LONG HOA HIGHNESS ASSEMBLY, SECOND PERIOD

There are four stages of the Samadhi:
      • The Samadhi of the Sravaka
      • The Samadhi of the Pratyeka
      • The Samadhi of the Arahant
      • The Samadhi of the Bodhisattva, Maha Bodhisattva

• The Samadhi of the Sravaka
 
   ◊ Inspired with what is happening next. For example, you would like to pay a friend a visit; suddenly something appears to happen to prevent it. Consequently, the friend is not at home when you arrive. Another example, suddenly you feel sleepy when you are going somewhere. The best thing is that you should not go. The misfortune will be brought about when you insist proceeding.

• The Samadhi of the Pratyeka

  ◊ Perceiving all the dharma. Recognizing all the dharma. Using (dissolution, manipulation of all dharma). For example, you planed to meet an acquaintance for business purposes. However, when you are preparing and ready to go, something happens to obstruct you, thereof you cannot meet him. That is the perception of the prevention, which is unfavorable to proceed. Upon recognizing that, you should use all means to dissolve and overcome the obstacle without any prevention. Such a disciple knows how to use all the dharma. That is called the manipulation of all dharma fluently.

  ◊ Perceiving the dharma is the dissolution of the first stupidity.

  ◊ Recognizing the dharma is the comprehension of the second stupidity.

  ◊ Using the dharma fluently is the comprehension of the third stupidity.

Dissolving these three stupidities in the dharma is the Samadhi of the Pratyeka

• The Samadhi of the Arahant

  ◊ The real form

  ◊ The formless

  ◊ The manipulation (all the dharma)

     √ When the Sakyamuni Buddha has shown a stem of flower in the conference hall, The Venerable Mahakassapa has smiled. He then knew that the Venerable Mahakassapa has acquired the samadhi of dharma subject of the real form and formless. Why did the venerable smile? It is because he was intuited.

  ◊ The real form: the kind of flower it is.

  ◊ The formless: the flower has its own dharma nature, what it is used for, how its tastes and smells . . .

  ◊ The manipulation: The right application, for instance, which flower is offered to the Buddha, which flower is offered to the Kitchen God.

Dissolving the three stupidities of each dharma is perfect comprehension of the dharma sphere.

Every dharma requires thorough observation and knowledge elevated to the wonderful observation, aiming to understand the three stupidities of each dharma. The function of samadhi is to dissolve the stupidity for the disciple. Therefore, it is used to dissolve the thousands, millions of samadhis. They are truly attested, acquiring the truth without entanglement in the dharma sphere.

• The Samadhi of the Bodhisattva, Maha Bodhisattva

  ◊ Knowing thoroughly all the dharma.

  ◊ Manipulating fluently all the dharma.

  ◊ Comprehending perfectly all the dharma.

The bodhisattva knows well the original appearance of dharma sphere that is the necessary essential point. Therefore, he could know the sickness of living creatures so that he can dissolve by all means to manipulate in such way to be concordant, aiming to assimilate and get closer in order to save the living creatures.

It is after comprehending perfectly all dharma, making perfect use of them and clearly separating the orientation and non-orientation of all dharma in equality that you can perfectly comprehend all dharma. Only the Buddhas are fully attained, the bodhisattva should not be self-satisfied in realizing his vow, in conducting his vow until any of his future lifetimes. He will follow the right way of the Buddhas of Ten Directions to be able to enter the Nirvana.

There are those who like to practice without correcting themselves. Their lazy body disagrees with the practice and is not following the bodhisattva conduct so that they are not enlightened. The body and mind of bodhisattva are gradually approaching to one while the body and mind of living creatures remain the separate two. The mind and the dharma reunified into one leads to enlightenment. When they already became only one, they are able to emerge and enter the right meditation of samadhi.

