LONG HOA HIGHNESS ASSEMBLY, SECOND PERIOD

“When prophecy originates, mainly from the sincere will of expressing and nature, the sincere mind gives rise to all dharma of suchness. All dharma are originally from the mind, and once produced the Buddha soon attests them. The attesting Buddha is the Buddha of the dharma, not the Buddha mind of the unique branch enlightenment.” –T.V.

The Prophecy is usually expressed in the form of poems and verses, due to the practice for fixed perception of the fairy, deity mind. Despite sincere practice, the fixed perception is always the mind, which originates all the dharma. The appearing Buddha hereby is the Buddha of dharma of acquisition, not the intuitive Buddha of enlightenment of attestation.

The fixed perception belongs to the dualism and the intuition belongs to the supreme. Living creatures thus are often mistaken and wrongly attached.

“According to the prophecy, the sincerity of the believer having faith in the sutra, combined with the suchness of the masses which manifest the truth for the sincere believer, but it is not yet true to the insincere believer. Therefrom, there is a saying: “Efficacious or inefficacious that depends upon yourself”, when you believe it then it is and when you don’t then it isn’t. The scenery and the sentiment are co-response. When you are sad so is the scene and when you are happy so is the scene, but the scene itself is still only a scene. It is either sad or happy. Such a remark matches the spirit of the prophecy, but does not match the Buddha mind, which according to the Buddha’s transmitting words, is unique. Therefore, the recognition is as follows:

  – The Scene of the Seven Mountains: Recognition Of The Fire-Vomiting Scene.” –T.V.

Living creatures are often touched by the scenes as the cause gives rise to the effect. There is no effect without cause. Therefore, the faith brings almost efficacy, while the faithlessness does not. Those who have no faith are indifferent and the dharma nature did not appear to them, making it inefficacious.

For those who practice the correction according to the realistic truth, the path of intuition belongs to wisdom. When seeing the scene of his family, with chaos caused by his wife and children, these disciples controlled their rebellious character. Consequently they dissolved the flowering dharma nature, gradually becoming sensible, understood thoroughly, and saw clearly the false recognition about waiting for Long Hoa of as those who practiced with fixed perception that have become the eternally mistaken.

The Salvation Long Hoa: Cruelty and all the bad characters are impetuously bursting out through his wife and children. He has borne it without any complaint.

Recognition of the Nation-Wide Association: The disciples, from the patriarchs to the dharma protectors in the time of the Blessed One, all gather today as the layman conduct at Long Hoa. Lord Supreme Maitreya Buddha: He has appeared from the impure dharma to the great purity.

Recognition of the Homogenous Birth: All the patriarchs are adequate in accordance with him. They, therefore, have equally generated the Buddha mind. Those who have been around Him, all support and execute his instructions to dissolve by all means in order to develop the intuition, which is the wish of all to achieve.  

The Scene of the Seven Mountains: All the patriarchs in the past and dharma protectors have recognized that His wife and six children are really the Seven Mountains.

Recognition of the Fire Vomiting Scene: The scene of explosion in His family is uniquely the Seven Mountains. There is no explosion of the Seven Mountains, largely expected according to the Prophecy. Recognizing it as the human beings and fairy-deity, you could never see Long Hoa.

“In the account of recognition of the Seven Mountains, the Blessed One has appeared in India. As for the Seven Mountains in Cambodia and those situated at Chau Doc, Vietnam, the Buddha has not made the sealed transmission. As far as the salvation of Long Hoa and the Nagarjuka tree of Lord Supreme Maitreya are concerned, the homogeneity is naturally in relation with the appearance. The appearance in some place or nation is usually judged from it. On the contrary, in the case of the Seven Mountains, the scene itself has to manifest around Lord Supreme Maitreya. That is called the “Fire Vomiting Scene” that means the situation of favor or disfavor, before or after, superior or inferior, inside or outside all that is the dharma savior of the period of Eastern Salvation. He has assumed the responsibility of saving the Four Species of living creatures and named the great power Buddha.” –T.V.

The dharma savior of the period of Eastern salvation: Dharma Ending Age is the period of common salvation. All the practitioners and living creatures are all saved. Why is that? - Because all the dharma have been proceeding in the extremity, the practitioners and the non-practitioners are affected by the scene beyond endurance that caused the living creatures nature to manifest all its toxicity without omission.

