56. The Thought Is the Mirror of the Spirit

56. The Thought Is the Mirror of the Spirit

“Why does the thought represent the spirit? All human beings and the Four Species are not living without thoughts. Even in the Three Thousand Great Thousand Worlds and all over the universe, there will not be life without thoughts. However, the thought contains in itself the facts of joy and sadness, happiness and misery, gain and loss. It is impossible to leave the thought in the human life.”


– T.V.
 The living beings, the Four Species, are ceaselessly living with thought. The one who is practicing dharma can only see its lively mobility by full attention. Nobody can master it and everyone is guided by the thought in the birth and death.

Because of the pollution of human beings, the thought becomes noble or mean, generous or stingy, good or evil. Therefore, it represents different levels of practices such as ordinary man, taught men, and fairies or deities. The thought gives rise to joy and sadness, happiness and misery in all the three thousand great thousand worlds. The Buddhist disciple can see clearly the mobility of thought in ten directions and through countless strata in order to be enlightened. It also easily makes the disciple erroneously fall into attachment, believing he himself is someone. As a consequence, in many cases, because of erroneous proclamation, he cannot meet the true one who knows how to instruct. So he keeps on living with the false thought and becomes clinging at the end of his practice.

“With regard to the stream of thoughts, thought is usually thought, and spirit is spirit. It is impossible to consider the thought to be the spirit. When the stream of thoughts develops systematically and clearly, it is called wisdom; when obscure and vague, it is termed idiocy. For that reason, there are different levels and classes, each using its kind of thought. People, either moral or immoral, are all using their thought, complying with their thought in the perception. It is difficult to take the thought of one class to use in another, except that everyone by his will and instinct have formed and trained himself for some time to make the thought healthy and appropriate for use. Otherwise, any effort to help in whichever condition will gain less success.

Why? Because each thought has its separate nature, only the persons with their fixed thought can resolve it by themselves.” –T.V.

The thought produces the karma consciousness; being a living creature, nobody can escape from it. It is the source of stupidity, which makes human beings, and the four species attached and clung. If the disciple practices by virtue, he is attached. If he practices by wisdom to suppress the attachment, he is still attached. These two ways of practice cannot escape from the karma consciousness. Practicing the sitting meditation to emerge from it and to be in meditation, that can’t help escape from the karma consciousness either. Some disciples erroneously fall in the clinging and do not know how to abolish the ignorance. In reality, Long Hoa Chief Monk has given the teaching. All the venerables, arahants, fairies, and deities present in Long Hoa congregation can see and realize that the practice of the dharma requires the relief of the karma. But while practicing, everyone finds it very difficult to escape from the thought’s transformation.

There are thus high and low degrees of practicing for enlightenment; the attestation and non-attestation for the disciples around him. On account of such importance and utility of the thought, Long Hoa Chief Monk, Lord Supreme Maitreya Buddha has recommended the parallelism of virtue and wisdom. The thought with the minds consciousness generates virtue. This is the concenteated dharma. The thought at the rank of spiritual consciousness produces wisdom, which is dharma body. Thanks to his clear explanation, most of the disciples can understand while passing from the Mahayna to the unique career vehicle, but they are unable to carry it out. Because the thought contains a group forming the character, they can at most correct their character in the Mahayana, but most of them cannot comprehend the thought to observe in detail the dragon circuit of the dharma body belonging to the unique career vehicle. So he has to stop for their sake. A whole Buddha life with one more Buddha life in this century, that is too long. Most of the holy disciples can understand the Mahayana, but they are far away from the Buddhayana, so how can people understand thoroughly just through judgment by reason? Therefore, it is difficult to impute the clinging thought of one class to another.

Hence, in the presence of the Buddhas, it is impossible to force anyone without the will, even the high-class holy disciples, despite the Buddhas’ great compassion, great will and great courage.

“Buddhism does not accept the spirit. It only accepts the thoughts, even the wrong, foolish and chaotic thoughts called delusion. Because of the completely erroneous, chaotic and uncontrollable thoughts, people are continually plunging into delusion, serving the delusion, hoping it to be true, never reaching the truth and they are coming to the falseness. Since the thought is false the things must be changed according to the affirmation of the thoughts, becoming the temporary life of the Four Species in general and of the human beings in particular. Every realm of life is changing after the transmigration of birth and death. For that reason, the Buddha said that all dharma are deluding and fictitious. Life is a dream. You have to practice for liberation from the dream and hope for the attestation in the true supreme.” –T.V.

The clairvoyant Buddhas clearly see all living creatures’ false thoughts. Because living creatures are following the false hope, their mind lives with the false hope. How wonderful it is, the supreme Amitabha has promulgated the thoughts of going to be born in the pure land, helping living creatures to go from the obscure and false thoughts to the clear thoughts of the pure land. It is not easy either to follow precisely the Buddha way to the pure land. You should not wrongly believe that the practice of the pure land is the easiest way. Because of that false conception; you will neglect your thought and not fully understand the birth and death belt of the thought.

In his way of practice for liberation, the disciple has to realize that thoughts are extremely numerous with ceaseless manifestation. It is as numerous as the sand of the Ganga River, each grain of sand is an initial of thought, and each thought is a different seed. If the disciple clings to a conception he must receive a grain of sand to enjoy it.  For the great bodhisattva, and bodhisattva who knows how to make use of every seed as the basic dharma sphere in their practice, it becomes the very useful seed of the Tathagata.  To recognize it belongs to the great ego seeing the Tathagata to get rid of the wrong and guide to the supreme enlightenment. Therefore, the great bodhisattvas are very prudent in vowing to serve the boundless Tathagata, vowing to learn the boundless Buddha dharma. For the disciple who makes the vow as a matter of form, that is another thing, because this sentence is so ordinary!

Being erroneous in their thoughts and producing delusion and false hope, living creatures have to live temporarily in the deluding dharma and transform life to a dream. Therefore, the Buddhas have developed the way of liberation from the birth and death. Why did the disciples not wish for liberation? In whichever religion, living creatures have to be liberated from birth and death; though coming to the heaven world, they would return after their death to the secular world and to be never in satisfaction and peace.

“The false ego itself is the spiritual representative of living creatures who have blindly followed the false imagination, leaving the true enlightenment and not yet returning to the eight elements. The eight elements spirit is thus constant and permanent. The recognition would make living creatures achieve perfectly their Buddha way. Therefore, the Buddha has encouraged the bodhsattvas to deeply penetrate into the dharma world and practice for the prajna in order to be able to receive completely the prajna mind and enjoy paradise in peace. They should eliminate all false thoughts in order to master their own body and life, all dharma, and thoroughly understanding the enlightenment.” –T.V.

The supreme enlightened like him has thoroughly guided the bodhisattvas. Therefore, the latter have employed suitable language to preach to disciples, guiding living creatures according to each individual circumstance. The bodhisattva has relied on the thoughts to understand thoroughly numberless falsely imaginary thoughts of living creatures lost in the birth and death cycle. This is in order to attain the prajna mind, to get out of the false thoughts belt, to be master of their own body and all dharma, in order to attain the true enlightenment. He can then continue to conduct the vow and realize the vow for deep penetration until attaining the constant and permanent spirit of eight elements before becoming Buddha.

How difficult it is, but many of those in the Buddha sphere have been wrongly attached and believed themselves to be Buddhas, just as He has countlessly witnessed in this Dharma Ending Age.

“It is insufficient for the bodhisattva to use only conduct in his way of practice for liberation. The conduct must be accompanied by the will and vow. Then he is called the bodhisattva with complete conduct-vow. Otherwise, conduct alone, when conservative and stabilized, will only become a wood statue and dried bud and the bodhisattva is living in empty and distant self-feelings’ thought. The bodhisattva with will and vow is the one who already has an ascendant conduct. Without the will and vow the bodhisattva would be only posing as bodhisattva with his consolidated thoughts, never exploiting the thoughts in himself to illuminate all over and be aware of himself.” –T.V.

The Bodhisattva having a consolidated conduct is usually loved by all. Therefore, in the presence of an impure or difficult dharma with embarrassment, he is often discouraged. For that reason, he has to make a great will and vow in order to advance farther in his way of complete liberation. It is by this way that he could fully conduct the vow and understand numberless living creatures, getting perfectly clear the purity and impurity and vowing to offer it to the Tathagata. The bodhisattva is then free of pollution; he is fearlessly satisfied, getting the great compassion and complete liberation through wisdom. The satisfied great bodhisattva is no longer polluted at all in his work of penetrating into the dharma world, only wishesing to acquire the knowledge of all, even without the attainment of the second vehicle. The bodhisattva still practices, and recognizes pact, in order to gets the dharani and together with the Tathagata enters the samadhi right concentration, waiting for the occasion to be ordained by the Buddhas to become Buddha.

When entering the dharma sphere, the bodhisattva keeps up high mindedness in spite of curses because it is the indispensable Buddha Nature he ought to obtain.

“On account of the universal contradictory mind, the ego undertakes every aspect of thought as clinging as living creatures’ limit. The representation must be lively tolerant, ranging from the purity to the impurity, which manifest themselves without omission. Hence, the thought is the master of three thousand worlds and the Buddhas’ Three Dharma Elements.

The three dharma elements of the Buddhas unanimously rely upon the basic vows of saving living creatures entirely in order to attain enlightenment. The Buddhas, therefore, make their apparition so those living creatures could see them. This apparition likened to an abode where the Buddhas embodied themselves whereas the bodhisattvas, returning to the world are relying on their bodies and undertaking the special regulation of manifestations. The manifested Buddhas have the privilege to attest the universe. The manifested bodhisattvas save human beings, and attest the degree of acquisition for living creatures. The Buddhas, therefore, have attained the full truth, the sound good and perfect enlightenment.” –T.V.

The thought is the representation of the spirit; it is, therefore, omnipotent, from the purity to the impurity, ruling the Three Thousand Great Thousand Worlds, even the Three Dharma-Solution of the Buddha. The Buddhas are always great in benevolence and compassion. They have constantly the basic vow to save all living creatures to enlightenment as they have done. As a result, they would rely primarily on the living creatures to open up the dharma and see and know the root of every dharma so as to help the living creatures become the Buddha.

As for the bodhisattvas, when returning to this secular world, they rely on the Tathagata Buddha’s constitution. They are assuming the responsibility of the living creatures’ salvation, following the Buddha’s principle guidelines. They are neither strictly following the sutra nor getting rid of it. The Buddhas control all their thoughts, so they have all powers and the Buddha’s authorities, which are countless and boundless, overcoming all difficulties, satisfactorily seeking for ways of offering living creatures bliss and peace. As the Chief Monk of Long Hoa, Lord Supreme Maitreya Buddha provides a well arranged international world where the two oppositions can share their co-existence in peace, helping them avoid a nuclear war menacing mankind, which helps them live in peace for good. He has arranged and set up the world in a wonderful order, a new order of the world.

It takes thousands of thoughts in conjunction with words to describe the current condition between Vietnam today and the People’s Republic of China, which has been well set up and reformed. It is a crossroad of the East and the West. You should not think it is yourself who produce and create it, because when leading the living creatures, the Buddhas have used the Samadhi concentration to attain unthinkable clairvoyance. There are thousands of truths in these confidential words. For those who have known the samadhi, only a slight action can reveal the real truth.

Seeing the world, He has promulgated the Proclamation of Attestation of the Universe. As for the dharma, he has restored the order in the practice, following the Main Ideas of the Three Dharma-Solutions of the Buddhas. The bodhisattvas, arahants ordained by the signed and sealed mandate of the Buddhas, have saved living creatures according to the Buddhas’ constitution. The bodhisattvas can do nothing outside the nation of the Buddhas. Due to their conduct-vow, they can progress gradually to the enlightened Buddha. There must be a parallelism of the dharma and the life in order to become fully an enlightened Buddha. Know yourself before you proclaim yourselves to be the Buddha.

“The thought is not fallible and neither is the store consciousness? Not being mistaken, one can obviously perceive the Tathagata, meet the Tathagata and they become the one. So, their practicing is not sufficient to complete and to appear under the form of the Nirvana of Eight Elements. Why? Because the eight elements have to experience the Maha Pari Nirvana as the eight elements are completely enlightened. What are the Eight Elements? The first six are:

      1- Earth             2- Water

      3- Wind             4- Fire

      5- Emptiness     6- Consciousness- Store

Among these 6 elements the universe consists of four elements: earth, water, wind, and fire. Besides the earth, water, wind and fire, there are two additional elements in the four species: emptiness and conscious store, therefore when returning to life, the four species are the masters of the universe. The inheritance of the four species confines itself in the direct retribution of their previous existence and the receiving results of their deeds in harmony with their thoughts. Therefore, men and devas have made use of the thought for their progress, and those of the second vehicle have to employ their fixed thought to create the heaven to succeed in their principal foundations. Besides that, there are only three spheres such as the desire sphere, the form sphere, the formless sphere and the spheres of devas and fairies, which apply to the empty consciousness- store and are called the three thousand great thousand worlds. Its quality and material are formed according to the class and series.

The two remaining elements are transcendent and called the Tathagata element and enlightened form element. Therefore, as long as you are not mistaken, you can only meet the Tathagata or perceive the Tathagata, but not yet attain the Tathagata. You have to understand the infinite emptiness and know well the great enlightened form of the Buddha.” –T.V.

If the thought is not fallible the bodhisattva can enter the constitution’s Tathagata, which is the seen Tathagata, and thoroughly understand that the Tathagata is perfect and generous. The bodhisattvas in the presence of the Tathagata can recognize the seen Tathagata everywhere in the four stages. The mahasattva has to enter deeply the eight elements of the Tathagata before being fully enlightened.

Only the Blessed One, Long Hoa Chief Monk Lord Supreme Maitreya Buddha can achieve the eight elements to enter the infinite emptiness and fully understand the enlightened form of the Buddha.

The Four Species guided by their thoughts with the clairvoyance; they will get the blessed rewards of devas and men; with the obscure thought they will receive the result of their deeds to become asura, hunger devil, animals and hells. If they know how to use their thought to master their body and mind, master the three thousand, they can receive the direct retribution of their previous existence. The bodhisattvas have fully known how to use their thought. For the inferiors, whatever practices might be, they will still be controlled by their thoughts. For that reason, the Buddhas have recommended the disciples to pray for the Buddha to have bright thoughts, and be free from receiving the results of their evil deeds, but living creatures without a determined mind are still lost in the birth and death cycle.

The bodhisattvas meeting the Tathagata should take the Tathagata Element as a refuge to practice until the perfect enlightened form element and wait to be ordained by the Buddhas to become Buddha.

From the second vehicle to those who practice for blessed rewards of men and devas, all are using their thought as a fixed thought. In the fixed thought, there are all kinds of subjects, which receive their case as a result of their deeds. For example, the fairies and deities are dwelling in a pure plane, which becomes a formed nirvana and consider the emptiness as fullness. For those who do not practice for the direct retribution of their previous existence, they will fall into the Nirupadhisesa - Nirvana, presently without seeing the Buddha, or getting the enlightened form element.

Only the Buddhas with adequate eight elements could perfectly instruct the bodhisattvas, maha bodhisattvas to recognize the eight elements. For the arahants, only when they are no longer dwelling in the Buddha sphere they could see the Tathagata and deeply penetrate into the enlightened form element. It is extremely difficult, from the Triple Canon to the wonderful application in the Buddhas' words and acts. All the teachings make the four orders of disciples enter illumination, but their seed nature and seed karma of all kinds produce a hinder ignorance making the cognition very difficult impeding the four orders.

Because the living creatures are indifferent, not firmly determined and having the same inclination as the boddhisattva, they are thus not yet maturing the fruit of their practice. They have to raise themselves in order to resolve their body, their thoughts, taking the ascendance as a bright thought, perspicaciously discovering the consciousness- store and returning to the suchness. By such a manner of practice and realization there cannot be hindrance and impediment from the karma.

You can realize that: The Tagathata itself does not preach the dharma nor do living creatures themselves hear it. The Blessed One has said: "You are right, you yourself do not hear the dharma nor do i myself preach it. How wonderful and how miraculous it is! That is truly the Supreme Blessed One. Otherwise, if the Tathagata has preached the dharma and the Venerable Subhiti has listened to it, all would be false dharma. Receiving imaginary thoughts, how can you get the enlightened form to penetrate into the emptiness and get over it to come to enlightenment?"

LORD SUPREME MAITREYA WITH LONG HOA

INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I: LORD SUPREME MAITREYA’S PAST INCARNATIONS
CHAPTER II: I CAME FROM THE TUSITA HEAVEN

CHAPTER IV: TRANMISSION OF THE PRECIOUS DHARMA
CHAPTER V: A NATION OF PEACE AND DELIGHT
CHAPTER VI: THE VENERABLE OFFERINGS
CHAPTER VII: THE ATTESTATION OF THE BUDDHA KING

55. Because Of Mistakes It Transforms

55. Because Of Mistakes It Transforms

“The supreme enlightened one has fully understood that the stupidity has no root, contrarily, it has the source, because it results from the living creatures' ego. Therefore, he has indicated living creatures to leave their ego and to rely on the non-ego to seek for the great truth relying on the multitude of rivers gradually to flow into the vast sea. The Buddhist Master has spoken on this point, he likely appeared to be contemplated then praised with himself: how difficult the way to the enlightenment is. I myself have experienced through countless difficulties and now arrive at the vast sea, but it is hard to explain it to all living beings as they are still wandering in the dream and yet awake. My power is the power of the immense ocean, whereas the abilities of living creatures are just like the sea foam floating on the waves.”


– T.V.
Stupidity has no root; as if, it has the root - thus the practice would never lead to enlightenment. Contrarily, the stupidity has the source instead. Why?

Because the initial conditional generates the mind, that is the source of stupidity. Once the mind is generated, the mind then has it own nature that is the source of stupidity. That nature must have its consciousness that is the source of stupidity. Consciousness is lively in ceaseless motion, because the disciple or the non-disciple who wisheses for the consciousness to be halted and clung thus it becomes karma. That is just the source of stupidity in the four stages, mistakenly be embracing attachment and it becomes the living creatures world. The disciple who clearly perceives without either embracing attachment or clinging will acquire complete, or yet complete in every aspect of superior and inferior degrees, and clearly understands the source of stupidity. One thoroughly knows that the source of stupidity is created by karma. He has to penetrate deeply the dharma world until the true acquisition then finishes off the source of stupidity. Consciousness hereby is the spiritual consciousness, the spiritual consciousness is the thought that frequently clings and attaches to the possessive ego of the consciousness creating the karma.

Therefore, the disciple needs to seek for the procedure to dissolve the karma or to search out the one who has entirely attained the path of bodhisattva instructing to dissolve the karma. The karma is incalculable and also called the hundred rivers with many directions and aspects and is extremely clever and delicate. Many disciples are still having karma-consciousness and do not know what the karma-consciousness is, thus they are duped by the karma-consciousness. This leads them to proclaim themselves to be somebody, and it is really mistaken and eternally disastrous. Clearly dissolving all karma, the disciple will be able to return to the true supreme that is called towards the vast sea.

Overcoming the most difficult time in one’s life, the more the karma is gradually dissolved, the more the wisdom can develop and receive the precious dharma. The living creatures are using the abilities of learning through literature, study without knowing how to dissolve the karma; they are just like the water foam floating in the river without reaching their goal of enlightenment. Enduring and overcoming immeasurably thorny embarrassments is extremely difficult. That is the power of ocean becoming the Buddha. Fully attaining it, that is the bodhisattva.

“Praising with himself, the Buddhist master has conducted his right mindfulness to communicate with the Buddhas of Ten Directions, shaking the three lives. The Buddhas have unanimously ordained the zealous words pronounced by the Buddhist master. Afterward, the Buddhist master has said: “oh, great men of old acquaintance, in the practice the parallel way of present enlightenment you have never yet met me, but now you are meeting me wherever it is, provided that you have recognized the true practical doctrine, we are of old acquaintance. Otherwise, even meeting together and living in the same place if you were negligent and lazy, though reciting the sutra you could not perceive me at all. What a big waste to spend your whole life and not yet constructing.” –T.V.

For those who have dissolved all karma, they can communicate with the Buddhas of Ten Directions even by just one newly coming thought. As for the Enlightened One like the Chief Monk of Long Hoa, Lord Supreme Maitreya Buddha, every arisen thought is a right mindfulness, which can shake the three lives and also communicates with the Buddhas.

The great men of old acquaintance are precisely the great bodhisattvas who have practiced, relied on the moving consciousness, which is the moving dharma of the spiritual consciousness, and mindful consciousness.

For the high practitioner, consciousness is the clinging to the consciousness without being attached. That is the bodhisattva who is clinging, but without clinging. It is by doing so that he can dissolve the stupidity’s source of the consciousness. The profounder one, like the great bodhisattva, knows thoroughly the origin of the consciousness. He has practiced until attaining the awareness of his own nature, not relying on the consciousness to be clung and embracing attachment in the consciousness. If embracing attachment then naturally his practicing enlightenment would only reach to a certain degree. It is like relying on the non ego to seek for the true ego; it is that old acquaintance in the past who is meeting together now in Long Hoa to receive the obvious explanation of practice.

All the patriaches, the fairies and deities of the time of the Sakyamuni Buddha have assembled adequately at Long Hoa; they are now reborn in Vietnam. The majority of them reach the degree of arahant, sravaka, pratyeka who are in the difficult embarrassment of consciousness, as if they practice, the Lord will continuously teach them, otherwise, relying on the reciting of the sutra they will be at a standstill with attachment and being mistaken therefore it becomes mistaken.

“Oh, all of you, the old acquaintances, now let me tell you: together we take a look at the infinite emptiness, at the mountains and rivers along with us. We ourselves are seeking for the enlightenment direction. In our own nature, we dissolve the attachment and stupidity. We exterminate the ego, in the reason and fact of the practice. I am together with you treading it under our foot. But it persists through millions of human, heaven lives or is reborn in the animal world, becoming devils and ghosts in the interminable fall and rise. For that reason, the Buddhas and saints constantly persist while living creatures are constantly changing. When there is an end between Buddha and living creatures, while seeking for awareness, they are being in stupidity, and in the stupidity, they will perceive the awareness. How strange it is, there is higher pride in the saint’s position and less in the living creature’s position. How difficult it is, the practice for purity is caught with the impure mind. The correction of mistakes gives rise to bad habits.” –T.V.

Speaking to those of old acquaintance, He is expressing his confidences to the disciples who are intentionally seeking for enlightenment belonging to the bodhisattva rank. Looking at the infinite emptiness is looking at the manifestation of all dharma without attachment and objection. And with a clear mind to understand thoroughly the dharma, just like to look at the immense mountains and rivers to make the mind generous and tolerant, not attached to any dharma. As for the reason and fact, which require daily practice, it aims to experience the dharma world. Otherwise, any form of practice would be prolonged to millions of lifetimes. Being excellent in theory without knowing the harm of embracing seeds of bad karma even whoever you are, after departing from life you would receive the results of your deeds to become some kind of buffalo, cow, horse... It is really disastrous. Those who are cruel will appear as ghosts and devils, which is their right destiny. Therefore, the Buddha and the living creatures are separately millions of miles away. The living creatures practice for purity, then, by being entangled in the isolating purity that is still impure mind, clinging in disastrous emptiness. And correcting the mistake without knowing the origin of the karma consciousness is still to carry the immense self-ego which also is impure and not yet pure. If the disciple is not yet dissolving clearly his karma, but regards himself as a saint, then being of higher pride he also admits himself as a living creature, then he would not realize he is receiving a noxious karma and is sinking. That is natural.

“He said: How wonderful it is! The nature, the mountains and rivers, the vegetation, the sky, the cloud and myelf are simply one: the mutual transformation by unanimous correspondence appears in the awareness. Whereas people believe human beings and vegetation, or the mountain and rivers, are two. That is extremely erroneous.

The Adi Buddha, at that time, he already has the physical nature quality similar to the mountain, river and the universe. Therefore, he has often entered in meditation to observe and control all over. He said: my eyes see the emptiness. I put myself into the infinite emptiness; i am seeing the emptiness no more, but understanding thoroughly the emptiness. That is the enlightened form. I am getting in and out of all dharma without being polluted with defilement. I did not yet see how all dharma manifest; nevertheless, i recognized how all dharma naturally progressed. That means I have spontaneously perceived the physical nature of all dharma.” –T.V.

One day, after emerging from right meditation, the Buddhist Master has comprehended the mystery of the universe. These at first seem to be simple and trivial. However, if it is carefully examined it can perceive wonderful, unique, and fascinating things in its deepest meaning.

The human body and four species are formed by the four elements: soil, water, wind, and fire. The vegetation, the sky and cloud are also formed from the four elements such as the trunk, the branch and the leaves are from the soil.

   √ The vegetation as trees, plants, contains four elements:
      • Soil: trunks, branches, and leaves
      • Water: breaking a branch or a leaf, which shows a Liquid like water
      • Wind: the circulation of the chyliferous sap along the Branch to nourish  the  plant
      • Fire: the high or low temperature of the plant

   √ Just the same, a block of stone, a grain of soil already has four elements:
      • Soil: The formation and density of the stone
      • Water: It becomes wet when immersing it in water.
      • Wind: It becomes broken when smashing it
      • Fire: It is hot according to the temperature when burning it.

Therefore, all things have their four elements and spirit and mind. If we take a log, a stone or clay to create Buddha, saint or deity for praying and supplicating, after a while, there is maybe a success. Therefore, all things also have spirit and successful nature. This successfulness is corresponding to the nature and the sincerity of the prayer.

Therefore, under the Buddhist master's eye, the mountains, the rivers, the sky, the clouds and the human beings are one.

Human beings have the knowledge after the organs have been formed by mutual transformation. The vegetation has also its knowledge, which nourishes and grows the plant; it knows to develop its leaves, flowers and fruits. It has also its longevity according to its species. Human longevity is about 70 to 100 years each lifetime. The stone and the soil also have their knowledge as it produces all living things, insects and organism of all species on earth according to the environment and condition of the temperature. In the water, there are lots of fishes produced as well. In the air, there are also numerous bacteria and virus. How wonderful it is. The nature, the mountain, the river, the vegetation, the sky, the cloud, and we ourselves, are one; the mutual transformation combines homogeneity to appear correspondingly.

The eye seeing the emptiness means the seeing of the natural manifestation of all dharma, it is not by anyone’s hand to create the manifestation of the mountain, river and earth element. I integrate myself to the infinite emptiness means I bring my entire body and mind to observe carefully the manifestation of the mountain, the river, the vegetation, the cloud and water. I do not see the emptiness and yet I thoroughly understand it. That means entering into the mountain, river and earth element to observe and understand the natural manifestation of all dharma, but I do not see myself in it, but understand the mutual transformation, which naturally produces the whole of nature. That is the enlightened form of all dharma.

The origin of all things depends upon how to combine and transform. Reaching the truly entire knowledge I am no longer myself. I and the nature, the mountain, the river, the vegetation, the sky and the cloud are into one. Hence, I witness in reality the physical nature of all dharma naturally manifest so.

The mountain, the river, the globe, the vegetation, and the total of things naturally manifest, this manifestation belongs to the physical nature which naturally transforms, spontaneously transforms, by itself. It harmonizes with all living creatures and four species naturally to manifest without discrimination.

 

LORD SUPREME MAITREYA WITH LONG HOA

INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I: LORD SUPREME MAITREYA’S PAST INCARNATIONS
CHAPTER II: I CAME FROM THE TUSITA HEAVEN

CHAPTER IV: TRANMISSION OF THE PRECIOUS DHARMA
CHAPTER V: A NATION OF PEACE AND DELIGHT
CHAPTER VI: THE VENERABLE OFFERINGS
CHAPTER VII: THE ATTESTATION OF THE BUDDHA KING

54. The Bodhisattvas’ Great Vows Of Constructing Living Creatures

54. The Bodhisattvas' Great Vows Of Constructing Living Creatures

“The Visvabhavera Bodhisattva has vowed to help the disciples in the practice for diligent vow, the Manjusri has vowed to help the practice for wisdom vow, the Mahasthama-Prapta has vowed to help all the practice for the principle transformed mind vow. The Avalokitesvara has vowed to save the sufferering vow and to dissolve disasters vow. And all the bodhisattvas have vowed to help living creatures to achieve the would-be Buddha Vow. At that time, the Eastern Land Bhaisajyaguru emitted the yellow- yellow light, white- white light vowing to help living creatures to practice the insight vow. The Western Land Amitabha has wishesed the rebirth in the pure land vow. All the devas fairies deities and dragon men have never yet known about it, how could the disciples in the four orders understand fully what the Buddhas have done? The bodhisattvas have vowed to help living creatures to change gradually their nature and construct their abilities.”


