The greater the Western civilization and science, the happier mankind was. Some people do not thoroughly understand it, and have become doubtful about the transmigration of birth and death, especially the Westerners. Sakyamuni Buddha, once enlightened, had seen that all living creatures were caught in the eternal circle of fall and rise, rise and fall, and they were continuously bound in the transmigration of birth and death. He had also clearly seen that the noble and the evil, the beautiful and the ugly, and the happy and the miserable, all receive the results of their deeds.

He had taught: “It was the desire of flattery and of sense that led living creatures to the transmigration of birth and death.” He also said: “It is now the last life of Tathagata, He would never be born again.”

By His great compassion for the living creatures, who sunk in the sea of birth and death, He had preached the dharma for 49 years, aiming to show living creatures the errors of ignorance, so that they would manage to practice according to the path to enlightenment, in order to be free from the cycle of birth and death.

It is now the 20th century, and Lord Supreme Maitreya continues to pass down the true dharma while Western science and technology are at their optimal development. He notices the rebirth of living creatures, making the secular world anxious about the birth and death of life and diligent in their practice.

“When a man was on the brink of his death, his wise soul, which is one of two parts of the soul, had been traveling up and down in the world while his body was struggling against death. The wise soul was gradually going out while the body was gradually dying. It was like a trail of smoke rising from the body, continuing to ascend until the entire wise soul went away. Then the second half of the soul, referred to as the residue of the Karma consciousness, entered the leg of the bed and the man passed away. The residue of Karma consciousness is what we called the Stupid Spirit.

For a man still alive, his soul was both wise and stupid, so there was a wise soul and stupid spirit that are combined to make the soul. That stupid spirit exerts a considerable influence on man: It was because of that stupid spirit that a man could quickly leave the life or still regret leaving his relatives and property.

Whether his manner of movement was good, gentle virtuous, generous or clear, he would be able to escape from the life after 49 days. However, he was too much attached, and his spirit came and went so frequently that he would he erroneously reborn in the same family. For example, a grandmother, who was so attached to her nephew, that she did not have the heart to leave the life and continue to come and go. The grandmother would re-incarnate as her nephew's younger sister, or as her son's child. These cases of erroneous rebirth, due to attachment, were so numerous.” –T.V.

This year is the 2539th year of the Buddhist calendar. Those, who were studying and learning, and believed that men came to an end when dying are completely erroneous. A dog, seeing a man lives longer, believed that man is immortal. Man, hearing that the fairy lives longer, believes that the fairy is immortal. The fairy, seeing the Pratyaka Buddha or the arahants living long, falsely believes that the Buddha is immortal.

Everybody, whether the longevity is short or long, is bound to die. Therefore, thinking that coming to the heaven world will give you eternal life, is a mistake. In some heaven worlds, living until 2000 years of age was the longest life. Nobody could live eternally. The only exception would be the supreme enlightened, Tathagata, Buddha, and God who no longer undergo the cycle of birth and death. The Sacred, after his 2000 years of life in the Heaven, had to return to the world to continue his practice; in some heaven worlds, the longevity was more than 10,000 years.

• How people with good faculty were born again?

A man who is gentle when alive, and helps others without seeking profit, makes merits and good fortune. Although having no sense of practicing dharma, following no religion, being pious to his parents, or worshipping his ancestors, he meets the requirements to be reborn with blessed rewards. He will have a safe life, thanks to his previous acquired good merits, and to his social class.

There are people endowed with good nature when alive, often helping everybody, and frequently going to the pagodas to make offerings to the Buddha. They go to church to say prayers, and remaining pious to their parents and ancestors. These people, at their death, in proportion to the merits they made, have the conditions to be reborn at the noble places where the pagodas or churches are situated. When they grow up, they happen to like to go to pagodas or churches, as they acted in the previous life.

Those who have corrected their bad character, and have given up their bad habits often remain joyful and detached, ready to resolve difficult situations. They will have the good conditions to be reborn in noble places and become children of honorable families. They will meet taught men who will teach them to clear their nature and have a peaceful and joyful life.
 
• How were people endowed with a cruel nature reborn?

“People endowed with a cruel nature, when alive, are inflicted with indescribable punishment at their rebirth and death. If the condemned are common people, they will be inflicted with punishments in one lifetime for their sins. Kings, leaders, or authorities, who give cruel orders and make millions of people, leave their motherland and bring suffering, will be condemned and ordered to reach Achivi Hell. That is why the clear sighted king, ought to consider people’s and country’s interests carefully before giving an order.” –T.V.

If a leader lives in his palace, surrounded by his courtiers during his death, but promulgates a cruel order, he would be butchered and pricked by unjustly dying people. The leader's wise soul still heard the yells and roars. He becomes frightened, mumbling with delirium and tries to escape from the dying, suffering people who are chasing him. The people, making an account for his fault, put him into irons, and bring him to the dark prison of Avichi Hell.

The Avichi Hell is a place where life is cruelly imposed: There are always disputes in all activities, including eating and drinking, and justice is violated. There is neither pagoda, temples, nor shrines, and only the strongest people could be sufficiently fed. Laws are not enforced there, and there is only the reign of strong individuals. Particularly, human rights are completely nonexistent.

In the Avichi Hell, man always lives the horror of barbarous tortures, and countless horrible scenes of crime interrogation. It is impossible to relate all the crimes of bad and greedy authorities, who hurt and deceive people.

Talking about death, everyone is frightened, because it is natural for a man’ to be haunted with anxiety in his lifetime, and struck with fear at his death. Some of them believed that death is the end of everything; thus, they are often daring, and seem to be fearless in the physical world. He, who reaches the dead world, or any other one, never remembers the place where he comes from. He still believes that he has lived in the dead world where he is living. He forgets everything. Coming from the physical world, he lived as if he were a guest, not remembering that he was married, and had children... in the physical world. He also forgets his house and wealth. He continuously wanders until a covering curtain envelops him. He then becomes unconscious and enters the fetus to be reborn.

“The same was true for this world. If someone came from heaven, the dead world, or the deity world to the human world after his death, he would believe that he had been in the human world, and wandered until he entered a fetus. All of them forget where they came from and they truly change from one place to another in order to be born and to die.” –TV

In order to know where a man will go after his death, we just have to observe what he did when alive. From his actions to his words, he showed the benefits or the evil that brings about suffering to others. It is on that basis that we could exactly affirm the place where he would go after his death. This is very practical, neither delusive, nor false.

“It is exactly like a chemist, who carefully combines substances to make medicine. Each drug treats a specific disease. Whether a man will be reborn happily or miserably depends on the bitterness or the sweetness he created when he was alive.

The most important thing for a man, presently, is character construction. The one who created a basis, a frank and noble instinct, whatever his manner of death, would be largely rewarded, and never dropped in hell with hungry devils and animals. Rare are those who knew how to examine themselves for their inhuman deeds, to show their indulgence toward those who are cruel to them.” –T.V.

While enjoying the happiness, we have to look at the misery of people, and when they lament and clamor, we have to consider our good or bad actions for which they are clamoring. The innocent people, belonging to neither side, are suffering from misery. How can they be heroic or notable? Those in the same world could never see all the wrong of their world. It is those of the outside world that could do it. Therefore, when those in the same world correct the wrongs they see, another wrong then appears. If someone outside showed us the wrong and helped us to correct the wrongs together, everything will be good. Lamentations and blames from the people would be avoided. That is the truth. The Western countries have promptly advanced, and their people are in easy circumstances.

The notables do not distinguish anything among religions. Any religion could teach people to do the good, be patient, faithful and to have pity on others. We have to respect them, while not imposing what needs to be done. Governing the people in this way, the notables will receive ‘the blessed rewards from devas and man,’ at their death.

Those who allowed their descendants to kill living beings will be demanded the payment of life, at their death, by those they killed. If they did not believe in the law of Tathagata, and killed the disciples of high virtue, they would fall in hell with countless sufferings for many lives.

Below is an extract of the sutra, noted by the Supreme Pure King incarnating Lord Supreme Maitreya.

“I have entered meditation, meeting deities, who are helping the world in the heaven. From the Land Diety, Temple Deities, Devas, Holy King, and Queen Mother, all lamented: Dear Master, we are all righteous and clear deities, not short of high quality food and drink. Seeing man sow evil cause through his bad karma, and receiving continuous catastrophe, he has respectfully worshipped and supplicated us. We are touched and set about to help them to be free from disasters.

Alas, every time we come into the world, and go to the temples and shrines, we saw that they are exposing before us a lot of dead bodies, burned or boiled. How could we tell them? Where sincerity was mixed with bad karma, we are obliged to help those with the sincerity. Because of their customs and desires, man thought us to be fond of chicken and pork, fried duck, top side beef, liquor, broth, and sticky rice, etc. In fact, we did not know what to say... It is not realized by the believers themselves, but those who desire eating and mercenary urged the men to do so. We expect you, Master, in this return, to speak for us, so that we would no longer suffer from a bad reputation of requiring such ceremonial gifts through the killing of living beings.” –T.V.   

The sacred, though struck and tortured, do not get angry with his adversary. Departing with a suffering body, he would be perfectly rewarded to be able to go back to the Tathagata Buddha.

Those who nailed Jesus Christ to the crucifix have lost their nation, and were obliged to leave their country with torture afterwards. Wasn't it an example for the leaders and their descendants to remember all their life?

During my reeducation in “Da Ban” in 1976, at the labor time, I saw the mountain deity of “Da Ban,” who came and offered to help me. I answered that I would not need any help, and I wanted to see how my endurance would be. When the camp was transferred to A-30 in Tuy Hoa, I often met other mountain deities, who came to inquire about my health, but I still did not want any help. The bodies of the invisible deities and dragon deity are formed from clouds, and they dress just as they did when living in the secular world. That is clear to see. When a man dies, his bad character becomes a ghost and his wicked one becomes a demon. His body is also formed from smoke or a cloud. When walking, his deportment is like a wounded fish, which slowly swims, and is seen while awakened, but not during meditation or in dreams. Only the high ranking Buddhist meditator could see it as clearly as if in contact with ordinary people in the world. Ordinary people find it hard to see, because they are hindered by hot-tempered, anxiety and suffering natures.

Like the Westerners, all the deities have burly bodies, dark complexions, and compassion. If you were faithful and asked to be helped, they would adequately help you. Once, in reeducation camp A-30 of Tuy Hoa, near the bridge of Binh Son, a deity temple, existing long ago, was leveled by the order of the major of security, chief of the camp. When I passed by on the way to labor work, I saw the temple deity, who complained to me and that his refuge was now abolished and that he had to go to the mountain and live in the bush. I said:

“I myself am ill-treated now, don't you see it? Be patient to practice and you will be enlightened to be a major deity, what is better.” The temple deity was satisfied. Later, every time I went into the forest to gather dry wood in this region, I often saw him guide people to bring food to me. The monthly standard ration was only 6 kg of rice and raw cassava. We were continuously hungry and sometimes faint.

In my re-education at camp A-30, I had not been “supplied” for many months by my family because of financial difficulties. One day, after achieving my daily task of chopping 1.5m3 of wood, I was very tired. While I was taking a rest, the mountain deity came to show me a sandalwood tree, which I cut down afterwards. Some members of my group secretly exchanged it for enough rice to supplement us for nearly one month.

In 1988, I came from Saigon to assist in the Great Ceremony of Buddha's Birthday on the 8th day of the 4th month of the lunar year at the Center Association in Nha Trang. I resided in a hotel at number 50, Nguyen Huu Huan Street, near the interprovincial coach station of Khanh Hoa.  My room was on the second floor, the highest one in the hotel. At 10 A.M., I was astounded to see such a colossal deity. He stood on the ground, and the 2nd floor was only half his height, and his second half was above the second floor. To speak to me, he had to bend far down in order to be at the level of my room. His feet were 1m wide and 2m long. He had to take only four steps to go from the hotel of 50 to Dam market, Nha Trang, 2km away. He inquired of me after the great ceremony and went back to the heaven.

