LONG HOA HIGHNESS ASSEMBLY, SECOND PERIOD

Many faithful Buddhist believers are waiting for the arrival of the Lord Supreme Maitreya into the world. He will open Long Hoa.

What is "Long–Hoa"? I heard from Him:

– "Long" means the dragon. According to the legend, the Vietnamese people of yore were children of the dragon and nephews of the fairies.
– "Hoa” means the flower of dharma nature.

The flower of dharma natures includes all the good and bad natures, (species natures of all living things), which are originally ignorant and confused in the transmigration of birth and death. Having the flower of dharma nature, the faithful believers would voluntarily wish to help the living creatures. The Buddhas were born to save them. If the born disciples did not cultivate the flower of dharma natures themselves, they could not save anyone.

The patriarchs had the Buddha statue sitting on a lotus throne, representing His reign over the flower of dharma natures. For instance, in some circumstances when the hatred arises, the practitioner has to digest the insult, refrain and be adequately patient and control the hatred effectively. The sweet control of other natures such as worry, sorrow and non-submission is called the supreme tamer’s control. The supreme tamer is at a higher level in comparison with man.

The flower of dharma natures evolves and changes into individual dharma nature. Clinging to dharma nature, considering it as a reason of life, would make everyone ignorant. The flower of dharma natures comes to and leaves man in accordance with the reflective spectrum in the universe, so man is running after these scenes such as right and wrong, wrong and right. Therefore, men are running after the flower of dharma natures in a circle called the transmigration wheel.

Not knowing the way of the transmigration, all the disciples were falling into the incorrect way. They practiced compassion and generosity without wisdom, and finally received only the blessed rewards. They did not fully understand the way to the liberation through wisdom. Long Hoa means that Lord Supreme Maitreya was born in Vietnam. He was teaching the dharma to all faithful true disciples so that they could clear the flower of dharma natures, cultivating them to attain liberation through wisdom, and no longer be fettered to the birth and death transmigration.

With the progress of science and the civilization of society, the disciples who were not capable of restraining would have many cravings such as form, sound, odor, and taste and would keep on practicing through praying. Hearing about the control and the clearance of the flower of dharma natures, they got angry, overthrew it, and quietly clung to the flower of dharma. Most of them preferred studying sutras, being on a vegetarian diet, wearing a robe like Buddha and thinking it was the true dharma. Sitting with their closed eyes was the true practice for them.

It was very hard for the disciples who practiced in accordance with form, sound, odor, taste, touch and dharma to free themselves from pollution. The flower of dharma satisfies all species in accordance with their wishes, and becomes the flower of dharma sphere, also called dharma sphere. It was so lively and subtle that some had a wrong view attached to the Buddha world; called Pratyeka-Buddha or one enlightened Buddha. Those who practice for enlightenment have to frequently enlighten their greed and desire inclined changing nature, in order to improve it. This is the correction of nature or character. The disciples who did not want to correct their nature will receive the karma in the flower of dharma and will be caught in the birth and death cycle.

Lord Supreme Maitreya had established Long Hoa, every day teaching the true disciples who came to practice, but He ordered them to hang a sign outside the dharma office. The sign, 1m wide and 4m long, inscribed with these words:

Phap Tang Buddhism of Vietnam Central Highness Assembly

Many monks and nuns come across the Hong Bang Street of Nha Trang City, but none of them asked or wondered about the meaning of the term ‘highness’. With adequate attention, they would soon realize that Lord Supreme Maitreya had come to the world!

He would like to remind mankind that highness means the primary world, the primary life. The primary life is re-established now in this Central Assembly. His sign plate was allowed to be set from 1972 to 1975, then underwent chaotic events and was finally pulled down by the authorities in 1982.

In 1972, when starting to hang the sign plate, He also celebrated the display of the first flag of the Phap Tang. A miracle was seen soon afterward, a flag with the same colors as the flag of Phap Tang appeared in the sky, but was much larger and covered the entire expanse. The fairies and dieties were all happy.

The Phap Tang flag included three parts: Buddha, followers, and dharma, manifesting the three elements of Buddha. The learned men could immediately understand that Lord Supreme Maitreya Buddha was born just by looking at the flag.

The objectives of Long-Hoa

The chief objective of the true dharma subject of Long-Hoa is liberation, saving all species from the transmigration of birth and death, according to the main ideas of Buddhism Three Elements of Buddha: The past, present and future.