– T.V.
The Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva often saves all the disciples who practice for liberation in the first stage to cross over the dissolution of suffering. The disciple himself dissolves his own sufferings. That is just the conduct of the Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva.

On being lazy, the disciple consciously rises up and energetically overcomes all dharma. That is just the conduct of the Visvabrada in accordance with the body. There is accurate correspondence there is immediately apparition. Examining of the entire body and mind, there is no more the seed nature of living creatures. That is the apparition of bodhisattva nature. The wisdom generates sensible and sharp insight. That is the conduct of the Mahasthama-prapta. While preaching, one first hears oneself then judging there is no more transformed mind, the generated mind that is the vow of the Manjusri.

The devas and fairies have never yet known about the salvation of the Buddhas, because the Buddhas have appeared in the essentially physical body of the Samadhi. Those, who have not yet acquired the Samadhi, would not be able to know it; therefore, the disciples who still maintain in the mind and nature of living creatures will never understand about the Buddhas' salvation. That is quite right.

“In the construction of the abilities and nature, its principle depends upon the living creatures and the Four Species who should rise up for the construction by themselves. The Buddhas and the bodhisattvas could not construct in place of Living Creatures. For that reason, the highly faithful disciples who even would not yet rise up to overcome all dharma and circumstances, yet dissolve by themselves the stupidity and just keep on supplicating and praying, could never yet achieve one day of practice.” –T.V.

The bodhisattvas practicing the prajna-mind and the vow of dhrani transformed mind fully attain the enlightened mind towards the suchness mind. Therefore, they are repeatedly reciting to resolve all dharma any time.

“The Buddhas have taught the bodhisattvas to leave their ego, without clinging, but clinging. Clinging, but without clinging, that is just the getting in and out the circumstance without hesitation to receive the dharma of great compassion dharani principle nature. Therefore, there are these words: the non-ego bodhisattvas received the eight elements great ego, while living creatures with their ego remain in stupidity.” –T.V.

Without clinging, but clinging that means detaching from the dharma, but knowing how to clear the dharma. For example, in the presence of living with a malicious character, i do not act maliciously. However, i have to know meticulously how the bad effect of seed nature’s malice is. Whenever meeting them i will always be alert, but i will not behave as they do.

Clinging, but without clinging: that means while penetrating the dharma sphere, the disciple should examine and understand thoroughly, but should not apply it in unsuitable situations. For instance, when the Lord was still alive, through his teachings, the disciples interestingly preached to everybody whatever they have heard strictly according to His words. That made the other people, who are without sickness, mistakenly ingest it and created more sickness. In His teaching, he has taught the bodhisattvas that they should neither follow strictly nor separate the sutra, they should explicitly understand the application of all dharma to the Triple-Canon Sutra and without clinging, but clinging, clinging but without clinging.

“The bodhisattva often puts himself, his position or his body in the circumstance of living creatures to see and understand it clearly in order to resolve and help living creatures without discriminating between the good and the bad, the purity and the impurity, aiming at the living creatures’ benefit. The bodhisattva is neither ashamed nor pleased; because of living creatures he keeps on enduring. Therefore, he has been going through many lifetimes undergoing the dharma salvation, saving a lot of living creatures and is then free from faults. He has accumulated a great deal of beneficence, which is matchless to anyone; that is the bodhisattva's offering to the Tathagata. That makes the Tathagata eulogize him. Therefore, he has acquired the appearance of the essential samadhi form.” –T.V.                                                                         

In order to entirely attain the bodhisattva’s seed-nature, the venerables and the saints should diligently realize the gift of fearlessness, aiming to offer to the Tathagata. The bodhisattva does not hesitate between the good and bad, the purity and the impurity, making the living creatures realize to save the living creatures nature. When the mind is disengaged, he then could acquire self satisfaction. Having the self satisfaction, he could achieve purity, impurity and the appearance of the essential samadhi form. From experience, the disciple must truly sacrifice, aiming to save the living creature nature and deservingly the Tathagata Buddha initiates the seale attestation. Very rare are those who practice self satisfaction able to attain it. They are only realizing the self-satisfaction according to their personal desire. It is by practicing in Long Hoa association and meeting the Lord Supreme Maitreya that we can fully understand this dharma of self-satisfaction.

“Why is the unique way of the buddhayana easy to hear, but difficult to realize or easy to realize, but difficult to hear? It is easy to hear, but difficult to realize because of insufficiency in each degree of practice. One must completely understand the important of the direct retribution of one's previous existence and the receiving results of one's deeds in the incalculable meanings. Otherwise, it is easy to realize according to the sense desire, but hard to hear the Buddha's words.”
–T.V.

The Mahayana way is to be joyful and detached to correct and resolve clearly the living creature nature. The unique vehicle way is called the buddhayana, which is correct to resolve clearly the living creature nature and manipulate all dharma. Therefore, it is prompt to understand through the hearing, but the realization without perfection, closeness and clarification of the dharma form like Buddha that is difficult to realize.

If it is easy to realize, but difficult to hear, that means the realization according to the wish of Buddha, is still remaining in karma- fetter. Therefore, they are not throughly hearing and understanding. While self-control is not yet sufficient, the realization is not accurate with the principle guideline of the Buddhas. That is called easy to realize, but difficult to hear.

“The bodhisattva has recognized what all the dharma of favor and unfavor, happiness and unhappiness, in whatever situation is. He always feels natural and does not see it as the situation. Why?

The bodhisattva admits the enlightened form thoroughly and understands the dharma. He is free from the generated mind. His mind is not rebellious against the situation, thus he is willing to deliver all dharma of favor and unfavor to the peaceful and joyful place. His admission is just for awakening. On the seed nature, the Buddha cannot see the living creatures, the bodhisattvas. He only sees that all are Tathagata's representatives appearing correspondingly to Tathagata, offering to Tathagata and are equal to the Buddhas. For that reason, the Buddhas are too close to the living creatures, too equal, extremely natural and excessively familiar so they cannot teach and save the living creatures, only the bodhisattvas can do that.” –T.V.

The bodhisattva achieving the enlightened form of all dharma, entirely comprehends and sees all dharma of favor and unfavor, so his hearing-seeing-knowing are not mistaken. There are many disciples who preach the dharma excellently. Nevertheless, they are unable to understand and see the dharma in front of them. The seed nature of the Buddha nature is precisely that of the Tathagata. Such is the origin of each seed nature; it is necessary to know thoroughly its species to make appropriate use of its physical nature, quality and weight, in order to inherit the truth. The seed nature of the Buddha is obviously clear while the seed nature of the living creature is entangled. Therefore, these two seed natures are a million miles apart and cannot see each other. The seed nature of bodhisattva is ascendant, which is still on the way of salvation and cultivating the dharma of the equality to the perfection. Consequently, the seed nature of Buddha contains the seed nature of living creature and the seed nature of bodhisattva that is not the seed-nature of Buddha and there is everywhere the unique appearance of the Tathagata nature.

The Buddha and the living creatures are very far, but also very close to each other. It is far because the living creatures are being polluted thus they do not know the Buddha. And the Buddhas are originally like the living creatures who cultivate and attain the enlightenment. For that reason, they have thoroughly known the living creatures and understood every aspect of living creatures without deficiency, even any species with their origin and effect, which is too equal as if in manipulation of it there should be inequality in every aspect. It is extremely natural, because the Buddhas are originally from the living creatures and know living creatures well without mistake. It is excessively familiar because without living creatures there is no foundation for cultivating to be the Buddha. It is unable to save living creatures because the living creatures are just living creatures; the Buddhas are just Buddhas they cannot be mixed with each other so that it is impossible for the deliverance. It is only by living creatures themselves, with sufficient merits and adequate repentance, that they are capable of insight to alter the nature of the saint, to the bodhisattva then to the Buddha. Once having the Buddha nature, they really understand that the living creatures are living creatures, the Buddhas are Buddhas, and they are too far, but close, and too close, but far from each other. That is actually excellent, only the bodhisattva who are still cultivating then can satisfactorily save the living creatures.

Due to the immense differences of the two seed natures of living creatures and Buddhas, when the Buddha comes into the world the living creatures would not be able to meet him. Only the bodhisattva, on the way of conducting their vow and realizing their vow waiting to become the Buddha, could save the living creatures. It is supposed that the living creatures could have met the Buddha but they would have not heard the Buddha’s words. Exclusively, those who have the ascendant will such as the bodhisattva with the will of leaving their ego rather like to live in the Tathagata sea than the Buddha dharma, even though yet being the bodhisattva still be able to meet the Buddha. Most living creatures only meet the Buddha through the pictures, the statues carved by wood or cement... for admiring, worshipping and supplicating.  Only those of enlightened form who just hear about the Buddha can recognize his appearance in a body of four elements like living creatures, but different from them.

How wonderful it is - the stupidity with the enlightenment - the Buddha and the living creatures.

“Diligence is a complete dharma-subject for the three faculties, from the small faculty, the great faculty, to the supreme faculty. All are due to the merits that accomplish the abilities then to the diligent force.

The diligent force leans on the visvabhavera conduct. The great bodhisattvas have practiced well, leaned on the diligent to comprehend perfectly the seed nature of the four saints, knew meticulously every instant of the manipulation in the transmigration of the production and destruction, the destruction and production of the dharma world. Because of that, the living creatures are thus stupid and become the living creatures’ world. The difference between the great bodhisattva and the buddha consists only in the entire achievement and the yet unfinished achievement.” –T.V.

About the diligent force, the great bodhisattvas have completely penetrated all dharma; whichever dharma also laid in the category of the no-birth therefore there is no more laziness. Having no laziness apparently it is needless to be diligent. Being diligent in this case is still having the sickness of strictly following the sutra without expounding the meaning of it.

The unique career vehicle disciples are neither lazy nor diligent; thus they can understand thoroughly the meticulous manipulation in the transmigration of the birth and death, the death and birth of all dharma. Having neither death nor birth, that is precisely the no-birth. The great bodhisattvas have fully attained the meticulous dharma world; the Buddhas have entirely comprehended the meticulous dharma world.

“The dharma subject of diligence begins from the outset in the sincere mind as well as the fervent mind that brings about the contemporary disciples to generate their bodhi mind, seeking for the dharma. These disciples often experience through the system of admiring the dharma, loving the dharma thus understanding the dharma. From the determined   bodhi to the determined bodhisattva cultivating for the great bodhisattva, those with insufficient diligence have difficulty in their success. The diligence has to be accompanied with the ability to digest an insult to provide a basic wisdom which enlightens and communicates to all meditation, called the concentrated wisdom.” –T.V.

Those practicing the dharma subject of enlightenment all have to admire the dharma then to love the dharma and thus could understand the dharma. Those who do not love the dharma, practicing with indifference and without enthusiasms in the penetration of all dharma, would not be enlightened.

During this Final Law Period, the Lord Chief Monk of Long Hoa, Maitreya Buddha has frequently reminded the true disciples of the sincere mind, they should love the dharma. Having done so, the disciples could have faith and conduct the vow according to the lord’s words to realize without stepping back in the presence of unfavorable and rebellious dharma. Life is rough, that makes the disciple energetically determine and clearly resolved to achieve the determined bodhi, the determined bodhisattva. That is the treading path of the great bodhisattva.

The disciples practicing the determined bodhi to the determined bodhisattva are very rare, indeed. Those should have an immensely profound root faculty: they should be persistent in resolving meticulously all the favorable and unfavorable dharma without deficiency in order to be accurate with the spirit of the bodhisattva. The disciples with diligence, in accompanying with ability to digest an insult, clearly enlighten all dharma and entirely understand their origin without mistake. That is called the right concentration. Having the right concentration, there is immediately the comprehensive wisdom; therefore, whatever in transforming dharma, that will achieve the no-birth completely. The dharma subject of the Buddhas is executed meticulously, truly in resolving and manipulating all dharma by the bodhisattva. It is neither simplicity nor generalization of a unilateral aspect like those of Mahayana.

The more the advance, the more careful he must be toward the dharma subject of the Buddha, which includes the four bases of sympathy, the six perfections, compassion-will-courage, faith-conduct-vow and morality-concentration-wisdom. The bodhisattvas should assume these to be their baggage until fully attaining the enlightened mind towards the suchness mind expanding and directly indicating the words of the Buddhas’ instruction.

“The bodhisattvas rank have no more self-pride, self-esteem, self-importance, self-intention, self-interest as well as self-generating. Why? Because those of self-pride, self-esteem, self-importance, and self-intention are the fictitious dharma which frequently is subject to the production and destruction, the impurity or purity, not yet belonging to the physical nature of suchness of all dharma. Furthermore, the self-pride, self-esteem, self-importance to the self-intention immediately generates itself to be higher pride, which distorts with the path of liberation. The bodhisattva actually knows that these characters are still tolerated, impregnated and firmly preserved by itself, even though in preaching and explaining with the word is seemingly the Buddha, but that is still the words of mara.” –T.V.

It is very difficult to step forward from the living creatures to the seed nature of bodhisattva. Due to the living creatures embracing the seed-karma in the living creature nature, they have to generate their mind willingly to step forward in creating the capacity to receive the precious dharma. It is easy to understand the buddha dharma through theory. However, the resolution of birth and death, the realization of enlightenment is extremely difficult.

The bodhisattva pays attention to examine carefully numerous disciples with their seed nature of living creature not yet clear, still having the self- importance, self- intention, self-satisfaction, self-generating which all are the dharma of production and destruction. Although with the excellent preaching just like the Buddha, but which is still the preaching of mara, that is not the attaining of enlightenment. When the bodhisattva, maha bodhisattva attains completely the right enlightenment they discern neither the attainment nor the practice, and leave the right enlightenment entering the right meditation then leave the right meditation. Therefore, appearing in the essential samadhi form to save the living creatures is unthinkable.

“The bodhisattvas have to eliminate the seed-natures of miserliness, revenge, envy and mean spirit. These would never mature to be the Buddha. Why? Because miserliness generates the revenge and vileness which is the hidden place of living creature’s seed-nature resting in the hungry devil animals and hell. Moreover, the bodhisattva's seed nature is essential to receive the dharma world thoroughly. From the seed nature of living creature nature in every place, every embracing karma, there are countless facts of generations in the universe of three thousand worlds. From that place of generation, the embracing seed discovers the sceneries, the spheres that name the superior birth and inferior continually.

The bodhisattva reviews in the body and mind, in the wishes and fulfillment, then he can understand that those of laziness are the resistance one. The resistance and laziness generate doubt, and the doubt itself generates a thousand dharma worlds, endless dharma worlds, which are a place of ceaseless birth and death.” –T.V.                                                                             

Many disciples of long time practice are often caught with the embracing subtle seed of living creature nature gravely and profoundly. Even those at whichever level of practice, and not yet clearing it up are still remaining in the living creature, becoming the Buddha, which is the Buddha with the dharma world of that living creatures only. As far as the Buddhism is concerned, it aims to save the living creatures to resolve the karma, to liberate from birth and death. The bodhisattvas have to clear off the karma fetter. That is the highest necessity. It is very subtle and difficult to see; furthermore, it is extremely delicate. The disciple with a disengaged mind who cannot discern it, should apply the procedure of the wonderful observation of the mind to comprehend it perfectly.

“For that reason, the bodhisattvas have vowed to acquire diligence and the great vow of compassion-will-courage to overcome every dharma world and dissolve the doubt. The bodhisattvas have fully known this doubtful attachment, as if he does not yet dissolve the seed nature of living creature, thus which sediment would carry the fruit of karma of that seed nature. Similarly the emerald bowl would never contain filthy foods. The bodhisattva admits to understand thoroughly a thousand of ways, which are still having nauseating quality, due to the above justification. Therefore, the bodhisattva has to dissolve and eliminate clearly all the seed nature of living creature to be definitive in the rank of the determined bodhisattva to practice for enlightenment.”
–T.V.

The bodhisattva admits to understand thoroughly a thousand ways: that is simple on hearing, but complex in practice because if just one dharma sphere is not yet dissolved completely, those are still carrying the fruit of karma of that seed nature. Therefore, many disciples became the Buddha World by proclaiming themselves to be the Buddhas. Out of a hundred disciples acquiring the supreme truth, there are ninety-nine disciples entering into and embracing the Buddha world. Having entered into embracing the Buddha world, which is due to the karma-faculty, karma-consciousness, karma impediment, karma defilement, karma aggregate, and karma fetter, it is incredibly difficult to be liberated.

For those who have not yet acquired the comprehension to perfection, the emerging and entering of all dharma are not yet clearly understood. The reason and fact are not yet parallel. Those are still subject to self-intention. Consequently, they are still in self-interest. Having embraced in the sphere, they are prevented by all kinds of the above karma. That makes it more difficult to receive the Buddha’s appearance. The reality is so, and there are many disciples who have met the Buddha; nevertheless, with the lack of confidence-obedience-respect, they still have not acquired either.

“The bodhisattva recognizes the reason why the disciples have not yet achieved in practice, yet have a reason and fact to be proven and have to go around with their living-creatures nature to embrace the karma. Because of yet being cleared therefore the reason and fact are not in parallel and they are practicing only in wish fulfillment seeking for achievement, but never attain it. Meanwhile, the bodhisattva is never seeking for achievement, but attains it, because the bodhisattva has corrected from the deep root. Therefore, all dharma return to the origin until no more is left. Then he can be clear.

The bodhisattva knows well the origin of living creatures’ seed nature which is caught with mistakes and embracing the karma, carrying the dharma world of being born. Due to the progressive scenes and adverse circumstances of daily life, they frequently experience hardships in the progressive scene and would never yet be comfortable like the bodhisattva.” –T.V.

having not yet paralleled reason and fact, that means the not yet paralleled virtue and wisdom, the disciple should wait until either a prospective occasion or lifetimes with an abundance of abilities and merits or when he can meet the one-rebirth bodhisattva who is realizing his vow and waiting to become the Buddha, attesting for this disciple, so that he could definitively become a bodhisattva, just like the one whom is excellent equivalently to the doctor. However, he should attend a national examination and successfully graduate with a proficient degree then should be professionally appointed before he can have the right authority.

At that time, the Lord Supreme Maitreya has said that: Even the bodhisattva who is excellent, if he is not yet attested by a Buddha, he will not be given the Buddha-power either. Indeed, the life as well as the dharma, these are two, but they are just in one and they are just in one, but they are the separate two. The bodhisattva corrects his deeply radical nature that means he corrects every subtle seed-karma in his own body. Only with a smallest unit, he clearly understands it. That leads to the incalculable attainment. Even in a minimal surface, if he would eliminate it, it leads to immeasurable acquisition. That is, the bodhisattva corrects his deeply radical nature, every minuscule. Therefore, he recurs to his original mind. It is precisely the dharma world of initial birth, initial death, purity and impurity, increase and decrease, which create the belt of transmigration of birth and death.

“The bodhisattva has known it well. From the thinking of the character in the seed nature, from the thought that develops the recollection, the thought masters the consideration (the thinking), which matures in the contemplation to the concentration then appears the act. Therefore, it is said: the thought is the mother of the act. This act depends on the class level of each living creature that has each act. The chief object where it generates the character is also the nature and mind of action, which is no other than the concordance between living creatures, or the discordance that generates the favorable and unfavorable scenes, which are the two ways that living creatures have to undergo.

The bodhisattva has actually known it, even more than that. Therefore, he truly acquired the no-birth. Owing to his strict continuity of body, speech and thought he has the majesty and power of a bodhisattva. The bodhisattva has then proclaimed: just as a word that he immediately comprehends, the Buddha makes all to rely on the bodhisattva, it is precisely the way that the bodhisattva saves the living creatures.” –T.V.

The bodhisattva obviously knows that the thought masters the thinking so he relies upon the thinking to carry it out then acquires the no-birth. The thinking without realization would create the dharma. The bodhisattva with his body, speech and thought are into one without dualistic forms would get the continuity. He needs only a word to perceive without mistake which calls just a word that he immediately comprehends the known-seen Buddha. Having communicated with the Buddha power, that is unthinkable, the bodhisattva has the continuity of unique form then enters the mindfulness to bow down to the Buddhas.

“When the bodhisattva comprehends perfectly, he leans on the diligent practice in the principal contemplation; the bodhisattva often contemplates the dharma-subject contemplating of the Avalokitesvara. Tathagata Buddha is the satisfying way of bodhisattva. This way admits adequately the purity and impurity by which all appears for the salvation. The bodhisattva often puts himself in the progressive scene and existing circumstance of living creatures to save them. For that reason, the bodhisattva perfectly comprehends in the hearing, seeing and knowing. That is called: the appearance of the essential samadhi form.” –T.V.

After the disciple has delivered the sufferings of living creatures’ nature in his body, he has then attained the bodhisattvahood and is recognized to be a bodhisattva by the promulgation of the Buddhas’ attestation. At that time, the bodhisattva has then practiced the dharma of the Avalokitesvara Tathagata Buddha, leaning on the hearing-seeing-knowing in the Tathagata Buddha, aiming to penetrate deeply in the vast sea and understand clearly the prajna.

“The bodhisattva’s appearance in the essential form has left his ego as well as possessive ego without self-pride, self-intention, and self-interest. The bodhisattva is clairvoyant and altruistic, so he can thoroughly understand the real form and formless of the samadhi’s dharma-subject, directing the real and unreal, the unreal and real. That is the attainment of the prajna. He is then called maha bodhisattva. He has no more arising suffering or secular pollution because he has already experienced the seed-nature of living creatures’ nature and bodhisattva’s nature to acquire truly.” –T.V.

Acquiring the real form and formless of the samadhi’s dharma-subject is unique. Nevertheless, the bodhisattva should still realize thousands of dharma of the supernatural samadhi to acquire it truly. Leaving the fullness and taking the ceaseless, he thoroughly perceives the noneness of ceaseless reaching the enlightened form and Buddha form. He is then to be named as the maha bodhisattva. He entirely understands the no-birth, no-extinction. He then desists from the arising suffering and secular pollution. At that time, he clearly sees and knows that living creatures are mistakenly caught at the dharma world of all worlds as well as all sceneries in the Three Thousand Great Thousand Worlds.

“The Mahasattva recognizes that, long before, the wisdom of living creatures belonged to the perfect Tathagata Mind, the Tathagata, which cannot point out, and the Perfect Tathagata that konow how to clarify it. But this handbook is aimed to transmit for all the disciples recognizing the truth and carrying it out in the way of dissolving death and birth, for that reason, it should explain as the above.” –T.V.

Living creatures originally belong to the perfectly comprehensive wisdom of Tathagata, but when they are attached and consolidating a seed nature, they are caught with the consciousness store. This consciousness store is also the Tathagata's seed, which belongs to the Tathagata store. Living creatures are consolidating their store to maintain themselves according to the reason of good and bad, right and wrong. Finally, the Tathagata cannot be shown as fixation because that is originally its physical nature. Only the maha bodhisattva, who has the enlightened form, could entirely attain the perfect comprehension of Tathagata and resolve birth and death, death and birth.

Each living creature receives a various and unequal consciousness-store, which is due to the seed-nature embracing in variety. Therefrom living creatures wrongly run after the birth and death. Therefore, it is impossible to dissolve living creatures' consciousness karma and faculty karma by literature. It is only the disciples with both knowledge and practice, called the deep penetration of the dharma world, who can recognize the perfect comprehension in the Tathagata and put an end to their mistake.

“As for the maha bodhisattva; first of all, he must be the one who attained the prajna mind. When the prajna mind is fluently able to emerge and enter the entire awareness, then he acquires the mahasattva. The disciple has to follow the way of the four bases of sympathy and six perfections to achieve the prajna mind. It is said in the above passage: you should not make use of the nothingness by leaving the mind thus to be clung, it is very harmful to the way of practice and distorted with the spirit of liberation.” –T.V.

It is so ordinary for the disciple to hear about the four bases of sympathy and six perfections. However, as far as the maha bodhisattva is concerned, his way of practice does not leave the four bases of sympathy and six perfections because these are the forte subjects of the buddhas. As for the four bases of sympathy and six perfections, the higher the practice, the more he should thoroughly understand meticulously close to the reality and he should no longer practice generally. Leaning on the prajna mind, he comprehends the embracing subtle seed meticulously in the consciousness so that he can thoroughly understand the prajna mind. It is by just hearing a phrase, a speech, a tiny deportment that the maha bodhisattva can thoroughly perceive, in the formless that can be seen by him. He is not making use of the nothingness. So he should not be clung to the nothingness, which is very harmful to the way of practice, distorted with the spirit of complete liberation through wisdom.

“The mahasattva has already resolved the three purposes such as the living creatures’ nature, bodhisattva nature and Buddha nature, thus he practices to attain the utmost end of ignorance. Then the ignorance is ended, yet the bodhisattva completely exterminates the ignorance. Therefore, he is fluently clean, without the Buddha’s seed, which is the Buddha nature. The bodhisattva becomes the Buddha to save the living beings and undergoes to construct the sacred nation, the aspectual form that is invariability, permanent tranquillity and eternity.” –T.V.

The maha bodhisattvas have already resolved the three purposes of the living creatures’ nature, bodhisattva nature and Buddha nature. Firstly, he leans on the dharma sphere to understand clearly and penetrate deeply in the dharma sphere in order to dissolve the sphere. Secondly, he leans on the initial birth and initial death, aiming to acquire the no-birth and resolve the birth and death. Thirdly, he enters into all dharma to cultivate and understand the dharma thus accomplishing the bodhihood. Once resolving fluently these three purposes, the bodhisattva practices to attain the utmost end of ignorance, to understand entirely the ignorance. For that reason, there are no more Buddha’s seeds to be entangled; the bodhisattva eventually constructs the sacred nation to enter the eternity.

“The Mahasattva penetrates deeply the true will of the Buddha’s words which instructs to guide the living creatures on the way to liberation. The Buddhas strongly recommended all disciples should neither be attached nor clung, should abandon definitively the confused and dreamy reason and action, should cultivate to admit the practice by the stainless dharma that the outcome would be a measureless position, indefinite position; they would understand the infinite position to liberate completely in order to enter Nirvana. The threshold of Nirvana is thus to be enlightened. Therefore, the Buddha has said: There is non-acquisition, but acquisition, non-attainment but attainment, non-reach but reach. Non-merits are called merits. Non-body is called body. These sealed-indications of the Buddha-principle only the mahasattvas have comprehended.” –T.V.

The true will means the sincere truth of the blessed one. The mahasattva has entirely perceived the truth, so they have sincerely guided living creatures to practice following the way of liberation through wisdom.

It is with abundant stained merits that lead to the stainless merits that the outcome would be incalculable and immeasurable completely to liberation. For that reason, the Buddha has said: there are without merits that are called the merits, without reach but reach, and without body that is called the body. That is the directly minded-seal also called the direct indication. The mahasattva has understood the hearing-seeing-knowing comprehensively, without any doubt attachment at all, without achieving the merits but there is the merits, without the dharma-body, but there is still the dharma-body, and without seeing the acquisition of himself, but there is the acquisition.

The mahasattvas deeply penetrates the dharma world adequately from the secular world to the outside of the secular world to know how the living creatures are being polluted, what they received such as the happiness and unhappiness, joyfulness and sadness, nobility and coarseness, beauty and ugliness. They are deserving of whatever they have worked for; nobody has given what they have not received. Having penetrated the dharma-world adequately, the mahasattva standing in the aspectual form has fully known to dissolve and manipulate the samadhi righteously, continuously, fluently and excellently that is truly liberation and nothing other than that.

The aspectual form of the body belongs to the fixed dharma world that is never changeable. Nevertheless, it alters all the seeds in the body; therefore, it could say it is not different, but different. It is always impossible to liberate from an unchangeable situation, but fortunately, now having the Buddha power, it appears to help so it can liberate to be reborn in the standard of tranquillity and stability.

Such a disciple is not different, but different. In an obstructed, dead-end situation he is still able to liberate from the situation, this disciple knows every particularity of seed he has to complete adequately the deficiency. For those who hope in the practice to correct the realistic wisdom, but with deficient abilities, there is difficulty to overcome the subtle death and birth. Therefore, it is very hard to understand it. Because the bodhisattva’s dharma is close to the universe, his eye can see and his ear can hear all particularly, whereas the arahants have just opened the eyes that belong to the rank of mahayana, and are unable to understand thoroughly the dharma of the unique career vehicle either.

Nowadays, there are about a quarter of Buddhist believers around the globe who are practicing Buddhism. Unfortunately, very few of them are seeking for the way of liberation. It is extremely rare ones who generate their mind for the great vow.

All the scientists should intentionally observe the aspectual form with its origin from the formation- existence – destruction - nothingness. It depends upon the situation thus to be accordant with and transformed by it. In fact, it is never having the annihilation. The supreme enlightened one relies on it to understand clearly, but does not annihilate it. That is called relying on the birth and death to dissolve the death and birth thus comprehending eternally.

