36. The Parallelism of the Reason and Act

“Since the Crown Prince Siddartha has attained Buddhahood, His Sutra is a precious document. It is valuable by the fact of transforming people living in stupidity and formidableness into noble great men who could live in equality and love with the humanity and all species, avoiding the hatred and the killing of each other. All of them have relied on the document to practice by Insight the parallelism of reason and act, called liberation through wisdom.” –T.V.

Since the time the Blessed One has come into the world and He has taught His dharma, living creatures of ignorance and obscurity have become honest. Some of them have received the blessed reward of man and devas, some have become holy disciples, and some have become great men, bodhisattvas, Buddhas. The dharma subject has truly brought about noble love to the four species and even the animal would not be killed.

The parallelism of reason and act means the creation of morality, resulting in the knowledge of dharma, the practice of correction of bad nature, bad habits. Those who have preached well the dharma and given the best sermon, but not corrected their nature are called those of unparalleled reason and act, and the result is that their dharma could not lead to wisdom. If he has practiced well the correction of his mind and body, the doctrine would be linked with the act and the disciple would naturally get the Insight in proportion to his frequency.

“It has been over one thousand and five hundred years since the comprehension and guidance are erroneous, the true practice have not yet sufficient abilities in conformed with the quintessence of the Buddha path, the unequal knowledge is hardly developed. Furthermore, the strict application of the sutra has become disorientated dogmatic, though obtaining the result; it is only an outcome according to the judgment of each disciple. It does not have yet the faculty of insight and illumination.” –T.V.

Since the blessed one has attained Maha Pari Nirvana more than 2500 years ago, during the first 1000 years, the founders and bodhisattvas still have passed down the true dharma. But in the last 1500 years, the practitioners have gradually led the living creatures in the wrong path, not aiming to correct the natures and resolving the karma to dissolve the Mara force.

They have just strictly followed the sutra in their preaching, learned old fashioned dogma, being conservative and are not aware of their own nature. Therefore, having not the faculty of Insight, how could they have that of illumination? The knowledge and judgment through study and research are only hypothetical knowledge; it is too distant from the way of Insight and illumination.

“It was a good medicine, a wonderful effective drug to save, but what effect would it produce if it were incorrectly used? Consequently, that makes living creatures and the Buddha path itself undergo the decline of Dharma.” –T.V.

The golden words from the teaching of the Blessed One are immeasurably useful, but in this period, called the Dharma-Ending Age, Lord Supreme Maitreya has seen that in his tread of practicing dharma. People everywhere are no longer interested in dissolving the evil karma. Therefore, Mara-power is widely spreading all over, making the decline of dharma in vogue.

LORD SUPREME MAITREYA WITH LONG HOA