CHAPTER I: LORD SUPREME MAITREYA'S PAST INCARNATIONS
1. The Social Turmoil of the World after WW II
Atomic bombing of Nagasaki, 1945.
A quick glance at the economic, social, and political events of all the countries in the world after the First and Second World Wars shows an accumulative, serious situation that made learned men, scientists, and sociologists anxious and fearful.
Many of them became pessimistic and believed that a Third World War would soon break out. Their research caused them to announce that doomsday was drawing near. Not only were the atrocities of war and weapons that could kill thousands instantly examined, but natural disasters such as ravaging storms, typhoons, earthquakes, drought, and floods were looked at as things that would kill countless human beings!
Environmental pollution exists in soil as well as ponds, lakes, rivers and seas. Toxic gasses continue to damage the atmosphere day by day. Meanwhile, leaders of the technically advanced countries have not yet properly perceived the dangers and are not really trying to put an end to it.
The above mentioned problems were the cause of many deadly diseases that spread through the world. Even more atrocious than the First and Second World Wars and causing even more death, destruction, and misery for millions of innocent people, countless wars, skirmishes, revolutions, genocides and the like are continuously taking place throughout the world. The true cost of these actions in misery and loss is immeasurable.
A man of virtue and knowledge is constantly obsessed with the survival of mankind. He wonders how mankind has continued to live in such unstable unbearable conditions, which seem to go beyond normal human endurance. Where is his final destination? Is this the presage of the Final Law Period?
Is it the beginning of the end, or the Savior’s reincarnation? Nobody could answer the questions easing mankind’s anxiety. Especially in Vietnam, the Book of Oracles had promptly been spread throughout the country: Let’s hurry up and practice or we’ll be too late! Time is running out and the Lord Maitreya is incarnated. Let’s keep the faith and patiently wait. Nobody could precisely tell the time when He would come into being. At the same time, a lot of people just laughed, because they thought of it as a superstition and an illusion. They appealed to everybody to live out of his own labor.
2. The Social Turmoil of Vietnam
A picure of the Vietnam War
“Under one thousand years of Chinese domination, one hundred years of French domination, and fifty years of civil war”, anyone hearing it could understand that from their great ancestors, the Vietnamese had undergone so much sorrow and mourning, and the misery lasted from generation to generation. They have witnessed barbarous killings, wretchedness, poverty, death from starvation, and imprisonment. They were heartbroken when their families were separated... Their ancestors’ endurance is of the first rank in the world, worthy of respect and admiration.
In such a severe and chaotic social situation, the learned men could clearly realize more and more that mankind had been depressed spiritually. All of these daily degenerations made them believe that Lord Maitreya was about to appear. The last shift would give rise to a natural change indeed.
Sakyamuni had preached His words over 2500 years ago with thousands of truths. Monks, nuns, Buddhist followers, sociologists, learned men, and scientists: Would you please form a delegation to visit South Vietnam. Upon examining it after reading this, you will see that the night suddenly becomes the day in this miraculous and marvelous world in which we live.
It is very practical and neither illusionary nor vague. You will find out a new source of life and plentiful joy and happiness for the present and future. If there is no path of reincarnation, why can many disciples remember who they were in their former life? They also clearly noted what they did and where they lived. Nobles and masters who remembered their past lives have documented them and scientists today have heard and seen many documents with demonstrations. Scientists check many external things, but the Eastern masters examine and discover their bodies to know the universe...
3. Who was the Supreme Pure King? (Maitreya Buddha) What did He do for Mankind?
Disciples and secular people should know that the intelligence and virtue of Buddha goes beyond the ordinary. They had brought the source of life and happiness to the Four Species, but the latter did not know it.
The Enlightened One, Lord Supreme Maitreya Buddha, only made use of psychic power as a necessary means and did not want to disclose the miracles of the universe to the boastful secular people. When His work was finished, He left silently, undisturbed by the discussion about right and wrong by the living creatures. He need not to stay back to enjoy what He has done for the world, as long as He could completely help them to be safe and peaceful. In the Ullambana season of 1969, a.k.a. the 2513th year of the Buddhist calendar, thanks to a great opportunity, I became a disciple of the Supreme Pure King. One day, He called me and said:
“Phap Kha (the Dharma name of the author), you are the true Buddhist disciple, having firm faculty and one-pointed mind to practice for a complete liberation. Now, before the witness of the Three Dharma Elements, I am proclaiming the following litanies so that you and all the future living creatures will know I had incarnated in this life. You will know I had appeared in this saha world and had done many useful things to save all the living creatures in this Dharma-Ending Age.”