Science is using the materials to fabricate and discover many new marvelous things providing for mankind sufficiently a comfort of living as well as all kinds of medicine to cure diseases. However, all human beings just live within a limited period of lifetime and finally have to undergo, with the same predestination which accords to their daily life, every minute, every second and disposed in the birth and death cycle.

 

LORD SUPREME MAITREYA WITH LONG HOA

INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I: LORD SUPREME MAITREYA’S PAST INCARNATIONS
CHAPTER II: I CAME FROM THE TUSITA HEAVEN

CHAPTER IV: TRANMISSION OF THE PRECIOUS DHARMA
CHAPTER V: A NATION OF PEACE AND DELIGHT
CHAPTER VI: THE VENERABLE OFFERINGS
CHAPTER VII: THE ATTESTATION OF THE BUDDHA KING

53. Only Buddhism can get Insight into The Super Science

53. Only Buddhism can get Insight into The Super Science

 The Buddhism is very modern, not traditional. It is truly the basis of the infinite civilization; it does not draw back the four species and humanity to the old fashions of antiquity. Thus, it is all the times venerated lively and it always has sufficient scriptures to guide living creatures in the way to eternity, to the place where men live together in peace and comfort, love one another as flesh and blood. Only the conception between men and men with the excessive regard to their own interest makes Buddhism backward.


Through numerous affirmations, the faithful disciples may be awakened to receive the sutra words and carry out the resolution. That is exactly the genuine practice. They should not practice in tendency after the organization and neglect the practice of resolving their body and mind; so doing, how can they attain liberation through wisdom?


–The True Originality of Realism Sutra
“Strictly speaking, in this twentieth century, only Buddhism can penetrate the super science. It is really difficult to understand and recognize it. Why is that? Because science proceeds through the combination of existing materials to form the substances and transform the conditions into creating all various forms, all subjects and branches which are the concrete evidences to be justified for the world and mankind. Especially, Buddhism comprehends the attainment of each disciple even though that disciple understands clearly the above word is true. Is that, only Buddhism can penetrate into super science? There is no evidence to justify yet; therefore, the knowledge of oneself is one thing, while understanding completely and explaining successfully is another matter; the clear explanation and justification of a solution is an obvious policy. Those who can recognize that the truth is a remarkable thing, also have heard that in order to put it into practice is the most critical point in this super lesson.” –T.V.

If all the scholars, the scientists, the philosophers as well as the psychologists have patiently read and justified it, you will notice the Buddha path of which the Chief Monk of Long Hoa, Lord Supreme Maitreya Buddha has hereby illustrated and exposed the essential points, and all of you will affirm that only Buddhism can penetrate the super science.

“The Buddha perfectly has known the physical nature, as the scientists have known the quality and the quantity of matter. The Buddha obviously knows that all human beings originally have the physical nature: which is naturally known by itself. Suddenly, the character generates and is evidently understood. It spontaneously progresses to attain the supreme comprehension and is liberated from the stupidity in the birth and death.

In fact, human beings with the universe, human beings are living among mankind, particularly they are even unable to understand themselves, and occasionally in their own individuality they still betray themselves so how can human beings attain the purpose which they expected to achieve?” –T.V.

No matter how intelligent they are, the scholars, the scientists... Could not discover the physical nature in themselves. They are happy and sad, easy and uneasy, understanding and confused. Therefore, man cannot discover himself. Science and medicine are unable to penetrate entirely the movement and the maneuver of the universe. The teaching of Buddha is the most civilized foundation, helping mankind in finding the most realistic solution based on education, the study; however, the character is still altering and dominant in the body, thus the knowledge of the reason is still limited.

The enlightened Buddhist master discovers the movement and maneuver of the physical nature in his own body until He has perfectly comprehended it He already is harmonized with the universe, the bodhisattva who fully attained it naturally knows it by himself without considering or searching it at all. Suddenly, nature generates and he discovers the wonderful things in the universe and at the old age, he is able to control the death and depart from life to a chosen destination accordingly. As for the Buddha who spontaneously comprehends that the universe and the body and mind are one; therefore, the teaching of Buddha is always lively and providing facts, documents and different means to help living creatures at any given time. Furthermore, one can stay or enter Nirvana is up to him.

“The super being is the one who has thoroughly understood the origin of all things; human beings wrongly run after it hoping to seek for an expected result. The civilization of this generation is durable or rapidly disintegrated, it is only human beings who have to perfectly understand it and skillfully make use of it, all that is the essential thing to construct. Human beings should know perfectly their own character, circumstance which is right or wrong, self-created or spontaneous existing or naturally occurring. They themselves have to resolve all things with reason and intelligence in a satisfying and noble manner as well in accordance with the character of everybody and the circumstance of every class of human beings. Those who have thoroughly understood like that, are stated by the Buddha: The wisdom of Buddha, which is the receiving of the golden words of Buddha’s teaching, does not mean the meeting and communicating with the Buddhas. This is the word of sealed-indication, the non-dualistic one. Otherwise, those who have newly known and understood or learned only by literature, not yet realized the above words, are living in the being known, not yet deeply penetrating.” –T.V.

All things in this world originated from the superior or inferior intelligence of the physical nature with many various degrees of the scientists. Human beings have carried out the invention then ran after it and turned to advantage. From the developed to the backward countries, this evident policy is noticed; the Buddha called it the temporary knowledge. It is still erroneous because human beings only learn, study, consider and manufacture the material, transforming the substance into product.

Meanwhile, the enlightened Buddhist master has thoroughly understood the facts and perfectly resolved the source of the impregnation and the suffering in the body, knowing the character of every strata human beings, living creatures. If the scientists know that their invention will be eternally beneficial or rapidly eliminated such a thought is an essential matter.

Only Buddhism could realize the super suchness mind while science made use of the reason to deduce so that science is eliminated in waves from this generation to another generation, unable to be free from the sufferings and to exceed the Buddhism.

“Those who attain the supreme enlightenment said: Man masters the universe, i have become the Buddha and you are the would-be Buddha. These words demonstrate that mankind completely under the guide of Buddhist scriptures, as a practical orientation will penetrate the super science. Why?

Because the reasoning and acting of that hearing-seeing-knowing are an electronic system displayed to human beings, as if human beings do not know how to use it and they are commanded by electronics. When human beings penetrate it, it serves human beings eternally.” –T.V.

The words of the Buddha are the words of supreme enlightenment: man masters the universe. The sacred-monk, the bodhisattva, intentionally cultivates to master himself in order to discover and master the universe, acquire knowledge and gain the eternal benefit for human beings and the Four Species. Cultivating as the Buddhas could certainly masters the universe and penetrates entirely super science. From the walking, standing, working to the thinking.., all of these human daily activities are guided by the electronics existing in the universe.

Having met the Buddhas, the bodhisattvas through their instructions, the disciples gradually penetrate all the human beings, mountains, rivers, lands and vegetation that are commanded by the electronic power of the universe. The precise practice is to re-direct the electronics of the universe until it acquires the fruit of attainment and is able to maneuver it. The scientist, who knows how to use up this matter, will supremely perform the electronics of the universe.

“Of these facts and structures you do not fully know the physical nature of the form and mind. You are caught in the manifestation of the subconsciouness through seeing and perceive the divergence. Thus bringing in yourself the transformative substance of consciousness, you recognize it accordingly. The scene generates your sentiments. So you must rely on the scene to live. Running after the form to wish for peace and joy, you could not live happily without the form, while without sentiment, life would be faded. These two points make you resign to follow the birth and death. That is the most significant point.” –T.V.    

All the scientists are also subject to the scene generating the sentiment. That means in the progressive scene there are the delightful and sorrowful circumstances... The electronics of the universe immediately maneuver the body to produce the characters.

On the other hand, the Buddhist Master uses His sentiments to generate the scene that means he is controlling his nature, employing the electronics to neutralize in avoiding running after the progressive scene. Until the mind has been stabilized, he maneuvers to release it by using the sentiments to generate the scene. Gradually, there is no more birth and clearly understanding it. Without birth there would be no death. Once thoroughly achieving immortality, every word, every thought and deportment is supreme.

“The science of today has not yet the right title or well accepted in the world. The Crown Prince (Siddhartha Gautama) has attained the supreme enlightenment through practice of the dharma. He has penetrated the supreme super science, perfectly known in detail every strata movement of the vivid electricity, electronics to the super-super electronics throughout the universe of The Three Thousands Great Thousand Worlds which are actively circulating.”
–T.V.

2538 years ago, when the world was not yet developed into scientific systems, at that time the Blessed One had perfectly comprehended the super-super electronics in the Three Thousands Great Thousand Worlds, which are actively circulating.

“The super-super electronics is extremely sensible, no words can describe their quality of circulation, no destination can specify either its departure or return or arrival. As for the Blessed One, He has penetrated it and received it exclusively. For that reason, its term is the Tathagata store. And the place where it originated the Three Thousands Great Thousand Worlds, the dragon men and the Four Species that term the dharma body of Buddha.” –
T.V.

With the super-super electronics, no destination can specify either its departure or return or a rival that means it exists everywhere and even existed from the non-beginning to the endless, the fact is that science did not discover it and nowadays it has just found it out.

Lord Supreme Maitreya Buddha has taught: The Tathagata store is precisely the electronics of the universe. While all the seed-nature, living creatures’ nature in the universe definitely is the dharma body of Buddha. Thus, it has proved that since the Blessed-One until now Lord Supreme Maitreya Buddha as well as the Buddhas of Ten Directions and Three Lives have entirely comprehended the super science from the beginning of time. The discovery of electronics aimed to know the universe by science. Until this twentieth century, it is not worthy in comparison with the Buddhas’ discovery.

Buddhism calls the super electronics the seed-idea, and thought is the atom. Atoms are combined into molecule as the ideas are grouped into seed-nature as explained by the Buddhism.

Today, science has also found out that many neutrons form the atoms, while Buddhism expounded that the original condition forms the idea. Buddhism has well advanced further to demonstrate that the original condition precisely is all kinds of bacteria in the body that are slightly moving and creating the ideas within it.

The seeing nature in the body in combination with the seeing nature in the universe produces the knowledge according to the degree, the social class, the country, while science is nowadays finding out the heredity of gene. Actually, Buddhism has already penetrated the super science from the beginning of time.

“Excellently. The word by which the Buddha has preached the Tathagata store is supreme, because the intrinsic nature of the Tathagata is apparently such as, which is circulating back and forth, forwards and backwards all over just the same as the drop of dharma nectar saves mankind. It is impossible to question or say ‘is it a drop of nectar or not?’ The intrinsic nature is truly the drop of nectar. As for the original of super-super Tathagata such as it is.” –T.V.

This Final Law Period has come to an end. The Supreme Enlightened Maitreya has pointed out that the super-super electronics are throughout for the Four Species, aiming to find the way to carry it out to, in effect, become Immortality. Therefore, no one should discuss, comment or criticize, whichever is based on learning and studying; simply one makes an effort to create the meditated mind to the enlightened mind that is the precious gem.

“As for the world with mankind, the earth is revolving among the emptiness-sphere in the solar system. The Super Supreme perfectly knows that there is every zone all over that means there are countless worlds outside of the solar zone. Each world is a zone with its level of life, reason of life, range of life and lifestyle. All are living and divided into future life, superior life, inferior life and present life. The growth is low and high, that depends. The land world, fairy world, heaven world form the three worlds. The lifetime, the longevity are either long or short as well, the existing materials and implements are provided according to the apparition of heaven energy, the correspondence of fairy nobility, the produce of human force, the suchness of pure land. The super Tathagata adequately supplies and decorates according to those worlds.” –T.V.

The science of today is discovering only the universe within the solar system, while the Lord Supreme Maitreya has shown that there are worlds outside the solar system, countless other worlds with their style of life, level of life, reason of life, which are either superior or inferior according to the nobility, coarseness, roughness, and cruelty of the Four Species. Even in many more generations, the discovery of science in this globe would also be limited and could never find out the invisible living things either.

“Present human beings living on this globe can never know where they are coming from nor could even the devas or fairies and the pure land of Western paradise. The Supreme Enlightened One has thoroughly and meticulously understood that, so He has made the sealed-decision of the way to liberate from life which built up the own life of every world, every nature in accordance with the world that you preferred then cultivated to accomplish according to your wishes. Just the same as a man wishing to be an honest man must have an honest Mind and character, the great man or superman must have sufficiently the criteria of great man or superman to achieve it.” –T.V.

In fact, during this return, there are in Long Hoa Association many representatives of superior virtue, belonging to several worlds such as devas. Fairies and those of the pure land of Western paradise who have cultivated their fixed conception and could not recall their previous lifetimes from which they were reborn in this Vietnam. For the learned men, scientists... who only know to discover the universe according to their judgement of reason, so they are more vague about the rebirth of human beings and the Four Species, many of them do not believe it. However, the one with meditated mind, enlightened mind who followed to cultivate in the path of Buddhas since 2538 years until now clearly knowing that in which place those have been reborn, what were their names and even their personal careers. Knowing well where those have come from and where those will go. Therefore, they know to live so it is meaningful.

“Buddhism is an advanced basis of forming human beings in reality cultivated aiming at awareness and achievement of the clear knowledge of their own mind. After departing from life, they will know where they will go to and perfectly perceive the coming fruit of attainment. Therefore, the Buddhist followers are never afraid of death and not clinging to life, never admitted to the more or the less, the gain or loss for advancement, but only practice for awareness.” –T.V.

The scientists who are still using reason to deduce, the atheistic politicians should carefully read the above paragraph of sutra to understand that the Chief Monk of Long Hoa, the Lord Supreme Maitreya has affirmed that the death of human being is not the conclusion. Alternatively, it will reincarnate to the place, which has previously acted good or bad according to the direct retribution of one’s deeds or the reception of the results of one’s deeds. That is “cause and effect”

“Isn't that the Buddhism has thoroughly known the instinct, the physical nature, the characteristic, the quality of human beings as well as of the Universe of three thousand, what is he absorbing in life and what is its influence and result? Is that different from a great physician or an erudite man who has carried out to transform the substance successfully and the device or drugs aimed to cure the patient, bringing benefits for mankind? ”
–T.V.

Science and medicine dispense all kinds of drugs and perform operations to save human beings, but though having been cured; they still will be declined by old age. And the Buddhist Master in supremely super enlightenment, thoroughly knows the instinct, characteristic, constitution of human beings as well as the devas, fairies, deities. So he helps them as a great physician, curing the psychotic disease to be healthy and immortal; that is far more superior to the science in millions of miles.

“In front of the world, humanity which is completely disabled and helpless in the salvation of human beings, is needed for construction of mankind to be free from the sickness of stupidity, symptom of madness, intoxication and whirling instability in the life created by the consciousness-store, and make the subconsciousness to search for the wishes of every human being who is still living in confusion. Why? The Tathagata is the most peaceful place as a healthy man who is always joyful and happy. When all these men are brought to the consciousness-store, the Tathagata would become the Tathagata store.

Each human keeps a store. Because there are countless and measureless living creatures, each of them has to receive a limit of the consciousness store, called the living creatures’ sphere.” –T.V.

All the scientists, the scholars have been studying about the habits, customs and languages of every country and every race. However, they have not found out yet the source of all races, which is due to spiritual consciousness, starting in process called the store and they maintain that viewpoint. Therefore, every sphere has its consciousness store that is divided into spheres accordingly then living within it.

“When the living creatures’ sphere is formed, from each person, each single and each individual to each separated world together mature his store consciousness, clears his subconsciousness, and stabilizes his consciousness. Therefore, there are three worlds dividing into every earth sphere as mentioned above.

Each sphere decorates the material world differently: houses, castles, skyscraper, cities; there are some worlds with the corresponding nobility, which transform it such as the fairy world, fairy scenery has its natural scenery unanimously exposing splendid emerald, crystals, mother of pearls, rubies, and ambers. Like the pure land that nation fulfils with unanimous, mindful recitation to accomplish the solemn precious treasures, seven precious gems.

The solemn nation is extremely eminent. There are countless bodhisattvas offering, worshipping and adoring the buddha in a clear and tranquil manner and the great pure nation, it is impossible to describe its immensely infinite eminence, extreme elegance that is unthinkable and very hard to express in writing, indeed.” –T.V.

When the living creatures’ sphere is formed, every territory having its separated world unanimously constructs its scenery for living. In a similar way, this secular world uses the power of labor to build the houses, castles. The heaven world and the fairy world that science is unable to see and know about, has pleasant scenery which is full of precious treasure.

“Once living in the earth sphere, on the surface of this globe all are completely the special substance. Alternatively, all the branches of science would rather use the special substance than anything else to transform it, from a starting-point in the process of study to achieve the outcome successfully that is quite a normal experience and it should be so. Because all the results come from earth-sphere not the earth-transformation, the quality such as it originally is. The mistake in realization that must be accurate with the quality, the position, must be in accord to be unified there will not be unity without accord. Likewise, the disciples are in great need of the enlightened form to turn into the suchness form; they should not seek for the form transforming to be the form that is measurelessly erroneous. The scientists should circumspectly concern that the work of physical and transformative substance requires an accurate combination of energy and quality according to the matter so that is a decent scientist. Similarly, the mortar and brick will stick together. Otherwise, a powder applied to the brick can never adhere to it.” –T.V.

The special substance belonging to the earth element that are the soil, animal, vegetation with its trunk and leaves including human beings with the bones and flesh all pertain to the special substance called soil. Scientists use all the substances belonging to the earth element called soil to carry out the experiment and research. Otherwise, there is nothing other than of the special substance.

The earth sphere is just the globe with its incalculable special substances; the fabrication by using this substance to transform into another substance is not separated from the sphere of earth element. For the earth, transformation signifies the fabrication by transforming, while the heaven world and fairy world operate transformation without the need of special substance. The Buddhist Master actually realizes that in the fairy world, deity world all things are provided by transformation, it is not through the fabrication of special substances that requires such a long time of discovery like in this secular world.

Those with enlightened form of all dharma are very rare, indeed; these disciples who know how to use all dharma rightfully will attain the suchness form. The enlightened form bodhisattvas and the ultimately awakened arahants are still uncertain about the great enlightened form.

Meanwhile, science is practically using this special substance to fabricate the other special substance that means employing the form to transform the form, it is being limited and still mistaken in the production and destruction.

“Talking about the apparition of heaven energy, there are eighteen zones in the heaven world and they all have the absorption of the heaven energy. The apparition is in different degrees, but all the devas who are using their talent and intelligence to make their apparition, which is somewhat higher than that of the earth-sphere with the talent of all heaven worlds and are far more expert than the earth sphere a hundred thousand times. Nevertheless, it still depends upon every zone, which displays. From the clothes, splendid palaces, mansions, streamers, dresses, dragons and phoenixes, everything is established by using the authority as its base, power as its means, influence as its reputation and precious gems in its expenses. Otherwise, it is impossible to use the correspondence, nobility and elegance of the fairy for decorating instead.” –T.V.

The globe is covered with the atmosphere; all the living things to human beings are living depending on the air. The enlightened buddhist master like the supreme lord supreme maitreya has used the eye-store of tathagata to examine the devas, fairies who live depending on the pure and clean heaven energy whereas the air of secular world is full of red dusts and utmost contaminated and impure.

One time, I had heard what the lord had taught: there are more than two hundred nations on our globe. Whereas the eighteen zones of heaven world, each of them is a thousand times greater than the globe. Human beings in the earth-sphere use the ability of assemblage that is using the strength of labor for construction. Whereas all the heaven worlds use talent and intelligence that are spirit and supernatural power to perform all the needs such as castles, palaces, clothes, aliments, etc... Therefore, everything is a hundred thousand times better than in the secular world.

In the heaven worlds, heavenly beings respectfully consider the higher grade as their leader. The leader enjoys a great authority and relies on it to grant what he wants to heavenly beings.

In all the zones of the heaven world, the heavenly beings always respect the superior virtue one as their leader. The leader is very powerful and confers the authority or whatsoever he wants to heavenly beings in his heaven world. Using the influence as its reputation that means using the attainment of superior or inferior supernatural power to advance authoritative position, thereof every act, speech are considered as the honorable one by heavenly beings in the heaven world. Using the precious gems as its means signifies in the heaven world. There are sufficiently precious gems such as mother of pearls, rubies, agates... Made as the implements in contrast with secular world where all materials are taken from the earth called the special substance, for instance, a table, wardrobe, chair... Are originally made from the tree that has grown on earth.

Money is made of paper, metal, gold and silver, which all come from the earth. Everyone in the heaven world has supernatural power and he is reborn there because of the attainment of superior, inferior devas rank. Consequently, there is nobody who is either worker or laborer struggling for a living.

According to the wishes, all the food, clothes and everything else are sufficiently appearing by supernatural power, they only cultivate for the character to be magnanimous, admiring the others, pious towards their parent, faithful to their master, using no harsh speeches, no crafty acts like the secular peoples. It is impossible to tell all about that. Only those with an accurate degree who naturally emerge from meditation and reach that destination that could thoroughly witness the reality, it is not imagined towards in one place, which is called the fixed conception in order to reach and see it. That is the heresy.

Till now, the twentieth century presumably comes to an end; the twenty-first century has just begun. Science is still using the special substance for discovery, while the Blessed One and at present the Chief Monk of Long Hoa, Lord Supreme Maitreya has taught in the same manner. Those of divine-eyes, divine-ears, but lacking of the six supernatural powers of bodhisattvas should not hastily consider it to be imagination speaking.

The fairies, with their standard of living, the implements are far more superior, noble and skilful. This is impossible to describe in writing. Nevertheless, the bodhisattva emerging from meditation just reaches the destination. He is deservedly respected and welcomed by the fairies who intentionally are expected to receive the teaching of dharma. There are no words which could ever tell all about it.

The earth provides everything for human beings living in this secular world. Therefore, they could not separate from the earth-mind. For that reason, many wicked characters are bound to burst out. Human beings, who should rely upon the cultivation of correcting their character and practice for realization, should not cultivate in tendency of form. Otherwise, when departing from life, they could not separate from the earth, either. If the enlightened buddhist master hears and reads this part, he will sensibly comprehend without any suspecions as the scientists have. Science is based on the existing material, which is seen by the eye. For the master, having the super-super electronics, he discerns it without having secular eyes.

“As for the nobility-correspondence, the fairy scenery or the fairy world is divided into heaven fairies and deity fairies which are two worlds having two extremely different features of correspondence and nobility with their utmost separation in each other. The heaven fairies reign the fairy scenery with their very superior nobility-correspondence, and splendid excellence, whereas the deity fairies possess the fairy world with their nobility-correspondence slightly inferior magnanimity and rougher than, in contrast, the heaven- fairies. Nevertheless, all the fairies take magic power as their fundamental and enjoyment as their apparition of nobility-correspondence. Therefore, their clothes, castles, environments all are manifested by the noble substance. Those of eminent supernatural power would accordingly enjoy it and entirely exploit the nobility-correspondence for peace and joy. Besides that, it is impossible to make use of existing material or talent intelligence. Just the same as the earth sphere that cannot apply the thoughts to succeed.” –T.V.

In the fairy world, there are also the heaven- fairy with its magnificent and beautiful residences and the deity – fairy with inferior landscape and material. Only human beings in the secular world are using materials taken from the earth. They have to make use of their manpower even the machines are created from their talent and intelligence. Pure thoughts without realization will bring nothing. While in the fairy world the deity fairies, through their thought, can get everything according to their wisheses without working. The heaven world only knows about the heaven world, the fairy world solely knows about the fairy world, the deity fairy exclusively knows about the deity fairy, so that they inadequately have the authority to travel from the heaven world to the fairy world. It is the same for all the worlds. For instance, human beings on the earth can only travel on this earth even travelling to the other planets; they are unable to see other living things because these are invisible. The bodhisattvas achieving the fruit of attainment can travel everywhere. The Buddhas are fully enlightened. Therefore, they perfectly appear all over in ten directions. For their apparition or disapparition that depends upon the disciple with the right degree who would ask for the salvation of living creatures then.

“The Supreme Enlightened One has thoroughly known the basic nature, quality and weight of all things combined by living creatures. So he has drawn the way to practice in order to collect all the original physical natures of every world and to be awakened. That is the comprehension of the dharma, otherwise, nothing else than that.

The science coming into the world has experienced and known every material within it what its nature and its quality are. During the dispensing or fitting of a machine, it has meticulously known about its structure in order to use it in all aspects such as: the computer, electronics, television, television broadcasting station to drugs in the pharmacy with its sufficient characteristics, clearly in accordance with its adequate quality and quantity without a tiny mistake.” –T.V.

The supreme truely enlightened, like the Lord Supreme Maitreya, has thoroughly known the nature, the quality and the weight of every living creature, so he has established the way of practice to help them to escape from suffering and reach the eternity.

Meanwhile, science coming into the world brings about comforts through every epoch, which is giving human beings satisfactory life, the drugs for disease treatment. Buddhism and science have evolved in parallelism, but science has not formed the eternal way in the human body.

“It is the same for the supreme enlightened. For the scientist, it is easy in his manufacture because he can by himself combine and create, relying on his true knowledge in the fitting of all parts of the machines which are completely material and silently operated without any obstruction. Therefore, it is very easy to maneuver.

As for the enlightened one who has thoroughly understood, and moreover known, where the mistake is, the calamity and the turbulent decadence in the mind and the body of human beings, and where the place of the wrong is. The human body has known itself and cried out for gratitude and salvation. But the Enlightened One, on the contrary, has the right to guide the initiation, while human beings, for their part, have to generate their mind to voluntarily correct themselves until success, besides it they have no right to oblige, this is very hard to dissolve. For that reason, the Buddha has said: “The Buddha neither saves the non-condition nor the fixed karma."

The scientist has to give up the correction of his own and even his own body has to resign with the stupidity of the way of birth and death. In this period, not only the earth-sphere has to bear everything, but all the Three Thousand Great Thousand Worlds do as well. The pure land, the dragon man, and living creatures have to become completely invalid for incalculable lifetimes. Why? Because each world, each matter, each thing and each place cannot go beyond its dimension, its limited weight to do something other than what it has done itself and received the subsequent result.” –T.V.

All the scientists, scholars who have manufactured spacecraft to explore the moon as well as the universe, should consider the above paragraph of sutra. It has just been written by the Lord Supreme Maitreya Buddha during this twentieth century. His image and handwriting proves it. It has been passed down for the secular word, and is still quite new. Those who believe that death is the end of everything should return to correct their own body. It is not too late for them to practice meditation under the guide of a succeeding bodhisattva, Buddhist master, in order to understand that the rebirth of dead human being continuing to live in another place is very true, indeed.

“But how strange it is! The entire world wrongly believes that Buddhism is in degeneration. The error resides in every individual of every country. But the Buddhist believers are unexpectedly numerous, and they are seeking for the extremity. Each of them is basing uniquely on the Buddhist doctrine, so that he learns by heart every word of it. But it is strangely worth nothing and that is of the most importance in this article.

Why? Because the common have not yet completely received the four minds, how could they conclude the truth of liberation? ” –T.V.

All the living creatures understand according to their wrong individual taste. The four minds are divided into four different kinds of recognition. Therefore, they hardly know each other: the living creature mind is called the transformed mind. The fairy and deity mind is called the generated mind. The bodhisattva mind is the existential-mind, and the Buddha mind is the comprehensive mind.

The Tathagata store in general includes the four minds. All living creatures have only the transformed mind through learning and studying, making it the base of knowledge for development of every branch. The Supreme Enlightened One, like the Lord, has fully known the four minds, which are the Tathagata store. Living creatures are running after their transformed mind then being born in false hope and confusion.  Buddhism considers the transformed mind to be the countless initial conditionals of birth and destruction, destruction and birth.

“The transformed mind is the motor of development in the human body and mind. Generally speaking, it is the development source of the whole universe of three thousand worlds. It elevates human life to be mature, clever, and lively in all the branches and is divided into numerous branches such as science and technology. All the careers, all the doctors, engineers and educated men in this twentieth century obviously see that the fundamental living of the entire world has resulted from the transformed mind.” –T.V.

Due to the statute of the transformed mind, from the educated man to all human beings, they are alternatively joyful and sorrowful, happy and unhappy, collected and angry, in concord and disaccord. Momentary in disaccord they experience suffering. Therefore, Buddhism instructs the living creatures to understand thoroughly the Tathagata store of four minds in order to avoid such erroneous states.

“For human beings, heaven beings, fairy transformations in the whole universe of three thousand worlds, the transformed mind is the main point of the Four Species. Therefore, the universe of three thousand worlds has lived with duality, in different states of happiness and unhappiness, gain and loss, presence and absence would never yet be with comfort. Why?

