LONG HOA HIGHNESS ASSEMBLY, SECOND PERIOD

 
When the disciple likes this subject of meditation, he believes it to be the highest truth, to which no other subject can be comparable. In some countries, the most talented meditator can dry out the 7 wet towels covering his body. Elsewhere, the meditator is sewed to exercise the muscles or to prepare the spell used in the tattoo and to train the martial art. While in Vietnam it is the collection of the quintessence from the Seven Mountains.

2. The Impromptu Meditation

–Using the Uposatha, faithful worship to establish the way. –Using the writing for penetrating in the body and impromptu poems to establish the main ideas. –Using the calm sitting meditation and supernatural saint to establish the essence –Using drums, castanets and ceremonies to establish the application. –T.V.

The disciples, who prefer the impromptu meditation, making their impromptu speech and don’t realize anything happening outside, immediately consider it to be the most absolute truth. There are, in this way, too many forms of practice because of the different degrees of superstitions such as the praying for the bodhisattva-mother for the great saint for the divine fairies the falling into trance the penetration in the body... All are based on the improved writing eve.

3. Meditation of Deity Power

–Using the brilliant efficacious deity to establish the way –Using the faithful worship to establish the main ideas. –Using the laborious sitting meditation with faith to establish the essence. –Using the purity of the shrine deity and drums castenets to establish the application. –T.V.

This subject of meditation belongs to the school of deity and saints, based primarily on the efficaciousness and miracle. The good prophesy makes the disciples sincerely supplicate in the hope of being supported by deities and saints to have good fortune and believe it to be the absolute truth of highest value. No other meditation can be comparable.

4. Meditation of Man and Heaven

–Using the ascension to the heaven world to establish the way. –Using the thinking and exercise of the quintessence to establish the main ideas. –Using the calm study of the sitting-meditation to establish the essence. –Using fine and noble vowing speech to establish the application. –T.V.

Nowadays, this school of meditation has been highly appreciated in many countries around the world; and it is under study. Learned men like to first seek for a way to foster their mind, to feed their body and prevent from diseases. They make use of sitting-meditation to take in the divine electricity, disembodied of the soul to make the deity quintessence mutually sympathized with the spiritual communication and the heaven, brightening the universe. Secondly, they use the sitting meditation to study Buddhism, aiming to get insight into the metaphysical knowledge. Today Zen and Yoga are practiced in Japan while the theosophy is widely popular in South Vietnam.

5. Meditation of Stillness and Solitude.

–Using rigorous disciplines to establish the way. –Using the quiet practice and the separation from the love and family to establish the main ideas. –Using the sitting meditative begging for food to establish the essence. –Using merits and meritorious deeds to establish the application. –T.V.

This way is organized similarly to that of the meditative way of the patriarchs with the same dressing as the time when the Buddha was still alive with a bowl on their hands and a serious walking. It is primarily the going to homelessness. However, because it goes astray and far behind the time, while all social activities are much developed, the monks are unable to execute the rigorous discipline, resulting in the failure of the way. Because of the confusion of the main ideas, the essence and the application, it becomes a quiet practice called the solitary quiet meditation, which relies on the quiet enlightenment.

The quiet enlightenment requires the abandonment of the ego and self-possession to accomplish the enlightened quietness while not leaving it to be awakened. They carry instead the form and the sound called dharma form, dharma sign, making their practice way an illusion of the Buddha form, which is obscured, solitary, quiet, and the vagueness of the truth.

Other ways still follow strictly those main ideas, but they find a way of dissolving stupidity and attachment, rigorous disciplines according to their degree, called the primary way.

6. Meditation of Fairy Path

–Using the forest by leaving home to establish the way. –Using the pure and quiet mind to establish the main ideas. –Using the sitting meditation and leaving desire and love to establish the essence. –Using the austere life with vegetarian diet to establish the application. –T.V.

The fairy path often has fixed thoughts; the thinking depending on the root-faculty and the degree results in nobility, rudeness and delicacy in the practice of the sitting meditation. The fairy way of meditation likes beautiful and noble dharma; they choose and select before entering into the practice, going to a remote place in the deep forest; others getting tired with earthly life, go to a high mountain to break away from the secular world practicing the meditation and exercising magic power. They are rare in our time; only some Buddhist followers who have not yet understood adequately and have been caught in the wrong practice and in spite of their great faith, would have to receive the blessed rewards of men and devas and to fall into the fairy way.

√ Those who are wrongly entering into these six subjects of meditation would be confined in the four forms: divine form, human form, living creatures form and longevity form. They all have been mistaken from the former to our days.

    • The divine form is the form of clinging to fixed thoughts. The disciples choose between the good and the evil, avoid the honest and the dishonest, select to take or to refuse their practice and lead to the fairy way accordingly.

    • The human forms usually conserve their individualities and personalities and therefore, they are usually attached. Love and hatred are interwoven. They often lose their way in spite of their belief in the Buddha.

    • Living creatures’ forms: they vary a great deal in their practice, which is now very fervent and then tired with it. The Buddha has taught us to neither increase nor decrease in order to help living creatures to be free from either increase or decrease, returning to the non-regression. Receding, they fall into hell; increasing, they enter into the fairy way.

    • The clinging seed forms: they often believe them- selves to be right and good. Therefore, the Buddha has taught them to leave their self and practice until reaching the true self.

The Buddhas' sutras are passed down clearly with abundant commandments. The disciples have to practice getting adequate labor and merits, relying on the four forms to understand thoroughly, and avoiding the clinging and the wrong way.