Finally, realizing it’s extremely toxic; the disciples are frightened and repent towards the good will because the Supreme Reverend Maitreya has secretly manipulated the Tathagata store, which is transforming. The practitioners and the non practitioners are all discreetly saved, that is the period of Eastern salvation of present enlightenment. And the Four Species are also saved according to the Proclamation Attesting the Universe as mentioned in the previous section. Consequently, He is named the great power Maitreya Buddha.

“There are two cases of fire-vomiting scene: His dharma savior of the renunciation or His salvation of the layman. Although they are different, the two above cases have the same manifestation: By the renunciation, He has had six monks and a lady-owner of the temple. As the layman, He also has had six children, a wife as well, the same four ranks of disciples.” –T.V.

If the great power Maitreya Buddha has appeared from the explosion of the Seven Mountains without being born by his parents, the aspect of the initiation of Long Hoa by all means would have been unnatural. Therefore, He could only appear in reality in these two cases:

First of all, leaving home to go to the temple, He must have the Buddhist believers as well as the lady owner of the temple, each of them with their own personality and individuality to experience the manifestation of the Six Ways in order to be saved by Him.

Secondly, appearing as a layman, He must have a wife and His six children as well as the four ranks of disciples, each of them with their personality and individuality also to experience the manifestation of the six ways in order to be saved by Him. By recognizing the reality, one could understand that He has initiated Long Hoa in Vietnam.

“The six monks or six children represent the six ways. Each monk, or each child, has His own character. Being different from each other in their manner and their actions, for that reason they are called the six ways. Whenever in harmony, they have discussed about His manner of walking, standing, laying, sitting, and sometimes they have gone to see the lady owner of the temple or the mother to tell of it. He has really known all of that and He has often said that these six people are the six ways in manifestation, do not take any notice of them.” –T.V.

He has appeared as a layman, His six children do not know the wonderful application of their father, so they all have reacted differently according to their character through the manifestation of the six ways.

A very few faithful disciples have continued to come to Him calmly. With all His chaotic family scenes and the disciples still follow Him, the neighbors laugh at these disciples and look at them scornfully. At the same time, the members in the family of the disciples rigorously forbade them from continuing the practice; furthermore, His sons have assaulted the disciples and do not allow them to visit Him. Furthermore, one of His daughters informed the police for arresting any disciples thet still tried to make an effort of seeing Him. In fact, the disciples are very resolute, in spite of seeing and hearing the shameful events, they are still faithfully and secretly grasping any opportunities to meet Him as usual.

He said that it is the dharma of no-obstruction they have to practice without paying attention to the manifestation of the six ways by His children.

A very few remaining disciples have still believed in Him, but they have returned only rarely to see him. A majority, as many as 3000, had left without giving news.

Later, when the chaos was over, a great number of new disciples have also left Him because they were told about the impure dharma, which was too strange and unacceptable for them. The others have still preserved their faith. At the end of his life, there remained about 100 true disciples who have only heard, but unfortunately did not have a chance to witness and experience the scenes of tantrum.

At that time, living in the re-education camp, I have been adequately informed about the dharma situation, but I have firmly recognized the true dharma and dissolved my living creatures’ nature. When I was discharged from the re-education camp, I still continued to cultivate and remained close to Him as I used to be.

“Because of the difference between human mind and Buddha mind, between the manners of practice of the second vehicle and the supreme, the more they are dissuaded, the more the six monks and the lady owner of the temple become unified in their action. The wife with six children have persistently criticized and blamed Him in every thing. In hearing that He is the Buddha, their incredulity increased and enhanced all kinds of manifestations. He could say nothing, because the divergence in the judgement has generated the criticism and the unpleasant things. As for the faithful disciples, some could have a good judgement, but others are still confused about His wonderful application in the Final Law Period. So that He has written a poem, emphasizing that He has two important responsibilities. The first is the reorganization of the Buddha path and the second is the salvation in the Final Law Period.” –T.V.

His six children belonging to human mind and other disciples of the second vehicle have a different judgement from that of the Buddha mind. Therefore, His children and His wife disbelieve He is a Buddha, they also have intended to contravene His wonderful application as intensely as it can be, increasingly causing an explosion that is known by everybody in the city of Nha Trang. For the disciples of the second vehicle, they are so frightened that most of them have fled and given up the practice of the dharma.