Because the transformed mind depends on the nature of the individual who generates itm even the doctors, engineers, educated men and all the other classes are within the four characteristics, which are difficult matters to explain. The four characteristics are morality, immorality, brutality and malice. That is difficult to explain.

The teaching of Buddha considers the transformed mind to be the source of confusion, so it said: all the false hopes are confusion.” –T.V.

Even the doctors, engineers, educated men could not escape from the statute of the transformed mind. Having been living in duality, which is alternatively happy and unhappy, gain and loss, presence and absence...the Buddha has the enlightened mind toward the suchness mind that is truly supreme. The teaching of Buddha considers the statute of the transformed mind to be the interminable source of confusion.

“The super supreme speaks about the Four Species, mankind and the fairy scenery in the Three Thousands Great Thousand Worlds. Even the educated men, philosophers or great men of modern times are within the false transformed mind. Why? Because the generated mind is still reborn, the existential mind still subsists; the entire comprehension still comprehends fully all beings and matters. Nevertheless, they themselves never fully comprehend the path of supremacy.

“For that reason, when entering the Buddhist path, human beings have first to detach joyfully all things from their body and mind, clearing up the transformed mind, then respectfully bow and worship the Buddha. They should also rely on the Triple Gem to practice according to the morality and doctrine, making it the base of the dissolution of karma.” –T.V.

Even an educated man is subjected to the transformed mind. The transformed mind is still in the cycle of birth and destruction, called the birth-destruction mind. The existential mind of the scientist is due to the individual innateness that promptly understands what of his faculty is. However, it still remains in the statute of being known because there is still thinking so there is the transformed mind. Even for those who entirely comprehend; that is due to the matter. Thence, the transformed mind initially generates. For that reason, to escape from the birth and destruction of the transformed mind, the educated man and scientists have to correct and clear their body and mind. That means they have to detach joyfully all rebellious things happening to them until the conclusion. Then their mind is no longer transforming and they can gradually restore the enlightened mind and the suchness mind. The entirely comprehensive-mind uses the hearing-seeing-knowing that means using the Tathagata store to alter and dissolve karma, they can attain the suchness mind. The bodhisattvas cultivating the perfect prajna fully attain the suchness mind. Only the Buddhas utterly comprehend the suchness mind. Their hearing-seeing-knowing universally perceive all over.

“For those who are aware of their own nature and dissolve their transformed mind, they ought to need the guide of the awakened one, why? Because the transformed mind achieving the generated mind founded on the liberation way is a problem given to faithful disciples in order to be liberated through just one lifetime instead of a thousand lifetimes without liberation. The most important thing in the way of Buddhist practice is from the transformed mind toward the generated mind in conformity with the liberation spirit to be liberated. Otherwise, they will remain in the birth and death cycle even through a thousand lifetimes of practice.” –T.V.

Referring to the above paragraph of sutra, the true Buddhist believers must understand that, in their practice for liberation, they have to meet the one who has already been liberated to make the salvation for them. Having met him, if they fully have confidence-obedience-respect, they simply need a lifetime to achieve it. Many of them have met the Chief Monk of Long Hoa, but they were indifferent and without the spirit of seeking for enlightenment until the lord had departed from life. They are still not yet attaining enlightenment. With their lack of enthusiaism, even in a thousand more lifetimes, if they would meet the Enlightened One it would be just like they did not meet at all. In this Final Law Period, many of those who assumed the transformed mind, the generated mind believed themselves to be the Buddha. That actually is the mistake of incalculable lifetimes.

“In the generated mind that depends upon the transformed mind, every individual attains it accordingly. Some have attained the no-birth dharma patience; others have attained the samadhi dharma subject of real form and formless. Others are relying on the equality nature and mind to practice the way, mastering the mountains, rivers and earth elements afterward the generated mind thus acquires the dharma body.

After having acquired, all the true disciples do not need to use the mind any more. Why? Because the wisdom is situated in the base of the transformed mind that belongs to generating thought in which Buddhism calls the fictitious self. There are, in this period, a lot of disciples who are erroneous in their way of practice. They are assuming the transformed mind, falsely seeking for the transformed mind, and are thus very much being known, practicing because of their desire of generated mind. Furthermore, they are relying on their education degree to recognize the truth, so how could they understand it? Because of this root condition, they are attaining the emptiness, the mind is generated to be higher pride practicing in the dimness, and only a few of them have truly attained the emptiness. They still rely on the dharma doctrine neither separating the dharma conduct nor staying away from the dharma school that is called the conduct of vow.” –T.V.

Those of mahayana also understand the transformed mind and afterward know the generated mind. Nevertheless, they are still superficial not as profound as the bodhisattva who understands the transformed mind entirely. The knowledge, learning, study all belong to the transformed mind and the transformed mind belongs to the thought generating it. Many of those are wrongly proclaiming themselves to be the Buddha by the transformed mind creating it. From the enlightened mind to the suchness mind, one who can fully understand the transformed mind without mistaking anymore about it, no matter how superior their intelligence may be, they could not emerge from the belt of birth and death either.

All the scientists should refer to the transformed mind, and try to find out the suchness mind. Then they will see a new and marvelous horizon in themselves and then will have a naturally brilliant manner with nothing in comparison with. There is not another way than that; they should search for the Buddha and bodhisattva’s footprint to follow it. No matter what religion or non-religion the educated man belong to, that still brings about the super mind, which is very beneficial for themselves and mankind. By then, they could actually know that there is only Buddhism that can thoroughly penetrate the super science and also would clearly affirm the wisdom of the educated man in the secular world and with the suchness mind of the enlightened one in the secular world as well. But that does not result from leaving the family and rupturing the love, or from the vegetarian diet and the non-vegetarian diet, or from the convent and the temple either. There is no restriction required whatsoever in this practice, not depending upon any dogmatic subject.

 

LORD SUPREME MAITREYA WITH LONG HOA

INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I: LORD SUPREME MAITREYA’S PAST INCARNATIONS
CHAPTER II: I CAME FROM THE TUSITA HEAVEN

CHAPTER IV: TRANMISSION OF THE PRECIOUS DHARMA
CHAPTER V: A NATION OF PEACE AND DELIGHT
CHAPTER VI: THE VENERABLE OFFERINGS
CHAPTER VII: THE ATTESTATION OF THE BUDDHA KING

52. The Progression is the Heart and Mind of Buddhism

52. The Progression is the Heart and Mind of Buddhism

“The bodhisattvas have practiced in the conduct for resolution of the karma because they have comprehended the manipulation of physical nature of the Tathagata store and relied on the Tathagata to be enlightened, thus completely cleared of karma to become Buddhas. For that reason, the bodhisattvas never annihilate karma for practice.” –T.V.

In their cultivation of Buddhism, those of second vehicle have discerned that the consciousness-karma usually becomes rebellious and is changed to all directions in the hearing-seeing-knowing. That is the manipulation of physical nature of the Tathagata store, facing the complexity and difficulty; they keep away from it in order to annihilate the karma. Consequently, their cultivation falls into the fairyism.

As for the bodhisattvas, they are relying on hearing-seeing-knowing. That means leaning on the Tathagata to manipulate all dharma to surmount all obstacles to seek for true enlightenment. Therefore, they are determined to resolve clearly all the karma and never annihilate them in order to cultivate completely and become the Buddha.

“On their path of cultivation for the Buddhism, the bodhisattvas have practiced the dharma subject of buddhayana, essentially meditating the Tathagata. Meditating the Tathagata is a dharma subject of the Buddha dharma without leaving the secular world to be enlightened. The mind is overcoming all the contrary scenes to resolve the karma of the bodhisattvas, which is caught with attachments and obstructions. By frequently meditating they could see the karma that moves in and out, frequently attached with the divergence in their own body as well as in all the mass and living beings. For that reason, the others who got angry or joyful, satisfied or doubtful caught what they often said. Human beings only learn to live after their karma rather than to live righteously. Therefore, the bodhisattvas get rid of all mean things, which generated karma and live a life which only clarifies the consciousness karma and leads to awareness.” –T.V.

The meditation of the Tathagata has many classes. It is the dharma subject of the unique career vehicle, which practices directly to the tranquil mind to attain the mindfulness perfectly liberated through wisdom.

First of all, the rank of unique career vehicle should be joyful and detached, leaning on the dharma to examine thoroughly the hearing-seeing-knowing in the secular world without leaving the secular world. He overcomes all the dharma, which means the mind is unobstructed and disengaged without entanglement and doubts. It is deeper and higher than great vehicle reaching, reaching to tranquility.

Due to the frequent meditation, those who discern that the consciousness-karma moves out and in causing wrong attachment in the mind, see that all are running after the karma unable to be free from the life. The karma is so deeply rooted that it becomes the root-karma. By meticulously understanding, one avoids mistaking the subtle fetter-karma that can get rid of the vile things without generating the karma and the mind-body is in tranquil. Then, an awakened one applies the dharma of the special branch of immediate to bring about awareness in order to teach and make those acquire the supreme true enlightenment.

Those of unique career vehicle are in the ranks who are no longer discriminating the dharma, righteously carrying out the absolute dharma, accepting the Tathagata and leaning on the Tathagata without any ripple waves of attachment. All that result in returning to the mind. Having perceived the dharma of immediate awareness, thus the hearing-seeing-knowing becomes clear, disengaged and acquires your own original nature and that of the Tathagata dharma. You then would be in tranquility, entering the mindfulness. It is very harmful, if the disciples who would practice the immediate education, who have not yet cleared the reason, are not yet guided by an awakened one still attach, rebelliousness because they neither carry out nor know how to clear out the karma. Additionally, they are using the greed, hatred, ignorance mind to learn by heart recklessly the immediate subject to carry the sickness that is very deteriorating too.

 “There is a bodhisattva who has respectfully asked the Blessed One: Sir Reverend, I am in the stupidity and the more I practice the more stupid I become. I try to see the Karma to resolve it. Otherwise, with tranquilly practicing, I could never see it. The Blessed One has then asked: You see it, but by which means?

The bodhisattva has answered: i base on the seeing in order to see it. The Blessed One joyfully smiled: the seeing simultaneously based on what is seen can never see. It only is beyond the seeing that can truly see.” –T.V.

The majority of disciples in this Final Law Period do not attentively carry out the conduct of vow to resolve the karma. Even the excellent disciple, who sees very superficially, does not truly see it all. Having practiced the conduct of vow, you can see the karma manifest itself in order to resolve it. The seeing through secular eyes to see is still limited. You should be comprehensive with the mind beyond the circumstance, neither entangled nor conservative natured then you would be able to see through the seeing.

You can see clearly the karma of other peoples, but you could never see your own. Even, though with a great attention, the disciple could not see it either. The seeing through what is seen is relying on the Tathagata-Eye-Store to see.

 “The bodhisattva has eulogized, wonderfully praised the salvation of the Buddha path. Remaining within the karma, i can never see the karma, remaining in the error; i can never avoid the erroneous reason and act. Lying tranquilly, i could never recognize the truth in the comprehension of the Buddha path. I have to follow the footprint of the Bodhisattva-Buddha to be matured in Buddhism. I have truly known or experienced the progression of the Buddhism. So I would advance at each stage of the manifestation in order to see awareness, realizing the heart of the Buddha that has saved me, and the love of the Buddha is truly the love without direction, which supports us in every step of our advancement. Having clearly known the karma, i myself prevented my self ego of life. Nevertheless, when releasing completely the karma, i myself received the imperfect karma and have to keep still waiting for the truth of enlightenment.

I have heard that, it is after clearing the karma that i could be comprehensive to recognize perfectly and be liberated. If i am not yet achieving the comprehension, i never completely clear out the karma. After praising, the bodhisattva has respectfully bowed to Him, the Blessed One has nodded and silently attested it.” –T.V.

The rank of joyful and detached Mahayana clearly understands how to resolve the karma. The bodhisattva knows that the truth exists everywhere like the strata of atomic dust all over the Three Thousands of Great Thousand Worlds. That is just the dharma body of the Buddha. The bodhisattva knows the manipulation that is required to be transformed into the Tathagata store; thus he frequently recites in mind to believe in the Buddha, the dharma, and the monk, aiming to be perfectly awakened. The heart of the Buddha is always ready to save in all directions. When the bodhisattva awakens, the Buddha power immediately appears everywhere to save in every occasion from the existing circumstance to the thorny, difficult ones. Hence, all that enables the bodhisattva to clear out the karma, he knows that the karma is due to the self-expectation, self-ego accordingly he has to carry the imperfect karma.

Following the footprint of the Buddhas’ compassion-will-courage, the bodhisattva practices comprehensibly, until he achieves perfection. He thoroughly perceives that the clearance of the karma is essential. Having cleared the karma, the bodhisattva became sensible, naturally getting closer to the Tathagata-Buddha that is truly the matchless precious gem. Although having plenty of wealth and fortune, the bodhisattva treasures the true enlightenment. Therefore, he is willing to exchange everything in order to be in harmony with the Tathagata.

“It is the unique and inevitable way that all the disciples have to go through. From the Blessed One who had become Buddha to the bodhisattvas ranks, they all rely on every fit of resolving the karma, on every fit enlightened by the reason, on every releasing stage, and the more harmonious it is the better the sympathy within the heart of the Buddhism between the Blessed One and the patriarchs. Such is it; therefore, the bodhisattvas have never consolidated the fruit of their attainment. Why?

Either the status or the consolidated fruit of attainment is classified as fictitious rank or false appellation. So they have to use reason to comprehend the evident fruit of attainment. Leaning on the comprehension of reason, which is due to the separation of the self from personal possession. And it is thanks to the separation from the self that there is never the self-ego, self-conceitedness. That results in no false declaration of Buddha form and there is exclusive the equality of physical nature in harmony with the Buddha only.” –T.V.

It is the same for all the disciples from the bodhisattvas rank to the Buddha; they all have to undergo every difficult stage in resolving the karma. At first, the bodhisattvas have also to make use of the idea to clarify and release the consciousness-karma, the root-karma, the defilement-karma, and the fetter-karma over every level of numerous lifetimes. After that, they could clear out all the karma, to meet the Tathagata.

It is just because of such difficulty that the Buddhas are very sympathetic with the bodhisattvas. As far as the bodhisattvas are concerned, they should manifest their gratitude to the Buddhas. They should tirelessly advance in the practice thus never consolidate their position of attainment. As consolidating is clinging and falling into the dharma sphere equivalently to the attainment of the second vehicle. In realizing that, the bodhisattvas have never sought for fictitious status and appellation. They lived simply and intimately with living creatures. Therefore, the living creatures and the arahants could not recognize them.

“The Enlightened One is discerning and upright, the precious words of truth are emitted from his golden body, all the bodhisattvas, each of them has received the truth to proceed in their practice, some time later they acquired the truth and became a succeeding patriarch to carry out the instruction. All the fairies, devas, deities, dragon-deities as well as the dharma protectors to the dharma protector bodhisattvas receive just one utterance. In that speech, whether they digest or not, depending on the respect toward the Buddha to receive it diligently and acquire the truth, either in admitting one breath or looking at one finger or one toe of the Buddha gently walking in comfort to perceive the truth together with the devas, fairies, dharma protectors, dharma protectors maha bodhisattvas, to comprehend circumspectly and completely the enlightenment so as to become the Buddha.” –T.V.

In the practice in reaching the entire truth, aiming to achieve the bodhisattvahood is actually far more difficult. As if having achieved it, the disciple should wait for numerous lifetimes to meet the Buddha in order to be attested of entering the constitution thence he could truly represent the Buddha to make the salvation for living creatures. And from the bodhisattva cultivating entirely to achieve the wonderful fruit Bodhihood such as the Blessed One in the past until now the Lord Supreme Maitreya is very rare.

Having sufficiently received the Buddha power, the bodhisattva succeeds in instructing all the ranks from the dharma protectors, dharma protector bodhisattvas to the devas, fairies, deities, and dragon-deities who after hearing his words and perceiving them would acquire the truth.

Due to the sensibility and prompt perception the bodhisattva just looks over a gesture, a finger or a toe of Buddha and his wonderful applications, and gentle movement of the Buddha, to feel at ease to perceive the truth circumspectly. Because the truth is existent, only for those who are burdensome due to their karma, and have difficulty to perceive it while the sensible one perceives it easily and understand it completely only through a tiny gesture of the Buddha.

Therefore, the Buddhas and the bodhisattvas are very easy to comprehend each other through the great enlightened form.

LORD SUPREME MAITREYA WITH LONG HOA

INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I: LORD SUPREME MAITREYA’S PAST INCARNATIONS
CHAPTER II: I CAME FROM THE TUSITA HEAVEN

CHAPTER IV: TRANMISSION OF THE PRECIOUS DHARMA
CHAPTER V: A NATION OF PEACE AND DELIGHT
CHAPTER VI: THE VENERABLE OFFERINGS
CHAPTER VII: THE ATTESTATION OF THE BUDDHA KING

51. Back to the True Supreme

51. Back to the True Supreme

Those who thoroughly understand the tathagata-store are great bodhisattvas who did not mind any difficulty to offer to the Tathagata, executing the order of the Buddhas to become Buddha by just one rebirth without entanglement of all dharma, emerging and entering the full enlightenment.


– Special Principle Supreme Sutra
“The true supreme is a way of practice of the buddhayana, not depending on the dharma subject and relying only on the middle way to clarify the nature before entering the buddhayana to practice until perfect knowledge of the true supreme dharma and attain fully the ultimate dharma of the Tathagata store.” –T.V.

The great boddhisattva who has already known how to offer to Tathagata, practices closely to the Tathagata. He has realized the Tathagata store, entering and emerging completely from all dharma. While practicing liberation through wisdom, he has been attested by the Lord. Furthermore, he has to practice the dharma subject of enlightenment to achieve the complete enlightenment. Wishing to practice completely, adequately, the buddhayana, which is called three vehicles unified into one that is called the supreme worthy conduct.

The supreme worthy conduct consists of the hinayana, mahayana and buddhayana. The bodhisattva realizing mahasattva is also called the great bodhisattva who manifests every way in the supreme middle way that is the path manifesting the physical body of samadhi, thus it is neither affected by the dogmatic nor relies on the dharma subject. Why? It is because the bodhisattva has understood and known how to appear from his words to his acts which is neither following strictly the sutra nor separating it, so he has thoroughly attained the ultimate dharma of the Tathagata store.

“Even for the rank of conducted bodhisattva, vowed bodhisattva relying on their conducting the vow, they are still in the vagueness. So they are retrograding and have to practice the prajna till reaching the no-regression bodhisattvas and entering the ultimate dharma of the true supreme buddhayana to attain the ultimate dharma of the Tathagata store. For that reason, many disciples have wrongly conceived of the secret reason of the Tathagata. In fact, the Tathagata is not secret. Because of their stupidity and vagueness, they believe in the closure and opening of the Tathagata. In fact, the Tathagata is neither opened nor closed.”
–T.V.

Those who are still practicing the conducted bodhsattva, vowed bodhisattva, are not yet accomplishing the bodhisattvahood, and are still vague about the truth because their seeing and knowing of dharma spheres are not yet profound. The bodhisattvas realizing mahasattva have fully attained the realistic truth, in every minute and second of it, they thoroughly know, meticulously see the movement of all dharma within their body, accomplish the joyful detachment and manipulate all dharma. The rank of arahants at highest degree is the ultimate awareness, they clearly recognize the joyful detachment, but this is an eternal embarrassment where they have to manipulate successfully all dharma to be able to enter into the unique career vehicle with non-dualistic form.

In this final law period, all the patriarchs of the past are excellent in both preaching and joyful detachment. Unfortunately, reaching this stage, they stand still. The Lord Chief Monk of Long Hoa has employed the examination to verify, but many of them are still caught in the Buddha sphere and could not overcome it. Some have been taught the path of the unique career vehicle. Nevertheless, they do not pass the exam. For that reason, the Lord does not attest them, why? Because they could not see and know profoundly the consciousness karma, aiming to be liberated completely. They become fed up with it. That increases the faculty karma and fetter karma. Furthermore, some are preaching the prajna, but in reality they do not judiciously carry out the prajna, manipulating the dharma with neither self-confidence nor affirming between the right and wrong, they vaguely become embarrassed reasoning on the prajna.

The disciple who does not attentively resolve all dharma, which is unstably obscure and unobscure, wrongly believes that Tathagata has a secret; that Tathagata has a closure and opening. In fact, the hearing-seeing-knowing is existent, so the disciple with limited feeling, being conservative, will become non-suchness. Consequently, we can see that the Tathagata is not secret; it is neither closed nor opened.

“The Buddha dharma: The very Buddha is without dharma, but there will be no Buddha without acquiring the dharma. Like as: the enlightenment is the cessation of stupidity, but in the stupidity, you should practice to seek for enlightenment.”
–T.V.

The very Buddha is without dharma. Why? Because the Buddhas have accomplished the Buddha nature, and the whole physical body of samadhi is appearing everywhere, each moment is an atomic Buddha, an instant Buddha. In the eyes of the Buddha, there is only a unique form without the dualistic form, so the Buddha is without dharma.

He, who is still practicing, should lean on all dharma, aiming to know them and thoroughly understand them until he completely acquires them. When he is enlightened, all his hearing-seeing-knowing are enlightened without stupidity. Furthermore, the disciples who are still in the stupidity, should search for the true nature to practice, should emphatically intend to be aware of their own nature. While they are feeling slightly in doubt, attachment with vagueness, and yet cleared up the flowering dharma nature, they are still in the stupidity. It is impossible to express in words how the living creatures are mistaken in the dharma. The Buddhas have dexterously passed down the Triple Canon to dissolve stupidity, to demolish doubt and attachment, aiming to help living creatures be liberated through wisdom as complete as they are. For that reason, the Buddhas have never had any dharma of their own. It is only with the purpose to dissolve the stupidity of living creatures that they transformed the dharma to bring about liberation from birth and death for the living creatures, the saints, and the bodhisattvas.

“Those who understood thoroughly the Tathagata store know clearly that the Tathagata is permanently existing, available for all, from the Tathagata Buddhas to all living creatures, equally and perfectly. Due to their virtue, their restricted quantity of instinct, the generosity and narrowness, long and short, square and round of every aspect that they will receive accordingly. When having received every atomic Buddha, they will inherit that atomic Buddha. Otherwise, even receiving either the whole mass or thousands of masses, either a weight or thousand and one weights thus they will themselves inherit it, it is not being given by anyone, should they accomplish that by themselves to inherit the Tathagata store entirely? ” –T.V.

Those who thoroughly understand the Tathagata store know clearly and meticulously that all dharma will return to the true mind without rises and falls, purity and impurity, increase and decrease. That is the unified Tathagata who unanimously unifies the store, which is called the Tathagata store. Therefrom, he has the perspicacious intuition. Then he knows the Tathagata store that permanently exists everywhere. The Tathagata Buddha and the living creatures are orderly in equality.

living creatures themselves discriminate and run after the distinction to create the dharma sphere.  Every dharma sphere has its specific characteristic called the living creatures sphere. The dharma sphere particularly has many various aspects such as the height and depth, long and short, square and round. Each sphere is appropriate to itself thus receives accordingly. Everyone receives what he himself has created; it is not given by anyone.

When the practice entirely reaches enlightenment, every dharma sphere is an atomic Buddha. As someone becoming the Buddha has countless atomic Buddhas. In each atomic Buddha there exists its particular characteristic, quality and quantity. Therefore, when the bodhisattva achieved the fruit of attainment, the arahants could not understand it properly. As for the Lord Supreme Maitreya who has become the Buddha, nobody could understand sufficiently about His apparition. Except the case of that who realized as superior as the degree of great bodhisattva. The Lord has secretly sealed the Tathagata store and continued to realize until the follower becomes the Buddha through just one rebirth.

Thus, without the Buddha we could never find out the way to advance continually, even after countless lifetimes. That is practically said, otherwise everyone can freely preach on the theory. For the Buddhas, there is only a unique buddhayana, not the third vehicle. For that reason, the confident, obedient, respectful bodhisattvas belong to the unique buddhayana, while living creatures belong to the third vehicle because of their different root faculties. The Buddhas have based on that to teach them.

“Those who thoroughly accomplished the attainment actually feel affection towards living creatures, really love living creatures as much as they love themselves. There are no more barriers between the Buddhas and living creatures. They have only recognized their meticulous accomplishment, which the living creatures have not yet required, they have only realized in themselves the immeasurable precious gems, the innumerable precious diamonds, the incalculable precious emeralds, the unlimited precious sapphires, and the uncountable precious topazes. Consequently, they are intimate to living creatures as the teachers and pupils, they have pretended to be brothers, husbands and wives, parents in order to give them the precious gems under the great deal of capacities and roles according to the formalities and aspects. Providing that the living creatures either blossom out into an idea or express into a thought, they would be soon given the five kinds of precious gems. Although those are partially fallen away and dropped out because they do not yet know how to use them. Indeed, they have never yet lost those which have been given to them completely.” –T.V.

The bodhisattvas understanding profoundly the ignorance could thoroughly know its true meaning of precious gems. At first, they are as the living creatures who have ever cultivated with abundant abilities and merits until there are no more barriers to comprehend all precious gems; they understand the living creatures’ nature. Therefrom, they actually feel affection towards living creatures; really love living creatures as much as they love themselves.

The bodhisattva observes himself before achieving the intuition, when he is still as living creatures with immeasurable doubtful attachments, the innumerable anxieties, the incalculable petulance, the unlimited desires, and the uncountable astonishment. Afterwards, the bodhisattva has emphatically intended to realize the compassion-will-courage, the morality -meditation -wisdom, and the six perfections tirelessly to overcome all unfavorable dharma without fictitious habits. There is no more doubt on the dualistic dharma of the body and circumstance, gain and loss; every place is literally perfect. The bodhisattva then could perceive wonderfully! By overcoming the above five seed-natures of living creatures, he has acquired immeasurable precious gems, the innumerable precious diamonds, the incalculable precious emeralds, the unlimited precious sapphires, and the uncountable precious topazes. His mind is not entangled and his thought is not regressed, he then enters into the sojourn for forty-two days to pass over the farther side of the limit and thoroughly acquires all the manifestations of the very mind of suchness. Only less than the Buddha with His forty-nine days and nights of accomplishment is to pass over to the farther side of the limit. Only he who has acquired the degree of bodhisattva realizing the mahasattva could comprehend it. Otherwise, it is beyond the range of speaking, reasoning and understanding.

The bodhisattva truly knows that, living in the secular world, one should have parent, wife and husband, children, brothers and relatives. The bodhisattva feigns stupidity to incarnate appropriately in order to give them plenty of means, makes some of them comprehend the path of the unique career vehicle. That is neither complimenting nor disapproving, neither right nor wrong, neither good nor evil, neither moral nor immoral, neither in concord nor in conflict, neither intimate nor separate. All are confined within these five precious gems, which are mentioned above. Though the majority could not yet receive them. However, these are not lost and are stored instead in all the cavities of the Tathagata store, waiting to appear when there is sufficient faculty, long or short according to determined mind.

“You should remember well and carefully realize that: the enlightened one explicitly explains from the precious treasury of Buddha which comprised the five precious gems mentioned above, preached in the presence of the bodhisattvas who carry out the instructions and the devas who respectfully admire the treasure dharma. Therefore, they eulogize the five gems of the precious dharma in the golden preaching of the Buddha.” –T.V.

The disciple should pay attention to reading, to remembering and to recognizing carefully these words of the Lord Supreme Maitreya; it is just from the explicit explanation of the precious treasury of Buddha that the bodhisattvas realize the supreme worthy conducts. And the devas are sensible so they worship and admire for a while until they have intuition to enter the conducted bodhisattva, the vowed bodhisattva. Therefrom, they would understand that the five gems are really the precious golden words. Even with the abundance of materials in life, prosperity, luxurious house, they cannot resist the desire nor dissolve the sufferings from birth, old age, disease, and death because they are still entangled in the formal desire. The Buddhas have really known that the original source of living creatures is not the chaotic desire. All of them have already possessed the perfectly tranquil enlightenment. Due to the desire, which they think about then act according to their wisheses to make them their own that produce all dharma that is called the karma. As they are karma, they would be polluted by the toxicity and mistakenly accepted it to create the transmigration of birth and death.

“The living creatures who lean on the dharma to practice and acquire the dharma, who rely on the dharma to dissolve in returning to the true supreme dharma and acquire the Buddha Dharma, attaining the Tathagata store. Being aware of their individual nature, having no way, but understanding the way, perfectly understanding the Tathagata store, this path is called dharma store.

