35. The One-pointed Mind – LONG HOA HIGHNESS ASSEMBLY, SECOND PERIOD

One-pointed mind is the quintessential point of the practice to attain the liberation through wisdom.

• The Mahayana believers only focus his mind to release all dharma in order to get to serenity. Owing to that, until one day achieving the full practice, he would appear and acquire the emptiness for his strong point to know thoroughly the path of birth and death and to be enlightened. Emptiness is not enlightenment. Emptiness is the path of the bodhisattvas, practicing to clear away the emptiness until awareness of the form of every dharma in all dharma; you could then attain the one-pointed mind of the bodhisattvas.

• The diligent disciple releases his mind and body until it grows into the one-pointed mind one day. Releasing to solve all dharma is the true life, not the one of praying and supplicating illusion, away from reality. He always lights the border of obstruction and attachment in his mind and body in order to advance gradually. Constructing abilities until the one-pointed mind is achieved, solving all dharma without complaint and lamentation; that is the right practice and the right realization of the Mahayana path, the path to the true supreme branch that is the robe of bodhisattva.

By overcoming many difficulties, the ear could hear the pure ears; the eye could see the pure eyes. There are no more objections and no more clinging and attachment. One could be clear-sighted.

In fact, it is because of the multiple sicknesses of the living creatures that the Buddha must have multiple conducts. Indeed, under His vision, He does not establish a fixed dharma subject, not practicing in a clinging manner, but depending on the karma seed of each believer, which needs a particular resolution. He has an adequate insight.

“He is concentrating on dissolving the wrong conception and the false thought, which is the doubt and attachment of mankind.” –T.V.

• Living creatures’ conception is a habit, which formed the karma; it is invisible, but rooted deeply in the mind and body, making the liberation from karma impossible. To dissolve conception and facilitate the insight of the mind in order to practice correctly, the disciples have to be joyful and detached, diligently dissolving fixed thought, carefully considering any different conception, and not being hasty in criticizing. First, it is by falsely believing it to be true that we are attached, we have to see ourselves in order to dissolve for ourselves and perceive the path of birth and death.

“Today in this period of return and appearance there is still no dharma subject, and the salvation is based on the faculty and condition.” –T.V.

The “Period of Return” when the Supreme Pure King incarnated Lord Supreme Maitreya is similar to that of the Blessed One. He has not established any dharma subject, so as not to be clinging. The teaching of the dharma matches the period of return and there is no clinging enlightenment, the willing disciple would soon be heartily awakened, that depends on the faculty and the character of the intention of practice.

There are also some who have to be coddled, if they were confident they would be taught to know the Buddha dharma, but they are not forced to do as those with faculty who are seeking for the dharma and willing to follow the way of liberation through wisdom.

“From the confused and chaotic consciousness store, ordaining into the fairy and deity land as a place of cultivating the false, I have used the Tathagata store to establish a dharma of dissolution called, therefore, the Buddhist Dharma Store.” –T.V.

• From the consciousness store containing all the seeds of honesty and evil, noble and rough, clean and dirty, and good and bad, the disciples who practice for the fairies and deities have wrongly chosen, preferring the honesty over the evil, the good over the bad, the clean over the dirty, conserving a silent aspect, avoiding crowded places, and choosing a still place to practice the dharma. That is called the immobile practice. That way of practice is unrealistic and only a false hope.

That is why He has used the Tathagata store, also called suchness, including all the dharma of honesty and falsehood, good and bad, clean and dirty, purity and impurity, form and formless that meant all the store of Tathagata is completely exposed to save living creatures in the Dharma Ending Age. It is because the suchness has been hidden by the sorrow, a seed nature of Mara force and by the greed, hatred, and ignorance, which are called wrong and confused dharma nature and formed the consciousness store that He has built the Buddhist Dharma-Store in order to educate all living creatures. The dharma store represents the Tathagata store, which is the authority of the whole constitution of the universe.