Among them there are more than 10 Venerables who have been accustomed to practicing by renunciation through many previous lifetimes but could not tolerate the formless and retreated into their private homes. The dharma protectors also fell in great numbers. That is the time of return in the Final Law Period when He has appeared to save living creatures, making them recognize the wrong and fictitious practice of the second vehicle and return to the practice of the Intuition with enormous, boundless and wonderful outcomes.

“On the one hand, it is the internal manifestation, and in the external it is the time of return in the last period which is too hard for everything. Every family with its chaos and every temple in disturbance are confined by the communist government into the forbidden areas. For that reason, He and the four ranks of disciples have patiently kept silent, relying only on the dissolution by the great power. He has known it well, but never spoken out.” –T.V.

Since 1975, historical events in South Vietnam began to unsettle. He has intuitively seen that it was necessary to expand Long Hoa into a phase of higher dharma. He has then initiated the impure dharma to the world in correspondence to the Tathagata store, which is intensively transformed in accordance with the Tathagata dharma.

Only the sensible practitioner having the eyes of the Tathagata store could recognize it. It’s rare to find the true disciple who could see and know. As for Him, He has silently initiated the dharma, intentionally creating the instability to give rise to the upheaval. Most of His disciples became astonished and bewildered in presence of chaotic scenes in the secular world as well as in the dharma school. At that time, every disturbance or disorder in the family or in the temple was reported by the group of vigilant neighbors, immediately the ward authority would force the involved parties to go to the new economic zones, facing the hardship and death in front of them. Everybody was obviously frightened and preserved himself and His family.

He did not hide and showed to everybody the impure dharma about His concubine, so that His wife and children manifested all scenes of asura, animals, hunger devil, and hell to rebel against their father and husband. Many times on His beam ends and having no-means for dissolution, He had to rely on His abilities and merits, which have been accumulated through incalculable lifetimes that are called the great power to render and settle everything. Only the true disciples whose sincere sentiment was higher than their noble sentiment could share their common worries and defend for each other so as not to be forced to the ‘economic zones’ or to the ‘labor camps’.

Facing such manifestations of the dharma, a number of unlisted venerables and dharma protectors in the previous chapter were afraid and fled, scared to bear the brunt of another’s wrong deed, and abandoning Him unprotected.

Here is what He has Himself taught me: “Later, when Long Hoa true dharma comes into the world, many of my true disciples who ran away before, will bombastically speak up and show off themselves to be the disciples of Lord Supreme Maitreya. They would eloquently exaggerate and excellently preach the dharma, but that dharma is being awakened. You should inform the human beings not to be mistaken by those who only speak well on the theory without sincerely practicing the dharma.” –T.V.

The four ranks of disciples usually approached Him. He has dissolved the doubt-attachment, and He has taught them meticulously and sufficiently. Unfortunately, their abilities and wisdom are insufficient, they, therefore, could not understand them all. He has treated the four ranks of disciples as His own children. He often said: I am happy when you are receiving the precious dharma, I am glad when you are dissolving the stupidity, so I have written these verses...

With all the proceeding chaos in His family, any true disciples having decided to follow Him in the practice for liberation through wisdom is meticulously and carefully taught without any omission. However, the disciples are not of the same degree of perception of the precious dharma, so they are divided into many classes of unequal knowledge. A number of true Buddhist disciples who are faithful and transcendental and overcome a lot of suffering and hardship are guided to dissolve the stupidity in order to perceive the dharma, some of them are awakened, and others are fully awakened.

At last, only the truly good disciples are His source of joy, because one of them already attained the enlightenment to the full enlightenment. Listening to Him and reading His wonderful poems, the four orders of disciples indescribably have respected and admired Him.

• “Khanh, the end of Human Beings occurred without a word”:
His first daughter, who was mute since her childhood, growing up with an aimless life, time and again she slipped away from her parents then become inadvisable. Miss Khanh symbolizes for hells gate.

• “Tuong, without comprehending the tantrum arose”:
His second son named Tuong (Comprehension) who neither knows the works of his father nor understands the wonderful application of the Buddha who himself is his father. He has created a lot of suffering for his father and the four orders of disciples. He belongs to the animal dharma, which usually caused chaos.