One direction has two paths. For the Buddhas, they make use of the five gems of the precious dharma in the position of the treasury dharma to help living creatures. As for the living creatures, receiving the precious dharma, they have to lean on the dharma in order to understand it and return to the true supreme dharma precious treasure of the buddhayana and be liberated through wisdom.” –T.V.

The disciples practicing all dharma have to dissolve theirs until comprehension before recognizing the Tathagata store called dharma store that is the return to the true supreme.

The practice with all dharma is the unique direction, completely understanding the Tathagata dharma and entering the store; those are the two paths. Because of the esteem of the five gems, their wisdom develops and illuminates the consciousness karma as well as the fictitious desire. Therefore, they neither prefer the nobility to the coarseness, nor prefer the good to the evil, no longer fed up with the impermanent affairs of life and death chaotically, neither practice more nor less, neither the gain nor the loss, neither the presence nor the absence, but perfectly comprehend the Tathagata dharma to know the dharma, thoroughly understand the dharma and return to the true supreme dharma of buddhayana, which is also called unique career vehicle, the way to the complete liberation through wisdom.

As for the living creatures, the five kinds of toxicities: the doubtful attachment, fear, anxiety, desire, and astonishment that makes them unable to see, hear, know about the precious things of the five gems so they should be developed for entering the Tathagata store then returning to the true supreme.

“In this world of separation and destruction those of meditation wisdom to the superhuman being, to those who know well the dharma, but not yet returning to the true supreme, they will remain in the vagueness of the dharma sphere without escape. The demands to fulfil the outcome according to the needs on the way of practice for liberation from birth and death in the faithful disciples are not few. Therefore, they have to ask the Buddhist master of bodhisattva rank this: what is the way? What is the practice to resolve the birth and death? The Buddhist master replies: “try to manage according to the birth and death, practice according to the birth and death to resolve the birth and death.” –T.V.

The meditation wisdom originated from the seed karma of living creatures. Living creatures are wrongly divided into various spheres; they become thus rebellious or feel affection for each other and create karma. Those of meditation wisdom know that it is karma that leads to the transmigration of birth and death. In fact, the physical nature spontaneously is in perfect tranquillity from the non-beginning to the non-ending in the living creatures. Those of meditation wisdom and the superhuman beings become saints, who have not yet attained the degree of complete liberation through wisdom and are still in the vagueness about the truth. Why?

Because they are not yet emerging from the belt of dharma sphere of the universe, they still return to the heaven world, fairy world... they still are in the sphere that belongs to the status of living creatures sphere. The superhuman beings can show the living creatures the way of practice to go forward to the heaven world, fairy world. But the essence of the Buddha is intentionally guiding the living creatures to escape from the universe, to stand beyond the universe, to master the universe, and to maneuver the universe in order to be liberated from birth and death through wisdom.

Thus, what is the way? What is the practice to resolve death and birth? Together with living creatures, leaning on the all dharma in living creatures to dissolve the consciousness karma, root karma, defilement karma, fetter karma, all that is the practice relying on the birth and death to be free from the death and birth.

Those of meditation wisdom who do not rely on the above physical nature of meditation, and strenuously practice the fixed perception are all practicing wastefully and are still caught in the birth and destruction. After achieving the full enlightenment, the bodhisattvas then make use of the fixed perception, neither leaving nor taking it. Therefore, they are free from the dharma sphere. That is the unique characteristic of the unique career vehicle.

“The practice for the way of liberation is extremely delicate in every particular quantity. There is a difference between those who comprehend and those who acquire the dharma. For every acquisition, there are thousands and thousands of turns, just like: those who acquire the eternal truth and rely on it to recognize themselves the equality of eternal truth are sincere. In fact, it is truly permanent and variable just in some aspects, not yet the perfection of the true supreme entirely.” –T.V.

Those who comprehend the dharma are those perceiving the dharma through the faculty of reason to understand it, those who acquire the equality of all dharma, the equality of the Buddha nature, are due to the non chaotic desire that they acquire the equality of nature and mind. Having achieved the equality of nature and mind can understand all the dharma without being mistaken in the birth and death. If following the faculty of reason is still having wishes in order to attain the dharma; the idea of that wish is the inequality. Being unequal would be chaotic accordingly. There are thousands of various turns depending on every occasion of acquisition.

Why? Because those who smoothly practice always consider their acquisition to be the ultimate, they are not willing to leave their ego, their self-acquisition in order to meet the brilliant Buddhist master from the rank of bodhisattva, mahasattva to the Buddha. If they meet them, just through a few simple exchanges they can benefit a lot from it, they can recognize the degree of their acquisition and which way they are taking.

For that reason, many of those who comprehend the dharma unintentionally go in the contrary direction to the way for the wisdom. Each disciple may have different levels of insight that may be profound or superficial. Consequently, the acquisition is never equal or is eternal truth sincere. Due to the dharma nature which is equally perfect and appropriate, it can lead those who acquire incompletely the dharma to mistakenly follow the desire of proclaiming themselves to be the bodhisattva, Buddha without seeing and knowing all the wrong infection of birth and death in the incalculable, uncountable lifetimes. The dharma nature helps those who wish for perfection either superior or inferior. It is the master of those who comprehend the dharma and still entertain with the vague expectation and sink in the birth and death and they remain the living creatures in all the spheres without knowing it.

The dharma nature responds to all the disciples who are still having the desire. It does not discriminate the individual character; it simply yields to the very appropriate wishes. Therefore, they are easily subject to error without the master.

“Those who are clinging to the eternal truth naturally did not penetrate deeply into all dharma, they are getting lazy and confused about the Buddha dharma. The first is to receive the eternal truth and to go to the pure land. The second is to focus the mind on training diligently, and the third is to be dreamy in the ignorance of the dharma patience and unable to be free from the birth and death. Very rare are those who attain the dharma of eternal truth to cultivate toward the truth of eternity. Why? Because the eternal truth is the first step to the equality of body and mind, the disciple has to practice till the end of his essential mind. The essence of true mind is just the return to the noble truth supreme.”
–T.V.

Those who acquire the dharma of eternal truth have practiced successfully the hearing-seeing-knowing to enter the sea of Tathagata dharma; hence they have achieved the truth of eternity through cultivating entirely to attain the Tathagata store.

Cultivating in the Tathagata dharma is no more heavy or light, nor pure and impure, nor increased and decreased. It knows that all dharma are perfect in every level. It understands clearly the origin of every dharma without error. The dharma returns to the mind leading to acquire the essence of the true mind. The more meticulously inspecting dharma in every particular detail, the more complete understanding all dharma would be without superficiality. Very rare are those who acquire the Tathagata dharma cultivating toward the eternal truth.

For instance: cultivating to dissolve the suffering. To acquire the dharma that saves the suffering, to understand clearly the suffering, the disciple needs to dissolve the suffering dharma that means the thorough comprehension and the complete extermination of the suffering. He also should practice to save the suffering, carefully examining inch by inch without any aperture; the suffering cannot creep into the mind to stay there. He then clears up the suffering. Definitely, the practice in such a way is perfect and returns toward the true supreme entirely. The way of meticulous, diligent and careful practice belongs to the unique career vehicle where you can step in the vast sea of samadhi.

Attaining the essence of the true mind, you should be those who understand thoroughly the sufficient dharma spheres in every level equally. That is the return toward the true supreme. There is no need for reasoning. It may be present or absent. It is present when you want it to be present and it is absent when you want it to be absent. It is the non-duality. It has no place to point out, because all are not yet attaining the equality, are vaguely divided into two and not determined to be unique

Because of unable to determine the essence of true mind, they, therefore, get fed-up, stand still and return toward the tranquil isolation also called the pure land. In fact, the pure land is very lively, really understanding the essence of true mind. Some of those who do not stand tranquilly to save and then enter into the training of the supernatural power, mysterious power that they do not return toward the essence of true mind either. The others, who have not yet enough dharma patience, have not yet acquired the complete no-birth. Therefore, they do not thoroughly understand the essence of true mind either.

“You should know that: the return to the true supreme is the basis of complete liberation, why?  It is because you would literally have the profound knowledge, clear sight with a developed mind and without entanglement. The time when the Blessed One is still alive, his young brother, Ananda, who is diligently practicing for clearing the nature, is overcoming every bit of dharma sphere and not yet able to return to the true supreme. Thus thinking: ‘The Blessed One is walking standing, laying, sitting among the defilement and pollution of the Aha world with plenty of miseries and hardships among the mountains and rivers with the convexity and concavity.

Thoroughly understanding it, the Blessed One has descended from His sacred throne and said: Ananda, your judgement is different from that of the supreme true enlightenment, all of your thinking is wrong, all the purposes in your recognition are also wrong, quite different from the true supreme. The Blessed One has made use of his supernatural power of five precious gems to clear the obstructions. Ananda has known instinctively, inclined his shoulders to walk seven rounds and respectfully said: Sir Reverend, I do not anticipate that your incalculable merits and the equality of the true supreme makes the sacred dim sighted in solemn, the grounds have not yet the convexity and concavity at all. Nor are the defilement, pollution and sufferings, these are the five kinds i am just thinking about. Strangely, strangely i have adored with respect. The Blessed One has silently attested.” –T.V.

At the time of the Blessed One, all the venerables, saints and sages still wrongly believe that the Blessed One is living in the saha world full of defilements, very miserable, very hard as the mountains, rivers with the convexity and concavity. The Blessed One has thoroughly understood the error of the four order’s disciples. Therefore, He has used the Buddha power to make the venerable Ananda know insticntively that the pure land of the Blessed One is the supreme true supreme with an adequate solemnity. There, the mind is as smooth as the fine velvet never having a bit of defilement, suffering, and it is always tranquil and joyful at all time.

In this Dharma-Ending Age, the above error of the four orders’ disciples is similarly manifested. The Lord Supreme Maitreya of the true supreme dharma has intentionally reminded about the pure land of the Buddhas with full of solemnity, never having the convexity or concavity at all. There, it also is as fine as the velvet and sufficiently possesses the seven precious gems, neither hot nor cold irregularly. At all times, his mind is in harmony as well. The four orders of disciples have been wrong because of their deficient degree of cognition.

“Some time afterward, having received the teaching, Ananda has returned to the True Supreme to be attested, He has then bowed before the Blessed One and said: Sir Reverend, my mistake is extremely, measurelessly enormous, through many lifetimes of birth and death. In each lifetime, i have believed that it is my parents who have given me the life through everything from the tray of foods to the piece of clothes, from the comfort to the living and that have frequently been so in all countless lifetimes. Until now, i am literally recognizing my wrong thinking about the fatherhood through confused appellation. I do not truly anticipate that you are my true parents. You are the one who have raised me that my body of four false elements becomes the agate golden body.

My body is the ordinary one. You have raised me to get the appearance of the Buddhas in my whole body, because of my mean and egoistic mind, i cannot look upon myself beyond the straitened dharma sphere of the being born, and now i can feel the immense generosity throughout. You have conferred me the practical use of the precious treasure, including all the five precious gems as a savory food and with the dharma rice that you have received from the Buddhas of Ten Directions, in order to make me eternal. After saying that, Ananda has respectfully bowed to Him.” –T.V.

The Lord has reminded the four orders of disciples that it is the Buddhas who could transform the ordinary body into the golden body. Furthermore, with the egoistic mind of the living creatures, he has raised them to make the appearance of Buddhas in their whole bodies, and nothing is comparable with the practical use of the precious treasure that He has conferred during His apparition in this return.

 

LORD SUPREME MAITREYA WITH LONG HOA

INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I: LORD SUPREME MAITREYA’S PAST INCARNATIONS
CHAPTER II: I CAME FROM THE TUSITA HEAVEN

CHAPTER IV: TRANMISSION OF THE PRECIOUS DHARMA
CHAPTER V: A NATION OF PEACE AND DELIGHT
CHAPTER VI: THE VENERABLE OFFERINGS
CHAPTER VII: THE ATTESTATION OF THE BUDDHA KING

50. The Samadhi

50. The Samadhi

There are four stages of the Samadhi:
      • The Samadhi of the Sravaka
      • The Samadhi of the Pratyeka
      • The Samadhi of the Arahant
      • The Samadhi of the Bodhisattva, Maha Bodhisattva

• The Samadhi of the Sravaka
 
   ◊ Inspired with what is happening next. For example, you would like to pay a friend a visit; suddenly something appears to happen to prevent it. Consequently, the friend is not at home when you arrive. Another example, suddenly you feel sleepy when you are going somewhere. The best thing is that you should not go. The misfortune will be brought about when you insist proceeding.

• The Samadhi of the Pratyeka

  ◊ Perceiving all the dharma. Recognizing all the dharma. Using (dissolution, manipulation of all dharma). For example, you planed to meet an acquaintance for business purposes. However, when you are preparing and ready to go, something happens to obstruct you, thereof you cannot meet him. That is the perception of the prevention, which is unfavorable to proceed. Upon recognizing that, you should use all means to dissolve and overcome the obstacle without any prevention. Such a disciple knows how to use all the dharma. That is called the manipulation of all dharma fluently.

  ◊ Perceiving the dharma is the dissolution of the first stupidity.

  ◊ Recognizing the dharma is the comprehension of the second stupidity.

  ◊ Using the dharma fluently is the comprehension of the third stupidity.

Dissolving these three stupidities in the dharma is the Samadhi of the Pratyeka

• The Samadhi of the Arahant

  ◊ The real form

  ◊ The formless

  ◊ The manipulation (all the dharma)

     √ When the Sakyamuni Buddha has shown a stem of flower in the conference hall, The Venerable Mahakassapa has smiled. He then knew that the Venerable Mahakassapa has acquired the samadhi of dharma subject of the real form and formless. Why did the venerable smile? It is because he was intuited.

  ◊ The real form: the kind of flower it is.

  ◊ The formless: the flower has its own dharma nature, what it is used for, how its tastes and smells . . .

  ◊ The manipulation: The right application, for instance, which flower is offered to the Buddha, which flower is offered to the Kitchen God.

Dissolving the three stupidities of each dharma is perfect comprehension of the dharma sphere.

Every dharma requires thorough observation and knowledge elevated to the wonderful observation, aiming to understand the three stupidities of each dharma. The function of samadhi is to dissolve the stupidity for the disciple. Therefore, it is used to dissolve the thousands, millions of samadhis. They are truly attested, acquiring the truth without entanglement in the dharma sphere.

• The Samadhi of the Bodhisattva, Maha Bodhisattva

  ◊ Knowing thoroughly all the dharma.

  ◊ Manipulating fluently all the dharma.

  ◊ Comprehending perfectly all the dharma.

The bodhisattva knows well the original appearance of dharma sphere that is the necessary essential point. Therefore, he could know the sickness of living creatures so that he can dissolve by all means to manipulate in such way to be concordant, aiming to assimilate and get closer in order to save the living creatures.

It is after comprehending perfectly all dharma, making perfect use of them and clearly separating the orientation and non-orientation of all dharma in equality that you can perfectly comprehend all dharma. Only the Buddhas are fully attained, the bodhisattva should not be self-satisfied in realizing his vow, in conducting his vow until any of his future lifetimes. He will follow the right way of the Buddhas of Ten Directions to be able to enter the Nirvana.

There are those who like to practice without correcting themselves. Their lazy body disagrees with the practice and is not following the bodhisattva conduct so that they are not enlightened. The body and mind of bodhisattva are gradually approaching to one while the body and mind of living creatures remain the separate two. The mind and the dharma reunified into one leads to enlightenment. When they already became only one, they are able to emerge and enter the right meditation of samadhi.

The one who practices himself through his own conception from this lifetime to another lifetime is still in the Buddha-dharma, the dharma-Buddha, becoming more rebellious by the reason and cannot follow the right path to liberation. During His return to the world, the Lord has witnessed many cultivators who used the fixed conception to emerge from meditation, which belonged to dissent. Without meditation, there is neither intuition nor development of wisdom. On account of the above characteristics, the cultivator with many lifetimes of practice still could not harvest the results.

“He is tranquilly sitting on a block of stone, naturally and in a calm purity, and gradually releasing the breeze while emerging from meditation. The low forest landscape with its uneven rocky crests virtually begins to manifest the scenes according to the right meditation of the Buddhist Master.” –T.V.

The paragraph of sutra has inscribed the Supreme Lord Supreme Maitreya emerging from the right meditation to travel to the divine world meeting the eighteen arahants who are severely discussing about the truth.

“The Buddhist Master has come to an ancient temple, the roofs of the temple slightly curved as the two wings, which are broad and low like an eagle spreading its wings to protect the visitors of all directions. He has entered into the temple where there are eighteen arahants divided into three groups discussing about the true way of practice. He has used his telecommunication ear, his eye-store of samadhi meditation to see clearly and hear all without omission. The eighteen arahants have never realized a great superior arahant is present in the conference.

At that time, the Buddhas of Ten Directions unanimously had pronounced the words of congratulation to the Buddha King (Maitreya) and said to all Bodhisattvas. You all should go to the Khanh Trang province, Long Phung Mountain, Long Buu temple where there is a Buddha with the dharma title of the Buddha King (Maitreya), appearing in this period of Return. He has had the responsibilities of reorganizing the Buddha dharma, attesting the return, pronouncing the four conducts, making all who are unstably living and wrongly practicing become the true dharma of the Supreme Pure King, the four supreme worthy conducts, in the purpose of bringing about good omen, and guiding to enlightenment. You all should go there respectfully to worship Him and receive the practice of the four conducts. He has commissioned and the bodhisattvas unanimously bowed down, radiating light, and relying on the fluorescence for coming there to worship.

All the devas, fairy dragons, and saints are looking at the south east, where the fragrances of udumbara are overspreading and hearing the voices diffusing in the space, all are bringing their offerings there to worship.

At that time in the Long Buu Palace, all the petals are connected together in garlands as large as a red peach and looks like a sticky rice tray. The appearing Buddha King (Lord Supreme Maitreya) is dressing a White Velvet robe, wearing a white pinkish hat of maintenance, which has nine buds of flower. Each bud of flower was diffusing the halo; every ray comprises the yellow light with its color of yellow-yellow light, the blue light with its color of blue-blue light, the pink light with its color of pink-pink light, the black light with its color of black-black light. Especially, the unique white color has no color of white. The Lord has appeared in the sufficient state of thirty-two handsome forms and stepped on the flower with the splendid yellow rays of halo. All the bodhisattvas, devas, and fairies as well as the dragon deities to the arahants, sravakas, and pratyekas without blinking their eyes are looking and unanimously eulogizing, they are now seeing such a spectacular performance which they have never seen before.

Suddenly, there are the praises in the air due to the countless merits of Buddha, which appeared in the supreme principle, supreme form, and measureless odor, without omission. He has stepped up to the lion throne and seated himself in his place. All the different orders admired and respectfully bowed before Him then they took their seats respectively according to their order and all in contemplating.

At that time, the Buddha King (Lord Supreme Maitreya) is patient for twelve million minutes. His face is simple and tranquil in accord with all of them, making them happy and enthusiastically respecting Him without a bit of false hope or arising expectation. The Lord has said: I fairly congratulate the eighteen arahants for this conference in the last period. The bodhisattvas are realizing the instructions and all the orders are tirelessly practicing to maintain the everlastinness of the precious dharma.

For those with insufficient root faculty and imperfect wisdom, therefore, the transformation of mind generates the tranquil dharma, to receive the blessed reward from devas and men, to attain every conduct. Otherwise, with obscure wisdom, the transformation of mind will generate by itself a lot of karma. They are living in all kinds of change. By informed and indirect practice through different ideas, it is difficult to attain the true enlightenment.

They have faith in the reason and act with respectful worship towards the Buddhas. Nevertheless, without the thorough penetration in the way of practice, how can they acquire the fruit of attainment?

I am appearing adequately for your sake in a layman form deeply penetrating in the form, sound, odor, and taste to tell you not to offend the dharma. From the devoted male followers to the devoted female followers all are practicing to seek for the compatible apparition, to receive for the blessed reward of devas and men. Very rare are those who practice with the direct apparition.

The lord has spoken, at this point, a bodhisattva has stepped out and circularly walked seven times with admiration and respectfully addressed: - Reverend the Blessed One, I have practiced into clearance of all living creatures. It is not possible to search for just one more living creature left, I respectfully express my request with sincerity to the Blessed One to take pity on me to teach me how to practice for the full attainment of the Bodhihood vow.

Excellent! Clever! Ah, Bodhisattva Buu Tinh, you have practiced clearly the reason of living creatures, but have not yet attained the origin of each living creature sphere. In each living creatures spheres, thousands and thousands of living creatures combine to become a dharma sphere. In each dharma sphere, there are numberless living creatures. When you have fully awoken the original appearance of living creatures, you entirely comprehend the manifestation of the dharma sphere, by that time you are attested then attaining the full enlightenment.

The whole body of the Bodhisattva Buu Tinh is blooming with the flowers of Precious Dharma, lightly and freshly, with happily eulogies. He has never yet heard what he is hearing today. That is truly the Supreme Blessed One. Afterwards, he has respectfully bowed down and sat aside to admire.” –T.V.

As for the Buddha King Maitreya, His making of salvation for the living creatures is really unthinkable. When He had returned to the world to become the Buddha, the Buddhas of Ten Directions had respectfully admired and eulogized Him and acclaimed by all the boddhisattvas, devas, fairies, dragon deities and quadruple deities. Everytime, he has emerged from meditation to save living creatures; there is a serious shaking of the Three of Great Thousand Worlds.

Meanwhile, a great number of cultivators proclaim to be the Buddhas by relying on the fixed conception and knew that there was the appearance of Long Hoa. However, they could not meet the Lord. If one would practice of direct apparition that could provide sufficient abilities, merit of the holy rank. Thereupon, one would be admitted to Long Hoa without needlessly waiting for it.

The Buddhism is always based on the noble affection; therefore, the true disciple himself examines his faults in order to avoid the errors. The more eminent his thought, the more supernatural power transforms. For those who are not yet hearing, understanding it, the Tathagata store still accumulates this hearing, this knowledge, into the cavities. Until one day, they will meet the bodhisattva of full attainment who only teaches a right word corresponding to what they have heard in the past. Naturally, the mysterious constitution will give it back to them. Everyone who practices precisely with one self’s nature - that is the daily progress, which is the path in the universe, approaching towards the Buddhas.

For a learned man, the supernatural power is transformed into intelligence. However, without practicing the dharma, he is still wandering in the path of the birth and death. If someone is neither attached nor rebellious, his body is at ease and easy to receive the supernatural power, the more it comes in and out the more intelligent he is. Every dharma has its origin. For instance, the dharma of a carpenter only knows about woods, furnitures and all wooden products, which belong to the carpentry. Otherwise, supplying him with a bar of iron obviously he would not know what to do with it.

And for the dharma of a blacksmith, who manufactures the iron door, he would not know what to do with that piece of wood. Each career is a dharma, which has its origin, the familiarity in any career making the supernatural power enter into that body and stay there even while you are eating, living, and sleeping. Therefore, for someone without faith and meditation, the spirit-consciousness cannot make its access.

Monks and nuns are afraid of dharma, so they have to practice the dispassion to prevent the access of the spirit-consciousness. Until, penetrating the Tathagata store, they realize that the more eminence and excellence in the perfect way of practice are, the faster they recognize the supernatural power. The intelligent man takes the spirit-consciousness. The Buddhist Master neither takes nor leaves the spirit-consciousness thus entering the Tathagata store. Consequently, he will acquire the supernatural power of samadhi.

Secular men are hearing with their ears, seeing with their eyes and knowing with their heads, so their intelligence is still limited. Only the Buddhist Master, hears by the hearing, sees by the seeing and knows by the knowing. Therefore, his matchless intelligence comprehends thoroughly the supernatural power.

A man succeeding in a career has already the samadhi. He needs only to realize a dharma and knows it well; the other dharma completely returns and serves him.

Only the Buddhist Master looks at the spirit-consciousness of living creatures to know it all. Looking at someone, the Buddhist Master literally knows his thoughts, his characters, and teaches him according to the sickness he is infected with in order to dissolve his stupidity. It is not by ascending the pulpit and preaching interminably the dharma in a particular way, and expecting the living creature to hear and realize it all. The Buddhist Master should remain close to his living creature, teaching him every day one dharma after another to help him gradually awakened. In reality, it is not easy to teach dharma to a follower to awaken him. That is very hard. The Enlightened One must know how to wonderfully apply all his great means in the hope of saving his follower.

Because of the multiple illnesses of living creatures, he has to establish various conducts to save them accordingly. Like a good physician, who examines the patient and prescribes the right medicine to cure his disease. Otherwise, reciting, learning and studying the sutra, preaching all the dharma are all good. But the error is enormous. He should know which dharma is applied to which case and in what situation. Just like allowing a patient to enter the drugstore, he considers all kinds of medicine to be suitable and takes them all. Obviously, it does not cure the disease, but it rather makes it worse.

Preaching the dharma, without being aware of the disease of stupidity in every living creature, is similar to driving someone to the drugstore and letting him take all kinds of medicine. Even through thousands of lifetimes of faithfulness, he would never be enlightened.

The Buddhist Master has to use the samadhi to preach the dharma fluently; therefrom, the listener will also be fluent. Caught with stupidity, a good preacher would make the ignorant listener more stupid with more reasons to give rise to rebellion.

The one who acquires the samadhi has to realize thousands of samadhi dharma, thousands of samadhi dharma of supernatural power to be able to see and know about the previous lifetimes. The deeper the samadhi the more previous lifetimes are seen in Long Hoa. There are quite a number of disciples who could recall only one previous lifetime, but they could not recall many of their previous lifetimes because they are still penetrating in the dharma sphere, not yet profoundly comprehending the dharma nature.

The origin of dharma remains constant. For instance, someone living in the fairy sphere at his death, is reborn in the world today with the same gesture and character as in his previous lifetime, the only difference is the aspect of the face and physical body.

Meeting the Lord Chief Monk of Long Hoa, the follower joins him to practice enthusiastically, the virtue and Mind develop every day, and the results are evident. The Lord has literally known that the human life does not last long before coming to old age, illness and death. And at the present time, the eternal truth is coming to the world to save mankind in an unthinkable manner. It is necessary to recognizing it, not wasting away the present lifetime, achieving the measureless, limitless knowledge. All of that leads living creatures to enlightenment.

The bodhisattvas’ words are all frank words of insight, the words of carrying out the Buddha explanation. And the words of greed, sense-desire, and one’s ego are the hypothetical words of mara of three vehicles. The Lord has appeared in this secular world, but every time emerging from meditation to travel to the other spheres, he is respectfully acclaimed with rejoicing by the devas, fairies, deities and saints in order to receive the precious dharma. Meanwhile, many Buddhist followers have never known that Long Hoa has come to the world. The bodhisattvas are now continuing the way of guiding the living creatures away from the transmigration of birth and death while living creatures are still vaguely expecting a miracle from the Seven Mountains.

In this Final Law Period, most disciples do not practice adequately. The exotericism is attentive to the exotericism. The practice by meditation conceives that the tantrayana is metaphysical in all aspects. The immediacy applies immediacy absolutely, regardless of the virtue; the practice by gradualness maintains the gradualness. If the disciple does not finalize all these combinations, how could he attain enlightenment!

The Easterners are seeking the truth by training themselves in a particular manner and some acquire the sealed mind. The Buddhist believers wishing for the dharma must be faithful in the spirit of attainment to receive the truth, gradually desist from the stupidity and attain the enlightenment. Lord Supreme Maitreya Buddha has to wonderfully apply this characteristic method in the Final Law Period. He could not assemble in large numbers in the family while the Vietnam communists did not allow it for the construction of virtue.

The Westerners study through material experimentation and formally announce to mankind the achievable outcomes. Unfortunately, besides some advantages, there are some disadvantages as well and at the end; the material experimentation is usually destroyed.

Through many generations, the Easterners have already known long ago that the human body and mind is covering all over the universe because the combination of the four insubstantial elements creates the corresponding body for the universe. Therefore, both the interior body and exterior body are in agreement. Therefore, the human beings could associate to receive the supernatural power of the universe. As for the Westerners, they do not exploit accurately the human body, so they have not yet truly known it.

The Buddhist doctrine does not accept the soul; it only recognizes the thoughts, which represent the soul. The soul is covering all over the empty universe, so there is the enlightened soul in correspondence to the soul. Human beings cannot recognize the place where the thoughts are generated, they have to follow the generation and destruction untill they have sufficient abilities and merits and comprehension of the ideas of immortality before they have induction of the soul, and the insight of the supernatural power.

The soul has a non-dualistic form. The supreme soul is, with the power to see clearly, unchangeable, unending, which is the Tathagata, Buddha, God. The Buddhist doctrine presumes the great-ego, the unique ego. The ego in our body and in the four species is the temporary ego, called the fictitious small ego. The great ego is a precious pearl. The small ego is the luster. In the eye of the enlightened one, the soul is the tathagata, embodying sufficiently supernatural power. It does not create nor separate. Creating is to grasp it or separating is to leave it. Such a statement would be erroneous.

