Sanpaku. I just seemed to do so, knowing that's how they "should" be. I never actually thought about it until your post, though, which is interesting.

Here's an example:

[Sowelu]

Since you got me curious I looked it up a bit. Found the following... though as with most existing human knowledge, I tend to take it in with the awareness that it's not the whole story. My feeling is that humanity has been veiled from understanding so much in a "whole" way, that biases tend to exist in just about every subject matter. Even biases around what actually constitutes "healthy". But... it often has clues that we can use to "surf an inner wave" and access what lives in our heart as truth, you know?

Sanpaku is a term used in Bo-Shin, a system of medical diagnosis developed in Japan in the 1750s.

Followers of the system, which is related to the Zen principle of Yin and Yang balance, believe it is possible to read physical and mental health in body features and facial expressions. The eyes relate to the nervous system. "All babies are born sanpaku," says Jon Sandifer, a Bo-Shin expert based in London.

Unfortunately, being sanpaku in adulthood is not an advantage.

"Ideally, we want to show whites on either side of our eyes when we look head on," he says. "Showing white above or below the iris denotes imbalance."

More chillingly, people who are sanpaku are believed to be more prone to violent death. John Lennon was sanpaku, as was John F Kennedy. There are two types of sanpaku. Yang sanpaku is when the whites show above the iris. This is rare and is usually associated with anger and aggression.

Yin sanpaku, when the whites show below the iris, is associated with vulnerability. "These people, like Princess Diana, see the world at an angle and are likely to run into trouble in their lives," says Sandifer.

Cherie Blair, who has white showing all the way round her eyes, could be said to be doubly afflicted. ]

Luckily, sanpaku is curable, but it can take time. Sandifer suggests taking up sports that require good hand-eye co-ordination.

"Games like tennis and squash help to exercise the nervous system. Martial arts are also excellent."

Sufferers can also follow Yoko Ono's advice to John Lennon and change to a macrobiotic diet, eating foods that grow in their natural environment. Those with yin sanpaku should avoid tropical fruits, coffee, chocolate, sugar and alcohol, which increase their yin, or feminine side.

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Love you!
Sowelu

[Purplerose]

I remember this picture! And it is intriguing that you draw your eyes this way, and helps me to get a little closer to what I'm trying to understand about this.

In my reading, I did not come across much information at all, and most of what I did read felt incomplete and unsatisfactory (from a knowledge-gathering point of view).

The first thing I read was that these eyes are rare and considered beautiful from a photogenic perspective. Notable people who have been photographed with yin sanpaku eyes (whites under the iris) include Marilyn Monroe, Princess Diana, JFK, RFK, Elvis, and Abe Lincoln. Other figures such as Indira Ghandi, Heath Ledger were seen to have sanpaku or near-sanpaku eyes shortly before their deaths. The fact that many people with yin sanpaku eyes died young or were assassinated seems to have led to the notion that people with these eyes deal with a lot of danger around them. The explanation for this is that they have poor judgment and suffer from physical and mental imbalance, which leads them to put themselves in dangerous situations. I found this explanation to be very incomplete, as while it could be true, it is also true for a lot of people without sanpaku eyes.

I also read that people's eyes tend to become increasingly yin sanpaku as they get older, and so it is more common to see them in the very old (people who are close to transitioning over) and rare in the very young. Conversely, yang sanpaku (whites above the iris) are seen more often in babies and in people with rage and severe psychological disturbance (e.g. Charles Manson). The source of danger for people with yang sanpaku eyes is said comes from within, as opposed to the yin sanpaku folks, where danger comes from without.

What really grabbed my attention was a cryptic entry in Wikipedia about sanpaku eyes having spiritual significance which, coupled with the close-to-death thing, felt a little closer to getting somewhere. However, searching on other sites mostly led to the aforementioned stuff on physical and mental disorders/imbalances, dietary practices, poor judgment, danger, etc. It felt like reading a restricted medical/scientific explanation for a phenomena, when we all know there is a lot more to explain existence than that. I could not find anything at all relating to the spiritual significance, which is why I posted here.

[Purplerose]

Lol Sowelu,

Looks like we were posting at the same time, so I didn't see your second post before I posted my reply.