• “An, by grace the tears rolled copiously”:
The third son named An (grace) who sees the chaotic scene of his family, often got angry, cried, violently shouted and shattered everything. He represented the asura.

• “Oanh, the Oriole was darting over the sea and all over”:
The fourth daughter in the family named Oanh (Oriole) who usually went here and there or visited the relatives to complain about her family situation, belonging to the Hunger Devil.

• “Xoa, alleviating the situation in sweet afternoon”:
His fifth daughter, named Xoa (Alleviating) often consoled her mother. She belonged to the Humanity Dharma.

• “Thu Minh, the brilliant king was reigning peacefully over all”:
Thu Minh (brilliant) is His youngest daughter in the family who belongs to the devas sphere. After the noisy explosion of the initiation of Long Hoa, she practiced among the four ranks of disciples; some have successfully achieved the fruit of enlightenment. His six children have symbolized the Six Ways.

To the secular world, He has wonderfully manipulated the dharma, helping mankind to avoid the third World War that threatened to destroy the two systems, the liberalism and the communism.

Though He is not a king, His concealment is similar to a brilliant king of the world. As far as the dharma is concerned, He has entirely achieved the Buddha hood, unifying perfectly the dharma and the life in parallelism. He has richly deserved to be the successor of the Buddha and is worth the title of the Blessed One.

• “Hien, the offering to the Three Dharma Elements three lives was attested by the fairy-deity”:
Hien (offering) was His wife's name. Her duty of dharma protector in the family to share the responsibility with Him is the offering to the three lives that was attested by the fairy-deity. At the end of her life, she would be reborn to that sphere and enjoy the happiness.

• “Kim Le, presenting the golden pear of the altar of precious dharma”:
The result of the dharma in Long Hoa Superior Association lead to enlightenment, which is the altar of precious dharma. After reciting the poem, the four orders of disciples have bowed to him and left. As I remember, he has usually manifested Himself from one nature to another in saying that is the wonderful application of the Buddha nature. My doubt is increasing day after day because I have practiced mechanically and believed that the destruction of ignorance would show the Buddha nature. For me, the Buddha nature is a perfectly good and favorable nature, so I felt very uneasy at unfavorable things. One day I came to bow to Him and expose what I have not yet understood, He has smiled and said:

"Listen to me, it is beneficial in this life and the future to recognize correctly what the Buddha nature is. The Buddha nature is like a general warehouse containing all precious gems with full spectrums that completely includes all the natures of the living creatures, natures that are attaching without discrimination of the good and the evil; the purity and the impurity are called the unique principle Buddha nature. It is incredibly hard to recognize the Buddha nature. You have to correct and dissolve through the practical life to be able to recognize the truth. Reading and studying the sutra without practice, clinging to the reason, is not the real Buddha nature.

The Buddha nature does not differ much from a treasure, which contains all the precious gems with their various colors, shapes and all the black, white, yellow, red lustrous... Since the conciousness store is thrown into the sky, spreading out the whole Tathagata. The idiot picks up one or two pieces at his will and believes them to be precious gems; all the others are not. This man belongs to living creatures’ nature, while those who receive thousands and thousands of natures countless natures compose the supreme and unequal nature of enlightened Buddha mind. Why? All of them are precious gems without difference. The nature originally resembles the nature produced in each series, each stage it is not different from the nature of suchness, and you should not discriminate between one nature and another." I am delighted to hear that, I have prostrated and eulogized Him who has given me such a very precious gem.

Many disciples who achieved the truth through their practice and hastily proclaimed themselves to be Buddha are caught in the Buddha limit. You have to practice in the reality strictly following His footprint in accompaniment and collaboration with the Maha Bodhisattva in view of reaching the path of the unique principle. He has then looked at me and said:

"I am returning in this return period to relieve the stupidity of living creatures, leading them to the Buddha nature of enlightenment. He, who listens to or believes in Me, should not look at Me in whatever manners and will, of course, get the liberation through wisdom. Otherwise, if he persistently keeps on regarding Me and being attached with the doubt, until the next three hundred and fifty years, I shall appear to attest them." Then He has passed down the verses:

LORD SUPREME MAITREYA WITH LONG HOA