Human beings formed with an adequate body can naturally have hearing-seeing-knowing. It is from the great ego that the soul is manifested to be correspondent to the body generated from the Tathagata, so the supernatural power is naturally appearing from the Tathagata. There is all of that in the living creatures, but when the great ego manifests in the human being and the Four Species, that is the corresponding body also called the transformed body, that is well known by the Buddha who has said: “all living creatures have Buddha nature”. But the living creatures want to make distinction through particular characteristics and they are thus separated. In fact, human being and the Four Species are homogeneous with the universe, approaching to comprehend the universe.

The realistic gradual practice will lead to the attainment. However, you can neither use the mind to understand nor the consciousness to know it. It is impossible for the disciple to simply wish to have a minute of tranquillity; thus he is surrounded and evoluted by the mara-power. The Buddha has initiated the teaching; the bodhisattvas should sufficiently be confident, obedient and respectful to be able to demolish the belt of mara-power, which has imprisoned them for many lifetimes. This is not an ordinary matter or a minor affair... The disciple having a faithful, fervent mind, but failing to conduct the vow in the multitudinously favorable and unfavorable dharma, only keeping on avoiding, annihilating the dharma, would never truly comprehend through this tranquillity even in thousands of lifetimes. Having not comprehended, how could you receive the secret seal, which is conferred by the Tathagata Buddha?

  There are some disciples who can see and know well through the study of the sutra, but they do not practice to save the living creatures nature of purity and impurity, form and formless. Therefore, this knowledge likely is the unseeing and unknowing. All the dharma of supernatural powers does not appear to them.

The Supernatural Power is in the stupidity

After leaving for a long time the power returns.


–T.V.

Thus, the practice of the dharma is not so complicated, it necessitates neither studying nor worshipping and supplicating. The unceasing immersed thoughts are the form of unceasing thoughts. During the day, one should carry out the conduct of the vow without creating the rise and fall of all dharma; at the nighttime, one should practice at least an hour of exerted meditation, trying to overcome the numerous obstacles of tirelessness, depression, and sleepiness until there are no more immersed thoughts during the term of meditation. Afterwards, the four stages of walking, standing, laying, sitting all become tranquil. The suchness naturally appears and therefrom knowing that the realization of all dharma is neither taking nor eliminating neither more nor less neither unified nor separated. It is the unique form, the perpetual clinging nature.

Meditation actually requires the guidance of bodhisattva to have sufficient tantrayana, the tantrayana helps to dissolve consciousness karma without false awareness, but it needs patience because the consciousness karma is more delicate than human beings. It is easy to say, but if the practice is incorrect, the outcome would be hard to achieve. The disciple with a fervent spirit without an endowed wisdom still falls into fanaticism. For that reason, the Lord Chief Monk, Maitreya of Long Hoa has passed down to the world whatever is necessary for the disciple with a fervent, faithful mind to carry out realizing and enjoying the truth. Under the guidance of bodhisattvas, the disciple can certainly be assured that the orthodoxy will not be lost again.

If having not yet met an awakened one, the disciple should practice for good faculty. The spirit of good faculty and good will offers to establish the category of one’s merit, the belief in the Triple Gem is always appreciated. He should not have a false wish because of the desire for meditation to be duped by the mara of five aggregates and undergo multiple sufferings.

Primarily, the self-construct of body should be concerned with correcting the character. Nobody else has the authority to oblige you; only your own mentality can elevate you.

The wise man fluently comprehends because of unfavorable dharma
The stupid person stands against it creating ignorance.
–T.V.

The disciple having the patience of digesting an insult, patience of making a concession, patience of persevering grief, understands clearly and knows how to realize perfectly the unfavorable dharma. Afterwards, he will acquire the no-birth dharma of patience. It is through comprehension of all dharma that you can thoroughly understand the way of practice to reach the perfect prajna, surpassing the sravaka, pratyeka and arahant rank. That is the bodhisattva rank that has all kinds of supernatural powers from the naturalness, and spontaneity that appears.

Having acquired the supernatural power of bodhisattva, he should penetrate deeply in the favorable and unfavorable dharma spheres without omission, aiming to save the living creatures’ nature. That is the pure nature of Buddha completing the living creatures.

The bodhisattva rank has fully achieved the comprehensibility; only the Buddhas have entirely accomplished the infinite comprehensibility.

The emptiness differs from the comprehensibility. As far as the bodhisattva rank is concerned, the comprehensibility means he has conducted the vow and realized the vow to achieve the comprehensibility. However, he does not store it in his mind. The bodhisattva knows how to reserve it in every cavity of the Tathagata store. When having a dharma, he naturally knows and spontaneously realizes it appropriately with neither excess nor lack. After manipulating the dharma, it returns to all the cavities in the Tathagata store. It is the secret seal that the bodhisattva knows how to use properly.

From the time of the Blessed One to the return of the Lord Supreme Maitreya appearing, the Lord has expounded to the patriarchs and the venerable who pretend to be clung to the emptiness and become indifferent. They have to dissolve all the dharma in the hope of acquiring the truth.

Entering the comprehensiveness without seeing the comprehensiveness
but thoroughly knowing it, that is the enlightened form.
–T.V.

The enlightened form with sufficiently practical use will achieve the great enlightened form. The great enlightened form in the four stages of life entirely knows the appearance of the perceived body without error when it makes use of favorable and unfavorable dharma. It has the sufficiency of abilities and merits from the great enlightened form approaching the great Tathagata.

The practical use in sincere sentiment is to grasp the suchness.
The secret seal is conferred by the Tathagata to the awakened sentiment.
–T.V.

In this secular world or in the Three Thousands of Great Thousand Worlds, those who discuss about the secret seal cannot overpass the two verses of seal indication of the Lord of Long Hoa, Chief Monk Maitreya.

There is a Buddhist master with the ultimate awareness who also has to wait for eighteen lifetimes to meet a succeeding bodhisattva who can make the sealed attestation to enter the constitution!

LORD SUPREME MAITREYA WITH LONG HOA

INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I: LORD SUPREME MAITREYA’S PAST INCARNATIONS
CHAPTER II: I CAME FROM THE TUSITA HEAVEN

CHAPTER IV: TRANMISSION OF THE PRECIOUS DHARMA
CHAPTER V: A NATION OF PEACE AND DELIGHT
CHAPTER VI: THE VENERABLE OFFERINGS
CHAPTER VII: THE ATTESTATION OF THE BUDDHA KING

49. Secret Seal

49. Secret Seal

How wonderful the Supreme Blessed One is, He has become the Buddha. I am now ordaining the living creatures nature that will become the Buddha. However, the two ways, interior and exterior finally are the only One, adequately representing the Three Bodies?


– The Supreme Special Scriptures
Secret Seal

“At that time, there are numberless living creatures appearing at every pore of the skin in the entire body of the Buddhist Master. They are all around Him readily worshiping and eulogizing the measureless merits of the Buddhist Master who has helped all living creatures to accomplish their practice of the dharma. When the Buddhist Master has finished His preaching, He is admired and acclaimed by numberless living creatures. All of them speak to him respectfully. There are all species of their own world. The Buddhist Master has laughed and clapped His hands. All of them have clapped their hands too and eulogized Him. The Buddhist Master has said: “How strange it is in the way for liberation” He has then ordained all living creatures’ nature to become future Buddhas.” –T.V.

Thus I have heard:

As for the brilliant dharma of the Buddhist Master as the Lord, when He has become the Buddha each pore of His skin is a transformed Buddha. From every speech, every act, and every thought all manifested everything transformed Buddha. His entire body has the incalculability of transformed Buddhas appearing around Him with respect.

He could have emerged from the right meditation to travel everywhere; he has entered into the right meditation to come in and out of the skillful observation throughout. With His intention, there are immediately the transformed Buddhas who simultaneously traveled over many destinations to save the living creatures in an unthinkable manner whereas the fairies and devas who could travel only with a single transformed one in their whole body. Why? Because of receiving only one sphere as the fundamental place. For that reason, when the fixed perception is apparently formed, only appearing a transformed one who travels to a single destination, after he returns to the body then appears another of the transformed One who travels to another destination. The full enlightenment of the Buddhas is immensity that none of the fairies and saints could know about.

Consequently, it is an eternal error of the one having the divine eyes or the divine ears who hastily proclaims that he himself is a Buddha. The living creatures are convinced of their precise words and the sublimity by resorting to the one having the divine eyes or divine ears. Nevertheless, they do not realize that the Bodhisattvas and Buddhas indubitably knowing this one is still millions of miles away, unworthy by all means, just being equal to a pore of skin in the body of the Blessed One, the Lord Supreme Maitreya. Thus, the future patriarchs should not hastily proclaim to be the Buddhas!

“At that time, The Buddhist Master has known perfectly the emerging and entering of the Tathagata store, dividing it into the oriental and non-oriental, the perfect and imperfect Tathagata. He has compatibly appeared in the apparent dharma body in the whole body of the enlightened Tathagata. From each to millions of pores of His skin without boundary that simultaneously appear the countless scenes and the innumerably apparent worlds which are still coming out from each pore of skin that is called the compatible apparition of the dharma body of the Enlightened One.” –T.V. 

As for the brilliant dharma of the Buddhist Master like the Supreme Lord Supreme Maitreya, the emerging and entering of the right meditation of samadhi is His routine performance. Though, He orientates or does not orientate, the emerging and entering in whatsoever the matter is, He meticulously knows everything because He has already commanded the Tathagata store.

Though, resolving the dharma perfectly or imperfectly, His measureless merits are not decreased. All the dharma bodies of Buddha are containing the Tathagata store, which He has fully acquired. Therefore, His perfect or imperfect apparition still is the salvation in accordance with Tathagata. He has realized these marvelous performances for the four orders of disciples of the dharma store, but very few true disciples in the Dharma School could recognize them.

Thus I have heard:

In the Three Thousand Great Thousand Worlds, there are pre-existing atomic Buddha and instant Buddha, that means there is already pre-existing supernatural power. All are under the electronic control of the universe, which commands the four species. The disciple, once enlightened, grasps in hand all the great mysteries of the universe. The electronics are continuously transformed like the bodies of the Buddha, with countless atomic Buddhas, instant Buddhas appearing and existing perpetually. Like medicine, the more studies and researches are carried out the more diseases are also discovered...

The success in the illusion of science is the reality of human beings. The disciple who is not attached, doubtful or rebellious manipulates well all the dharma. By all manners of speaking and acting, he would be fluent everywhere. The fluent one, who understands thoroughly all the dharma, preaches it fluently, that is his individual possession, while the listener is not yet to realizing it successfully that is not his possession.

Whatever the living creatures say and realize is the transformation of the mind into thoughts, which results in different classes and levels. The one who preaches fluently the dharma and knows entirely the transformation of mind becomes an eloquent preacher. This reason overcoming the other one brings about eloquence.

The Supernatural Power is in the stupidity

After leaving for a long time the power returns.


–T.V.

Why? Because the disciples and living creatures prefer a complicated and fictitious lifestyle, they are virtually seeking for the supernatural power in the far horizon or the deserted forests.

Thus, where is the supernatural power of the Four Species living? Wherever the Four Species are living there must be the supernatural power. Human beings can stand upright, that is owing to the interior and exterior pressure of the supernatural power. According to science, there is the atmospheric pressure affecting the surface of the material that keeps it standing, because the interior of human body has an electric current of the universe which flows out and in via the pores of skin. When man or Four Species stops breathing, he can no longer firmly stand and falls down due to an electric current of the universe that is unable to flow out and in henceforth.

The youngster walks and stands steadily while the elders behave weakly, the hair becomes gray because the diffusion of the halo from the interior body outspread is getting weaker, the pores of skin and the devoid of space inside the body are the place of the emerging and entering of the supernatural power. When attaining enlightenment, the disciple can mobilize the atomic Buddhas, instant Buddhas to come in and out of the body through every pore of skin with self-satisfaction and fearlessness to acquire the great compassion. Beard and hair are the residue of the supernatural power.

In the practice of dharma, the supernatural power evolves in parallel with the development of the thoughts of self-satisfaction and great compassion. Human beings do not contain the knowledge inside the body - The supernatural power is in transformation. The universe originally contains all the cavities that are called the tathagata store.

If the knowledge is stored in the body, it will be buried and disappear after death. Most scientists also believe that knowledge is in the body; in fact, knowledge literally lies in the universe. This subject belongs to its own cavity. From birth to maturity of a man, which part is accumulating his knowledge in the past and in which part his habits, customs, and the conception of life? All of that is reflected by the Tathagata store.

For example, for the one who studies exclusively the English language, all the deportment and activities in his life entirely lays in the constitution of Tathagata store that specializes in the English language. The Tathagata store emerges and enters to return to you the knowledge from the four directions. The more eminent a character is the greater intelligence and comprehension becomes.

The more intelligent a man is, the more knowledge he accumulates. That is called the saint, deva, and philosopher. From the antiquity to the present time, how the human beings have practiced the dharma. Practicing by the eye, the ear, the head, all of these are entangled in the level of ordinary man. Using Tathagata store for practicing, he would comprehend universally. This is the one who knows how to use his body in this present lifetime for practicing in the right path of Buddhas and bodhisattvas. One should be close to Buddhas and bodhisattvas, seeking for the dharma with a one-pointed mind. That one will be carefully guided in order to tap into the Tathagata store for the returning of knowledge, the disciple perceiving all that is cleared up.

Why it is called the Tathagata store: That is the hearing of the hearing, the seeing of the seeing, and the knowing of the knowing. Therefore, the disciple must use the hearing to hear, the seeing to see and the knowing to know. Recognizing that, the hearing-seeing-knowing will not be rebellious and there will be no more interruption, differentiation and destruction.

As for the Enlightened One, he could well comprehend the radical faculty, which he has constructed. The enlightenment is not yet the full enlightenment. Only the full enlightenment can understand thoroughly. The one who comprehends thoroughly penetrates with adequacy to enter into the right meditation of samadhi. Every time and everywhere there is certainly appearing the whole physical body of samadhi. It is not easy to recognize the practice leading to the unique career vehicle path in its right meaning that is initiated presently by the Lord Supreme Maitreya Buddha.

“From the primary Bodhisattva to the Maha-Bodhisattva, they usually make use of the direct apparition and conversion apparition. Those with the conversion apparition often have communicated with the Three Dharma Elements and the Three Great of Thousand Worlds. Emerging from the meditation to travel all over the spheres, that is the conversion apparition, until fully attained. One, by that time, can have the true apparition. These four forms of apparition are still in the dharma body of Buddha, which adequately appears in equality of every variety of attainment or confused attainment, and can inherit the apparition. In the manifestation of compatible apparition, there are two parts which are called the apparition in the direct retribution of the individual's previous existence and the receiving results of one's deeds. They are neither apparition mind nor dharma mind. The apparition of the dharma mind is the apparition dependent on the dharma body. Why is that? It is due to the natural accordance of Instinct and physical nature appearing simultaneously.” –T.V.

From the secular world to the devas, fairies, deities, sravakas, pratyekas and arahants, all are using the statute of compatible apparition. The Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva compatibly appears to save in accordance with the expressed request. There is the disciple who is inclined to worshipping and supplicating favor from God, the supernaturalness that belongs to the compatible apparition.

The direct apparition is the insight of the dharma subject of samadhi. It is by the direct apparition that oneself’s awareness can recognize the three dharma elements residing all over, at that time then perceive the conversion apparition. The Bodhisattvas can only make direct apparition. Only the Blessed One, the Supreme Lord Supreme Maitreya can make the true apparition.

The Bodhisattvas observe throughout and discern that: The human beings are temporarily living in this secular world. For that reason, they inevitably need all the aspects of materiality and as well as the spirituality. As far as the doctrines of the saints are concerned, they contribute to support the spirituality. From the Taoism, the Confucianism, the Brahmanism, the Catholicism, the Protestantism, the Islamism, the Hinduism to the Theosophy... All the religions are purposely nourishing the spirituality, when departing from life, the living beings would ascend to the divine world or approach the Mighty God who is unique, that belongs to the statute of compatible apparition. There is the supernaturalness within supplicating, otherwise without supplicating there is none.

Buddhism is only the religion, aiming to guide the living beings to achieve the full enlightenment, and the rebirth beyond the circle of the universe. Why?

The teaching of Buddha has discovered the Three Thousand Great Thousand Worlds outside the divine world. And the experimental science has recently discovered what the Buddha has taught for thousands of years.

Psychology has been studied from the thoughts that latter manifest into the action, knowing all the human psychology in order to maneuver and help them. Nevertheless, psychology has not yet known that the spirituality and materiality are mutually combined in the visceral consciousness of human, which matured all.

Philosophy makes full use of the thoughts, coming to the perfect comprehension of the thoughts and finally understanding thoroughly every aspect of humans, then becoming more knowledgeable. But it never attains the marvelous purpose of the original enlightenment nor is it able to explain whatever the Buddha path has acquired and whatever the Buddha path has resolved in the way of transmigration of birth and death.

Human beings generally make use of thoughts to form spirituality, creating the sphere that is the scene where they would be destined after departing from life. Only the Buddhas and the Maha Bodhisattvas have meticulously known and precisely seen it without fixation, simply examining to save mankind, helping the disciple to sense the direct apparition towards the conversion apparition and emerging from the transmigration of birth and death. Therefore, the disciple could recognize his own ego that is called the right meditation of samadhi.

Having the thought of seeking full enlightenment, the disciple would achieve the compatible apparition of direct retribution of his previous existence. With the thoughts outside the fundamental enlightenment, he would fall in the instinct and receive the compatible apparition of the result of his deed obviously.

There is existentially the seed nature of living creatures in the four species; that living creature nature is no other than the various breeds of bacteria inside the body. When they express phonetically in the body, naturally the human beings generate the thoughts. There are the incalculable thoughts produced, there is the seed nature of bacteria that are presented at most.

The more knowledgeable the disciple or the Buddhist Master that practices, the wiser the breeds of bacteria in his body become. When departing from life, the body of four elements disintegrates and the knowledge that belongs to the Tathagata is returned to its cavities in the universe. When a new body is reborn the knowledge will be reflected in it. The Buddhist Master just looks at the character, the gesture, the present lifestyle resorting to the acquisition of the direct apparition, he sentimentally converts and knows the previous lifetimes in the past as well as the future of living creatures, identifies where the disciple will be reborn. Therefrom, he could associate to free the soul. With the profound direct apparition, one can know many lifetimes in the past whereas the compatible apparition one is just capable of recalling one lifetime. It is hard, just like looking for a needle in a haystack, to achieve the profound direct apparition, which belongs to the rank of the Bodhisattva of inconceivability, the Bodhisattva of unrecoil.

He has ceased for a while, taking a sip of tea and continued His teaching: When the Buddhist Master becomes Buddha, all the bacteria in his body grow into numberless Bodhisattvas who contribute to the solemnity of the nation by their direct apparition. For that reason, there are natural mind apparition and corresponding apparition of the dharma body.

Why? The natural combination and the existing physical nature simultaneously appear into the atomic Buddhas, the instant Buddhas. Whenever the Buddhist Master is thinking, whatever his way of resolving the secular world is, the bacteria grows into the Bodhisattva bound to appear in body and carry out his excellent order, aimingly accomplishing the resolution of the secular world according to the sealed decision of the Buddhist Master.

When the Buddhist Master acquires the fruit of attainment, there are the great millions of seed natures in Him, which also acquire the fruit of attainment, that is the sea of truth. When the Buddhist Master acquires the superior supreme, there are the great millions of seed natures in Him, which also acquire the superior supreme as well, that is the world sea of superior supreme. Therefore, in case of need the Buddhist Master gives an order immediately within an instant, there are one, two or many countless atomic Buddhas in the body of Buddhist Master whom truly appear. The one who enters the right meditation knows well all the bacteria in his body.

The body of living creature is the insubstantiality, unreal and temporary. Because it is composed of four elements, the soil, water, wind and fire. The bacteria move to and fro, run back and forth in the blood vessels, in the marrow of bones... to form the knowledge of living creatures. Due to the body, which is formed by the four insubstantial elements, our knowledge also is insubstantial. Therefore, the disciple who indubitably commands the seed nature of all bacteria in his body is named the Buddhas appearing the entire body. At that time, each speech, deportment completely appears through the whole physical body of samadhi is the secret wisdom of the Tathagata, precisely is the secret seal.

The Bodhisattva is the one who has been challenged, verified and conferred the sealed wisdom by the Buddhas through the great means of favor and unfavor, purity and impurity, form and formless. It really is difficult to foresee his wonderful applications, so there will be a tendency that is suspicious, doubtful and unfinished. Only a minor mistake can deteriorate the strenuous exertion and lifetime of practice. Therefore, the disciple should be self-repentant, repenting his mistake so the Lord would acknowledge it. Some disciples are allowed to restart the practice from the beginning.

Overcoming and comprehending perfectly would have been conferred on the sealed mind. the sealed mind is the secret seal Tathagata; it is impossible to express in literature and sound.

Ceasing for a while, the Lord has continued teaching: There are the various breeds of bacteria inside the entire body; each part or each organ has every specific breed of bacteria. They secrete a viscous substance, which goes to the organs to transform into spermatoza. The spermatoza waits for the sexual intercourse to conceive and produce human species. It creates knowledge, depending on the root-faculty of each species of living creature.

Therefore, those with the wisdom of meditation, illuminating the body and mind in order to annihilate the stupidity and attachment will get the comprehension and acquire the samadhi. If the disciple uses his wisdom, intellect to study even with an excellent learning such as the scholar, he is only practicing for the benevolence. Practicing by meditation simultaneously perceives the breath and the life of all species of vegetation as well as the harmonious movement of the universe. That includes all kinds of bird melodiously chattering in symphony with the sounds of whistling wind to become the thousand phrases of prayer to the Buddhas, to the dharma and to the monks without ending. The disciple with an enthusiastic spirit, having not yet ultimate end wisdom is still erroneous in the fanaticism.

In this Dharma-Ending Age, The Supreme Lord Supreme Maitreya has come to the world to reorganize the dharma, so that the disciple practicing without his ego may grasp the line of the direct apparition. Here are the two verses that He has written:

Naturally that Dharma Ending Age has just come to an end
The True Dharma appears to succeed gloriously.
–T.V.

Having the sufficient establishment for those enthusiastically seeking for the dharma, bravely generating the mind for practice in order to dissolve the transmigration of birth and death, is the most precious.

The one acquiring the true meditation and knowing well the origin of every seed nature owing to his enlightenment, he can see clearly how the devas, fairies, deities and saints are polluted and reborn in that scenery limit. From the feeling-ego, realizing the meritorious practice of one’s self-ego in order to create the supernatural power, the magic power, he has meticulously known all of that without omission, entering into the right meditation of samadhi to save living creatures.

As far as the Buddhas are concerned the six powers, the supernatural power samadhi are not as important as the acquisition of the samadhi. For that reason, the Buddhs has taught the Bodhisattvas: The right meditation of samadhi is the temporary residence of the Bodhisattva realizing the Mahasattva while practicing the real form and formless of the samadhi are not yet penetrated that is the supernatural power of the arahant rank.
 

LORD SUPREME MAITREYA WITH LONG HOA

INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I: LORD SUPREME MAITREYA’S PAST INCARNATIONS
CHAPTER II: I CAME FROM THE TUSITA HEAVEN

CHAPTER IV: TRANMISSION OF THE PRECIOUS DHARMA
CHAPTER V: A NATION OF PEACE AND DELIGHT
CHAPTER VI: THE VENERABLE OFFERINGS
CHAPTER VII: THE ATTESTATION OF THE BUDDHA KING

48. Esotericism-Extericism-Immediacy and Gradualness.

48. Esotericism-Extericism-Immediacy and Gradualness.

It is difficult to meet the one who realizes the 10 titles because he appears correspondingly to the original vow of the Three Dharma Elements. He is not different from human beings from the speech, to the acts, therefore even the holy monk bodhisattva could not know him except for the bodhisattva who practices the prajna mind and uses the enlightened form to recognize somewhat of his, so it is not easy to meet Him.


– The Supreme Special Scriptures

For those who have realized the Ten Titles to become Buddha, they must complete these four root conditions:

Esotericism–Extericism–Immediacy and Gradualness.

There are four forms of the bodhisattva rank acquiring the Communication – Attainment – Fullness – Success in their practice for the wonderful Bodhihood.

Communication:

"How to attain the communication?
The communication relies on the esoteric way, it is acquired through esotericism; there is no communication without esotericism. Why?

Because the esotericism is the secret seal of the Tathagata-Store; if there is neither the esotericism nor the seal, never getting the secret seal, how can you acquire to be communicating?” –T.V.

The communication is based on the esoteric way, what is the esotericism. The disciple is conscious that the essential in practicing is to correct his own nature. After seeing his own nature, he could attain the cleared mind. Those of cleared mind always have the esotericism in their words and their deeds. Therefore, the esotericism is needed for communication. Living creatures rely on their given Tathagata-Store, their hearing, seeing, knowing is precisely the origin, also called Buddha nature, which are: One-pointed mind, suchness, Tathagata-store, dharma nature, dharma body and dharma sphere are the seven precious gems of the Buddhas.

Although there are seven precious gems, but all physical nature is only one. The living creatures and Buddha are only one, but because of an erroneous commencement from living creatures, they are attached, establishing a foolish barrier. Like the sun that is covered by the clouds. Therefore, esotericism is the secret seal of the Tathagata-Store. The Mahavairocana Tathagata Buddha is now along within the Tathagata and in association with the Buddhas. He has kept all the secret prudence of movement from the supernatural power to the samadhi through the appearances to the liberation.

For the Mahavairocana Tathagata Buddha, He has kept the mind seal, secret seal; thus He was unthinkable for living creatures. The Buddhas' responsibility is to ordain and wonderfully help the bodhisattvas.

“If there is a bodhisattva practicing the all conducts from outside with the brilliant wisdom who hears about the appearance of Lord Supreme Maitreya Buddha in the world in the last period, even though he knows it or not, even though he acquires or truly becomes Buddha; but if he does not know about the attestation of the unique principle, does not believe in it with self-pride and self-satisfaction, he would not be adequately able to enter the Great Eight Pari Nirvana. Why?

Because, not being ordained by the supreme, he can not get the attestation of the supreme Tathagata, and not being attested how could the Mahavairocana Tathagata promulgate and appear the scene of the Great Eight Pari Nirvana. For that reason, he has to use his fixed thoughts, but wherever there is fixed thoughts there is also the fall and rise, birth and death, and that is the most essential.” –T.V.

During this Dharma-Ending Age, the Lord has the sealed attestation in the paragraph of the above sutra, indicating that the Lord Supreme Maitreya should attest someone, who would like to become the Buddha, even having acquired the supreme rank, supreme master. Proclaiming oneself to be Buddha without attestation is false that is wrongful self-satisfaction.

If Lord Supreme Maitreya Buddha has gone, there still remains a bodhisattva practicing the mahasattva to succeed. If not having the minded seal by this bodhisattva, how can the Mahavairocana Tathagata Buddha appear to attest? Therefore, the practice requires the fruit of attainment, the order and the regulation. Proclaiming oneself without attestation is a false manner. The Blessed One has ordained Lord Supreme Maitreya. The previous Buddha has also ordained the Blessed One. Falsely proclaiming oneself to be Buddha will never have the secret seal from the Mahavairocana Tathagata. In this Final Law Period, the supreme ranks, supreme masters should reconsider the words in the sealed attestation of the Lord Supreme Maitreya.

Already having the ordination for the successor, there must be the secret seal, one should not be self-proclaimed. The Lord has reminded it as the vital point for the supreme ranks supreme masters to be conscious, avoiding the false way in this Final Law Period. In the future, if there are only the patriarchs who have acquired the ultimate awareness, the supreme ranks and supreme masters have to wait for the appearance of a bodhisattva who has been ordained with the supreme enlightened. If someone truly cultivates in this lifetime, they should be awakened and follow according to the honest ordination of Long Hoa Chief Monk Maitreya Buddha, they would benefit measurelessly from it.

He has successfully accomplished His task of reorganizing the Buddha path. If there is someone, wherever he may be, in the Eastern, the Western the Southern or the Northern who is not converting his practice and is still caught in fixed thoughts, which is the form of fall and rise, birth and death, he must be careful.

"Attainment: The attainment relies on the exotericism. There is no attainment without the exoteric way.
Fullness: There is no full enlightenment without the immediate way. The immediacy is for the fullness. There is no fullness without immediacy.
Success: There is no success without gradual way. Why?