The dharma subject of liberation is the one that practices through hearing, seeing, and knowing, which means the release from all dharma. The lessons learned from Phap Tang can be applied in the conflicts of our relatives, our close or far friends, and our superior and inferiors, all manifest favorable and unfavorable scenes. The disciples who leaned on their joyful detachment mind had the ability of creation, not being caught with anything. They are livelier than those, who with their eyes half-closed are sitting in an isolated place, avoiding all things in order to be free from difficulties and conflicts.

Through wisdom, we can annihilate suspicion and barriers by digesting an insult, making concession, and being patient. Then, we remove the barriers (the ultimate wisdom), in order to be liberated. The disciples who don't make use of wisdom to dissolve and quietly show their compassion, charity, and accept to be killed by anyone are called the sages. It is very difficult for them to save others. The disciples, who do not yet have ultimate wisdom, simply practice their compassion and charity even though they possess the psychic power. They remain caught in the conservative flower of dharma and would not be liberated. They might, at most, reach the heaven world, but could not get out of the universe. The enlightened one, who can even see and know without the form, uses his cleared ordinary nature to enlighten the formless. Grouping ideas and desires give rise to the nature. Nature was born in the presence of the scenes, because it arose from us. The nature, once being born, will soon be destroyed, so there are too many generated and destroyed natures, which are called the transmigration of birth and death.

The faithful disciple has to understand the sutra meaning and its practice clearly in order to apply it to the life. Morality and intelligence must be parallel, neither increasing nor decreasing the understanding, in order to annihilate the flower of dharma nature. Many of the disciples were caught in the detachment and attached to nothingness, which still remained in the nothingness of the flower of dharma. What a damage! Only heedlessness suffices to make you remain with countless lives circling in the flower cup of dharma nature.

Due to the innumerable disciples quietly clinging to the flower cup of the dharma world, there were three thousand great heaven worlds with the three lands and six ways. The bodhisattvas’ wish is to base everything on all the natures to completely eliminate obstructions, and integrate oneself into the favorable and unfavorable, without destroying unfavorable dharma. It is with the heart, free from obstruction, that one can understand the six ways of the dharma world in order to clearly penetrate into the dharma nature. You can see and understand the enlightened form clearly, keep out of the flower cup of dharma nature, and attain supreme enlightenment.

In the Dharma-Ending Age, everything becomes extreme everywhere. He realized that it was difficult to construct because the disciples showed a lack of interest in the flower of dharma nature. Hearing the explanation of Long Hoa, many disciples who did not practice for enlightenment were continuously clinging and attached. They were conservative and individual, loving and hating irregularly, voluntarily practicing the dharma, and had faith in Buddha, but waited for supernatural and strange things to happen. They did not feel it happen with their thinking. It did not concur with habitual concept, which has strange illusions in miraculous things such as the explosion of the Seven Mountains. The sky and the earth darkened for 7 days and 7 nights before Lord Supreme Maitreya emerged from the mountains in a bright halo...

The fairies and deities thought through their virtue, practicing meditation with fixed thought to select the noble and beautiful dharma, eliminating and decanting the bad and dirty ones as required. They were so absorbed in their training that they did not know when Long Hoa came into the world or what the explosion of the Seven Mountains was.

One day, the Supreme Pure King incarnating Lord Supreme Maitreya gave His teaching. Here is what he said:

“If I myself were not born by my mother but from the explosion of the Seven Mountains and came out of the mountains with a bright halo, so many people would probably come in crowds to see me. In this case, all of my movements such as eating, drinking, walking, standing, lying, and sitting would be so carefully observed that I would soon die without being able to establish Long Hoa.”

He then inscribed to recall:

"Superiority was born in the Tusita Heaven.
At last return attaining supremacy."  –T.V.

How precious it is! Sakyamuni Buddha knew the place of His rebirth and equality of salvation very well. He had ordained Lord Supreme Maitreya from the Tusita Heaven to come into this saha world, wishing to practice the dharma and perform as fairy and deity rank to help the living creatures to attain the Buddhahood. That is why the faithful disciples having a strong foundation based on past lives, without objection or attachment, could see Long Hoa making its debut in this province of Khanh Hoa. Some were puzzled by men who practiced the dharma while married, having children, and not shaving their heads or being vegetarians. These men created heavy karma for themselves and did not recognize the hearing, seeing, and knowing as all dharma. They considered all as sacrilege, abandoned, and did not come to practice after Long Hoa.