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TỪ Đâu Ta đến
THỊ Hiện cư nhân
DI truyền bảo pháp
LẠC quốc an khương
TÔN giả cúng dường
PHẬT Vương minh chứng
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I came from the Tusita Heaven Appearing as a layman Transmitting the Precious Dharma Bringing the country peace and happiness All the offerings of the Venerables Are witnessed by the Buddha King. |
After announcing these verses, the Supreme Pure King kept silent. Suddenly, the atmosphere around Him vaguely smelled of sandalwood incense, and became extraordinarily solemn and warm. Connecting an initial word in these verses, we have this sentence: “Tu Thi Di Lac Ton Phat – The Lord Supreme Maitreya Buddha”
Lord Supreme Maitrey a Portrait of joyfulness. At home, He usually wore a white traditional Ba-Ba.
I prostrated myself before Him, wondering in confusion whether or not Lord Maitreya, in flesh and bone, is truly in front of me? All Buddhist or non-Buddhist followers, whatever their religion, have to examine this. Lord Maitreya has appeared at the due time, in the right situation, and in this Dharma-Ending Age. He had joyfully utilized His great power to endure difficulties and made full use of His Buddha power to transform the chaotic Final Law Period into the antiquity.
In this rebirth, Lord Maitreya adopted the name of the Unique Principle Pure King and preached the dharma at number 42, Hong Bang Street, Nha Trang. In the last years of His life, He moved to number 6, Huynh Thuc Khang Street of the same city. The moment has come to document this rare historical event, hoping that all human beings and true disciples realize that life is an infinite ocean of suffering and is fleeting. Hoping they would courageously make up their mind to seek enlightenment and liberation from the endless cycle of birth and death. No matter how rich you are, when you pass away, you will leave all behind, and become empty-handed. Not knowing where we are going is an immeasurable suffering!
4. Binh Dinh, the Place Where Lord Maitreya Was Born
One day at the end of winter in 1969 in the wooden loft of number 42, Hong Bang Street Nha Trang, at 8 o'clock in the morning, the Pure King said:
From the Tusita Heaven, wearing a long, large, sky-blue ceremonial robe, and solemnly accompanied by the gods, dragon deity, dharma protector, dharma protector bodhisattva, and bodhisattvas, the Pure King came down to this saha world. Seeing the red dust densely covering everywhere, all of the gods, dragon deity, and dharma protector stopped and respectfully bowed to Him and dared not follow Him.
Painting of the traditional leaf-house in Binh Dinh where He was born.
His father, Tu Nhu Y
His mother, Nguyen Thi Phung.
He alone went straight to the province of Binh Dinh in Central Vietnam. He stood before the house waiting for a mother called Nguyen Thi Phung, who was about to deliver. As soon as she gave birth to a son, He lightly leaned and slipped into the house, entering into the baby's body. It was about 9 o'clock A.M. on the 24th day of the 12th month of the Lunar year, 1918, (the 2462th year of the Buddhist calendar). At that time, the weather was changing to spring. His father's name was Tu Nhu Y, and he called Him Tu The Tho. Every year, on the 24th day of the 12th month of the Lunar year, all the Phap Tang Buddhism of Vietnam people who were His true disciples gathered at His residence to celebrate His birthday. On the same day of the Tan Hoi lunar year, a.k.a. the 8th of December 1972, He once again told the secular world and His true disciples that Lord Maitreya was born. This poem was written down and also typed by Him:
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THE LOVE REBIRTH POEM In a beautiful day, with blue sky and sweet sunshine, That year the winter had just gone by and the spring was drawing near. Fifty-four years passed... How was the Lunar New Year Festival? People came to and from at that moment. It was on the twenty- fourth day. It is no use saying any longer The true disciples are just my consolation –The Supreme Pure King.
The Birthday: 24-12
Lunar Year of the Pig (2-12-1972) |
“Giving away their worries and fears.”
He was born at the end of the First World War (1914-1918). Man and especially the underdeveloped countries under fear of invasion after the Second World War (1939-1945) signed the treaty of Geneva in 1954. He was born at a pivotal time, announcing an increasing disturbance.
“Praying for Miracles all over the country.”