• The way of reincarnating the dead

“You should also know: For someone who has the good benefit and vow to do good things, there would be a place to attest it, and a holy one to sponsor it. At his death, his subconscious ascends into emptiness, and his mouth recites the name of the religion of his faith, such as: I'm respectfully calling the name of God, the deity, the holy (according to your faith to pray). Then there is an immediate light: The red light meant the way to the deity world; the green light, to the heaven world to be a citizen; the white light, to the heaven world to be a mandarin, and the yellow light, to the pure land.

On the contrary, there are others who are very good, but indulge themselves and sink in debauchery, in teahouses and brothels. While alive, they have countless friends in several places and usually amuse themselves, after the state of travelling all over. They then came to clubs and joining bands. For a long time, they are still covered by a curtain and reborn in an animals’ world. By fine and noble ways of playing with abundant and eminent merits, they would be reborn happily in the Devaloka.” –T.V.

This extract of sutra, noted by the Supreme Pure King, and passed down to our 20th century, proved that death was not the end for man for what they have created. They have to pay for their acts and words in the world, and are reborn in proportion to what they have created. The disciples with abundant merits are filled with love for all living creatures; they never have the thought or deed to hurt any living creatures. Man has the right not to believe in religion, or disciples, but if they intended to affront or harm, the consequences would be immeasurable for several lives. They would be doleful in the present and eternally doleful in the future. Here are the two events occurring in Nha Trang.

Mr. Cung, security agent of the ward of Tan Lap of the city of Nha Trang, did not like The Supreme Pure King, and established a document of accusation to arrest Him. I was, at that time, in the reeducation camp A-30. There was a collision between someone with virtue as large as the sea, and someone without any. Mr. Cung suddenly had a grave accident on his mission, resulting in a broken back. He was bed-ridden and unable to walk like before. What a catastrophe! The end of happiness in this world, and hell awaits him!

Mr. Chau succeeded Mr. Cung. In 1980, when I returned from the reeducation camp, he called me to the ward of Tan Lap, and told me to write a report on my family situation and my practice of the dharma. I knew that he intended to arrest the Supreme Pure King. I said:

“The thing comes to an end, and everyone has a peaceful life now. It is no use recalling the bygones.”

Knowing my refusal Mr. Chau said, “If you write the report, I will arrange for you so that you and your four children can buy the rice at the government price of 5 dimes a kilo. At that time, every family had to earn, with real sweat its daily rice ration. A person could only supply the food for himself, not to 2 or 3 others. I myself was one with an uneasy life, and my family was often in financial difficulty. On the day we did not work, we had no rice to eat. But I was not happy to hear that I could buy the rice at a low price. I knew it was a challenge, and if I were not wise, I would lose all my merits, cultivated through countless lives, because living creatures could never understand the disciple who practiced for enlightenment. The lady secretary knew that I was an educated man but thought I was stupid. Others wondered how I could be such an idiot and follow the Supreme Pure King.

I still kept silent and went home. Mr. Chau then established a document to arrest Him in another way. He suddenly suffered from cirrhosis - ascites and had to go to the hospital. Persons who caught this disease would normally die in 2 years. But Mr. Chau did not live much longer than 20 days. Among the citizens of Cho Moi, Nha Trang, it was rumored that Mr. Chau looked very horrible at his death. Seeing people gather behind his house, I also looked in. His abdomen was enlarged, his mouth agape, and his eyes were opened, with ferocious expression. This was conclusive evidence of his going to hell.

Later, the local authorities came and ordered Mr. Chau's relatives to take down the altar of Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva, and replace it with the picture of Ho Chi Minh. The local communist party took charge of his burial and granted some privileges. His family complied with the intention of the communist party. He will probably spend many lifetimes in hell. In this Final Law Period, there are countless practitioners as well as those who do not practice the dharma. The latter does not believe in the transmigration of birth and death, deities, holies, gods, or Buddhas. For them, death is the end, because they do not practice meditation or practice it halfway, and do not attain the determined result. For them, once their parents, ancestors, relatives, die, they reach the end. Annually, on the full-moon day of the 7th lunar month, The Supreme Pure King incarnating Lord Supreme Maitreya usually celebrated the ceremony of freeing souls from suffering for His true disciples' defunct relatives. If they were not reborn at the appellation, they would meet the protectors, who bring them to the Great Ceremony to take part in, and which astonished, the disciples who are present.

The Lord Maitreya is preaching

In about 1980, one day at number 42 of Hong Bang Street, Nha Trang, there was a true female disciple who came from afar to visit the Lord Pure King. After prostrating herself before the Lord and inquiring His health, then she said:

– "From 1975 until now, I have heard the rumor two or three times, but recently, one of my relatives from North Vietnam came to see me and tell the story. I could not believe what I heard and thought that since the people in the North had such a miserable life and hated the communists, they might have fabricated the story. For the first time, I traveled by coach to visit some of my relatives in the North. When the coach passed through the territory of Ha-Nam-Ninh province, I could see these big words written on the wall:

“You, God step aside. The Farmers Association is standing up to replace You.”

I then believed their stories to be true. I also heard that in the temple of the North, Buddha statues were damaged and thrown into a corner. The communists used copper statues to cast weapons and ammunition."

I was present when she was talking. He kept silent, not mentioning these stories and told her to practice through correcting one's nature in this period. When she bowed to Him and left, I saw Him stand to settle His robe and solemnly burn 7 sandalwood incenses on the altar of the Three Dharma Elements. The 7 incenses represented the 7 precious super matchless powers of The Buddhas of Ten directions.

He attested for the Dharma-Ending Age, and the extremely unruly things of mankind qualified as the doomsday. Living creatures used their two hands and their intelligence to build their work, not believing in the Buddha, so there was no efficaciousness for those who were right. As they challenge Buddhas, devas and deities, they still joyfully detached. Just like growing an orange tree and taking care of it, we shall harvest a sweet fruit. Growing a pepper and taking care of it, we shall harvest a bitter pigment, yet we can't blame it on anyone. Why?

Once the act, speech, or thought of living creatures is passed, everyone believes it will be lost or forgotten. But it does not disappear for the high level Buddhist meditator. It conserves the act, speech, and thought of every living creature in every case of the Tathagata store, and naturally gives it back to you at the right time. Recently, scientists discovered that human speech and acts were not lost, but they ran around in the space of the universe.

Years later, the Hanoi press could not dissimulate the truth, and occasionally announced that North Vietnam had to continuously cope with natural disasters. Torrential rains, described as the cruelest ones of the century had ravaged more terribly than ever in the history of development and existence of the Vietnamese people. The aftermath of these disasters resulted in serious material losses for the North. Especially, the people suffered grave spiritual injuries, which made them very anxious and frightened.

Sometimes the press lamented: Nature did not favor us. We must be on guard to prevent and to struggle against storms. In the eyes of the Buddhist meditator, they can only prevent, and cannot struggle against storms. , One beautiful morning, ten years later (in 1989), He told me: “Today people believe in the Buddha, and return to the temples in large numbers.”

Living creatures’ nature became more and more cruel and polluted and could no longer absorb the creative energy, which is the necessary living matter in the universe. Man’s longevity had been reduced. Left alone, the bad character increases while man’s longevity decreases gradually at the rate of 10 years a lifetime. This is very dangerous; so the Buddhas had to help them discreetly leave pollution. With better natures, mankind can absorb more creative energy and his longevity increases again.

The Enlightened One, who masters his way of birth and death, and becomes Immortal, is the way of the Supreme Buddhayana. He has neither hatred nor love, and is neither good nor evil. He often skillfully acts to bring, at most, the goodness to living creatures. Saints and the sages, at the awakened level, are only pupils, unable to realize salvation. Therefore, they could not understand the salvation of living creatures by the Buddhas and Tathagata.

The moans become hatred, exhaling into the blue sky, and Lord Supreme Maitreya started salvation

Any Vietnamese citizen, accustomed to the traditional city life, will be frightened to hear that they would have to leave their native land and go to a dark mountain with unhealthy climate! Everyone hearing the new economic policy of the North applied to the people of the South, would be scared of it. Indeed, the economic situation and the life of South Vietnam were stable before 1975. A few years after the invasion of the North, communists, with their proletariat policy of the USSR, had rapidly degenerated and exhausted South Vietnam. There was a strange dreariness and sadness everywhere, from the family to the society.

The people were forced to go to new economic zones, where the forest had not yet been cleared, the road was not yet opened, or was built with clay, which made the displacement very difficult and limited means of traveling. The climate, and water, was unfavorable, and every family coming to a new economic zone had its members die from malaria. The dangerous diseases became incurable in underdeveloped countries like Vietnam because of the lack of medicine. Traditional remedies did not treat them efficiently. Almost everyone infected with this disease in new economic zones was bound to die.

According to the classification of communist authorities, the following categories were useless to them: Families in which members were soldiers or civil servants of the former regime, families of large or small trading activities, the numerous farms in the south, and families belonging to the middle-class. All these categories had to go to new economic zones under coercive orders.

The communist government, at that time, planned to bring the Northern cadres’ families to fill the vacant houses in the South in order to build big industrial cities after the USSR trajectory. After one or two years living in the new economic zone, the hell on earth, they returned to the cities. The communist officials took their homes away, so they had to live, wandering the sidewalks of all the cities in the South.

He was touched by the lamentations of the people. Among them were those who had the capability to cross the sea. The others, without resource, were freed to go to new economic zones. In the common psychology of that time, being forced to go to new economic zones was a great misfortune. They would rather die crossing the sea than accept going to new economic zones, which they consider to be the last resort. Those who did not succeed, and were caught in the net, had their house and property confiscated and forced to go to new economic zones.

Again, one day, a family of true disciples of the Phap Tang, having followed Him before 1975, ran to ask for help. They respectfully told Him that the police and local guerilla abolished the hamlet at Tan Trang Street on the side of the Dam Market, Nha Trang. Almost 100 families were compulsorily carried by cars to new economic zones. Tomorrow, the police will demolish His true disciple's house. He then sat half cross-legged, in the position of right meditation in His residence at the number of 42 Hong Bang Street, Nha Trang.

The next morning, the police and local guerillas came again and prepared to continue the demolition of the houses. Suddenly, Mr. Le Duan, the first leader of the Vietnamese Communist Party, came from Hanoi to visit the city of Nha Trang. As he passed by Dam market, he saw the furniture in disorder and the people sitting, weeping. Mr. Le Duan asked them what the reason was. After hearing what they reported, he turned to blame the provincial commissioner:

“Your way of working is very strange! The houses are not yet built; nothing is prepared, and you are sending them to go there to die?” And he said: “Please stop sending people to new economic zones in this way.”

The people then shouted with joy and excitement. They ran to rebuild their houses and were free from going to new economic zones. His disciple's house was safe, too. After this overturn of events, He followed to see whether the authorities would change their plan, but Southerners continued to go to new economic zones afterwards. He then entered meditation to ask the devas to save the Southern people, and then relaxed from meditation.

In the year 1977, the whole country of Vietnam suffered from drought. The crops were greatly damaged by lack of water, but whenever there was sufficient water, they were also gravely damaged by insect. The foods reserves were almost empty, too. The drought lasted until 1978 and people in the whole country were starving. People of new economic zones had to eat the bulbs of bananas to live day after day, and when the bulbs ran out, they had to eat tree leaves Desperately starving, they ran into government offices in new economic zones to ask the cadres to give them some rice to live for the time, but they had no more rice, corn, or potatoes.

The Communist partisans, then, could no longer govern and control the people. All of them abandoned the new economic zones and flocked back to the cities, living densely on the sidewalks and wandering in their tattered aspect and dress. Every province was full of new economic zone people living on the sidewalks. Houses of the people forced to go to new economic zones are sold at the cheapest prices, as if they were offered to cadres. They needed only a gold ring to buy a house. In some cases, the people picked only sheet metal roofs and woods from their houses for their new house in the economic zone and left the whole house. The cadres had only to ask the ward or hamlet committee to get it.

The lamentations of the people were heard every-where, and they ran in great numbers to the temples to pray and worship the Buddha, as before. In the impossible position of forcing the people to go to new economic zones, the communist authorities had to order the cessation of the program. The people also reduced their intense temptation to cross the sea. Today, the people in the South could live quietly in the cities, not forced to go to new economic zones. Because of His great compassion for living creatures, the Supreme Pure King incarnating Lord Supreme Maitreya had set out to save the life dharma.

