64. The Supreme Merits

“Having a high spirit due to conversion of the mind to dissolve stupidity, annihilate doubt and attachment, initiate the gradual instruction to make the unknown clearly known, to make unclear become clear, that is an eternal happiness. Those who live and know how to live do not live an ordinary life. Why? Because there is a frontier for every place of life, such as on the earth there is an ordinary secular aspect, in the divine world there is the ordinary frontier of the heaven, too. Through the perception of the eye, every place is ordinary, from the plane to the nation and the pure land. Why? Because the limit is still ordinary, it is only by transferring all the merits, all the labor of practice, all the abundant forces to offer to the Tathagata that you make the supreme offering with countless merits, with boundless enlightenment which is the supreme merits.”

-T.V.

 Despite his long practice, the disciple unable to get out of the dharma world belt is still ordinary. Therefore, though leaving the earth to go to the heaven or fairyland, they cannot be free from the dharma world. They are still sunk in the transmigration of birth and death. In spite of the spectacular and the supernatural power, the god and the fairy, when still in a limit, is caught in the reincarnation.

Only by transferring the merits to the tathagata, being together with the tathagata in the supreme matter can they break free. That is unthinkable. Those who know how to illuminate the mystery of the ignorance and to clear the wasteland of ignorance are not the ordinary ones. Because they accept to exchange all for the complete tolerance of the dharma world; even in this secular or divine world the offering to the Tathagata is essential to get the fruit of attainment of Bodhihood. That is the measureless and supreme merit.

“The Buddhist monk stretched out his hand to pick up a branch of leaves and reseated himself on the block of stone with a natural sympathetic countenance, he said: the form has been liberated for a long time. The vegetation, the mountain and river, the flower and fruit have accomplished their task of nourishing humanity. Now i am speaking about the liberated mind, but who of the secular world can know me? They are just looking at each other with an ordinary eye. It is enough for me to know myself, why? It is usually so. When the Blessed One was alive, human beings might not see in him as a supreme one. He said out that there might not be someone who has believed in him. In the meantime, the supreme spirit results in the supreme enlightenment. Only he could understand him. It is after he has entered into Nirvana that His speech became brilliant; all His words became precious pearls. How noble it is! His countless merits became his relics.” –T.V.

The Supreme One has heartily accomplished His task. And now the Blessed One Lord Supreme Maitreya is continuing to accomplish His, providing living creatures with a spirit of liberation, they would be satisfied as well. They could live in the ocean of the truth, providing that the disciples in the final law period are unanimously willing to make up their mind to offer their merits.

“I order all disciples practicing for the noble fruit to transfer their merits to offer to the tathagata. Those are the supreme words.”
–T.V.

Those are the Blessed One Lord Supreme Maitreya's sincere words addressed to human beings in this period of return with all his heart.

 

LORD SUPREME MAITREYA WITH LONG HOA

INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I: LORD SUPREME MAITREYA’S PAST INCARNATIONS
CHAPTER II: I CAME FROM THE TUSITA HEAVEN

CHAPTER IV: TRANMISSION OF THE PRECIOUS DHARMA
    A. DHARMA PRACTICING IN CONFORMITY WITH THE MAIN IDEAS OF THE BUDDHA

17. The Great Collection Sutra, Five Periods
18. Lord Supreme Maitreya Buddha Has Seen and Attested the Dharma in the Dharma-Ending Age
19. Attestation of Proclamation about Faith, Obedience, and Respect.
20. The Existence-Dharma Sutra
21. Proclamation Attesting the Bodhisattva
22. Lord Long-Hoa Chief Monk Teaching the Day before Entering the Great Eight PariNirvana
23. Speech Delivered At the Congregation and Attested Afterward In the Great Ceremony by Long Hoa Chief Monk
24. Lord Supreme Maitreya Buddha Has Wept For the Monks and Nuns
25. The Real Dharma Subject Is the Following Path of the Buddha
26. Virtue

      B. DOCTRINE

    27. What is the Enlightened Form?
    28. The Unprincipled–Period, teaching through small career vehicle
    29. The Primary Principle Period: Teaching the Great Career Vehicle (Mahayana)
    30. On the Merits
    31. On the Abilities
    32. There Are Three Ways of Detecting Dharma Limits
    33. The Wonderful-Dharma (AbhiDharma Pitaka)
    34. Respectful Homage (Primary meaning of Amitabha Sutra)
    35. The One-pointed Mind
    36. The Parallelism of the Reason and Act
    37. Explanation on the Co-Response
    38. Explanation of the Compatible Appearance
    39. Enlightened Nature
    40. The Samadhi Dharma Subject of the Real Form and Formless
    41. The Four Moral Conducts
    42. The Four Nobles
    43. Opening the teaching for screening and choosing Dharma Protectors, Venerables, and Bodhisattvas
    44. The Third Sealed Indication of His teaching
    45. Why did the book of Oracles come into being? The truthlike recognition
    46. The Rebirth of the Lord Supreme Maitreya is ordained in the three hundred fifty years later.
    47. The Unique Principle Period of Teaching the Buddhayana
    48. Esotericism-Extericism-Immediacy and Gradualness.
    49. Secret Seal
    50. The Samadhi
    51. Back to the True Supreme
    52. The Progression is the Heart and Mind of Buddhism
    53. Only Buddhism can get Insight into The Super Science
    54. The Bodhisattvas’ Great Vows Of Constructing Living Creatures
    55. Because Of Mistakes It Transforms
    56. The Thought Is the Mirror of the Spirit
    57. The Supreme Middle Way
    58. Scripture of the Heart Sutra of the Transcendental Wisdom Sealed and Indicated
    59. The Four Forms of Liberation: Opening – Realizing – Enlightening – Entering
    60. The Period When the Supreme Special Truth Converted the Supreme Vehicle61. The Supreme Truth
    62. What is meant By the Construction of the Supreme?
    63. What Are the Ten Appellations Divided Into the Three Categories?
    64. The Supreme Merits
    65. Essential Application
    66. Wonderfully! The Saint is the Sage! The Buddha Is Enlightened!

        C. THE TATHAGATA MEDITATION

      67. Adi Forrest Meditation Institute
      68. The Tathagata Meditation
      69. The Six Subjects of Meditation
      70. The Essential Nature
      71. Sitting–Meditation Procedure
      72. The Patriarchs’ Establishing Procedures of Zen.
      73. On The Esoteric Supreme Origin.
      74. The Four Levels of Meditation

        CHAPTER V: A NATION OF PEACE AND DELIGHT
        CHAPTER VI: THE VENERABLE OFFERINGS
        CHAPTER VII: THE ATTESTATION OF THE BUDDHA KING