While the people went about shopping for the Vietnamese New Year, the entire group of invisible dragon deities, land deities, and four kinds of deities, and supreme deities around His dwelling place were accomplishing miracles all over to protect Him.
“Real or unreal depends on the peacefulness of their mind.”
At a close look, the peacefulness enabled the citizens to joyfully shop for the Vietnamese New Year (Tet). But at a closer look, the Third World War was in latency, and the peace was both real and unreal.
“It was on the all - round illumination of the twenty- fourth day.”
The Ultimate illumination of the twenty- fourth day is a seldom occurring special day. Why? That day, according to the Chinese calendar, was the beginning of spring, that is to say the end of the winter. The weather was changing to a bright spring.
“I was alone in the cloud of the sky
Being reborn in this Final Law Period.”
From the Tusita Heaven, He penetrated into the atmosphere and the layers of clouds and stepped into the secular world where He was “reborn.” For a long time, the Buddha scripture had been used to talk about this upon Lord Maitreya’s return, He wrote it down in order to remind the secular world that it is now the Final Law Period, which is favorable for Him to save the world.
“It is no use saying any longer
Today is naturally a leisure day.”
He knew how true His words were. He spoke the truth in superfluous words because the living creatures were confused and could not believe them. As for Him, He remained calm as He had vowed.
“So much the worse for the Final Law Period.
As arranged by Tathagata to play a scene.”
In the Final Law Period, regardless of the destruction mankind has created with its toxicity, He has already known that it was a play arranged by Tathagata to go back to the beginning.
“The true disciples are just my consolation
...Provided everybody was joyful of enlightenment
Under the temple roof,
that is what I am longing for.”
So much worse for the secular world with its toxicity, it remained for Him a joy that the true disciples wishing for enlightenment, are following Him. Long Hoa expected by most disciples is in Vietnamese: “Phap Tang” And Lord Maitreya in the past is now hidden under the title of The Supreme Pure King.
The leader of Phap Tang was the Master of all dharma. He was proclaimed the Supreme Chief Monk.
When He was born, He had a nice body with good features, but His parents were very poor. Their house was made of bamboo walls banked up with hay and clay, and a thatch roof in the countryside. Seeing that the invisible dragon deity dharma protector pretended to appear as a terrifying devil, His mother was frightened and brought her baby to a cleaner, larger house of a relative. As he was only three days old at the time, His eyes were hurt by the sunshine, and His right eye was severely damaged.
This was an omen of Tathagata, meaning that the Buddha was born, but the living creatures (common men) could not see Him. It is only by the patriarchs’ merits, with a partly free spirit and the will to practice toward enlightenment that we could attain the great condition to come to Him.
He continued: It was not difficult for me to make use of my psychic power and appear as the whole 32 Buddhist good forms. But in this Dharma-Ending Age, the living creatures cared too much for the form and the sound. If I were to appear that way, they would only come to worship Me, and not to correct their bad habits, which would be useless.
5. Nha Trang, city of Khanh Hoa province, Where Lord Maitreya taught his disciples
I heard: During the Second World War (1939-1945), the Vietnamese situation was very bad, and war exploded everywhere. When He lived in Binh Dinh, the Vietnam communist authority was faithless and condemned Him to 10 years of imprisonment, but after only 26 months the Geneva Convention was concluded. He was 36 years old when he was set free and moved to Nha Trang where He rented a small house with a thatched roof and clay walls at Sinh Trung, near the Cho Dam market today.
The year 1956 was the 2500th year of the Buddhist era and He has attained the supreme true enlightenment. He had since made use of His abilities from His countless past lives to help the living creatures accumulate merit through many past lives. In this life, He appears as a Buddha's body in order to construct the nation and to build the high life in this physical world. From now on, the world will change gradually every cycle of twelve years to become peaceful, and mankind will regain his serenity, leisure, and morality.
The remaining Buddhist sutra inscribed by Him is still intact. To demonstrate His apparition, I'll give certain main points so you can realize it more completely, through the Sealed Indication 1-2-3-4.
Though nobody understands Him in this period, He is silently saving the secular world through the sealed indication 1, also typed by Him:
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DHARMA OF SALVATION IN THE "EASTERN SALVATION PERIOD". The verse: The Western paradise is emitting fluorescence. Interpretation: I'm coming to the Western land emitting fluorescence Who can understand ME in this period? Conversion: Sealed Indication: Human beings are faithfully wishing for the dharma Full enlightenment is right in your body.