If the devas, dragon deities, and dharma protectors did not show their ability and waited until millions of people died in the dark forests and unfavorable climate, how could the government see its error and correct it? How many people could survive after that? Taking the evident example of Siberia of the USSR, where millions of people were abandoned to die with too many suffering, and separated families, how could it be named a revolution?

Every morning at six o'clock, the BBC radio emits its musical signal, and broadcasts international news and comments on current events.
As a rule, at 6 o'clock sharp, He turns on the small National radio to listen to the news. Thanks to its abundance in major international news and its impartial broadcasting policy, He could emerge from meditation to appear in the North and the South hemisphere where He was needed. He was able to mobilize devas and dragon deities to satisfactorily resolve a lot of problems.

The most wonderful miracle of the century then happened. In early 1985, in the political sphere of USSR, appeared a brilliant star, Mr. Gorbachev, who upsets and alters the world situation. Controlling the whole communist party and having the real power of the USSR government, he changed the thoughts of the party, which existed from the beginning of the revolution in USSR.

Mikhail Gorbachev,
General Secretary of
the Communist Party
of the Soviet Union

As far as the foreign policy was concerned, he normalized diplomatic relations with communist China, set international relations with the USA, and supported the policy of dialogue between great nations instead of opposition. The world was released from the menace of war. In 1991, USSR communism disintegrated into pieces after the political storm. There now remain a number of republic nations adopting the policy of freedom, and of free enterprise business. The revolution of the thoughts led to a failed coup in Moscow in October 1991, later resulting in the dispersion of the communist USSR.

He pursued the changes of the situation through the BBC broadcasting, and sometimes foretold what would happen, which was confirmed later by the BBC. In December 1991, an important historical event once more happened in Moscow, leading to the rapid collapse of the USSR communist regime.  It has freshly fulfilled its 74th anniversary, and has now become a gloomy, sad winter for the communists.

After just one night full of commemorations, His hair had completely turned gray the next morning. He was, at that time, 73 years old. The red flag with the crossed “hammer sickle” symbol of the communist working class has been substituted by the Russian federal “tri color” flag, which was bravely raised on the ridge of the Kremlin.

His hair had completely
turned gray

Later, the BBC radio broadcasted the news after the USSR parliament had tried to reverse the historical wheel. He smiled, and though continuing to enter into meditation, penetrated and emerged from it to resolve the problem.

In October 1992, the confusing event causing instability in Moscow, forced President Yeltsin to disperse the parliament, existing since 1936 and amended in 1977. The last generation of despotism from the past had ended. From then on, the world gradually came to peace, and nobody could contravene the evolution of humanity.

Eastern European communist nations and the Communist USSR were no longer a menace, but they had become free nations adapting to the marketing status. Due to the broadcasting of the BBC radio to the remote city of Nha Trang, the Supreme Pure King incarnating Lord Supreme Maitreya paid attention to the Western nations such as free and communist nations. They had been creating danger to the world by fervently producing chemical bombs, bacterial bombs, hydrogen bombs, neutron bombs, atomic bombs, which He had neutralized. An agreement to cease production and destroy these weapons was soon reached.

The coexistence in peace was unbelievable in the past, but it truly happened in reality. All of humanity realized that the Third World War was no longer a menace and it has become a thing of the past.

The fact remains today, in every country, that a dispute between brothers in the same family and the danger of terrorisms, in which the United Nations has been interested and tried to settle and should be sought out for help. The world also abolished the doctrine of apartheid; all forms of oppression and tyranny were condemned, and no longer tolerated.

According to the signed, sealed proclamation promulgated by the Supreme Pure King Reborn Buddha, (under His concealed name of Lord Supreme Maitreya) by His compassionate Buddhist Power, had “converted all non-converted living creatures.” He had the support of the bodhisattvas, devas deities, and dharma protectors, who help invisibly and impartially without discrimination between good and evil. He had thus brought back peace and safety. The Lord Supreme Maitreya sprung into humanity, creating joy and happiness in the general situation of the world.

The Living Creatures and leaders, with their cruel and evil faculty, are patiently helped by invisible dharma protectors.

Take the example of a boy who liked to play with fire beside a petroleum tank. His father, seeing the danger, told him: “My child, stop playing with fire! It is very dangerous! You will be burned to death and the entire village will be destroyed!” The boy upon hearing this, repeated as he walked: “My child, stop playing with fire, you'll be burned to death.” His mouth was speaking but his hands kept playing with fire. Despite His warning, the father saw that the boy did not realize the danger of the fire. He struck His son on the buttocks with a rod. The boy was thus frightened and never dared to play with fire afterwards. He became fearful of fire whenever he saw it.

The neighbors, noticing the father’s advice to his child, sweetly said: This father is very charitable. But today, seeing him strike his child, they said, "This father is cruel and not a Buddhist disciple." The father, loving his child and willing to save the whole village, was charged with the cruelty!

Chernobyl Nuclear disaster, 1986
in Ukrainian, Soviet Union

In April 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear plant in the USSR exploded! People deserted the region in confusion, fathers, children, husbands, wives ran as fast as possible to escape from the radioactive dust. If someone merely touched this dust, their life would end! Mankind and all other species would be destroyed, and countless monstrous fetuses resulting from it had frightened the USSR people. Remembering it today, the USSR people and all of humanity, seems to be shaken by it!

The explosion of the nuclear plant made USSR and USA decide to persuade the world into agreement to ban the diffusion of atomic, mass killing weapons, contributing to build and create peace. In recent years, there was also an agreement to destroy existing weapons. His mind was calm enough to believe the verse:

“All the satellite nations are obedient to my pointing finger.”  –T.V.

This was a manifestation of the matchless Buddha power in this Final Law Period. 2539 years ago of the Buddhist calendar, the Crown Prince Siddhartha was born in India. At the age of 19, He realized that all living things suffered from birth, old age, disease, and death and only liberation from the birth-death transmigration could save them. He then left His golden palace, His beautiful wife, and His good son, renouncing them for the search for dharma. Having undergone a lot of hardships, He attained enlightenment and became Buddha, named Sakyamuni Buddha. He helped all people follow the way to “liberation from the cycle of birth and death”, not discriminating against the poor or the rich, the noble or the vile in society. A man shouldering a charge of manure for a living, belonging to the lowest class in society during His time, attained awareness through his dharma practice, and was even respected by the king and the authorities. He abolished slavery and annulled discrimination between different classes. All the citizens were equal and free. He said:

“All Living Beings have the Buddha nature.”

He also consolidated the faith of the living creatures by saying: “I am the existing Buddha, and you will be the future Buddhas.” He encouraged them to decide to follow His example in order to attain enlightenment, and become liberated from the circle of birth and death. During His 49 years of practicing the dharma, He formed the deep enlightened bodhisattvas, the moderately enlightened arahants, and venerables. His Triple Canon was passed down to the holy disciples, helping them show the way of birth and death to interested people.

He taught the bodhisattvas the way of going in and out of meditation in order to perform the super goodness and dharma of the buddhayana. The arahants and venerables, enlightened on the saint and sage principle, performed the integrity and dharma of the Mahayana. The people, through His great compassion, were put in the same rank with Him during a severe discrimination of classes at that time. He skillfully applied, to Himself, the begging for food to show that He and the poor were the same.

He entrusted Lord Supreme Maitreya to return to the world to save all living creatures in this Dharma Ending Age. Lord Supreme Maitreya came to this physical world. He also taught the dharma, and solved the problem of the birth and death cycle and enlightenment while liberating and controlling the universe, and helping living creatures to follow the path taken by the Blessed One.

He left, after Him, a rank of holy disciples such as bodhisattvas, arahants, venerables, and the Triple Canon. He entered and emerged from meditation, entering the science and atomic era, secretly extinguishing the colossal furnace of the globe, which was about to go up in flames, waiting for doomsday. This was the day of destruction of the Four Species by the two free and communist blocks. In order to hand it down to the Three Thousand Great Thousand Worlds, He also left His experience to guide the bodhisattvas to go in and out of the Samadhi meditation to succeed the Buddhas in maintaining the true dharma and saving all living creatures. Hereafter are the two verses he wrote to explain His most modern and unique way of saving living creatures:

There are also several heads of religion in the world, who preach their doctrine, aiming at saving living creatures through their compassion and charity. These men endure all dharma well; have wonderful prediction capability, and great miraculous supernatural power beyond the knowledge of humanity. They are very much venerated, but most of them did not attain the degree of going in and out of Samadhi Meditation. Therefore, they can teach mankind to do the good, avoid the bad, and reach, at most, the attainment of the saints and sages.

Meeting the leaders of living creatures with evil and cruel faculty, they were reduced to inaction, and finally sacrificed their bodies to redeem the living creatures' faults. How wonderful and lofty the saints and sages were. But their great love and endurance was still at the degree of ‘supreme tamer’, which means they had greater mind and spirit than those of mankind. They were able to receive their blessed rewards and could go to heaven after death.

This compassionate and charitable way of practice was inscribed in human history 4000 or 5000 years ago.  Sakyamuni Buddha Himself, in His former life, by His compassion and charity, sacrificed His body to save living creatures, manifesting that way of practice. In His last life, 2539 years ago, Sakyamuni Buddha no longer followed the one-way path of the saints and sages, because it was not the path to complete enlightenment.

Devadatta the Great wanted to kill Him. He avoided him, and had little vexation against His Great powerful mind, considering him as something necessary to create an unfavorable condition. He also attested Devadatta who became Buddha by name, who would teach the second rank of arahants to be Pratyaka Buddhas, not enlightened Buddhas. It is only when wisdom and virtue are in parallel that one could be enlightened. Sakyamuni Buddha, who needed His golden body to perform the salvation of living creatures to attain the Buddha hood, could not allow Himself to be killed.

The awakened saint and sage make use of integrity, while the completely enlightened One is waiting for perfection, called the true enlightenment. The latter is neither good nor bad, neither gentle nor cruel, and is called absolute illumination. The one with plenty of compassion and charity, great will, and courage is called super goodness, so he has to practice through a lot of obstacles to save all living creatures and attain the title “Buddha”.

It is very difficult to advance from an awakened saint and sage to complete enlightenment. One has to practice the Prajna to acquire the Prajna mind and be able to meet Tathagata and then be guided by the incarnating Tathagata in the practice. The saint and sage know Tathagata but are far from being able to meet Him. That is unthinkable: The saint still has the form. Tathagata and Buddha are formless. The enlightenment has the form of Buddha; he is Tathagata. So, the saint and sage could be known and seen by the devil. The enlightened One now appears then disappears. He may be demon or god, god or demon, so the devil cannot find Him. Even if he could see Him, they could not recognize Him.

In this Dharma-Ending Age, the Supreme Pure King incarnating Lord Supreme Maitreya knew well that at the time when mankind makes use of atomic weapons, they would also have a very delicate technique of killing whomever they want. He had to appear as a layman, like any other ordinary citizen. He could tell and predict all the past and future events, but He only let His close disciples know in order to help them practice the dharma. Possessing the supernatural power of limitless miracle, He only showed it to His doubt-attached disciples to help free them from attachment. Through His immense compassion, He secretly acted, emerging from right meditation, to go everywhere to free oppressed people from unjust charges and used Buddha power to satisfactorily realize equality. No matter how intelligent the Mara power is, it is still unable to trace out His path where He had appeared to save the Four Species.

His entering and emerging from the Samadhi meditation discouraged and disappointed evil and cruel people. They finally had to convert to goodness and accept coexistence peacefully. Once, the BBC radio broadcasted the news of Afghanistan after accumulated events. The USSR finally had to send their troops there and establish a USSR pro-administration. He knew of the USSR’s intention to occupy the whole Balkan Peninsula. He said: “I'll go to Afghanistan tonight.” Soon after, internal guerilla forces, supported by the free world, caused the USSR too much damage, so that the latter finally had to withdraw their troops. Civil war now continues there. The Balkan Peninsula was freed from the USSR without the knowledge of the free world. He was satisfied with the broadcast of the BBC radio, and paid a compliment to its commentators. Unfortunately, the BBC broadcasted the news and a critical treatise only 15 minutes in the morning, when He was alive. It was only after He had entered Great Eight PariNirvana that BBC Radio began to increase its morning broadcast to 30 minutes.