Applying the immediacy is to break, to dissolve. The gradualness is for the illumination of the dharma conduct. If the immediacy without gradualness would lead to emptiness attachment, the entanglement in the emptiness dharma is produced.
The same: Dissolving the attachment without knowing the root condition to clear the attachment would never lead to success.

It is just the same: Demolishing a house and in the same time knowing how to build it, that is the practice in parallel, the immediacy and gradualness. Demolishing a house without knowing how to build it that is like dissolving attachment while being attached. Not being attached would fall into the attachment of emptiness and never lead to the success and attainment.” –T.V.

The disciple once being conscious of correcting his own nature will have the esotericism in all his acts, from the words to the deeds. Having the esotericism he thus gets the exotericism. The exoteric way here is the bodhisattva nature acquired through practice. Otherwise, the practice of the exotericism without correction of one's own nature is that of an ordinary man; they are all just the theory, the teaching, and the study without realization, he would not escape from the belt of the mara-power.

Whenever the Buddhas noticing that the bodhisattva does not understand thoroughly and he is sometimes caught, not being fully “auto”, the Buddhas have then applied the Immediacy to dissolve the ignorance. Hence, the bodhisattva can hear, see and know from understanding to accomplish it thoroughly. The immediacy is like deforestation, but you have to know how to replant in organized rows to produce future fruit, which is the gradual way. If you abandon the area after deforestation, wild plants will grow again, the deforestation is not fully achieved, which is not harmful, but you will still be caught in “emptiness”.

If the bodhisattvas and Buddhas make use of immediacy, that means the true disciples are sufficiently confident and obedient, after the result, they make up their mind to be respectful. The second vehicle rank who achieves the immediacy without foundation, easily being mistaken becomes higher in pride because of the lack of circumspection.

In the time of Long Hoa Chief Monk Lord Supreme Maitreya, He has left things alone and comforted the disciples who do not want to cultivate. They prefer the practice how to be wealthy and prosperous, so He has never applied the immediacy to them and only made use of the gradualness to help them to preserve dharma conducts, that would made them very contented. They would never know his wonderful applications toward the true disciples who practice for liberation.

Communication–Attainment–Fullness–Success in general includes these four forms: The Esotericism – Exotericism – Immediacy – Gradualness

"Therefore, I have said:

    There is no communication without esotericism
    √ There is no attainment without exotericism
    √ There is no fullness without immediacy
    √ There is no success without gradualness

Therefore, you need to have esotericism, exotericism, immediacy and gradualness to have communication, attainment, fullness and success

The Buddha has taught:

The virtue and wisdom are in parallel

the true originality is fully enlightened.” –T.V.

The bodhisattva rank realizes the vow, conducting the vow conscious of the four forms - the communication - attainment - fullness - success. Therefore, they do not practice separately each of them, but combine them according to the occasion, the circumstance, the certain time and corresponding with the esotericism - exotericism - immediacy - gradualness in order to be fully enlightened.

“The Buddhas have the responsibility to ordain and skillfully help the bodhisattvas.

The Buddhas have guided the bodhisattvas to attain the Buddha hood and simultaneously ordain the bodhisattvas in the way of conducting the vow to help the bodhisattvas of five eyes, six supernatural powers, three bodies, four minds all becoming the Buddha.” –T.V.

2538 years ago according to the Buddhist calendar, the Blessed One had ordained the Maitreya Bodhisattva to become a Buddha who is succeeding and preserving the true dharma continuing for another 5000 years. During this return, the Lord Supreme Maitreya Buddha has also ordained and wonderfully applied all the dharma, aiming to help Moggallana to become the Bodhisattva and the holy disciples. The bodhisattva will return to the world, realizing the vow and conducting the vow for helping all the patriarchs to preserve the true dharma. There is no difference of the one’s footprints that have gone in the past and the others following behind. However, there is somehow difference. The orthodoxy is still conserved and the only difference is in the means of approaching the true supreme, which is according to each occasion of the bodhisattva in their penetration, so they are different though, and yet following strictly the main ideas of the Three Lives of Buddhas. Therefore, only the bodhisattva could have intuition: Different, but not different, not different, but different, it is intended for the full enlightenment of the five eyes, six supernatural powers, three bodies and four minds.

For the supreme ranks, supreme masters proclaiming themselves to be Buddhas, how can they teach living creatures! The Buddha who teaches living creatures is precisely the Buddha of Living Creatures. All and all, living creatures recite the sutra and they themselves hear the sutra. The Buddha initiates the teaching to the bodhisattva and holy disciples, later the bodhisattva becoming the Buddha who has adequately achieved the ten titles. Every time appearing, he vibrates the Three Great Thousand Worlds, bringing countless benefits to the living creatures without practicing the dharma, and the advantages for the Holy disciple who continues the teaching for the world to transform the cruelty and depravity into the pure land.

Using material and money to induce living creatures in the practice will soon destroy the dharma. It is only when the disciples are conscious that the good deeds result only in blessed rewards, and the liberation through practice is the direct retribution of one's previous existence, that the dharma could last forever.

“The bodhisattvas faithfully conduct the vow to understand all the dharma and the true teaching of the Buddha for the acquisition.

The bodhisattvas save living creatures by the way of conducting the vow of the six perfections, penetrating the dharma sphere to achieve the Prajna mind, getting the fearless wisdom. Their virtue corresponds strictly to their body from the stain to the stainless in a matchless manner, and they are completely liberated.” –T.V.

In this Dharma-Ending Age, He has taught the disciples to follow the way He has already shown. Firstly, they ought to be confident, obedient and respectful toward the Awakened One, later to understand thoroughly the truth and be faithful, virtuous, vowing to practice for liberation through wisdom, that is the faith-conduct-vow. The Lord is very serious, has never passed down the dharma to the true disciples who do not have faith- conduct-vow. For those with the superficiality and profundity of faithful conduct of vow also depends upon their root faculty thus receiving the true originality.

The conducting bodhisattvas vow to not to live within either dreaminess or abstract as those of the second vehicle rank. They rather conduct the vow in reality of the six perfections; therefrom they always know how to judge that the error is the master of the right. As a result, the bodhisattvas can practice the dharma, till attaining the equality of countless dharma spheres of living creatures, equality, but inequality.

The living creatures are born equal, the bodies all have the adequate parts, organs and also have similar situations, but they do not know yet how to penetrate through it well due to their character, which transforms the scene. In fact, the scene still remains the same. The unequal scene is the self-feeling. Once there is self-feeling there is the scene. There is no scene without the self. The way of practice passes through the inequality of countless living creatures to return to the equality of the serenity pure mind. Thereupon, the equal mind and character could faithfully conduct the vow in an adequate manner, attaining the real prajna mind and there is no more abstract dharma.

The wisdom is fearless self-satisfied, at the time, the stain and stainless are one, but two, the two in the one, the corresponding body appears rightly without error and you are completely liberated from the transmigration of the birth and death.

The materialism knocks down the idealism. But the idealism dealing with physical matters it is also a practical idea and is closer to the reality than materialism. In the Final Law Period, the most practical evidence is demonstrated concretely by the Promulgation of the Proclamation of the Universe. All and all, it illustrates that idealism relies on materialism and mobilizes materialism to be close to reality. Even the practice for fairy, saint and superiorman has to follow this way. Judiciously realizing, it is the awareness. Wrongly doing is falling into the suffering. That is stupidity. In fact, there is no evidence to be noted between stupidity and awareness. It belongs to the sealed mind, which should be confident and obedient towards the sealed mind one. Why? Because all dharma are fictious, there must be someone who knows well the path of the universe that is the Tathagata dharma, to realize it judiciously and return to the truth.

“In which period would the Buddha save all the living creatures and the bodhisattva? During the time of the Buddha coming to the world, as there is not yet the appearance of bodhisattva, the Buddha has practically and skillfully made use of the acts into one that is called the Bodhisattva Buddha. When Living creatures have been awakened or have attained the dharma, the Buddha has then turned to the immediacy to make living creatures appear physically, it is during this time that the Buddha has saved the Bodhisattva.” –T.V.

Whenever the Buddha is coming to the world, the living creatures and bodhisattva are still mixed in the dharma school. The Buddha has practically and wonderfully applied it in order to select the disciples with profound root-faculty. The wonderful application of the form and formless that the disciple has truly cultivated to overcome and dominate his nature would enable him to attain the dharma or enlightenment. Later, the Buddha has applied the Immediacy to make the disciple correct himself and appear as a Bodhisattva. As far as the Lord is concerned, the bodhisattva must be fully confident, obedient and respectful with a high degree of faithful conduct of vow before he could receive the immediacy to attain the supreme enlightenment.

When having attested to be a Bodhisattva, the Buddha nourished him separately with the increasingly harder and harder dharma. Even a minor mistake is directly treated with immediacy; the scolding, expelling, striking and anger are aiming to clear up thoroughly living creatures’ nature with a steady mind in the presence of all dharma. During this period, it is really difficult for the Buddha to save the Bodhisattva.

The Venerables, who have been chosen by the Lord, have to undergo the difficult verification in this part of salvation of the unique career vehicle as well.

“After the Bodhisattva has manifested himself, either with adequacy or not yet adequate, the Buddha has then applied the purity and impurity, the favor and unfavor, intending to bring the Bodhisattva through all obstacles. The Buddha has also transformed his ineffective, polluted body and mind in the reason and fact of the divergence to the coequally, from the insufficiency to sufficiency, from the incomplete to the complete acquisition to become the Buddha.” –T.V.

In reality, He has only guided one disciple to the supreme enlightenment in His return. He has wonderfully applied the purity and impurity, aiming to bring the bodhisattva through all obstacles, and clearing up his body and mind from the pollution, without any doubt.

In the secular world, as long as the mind is entangled, there is still karma, the one who relieves the karma, understands it well, every atomic element of the dharma. Dissolving a dharma, that is overcoming that dharma sphere, escaping from one lifetime of transmigration of birth and death. The disciple dissolves one dharma at the time, inevitably making a strong point to advance. Therefrom, he has to go through billions of dharma spheres to be enlightened. Each word represents a dharma sphere, each speech is a dharma sphere, and each act is a dharma sphere. Like the good the bad, the honesty, the evil and the bright thought leads to a superior life; the obscure thought is just hell.

One time, the Lord Supreme Maitreya Buddha had asked the four orders of disciples: What have you practiced for a long time? What is good faculty, good will, and continue to follow it. When there is no more desirous mind, and no more greed and then you can realize the co-equality of reason and fact, you will attain the truth. The mind is no more desirous; it is just like all dharma have flown into the vast sea. If you know how to break out the origin of a dharma, you will have the insight, and later your mind becomes pure and sensible, and able to perceive adequately even a gentle touch, that is called the seeing of the formless. Such practice will bring out the truth, the goodness.

“It is unthinkable and non-judgmental about the salvation of the Buddha - Why?

The Buddha has evolved all dharma without omission. Even the bodhisattva could not see it; how could living creatures understand the salvation of the Buddha? That is making the Bodhisattva's strength and ability, capable of enduring the evolution and fully receiving the Tathagata-Store to attain adequately the Great Eight Pari Nirvana.” –T.V.

The disciples in this Dharma-Ending Age discern that the Lord’s way of practice that He initiates is rather exceptional, but in fact it is not different from that of the Buddhas of Ten Directions and Three lives. You should try to cultivate neither to criticize nor to dismiss it. If there is a stupid disciple who talks nonsense, the other has to control it and advises him neither to be Self- satisfied nor to be proud even of his miraculous performance. If your life, consisting of eating and sleeping, is not different from that of animals, you are squandering a lifetime because it is not always easy to be reborn as man.

The Bodhisattva manages everything delicately; therefore, he can meticulously perceive even the smallest passing dharma with adequacy. For instance, a professional worker will soon detect an inexperienced, clumsy worker. It is the same for the practice of the dharma, those who know thoroughly, will be able to receive fully the Tathagata-Store.

It is impossible to foresee the way by which the Buddha has manifested the dharma. The higher it is the harder it is to recognize. The controlling of one’s nature could help to overcome it. In the practice, the bodhisattva has to demolish the attachment, using his wisdom to find out a new dharma so that he could be supplied accordingly by the Tathagata store even after one million lifetimes. As the work will supply you with necessity for living, the correction will help you to be attested. Even the Buddha returning to the world could not help a disciple who does not want to correct himself. The disciple does not know what the way of practice for enlightenment means should not hastily criticize nor censure the Awakened One; he needs only to relieve himself from objection and attachment to be able to recognize the true dharma.

“Only the Buddhas themselves could understand their way of salvation. The Buddha guides every Bodhisattva who is attached by the purity or favor, the Buddha helps that Bodhisattva either distinguish or isolate in his mind, to understand thoroughly the purity and impurity, to realize completely the favor and unfavor all over to become the Buddha.” –T.V.

The Bodhisattva is impregnated with the theory of the sutra and clings to it. The Buddha knows well the wonderful application of how to guide the Bodhisattva to come out of writing; later the Bodhisattva consciously relieves himself of the pollution, having neither distinguished nor isolated it. The fundamental reason is that the Buddha is aimingly making the Bodhisattva be in accord with, not demolished. If the latter demolished the dharma how could he be in accord with it, if demolishing, he will remain still and the word. Emptiness is based on the writing as self-attested. Countless disciples in this period of return proclaiming themselves Buddhist Masters remain in this position.

Some of them have even written the key of practice of Buddhism, but when reading the scripture of Long Hoa Chief Monk Maitreya Buddha which is given into their hands, they could not understand it, disregarded it and abandoned it all together.

The Buddha's way of realizing a concord is - to make the Bodhisattvas have doubt attachment, then overcoming the contrary dharma to demolish the doubt attachment. Their wisdom is cleared and disengaged from obstruction. Whatever is worth carrying out should be realized despite lots of difficulties; whatever is not worth doing should be dropped even with the comfort of emergence and entrance of all dharma. Later, they will have the perfection of seeing with pure eyes, hearing with pure ears and knowing meticulously, and being fully enlightened without clinging to the writing. Then they could acquire the prajna mind to enter the great bodhisattva rank, waiting to become the Buddha through just one birth in the secular world.

“When the Buddha makes the salvation, everyone believes Him to be very cruel, and the bodhisattva finds it contrary. Being cruel or contrary - it is hard to discuss because there are countless ways of salvation and wonderful applications even the Bodhisattva could not see it perfectly so how can ordinary men understand it? It is because the Bodhisattva remains still to receive the attachment that the Buddha has to realize such salvation, in order to be ordained and attested by the Tathagata.”
–T.V.

Most living creatures believe that engagement in the practice when the Buddha returns to the world enables them to have plenty of material and happiness. Only those who are close to the Buddhas could see that the practice of the dharma is very difficult, so difficult that even the holy disciples have to run away from it. Some of them left forever, they dared not return to see the place where He has lived as it has really occurred in this Final Law Period, I have myself witnessed. Why?

Because the Bodhisattvas are not quite cleared up, they are still polluted with love, material or money, and fame. These three pollutions form the belt of birth and death contravene the bodhisattvas for several lifetimes, making them remain still to receive the attachment. Especially for the bodhisattva appearing as a layman, he would not be able, in reality, to enter into or emerge from the sphere and relieve himself from these three pollutions without the limitless salvation and wonderful applications of the Buddha.

Only the bodhisattva with abundant merits offered to the Tathagata, and with the great faculty could have the priority to relieve. The Buddha’s footprints treading on his route of a lifetime have been erased and the disciples have to wait long for a next Buddha!  Because the Buddhas have not much time, high in age while the Bodhisattvas are still clinging without accord, thus it is impossible for the Buddha to save them. Consequently that gives rise to the difficulties.

The salvation method of the Buddha is to pull the Bodhisattva out of love first because he is polluted with love. Secondly, to push him into the love and draw him back afterward, finally the Buddha makes him to be free from the love. Losing the love, everybody is afraid and cries out, so they all consider the Buddha to be cruel and contrary.

Overcoming the love, afterward no more love pollution; nevertheless the love is not lost. Giving up before cognition and censuring, criticizing the Buddha to be cruel, thus you are making a mistake and have to wait for several lives of the coming Buddha! Therefore, it is fairly possible to cling to the arahant, in fact conducting the vow precisely as a bodhisattva to save the flowering dharma nature is impossible for anyone to manage. It takes many lifetimes of cultivating before there is the appearance of a bodhisattva with the great faculty who follows the Buddha to practice for the wonderful Bodhihood. For that reason, only the Buddha knows what the Buddha is doing. Only the Buddha knows the Buddha. Even the Maha Bodhisattva is yet to perceive thoroughly. How can the disciples of inferiority understand that?

“The bodhisattva, who meditates with self- satisfaction and fearlessness, demolishes the doubt in a relative manner, and demolishing the conception of body, speech and thought separately in order to conserve his thinking could not know perfectly the movement of the dharma nature and the ordinary nature. How could he understand thoroughly the wonderful nature of Nirvana? If such a Bodhisattva imitates the Buddha in realizing the salvation and creating contrary things - that is extremely dangerous.” –T.V.

The disciple is not yet intuited sufficiently, still making use of his reasoning also called self-thinking, and is not yet attested by the Buddha to promulgate in the realizing of vow and the conduct of vow seeking for the wonderful Bodhihood, voluntarily creating the impure dharma. Then, he pretends himself to be self-satisfied and fearless, imitating the Buddha. Finally, he would fall irreversibly in the three ways of evil to become Buddha-Devil also called Buddha Sphere that is extremely dangerous.

When the Lord Supreme Maitreya was still alive, He had usually warned the faithful true disciple to keep away from those who are rebellious and behave unsubmissively. He does not even attest these to be the dharma protectors. Not knowing that, they keep on believing themselves to be Buddha like Him. Whatever the way of thinking to cultivate, the disciples should orderly follow the Lord’s footprints, from the Bodhisattva to the Holy disciples rank. He has frequently verified the unification of the dharma-life of his disciple. None of them have dared to cultivate at their own will when the Lord has not yet initiated their ignorance for Intuition. The Fully Enlightened One, like the Lord takes interest in assimilating Human being. Therefore, his style of living apparently resembled that of all kind of people in society, the only difference from human beings and the Four Species is the Fundamental Enlightenment.

“The bodhisattva should follow the sutra to understand thoroughly and should teach the dharma to living creatures to make them understand it. He should not follow the sutra without explaining its meaning and teach living creatures not to know by heart without seizing the meaning in hearing the dharma to avoid being known later. He should teach the living creatures to understand positively the stain and really comprehend the stainless. Both of these they should know perfectly. Between the stain and stainless they should not be inclined to, either more or less, be attached. Also on account of the stain and stainless, they should neither be interrupted nor separated. That is precisely the Bodhisattva who cleverly offers to the Triples Gem, skillfully guides the living creatures neither taking nor leaving it.”
–T.V.

The Bodhisattva's dharma is the dharma of neither stains nor stainless. It is neither taking nor leaving neither strictly following the sutra nor separating from it. That is the perfect true dharma without two forms that is the dharma of complete liberation of the unique career vehicle. After realizing this dharma, the disciple has acquired the insight, he is always aware of his own nature, and the living creatures’ nature is tamed, no longer initiating and evolving.

The Bodhisattvas rank know how to live an easy life, considering the truth to be a loyalest friend, so he can be conscious that people in life are betraying him, his relatives also are betraying him, even he himself is betraying him as well. Only the truth is the loyalest to him. This is the most precious consolation, bringing him more knowledge on the true dharma, which is very precious, according to the Buddhas' words.

“All the saints, fairies, and bodhisattvas are making use of parallelism in the practice seeking for the fruit of attainment. In the fruit of attainment, the parallelism is essential for the incarnation of the Buddha form or bodhisattva form. Although the bodhisattva Buddha has no Form, there must be something in parallel to produce the full enlightenment.” –T.V.

Neither the Buddha nor the bodhisattva has form. The enlightened form is that of the Buddha and the bodhisattva form. The Buddha initiates the bodhisattva to cultivate for the complete attainment of the enlightened form. For that purpose, the bodhisattva has to practice in every world. Each one has a different aspect: high or low, wide or narrow, noble or rude, dirty or clean...

The Buddha has said that living creatures by their chaotic illusion are wishesing more than the reality. They claim the great one and ignore the small one, so they cannot cultivate clearly all the spheres. Such as the fairy world use his power to create its sphere, the human world use his labor to construct the houses, temples, palaces... The deva world is the nobility.

There must be a parallelism between the reason and the fact. The act of irregular eliminating and taking gives rise to the difference. If realizing the parallelism of form and nature, from the smallest starting point you will have the enlightened form. Living creatures practice the dharma in the limits; the bodhisattva does it without limits, so he can practice at school, at work, at home, everywhere. He needs no temples to practice. The practice in the limits never helps to know perfectly the enlightened form of the Buddha. The practice without limits is numberless and measureless, but through the difficulty and complexity of the fact, it has to be dissolved to be able to recognize the dharma nature and attain the enlightened form, which is more profound than the arahants.

The Bodhisattva goes all over to conduct the vow, so he knows well the Three Thousand Great Thousand Worlds. Therefrom, he knows that someone who is enthusiastic, studying everything will become a deity after death. Each destination produces a different deity within superiority or inferiority according to its feeling seeds, forming by different ideas, by that they know well from the enlightened form to the full enlightenment.

“Most disciples know only themselves in the practice. They do not realize that the parallelism is primarily to conserve the nature of morality for the fruit of attainment. For that reason, the bodhisattva neither commits the cruelty nor loses his conduct. He will be able to return to the world for many lifetimes without sins, only for the sake of saving living creatures thus corresponding in parallel.” –T.V.

Many disciples are inclined to virtue, but lack in wisdom. Vice versa, others have wisdom, but they are lack in virtue. Therefore, though having created the fruit of attainment, they could not preserve it. The disciples ought to create virtue and wisdom in parallel to be able to preserve the practice with quality conduct to achieve the fruit of attainment. The practice for liberation through wisdom depends upon the faculty of self-awareness, consciousness in the parallelism of virtue and wisdom, nature and form, reason and fact. In the presence of the situation, you can perfectly realize in parallel the nature and the form with no more entanglement of the mind, which is thus liberated. The bodhisattva knows how to liberate every small section, every atomic element. That is the preservation for the fruit of attainment.

Though the bodhisattva comes into collision with the secular world, his mind is liberated from the dharma sphere without entanglement. That is the liberation so that lifetime after lifetime of his return to the world, he will virtually have no sins, only for the sake of saving living creatures to do so. For that reason, he never loses the quality of conducting the vow.

The practice, which is recognized neither by the saints nor by ordinary men, is that of the Buddha. For the saints, they are easily recognized by their gesture of the saint. The secular men, not knowing the Buddha or the Bodhisattva, assess His practice very ordinarily. The practice, which is easily recognized by the saint and ordinarily men is that of no value and will not lead to ordinary men or saint either. That is the path taken by the Unique Principle Buddha, only aiming to save the living creatures. The bodhisattva is born and grows up with any family in whichever manner. He would accept them all. Then he has to convert and resolve it perfectly. It is by such a way that he could save nine generations and seven ancestors.

For example, the Buddha or the Bodhisattva is born in a family of hunger devil that attaches only importance to money and only treats anyone who has money well. The bodhisattva has to re-educate them so that either with money or without money, as long as they are liberated from the reason and put the sentiment as the first priority. They also have to reeducate themselves, only blaming their own stupidity, not others. He has eventually saved the whole family, free from the hunger devil faculty.

“The Bodhisattva practices all conducts, from the purity to the impurity, and is not rebellious against those who practice for liberation. The mind of the bodhisattva rank is that of no- recoil. The no-recoil mind is just the prajna mind, which is neither clinging nor basing on the arising of thought, of parallelism, on the conception of reasoning to pretend oneself to be the bodhisattva returning to the world for salvation.” –T.V.

The Bodhisattva, though practicing the nature and the form with parallelism of virtue and mind, is not clinging to the parallelism. That is the matchless dharma and matchless means unique mindfulness. Into the matchless dharma subject, the bodhisattva considers people as his house and his life, treating all living creatures as his relatives. It is because of living creatures that there is Buddha Nature. It is because of the dishonesty that there is the honesty; if all the living creatures are honest and the bodhisattva is also honest, there is equality neither more nor less than, how can there be the emergence to become as the bodhisattva. The patriarchs have the comprehension, the bodhisattvas have the full attainment, but they have not yet fully attained, so they have to know that insight is not full enlightenment. They should not be clinging to it.

“The Bodhisattva who makes himself a Buddha form is still not yet the Buddha. Why? It is because the Buddha has no form. He only appears countlessly and throughout, covering all over by His Buddha form.” –T.V.

In the presence of someone causing bad, the bodhisattva is not angry, but he wonderfully helps him according to the situation. The precious gem is lying in the contrary dharma. During his realizing the vow, the bodhisattva has met people who blackened him, cursed him, but the bodhisattva rightfully examines it at best. That is the great faculty, great mind. They are bad, because that is the karma of living creatures, the bodhisattva would not be angry with them. That means the bodhisattva has seen thoroughly all the directions. Therefore, the formless bodhisattva achieves the enlightened Form and perceives everywhere the Tathagata appearing to save incalculability.

“Occasionally, someone who comes from the avici hell or frightful hell, fortunately having the good condition of the salvation of the bodhisattva, immediately is reborn upwards the men-devas. Contrarily, someone is living at the men-devas, within the last hour of death, the soul will depart from the men-devas and be reborn as the hungry devil, animal or in hell.” –T.V.

The honesty and the dishonesty, the good and the evil are two different things. The superior life is in the men-devas; the inferior life is in the exile. The bodhisattva has accomplished the practice for the good and attained the goodness, but he does not hate the bad, that is the salvation of the bad.

Attaining the goodness by accomplishing the practice for the good, but not hating the evil, that is the salvation of the evil. What is the good faculty for the salvation of the bad faculty? The disciple who does not hate the one of bad faculty is helping the latter. Acquiring one is the unique principle conduct; it is also called the conduct of neither good nor bad, because the bad faculty has been saved. As for the one doing bad; we should not consider it to be wrong, because the situation of his stupidity drives him into such a state. Similarly in our situation, we would be the same. If the lunatic curses you, you should not be angry at him. The fully enlightened one discerns that within his own body lies good and bad. The disciple, who claims of himself to be a saint or bodhisattva, still regards himself to be superior to the living creatures, so he is not yet a bodhisattva.

Conducting the vow in such a way as not regarding yourself as a bodhisattva only concerns the salvation of the living creatures. Naturally, with the adequacy of abilities and merits, the disciple has entirely achieved the salvation of the hungry devil and the animal, the avici hell, and the frightful hell. The living creatures with great condition need only to recite a prayer to be answered along with their great compassion, great wisdom and great courage. Only the one who has freed his own nature, manipulated the three worlds and six ways, and is no longer caught by the sphere, could save living creatures.

There is also someone originally of men and devas with fundamental nature, in the presence of favorable condition, he has become dishonest and attempted to despoil and harm others. After his death, because of his cruel and dishonest seed nature, he is naturally sent back to the hungry devil, animal and hell; because that is whatever he has created for himself. Obviously, he should have returned to where he belonged.

Therefore, the lord supreme maitreya buddha has initiated that someone living in the obscure hell, fortunately with great condition could meet a bodhisattva and will be reborn in the men-devas to enjoy the blessed rewards, while someone from the men-devas or layman committing grave mistakes would fall into hell, hungry devil and animal.

“Once a Human Being gets tired of his life wishesing for liberation, he has to rely on the rebirth to be free, for getting out of the present life stage by stage. He then rehearses, aiming to eliminate every conception, following the examples of the Bodhisattvas and Buddhas who have resolved and liberated the immensity of millions of dharma spheres, and bringing them to the self-satisfaction and fearlessness to be destined towards liberation.” –T.V.

The disciples still committing mistakes are all submitted to the dharma sphere with thousands of aspects. If wishesing for liberation, they have to lean on the sphere to relieve them in order to overcome every dharma sphere.

Mindfulness means the relief of every dharma, while conception is the consciousness karma, the faculty karma, and the defilement karma, which should be relieved thoroughly. The bodhisattva has taught the dharma in order to help living creatures to untie the knots. The faithful living creatures have to relieve their doubtful nature. Where there is doubt there must be dissolution. Like a dirty shirt that needs to be washed until it is clean. If it is still dirty, it still needs to be washed.

Living creatures seeking for the truth by conception have to cultivate in such a way, to perform in this manner, whatever is in contrast with their ideas; they consider it to be paganism. The cultivation through conception is hidden by the consciousness karma; he will never be liberated even in incalculable lifetimes. Generally, the disciple could see the situation of other people, whereas he does not know his own situation.  Knowing the other one, we resolve his situation so far we are righteous. Repeating the conduct, we would reach the fundamental principle, which is the liberation through wisdom with great compassion, and self-satisfied and fearless. There will be no more attachment to the dharma sphere. Otherwise, the mindfulness in the dreamy recitation, the imaginary recitation or the destruction of the scenic recitation, which is the destruction of the dharma, is different from the path followed by the bodhisattva and being reborn in the birth and death cycle.

