LONG HOA HIGHNESS ASSEMBLY, SECOND PERIOD

“THE FIRST WAY: Detecting dharma limit by thoughts.” –T.V.

• The starting point is thought. Each thought is a dharma limit. It is necessary in the first step to sit for meditation in order to detect the coming and going thoughts in the body. The cruel thoughts are the obscure ones; the healthy thoughts without bitterness are the bright ones. A further step to the penetration of the thoughts is the comprehension by which one can see more clearly the coming and going of the thoughts in the body.

The thoughts are unceasingly changing. It is the beginning of the cycle of birth and death. Therefore, every hour, every minute in a day, the thoughts come and go. Those are numberless dharma limits. In practice, once reaching the end of the rise and fall in our thoughts, one could hear and see all the beginning of disorders, which are rightly the eternity perception. Concentrating, observing to lighten it, that is the meditating thought. The meditating thought is used to judge if the disciples strongly focus. That would create supernatural power. They, therefore, would be in the fiction and still living in the dharma limit.

Deities, fairies are all caught in these fixed thoughts and fallen in the dharma limit, unable to be free from life and to resolve the cycle of birth and death.

“There are also three worlds of devas which become the Three Thousand Great Thousand Worlds up to Dragon Man. Eighteen heaven worlds are managing the secular world. Each world, each domain is in general the world of thoughts. Because the difference in the level of retributions, and consequences of the previous existence, which results in differences in ideals that are reborn, there are countless varieties of the limits of the Tathagata Store.” –T.V.

• Living creatures are different from one another by their high and low class, each class is a separate world, also called a domain. Each domain is constituted of thoughts. From the heaven world to the secular one, each represents a framed limit. The difference in the nobility and common, broadness and narrowness resulted in several kinds of rewards and punishments. Making up one's mind to practice for complete liberation through wisdom will bring about the direct retribution of the Buddha body. Direct retribution of one's previous existence or results of one’s deeds, all are created and wished by the living creatures themselves, it is the very Tathagata dharma. The Tathagata dharma without differentiation from all seeds is exactly the Tathagata store. Each store has its dharma limit called Tathagata eye store or Tathagata store limit.

It is very difficult to achieve enlightenment without practicing the Tathagata dharma daily, but only emphasizing on the learning of the Buddhist dharma, strictly following the sutra. How difficult the path of practice for liberation from birth and death is.

The result of the practice of dharma is just what the practice is in the beginning. You should necessarily practice without formality and fixed thought. You should be forwards to attain the spontaneous form for emancipation. Therefore, the starting point is very significant. You will be satisfied at the end of your life in the same manner you have thought in your practice without guidance of the Enlightened One, who would guide you to follow the path of Buddhas and bodhisattvas.

“THE SECOND WAY: Favorable and unfavorable acts create dharma limit.” –T.V.

The act is typical of a high or low class and each act is also a dharma limit. Every class has its own act with its invariable characteristics.

According to the good and bad act, there is favorable and unfavorable dharma limit. There are some who tried to help living creatures by their good acts, but they do not correct their own character, making others impregnated with their bad nature. For example, they worship the Buddha, admire the Buddha statue, and are on vegetarian diet, but in presence of a difficult situation they are unable to control their hot temper and everyone around him feels discontented.

There are some who preached the dharma like a Buddha, but having a favorable situation they intrigue to make a profit for themselves and secretly do evil things to others. Not caring to correct the opposition between the theory and the practice would also create a dharma limit. It would be difficult to attain enlightenment as long as there is the difference between nature and form, which is not one yet.

“If the consciousness store is not yet unified with virtue and conduct, how can one attest the attainment?” –T.V.                                                 

The consciousness store is truly the original good and evil nature; it belongs to the nature while virtue and conduct belong to the dharma form. If nature and form were not unified, the disciple would still receive the results of his usual impregnated deeds. That is the reason behind the existence of Mara, devil and Devil Buddha.

There are some who know well the Buddha dharma, but are attached to the no obstruction, being hot tempered and deceitful which are harmful to their peers, to the honest and innocent believers who follow them in the practice without the fear of bad consequences.

The Buddha Fairies also know well the Buddha dharma, but they act so nobly, avoiding the rudeness and the dirt, but are also attached and could not be free from the dharma limit. Therefore, they would never attain enlightenment to be truly Buddha.

“The act is the symbol of the most recent former life which is reborn in this life.” –T.V.

Character and behavior are impregnated through accustomed acts in the career, friendship, and family. The truly successful disciples can know clearly the former life of living creatures just as they are walking, standing, laying, sitting in the four stages, just by observing their acts and their language in the present.

Therefore, the most essential thing to do for the Awakened One is to guide faithful believers in how to dissolve their dharma limit. Secondly, he has to create love and respect among the faithful believers around him to prepare for them a dharma limit of good cause, so that they could receive the blessed reward from men and devas, avoiding the destination of hungry devils, animals, and hell.

Those who are clever gradually try to dissolve all dharma, being patient in his good cause, not exploding suddenly. Once having sufficient abilities and merits, they would acquire the dharma patience of no-birth and receive thoroughly the dharma limit, clearing up the dharma limit of no-birth and bringing about true happiness and peace to the clever disciples.

Even an awakened one, who does not know well the dharma limit that is his original aspect, would have not satisfactorily completed the three bodies.

“THE THIRD WAY: The eternal original form of the dharma limit.” –T.V.

There are countless species, each species with its special and fixed form different from the others and invariable for generations. For example, man, though Eastern, Western, Southern, Northern, always has an invariable original form. For animals like cows, buffaloes, horses, each species is born with a fixed form, invariable through generations, which is called the eternal dharma limit.

Disciples, who attain the complete combination, liberating from dharma limit are very rare. They have perfectly achieved, without omission, the four bases of sympathy, the six perfections, the compassion, will, and courage and the condition, focused effort, and result. Some of them consider these to be very ordinary and familiar, but in reality practicing this knowledge is very difficult.

We believe by confusion that the form is destructible. In reality, the Four Species remain intact through millions of years. The birth and death, the death and the birth are succeeding each other eternally. The Mahayana believers have to rely on the dharma limit to practice, dissolving the dharma limit, escaping from the dharma limit belt and understanding thoroughly the dharma limit.

At the time of the Blessed One, He has frequently taught and explained the dharma limit belt to the bodhisattva rank, but He has only created a precept whenever a monk or a nun has made a mistake, to prevent them from repeating the offence. Therefore, at the end of His time, there have been only 250 precepts for the Bikkhus (appointed monks) and 348 precepts for the Bikkhuni (appointed nuns). We have to practice and cultivate these precepts to avoid falling into the three ways of evil in order to receive the blessed reward from men and devas and have to wait for the rebirth of the bodhisattvas and Buddhas who would teach us the dharma limit belt.

LORD SUPREME MAITREYA WITH LONG HOA