“I do not build temples to create a place of clinging. I only come to the faithful believers who execute the instruction.” –T.V.

• During all his journey of practicing the dharma in this return to the world, He has never intended to build any pagoda. He had bought a house as a residence for his family where they earn their living. The front side is used as the main shrine. At the backside, He had a wooden loft built, which is His residence. His house is thus used as a dharma office. His true disciples in their locality have also transformed their homes into provincial, district and village dharma offices. On the 14th and 30th day of every lunar month, they have celebrated the Buddha and recited the dharma instruction and doctrine. The dharma protectors and venerables rank have preached the Buddha dharma to nourish the practice of the disciples.

He has come to many places to teach the dharma of cultivating right in the family, correcting nature, and practicing sitting meditation at night. Receiving the teaching at their dharma office to practice in their family, His disciples have many occasions to apply it in reality, no more vainly praying and supplicating. For many families, correcting their nature is their daily mindfulness of mental objects. Therefore, after 2 or 3 years of practicing, all the members of the family are living in happiness, knowing how to make concessions to each other and recognizing the error of their hot tempered nature. Such a disciple would attract all other members in the family. Noticing his obvious advancement, all the family has gradually changed their noisy manner of life, cautions of their tongue and the spouse lives in happiness, parents and children, brothers and sisters all are living automatically and wonderfully in conformity with one another.

Sitting meditation and praying to the Buddha right in the bedroom helps to recognize the bad nature and habits, which would be gradually diminished. The ignorance is dissolved. On the contrary, some rich families do not practice by correcting their nature; they’re always having outbursts and interminable disputes, anger and sorrow. The families pertaining to the Buddhist dharma store are very conscious and they could recognize afterward their mistake and sorrow. They have gradually improved themselves, eliminating all wrong doings, only conserving the good nature and bringing about happiness for the whole family. As a result, 80{239174986a404c77808ab74fa8d58b879e4be99b28e45f0336982b45028921db} of them have corrected their own nature. His true disciples are spread all over the country, from Saigon, Nha Trang to Hue, Da Nang, and Qui Hon. There are also His disciples abroad, like in the United Kingdom and the United States.

The individual is the foundation of the family. The family is the foundation of the society. If the family were stable, the country would be prosperous. The family is the base on which a true morality is founded. It would be very precious if every individual could realize that formal reforms are only subordinate factors. Once, the man has had a consciousness of morality; he would be less likely to commit any wrong act that could exert a pernicious influence to the society. That is truly an active and practical dharma subject.

“I need only the disciples who are confident in the teaching of dissolution, obedient in the practice of the dharma, and respectful toward the originally passed down precious dharma, that is the one-pointed mind payment of homage and the attainment of Buddhahood.” –T.V.

• Those who have heartily practiced the dharma with ardor and sincerity have confidence in Him and dissolved all obstructions in their families. In the presence of an unsolvable difficulty or when their family is in the lack of materials and disagreements, He always puts forth a satisfactory solution. Those who are obedient and carry out what He has taught could wonderfully overcome the thorny crisis.

They have recognized, therefore, that all the family and its daily activities are like difficult mathematics problems, which needs to be solved, so they are neither weeping nor lamenting nor supplicating. Everybody is taught the Mahayana dharma subject even the new member is guided directly into the Mahayana practice. The disciples, who are confident and obedient to Him and get the results, they are automatically respectful toward Him. He is like a good father guiding his children up the hill and down the dale in this immense universe. Where they go, where they live, they have always recognized the precious dharma in front of them. Therefore, they have confidence in the lively dharma subject everywhere. The dharma is invisible, but there is Buddhist dharma everywhere, the Tathagata dharma and the Buddhas of Ten Directions everywhere. They could now recognize, see with their own eyes and attach their life to the Three Dharma Elements of Ten Directions. Those who have attained that level are called one-pointed mind and could communicate with the Buddha-Power through their prayers.