One week prior to His passing, He self-appeared to be ill, preparing to leave, and had no time to listen to the radio. As I came from Saigon to call on Him, He immediately asked me about the news of last week broadcasted by this radio. He listened to me carefully and seemed to be satisfied with favorable evolutions of the peace in the world. Then came the Middle Eastern furnace, the truly important events affecting the survival of millions of people. He was very interested in it, and emerged from His right meditation of Samadhi to help, impartially. The BBC Radio, according to His orders, broadcast the results of all His secret actions, one by one, afterwards.

The BBC Radio of London, United Kingdom has contributed an important part to the establishment of peace and stability for humanity, and especially to the freedom in this globe. A rare thing: Despite living in one place and only hearing the general broadcast of an event, by His entering the right meditation, He could know all its details thoroughly, without omission. Through His Tathagata eye of Samadhi meditation, He saw everything occurring so concretely before Him that He could clearly settle them without mistake or oppression through hearing, within thousands of kilometers, as if they were nearby.

In daily life, time was very precious to Him; He rarely had leisure time, except 1 hour to take a midday nap, and 15 minutes in the morning to listen to the BBC Radio. All remaining time was devoted to the teaching of dharma to the disciples, sometimes until as late as 9:00 p.m.  He worked and taught the dharma tirelessly, because the disciples had to be divided into small groups who came and left furtively, and He had to preach several stages in a day. His health, normally, would not endure such hard work, but the miracle was that the more He taught the better His health was. He never felt tired except for the cases when His true disciples lacked of diligence. He grew tired and sent the disciples home without forgetting to give them some sweet advices and encouragement. Everyone meeting Him showed respect and fondness for Him. Therefore, despite a lot of difficulties, they tried to work to save money, and came from distant provinces to Nha Trang to see Him and receive the dharma.

Regarding the VOA broadcast, the voice of America, His radio and mine in South Vietnam could only receive it for 10 to 15 minutes. Afterwards, it became increasingly difficult to hear until, eventually, it became completely silenced. It was only the BBC Radio that has effectively helped Him. Even listening to BBC or VOA was a serious crime in the eyes of the communist government with severe punishment.

In this time in communist controlled Vietnam listening to VOA “Voice of America” radio had severe punishment including executions. Police have dropped down from rooftops to arrest and carry away those that dared to listen. Listening to BBC and VOA broadcasts, when available, was done in extreme secrecy.

The Lord Maitreya with His disciple
Dharma-Named Phap Hoang in London

In the winter of 1992, He traveled to the capital of London, visiting His true disciples, trained before 1975, who had practiced for the liberation through wisdom. They had crossed the sea and now live in the United Kingdom. The winter there was very cold, the sky heavily covered with fog, and the scene seemed very sad and gloomy. But when He arrived in London, the weather was suddenly clear and there was no more heavy fog. The sun warmed everything up, and the birds were singing joyfully on the branches. The BBC commented on these strange phenomena: The weather has miraculously changed into spring today. They didn't know that the Supreme Pure King incarnating Lord Supreme Maitreya skillfully showed His Supernatural Power to His disciples to make them believe that once disciples were enlightened, living creatures showed confidence, obedience, and respect to Him. They would be satisfied in their wish. Before showing His skill, He had announced it to all the disciples of the London dharma zone. For the disciples in Vietnam, this was only small and insignificant.

Some of his true disciples came from Vietnam to the USA; they were in greatest numbers in California. Their representatives also came to London to inquire about His health. They attempted to sponsor His visit to the USA, but the USA foreign affairs refused because they did not like Vietnamese visitors at that time. Later, all His disciples in the USA signed a petition for His visit once more, but the American officials kept on refusing it.

In Vietnam, here is what He told me before leaving for London: Visiting His disciples in the USA, He would, at the same time, enter meditation to consider saving Los Angeles from earthquakes because this region was so frequented by this catastrophe. At the same time, He attested good virtue for Americans. He had no desire to travel, but He only wanted to bless the Americans, the leaders of the free world, before His return to Vietnam for His entering Great Eight Pari Nirvana.

I, myself, heard that He would help the United Kingdom. I knew, when I followed Him to practice in Nha Trang, where I came every day to see Him and receive the dharma, He usually used supernatural power to save the people from disasters such as typhoons, earthquakes, and crop failure…

Unfortunately, in Western USA, science uses the human brain for study and research, and then combines the facts to discover the universe. In the East, the Enlightened One entered the right concentration of Samadhi, directly in contact with the invisible world of the globe, and of the Three Thousand Great Thousand Worlds are ordinary ones. Due to the virtue of these men, the devas, deities, dharma protectors, dragons deities, and dharma protector bodhisattvas were ready to offer merits in order to acquire the truth.

When He prepared for the trip to London, He told me to go to the USA and use His dharma path to help the Westerners and the lovely Vietnamese leave their native land and live all over the five continents. This way they could experience the true ideal of life and could feel safe, joy, and peace in their old age and know where they would go after death! Because He was born in Vietnam, He wanted to cheer up the Vietnamese.

I filed a petition for settlement in the U.S.A., according to the HO.38 case program. He then told me that He would also go with me. His sayings were full of hidden thoughts! He entered Nirvana in 1993. I underwent an interrogation in 1994 for my petition. The American immigration officials declared that my ‘Certificate of Reeducation’ was a fake. I told about many of my friends who were sent to reeducation centers the same day I was, and lived in the same prison room with me. We all labored in the same unit and were freed after 42 months of reeducation. We were now allowed to go to the USA with the same false documents? The immigration staff did not listen to my explanation and they continued to deny it.

If the Supreme Pure King incarnating Lord Supreme Maitreya is able to do a lot of wonderful and strange things, why did He not appeal to the invisible dragon deity dharma protector to make arrangements for Him to go to the USA? Readers, you all may wonder. Here is what He said to explain the case as far as I heard: To be saved from a certain situation, the living creatures or their relatives have to convert, open their hearts, and make merits to have the condition to be saved. As for the travel expenses, His true disciples in the USA are ready to cover them. The American government had generously permitted Him to go there, to naturally assure safety for California. The sutra transcribed a sentence forever: “The Buddha could neither save those with a bad foundation nor fix their karma.”

As far as His situation in Vietnam is concerned, He said that He always lived with the state of mind of “an ordinary citizen, but in reality, it was more like a prisoner”. So He had to impartially neutralize toxicity for the freedom of the USSR people, and for the peace and happiness of the world. One day, He heard from the BBC broadcast that Stalin's (the number one leader of USSR), daughter, living presently in USA, declared: “Is it possible that hundreds of millions of people have to live perpetually in suffering and oppression because of some cruel leaders?” Hearing that, He said: “That was a real witness, a root cause. I would have to realize equality through inequality.” That was the secret wish and the unrest of the people living in the communist USSR regime, and also the common wish of all humanity on the globe. Equality for humanity who lived in peace. Inequality for the leading class, who rushed over the people in the USSR communist regime. It was the truth where rebirth ends so one can become immortal, the supreme vehicle, and also the supreme truth of the Tathagata. It was the practical truth adequately expressing the ideal.

Thus, the lady belonging to the first class, rejoicing a wonderful life under her father's powers, still felt that strange oppression, so that she could not control her thirst for democracy and freedom! Meanwhile, the fairies, deities and dharma protectors in South Vietnam were announcing fateful words, which coincided with the fact that the Supreme Pure King incarnating Lord Supreme Maitreya was mobilizing all dharma satisfactorily and impartially.

You would well know Long Hoa congregation,
where equality will be realized without partiality.

The fateful words also express His successful salvation of living creatures through the prophecy sutra, and yet dharma protectors in the South could not find where He was living.

Long Hoa congregation once engaged in discussion
Having mercy on the cruel ones, who will all be demolished!

After the USSR and Eastern Europe, the remaining have also converted and reformed in order to partly relieve the suffering and misery of the people. Those with good faculty were helped by the Buddhas to be at peace.

The fateful words:

The cruel ones were very fearful,
While the honest ones slowly walked,
Thanks to the sacred and miraculous personalities
Who loved the faithful ones and protected them from disasters.

Referring to the above “Proclamation for Attestation of the Universe”, we summed up the salvation of the living creatures by the Supreme Pure King incarnating Lord Supreme Maitreya. As a result, all those with good and bad faculty benefited, not only for themselves, but also for their relatives and comrades.

The people, who kept on conserving their evil, cruel faculty, not willing to correct their mistakes have been, and will be sent, to join their fellows in hell to continue to live and to receive the fruit they sowed. The life they have to accept was the exact one they created daily in the secular world. They are now also oppressed, forbidden to speak, and undergoing the suffering according to their will to do to the others.

–The Supreme Pure King Chief Monk: The highest position in Phap Tang. This position represents the Three Dharma Elements and assumes the heavy responsibility of rectifying the Buddhist Dharma and bringing freedom to Four Species in the Three Thousand Great Thousand Worlds.

–Reborn Buddhas: Discreetness implying the Reborn Lord Supreme Maitreya Buddha.

–Witness: Clearly and thoroughly witnessing the heart, mind and nature of mankind in the Dharma-Ending Age.

–Sealed: The witness, which was sealed.

–Decision: The process of deciding.

This was the supreme order of the representative of the Buddhas’ Three Dharma Elements, also called the representative of Tathagata, who had the authority of giving orders. The devas, men, deities, dharma protectors and dragon deities in the world, outside mankind, had to carry it out.

We have seen the results: The present humanity was no longer living in fear of the catastrophe of a Third World War. The two blocks do not threaten to destroy each other any longer. The oppressed minor nations of Asia, Africa, Far East, Latin America, after a long sleep, have awakened, unanimously standing up to struggle for freedom, while getting out of oppression.

This supreme power was true and unthinkable for living creatures. It was not a hypothesis on which scientists could comment, because He could already make seven planets appear at the same time upon His will. Thus, things in our own planet were so insignificant for Him.

Here are the four verses He wrote:

He returned to the world in this life, not to be a king but with a heavy and difficult responsibility of rectifying the Buddhist dharma. He is incarnated in a poor family, and His parents always had difficulties. This means one has to start from the extremely low rank to go into life, in order to be in accordance with this Final Law Period. He said that you all must know:  “We have to wear the Buddhist dress when going with the Buddha, but the devil’s when going with the devil.”

If you are wearing the Buddhist dress and teach the dharma in the temple and are admired by many people in this period, you will be killed. Otherwise, if you appear now as a Buddha, and now as a devil, even the devil meeting you could not recognize you. All the people are attached to the sutra. They based their way of thinking only on the sutra, and think that the Buddha form is always beautiful. It is owed to those 32 beautiful forms. The policemen, who came and saw Him with an awry eye, not only dispraised Him but also laughed at Him and said: “These stupid men are following Mr. Tho by evil spell and still believe him to be Buddha.” They thundered at me, and denigrated in such a way I still remember:

 “Are you considering a bogy to be a Buddha? You have to receive long-term reeducation to clean all this superstition from your brain.”

He heard all of that and taught me:

“When they treat us with little regard, we must appear to be in little account, but we are the center of the universe.”  –T.V.

Proclamation Attesting the Universe. Part Four

View from the small, wooden top floor of the Lord Supreme Maitreya.

In the small, wooden top floor of the Supreme Pure King incarnating Lord Supreme Maitreya's residence, I heard what He was teaching:

“Looking at Vietnamese communism, we can know about the USSR. The USSR brings about everything.

In beating a snake, I have to strike its head, not the middle or its tail. But I won't beat it, because if I do, it would be smashed like gruel. If I use the rod to strike, no ferocious snake could withstand it, even if it had billions of subordinates armed with modernized weapons in this Final Law Period. To me, it does not matter very much.

By only drumming the rod, due to supernatural power, I could make it paralyzed and decomposed in small parts, in order to teach and warn the disobedient child.”

The statue of Lenin is dismantled.