Buddhism is, nowadays, a religion widely known in the world and has gone down in human history. But those who gape at the way to the enlightenment find it very difficult to seek a master who could satisfy them. The Supreme Pure King incarnating Lord Supreme Maitreya returned to the world this time to hand down to present and future generations, a dharma subject of practice. You can practice the dharma right in your family or your office and yet, still be enlightened. It is a modern dharma subject and the pride of any living creatures wishing for liberation through wisdom in the present life.

This way of practice, though new and strange, is in fact the strict application of the main ideas from the time of Sakyamuni Buddha, Amitabha Buddha, the Eastern Land Buddha of Medicine Tathagata, and all the guarding Buddhas of the Ten Directions.

He abolished all verbose ceremonies. The ordination ceremony and all other great ceremonies were simple but seriously and solemnly organized, without dogma or superstition. The daily practice of true disciples is clearly explained, aiming to make the disciples know it well and apply it practically in daily life. As a result, they will not suffer in the present.

One day, He asked a Buddhist follower with the title of “venerable” practicing in a temple that had come to visit Him five or seven times

- How long have you practiced?
- I have practiced for 47 years
- What do you practice every day?
- I recite sutras in the morning and evening, I am on a strict vegetarian diet, and I study all the scriptures of the Buddha.

- "You should correct your character, eliminate bad habits, and be joyful and detached to create your virtue. In reciting sutras, you must understand their meanings, which is the doctrine. You should practice meditation to get the insight. Generally speaking, there are three things to do.

The equal development of all the virtue, doctrine, and sitting meditation in the practical life of man will not create a danger to yourself or your family. This way of practicing the dharma will lead to enlightenment." –T.V.

The “venerable” perceived it and affirmed that this dharma subject is the practice for enlightenment. On his way back to the temple, the venerable, by negligence, fell into a hole from a buffalo-foot in the rice field, sprained his ankle, and limped back to the temple. It took him one month to recover. Later, every time he wanted to visit Him, there was always a grave thing happening in his temple, barring him from coming to Him.

The thoughts, speech, and actions in many lives of a person results in who he is, when born into this life and the next. The fixed conception is called the karma, according to Buddhism. The living person can not escape from this karma power, which shapes our destiny not only in the present but also in appropriate situations in the future. By his firm decision, abilities, and merits, a living person presently can release himself from, and avoid the karma.

 There are too many extreme things in this Dharma Ending Age. For instance, a teacher accustomed to teaching, handling the pen, and standing at the podium would object until the end if he were obliged to use the plough in the field. The daily conception of life had been deeply rooted in our thoughts, words, and finally our actions, making us so familiar with it that we could not endure any change. In the presence of a situation, the disciple at home or leaving home, having strong willpower and courage, could be liberated from the karma power.

The bodhisattvas, in presence of such a situation, would gladly accept it without resentment, and concentrate on resolving it. On the contrary, average men would just lament and become mournful.

A fish accustomed to living in a stagnant pond and stationary water and brought to a larger lake with limpid water, would be frightened and slip away in the mud. Gradually familiar with the new environment, it then can swim freely. If you bring a fish living in the lake to a large river, it would also be frightened and hide. After gradually becoming familiar with the new environment of life, it can swim freely. If you bring a fish living in the river to the brackish water of an estuary, it would be frightened too. It even dies if the new environment is too extreme and returns at once to its familiar environment. After having been gradually familiar with the sea, it could freely swim in it with ease.

The same goes for the disciples. When the condition of our life changes, we would rather die than obey or discover it, and we would never see the Buddha or the bodhisattva coming in this world to save us. Though they were beside us, these noble friends could not do anything for us. In the time of His return to the world, the Supreme Pure King often reminded His true disciples: “The Buddha could neither save those without a foundation nor fix their Karma.”

The practitioner believes that the way he is following is the right one and even the Buddhas could not annihilate this fixed idea, unless he transfers himself, searches and judges by himself. The disciples wishing for enlightenment could always rely on the bodhisattvas if he did not have the great condition to meet the Buddhas. It is only by frequently getting in and out of the precepts, being generous, and neither clinging nor attaching, that you could practice the way of liberation through wisdom.

