LONG HOA HIGHNESS ASSEMBLY, SECOND PERIOD

The Supreme Pure King incarnating Lord Supreme Maitreya, the Supreme Reverend has four essential functions in guiding the Four Species in the Dharma-Ending Age.

• “The first function is using the seed of Tathagata's enlightened form to illustrate the Four Species who are self-feeling from the unreal form to enlightened form.”

Tathagata’s seeds originally covering the Four Species are oviparous, damp born, born by transformation and womb born. Deities and fairies are born by transformation. Man is womb born. The oviparous comes from the egg. The damp born is born in damp places such as water. Tathagata seeds are present all over the Three Thousand Great Thousand Worlds.

Tathagata seeds are exactly hearing, seeing and knowing. The practice through hearing, seeing and knowing is the practice within all dharma, using the Tathagata basket. The doctrine of the Tathagata basket will show the basket the true one. After the disapparition of the basket comes about the true religion.

Practicing dharma through the ears and eyes is not complete. To be fruitful, we have to make use of the Tathagata basket as a whole.

One day, The Blessed One had asked Ananda: “Which quantity is bigger, the wisp of leaves in my hand or the leaves in the forest?”

Ananda answered:

“Reverend Sir. The leaves in the forest are countless and those in your hand are very few.”

“That’s right,” said the Blessed One. “The leaves in my hand are very few compared with those in the forest.”

– Ananda, my 49 years of preaching the Triple Canon Sutra is invaluable compared with the forest of Tathagata dharma. The Triple Canon has been passed down until today and is exactly the canon of life. He has perceived it while practicing dharma and teaching His disciples. The canon in life is hearing, seeing, and knowing, so He has insufficient time to preach all of it. The leaves in the forest of Tathagata are exactly hearing, seeing and knowing. The doctrine of the Blessed One thus preached is just the forest of hearing, seeing, knowing in this secular life.

Therefore, it is not enough to learn only the Triple Canon Sutra; we also have to learn the canon from life in order to be on the path to being enlightened. Hearing, seeing, and knowing immediately realizes the appearance of the living creatures’ nature, which is contaminated. So practicing in compliance with Buddhist sutra requires correction of the nature and abandonment of bad habits in order to avoid being contaminated. Once these corrections are made, you can truly hear, see, and know that you are Insightful.

In reality, living creatures cannot correct themselves completely. To be enlightened, they have to seek for an enlightened one who would wonderfully apply all dharma and save them from the source of pollution. “Light your own torch and go.” These words are only intended for the bodhisattvas who are enlightened and have insight. All living creatures cannot light the torch on their own torch to attain enlightenment.

All living creatures originally have Buddha nature; therefore, they are all capable of becoming Buddha, but if they do not find someone who is enlightened or Buddha, they will not be on the right path to enlightenment. After many years of coming into this saha world and preaching dharma, the Lord Supreme Maitreya has shown us that it must be infallible.

* What is the Enlightened Form?

A mind, which does not abide by anything, is created. The Buddha teaches the living creature’s mind. Because living creatures are often attached and polluted, they become egotistical. Therefore, we must joyfully detach in order to avoid abiding by anything. When we are sufficiently joyful and detached, our mind is disengaged and clear. The Buddha said that whatever we sense becomes our mind. Whatever the five senses pick up, that is what the mind will be. Therefore, the consciousness is truly the character and the mind. Here, the mind is given a definite place where the original consciousness cleared and each characteristic has its own usage. This is known as the enlightened form, which goes beyond the living creatures’ knowledge and surpasses their judgment. It is the mind that the Buddha teaches the bodhisattvas who practiced and attained the complete enlightened form.

• “The second function is helping living creatures to make offerings to Tathagata.”                       

He has written the Proclamation Attesting the Universe, accomplishing the vow of saving all living creatures. The good and the bad people are all satisfied and happy.

– He has taught dharma and saved all living creatures by utilizing great means! He has wonderfully applied everything whether they are favorable, unfavorable, pure impure, consciousness, or unconscionable without deficiency in the Dharma-Ending Age. He has helped all levels of living beings clarify the ignorance. Some understand, some are enlightened, and others more fully enlightened. The depth and height of this wisdom is unreachable.

– He has saved living creatures in order to make offerings to Tathagata, the Supreme Pure King Buddha, in order to become Tathagata Buddha and the Buddhas of Ten Directions.

• “The third function is helping living creatures to meet the Buddha and become Buddhist disciples.”

Each disciple is attached to an individual character trait called a dominant characteristic. He has to make his disciples aware of this attachment. They have to strictly follow the main ideas of the Buddhas to do so. Therefore, they must be Buddhist disciples in order not to become lost in the false teachings.

• “The fourth function is cultivating the true nature to avoid interrupting the Buddha’s cause.”

All those who meet the Buddha are instructed to transform his evil nature into the true and good nature. They often find it difficult to accept unconscionable (or unfavorable) dharma. Leaning on joyful detachment, they can recognize the true nature. Once they know their true nature, they certainly treasure following the Buddhas without interrupting the Buddha cause.

It is very difficult to meet those who accomplish the ten titles of attainment of ‘Supreme Reverend’ because he has appeared correspondingly to the vow of the Three Dharma Elements. In this secular life, from the words to the acts, there are not many outward differences between Him and ordinary people. Thus neither the sacred monks nor bodhisattvas could recognize him. It is only the maha bodhisattvas training in Prajna wisdom  who uses the enlightened form to recognize a bit of his appearance. Thus it proves to be quite difficult to meet Him. Even the patriarchs reaching the rank of arahants, Pratyaka Buddhas, and sravaka have to manifest their admiration and respect because the Supreme Reverend has marvelously taught and preached the dharma exactly according to the conditions of the Four Species. He uses the enlightened form to clarify the true form in its full majesty.

LORD SUPREME MAITREYA WITH LONG HOA