Look at the present situation: The political regime of the communist USSR and Eastern European communist countries, as firm as steel bulwarks, was suddenly broken up into republic nations inclined to the free world. Unlike in war, no bloodshed, death, or “drinking the enemies' blood” came to either of the two camps. The free world did not waste a bullet. The secular world did not know that an invisible hand of the Buddha had performed a miracle for mankind, avoiding the catastrophe of a Third World War. The doomsday was over! The remaining communist countries were applying themselves to reform, according to the commands of the proclamation attested. He had made use of the supernatural power of Samadhi, from Tathagata eyes, and His supernatural ears to fabricate the strategic chessboard of “success without struggle.” This brought love to mankind, helping them to live in warm and cozy times.

The Supreme Pure King recited these two verses in order to pass them down to future generations, warning the leaders that the hands of mankind do not create all things. They should not rely on their power to oppress their miserable, defeated blood brothers, who live together with them in a fine country. He had silently corrected the wrong orbit:

The Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva had to shake the head for this Final Law Period, while all the state leaders in the world have smoothly obeyed the hand of Buddha without seeing it. It was evident that evil and sorrow had become purity, peace, and joy.

Due to the reform policy, people nowadays can enjoy an easier life. Even “state men” have the opportunity and the right to live with plenty, eat and wear what they wish, and have the right to “new thoughts.” This is capitalism.

With His great compassion, great power, and great courage, the Supreme Pure King incarnating Lord Supreme Maitreya brought love manifested by His real action, without distinction between the people of one side or the other. Though the police of the city of Nha Trang, who just were dying for an opportunity to arrest Him, often watched Him, He patiently made use of all His necessary supernatural powers of Samadhi. Once incorporating this Samadhi power, He could neutralize all devious things that penetrated His body. Therefore, besides the evil and the odds, there is the good, which protects and shows respect to Him.

Indeed, the Supreme Pure King incarnating Lord Supreme Maitreya used secular world neutralization to bring living creatures from the intoxicated and ferocious world to a peaceful and joyful one, while they knew nothing. The free world also believed that they themselves had managed or rectified the situation to create peace today.

All the beauty and safety were due to the supernatural power emanating from Lord Supreme Maitreya’s concern over the situation. He skillfully used it to transform the distracted world of the atomic era into a calm world, abolishing the menace of destroying each other between the two blocks, which can miraculously live in peace together today. Everyone has to recognize that all nations in the world today are uniting their efforts and collaborating more closely than ever. In comparison with the intense hostility after the Second World War from 1945 to 1954 and 1989, humanity was almost reaching doomsday.

In ceremonies the
Lord Maitreya
wore Y-Van-Dien
rope.

The fully enlightened one, who cultivates the fruit of the supernatural power with great illumination and full competence, is able to divide his body and transform it into numberless atomic Buddhas, instant Buddhas. The consciousness is brought away from the body and incorporated in numberless forms of life as long as necessary. Afterwards, He brings people back to their former spiritual position, without their awareness, with the purpose of bringing about a satisfied life, without tyranny and oppression among the Four Species. Having this supreme power, He has countless bodhisattvas, dharma protectors, fairies, and deities of invisible forms in the past and present, which are ready to serve Him.

Some people living in this world relied on the forces of their comrades, established power and governed others. They believed themselves to be great, did ill deeds, attached themselves to evil, and couldn't see the Buddhas who live hidden, and did not want to show their forms. Why? Living creatures are originally bad, with a fickle temperament. If they let it manifest in front of the enlightened one, it is extremely harmful to them and to their comrades. All are reflected by His supreme powerful virtue itself!

The enlightened one's power is really the power of the universe, also called power of God or Tathagata. Look at solid works constructed with mankind’s strength such as skyscrapers and long bridges, and you will know that a typhoon or a gust of wind could destroy them completely. An earthquake would make them fall down, and a change in the weather would make all of us paralyzed. He surveyed thoroughly, entering or emerging from the right meditation of Samadhi, to resolve and bring along unthinkable safety and happiness. Advanced science and modern civilization are reduced to inaction and are helpless when an earthquake or typhoon occurs on our globe. But for the Buddhist master, neutralizing typhoons and earthquakes is an ordinary thing. This is quite true.

For many years in Nha Trang, the meteorological station occasionally announced the arrival of a typhoon. He then entered the right meditation of Samadhi, and mobilized the heaven dharma to neutralize it. The typhoon moved away to the open sea and disappeared. Nha Trang was thus safe. Once there was a potential dangerous earthquake. Knowing this beforehand, He mobilized the great land to resolve the earthquake, avoiding horrendous damage to the people. He needed not say it to anyone; only some of His close disciples knew the fact. How wonderful it is! Only a venerable, attaining Buddhahood like The Supreme Pure King incarnating Lord Supreme Maitreya and saving living creatures in this Final Law Period knew to keep the secret in order to be successful in His practice. One day He said:

“I need not the fame. Manifested miracles and supernatural powers will have Mara try to kill me. The teaching of the dharma will be unfinished.”

The sages hastily manifest their supernatural power acquired through labor and merits. If they did not have enough talent, which is wisdom, they would easily be harmed. The Supreme Enlightened One, superior to the sages, can comprehend all dharma thoroughly from His Samadhi meditation, not leaving a fissure. He is not killed like sages, who have insufficient wisdom and supernatural power.

Although the sages understand and teach dharma to living creatures, they have insufficient eyes and ears for discerning to mobilize like Tathagata. They can't resolve anything about “secular world neutralization” for human beings and all the Four Species.

Living for more than 15 years in Saigon, I was usually informed every few years by the meteorological station about a probable storm. Once, at the end of 1992, the Saigon television station emitted, every 20 minutes, an urgent announcement about a storm, which would quickly pass by Saigon in the next 12 hours at a speed of 150 km/h. I only informed my disciples that I would make use of the divine dharma to make the storm return to the China Sea and dissolve. All my disciples heard this and had seen that the weather was still calm afterward, and the blue sky was as clear as every normal day, and there was no storm.

The people, who heard the news, prepared to stand up about the storm. They thought the Saigon Meteorological Station was wrong, not knowing that at that time, I had nullified the storm for the sake of Saigon and other surrounding areas.

Paradoxically, I had to cautiously teach the enlightening dharma to my disciples, disseminating them into small groups. Hell was waiting for the Supreme Pure King and me, whenever we displayed negligence! He often complained: Teaching morality is considered as a crime. How cruel it is!

Facing so many hardships, the Vietnamese people were competing to cross the ocean. Their close relatives' letters and telegrams from the native land were the most needed spiritual food for them. The governments of Khanh Hoa and other cities had seized these letters, censored them, and did not give them to the people. Everyone was impatient, neglected eating and sleeping, lamented and wondered about the destiny of their relatives, if they were alive or dead after crossing the sea. He was Himself in the same situation. After six months, He said: Letters and news are sacred rights of life and humanity, and no country in the world should do such a horrible thing. One can abstain from eating and accept to be pinned with hunger, but they would be crazy and die from losing their spirit. The devas convened a meeting to resolve the issue about which He had complained.

As a result, a hurricane had come to Khanh Hoa province, causing crop failure and gravely damaged roads, bridges, water, and electrical infrastructures. Short of funds, the provincial authorities hastened to distribute letters and telegrams from abroad to the people charging an additional receipt for each letter. Other provinces imitated Khanh Hoa in distributing letters from abroad. From then on, the authorities no longer seized those letters coming from abroad.

This is the ultimate manner of action by which devas resolved the question gently. If the wind blew at a speed of 200-250 km/h and the rain was heavier, in a few days, the destruction would be much more terrible. That was the part for devas, land deities spirits, and dharma protectors who had not yet shown their abilities! Their sadness might be much more dreadful, and the disastrous results would be immeasurable!

If, in this Final Law Period, the Holy King thought of His benevolent and philanthropical faculty condition, He would accept dying for the sake of the living creatures.  He would not be able to change the minds of the leaders, kings, and princes who were following the three evil ways. If they refused to obey, even the good holy king would be reduced to inaction and the supernatural power would not win against the evil force. This faculty condition had to be in accordance with the circumstance, with the degree of transformation of the evil faculty. Therefore, the one having attained Buddhahood like Lord Supreme Maitreya, could not sit quietly, and abandon people to live in obscurity or sink into the sea of suffering. He had to skillfully make use of the supernatural power of Samadhi to save people, and at the same time convert disobedient ones. That was the supreme truth that a holy king, with insufficient ability, would not be able to perform.

Deities, mankind deities, land deities, mountain deities, supreme deities, dragon deities, and quadruple deities, guard and impartially help the good or evil... If there were any not being converted, help them to convert - Except for the cases where every individual and every kingdom conserves his evil, cruel faculty. He should, therefore, return to his nature, to enjoy his karma in peace, according to his wishes.

He promulgated this proclamation for attestation and the bodhisattvas, dharma protectors, devas, and deities... had to help all the nation leaders and their subordinates impartially and with clear identification to do “good” and avoid “evil”. If the invisible evil faculty was in their bodies, He had to awaken it and convert it to good. This is the order given to all living creatures of the Three Thousand of Great Thousand Worlds, which were wishing for a peaceful life and that sacred right to live naturally and at ease.

Scientists and leaders should remember that every invisible deity, deva, and dharma protector has an unthinkable supernatural power. Utilizing their intelligence, scientists could produce atomic bombs, hydrogen bombs, neutron bombs, bacterial bombs, and chemical bombs. Too much labor would be invested, but all of that would be nothing in comparison with a deity. By His supreme real power and in addition to a miraculous matchless power, The Pure King incarnating Lord Supreme Maitreya could order them to manifest their compassionate spirit and create the merits to practice the dharma. The deities are absolutely venerating the Buddhas and bodhisattvas because they respect the dharma and the fruit of the practice. They are ready for action beside Him in great numbers.

In this Final Law Period since 1975, He has seen that all the people's daily activities were fixed by the government such as the right of dwelling, and eating, but not speaking. The practice of the dharma to build morality was especially controlled and forbidden from developing. In reality, only the practice of the dharma in accordance with the truth could have morality. If everything was too easy and happened according to the thoughts and determinations of mankind, why was it undocumented in history that many nobles and sages were born through dynasties to correct and teach people to perpetually maintain the good faculty?

The communist government forbade the printing and distributing of His scriptures written before 1975, which aimed at teaching living creatures to practice for liberation through wisdom. Once, His disciples in Saigon used handicraft instruments to print the book, “The Doctrine for the Path to Liberation,” which was confiscated by the authorities who considered it grave, and put each of them in prison for 3 years. Their relatives had to make a lot of petition for lesser sentences. They were finally released 2 years later. The police arrested me and pointed out to my face: “I'll condemn you to ten years' penal servitude to make you know your destiny”. The Maitreya Buddha had to appeal to the invisible dharma protector to liberate me from the prison for the second time. The first time, I had been “re-educated” for 42 months.

After the sutra was seized, the police gave it to a national monk to read. The national Buddhist committee, unable to understand the sutra, concluded it to be paganism, and we were put in prison. The Supreme Pure King incarnating Lord Supreme Maitreya was arrested by the city police of Nha Trang while He was tired, losing consciousness and receiving “saline” infusions. As they were waiting to seize Him, the Dragon Deity Dharma Protector took care of Him. Soon after, a favorable, wonderful, and suitable dharma appeared in His meditation room. He got out of the prison. The city Police came afterward to watch and question Him as regularly as eating daily meals. Once they told Him: “Do remember, I can put you into prison whenever I want.” During His entire journey of teaching dharma, The Lord Supreme Maitreya was confronted many times in the hell fire by the Maha King, Devil King and their descendants who would kill Him, but they all failed and had to give up and release Him.

Day after day passed and He was patiently preaching the Dharma to His true disciples, who took turns, coming by in small groups. The true disciples of Hue, Da Nang, Quy Nhon, Nha Trang, and Saigon had to comply with such a strict organization. Therefore, He had to explain the dharma every day without resting for a minute. One day a notable came to see Him and asked whether He could get any sleep. He happily replied:

“As you see, He answered in the daytime, I'm occupying myself to teach the dharma to the disciples, group after group, all day long. In the nighttime, I emerge from right meditation to go throughout the world and outside the globe to teach the dharma. I can only sleep for one hour in the midday to restore my health, so I have no time to sleep at night.”