Karma is covering living creatures in the past, present and future. There will immediately be an obstacle whenever you want to advance in your practice. It is without signs but powerful. To overcome the karma power, we have to practice in the sutra “Pho Mon Pham” (the practice of overcoming all obstacles) with a firm decision and strong will power. The karma prevents the saint from becoming bodhisattva, and the bodhisattva from becoming Buddha. We could only defeat the karma power by ourselves. It is the same all the times: All normal living beings cannot see the Buddha because of their karma power.

If we believe that living creatures, born from an Almighty, had the authority to determine all destinies, which none of the normal living beings could change, it would contradict the Buddha's teachings.

The Buddhas offer their guidance and people themselves determine their way of practice: Enlightenment or ignorance, happiness or suffering. The difference between different peoples karma gives rise to this difference: Some can see the Buddha, others cannot.

The prophecy sutra of the fairy and deity said:

“Open up Long Hoa to recruit the holy virtue.
Spread the truth - that leads to a higher character.”

This prophecy sutra was inscribed at the time when Lord Supreme Maitreya was teaching the dharma to all disciples who came to follow Him. In about 1990, I sent the sutra “Supreme Special Religion Volume I” to a practitioner in the Holy House of Tay Ninh. The Supreme Pure King wrote it after His entering in right meditation. After the ceremony of the first day of the month, the group of the Holy House of Tay Ninh knew that Lord Supreme Maitreya, who was reborn and called the Supreme Pure King, was teaching dharma in Nha Trang. The Holy House cordially invited Him, but at that time there was not enough cause for His manifestation. He made an appointment on another occasion, and when He appears, He would speak to all living beings.

Later, the medium of the Tay Ninh Holy House said by writing: As the fairies and deities you are, you could not see Him at this time, and only the bodhisattvas and venerables could be near Him during this hidden time. You have to wait. The Holy House then invited me, but I could not come, and had to wait for a favorable occasion.

The prophecy sutra said:

Try to practice until Long Hoa Assembly
A life missed, thousand lives suffered
Although all things had changed
The Buddhas would have protected the practitioner of the dharma.

He had written and published many scriptures. Living creatures with miserable situations practiced without number in the temples everywhere, but His scriptures were not read much by them. Every time they have the opportunity to read His scriptures and books, they immediately feel sleepy or interrupted by unexpected events. They are forced to put it away or obliged to return the book. On the average, only one of the 100 receivers of His books comes to practice with Him.

The prophecy sutra also said clearly:

Long Hoa once established
Let's select and see how many there are
The good and the bad, and who had been selected.

The prophecy sutra also said these exact words. Once Long Hoa was established, average people as well as sacred monks who had sufficient merits and abilities were inscribed in the canonization. Among the selected were those who are awakened with great awareness, ultimate awareness, and full enlightenment. They would succeed Lord Supreme Maitreya to later widely develop the true dharma and restore the former life according to His testament He left behind:

“The Buddhas are competitive for the virtue, The nation for the literature
 Men are competitive for the right,  Monks for the heart.”

Mr. Ho Huu Tuong, a well-known learned man, famous in South Vietnam, had built the Tan Xuan Thu (New Spring-Autumn doctrine). The term means that later, when the Final Law Period comes to an end, there will be the Heavenly Life Period. He had suddenly changed his viewpoint, “Tan Xuan Thu” was a term found in the prophecy sutra.

He had discovered that a sublime truth would appear in Vietnam. He had also shouted the “calls of the flock”.

“I'd like to shout out loud, so loud that everybody could hear. I'd like to have an earnest voice; so earnest that everybody could feel. I'd like to have an energetic argument, so energetic that everybody could believe. To hear, to feel and to believe... so that you and I, together we could bring the glory, which is never seen on the globe, to our people, the Vietnamese people...”

He also wrote many more at the time when the Supreme Pure King incarnating Lord Supreme Maitreya was moving to practice the dharma. Though having so much written and appealed, Mr. Tuong himself did not have the great condition to meet the Lord. Fortunately, one of his descendants following Lord Supreme Maitreya since 1983, had been brought up and trained in the dharma by the Lord, and guided by myself later. According to what I heard from Him, Mr. Tuong's nephew will be a patriarch in the future.

