LONG HOA HIGHNESS ASSEMBLY, SECOND PERIOD

“The compatible appearance is the expectation of teaching and attestation. Otherwise, one could not have the compatible appearance through false hope.” –T.V.

All faithful disciples seeking for awareness are wishing to meet an awakened one who would appear to teach them, until clear comprehension is to be attested. If not meeting an awakened one yet in the practice, not having an appropriate compatibility, accordingly he would not appear. One could not attain it by quietly sitting and vainly thinking and hoping. All living creatures naturally have the ability of awakening, but it is hard to develop or discover it. Because of Maha power, it is difficult to see, to know, and to have enough abilities to win over the Mara-Power.

“If the disciple having the faculty of the deva or being a fairy, deity, or holy has been born compatibly and appeared in this world, he would have to accept to live according to the six ways like all man.” –T.V.

The natural root faculty of deva or fairy, which comprises noble natures, has the authority of governing the world. The root faculty of deity is righteous and clear.

The root faculties of the holy are walking, standing, lying, sitting in the four stages, inclined towards the importance of their respectful forms of posture, the importance of half-closing the eye, and of the good faculty. These disciples, regardless their degree and duration of practice would remain in the belt of the dharma world and would compatibly appear in the birth and death of the six ways just like all living creatures, not yet being completely enlightened. Though living in the cycle of birth and death, not yet being free from birth and death, but their conduct, of course, remains elegant and noble, their gesture distinguished from that of living creatures.

“Unfortunately, they are emphasizing too much on the form, concentrating more on the appearance of the Buddha body than on the practice of correcting their own nature. They are inclined more to worshipping and admiring than to receiving the teachings of the monks. Because of being inclined to the deva dharma and impregnated with attachment, their practice would be difficult to attain the attestation of bodhisattva conduct and they are only attested as those of Dviyana.” –T.V.

Most of the disciples leaving home and practicing in the temple or hermitage are too preoccupied with making their form similar to that of the Buddha. But they neither pay enough attention to correct their nature nor review and examine their bad habits in order to dissolve them thoroughly. They are instead more inclined to worshipping and praying than to deepening the truth. Because of their polluted faculty, they are not yet admitted to the rank of the conduct bodhisattvas.

The living creatures’ nature, which knows how to be ascendant and joyfully detached, would become the bodhisattva nature.

“If the disciple, having the faculty of the deva or being a fairy deity have been born, compatibly appeared among the world as meant above: When meeting a Buddha, by his clear sight and by looking at the simple deportment of the Tathagata appearing, he would have become respectful. In hearing the teaching the entire veins of his body are universally penetrating and the entire mountains, rivers and earth elements are shaking. He has then prostrated himself to congratulate. He hears the teaching that he has never heard; he sees directly the insight of the true form that he has never seen. He has then converted his mind of the multi-form to the natural form, hence practicing the vow of bodhisattva.” –T.V.

• Devas, fairies, deities and holies once being born in this secular world and impregnated with pollution would have this conception: The Buddha should live differently from the world. If they could have a realistic view, that the lifestyle of the Buddha is simple and plain, neither half-closing the eyes nor continuously making a talisman with his hand, indeed they would have a practical and copious prospect. That is the spontaneous life of Tathagata. The disciple has then recognized the simplicity in the life of Lord Supreme Maitreya Buddha presently appearing through the body of a man living in the secular world. He would learn to be respectful, faithful, arduous and just hearing a word of the Buddha he could have the insight of the practical dharma. Immediately, his whole body of the four elements would receive a new source of life, happily receiving the lively truth right at the spot, not from other eminent places.

His whole body is re-activated; all his cells are awakened and completely renewed. The false erroneous conception suddenly disappears, which is referred to as the clearance in the veins of the whole body. Mountains, rivers and earth elements that meant the four elements of the body of the disciple including the earth, the water, the wind and the fire which are also renewed by wiping out the karma caught through the conservative conception, which they are attached to.

From then on, the body had been renewed, compatibly appeared to the suchness dharma which never hears and is heard now, never sees and is seen now, never knows and is known now. The disciple then has the insight and is no longer attached to the form, the sign, and the sound in searching of the dharma, but rather leaning on the all dharma right in the world, unifying and vowing to practice and cultivate himself. That is the vow bodhisattva.

During His return in the Dharma-Ending Age, Lord Supreme Maitreya Buddha as Long-Hoa Chief Monk has seen and I have heard that most disciples lost their way of practice, towards to fairy, deva, deity, and holy path. As for the path of enlightenment, there is rarely anyone who practiced the salvation of living creatures.

“These disciples belong to the conduct layman in the rank of bourgeoisie to practice the dharma.” –T.V.