Indeed, the enlightened one always has the supreme mind, so he is pure in the day as well at night, the two that are only one. Because day and night are only one for him, he has no ordinary sleep like that of seculars. That is something incredible to the sciences, but it is true.

The Lord Maitreya with His disciples at Central Highness Association, Nha Trang.

On the days of great ceremonies of the Phap Tang Buddhism at the Central Highness Assembly in Nha Trang, He was sitting in the semi cross-legged position, continuously entering the right meditation to appeal to the invisible dharma protectors to stand guard over several places in the city.

There were more than 100 representatives of the dharma protectors, venerables, and all faithful disciples coming from several provinces. The invisible dharma protector changed the weather into heavy rain, with a dark sky and cold, heavy, prolonged wind before the beginning of the ceremony. Every house had its door closed, the street was quite deserted, and police and secret agents reposed and took shelter from the rain. Meanwhile, disciples of Phap Tang came from all directions of the city of Nha Trang, correctly dressed, and walked under the rain to go to the Great Ceremony at His house. Afterwards, the organizing committee guided all of them one by one out of His ceremony site, nobody wandering before His house. Once the Great Ceremony was over, the sky became transparent, the clouds dispersed, and the rain stopped. How refreshing and satisfactory it was. Every time, the invisible devas, dharma protectors, and the deities were standing guard outside. The invisible dharma drotectors were busy watching the organization inside without error or negligence. All His true disciples voluntarily kept silent and discreet.

The Vietnamese know that in this Dharma Ending Age, believers no longer visited the temples. At the citizens' house, a group of about 3 persons gathering would pose a lot of trouble, which could not be described. The ones who have power wrongly thought that death was the end. There is no such thing as a cause and effect law, but they would go into a hell fire suffering. Only learned man, who had meditation minds, had known everything in detail. It would be very difficult to become human beings again if they create evil in their lives.

He often said: It was too difficult to construct the true dharma in this Dharma-Ending Age, but He remained diligent with plenty of the supreme mind.

During this period, when the fire curtain was wrapping all over, many Buddhist followers felt the difficulty and escaped over the border to practice the dharma abroad. Indeed, with mind, which was not supreme, one would not be able to practice the dharma in Vietnam. He told us, if we practice the dharma when it is easy and leave it when difficult, we are still weighing and choosing, and we could only become Pratyaka Buddhas. The fruit is very small, much inferior to that of the bodhisattvas. Remaining patient and courageous here, practicing the dharma, and facing the life, you could hope to attain the title “Buddha”. Once entering the Buddha precepts, it is difficult to get out. In many cases, you would remain there without knowing that you have been attached to that precept. The exception that the practitioner who leaves his ego and his ownership, may be able one day to meet someone who has attained title “Buddha”, and would help him to continue the practice.

Generally speaking, Vietnam, at that time, was coming to an economic, environmental, cultural, educational and political crisis. The region is deadlocked, and originates from the USSR. The people were also in spiritual crisis, and impetuously escaped from their homeland, by crossing the sea. According to international statistics, only one out of four refugees would reach their destination, the rest were presumed dead or missing. Particularly in the USA, there are now over one million Vietnamese people living, and three other million others had died at sea by boat or at the Cambodia borders on foot. Only speaking about the USA, it seems there were great numbers of Vietnamese who had settled all over the other democratic and generous countries in the world. The number of dead or missing people, the loss and the sorrowful situation was indescribable. This marked another dark chapter in Vietnam’s history.

Regarding the dissension between the North and the South during 21 years, the statistics had presumptively estimated that about 3,200,000 Vietnamese were dead, this number did not include the number of disabled soldiers still living, but disabled, and this caused unrelenting suffering.

For the first time, He sat weeping for the living creatures both domestic and abroad, as well as humanity undergoing the misery. All disciples were frightened and asked Him. He said: “The North communist government treated the Southern people as slaves.” At the same time, practitioners for fairyhood at the Seven Mountains of Chau Doc, who hear this, immediately informed people and their disciples of the Lord Supreme Maitreya Buddha. He wept for all living creatures in this Final Law Period. They were indeed clever and diligent, but practiced according to fixed thoughts, not practical truth. Therefore, they were not able to see Him either. They could take the picture and see the picture, but could not come into the scene, live in the scene or be in contact with people in the scene. It was the same for us, who saw the pictures on television, but were not in contact with them. We were not able to enter and see or talk to the persons, and the true scene taken by the producer in the camera.

Judging profoundly and impartially about the catastrophe inflicted upon Mankind in general and Vietnamese in particular, including Himself, by the USSR, He burned seven sandalwood incenses one day before the Three Dharma Elements, vowing decisively to help living creatures to be in peace.

Since then, He usually emerged in meditation at night to go to the USSR, accompanied by the invisible dharma protector. He appealed the land deity of the capital of Moscow, land deities, and divine deities to come to the Eastern European communist nations to offer impartial help.  Particularly in the USSR, the land deity had found and “implanted” for Him a person with a “new thought” and with a true power. This way, He could discreetly transform the situation of the world and bring about freedom to humanity.

I remembered His words well: If I could not awaken and convert the USSR, the catastrophe of the Third World War would be unavoidable, and the consequences would be immeasurable for humanity and all living beings on the globe.

Proclamation Attesting the Universe. Part Three

–Bequeathed Kings: The kings who are bequeathed to accede to the throne.

–Popular Kings: The kings who are elected by the people.

–King of Heaven: The kings in the heaven. Most of them are talented, and also called clear-sighted kings. Their people are living in abundance.

–King of Fairyland: The kings in the fairyland, also called fairy chiefs, have higher psychic power than other fairies and are very much respected. Their people are living substantially.

–King of Hell: The kings of hell use the three evil ways to rule their people. Those who dare to tell the truth to construct are killed immediately.

–Devine Worlds: The kings of the divine world are called Brahman kings. In some divine worlds, they are called Sakka; in others they are satisfying devas. People in the divine worlds are all happy.

–Dragon world and the invisible world: With a dragonhead on the body and a hot-tempered nature.

Our globe is only a small world in comparison with the immense universe with countless other worlds. In the eyes of the Buddhist master, who can see through His Tathagata eyes, there are also many other species with a higher or lower living standard than that of mankind.

Mankind, in this world, is governed under multiple aspects during this Final Law Period. Particularly in Vietnam, a manifestation of Lord Supreme Maitreya witnessed it thoroughly. From 1975 to 1989, South Vietnamese people lived in anxiety, and a dark mourning curtain embraced all the social classes, from the city to the country. The way of life was completely upset. The necessary things were extremely lacking for daily life, which was decayed and almost paralyzed. The South Vietnam situation could be compared to a vehicle with malfunctioning brakes, causing an inevitable plunge into the abyss.

Carrying out the USSR “working class” policy, North Vietnam had many times completely mopped up the middle class and intellectuals of South Vietnam. Among these, a number of families not associated with the former regime, had to share also the grief stricken destiny!

The Northern Communist New economic policy, applied to southern people, had brought about a disaster: In every province, there were many wandering, homeless families living on city sidewalks, deprived of food and clothes. They had an untidy appearance, and a way of life unlike the human one. In new economic zones, with deep forests and harsh climates, the city people were not familiar with the shabby, manual labor, and farm life. They had only been accustomed to trading and non-manual labor activities, so they could not produce enough food for their life, and harbored deep resentment!

The people in the new economic zone became ill and were not given sufficient medicine, particularly for malaria treatment. Consequently, nearly every family lost their members. Traditional remedies were not effective enough to fight the fatal fever, so the remaining people had to abandon their farm! They came back to the city, knowing their houses were no longer available, and looked to their future with uncertainty.

The Northern Communism firmly believed in the working class policy, resolutely and rapidly pushing forward. On the contrary, the Southern people, losing their orientation, could do nothing, but escape from reality, the revolutionary reality!

The elders, youngsters, healthy, weakened, and well educated and the illiterate ran to the borders, escaping from their native country where they had grown up. They ran away without thinking, even if they knew they had only a faint hope to be safe in their voyage! They practically threw themselves on the mercy of God in their tiny boats with little supplies, and no food or water in the middle of the Ocean.

When Lenin triumphed over the Tsar, he sent 1 million of the Tsar's soldiers to Siberia to build a city in this region with year-round snow and ice. As a result, only 5000 men survived accomplishing the construction of that city. That is the consequence of forced labor without sufficient nourishment, illness without drugs, and bitter cold without clothes and blankets to warm the body.

There was no Siberia City in Vietnam. The Russian Communists' guide remained very delicate with many subliminal techniques to govern the Southern people. The main food was rice, other essential necessities were managed by the State, and there were cooperatives everywhere. All kinds of usual items became forbidden. The Southern people then experienced extreme poverty and hard circumstances of life.

In this period, when a dog was given a bone, he would be appreciated and wagged his tail to see you. On the other hand, when people were given a piece of meat, they also wanted to empty the giver’s pocket and went to their house and expelled the whole family out. These people are even worse than dogs.

The Supreme Pure King incarnating Lord Supreme Maitreya comprehended the people's living conditions, and also told all of them that those things have to occur ceaselessly in such a way during the Final Law Period.

A manifesting scene characterizes for each period, but in this Final Law Period, the evil is manifested so strongly that it makes Mankind awaken and repent: “From one mountain longing for another mountain.”

When the true dharma was passed down to the fifth patriarch period in China, Shen Hsiu invented a pattern of practice through ceremonial rites, which enchanted people. They also practiced the dharma but led mankind in the wrong direction, and lost the orientation of practice for liberation through wisdom. They gradually worshipped supernatural power, not practicing in conformity with their true nature. This is another weakness in the Final Law Period. Mankind venerates too much material, knowing only the material, so they readily lose their morality whenever faced with a difficulty or obstacle, and run after the manifestations of ambition and desire. The practice path was therefore lost, and naturally, so was the orthodoxy. Some of them were amazed, and complained about their fate and destiny.

The practitioner with a fundamental ability, on the contrary, knows the miraculous equality of salvation well, and is ceaselessly diligent in his practice, because he knows that it is the end of heaven and earth. The law of universal motion never comes to a standstill, once arriving at the end of all things, the doomsday. It is naturally transformed into a new stage in which the true dharma appears. Lord Supreme Maitreya Himself knew it thoroughly, so He calmly sympathized in secret with the Ten Directions during this sacred last time when the great heaven land will transform itself into a beautiful and bright Resurrection.

Now the time of practical truth, helpful dharma, and equality of salvation of the Eastern Buddha of Medicine comes into life! In this world of apparition, there is a lack of many lovely children because of tragedies, so the Supreme Pure King incarnating Lord Supreme Maitreya has to remember the Great Ceremony of the 30th day of the 9th month sorrowfully.

The condition of South Vietnam was deserted and dreary after 1975. The people’s morale was sorrowful, a dark, mourning curtain covered all over the country, and cries were heard everywhere. In the eyes of a Buddhist master emerging from His meditation, He could see under the stratum of clouds in the sky a layer of ice-cold air spreading all over. He then knew that it was the ascending of people's complaints and plaintive voices. The doors of secular jails were slamming so frequently that even devas were frightened.

The 20th day of the 2nd month of the lunar year of 1979, the Police of Nha Trang City pulled down the board: PHAP TANG BUDDHISM OF VIETNAM, CENTRAL HIGHNESS ASSEMBLY

Along with an official order forbidding the preaching and the teaching of the dharma, as well as the meeting, the police created problems for Him since 1976. The reason: He did not adhere to the Unified Buddhism imposed by the government, which intervened in every aspect of the dharma’s practice. The basic human freedoms are stripped away.

In this hell, a small child can actually have older people thrown into jail or have them killed by just making a cruel note to the local police. A three year jail sentence was common in such instances.

One morning The Lord said:

“Think –if I take part in the National Buddhism, every time I teach the dharma I have to write it down and present it to the monk of the province! If I have to make a plan of birth control, in principle, it would be made by the Health Service!”

The police came to take a headcount of number 42, Hong Bang Street where He was living, with the intention of confiscating the temple and creating difficulties for Him. But He calmly made use of the miraculous power to be free from a lot of catastrophes and avoid, once more, the re-education.