The one who practices himself through his own conception from this lifetime to another lifetime is still in the Buddha-dharma, the dharma-Buddha, becoming more rebellious by the reason and cannot follow the right path to liberation. During His return to the world, the Lord has witnessed many cultivators who used the fixed conception to emerge from meditation, which belonged to dissent. Without meditation, there is neither intuition nor development of wisdom. On account of the above characteristics, the cultivator with many lifetimes of practice still could not harvest the results.

“He is tranquilly sitting on a block of stone, naturally and in a calm purity, and gradually releasing the breeze while emerging from meditation. The low forest landscape with its uneven rocky crests virtually begins to manifest the scenes according to the right meditation of the Buddhist Master.” –T.V.

The paragraph of sutra has inscribed the Supreme Lord Supreme Maitreya emerging from the right meditation to travel to the divine world meeting the eighteen arahants who are severely discussing about the truth.

“The Buddhist Master has come to an ancient temple, the roofs of the temple slightly curved as the two wings, which are broad and low like an eagle spreading its wings to protect the visitors of all directions. He has entered into the temple where there are eighteen arahants divided into three groups discussing about the true way of practice. He has used his telecommunication ear, his eye-store of samadhi meditation to see clearly and hear all without omission. The eighteen arahants have never realized a great superior arahant is present in the conference.

At that time, the Buddhas of Ten Directions unanimously had pronounced the words of congratulation to the Buddha King (Maitreya) and said to all Bodhisattvas. You all should go to the Khanh Trang province, Long Phung Mountain, Long Buu temple where there is a Buddha with the dharma title of the Buddha King (Maitreya), appearing in this period of Return. He has had the responsibilities of reorganizing the Buddha dharma, attesting the return, pronouncing the four conducts, making all who are unstably living and wrongly practicing become the true dharma of the Supreme Pure King, the four supreme worthy conducts, in the purpose of bringing about good omen, and guiding to enlightenment. You all should go there respectfully to worship Him and receive the practice of the four conducts. He has commissioned and the bodhisattvas unanimously bowed down, radiating light, and relying on the fluorescence for coming there to worship.

All the devas, fairy dragons, and saints are looking at the south east, where the fragrances of udumbara are overspreading and hearing the voices diffusing in the space, all are bringing their offerings there to worship.

At that time in the Long Buu Palace, all the petals are connected together in garlands as large as a red peach and looks like a sticky rice tray. The appearing Buddha King (Lord Supreme Maitreya) is dressing a White Velvet robe, wearing a white pinkish hat of maintenance, which has nine buds of flower. Each bud of flower was diffusing the halo; every ray comprises the yellow light with its color of yellow-yellow light, the blue light with its color of blue-blue light, the pink light with its color of pink-pink light, the black light with its color of black-black light. Especially, the unique white color has no color of white. The Lord has appeared in the sufficient state of thirty-two handsome forms and stepped on the flower with the splendid yellow rays of halo. All the bodhisattvas, devas, and fairies as well as the dragon deities to the arahants, sravakas, and pratyekas without blinking their eyes are looking and unanimously eulogizing, they are now seeing such a spectacular performance which they have never seen before.

Suddenly, there are the praises in the air due to the countless merits of Buddha, which appeared in the supreme principle, supreme form, and measureless odor, without omission. He has stepped up to the lion throne and seated himself in his place. All the different orders admired and respectfully bowed before Him then they took their seats respectively according to their order and all in contemplating.

At that time, the Buddha King (Lord Supreme Maitreya) is patient for twelve million minutes. His face is simple and tranquil in accord with all of them, making them happy and enthusiastically respecting Him without a bit of false hope or arising expectation. The Lord has said: I fairly congratulate the eighteen arahants for this conference in the last period. The bodhisattvas are realizing the instructions and all the orders are tirelessly practicing to maintain the everlastinness of the precious dharma.

For those with insufficient root faculty and imperfect wisdom, therefore, the transformation of mind generates the tranquil dharma, to receive the blessed reward from devas and men, to attain every conduct. Otherwise, with obscure wisdom, the transformation of mind will generate by itself a lot of karma. They are living in all kinds of change. By informed and indirect practice through different ideas, it is difficult to attain the true enlightenment.