• The devas, fairies, deities and holiness after having the insight and following strictly the way of enlightenment are still bourgeois and practicing the conduct of bourgeoisie.

The ranks of dharma protectors, bourgeois, attendants and believers, called the Four Beings practicing around the Buddha, are all enlightened.

“The Buddha coming into the world could not exploit the faculty dharma of living creatures. Every time a living creature is imbued, being attached to his faculty karma to create the form of second vehicle or receive the faculty karma of becoming fairy, deity, holy or becoming hunger-devil animals, even the Buddha could not help them. It is only those who are vowing to save themselves that could be free from their own faculty karma. Those are the true words. Therefore, there is a saying: The Buddha would save neither those of no-condition nor those of fixed karma.” –T.V.

• The living creatures who are attached created fixed faculty karma and clinging to be a practitioner with a non-parallelism of nature and form. They are ordained as second vehicle or received only the destiny of fairies, deities, or holiness; if having a great root-cause (sufficient past merits), they would meet the Buddha who would initiate them to be able to hear, see, know and have insight. But if they were unable to receive it, do not have some senses in themselves, are not determined and patient to dissolve all dharma, even the Buddha could not help them.

“When living creatures’ faculty is at the right time and yet they are living in prosperity, sinking in the desire and false hope, wishing for a more luxurious life, the Buddha has advised them to leave home and practice the renunciation conduct in order to leave the false, temporary reputation, and realizing the “Emptiness”. That would help to control the desire, overcoming the greed and returning to the natural insight.” –T.V.

• During the time of the Blessed One, the material life of living creatures is very simple, but they are attached to their elegant and noble class, are well served everywhere they live and are dictatorial toward their inferior beings. The Buddha has known well that they should dissolve by renunciation, leaving their families, no longer sinking in the fictitious reputation. They should be homeless, living in a hermitage dharma school to practice until reaching the “emptiness” and going alms-round, living frugally day after day. All are aiming to control their faculty nature, giving up fame and glory, without possession and attachment, and yet being spontaneous among all dharma, naturally releasing attachment, getting the pure mind and attaining enlightenment.

“At the time when living creatures are poor and miserable, using all their abilities to make their living, the activity of education and civilization could not apply the way of emptiness to guide them on the way of wisdom. Therefore, the Buddha has to appear by classing himself as a living creature, making use of the “fullness” way to guide them. For the “fullness” way, there are countless manners of evolution. Once the mind is not impregnated, the perfect achievement would come. The true originality would appear wonderfully.” –T.V.

• During this Final Law Period of return, living creatures’ faculty are miserable, they have to make use of their labor to earn their living by all kinds of occupations in the world. Science has invented a lot of useful, attractive and curious things. The Supreme Pure King incarnated Lord Supreme Maitreya Buddha has entirely known well that the Tathagata-Store has vigorously developed. If the disciples continued to leave their home to practice the dharma in the temples and hermitages as they did 2500 years ago, not having the career and the education, they would be behind the times. They would not face the evolution in the time of return, still concentrating on the study of sutra, and preaching on the sutra without seeing and knowing the movement of all dharma in the reality.

Therefore, he has to make use of the practice at home so that the believers would be able to recognize and practice the application of the Tathagata-Store. When a disciple has a family, has been married and has his children and their relatives to take care of, naturally, all the dharma could not be omitted with the purity and impurity. The believer should lean on the impurity and purity mind without attachment and clinging. He would then be able to know the present clearly and wonderfully. What a reforming and practical way of practicing right in the family, but still assuring the goal of enlightenment!

“Joy, anger, love, hatred, permanence, peace, self and purity are the skillfully used dharma subject of the Buddha. According to the faculty nature, the Buddha has to appear to guide the bodhisattva who received the species’ natures, not in the clinging of attestation of the Buddha.” –T.V.

• The disciple sometimes faces difficult, unbearable, sad situations. The Buddha has to use the Joy to dissolve it, helping him to overcome it and to put an end to the pollution of the sorrow.

The disciple follows the Buddha, but does not obey His practice, so the Buddha has to get angry to convert him to the practice. The disciple likes to be treated with consideration, so the Buddha has to use love to help him to advance. The disciple in serenity lay deeply into the dharma sphere; the Buddha has to use hatred that is the formless and impurity to make him practice fully the enlightenment. For the disciple who is confused and wrongly thinking, the Buddha has to make use of the permanent peace, self and purity in order to make him understand.
The skillful management of the Buddha to save living creatures is unthinkable. For the sake of living creatures and according to the sickness, the Buddha has correspondingly appeared to help them, but He has never been polluted.

LORD SUPREME MAITREYA WITH LONG HOA