The devas then held a meeting to discuss the serious matter, with the participation of the 18 Arahants. The dragon deities, land deities, and quadruple deities gathered densely around Him. In the ears of the Buddhist meditators could be heard clearly and known thoroughly: “When the enemies attack the Bodhi tree, they will be dissolved.”

Proclamation Attesting the Universe. Part Two

–In My presence: The Supreme Pure King incarnating Lord Supreme Maitreya appeared in the Dharma-Ending Age. He had declared the witness and attestation of the Buddhas Three Dharma Elements, regarding the skillful use of Buddhism to save the Four Species through insurmountable pains and bitterness:

“Annoyed about the confusions and chaos in the Final Law Period,
I am in charge of the vow of being incarnated.” –T.V.  

–The ordained bodhisattvas: Every time they returned to the world, the Buddhas had to wage their labor to form a bodhisattva. Bodhisattva is the one who understands self enlightenment well. He can mobilize all things perfectly, thus accepting the awakening from meditation to go where people are oppressed or sunk into the oceans of sufferings. They help save those who are suffering and bring them back to life again.

–The dharma protectors responsible for carrying out my attestation: By dharma protectors, He means the invisible members that are beside the Buddhas. Bodhisattvas always vow to rush everywhere to fight the Mara and the Devil King, and practice their vow according to the teaching of the Supreme Pure King incarnating Lord Supreme Maitreya, in order to save all living creatures.

–All the Dharma Protector Fairies: Invisible dharma protectors are practicing in the mountains, caves, and caverns far from the secular world. They lead an easy and satisfied life, vowing to help human beings through their poems and presages. They advise human beings to be diligent in the practice of the dharma, helping mankind or other worlds outside the earth to live peacefully and joyfully. These fairies had wished to accompany the Lord to accomplish the responsibility of saving living creatures, and create merits in this Final Law Period.

–And All the Dharma Protector Deities: Invisible dharma protector deities always have the charity to save living creatures, but they are still hot tempered. They have intelligence as their means, and an unthinkable deity power. They make use of favorable or unfavorable means to save living creatures.

–Such as Mankind Deity and Land Deity: Those are the deities governing our landscapes on this globe. They usually live in communal houses of villages and in temples, and now wish to accompany the Lord to practice the dharma and create merits to help the secular world. They also receive His order to go where they are needed, and actively help all living creatures.

–Supreme Rank Deities: These are the deities that fulfill the practice of the dharma with the best results, in comparison with other deities. They have the supreme internal deity power with an unthinkable influence, and now wish to be by His side, ready for action.

–The Dragon Deities and Quadruple Deities: These deities still have hot temper rooted characters, and they have the deity power to transform clouds and rain. They can appear in the form of a dragon, and have practiced meditation from the time of the Sakyamuni Buddha. They were waiting for Long Hoa and now, since Lord Supreme Maitreya came into the world, they came to assist Him, making merits to support and practice the true dharma. Together with them, the quadruple deities in the four continents of the Three Thousand Great Thousand Worlds are ready for action beside Him.

–There are also the bodhisattvas, wishing in the past to support the true dharma and in the present to be ready for action: The bodhisattvas have had a strong will from the time of Sakyamuni Buddha when they were in invisible forms. Some of them appear today as laymen at home, coming into the visible world and are ready for action beside Him. They wish to be useful to themselves and to others, to guard and help all living creatures to practice the dharma, and secretly save all living creatures from suffering.

At the time of civilization and modernization, we used to study through experimentation, and perceive through material synthesis. Now, when the Pure King incarnating Lord Supreme Maitreya is proclaiming in this time, there are many invisible manifestations with undoubted power and influence beside Him, ready to carry out what He orders, in order to rebuild by going back to the beginning.

Only a true master of meditation can clearly see an invisible army with high awareness, always in strict order. Human beings and scientists, no matter how talented they may be, will not be able to see and know it. The powerful leaders, though shouting not to submit to sea and ocean, are nothing in comparison with an invisible dharma protector. They will all be silenced by a mere sealed instruction. This is difficult to believe, but true in this atomic period! All are for the sake of people under oppression, and of ending suffering for those of good faculty who are all alone.

Lord Supreme Maitreya, incarnating in the city of Nha Trang, had corresponded to the Buddhas’ Three Dharma Elements, and called those who practiced through invisible forms in the past to be all present beside Him today. Think it over, those who are atheists and doubtful. If death is the end for mankind and all living things, how can the Supreme Pure King incarnating Lord Supreme Maitreya of 2500 years ago come back again and appear in this physical world with His other supernatural appearances, such as that of Nagarjuna and the Great Venerable QI-CI.      

Why did the bodhisattvas, dharma protectors, devas and deities return from the past to be beside Him? Regardless if they practice or not, they could be transformed after death into another life and continue their life ceaselessly.

The previous existence of Lord Supreme Maitreya was so powerful that He could give orders to all the species in the immense universe in which all living beings should obey Him.

The Supreme Pure King incarnating Lord Supreme Maitreya had become the Buddha King. In the wooden loft of His residence at number 42 of the Hong Bang Street, I heard:

The Supreme Pure King incarnating Lord Supreme Maitreya had become the Buddha King, strictly according to the ordinance of the Sakyamuni Buddha 2500 years ago.

–In the Three Thousand Worlds: There are countless living species in our world, each having its own way of living in an appropriate ambiance called a sub-world. One thousand sub-worlds form a small thousand worlds. One thousand small thousand worlds form middle thousand worlds. One thousand middle thousand worlds form a Great Thousand Worlds.

–Outside the Three Thousand Great Thousand Worlds: This means the Great Thousand Worlds are formed by the three small thousand, middle thousand and great thousand worlds. Inside our globe, there are Three Thousand Great Thousand Worlds, and outside is the immense Universe, with countless other Three Thousand Great Thousand Worlds.

 The 7 gems, belonging to the Buddhist body of Lord Supreme Maitreya, have manifested themselves once more since the time of Sakyamuni Buddha 2500 years ago.

Proclamation Attesting the Universe

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Translated English version of 'Proclamation Attesting the Universe'

The explanation of the Proclamation for Attestation
 
–Highness Assembly: Highness means the upper life or going back to the beginning, signifying that this was created from going back to the beginning. It was Long Hoa congregation, presided by Lord Supreme Maitreya, hidden now under the name of Phap Tang.

–Attestion: Why do the Buddhas have to attest? In this Dharma-Ending Age, living beings practice the dharma contrary to the main ideas of the Three Lives of Buddhas. Unaware of the morality, they practice upon their reasoning, and the last dharma is soon followed by the last life. In the last life, everyone acts, as he likes, no longer respecting and honoring morality rules. He is gradually going toward the bad, and the bad faculty, which is seen everywhere: Hungry ghosts, asura, animals, and hell are in vogue. Men and devas are rare.

The Final Law Period is the last one, in which life progresses with all its ends. At the end of the last life, there will be the upper life, which is exactly the equality of salvation period. If the Buddhas had not come to the world to attest them, living creatures would not have wallowed in the low life. The society is extremely degenerated, and innocent people not engaging in either side will endure the same fate. By carefully reading the proclamation of Lord Supreme Maitreya, we can see that the Buddha had saved His living creatures disbanding the communist of both the Soviet Union and Eastern European nations, giving unthinkable freedom to their people!

“All of them wrongly believe that after death they can be reborn on this globe; or, as men, they will naturally be reborn as men. Others erroneously think that it is the end after death.

Others on this globe, at their death, and soon after departing from the life, have to be reborn and undergo hundreds of thousands of sceneries, and worlds to be reborn in a place suitable to their character, activity, and deeds.” –T.V.

–I, the Supreme Pure King Buddha incarnating of the Lord Supreme Maitreya Buddha: I was the very Lord Supreme Maitreya 2,500 years ago. Our Master had been ordained in this Buddhas’ Three Dharma Elements. He is representing the Buddhas’ Three Dharma Elements with the heavy responsibility of saving living creatures and attesting the return to the true dharma of the Dharma Ending Age.

Everyone coming into this world from the Divine one has a new appellation. For each life, there is an appellation. The appellation for this life: The reborn Supreme Buddha incarnating the Supreme Pure King means Lord Supreme Maitreya often called in the sutras as the reborn Incarnating.

The Foundation of Promulgating the Proclamation for Attestation

After the First World War of 1914-1918 and the Second World War of 1939-1945, came the Geneva Convention. The Vietnamese civil war had led to disastrous consequences including the division of the country, and countless families suffering from misery, grief, and separation.

A picure of the Vietnam War

The world is clearly divided into two camps, which extremely contrast each other. One camp is the liberalism of the capitalists, supported by the United States and the Europeans nations. The other is communism, led by the USSR, which creates conflict with the U.S to create favorable conditions for the USSR to develop and industrialize its countries. Thus, they reach the rank of super powers, and are able to fight for supremacy against the USA.

In the Second World War, the U.S and the USSR shook hands with the intention of exterminating Nazism. Once Nazism was dramatically defeated, the U.S.A realized the invasion of the USSR into the Eastern European nations. The USSR troops were occupying there, and they established administrations with the communist pattern. The U.S recognized the USSR as an enemy, and the future peace of the U.S and its Alliance should not be neglected.

Karl Marx, the first ancestor of communism, wrongly interpreted Darwin’s doctrine of the “two camps” world, based on “the struggle for existence”. It was applied by the Russian communists to “The Class Struggle” of the 20th century, which prepared for the Third World War, (the Nuclear World War), which could exterminate all life on earth. It is this kind of “two camps” world that competes to produce nuclear weapons, preparing a chess match that menaces to put the world into the turning point of doomsday.

After the Geneva Convention, from 1954 to 1975, many events repeatedly occurred in the world. The most important was the rupture in 1956, between two super powers, the Russian communists and the Chinese communists. They became greater and greater, creating such a dangerous hole of separation that they were about to kill each other by nuclear buttons!

During the period of 1968-1972, taking advantage of the separation between the two communist elders, the US entered into collaboration with the Chinese communists to deal with the Russians, making their nuclear weapons hang over mankind’s heads.

Even more serious, after 3 years from 1972 to 1975, the U.S firmly consolidated its relationship with the Chinese communists, and allied all the western European nations and Japan in a world strategy. It was able to besiege the Russian communists, and helped the Russians vigorously develop their nuclear missile equipped submarines. By that time, everyone with a certain understanding believed that once the atomic Third World War was started; all lives in the world would be exterminated. Mankind and all other species would not survive.

 The secrets for producing nuclear warhead equipped missiles and atomic bombs are not an absolute secret today. What a catastrophe!

 In April 1987, the New Jersey U.S. Infantry Academy, studying strategic matters, declared that many nations were already in possession of atomic weapons. These nations included the U.S, England, France, Russia, China, India, West Germany, Japan, Taiwan, and South Africa. There are other countries that will also have atomic weapons, totaling 23 nations in the world that have had, and will have atomic weapons (at the time of this writing).  Is that the world approaching doomsday?

Vietnam is a place for scientific experiment

08 Jun 1972, a planes accidentally dropped a napalm bomb on the village, located 26 miles outside of Saigon.

From 1954 to 1975, during the 21 years of separation of the country, the U.S.A helped to protect South Vietnam, while the USSR and the Chinese communists supported North Vietnam. The war deeply darkened the country, and became a narrowed World War in South Vietnam. The Third World War nearly broke out because of Vietnam. The decision between the U.S and its allies in one part, and the USSR, Chinese communists, and Eastern European nations in the other, made the Vietnamese people undergo a terrible destiny, resulting from the experiment of modern war science in this country.

The Vietnamese people underwent the doomsday. For the Buddhas, it was the Dharma-Ending Age, because of extreme suffering, endurance, and evil! That was the end of the secular dharma. That was the end of all things, and the world. The holy spirits understood this, but secular thoughts indicated that the doomsday would be the time our globe disintegrates and mankind is destroyed!