They have faith in the reason and act with respectful worship towards the Buddhas. Nevertheless, without the thorough penetration in the way of practice, how can they acquire the fruit of attainment?

I am appearing adequately for your sake in a layman form deeply penetrating in the form, sound, odor, and taste to tell you not to offend the dharma. From the devoted male followers to the devoted female followers all are practicing to seek for the compatible apparition, to receive for the blessed reward of devas and men. Very rare are those who practice with the direct apparition.

The lord has spoken, at this point, a bodhisattva has stepped out and circularly walked seven times with admiration and respectfully addressed: - Reverend the Blessed One, I have practiced into clearance of all living creatures. It is not possible to search for just one more living creature left, I respectfully express my request with sincerity to the Blessed One to take pity on me to teach me how to practice for the full attainment of the Bodhihood vow.

Excellent! Clever! Ah, Bodhisattva Buu Tinh, you have practiced clearly the reason of living creatures, but have not yet attained the origin of each living creature sphere. In each living creatures spheres, thousands and thousands of living creatures combine to become a dharma sphere. In each dharma sphere, there are numberless living creatures. When you have fully awoken the original appearance of living creatures, you entirely comprehend the manifestation of the dharma sphere, by that time you are attested then attaining the full enlightenment.

The whole body of the Bodhisattva Buu Tinh is blooming with the flowers of Precious Dharma, lightly and freshly, with happily eulogies. He has never yet heard what he is hearing today. That is truly the Supreme Blessed One. Afterwards, he has respectfully bowed down and sat aside to admire.” –T.V.

As for the Buddha King Maitreya, His making of salvation for the living creatures is really unthinkable. When He had returned to the world to become the Buddha, the Buddhas of Ten Directions had respectfully admired and eulogized Him and acclaimed by all the boddhisattvas, devas, fairies, dragon deities and quadruple deities. Everytime, he has emerged from meditation to save living creatures; there is a serious shaking of the Three of Great Thousand Worlds.

Meanwhile, a great number of cultivators proclaim to be the Buddhas by relying on the fixed conception and knew that there was the appearance of Long Hoa. However, they could not meet the Lord. If one would practice of direct apparition that could provide sufficient abilities, merit of the holy rank. Thereupon, one would be admitted to Long Hoa without needlessly waiting for it.

The Buddhism is always based on the noble affection; therefore, the true disciple himself examines his faults in order to avoid the errors. The more eminent his thought, the more supernatural power transforms. For those who are not yet hearing, understanding it, the Tathagata store still accumulates this hearing, this knowledge, into the cavities. Until one day, they will meet the bodhisattva of full attainment who only teaches a right word corresponding to what they have heard in the past. Naturally, the mysterious constitution will give it back to them. Everyone who practices precisely with one self’s nature - that is the daily progress, which is the path in the universe, approaching towards the Buddhas.

For a learned man, the supernatural power is transformed into intelligence. However, without practicing the dharma, he is still wandering in the path of the birth and death. If someone is neither attached nor rebellious, his body is at ease and easy to receive the supernatural power, the more it comes in and out the more intelligent he is. Every dharma has its origin. For instance, the dharma of a carpenter only knows about woods, furnitures and all wooden products, which belong to the carpentry. Otherwise, supplying him with a bar of iron obviously he would not know what to do with it.

And for the dharma of a blacksmith, who manufactures the iron door, he would not know what to do with that piece of wood. Each career is a dharma, which has its origin, the familiarity in any career making the supernatural power enter into that body and stay there even while you are eating, living, and sleeping. Therefore, for someone without faith and meditation, the spirit-consciousness cannot make its access.

Monks and nuns are afraid of dharma, so they have to practice the dispassion to prevent the access of the spirit-consciousness. Until, penetrating the Tathagata store, they realize that the more eminence and excellence in the perfect way of practice are, the faster they recognize the supernatural power. The intelligent man takes the spirit-consciousness. The Buddhist Master neither takes nor leaves the spirit-consciousness thus entering the Tathagata store. Consequently, he will acquire the supernatural power of samadhi.