Miss Truc Lam Nuong who belongs to fairyism also said: This time is the Dharma Ending Age and living beings are so passionately fond of earthly things and creating numberless harmful things. To save living creatures, the Buddha will appear in Vietnam...

As a bosom friend, let me tell you that the Buddha,
holy and fairy are appearing in our country
to save the living creatures and protect the country
dispersing the true dharma in the Dharma Ending Age.

She also affirmed that Long Hoa had come into the world, and the Vietnamese people were an eminent one.

The dragon, the cloud, and the Buddha were meeting in a canonization union.
The lotus flower was blossoming and Long Hoa reunited all the nations.
Oh! They are Lac-Hong (Original Vietnamese People) people, a precious emerald
Offering a safe refuge to the Lord, according to the foundation.

Nevertheless, she could not meet Lord Supreme Maitreya while she was writing these poems. It is true that even holy and fairy could not meet Him. Only the patriarch rank could come to learn the dharma!

Mr. Tam (Luong Si Hang) also said the Buddha had appeared in Vietnam, but once, the Lord Supreme Maitreya said: Mr. Tam had practiced at the level of the deity path, but did not yet reach the fairy path. So he had no chance to meet the Lord.

The Sakyamuni Buddha had said: “Those who could see the dharma doctrine could see Tathagata.”

What was the Tathagata dharma doctrine? As mentioned above:

–Virtue: To correct the bad habits, give up the bad characters, and be joyful and detached.
–Doctrine: The Buddha's sutra, through teaching.
–Sitting meditation: To practice Tathagata meditation.

Virtue + Doctrine + Sitting Meditation = Liberation through Wisdom

By this way of practice you will soon be able to see the Buddhas just as they come into the world. The Buddhas recommended that His true disciples practice in accordance with dharma subject in order to look for the truth. The prophecy sutra affirmed and preached exactly the time when Lord Supreme Maitreya was born. However, the disciples, ingrained with prejudices, did not know how to practice the Buddha dharma subject, and would not be able to meet Him.

The Buddha recommended that His true disciples rely on their senses, and not make use of psychic power to come to Him. It is only in imperative cases that the Buddha shows His supernatural power to save the disciples worthy of being saved. Supposed that if the Seven Mountains exploded and living beings came in hordes, how many living beings could be adequately enlightened by Him?

There will not be a scene and act of preaching dharma to make all living creatures attain Nirvana. On the contrary, we have to skillfully apply each of them among countless dharma, and it is not easy for the faithful disciples to understand. If you understand the sutra only by hearing some of its sentences, you will be illuminated by the sutra, not the Buddhas, because there is also the very difficult part of transporting the dharma.

In the former life, when the Master taught, many visible and invisible disciples were enlightened. But in this Final Law Period, when the material perverted man’s thoughts, it is very difficult to build the true dharma. Therefore, very few of them could be enlightened. These two verses clearly manifested His state of mind.

“Though the knees were tired and the shoulders weary
As long as the will is active, the Buddha monument will be built.” –T.V.

In the same time of Sakyamuni Buddha, the true disciples themselves had to diligently practice to get the results: "You have to make an effort by yourselves; The Buddhas are only your teachers."
One day, Lord Supreme Maitreya Buddha said to Madam Dieu Tue (Mary) at the Central Highness Assembly: “You have a son who demolishes property.” Dieu Tue could not understand it, and asked me, I said: “He means the practice for Mahayana of the Venerable Saputa (that is Jesus Christ) who underwent the maximum of nothingness. He reached the charity without complaint, and possessed the miraculous supernatural power.” That is the peak of Mahayana. You died when your useful work remained unfinished, and you attain the Buddha wisdom. If you are halfway to the truth of nothingness, you, therefore, demolish your property. The venerables at the holy rank enter the Tathagata or the God with a still relative charity.

The Buddhayana neither leave nor take, and have neither hatred nor endurance. That means we have to mobilize the dharma in order to avoid undergoing unnecessary things to accomplish the great compassion, called Buddha wisdom. In the remaining midway, the bodhisattvas are in the position of coming to the Buddha enlightenment, entering deeper into the God.

The supreme vehicle skillfully mobilized the Samadhi constantly, according to the wish, to attain the unthinkable wonderful application with dignity. They were at the rank of Mahatma, coming closely to the Tathagata Buddha or the God. This is the two but one, and the one but two.