This conception lacks the demonstration basis. By their karma, mankind created plenty of causes, and when they received the fruit, they were awakened and turned to the good. That is the law of cause and effect. The circulation law runs from prosperity to decadence and the evil, at its end, reflects itself and can see itself. It examines proceeding against itself and shows repentance. The Supreme Pure King incarnating Lord Supreme Maitreya had witnessed the intoxication of all things in the Dharma Ending Age, so He tried to teach the dharma and hand it down to the world. This way, mankind would gradually recognize the true value of the enlightening dharma, and change by themselves to be peaceful and safe, free from the birth and death cycle.

All material phenomena did not escape from the principle of Formation - Existence - Destruction and Nothingness. If our globe were disintegrated, this would have occurred in concordance with this principle. The Buddhas have all arranged to teach mankind. It is hard for them to be able to recognize the true value and improve themselves to neutralize the intoxication and clear their minds and their bodies to simultaneously free from danger and catastrophe. This is an awesome responsibility handed down by the Buddhas’ Three Dharma Elements. He had to successfully achieve, and attest, the return of the Final Law Period to the true dharma one.

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:

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.

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.

The prophecy sutra predicted events of the war in Vietnam, and they have happened in conformity with it. After the Second World War of 1939–45, predictions about the raging war of Vietnam and the suffering and miserable life of the people seemed to be true.

Consequently, predictions about the reincarnated Long Hoa Lord Supreme Maitreya returning to South Vietnam made the people, the monks, nuns, and Buddhist followers believe and expect much more than ever before.

Cao Dai (Caodaism) Prophecy Sutra: Telling us that the Long Hoa congregation is about to arrive.

 “Preaching the true dharma in this Final Law Period,
awakening in time for the Long Hoa congregation.”

The Final Law Period is frequently recalled, affirming that sinking in the ocean of sufferings is unavoidable, so we have to do our best to practice the dharma.

...The origin of annihilation is now exposed
The conflicts between the East and the West, the South and the North
The danger of war and bandits is everywhere
Alas! Thousands of families are now in misery
and undergoing too many tragedies
The coming of Long Hoa means annihilation of all disasters
The Buddhas and the fairies are enticing us to practice the dharma.

The Tay An Buddhist Practice: It has a judgment not quite different from that of the Caodaism.

“It is the end of a Final Law Period
The clear sighted king is praying to the Buddha to establish a return to the beginning.”
It advises Mankind to make an effort to practice the Dharma.
The return to the beginning is like the cord for a curtain.
Why do you continue to dispute without practicing the dharma?”

The Buddhist monk sells potatoes: Symbolizing the apparition of Long Hoa in the Final Law Period.

“All of you, young and old, won't be doubtful.
Now is coming the rare thing in life
 . . . .Life seems to be at its end now,
North wind blows in the South while West wind blows in the East.
The clouds in the sky are now changing.
This is the only opportunity for fame and honor.
...to see Long Hoa Congregation.
And choose the right disciple from the royal family to venerate.”

How precious it is! The dharma protectors assume the responsibility of preaching and giving recommendations to the people. Right at this time, the Supreme Pure King incarnating Lord Supreme Maitreya is present in Nha Trang, in Central Vietnam.

They had predicted the exact time that Lord Supreme Maitreya was moving from China to Vietnam, because in some of His former lives, He had appeared in China.

...The Buddha is far away.
He is now moving to Vietnam.
...Now the Buddha from China.
Is gradually moving back to Vietnam.

Mr. Ba Thoi and some dharma protectors are sharing the same opinion.

"...Everybody should patiently reserve
to practice diligently as the Final Law Period is drawing near"

He also tells us if Lord Supreme Maitreya had appeared in the Dharma-Ending Age. He would have shaken His head for the strange, cruel things of people:

"There is craving in everything
The Buddha would click the tongue, unable to satisfy everybody.
...Using devices to do bad things such as snatching the property of the world because of bad intentions.
At the time, communist authorities around the world had the right to confiscate everything as they wished."

These dharma protectors' verses have precisely demonstrated to the world Long Hoa. For what reason can these venerables and the living creatures not see Him while they live in the same place with Him in South Vietnam?

Summary

A remarkable thing is that the prophecy sutra had made use of the pen of an invisible man and sacred paper. That is the fixed thought, belonging to the efficacious apparition, used as a principle to advise man. Lord Supreme Maitreya always used the direct apparition so that the faithful disciples with deep faculty could see Him. Facing difficult situations, they must keep on practicing and resolving dharma.

Efficacious apparition is related to supplicating and praying. Direct apparition means the correction and the clearing of one’s own nature, then judging what the practice is, to be able to recognize the true dharma in the teacher.

He did not make use of psychic power in the public places or in the great ceremonies where there are plenty of disciples. Only the true disciples belonging to building members of the true dharma in the future, who are close to Him, can see the miraculous psychic power. He showed to consolidate their faith and afterwards, preached only practical truths.

He said: Many men with psychic power were killed. Even if you are transcendental in this Dharma Ending Age, you must be secret in your body, speech, and mind, and only use it to awaken the disciples. So He lived a simple life for everyone to see Him.

Therefore, those who wait for Lord Supreme Maitreya through a frightening thunder in the Seven Mountains are all disappointed. A practitioner of fairyism in the Seven Mountains saw, in the direction of Nha Trang city, a big halo spreading throughout the province. The monk and a dozen of his disciples then went to Nha Trang seeking for Lord Supreme Maitreya. When they saw us preaching the dharma for them, they recognized in us as Long-Hoa Congregation, but they remained attached and doubtful of our practices. They wondered how we could be married and not be on a vegetarian diet. For them, a different life means the practice in the mountains and staying on a vegetarian diet. Because of their superficial observation and fleeing sight, it appears difficult for them to believe, so they returned to the Seven Mountains and continued waiting for the apparition of Lord Supreme Maitreya.

In the Lord Supreme Maitreya Sutra, the Buddha said:

"Later, the Bodhisattva Maitreya will be reborn under the name Tu Thi. When He becomes the Buddha, His nation will be a very serious one. All the palaces are made up of seven gems. There are limpid lakes and all kinds of sweet flowers everywhere. The surface of the ground is flat, without thorns covered uniquely with soft, carpetlike green grass. Those who were born in this world have a good cause and would enjoy a very peaceful life, without suffering, illness or worry. Their bodies are well proportioned, imposing, and good looking. They can live up to ten thousand years with all the succulent, tasty foods, and no textiles are needed since plants produce clothes. At the end of their life, they go to the forest reserved for those who come there to rest forever."

He was reborn, this time, into the family of Tu. His verse, cited in chapter one, was the Tu Thi Lord Supreme Maitreya Buddha.

One morning, at the wooden loft at 42 of Hong Bang Street, Nha Trang, The Supreme Pure King incarnating Lord Supreme Maitreya started His teaching:

"Mankind thinks that thanks to His virtue and authority, the nation where Lord Supreme Maitreya was born will become prosperous and solemn, without chaos and confusion. The land will be transformed into precious things such as gold, crystal, mother of pearl, agate, and pearls of all kinds etc. And the sage thinks that: After having corrected all his living creatures’ nature, his mind became a great purity. His body seems to pose all the time, walking, standing, lying, and sitting. He became the possessor of the ‘seven gems’ in the universe.

From the time of Sakyamuni Buddha to the time when Lord Supreme Maitreya attained Buddha hood, there were only two Buddhas possessing the ‘seven gems’. Right after His birth, the Crown Prince Siddhartha advanced seven steps, which became seven lotus flowers, accounting for the ‘seven gems’. Lord Supreme Maitreya had written a poem on the ‘Sword of Seven Gems’, which the Buddhas only skillfully utilize these seven gems when necessary to make a skillful use. Mara and evils are frightened of it. The sword of seven gems is reserved only to the Buddhas. It can push down bulwark and bail water out of the sea. The sword of seven gems is very active and never refuses a necessity, basically to destroy the ignorance.

Everybody can have a sword of seven gems, but because of his stupidity, the sword did not appear. Only those who possess the great strength, great power, and great compassion know how to use the sword effectively. It can expunge the Three Worlds and Six Ways. The seven gems of the Buddha are focused mind, natural insight, Buddha nature, dharma body (full comprehension), Tathagata store, dharma realm and dharma nature." –T.V.

 There are limpid lakes and all kinds of sweet flower everywhere

Because His mind is tranquilized, He can see the clarity everywhere, and His body is complete with its three bodies, thus there is a constant fragrance.

 The surface of the ground is even, without thorn or prickles, and covered uniquely with soft green grass, which feels like a carpet.

Ordinary men believe that when Lord Supreme Maitreya returns, the land will no longer be rough. There are no hills and valleys and everything is on the same level. There are no more thorns, and walking on the land is like walking on a carpet.

The sage thinks that from His rebirth to His practice of the dharma; everybody could hear sweet words, full of compassion without denaturalization and abnormality as in the living creatures. There are no more naughty and thorny speeches and all of the living creatures who met Him felt as satisfied as walking on a carpet of grass.

Even the evil and cruel people, after meeting Him, feel satisfied on the way back home. By His great compassion, He turns the evil thoughts into good ones.

Once, a powerful high-ranking government official from the Central came to see Him. He sweetly received him. When He gained insight into the mind of the other He knew there would be a catastrophe, He then made a deity appear on the mountain, one near the number 6 of the Huynh Thuc Khang Street, Nha Trang. The deity was brown skinned and sturdy, with round eyes. He was sitting, guarding Him. The visitor, startled to see it, said to his inferiors when returning: This monk is of high dignity. He did not really know who He was, and needed neither to discharge the halo, nor to heighten himself. He was very simple but full of compassion and vigor. Those close to Him follow His practice and have confidence in Him and He often demonstrates the halo from His body. The story is true; it is no use to invent or lie.

 Those who are born in this world have a good cause. They enjoy a very peaceful and pleasant life, without suffering, illness or worries.

 For all living beings, to live in a world where Lord Supreme Maitreya was born is to be very happy, needless to practice the Dharma.

For the sage, if all living creatures living at the same time with Lord Supreme Maitreya had the great good cause to practice His dharma of salvation, he would have a calm and joyful mind. Thus, there is no more suffering in all situations, and once the mind is tranquil, disease will be chased out.

 Their bodies are proportioned, imposing, and beautiful. They can live up to ten thousand years.

The people believe that when they meet Lord Supreme Maitreya, their ugly bodies will become beautiful and they can live longer.

For the sage: When meeting Him, try to correct your temper, practice meditation and dharma, and study the doctrine for a while, and your character will be better. Therefore, your form also gets better, your face will be bright and beautiful, and your way of walking will be imposing too. Once liberated from the transmigration of birth and death, you will be immortal and have longevity of 10 thousand years in heaven.

 There are plenty of succulent and tasty foods and textiles are not needed since plants produce clothes.

The people believe that after they meet Lord Supreme Maitreya, there is no more bad, decayed food in the country, the dressing is available everywhere and you could have beautiful clothes that you do not have to buy.

When you meet Him, the sages, no matter how painful and thorny the situation is, you will be glad to undergo it because it is the source of foods for the bodhisattva vows. Once you are able to control all nature, all dharma, you will have a durable and beautiful countenance. You will neither have to seek it, nor work harder for it. Plants produce clothes, which mean there is no more hatred, suffering, or fear to invade you. When the mind is calm and joyful, the body will become young and beautiful.

At the end of their life, they go to the forest, reserved for those who come there to rest forever.

The people often believe that they will die tranquilly in their old age.

The sage: When you have reached purity by your practice, you will leave the world as light as a feather at the end of your life. Forest means that the purity is plentiful everywhere.

He had also taught “If people have good virtue, are generous and have pity toward the suffered, frequently help those of misfortune, they transfer their merits when meeting a holy monk and follow Him to practice meditation properly. They will receive good blessed rewards, though they will not yet be enlightened. Having good karma, they will be reborn in a noble and eminent family, having good luck, and high longevity.

If you sow merits, when meeting the Buddha and practicing dharma and meditation under His guidance, you will enjoy good fruits and blessed rewards in heaven and in royal and noble scenarios. If you are enlightened, end all worries, see clearly, and do not pollute yourself with desires, and you will have an eternal life. If you are completely enlightened, you will get out of the universe, completely liberated from birth and death, from the transmigration. Though completely liberated from karma of worries, the worries and desires remain present. Why? All dharma are suchness without pollution.” –T.V.