Secular men are hearing with their ears, seeing with their eyes and knowing with their heads, so their intelligence is still limited. Only the Buddhist Master, hears by the hearing, sees by the seeing and knows by the knowing. Therefore, his matchless intelligence comprehends thoroughly the supernatural power.

A man succeeding in a career has already the samadhi. He needs only to realize a dharma and knows it well; the other dharma completely returns and serves him.

Only the Buddhist Master looks at the spirit-consciousness of living creatures to know it all. Looking at someone, the Buddhist Master literally knows his thoughts, his characters, and teaches him according to the sickness he is infected with in order to dissolve his stupidity. It is not by ascending the pulpit and preaching interminably the dharma in a particular way, and expecting the living creature to hear and realize it all. The Buddhist Master should remain close to his living creature, teaching him every day one dharma after another to help him gradually awakened. In reality, it is not easy to teach dharma to a follower to awaken him. That is very hard. The Enlightened One must know how to wonderfully apply all his great means in the hope of saving his follower.

Because of the multiple illnesses of living creatures, he has to establish various conducts to save them accordingly. Like a good physician, who examines the patient and prescribes the right medicine to cure his disease. Otherwise, reciting, learning and studying the sutra, preaching all the dharma are all good. But the error is enormous. He should know which dharma is applied to which case and in what situation. Just like allowing a patient to enter the drugstore, he considers all kinds of medicine to be suitable and takes them all. Obviously, it does not cure the disease, but it rather makes it worse.

Preaching the dharma, without being aware of the disease of stupidity in every living creature, is similar to driving someone to the drugstore and letting him take all kinds of medicine. Even through thousands of lifetimes of faithfulness, he would never be enlightened.

The Buddhist Master has to use the samadhi to preach the dharma fluently; therefrom, the listener will also be fluent. Caught with stupidity, a good preacher would make the ignorant listener more stupid with more reasons to give rise to rebellion.

The one who acquires the samadhi has to realize thousands of samadhi dharma, thousands of samadhi dharma of supernatural power to be able to see and know about the previous lifetimes. The deeper the samadhi the more previous lifetimes are seen in Long Hoa. There are quite a number of disciples who could recall only one previous lifetime, but they could not recall many of their previous lifetimes because they are still penetrating in the dharma sphere, not yet profoundly comprehending the dharma nature.

The origin of dharma remains constant. For instance, someone living in the fairy sphere at his death, is reborn in the world today with the same gesture and character as in his previous lifetime, the only difference is the aspect of the face and physical body.

Meeting the Lord Chief Monk of Long Hoa, the follower joins him to practice enthusiastically, the virtue and Mind develop every day, and the results are evident. The Lord has literally known that the human life does not last long before coming to old age, illness and death. And at the present time, the eternal truth is coming to the world to save mankind in an unthinkable manner. It is necessary to recognizing it, not wasting away the present lifetime, achieving the measureless, limitless knowledge. All of that leads living creatures to enlightenment.

The bodhisattvas’ words are all frank words of insight, the words of carrying out the Buddha explanation. And the words of greed, sense-desire, and one’s ego are the hypothetical words of mara of three vehicles. The Lord has appeared in this secular world, but every time emerging from meditation to travel to the other spheres, he is respectfully acclaimed with rejoicing by the devas, fairies, deities and saints in order to receive the precious dharma. Meanwhile, many Buddhist followers have never known that Long Hoa has come to the world. The bodhisattvas are now continuing the way of guiding the living creatures away from the transmigration of birth and death while living creatures are still vaguely expecting a miracle from the Seven Mountains.

In this Final Law Period, most disciples do not practice adequately. The exotericism is attentive to the exotericism. The practice by meditation conceives that the tantrayana is metaphysical in all aspects. The immediacy applies immediacy absolutely, regardless of the virtue; the practice by gradualness maintains the gradualness. If the disciple does not finalize all these combinations, how could he attain enlightenment!