–The Supreme Pure King
Noontime, 09-03-1977.
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The Salvation Period:
Period of classifying Himself as a human being, appearing as a layman to guide the disciples to the True supreme dharma and full enlightenment.
• The verse:
The Western paradise means the Tusita full of peace and joy in the golden light of the dharma.
The Eastern Lord Supreme Maitreya is now opening the dharma teaching: He was reborn in the East. Reborn in the East means living as a layman. The reborn: The Lord Supreme Maitreya is opening the dharma teaching.
He used all excellent means to show that the life and the dharma are always in parallel, always appearing as the form and the shadow. Though being two, they have a unique form. He had flexibly brought human beings to a unique way of practice, which is the enlightenment.
When He started teaching dharma, the Four Species increased their intensity for competition and killed each other in chaos and continuously lived in a nightmare.
• The Interpretation:
I'm coming to the West and returning to the East... The Supreme Pure King incarnated today is precisely the reincarnation of Lord Supreme Maitreya. He now appears as a layman, pulling up the curtain of ignorance for the erroneous practice of dharma in the Dharma-Ending Age. He makes it in concord for human beings to use hearing, seeing, and knowing in life to practice the dharma, transforming the hearing, seeing, and knowing into the non-attached all dharma. Realizing it, man will be able to live peacefully and happily, the family will be stable, and the nation will be safe and joyful.
• The Explanation:
He would go to the places where there were true disciples such as Nha Trang, Qui Nhon, Da Nang, Hue, and Saigon. There were also some disciples leaving home to see Him, or read His scriptures on the salvation. They only knew that He was the Pure King Monk - During His journey none of these disciples tried to discover the dharma subject of salvation. They were not interested in it and even considered this way of practice as unnecessary and completely strange.
In parallel with the teaching of the dharma to the surrounding living creatures, He also had a difficult great vow that was His determination to use the Buddhas' precious dharma to rebuild the secular world, transporting them from the East to the West. This way, they would have a practical way of correcting their nature, giving up their bad habits, surmounting the circumstances to get a cleared mind, and getting rid of suffering in each and every family. This work of transforming the whole world in this time was not understood by any of the religious leaders.
• The Conversion:
“The Heavenly Fairies were applauding happily.”
Why? In the fairyland, heavenly fairies were observing His returning to the world. Heavenly fairies were those who lived outside our earth and were very sensible. Sympathetic from the past to the future, they understood the movement and maneuver of all dharma very well, as well as the apparition and the return. They had the attainment of ‘ultimate awareness’ and were only inferior to the bodhisattvas. They did not yet know how the change in their own destiny would affect birth, death, old age and suffering.
The heavenly fairies saw the universe and people living in peace and safety. At the Final Law Period, when hell came into existence and the suffering karma was widespread, they saw a great power saving the Four Species, which is why they applauded happily.
“The land fairies knitting their eyebrows lamenting.”
The Land Fairies were always drawn to the ‘middle life’ also called gentle life. In this period, they practice treasure and respect morality and saint-like behavior. Seeing the development of the fire goal, the great powerful Lord Supreme Maitreya had to return to the world to save it. The saints, sages and bodhisattvas practiced in the all-sided one that was penetrating the ‘fire goal’, undergoing bitterness, disgrace, and corporal punishment in order to save living creatures. The land fairies, who did not understand this, lamented and wept when they saw how much the saints, sages, and bodhisattvas suffered. In turn, they believed that the teaching of Buddha degenerated.
“Human beings were astonished in their attitude.”
Why? Human beings live in an unstable, difficult, and meaningless life. From the full to the empty, the tranquil to the chaotic, the united to the separate, the cool to the hot, and the cozy to the wandering, average human beings as well as believers are all in confusion. They become disoriented and lose their faith in Buddha and run after the Fire goal toward a new horizon. Everyone was horrified, anxious, bewildered, and adventurous.
“The bodhisattvas were laughing joyfully.”
The saints, sages, and bodhisattvas, who vow to practice the “All-sided One” face difficult situations, but remain calm and joyful. Saved from suffering was the usual food of the bodhisattvas. Therefore, they were happy to follow Buddha's path.
“The three realms were shaking ceaselessly."
The three realms are desire, form, and formless. Seeing the secular world undergoing the fire goal and chaos, the heavenly fairies became also worried, anxious, and their bodies shook dolorously, too.