"I tend to take it in with the awareness that it's not the whole story. My feeling is that humanity has been veiled from understanding so much in a "whole" way, that biases tend to exist in just about every subject matter. "

This is exactly how I feel. It feels like I'm not getting the whole story, that there is a veil present, and therefore the explanations are only incomplete and are misleading (and probably many are inaccurate).

[Sowelu]

LOL! We seem to do that. Hahaha!

There's a bit of a slippery understanding I can't quite grasp about it all. I think the Japanese associating it with balance or lack thereof has merit... but not quite in the way it's been put forth in this system of knowledge they devised.

So much understanding in humanity has come from a mind linked to, and fueled by the lower 3 chakras, in fear/ignorance of greater life. So interpretations of perceptions about life and self and health, etc. are often skewed to a "survival of the fittest" mentality. This bias is not even recognized as such, or if it is, not even questioned as a potential cause for skewing perception.

Eastern thought has had a bit more "heart" or acknowledgement of the greater reality, but again... my sense is that this too has been distorted by the naturally prevalent physicality-centric focus we've all had to live with.

Each time I break out of yet another box of understanding or unravel my way out of another paradigm based in false perception, I realize again just how difficult it's been for humanity to truly center on truth, wholeness, love and things of this vibrational frequency. And again the wisdom offered me many years ago comes to mind: The Path is Through The Heart.

I had a sense way back then that there was a "good reason" for it to have to be that way, and now I've come a long way in seeing exactly why it is, indeed, necessary to remain focused in/on the heart. The mind has not been able to perceive with any accuracy, and can't break it's habits, so to say, without being nurtured from a higher center. What's that phrase? "No problem can be solved at the level it is created."

So while many think that "the mind" is "above" the heart, and therefore IS the "higher stance" to come from in viewing a problem... in truth the human mind's source fuel has been the lower 3 chakras or energy centers in the human energy field. And those are veiled (a fancy way of saying distorted, in fear, ignorant) from higher frequencies and have been for a very long time (by design, of course). The heart, however, is the higher center and anchored in timelessness, eternal unconditional love, and expansive existence.

And I seem to think that this is the yin Sanpaku, to be honest, but I can't really claim that with any authority from here. This understanding I was just talking about, or living from the higher center, the heart, places human eyes slightly above the horizon... a physical manifestation of an energetic reality for the person.

Wow... thanks for the cool discussion, Purplerose. You're awesome!

Love you!
Sowelu

[Sowelu]

You KNOW that once I take something in and sit with it, all kinds of things keep happening with it until I've extracted as much from it as I can, right?

Well I walked away from the computer after this last post and had a question rise... given all I surmised, is it still a matter of balance? Could Princess Di or Lennon or Kennedy or any of the others with yin Sanpaku have used more grounding? Is that indeed what brought such violence or aggressive energies to them from the outer? As reflections of what they refused to entertain within themselves? Were they "polarized to the light" in some sense, therefore unable to balance this higher perspective with a grounded human existence?

And Manson having a yang Sanpaku seems to make sense in this same way. Polarizing to the dark, so to say, creating a manifestation in his perception devices (eyes) that revealed a certain refusal to entertain higher light within himself?

If any of this has merit, then we're back to the "balance" being truly revealed by eyes with no white above or below the iris.

Again, Purplerose, VERY interesting. You have this way about you... I just love it. Thank you for your post! ((((Hugs!))))

Love you!
Sowelu

[AgeA]

My feeling is that humanity has been veiled from understanding so much in a "whole" way, that biases tend to exist in just about every subject matter.

So true ...no one knows the complete truth down here on Earth otherwise we woudnt be here. We all have our illusions/fear to work through in this life. Even when we think we have nothing there is still something left (even if you don't consciously remember) and you can't take nothing with you if you want to move out of this earthly illusion and even this Universe. However, for me I found that understanding and holding dear to your Heart the concept of Oneness can open up many truths and secrets.

[Sowelu]

However, for me I found that understanding and holding dear to your Heart the concept of Oneness can open up many truths and secrets.

So beautifully said, so true, AgeA. ((((Hugs!))))