The Easterners are seeking the truth by training themselves in a particular manner and some acquire the sealed mind. The Buddhist believers wishing for the dharma must be faithful in the spirit of attainment to receive the truth, gradually desist from the stupidity and attain the enlightenment. Lord Supreme Maitreya Buddha has to wonderfully apply this characteristic method in the Final Law Period. He could not assemble in large numbers in the family while the Vietnam communists did not allow it for the construction of virtue.

The Westerners study through material experimentation and formally announce to mankind the achievable outcomes. Unfortunately, besides some advantages, there are some disadvantages as well and at the end; the material experimentation is usually destroyed.

Through many generations, the Easterners have already known long ago that the human body and mind is covering all over the universe because the combination of the four insubstantial elements creates the corresponding body for the universe. Therefore, both the interior body and exterior body are in agreement. Therefore, the human beings could associate to receive the supernatural power of the universe. As for the Westerners, they do not exploit accurately the human body, so they have not yet truly known it.

The Buddhist doctrine does not accept the soul; it only recognizes the thoughts, which represent the soul. The soul is covering all over the empty universe, so there is the enlightened soul in correspondence to the soul. Human beings cannot recognize the place where the thoughts are generated, they have to follow the generation and destruction untill they have sufficient abilities and merits and comprehension of the ideas of immortality before they have induction of the soul, and the insight of the supernatural power.

The soul has a non-dualistic form. The supreme soul is, with the power to see clearly, unchangeable, unending, which is the Tathagata, Buddha, God. The Buddhist doctrine presumes the great-ego, the unique ego. The ego in our body and in the four species is the temporary ego, called the fictitious small ego. The great ego is a precious pearl. The small ego is the luster. In the eye of the enlightened one, the soul is the tathagata, embodying sufficiently supernatural power. It does not create nor separate. Creating is to grasp it or separating is to leave it. Such a statement would be erroneous.

Human beings formed with an adequate body can naturally have hearing-seeing-knowing. It is from the great ego that the soul is manifested to be correspondent to the body generated from the Tathagata, so the supernatural power is naturally appearing from the Tathagata. There is all of that in the living creatures, but when the great ego manifests in the human being and the Four Species, that is the corresponding body also called the transformed body, that is well known by the Buddha who has said: “all living creatures have Buddha nature”. But the living creatures want to make distinction through particular characteristics and they are thus separated. In fact, human being and the Four Species are homogeneous with the universe, approaching to comprehend the universe.

The realistic gradual practice will lead to the attainment. However, you can neither use the mind to understand nor the consciousness to know it. It is impossible for the disciple to simply wish to have a minute of tranquillity; thus he is surrounded and evoluted by the mara-power. The Buddha has initiated the teaching; the bodhisattvas should sufficiently be confident, obedient and respectful to be able to demolish the belt of mara-power, which has imprisoned them for many lifetimes. This is not an ordinary matter or a minor affair... The disciple having a faithful, fervent mind, but failing to conduct the vow in the multitudinously favorable and unfavorable dharma, only keeping on avoiding, annihilating the dharma, would never truly comprehend through this tranquillity even in thousands of lifetimes. Having not comprehended, how could you receive the secret seal, which is conferred by the Tathagata Buddha?

  There are some disciples who can see and know well through the study of the sutra, but they do not practice to save the living creatures nature of purity and impurity, form and formless. Therefore, this knowledge likely is the unseeing and unknowing. All the dharma of supernatural powers does not appear to them.

The Supernatural Power is in the stupidity After leaving for a long time the power returns. –T.V.

Thus, the practice of the dharma is not so complicated, it necessitates neither studying nor worshipping and supplicating. The unceasing immersed thoughts are the form of unceasing thoughts. During the day, one should carry out the conduct of the vow without creating the rise and fall of all dharma; at the nighttime, one should practice at least an hour of exerted meditation, trying to overcome the numerous obstacles of tirelessness, depression, and sleepiness until there are no more immersed thoughts during the term of meditation. Afterwards, the four stages of walking, standing, laying, sitting all become tranquil. The suchness naturally appears and therefrom knowing that the realization of all dharma is neither taking nor eliminating neither more nor less neither unified nor separated. It is the unique form, the perpetual clinging nature.