“I'm sitting in the evenly beautiful Buddha's throne.”
He knew that all are only the illusive scenes of the secular world, and by this engaging rebirth He will attain Buddha hood.
• The sealed Indication:
“Human beings were faithfully wishing for the dharma.”
He knew that numerous Human beings now practice Buddhism. However, most of them rely on monks and nuns in temples and mountain sanctuaries in search of a faithful mind for salvation because they are tired of life. He often lamented:
“Those who did not know Long Hoa became confused.”
This line clearly discloses that Lord Supreme Maitreya had come to the world, opened Long Hoa, and taught living creatures sinking in the ocean of suffering to help them get to the shore of enlightenment. Nobody in any religion waited for Him, and none of them could recognize this practical way of practicing in this Final Law Period: The awareness of one's own nature and the elimination of the Dharma Flower nature. Instead, they are confused and unrealistically wait for the explosion of the Seven Mountains.
“Here is precisely the Nagarjuna secular body.”
He is now saying overtly that the Supreme Pure King in this life is actually the Nagajuna appearing in the secular body. The Nagarjuna body in the past is the exact present Lord Supreme Maitreya embodied in this saha world.
“With the mind and the brain of the fairies, sages, and deities.”
Fairies, sages and deities are those who have the more sensible look than that of laypeople. These words are as clear-sighted and conscious as those from the fairies, sages and deities.
He said, overtly, that enlightenment is right in your body. Why they do not realize it and keep on aimlessly praying. These are truly words of the Buddha:
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SKILLFUL USE OF BUDDHISM. DHARMA LAND – SALVATION PERIOD Sealed Indication II, 1977. Year of the Rooster I'm coming in this period to restore. There are two ways of making use of Buddhism. There are two ways of making use of Buddhism. –The Supreme Pure king
The 25-03-1977.
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“I'm coming in this period to restore.”
The ultimate goal of Buddhas’ rebirth is to guide human beings on the right path to enlightenment, which was also the sealed indication of the Buddhas’ Three Dharma Elements. According to the teaching of the Supreme Pure King, the incarnation of Lord Supreme Maitreya in this period is the Dharma Ending Age; the bad one overshadows the true dharma. The disciples who prefer to make use of education, the study of Buddhist sutra, and form and sound to attain the dharma, become passively enlightened.
He did not create a new religion, but only restored and modified the way of practice according to the times, while aiming at liberation through wisdom, the main ideas of the Buddhas’ Three Dharma Elements.
“Appearing as a layman: seal* -indication* - achievement*.”
He clearly let Human beings know that He was born as a layman who practices at home.
*Indication: Suddenly insighted
*Seal: The seal for attestation of the universe.
*Achievement: The achievement of the incarnation of the Buddhas’ Three Dharma Elements.
Today, most of the disciples are conducting themselves in such a way to accuse Buddhism of being passive. On the other hand, the faithless, by their verbose rituals are pushing the faithful believers to fanatic practices. They focus on supplicating and praying rather than correcting their own nature, while creating integrity to dissolve the magic power.
“There are two ways to apparition of the Buddha.”
The way of isolation means renunciation - living in a pagoda or temple, having no spouse and children, and being free of family ties. Provided that the mind was clear and not polluted, they were always awakened before the external world.
The way of the laymen is the virtue of the lay disciple, living in a family with one's spouse and children, and with all the hardships of a normal family life. There is joy and sadness, happiness and suffering, and all make up the multiple manifestation of the dharma in the secular world. Provided that the mind was not polluted while getting in and out of the world, they can still able to be awakened.
Being laymen or practicing renunciation, you should still reach enlightenment if you are practicing in the right way. But He himself adopted a family practice with His wife and six children. This made those who had left their home to practice in a temple feel strange and lose confidence in Him.
The renunciation disciples, also known as “divine vehicle”, represent the pure practice group, based on purity to save. They have to rely on hearing, seeing, and knowing, which are all living dharma, to resolve all things, gradually clarifying the ignorance. They are no longer being polluted, and return to purity in order to be enlightened.
The renunciation disciple choses the quiet life, far from all conflicts, avoids unfavorable and impure dharma. Though being pure, it still remains a life of isolated purity, which is a dangerous practice and could never lead to the shore of enlightenment. This isolation practice of renunciation believers avoids the dirty and chooses the clean. It involuntarily becomes like the spirit of a fairy or deity and could never lead to full enlightenment.