LONG HOA HIGHNESS ASSEMBLY, SECOND PERIOD

Appeared saints are those who have acquired the truth. Each saint attains a different subject; each subject once penetrated will become extremely useful to many branches. Just like a dharma produces all dharma and all dharma return to one. The appeared saint, according his specialty, develops for living creatures class by class to dissolve their karma, who may become appeared saints in the future. The appeared saint attainment results from the will, courage and the noble, generous character which will become tolerant and sweet, the appeared saint has no more self-satisfaction, self-conceited, no more three toxicants from living creatures’ nature. When they are no longer self-satisfied, continue learning about the sainthood along with tolerance and sweetness, they become saint. The appeared saint like Confucius and the holy deva like Laotzu, come into the world with a great number, but the perfect sainthood is very rare because they have not yet performed the ten tenets as the Blessed One as the Lord Supreme Maitreya Buddha in his return has done.

Some of them realized the Tathagata, the noble one, the perfect enlightened, belonging to the practical use; some attained the perfect knowledge and conduct, the happiest one, the noble tamer, some part of the wonderful use. None of them achieved the ten tenets to become the sainthood.

It is difficult for those of great faculty to meet an appeared saint, but it is even more difficult to receive the Tathagata Buddha in Him. It is too hard to know Him. Once knowing Him, you will not be erroneous to become the saint. The appeared saint is unthinkably supreme in settling solutions of the world. He dissolves the karma and once all karma were cleared, he attains self-appeared without studying. With self-appearance, he could do anything, so he has promulgated the proclamation attesting the universe by his own initiative. All powerful authoritative peoples are simply puppets controllable from afar by him, if this is necessary for living creatures’ safety. Even with a jungle of modern weapons, biological weapons, nuclear and chemical weapons, remote control weapons, they could not get over this “matchless supreme power” of his. That is the truth, a thousand times true and a million times greater and it is impossible to describe all about the appeared saints by words.

“Having thus explained, the Buddhist master put his hands on the small table, looking at the ten fingers and calmly continued: the perfect enlightened is a noble name of the Buddha. It is extremely immense, an infinite lightening factor. Why? Because the intelligence transforms into the mental consciousness, the profession transforms into intelligence, reforms transforms into intelligence, and the transformation depends upon the karma whereas the perfect enlightened depends up on the enlightened form, which becomes the seen-known suchness form.

The Buddhist master put his hands straight at his ear level, generously smiled and continued: when the perfect enlightened is mistaken, he is the erroneous perfect enlightened. How does one distinguish the one from the other? Like a scholar, who gains his knowledge through learning, and yet he simply uses his education to make his living, there must be a noble and stable basis in the self-constitution and self-nature, which is called generous virtue to become a successful educated man that is truly a scholar himself.” –T.V.

The scholar has to create a self-constitution and self-nature in order to maneuver and control the education himself. Otherwise, without the virtue of self-control and generosity, this educated man will become the slave for others and harmful to human beings. Therefore, the scholar also creates danger beside the usefulness for the life and is intelligence-transformed to be reborn as animals according to the law of transmigration! How harmful it is!

“In the presence of a spirit of dissolving the stupidity resulting in separation, in the presence of a spirit of overcoming all obstacles to give intactness, in the presence of the spirit of struggling against the neglecting self, which is a limitless will and courage, it is unthinkable for the great hero who goes from stupidity to enlightenment, from the world to the outside of the world. It is the spirit, which creates all, and their deficiencies paralyze all. Let us see what the spirit is? What its benefit and its harm are. It is nothing, but it can achieve everything.

The spirit is truly unthinkable. It is the main subject of the Tathagata's capacity, why? It is because the Buddha's sealed indication has showed that Tathagata should go to and from in a definite place. Tathagata appears everywhere though He does not appear in a definite place. That is Tathagata obviously. The bodhisattvas have made a great vow of serving the limitless Tathagata. The bodhisattva offers his service to help living creatures. Living creatures are to practice according to the essential use of manipulating the Tathagata. Therefore, the bodhisattva makes every effort to serve and attain the perfect enlightened, meeting the Tathagata's main capacity and ordained by the Tathagata?” –T.V.                                                                   

The intellectuals recognize that success and failure depend on the spirit; with a predominant spirit everything is possible. The Buddhas and bodhisattvas have also chosen this way, which is very practical. the spirit is the main subject with a limitless capacity. From the Tathagata, unifying living creatures and the Tathagata in one is unthinkable. After the bodhisattva has entered the constitution, it is true that the Tathagata neither comes nor goes and is neither clinging nor non-clinging. The Tathagata seeds are present everywhere from the non-beginning to the endlessness; it is permanent and constant. They are also perfect and extremely lively. A willing and courageous spirit is essential in the practice for liberation through wisdom. Having insistency and sincerity without wisdom, the disciple would become a fanatic. Therefore, he is in need of an awakened one who will show him the right way to the liberation through wisdom. If he has not met such a man, he will have to offer his merits to the triple gem. That is a very noble and worthy spirit.  

“The disciple recites the sutra basing only on the sutra form and doesn’t recite its holy implication; how can he understand it when hearing the teaching of the dharma with a unilateral judgement, which is not being in conformity with the spirit of the dharma and how can he understand the saint dharma?” –T.V.

Living creatures are living with their mind-consciousness. Even the educated men or the scholars cannot escape from mind-consciousness; though, they are mindful, it is the mindfulness of their individuality. The disciple reading the sutra, studying and learning the scriptures though with mindfulness, it is no other than the mind-consciousness; his knowledge is still subjected to being known and practiced. These three forms mentioned above are all erroneous; the mind-consciousness controls all of them by the hour and by the minute, making them live in a winding path, thereby nourishing disturbance and chaos. The mind-consciousness is like a lightning of thunder, as the moonlight on the water, which is continuously moving. It is difficult to dissolve clearly and completely the sphere. Being living creatures, they only remain in the living creature sphere. They haven’t yet realized the basic wisdom, the final wisdom, and the prajna wisdom, how can they attain the holy mind of enlightenment?

The enlightenment based on doctrine and hypotheses are plenty, but that is being practiced, being attested, while the formation of the holy mind of enlightenment is very difficult. If only there remains a conception that is the self, self-possession. It is as small as an atom and easily mistaken. Therefore, to succeed in his practice, the disciple with will and courage needs a bodhisattva who leans on the Tathagata to save him.