LONG HOA HIGHNESS ASSEMBLY, SECOND PERIOD

 
The vow of liberation for countless living creatures implies that the countless living creatures’ nature and false hopes have to be recognized fully and liberated completely. Until all living creatures’ nature is saved, then the true disciples can attain the mind power. The mind power called the great ocean mind has achieved the essential mind; the bodhisattvas have to bravely overcome all the manifesting scenes, until there are no more obstacles or clinging. He has to consider the manifested scenes to be the bodhisattva's food with patience and determination and undergo all the sufferings, to dissolve accordingly, tolerating all of the living creatures' nature to accomplish the essential mind. The essential mind has neither increased nor decreased neither release nor retention. The lack of merits has to supplement, the increase to be reduced in order to clarify the way of frequenting all the dharma way and to get the insight into the transcendental wisdom of the heart sutra.

“The mind-use is distributed in countless and boundless minds, including all the three thousand from the human mind, divine mind, fairy- deity- saint-transformation mind to the bodhisattva mind and Buddha mind. Even with the use of the mind-use and even those of meditated mind, the enlightened mind could not be free from the use, why? Because the meditation mind is truly meditation use, and the enlightened mind is not other than the enlightened-use. As a result, the practice for leaving the self and self-possession is precisely that of leaving the use, without being clinging, without being enlightened because the dharma goes beyond any argument. It is the practice aiming at collecting thousands and thousands of minds, achieving the prajna mind, thoroughly understanding all the species-mind without omission, acquiring the essential species mind cleansed of the use and making up one's mind to do homage and become the Buddha.” –T.V.

The nature is the Tathagata's use, so is the mind, even the dharma body, the dharma world the dharma nature the Tathagata-Store and the suchness is also the use. The mind use is so numerous in number, including human mind, divine mind, fairy-deity-saint transformation mind, bodhisattva mind and Buddha Mind all that compose the three thousands. Even the meditation mind and enlightened mind are the Tathagata's use, too. Those who practice for the enlightened mind have also to leave their self and self-possession without clinging and acquiring in order to be free from the use. Because where there is still use, there is still precept. They have to collect perfectly millions of minds and achieve the prajna mind, knowing every species-mind without neglecting any of them to be able to acquire the essential species-mind. Those who know well the essential species mind must practice adequately the purity and impurity, the form and the formless; and only the bodhisattva rank could realize it perfectly. It is easy to speak or to read, but the state of mind in realizing the avoidance of the mind-application is a great problem. The understanding of the mind depends on the will and courage to resolve the mind. Otherwise, with attachment and clinging, the mind will be at a standstill and fall into the pure isolation mind. They have overcome all obstacles and relied on the use to make the mind free from the use. Such is the so-called liberation; nothing else means the liberation.

“How great the good is! How great the good is! From the mountains to the rivers, from the lands to the whole suchness, all are erroneous in the mind use, dreaming in the enlightened use, the bodhisattvas, clinging without clinging have perfectly left the use, acquiring without acquiring have gone beyond the mind-use to reach the diamond sutra. The Tathagata did not teach the dharma, Subhuti did not hear the dharma and they are attested essentially through the clearance of the Use; otherwise, if the Tathagata have preached the dharma, and Subhuti listened to it to be attested, is that the attestation through the use? How wonderful the Blessed One is.” –T.V.

In stupidity, the mind is extremely transformed and the mobilization of the mind is affected by the use. The bodhisattva has to resolve the use, thoroughly understand it, in order to clear perfectly of the use. The bodhisattva who knows everything well is clinging without clinging and can perfectly leave the use. Acquiring without acquiring, he can be free from the use. The Venerable Subhuti hearing the dharma without being attached to what he heard, has known by himself the use. That is essential is the insight of the mind use. Otherwise, if the Tathagata has preached the dharma and Subhuti listened to it to be enlightened; the enlightenment is for the teaching of the Tathagata. He could hardly realize himself; he is caught in the mind use. Neither following strictly the sutra nor leaving it, one can be free from the mind use, no longer dreaming in the enlightened use.

“The mind use is a scene of substance transformation. All the living creatures are continually changing by transformation after transformation. From the vegetation, the mountains, and the rivers, all are under the use to the human life together undergoing the substance transformation through every life of transformation into thousands and thousands of various forms. From a living being to the enlightened one, both are the living creatures of the mind-use such as: animals, animal forms; birds in the sky animals on the earth, from rich families, happy families to miserable families of all kinds. All the species you can see with your eyes are all you have been transformed to, that is the law of cause and effect. All of that results from the use which generates from substance-transformation.” –T.V.                                                                    

All the mountains, rivers, vegetation, animals and human beings cannot escape from the Tathagata's use. Because of the mind transformation, they have to undergo countless forms. If a human being thinks and sees an animal he or she has been this animal several times. The Lord Supreme Maitreya Buddha has realized and wrote it down. We can see that the law of cause and effect does not spare anyone. Therefore, we reincarnate in a species, which has the same species-nature. It goes beyond any description.

When attaining the full enlightenment to become Buddha, the Blessed One has said: Look at the sand of the Sanga River, how countless it is, but each grain of sand represents one of his lives, births and deaths. Knowing such transformations of living beings, the Buddhas have heartily guided the disciples to correct their nature in order to escape from the animal circle. The disciple who applies himself to pray and supplicate without correcting his nature will undergo the birth use to be animals - that is natural. One use finished then another use came into being; that is re-incarnation. The way of birth and death was changing through many lifetimes according to the impregnated habits, which provide the form to creature. They think ill, do evil things; they must enter hell to receive the evil karma, to be animals. To create good faculty and good will, they go to the superior life to make retribution to men, fairies, and deities, depending on the natures and the actions to determine who, what or where they would be.

In this return of this final law period lord, Maitreya Buddha has thoroughly understood living creatures' mistakes. Therefore, he has convinced human beings of four species to lean on the given main ideas to practice righteousness to attain a result. If human beings, in the present, are not wrongly practicing and still retain the Blessed One's Main Ideas, the Lord Supreme Maitreya Buddha would not return to this world! The bodhisattva has continuously made a great vow of saving living creatures and primarily to awaken living creatures. He also made an effort to be re-incarnated, going through birth and death cycle without fear and hesitation to mature into the maha bodhisattva. The clean maha bodhisattvas, thoroughly cleansed of the self and the self-possession, are all in the self-use of the wonderful ocean of dharma, and fully rejoice the prajna, the maha prajna perfection.