LONG HOA HIGHNESS ASSEMBLY, SECOND PERIOD

 
2538 years ago, the Blessed One has taught the Tathagata Meditation by the order of the Mahavairocan Tathagata Buddha - In His return to the world, He has also executed the supremacy to guide the practice of the Tathagata Meditation. According to the bodhisattvas root faculty, the Buddha guided Him through every way in order to help him attain the Tathagata Meditation; otherwise, it is hard for him to succeed in the Tathagata Meditation. From the arahants to living creatures though acquiring the meditation, that is not the Tathagata Meditation.

“Moreover, when the faithful disciple meets a bodhisattva, he will first create under the appellation of Tathagata Meditation. Secondly, he follows strictly the main ideas of the Tathagata Meditation, using all manners to teach the disciple. Later, the disciple acquires the meditation subject that is not the attested Tathagata Meditation, but the bodhisattva one. If it is the arahants, pratyeka, sravaka, ordinary man or a heretic who finds out this Tathagata Meditation, write and preach it to the disciple followers, strictly following the main ideas and attain a result. This result corresponds to their degree of arahants, pratyeka, sravaka, ordinary men or heretic.” –T.V.

The rank of bodhisattvas and great bodhisattvas are still close to the Tathagata Meditation, because they have the seal opened by the Buddha. For the arahants, pretyeka, sravaka, they have met the Buddha to be taught the Tathagata Meditation, too. But their practice is below the degree of receiving the Tathagata Meditation. Therefore, if they guide Buddhist disciples in the practice, it is according to their attainment of awakeness or ultimate awareness standing that the disciples can receive some result.

For the ordinary monks or heretics, the meditation is far, too far from the truth, thus their meditation is only a matter of form and subjected to the wrong way. Although, they have followed the book of Tathagata Meditation, but because of their mind-consciousness that controls the manifestation of all dharma, their meditation could not develop in conformity with the spirit of the true supreme. Therefore, the Buddhas have to transmit to the future generations the secret sealed meditation to offer them a basis of solid faith, avoiding the wrong way of the meditation.

Tathagata Meditation is a very wonderful subject passed down mind-by-mind. It is perfect all over from the intimate sealed attestation to the matchless supreme. The enlightened Buddha by the order of the Mahavairocan Tathagata Buddha has secretly passed down to the bodhisattvas while the holy disciples are relying on the guidance of the bodhisattvas. In His return to the world, the Blessed One Lord Supreme Maitreya has regularized the religion in such an order. The true disciples embracing Buddhism either in the provinces or at the Central are equally passed down by Himself, the Tathagata Meditation. Later, the bodhisattvas who are nourished followed and are given supplementary care of their progress in meditation. The bodhisattvas have also received his order to transmit the meditation, to write sutra and to teach the dharma when he was alive.

The Tathagata Meditation can neither use the reason by writing to explain nor to study thus comprehending the Tathagata eye-store, like those who are not yet enlightened. They have difficulty in understanding because their Minds are falsely running after the mind-consciousness which generates the karma consciousness. So they consider falseness to be their way, making the disciple unable to recognize the Tathagata dharma. Therefore, the more they use reasoning to interpret and the argument called meditative argument to resolve, the farther they depart from the truth.

For the disciples who practice through fixed thought they are ordained at the lowest rank in the Buddha sphere, unable to return to the Tathagata Meditation, and are further losing their way. The meditation disciples have to notice that the physical nature is originally quiet in nature and perfectly equal, so they have to practice until acquiring the dharma nature, and review and examine their physical nature in order to go precisely to the Tathagata Meditation. That is the practice with a meditative mind by which we can see the seed karma of each meditator with his consciousness karma in order to lean on and relieve it. The karma is countless and makes living creatures caught in the life. It also depends on the consciousness karma; there are different degrees of attainment in practice.

In the time of the Blessed One Lord Supreme Maitreya, he has used the orthodox of the Blessed One Sakyamuni Buddha to establish the compass for the true disciple, helping them to follow the Tathagata Meditation without error. Here is what I heard:

–Using the Tathagata to establish the way –Using the non-clinging to establish the main idea. –Using the enlightenment to establish the essence. –Practicing the vow to establish the application. –T.V.

While the patriarchs succeeding from the arahants, the pratyeka to the sravaka called the patriarch is transmitting meditation as follows:

–Eliminating the false mindfulness to establish the way –Using the no- false hope to establish the main idea –Using the purity to establish the essence –Using the mind to establish the application. –T.V.

The patriarchs can conduct the sitting meditator to attain at most the pure mind equivalent to the venerables saints and sages that are from the awareness, the great awareness to the ultimate awareness.

It is the bodhisattvas recognized by the Buddhas to acquire the supreme enlightenment and enter the samadhi right concentration that can educate the patriarchs and faithful disciples to attain the enlightenment, being closer to the Tathagata Meditation of the Buddhas.

The Tathagata Meditation of the Blessed One has been passed down from mind-to-mind. Today, the Lord Supreme Maitreya just coming to the world has also preached on the physical nature, and the Buddhist practice is aimed at knowing the meditation nature that is also the dharma nature.

Because the meditative physical nature has indulged to every wish which was the wrong mindfulness, from every false hope of the meditator, the Tathagata Meditation is divided into six heretic meditative ways called the six doors of meditation subject.

Because of the false arising, there are six meditation subjects. The Blessed One Lord Supreme Maitreya has today taught meditators the sitting meditation with a non-clinging base, the reception of the Tathagata store is all over in order to attain the Tathagata Meditation. Otherwise, being clung or sunk in the meditation without fully knowing the six different ways, they will be lost in the fairy way, deity way without being completely liberated.