Meditation actually requires the guidance of bodhisattva to have sufficient tantrayana, the tantrayana helps to dissolve consciousness karma without false awareness, but it needs patience because the consciousness karma is more delicate than human beings. It is easy to say, but if the practice is incorrect, the outcome would be hard to achieve. The disciple with a fervent spirit without an endowed wisdom still falls into fanaticism. For that reason, the Lord Chief Monk, Maitreya of Long Hoa has passed down to the world whatever is necessary for the disciple with a fervent, faithful mind to carry out realizing and enjoying the truth. Under the guidance of bodhisattvas, the disciple can certainly be assured that the orthodoxy will not be lost again.

If having not yet met an awakened one, the disciple should practice for good faculty. The spirit of good faculty and good will offers to establish the category of one’s merit, the belief in the Triple Gem is always appreciated. He should not have a false wish because of the desire for meditation to be duped by the mara of five aggregates and undergo multiple sufferings.

Primarily, the self-construct of body should be concerned with correcting the character. Nobody else has the authority to oblige you; only your own mentality can elevate you.

The wise man fluently comprehends because of unfavorable dharma The stupid person stands against it creating ignorance. –T.V.

The disciple having the patience of digesting an insult, patience of making a concession, patience of persevering grief, understands clearly and knows how to realize perfectly the unfavorable dharma. Afterwards, he will acquire the no-birth dharma of patience. It is through comprehension of all dharma that you can thoroughly understand the way of practice to reach the perfect prajna, surpassing the sravaka, pratyeka and arahant rank. That is the bodhisattva rank that has all kinds of supernatural powers from the naturalness, and spontaneity that appears.

Having acquired the supernatural power of bodhisattva, he should penetrate deeply in the favorable and unfavorable dharma spheres without omission, aiming to save the living creatures’ nature. That is the pure nature of Buddha completing the living creatures.

The bodhisattva rank has fully achieved the comprehensibility; only the Buddhas have entirely accomplished the infinite comprehensibility.

The emptiness differs from the comprehensibility. As far as the bodhisattva rank is concerned, the comprehensibility means he has conducted the vow and realized the vow to achieve the comprehensibility. However, he does not store it in his mind. The bodhisattva knows how to reserve it in every cavity of the Tathagata store. When having a dharma, he naturally knows and spontaneously realizes it appropriately with neither excess nor lack. After manipulating the dharma, it returns to all the cavities in the Tathagata store. It is the secret seal that the bodhisattva knows how to use properly.

From the time of the Blessed One to the return of the Lord Supreme Maitreya appearing, the Lord has expounded to the patriarchs and the venerable who pretend to be clung to the emptiness and become indifferent. They have to dissolve all the dharma in the hope of acquiring the truth.

Entering the comprehensiveness without seeing the comprehensiveness but thoroughly knowing it, that is the enlightened form. –T.V.

The enlightened form with sufficiently practical use will achieve the great enlightened form. The great enlightened form in the four stages of life entirely knows the appearance of the perceived body without error when it makes use of favorable and unfavorable dharma. It has the sufficiency of abilities and merits from the great enlightened form approaching the great Tathagata.

The practical use in sincere sentiment is to grasp the suchness. The secret seal is conferred by the Tathagata to the awakened sentiment. –T.V.

In this secular world or in the Three Thousands of Great Thousand Worlds, those who discuss about the secret seal cannot overpass the two verses of seal indication of the Lord of Long Hoa, Chief Monk Maitreya.

There is a Buddhist master with the ultimate awareness who also has to wait for eighteen lifetimes to meet a succeeding bodhisattva who can make the sealed attestation to enter the constitution!

LORD SUPREME MAITREYA WITH LONG HOA