“Therefore, the bodhisattvas practice according to their will and vow, establishing their conduct of vow, initially leaning on their vow to cultivate until the stage of intuition they could thoroughly overpass all favorable and unfavorable scenes with an unattached mind, that is the salvation.” –T.V.

As for the Lord, he has authorized the dharma protectors, venerables to execute the salvation; he has carefully considered, scrutinized, challenged and taught them to recognize the truth and to get the insight before being permitted to preach the dharma for salvation. He has also verified these who have often paid Him a visit at three or four month intervals if they were living in the provinces. He has then rejected some of them, and continuously trained the other faithful disciples. He has to establish the three minds and five vows similarly to the patriarchs who have previously established them.

* In practicing the Bodhisattva's vow, He has ordered to establish three times vows:

     • The first time is three minds and five vows.
     • The second time is the detailed vow.
     • The third time is the secret vow.

Following the Lord during my whole life, I have been allowed to establish three times vows. There are also the other two venerables at the central who are allowed to establish three times the above vows, but when He has promulgated the Proclamation of Attestation of Bodhisattva, only one in the whole Long Hoa Highness Association is attested.

The Lord has taught: The true Buddhist disciple with the instinct not yet corrected, his mind is not transcendent and his thoughts still associate with fictitious hope, preaching the dharma is just for talk, not beneficial to living creatures at all.

For those who talk excellently with futile action, unequal in reason and fact, only living in the abstraction, even he himself is still full of mara nature. Hastily teaching the living creatures is only uselessness.

“Why are they unable to overcome the main force of the six ways? Because every man has his purpose in life, with his own conception in the ideal of life of a form subject, how could he master the six ways in order to emerge from it?”
–T.V.

It is by seeing Lord Supreme Maitreya Buddha in person and following Him in the teaching of the dharma that you can recognize that it is very hard to overcome the main force of the six ways. It is easy to study and practice because it is only on the conception. But for the reality, His presence is necessary and it could take twenty years for the very faithful, enthusiastic disciple to emerge from the main force of the six ways, overcoming the main force of the belt of dharma sphere!

It is the same for scientists who design a spacecraft flying out of the belt of atmosphere, living in a state of non gravity and then there must be another force for the return in safety to the earth.

Therefore, for the one who emerges from the belt of dharma sphere, the main force of the six ways and the three worlds that would not be expressed by using literature. He does not live in a complicated, sophisticated life as a saint. Therefore, living creatures, friends, even his relatives who do live just beside him never know anything about him. Only the Buddhas could realize to overcome the main force of the mara force of six ways. It is an easy thing to say. However, having realized to vanquish the mara force, one can achieve the main force. By oneself nobody could know how to carry out the practice, so that nobody could overcome the main force of the six ways.

The more learning, the more studying, without manipulating all dharma in the hearing, seeing, knowing, how can you liberate from the life? The more you are caught in the error and attachment the more it terrifies you in order to consolidate the living creatures steadily in its main force. Understanding the matter is one thing, but the realization of taking back the main force is immeasurably difficult.

The conception of the ideal life of a form subject means although the body and life of each living creature have countless natures, there is only one principal faculty nature. Each faculty nature is a form subject to hungry devil, animal, hell, asura, man and deva... which the living creatures have created for themselves and are polluted. Some living creatures live within the form subject of hell; the others live with the form subject to animal, hungry devil...

The living creatures find it hard to recognize and know how they can emerge from the main force of the six ways. Even the disciple, who has cultivated for many years, should have the method of each subject to be gradually liberated from the life.

“I have to refer to my own life, being reborn to practice the four lessons and five subjects in order to attain the nine classes of lotus flower and become fully enlightened. At that time, I had then comprehended: the five aggregates entirely are empty, thus securing the deliverance from all distresses and sufferings.”
–T.V.

Resolving completely one’s flowering dharma nature can be called recursion, which is completely clear of all natures. The rebirth is the realistic life without the domination of the mara force. At that time, the practice then comprises the four mathematical lessons of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division with the five subjects of the doctrinism, philosophy, mathematics, physics, science, and metaphysics. The four mathematical lessons and five subjects are comprised in the triple canon sutra of the Buddha. Once acquiring the truth, you can understand the wonderful teaching of the Buddhas.

It is after acquiring the nine classes of lotus flower, which are the nine classes of completed practice. Then, you can be verified and attested by the Lord Supreme Maitreya Buddha to enter into the Bodhisattva rank, representing the Buddhas to return to the world to save the living creatures and wait sufficiently for becoming the Buddha.

Thus, those in this Final Law Period who do not meet the Lord Supreme Maitreya Buddha, proclaiming themselves to be the Buddha, supreme rank, supreme master should tell all about the nine classes which they have acquired, so that is precisely the path of the Buddhas. If that would be true they should have known it well. Otherwise, that is the false declaration of the Buddha form. Only the Lord Supreme Maitreya Buddha could realize and govern properly the nine classes of the lotus flower.

The Buddhas only have one path of unique principle. Neither have the second nor the third path. Only those of false pretension have other paths. He has also recommended those who have attained the supreme enlightenment to penetrate deeply in the dharma sphere without omission in order to achieve the fruit of attainment. The acquisition of the supreme rank does not mean the attainment of the Buddha hood. Indeed, the stupidity is still a great density. Being caught in the Buddha sphere, it is hard to emerge from the main force of the six ways. That means yet to accomplish the secure deliverance from all distresses and sufferings.

“What is our brain, our body and life like? We never know it well and it needs not to know us either. Thus we believe it to be us and we supply it with abundant tastes, dress it richly, make all to keep it eternally young and vigorous, afraid it is gradually getting older and deficient, but that is not so. It is only an apparatus used for assembling the syllables and recording, and it is naturally our duty to speak, to see and to know. Like us, it is natural, but for its part, it was long ago liberated, while we are still living with conception. Upon saying that, the Buddhist Master bursts out laughing satisfactorily!”
–T.V.

As a radio, which is composed of many components, is assembled and emits the sound restored from the radio broadcasting station, if the broadcasting station ceases to work, the radio could not emit the sound. It could not broadcast either if the electric current is cut off.

The human beings to the four species, all having sufficient parts of the body, naturally receive the hearing, seeing, knowing of the universe. Whoever prefers the subject of the hearing, seeing, knowing in the Tathagata store would provide according to their personal wishes thus accepting it. Due to stupidity, all of them consider that this body is themselves and care for it with abundance without contemplating the discrimination of their hearing seeing-knowing. As a result, it creates countless good and bad natures, the honesty and the dishonesty, giving rise to the derangement of mind in the body of human beings.

Some disciples, while becoming interested and making up their mind to practice the dharma, are not contemplating to seek for the dharma subject of liberation. Today, with the coming into the world of Long Hoa Lord Supreme Maitreya Buddha, he has passed down to human beings the lively path of approaching the truth in this world.

“Erroneously, so difficult is the way for liberation. I am a person in mankind. Having never yet known about mankind, how could I be superior to mankind to be liberated?  When I know all and have truly known mankind - that is so wonderful! I have already liberated even though I have been liberated from the mankind. Nevertheless, I have been liberated entirely.” –T.V.

The Blessed One has entered into the Great Eight Pari Nirvana, since then it has been more than twenty-five centuries according to the Buddhist calendar. There are millions and millions of Buddhist disciples including those of leaving home and at home. The disciples are so great in number. But the true disciples who could achieve the goal of liberation are rare. Due to the lack of main force on the part of the disciple who doesn’t know yet that every man already has his main force. The main force requires the disciples to have the faculty nature of transcendence and the faculty nature of great will. The more one is generating the mind to cultivate, the more he is committing the mistake, because of the practice based on fictitious hope is the loss of physical nature and of dissolving oneself.

Thus I have heard:

In the Dharma-Ending Age, although the disciple dissolves in accordance with the word of Buddha, not with the physical nature, the more he dissolves the Ignorance covering the Buddha Nature; the more he is impregnated with bad character. Every fairy and deity world, its standard of living, its background, its implements is thousand of times better than those of the human world.

The scholarships, the degrees vary from one world to another, because of the mutual divergent comprehension it’s hard to understand, to know each other. All the standards of living, the degrees, the implements are made from the transformation to produce the outcome. The universe transforms the whole material in the universe, indeed, how can man invent the substance of transformation. Man can only compose and transform preexisting materials into new materials that are the denaturalization. No matter how advanced civilization of mankind may be and how intense man’s discovery of the universe by traveling millions of miles into another galaxy where new discoveries and materials may be, he could not ever know the non-material, which is the substance originally not yet transformed, and yet it produces everything.

Exceptionally, man makes use of wisdom to discover the mind and body. After the discovery oneself, man begins to understand himself thoroughly, thus that is so wonderful! Only then he has been entirely liberated.

“Man to man, no matter how talented or intelligent he may be, it’s hard to state what liberation is. Only the liberated man could clearly explain the True Supreme and show the way of liberation. Though being of one-pointed mind in the practice and believing in the liberation, they still wrongly believe in the conception of liberation through formalities such as the extermination of desire, the separation of body, the cessation of love and keeping away from polluted secular mankind, all that makes up the so-called liberation.” –T.V.

No matter how intelligent a living creature may be, he should be taught by the enlightened one who knows how to guide and console him properly until he has faith in the dharma; afterwards, by all means inducing him with instructions in order to conduct the vow. Until he becomes well trained, the enlightened one takes the opportunity to initiate the way for liberation. It is really difficult because the living creatures are living with wrongful embedded conceptions. Therefore, the enlightened one must skillfully know how to practice and what to do and say until they have acquired insight.  All that depended on the enlightened one’s marvelous exploitation or wonderful applications of all dharma.

After getting insight, they realize that enlightenment does not mean the extermination of desire, the separation of body, the cessation of love, the keeping away from polluted secular men. As a matter of fact, they have to base on them to dissolve completely pollution and attachment until clearance of all karma occurs, waiting for the enlightened one to initiate the enlightenment.

The bodhisattva conducting the vow for the salvation aimingly awakens the living creatures from stupidity, so he never destroys the dharma. When the Blessed One has entered the Great Eight PariNirvana, the patriarchs have continued to execute the precious dharma, guiding the living creatures to march on the path of good faculty and good will according to the meaning of the saint and the sage. At the time of the last patriarch, the Sixth Patriarch, Shen-Hsiu has come along constructing the dharma by means of religious worship. He has intentionally increased the ceremonial rites, aiming to rely on that for cultivating. Until today, in this Dharma-Ending Age, most of the disciples are still inclined to establishing the form and the sound for instructing the dharma, which is lacking of the fundamental code in the awareness of one’s nature.

Nowadays, the Lord Supreme Maitreya has re-estashlished a path of return to the true supreme for the bodhisattva, the venerables and dharma protectors to reconstruct the true dharma.

In trading the path of ministry, the apparition of Long Hoa has come to the World, having met many laymen, cultivators who are conservative and attached to their sect, are still Ignorant, the others are indifferent, falling into the pure isolation and still remained in confusion. In fact, the main ideas of the pure salvation consist of pure awareness to be saved. The bodhisattva differs from the ordinary man by awareness and stupidity. Only those with the degree of saint and sage, having the ability of understanding the truth, could recognize it; otherwise, it is impossible for the disciples having not yet reached the degree of saint and sage to receive the preaching. If there is any, that is a vague perception, which is prone to doubt. Therefore, he has re-established the unique principle guideline, which needs faith-conduct-vow to know the truth.

“The Blessed One Sir, it is I myself who have guided all living creatures to the liberation through wisdom. My mistake is countless to report at this hour.

I am still caught in the stupidity and I myself have to cure my sickness. I could only be liberated after being free from sickness. I have vowed in my practice to enter the Nirvana only after having saved all living creatures. If there remains only one living creature not yet saved. I vow not yet to enter into Nirvana.” –T.V.

This paragraph of sutra has expressed the intention of Lord Supreme Maitreya before attaining the supreme perfect enlightenment. He has also admitted his repentance to the Blessed One so that the patriarchs in the future should not proclaim to be the bodhisattva or Buddha in such confusion during this Final Law Period. If there remains a living creature’s nature not yet saved that means it is not yet adequate in the greatly perfect wisdom so how could there be the entering into the Nirvana?

The Bodhisattva, in accordance with the occasion, disturbs all the dharma, observing the adequacy of his own body and mind thus he could not manage properly to save his living creature nature. In that case, he should wait for any future lifetimes to see in person the Buddhas in order to advance further the salvation. Therefore, someone with the superficial wisdom, self-conceited, proclaiming to be the Buddha should pay attention to these words of trifling manner.

One day, Long Hoa Chief Monk Lord Supreme Maitreya Buddha has entered the right meditation and declared that Mr.Krishnamurti is an Arahant who is very far from attaining the Bodhisattvahood. The highest rank attaining through practice the arahanthood is the great fairy who is very sensible and easily recognized, but because of the subtleness of living creatures nature moving in his body that he is not yet to perceive as profoundly as the bodhisattva.

“Here the fairies, you who are magnanimous and parsimonious, are not yet harmonious and equal, that only is due to your dictatorship, wielded power and your esteem, passion for the authority. I have to teach you not to be entangled in the dharma sphere of the form and the odor, letting them to diffuse all over directions in offering the Three Dharma Elements to be attested. As for the distinguished fairies because of their original nature of curiosity, of their possession mind, they have to live with the transformation, maturing with the magic power and sinking in the fall and rise. I should teach you to practice mindfully the diamond great mind. As for the bodhisattva rank, who is practicing to attain the all sides one, respectfully offering to overspread the path to the prajna?

When the Buddhist Master finished His announcement, all the dragon men, fairies, deities, saints and bodhisattvas in the Three Thousand Great Thousand Worlds have unanimously eulogized Him. The Buddhas of Ten Directions attested the present return in this Final Law Period of the dharma body appearing for the explanation.” –T.V.                                          

The mind practicing the diamond great mind is the mind, which has already practiced the correction of one’s own nature and attained the prajna mind without fictitious hope and practices the dharma practically. Those having the prajna mind never create the dharma. But when all the dharma occurs, they know how to realize them perfectly.

How does the bodhisattva rank appear to attain the all sides one?  The bodhisattva rank appears to attain all the dharma, securing the deliverance from all distresses and suffering, that they could intuit in the multitude of living creatures, there are some who are good; however, due to the extreme goodness they become stupid. The better they are, the more stupid they become; in spite of that, they continue to go to the end of the altruism. That is the ultimate truth, also called the attainment of the all sides one.  A living creature who works permanently in a career reaching the outermost excellence that is the ultimate truth to the success. He has attained the all sides one.

Like a doctor who practices in his profession reaching the utmost of the ultimate truth that is famous, is also called the attainment of the all sides one. A disciple who entirely attains the extremity of the ultimate truth is the full enlightenment. When attaining it, he just needs only one ultimate truth then all the great thousands of others of the ultimate truth would come together in similarity.

The Bodhisattva is actually superior. No matter what the living creatures are saying and doing to him. He remains patient of digesting an insult. If there are further sufferings, he should be patient of persevering grief, the furthest suffering he ought to be patient of making a concession. For that reason, everyone has to respect him. That is the ultimate truth of suffering, the attainment of the all sides one.

Each dharma is an ultimate truth. What is the ultimate truth? It extends from the beginning to the end at the farther side. All dharma have the ultimate truth. Here is the stupidity, beyond the end of stupidity is the full enlightenment, it is the ultimate truth. The one with evil faculty behaves in a cruel manner, but once realizing that cruelty leads to danger, he has attained the ultimate truth and regained consciousness to acquire the all sides one.

Like the stinking water, which is filtered and filtered repeatedly until there is no more sediment, bad odor becomes clear water. That is the ultimate truth. The bodhisattva has to practice, to observe until success, getting the skilful observation to enter into the ultimate truth for acquiring the all sides one, securing the deliverance from all distresses and sufferings practically without the need of praying and supplicating and reciting sutra all day long. It is only in accordance with the act that the practice will lead to the Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva and at the end of the ultimate truth, he fully becomes the Avalokitesvara Tathagata. Thus the fairies, deities, saints and bodhisattvas will eulogize you in the three thousand of great thousand worlds, especially the Buddhas of Ten Directions attest at the present, the return to the world of the Lord Supreme Maitreya who appears for the Salvation.

 

LORD SUPREME MAITREYA WITH LONG HOA

INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I: LORD SUPREME MAITREYA’S PAST INCARNATIONS
CHAPTER II: I CAME FROM THE TUSITA HEAVEN

CHAPTER IV: TRANMISSION OF THE PRECIOUS DHARMA
CHAPTER V: A NATION OF PEACE AND DELIGHT
CHAPTER VI: THE VENERABLE OFFERINGS
CHAPTER VII: THE ATTESTATION OF THE BUDDHA KING

47. The Unique Principle Period of Teaching the Buddhayana

47. The Unique Principle Period of Teaching the Buddhayana

The Bodhisattva becomes the non-ego though walking in the ego. The ordinary man becomes the ego though walking in the non-ego.
The Bodhisattva has diligently vowed through several stages, from the purity to the Impurity of countless living creatures, with the object of worshipping and offering to Tathagata, vowing to achieve the success. So he is not at all polluted nor impregnated and never hindered in what he is doing, what he is going to do, what he has to do today, with the serenity of a bodhisattva, only the disciple who has attained and made their vows universally could understand it thoroughly.


– The Supreme Special Scriptures
In the period of teaching the unique career vehicle (Buddhayana), He has taught the faithful and devoted venerable who have overcome the dharma of non-rebellion, non-attachment. Only 4 or 5 venerables among the whole dharma school could attend the teaching because of, from the degree of saint and sage to pass on to the diligent practice, from the arahant to the bodhisattva in reality that is very hard, indeed.

With the accurate spirit, He has already known in the future which venerables would attain the ultimate awareness, then taught the unique career vehicle, aiming to achieve the complete enlightenment.

Though in the same conference hall of the dharma school, He has taught the truly faithful disciples separately and the less faithful ones would not know. During His teaching if there were someone not belonging to that class who come to hear, He has then changed the dharma accordingly in order to make it match the degree of the newcomer. Therefore, the disciple of lower class would never know His wonderful application.

The venerables receiving His teaching conducted the vow and carried it out to the bodhisattva rank they are very faithful and sensible to whatever He has taught them to do.

“However, you are disciples of the same rank, of the same dharma subject, diligently practicing for the wisdom, but in reality between you there is considerable difference from one to another in your degree, in your thoughts; it is the diversity of conception that creates such dharma limits.

As far as the dignity is concerned, the bodhisattvas in comparison with the arahants, the Pratyeka Buddha and the gravak are millions of levels apart from each other.” –T.V.

The Supreme One's words are quite right, once having received the sealed ordination of the Maha Bodhisattva, he, in reality, would be their master for the next incalculability of lifetimes, but it is due to that conception they all are the disciples of the same teacher that they sometimes speak inconsiderately, believing all of them to be of the same rank. The awakened one has to keep silent because of their stupidity and erroneous self.

Later He said: “Like me, I am ill-treated by human beings because of my wonderful application to save living creatures, you should willingly guide them to achieve the awareness, the true enlightenment if they returned to you and repent according to their volition. By realizing adequately the Tathagata's limitless. You then have the completed vow, fully achieving your merits and offering them to Tathagata to attain the Buddhahood.”

The Bodhisattvas are those who have precisely practiced with the true supreme. They have already heard, seen, and known thoroughly superstitious dharma, so they have a practical and appropriate daily lifestyle of theirs.

The disciples, who have long practiced estimated to Ullambana season (Yulan), although having the faithful mind or the enthusiastic mind, but unable to recognize themselves to be superstitious, they would still lose their way in the practice of the dharma. Therefore, it is irrational to base only on the long and short time of practice. You also could not light yourself the torch to walk either.

The bodhisattva usually dissolves stupidity and attachment that is the food source of bodhisattva. The bodhisattva often manipulates himself perfectly the motion of all the dharma in his own nature to make it return to the mind. In the presence of difficult situations, he still calmly and heartily dissolves them in peace. That is the bodhisattva's robe.

The bodhisattva facing the adverse circumstance no matter how difficult and thorny it may be, he himself still observes and understands it well, but his mind neither complains nor grieves. Those are the pure eyes, pure ears of bodhisattva; As a result, he could have the view of the true enlightenment, obviously beyond the clear sight of the arahant.

“Because of the diligent practice, the bodhisattva has achieved the eyes-store of satellite which universally and infallibly lightens the secular world as well the outer of secular world without mistakes.” –T.V.

The bodhisattva often uses lovely words and noble behavior, inducing the living creatures to respect. Hence, he becomes closer to living creatures and knows the secular world and the outer of secular world as the fairy, deity thoroughly and infallibly. The bodhisattva knows every dharma nature, every original appearance of each living creatures, how they are polluted, how he should react accordingly. The bodhisattva helps to relieve the pollution very effectively. Hence, the living creatures dissolve their stupidity, free from errors.

The bodhisattva has never preached the dharma bluntly, but relying on his pure eyes and his pure ears, he could observe meticulously and guide living creatures to apply the practice of the dharma, resolving the situation right at home and at work. Later, through careful checking, he would show the right and the wrong of each situation, gradually helping living creatures to do less wrong and more right, till there is no more wrong and only the right remains. The faithful disciple then feels peaceful and comfortable knowing what he is doing, to sense his own words and relieve ignorance.

The bodhisattva would not calmly sit preaching the greed and the hatred, but he practically and wonderfully applies the dharma, guiding the faithful disciples involved directly with the greed and hatred. After struggling and experiencing the failures, they would be conscious that they are polluted by the greed and hatred thus they would discard them to be comfortable. The bodhisattva has closely accompanied the Buddha and experienced the greed, hatred, and ignorance. Having received the wonderful applications of the Buddha, they would certainly know how to help living creatures and the arahants adequately without being caught up in the greed, hatred and ignorance.

It is difficult to meet those who know the practical and wonderful applications to guide the sravaka conduct, the pratyeka conduct, the arahant conduct, and the bodhisattva conduct.

“The Bodhisattva knows how to use wisdom dharma on the top of the head for entering into and emerging from the meditation to penetrate clearly the three worlds and can measure the weights, the forms throughout the three thousand universes, moving comfortably in every tiny second, just like civilized countries using spacecraft to discover the universe. Thanks to his fully established abilities and free from doubt and attachment, He has usually said: I have not doubt and attachment at all.” –T.V.

The disciples who attain the awareness, the great awareness, and the ultimate awareness to the supreme enlightenment know how to use the top of the sinciput in a high or low, large or narrow manner according to their attainment. They all rely on the physical nature to be aware of the meditation (Jhana) that is the meditation nature. The physical nature of the Jhana does not differ from the dharma nature. The physical nature of the Jhana leans on every fictitious hope and false perception of the disciples, who run after their desire, it is thus limited. Those who know how to rely on the Jhana that is relying on the physical nature to dissolve stupidity would perfectly know that the physical nature originally is the perfect serenity, the existent brilliance in human beings to be enlightened. However, depending upon the superficial and profound penetration, they will attain great awareness, ultimate awareness and supreme enlightenment.

The enlightened disciples should deeply penetrate to enter into the sphere, to emerge from the sphere, should diligently practice the purity and impurity about 10 years, 15 years or 20 years before entering the concentration. Those who practice for great awareness would get the great concentration and those practicing for the ultimate awareness, from the great concentration would leave the concentration to get the ultimate concentration. If the faithful disciples were willing to penetrate into ignorance, they would attain the wonderful sound dharma. If they continue to penetrate deeply into Ignorance, they would acquire the equality dharma. Those who attain the supreme enlightenment with sufficient abilities and merits will enter the right concentration. From the right concentration, they have to practice lively and aggressively the form and formless then to enter the Samadhi, and acquire perfectly the supernatural power of the Samadhi.

Regardless what religion you belong to, you should only attain one dignity at a time. This is the only path of the boddhisattva to the Tathagata Buddha. Other paths are only man claim to be Buddha form.

To the Buddha, body and mind are only one, and to living creatures they are two. By practicing until body and mind become one, you then would be able to emerge from meditation. Some are really excellent with their mind free from the hindrance, the attachment, and the entanglement. After the awareness, they are able to enter into meditation, but unable to emerge from meditation. They only make use of fixed perception to emerge from meditation by the way of fairy deity mind. These are in great numbers.

Following the Lord Supreme Reverend Maitreya to practice the dharma, the disciples can see the immensity of the universe, He has to dig out, to excavate all dharma without omission, to be able to enter into and emerge from meditation. It is incredibly difficult and unthinkably joyful, which is impossible to express through writing.

“The Buddha nation contains the solemn precious dharma, administrating by the Buddha-Power, and is the dwelling of the bodhisattvas. Because of that, even those of very good faculty and very good will would not be able to recognize it.” –T.V.

The nation of the Buddhas in the past as well as the present nation of Lord Supreme Maitreya Buddha is adequately solemn. The faithful disciples following Him in their practice are all protected from difficult circumstances by the miraculous Buddha-Power. The bodhisattvas take refuge in this Buddha-Power to practice the dharma. In their insurmountable situations, the faithful disciples and bodhisattvas are all protected by the strong and miraculous Buddha-Power and they are all free from the calamity and suffering.

Making the vow, practicing the dharma in this Dharma Ending Age and meeting Lord Supreme Maitreya Buddha, you can recognize that His Buddha-Power is full of tolerances and unthinkably helpful to living creatures. The more disciples have become confident, obedient, and respectful, the more He has initiated the contrary dharma. Occasionally, their patience ran out and they left Him, but wherever they are, they could still receive the Buddha-Power, which helped them to repent, just as Ci Tian Dah Sheng with the guiding sphere on his head though leaving, but he could still receive the great power, the great compassion of the Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva.

The true disciples, who are not the member of constructing dharma, are on the outside circle of the central organization and do not understand at all. Thus, we can see that though being in the same dharma school, in the same conference, but the manner of practice and comprehension have varied greatly and made them different from one another. Therefore, whatever the degree of their good faculty and good will is, without participating in the construction of the true dharma, they would not be able to recognize His path of salvation for living creatures.

“After attaining the Buddhahood, the body and the mind become the universal Tathagata. As for the enlightened one, his body is originally the Tathagata, it is naturally not the two forms.” –T.V.

The Sakyamuni Buddha has ordained the Maitreya Bodhisattva to be Buddha in this Dharma-Ending Age. Lord Supreme Maitreya has acquired the supreme perfect enlightenment at that time. He has practiced the deep penetration of the dharma sphere - Until now, after 2539 years of the Buddhist calendar; He has attained the Buddha hood. It is extremely difficult, isn’t it?

At the present time, He has reviewed and realized that quite a number of cultivators who acquired the supreme enlightenment only in theory, in hypothesis, with their superficial practice of all dharma, and hastily proclaimed themselves to be Buddha, fell in the Buddha sphere being ignorant.

As explained above, the precedent Buddha has ordained the succeeding bodhisattva to be the next Buddha in the future who should circumspectly teach the dharma in order to be attested. If not, whatsoever he acquired He is still subject to revolving in the six ways and unable to enter the constitution of the universe and would not be recognized by the Tathagata.

The Buddha ought to have the appearance of the superior bodhisattva with the rank of the holy disciples. For what the claiming Buddha teaches the living creatures, they will recite and hear later by themselves, because they are too far from the truth and full of ignorance, and they have to learn from the patriarchs, the saints fundamentally.

“In the Vimalakirtinirdesa Sutra, Ananda asked for the milk, the Vimalakìrti has blamed him: Ananda, you shouldn't say that. The Tathagata is eternal, He is not ill at all. If you say that, the heresy hears that and learns from it, it would generate the mind of birth and destruction. That made Ananda embarrassed and confused, he brought his bowl back. Later, he has heard a voice in the air: Take the milk and offer it to the blessed one. Because all living creatures are ill, He has to appear ill; in fact, He is not ill at all.” –T.V.

In the time of the Sakyamuni Buddha, the Vimalakirti has explained to Ananda to avoid the mistake for the posterity. For living creatures, form and the mind are two separate things so they are still subject to birth and death. The rank of second is also subjected to birth and death. For the Buddha, the form and the mind are only one. The Buddha's body is just the Tathagata body. Especially the Blessed One and Lord Supreme Maitreya all have achieved the Golden Body; their body of four elements could conveniently remain or enter the Nirvana. The living creatures’ nature of the Buddhas has no more illness and is called the Buddha nature. The living creatures’ nature of the four orders of disciples practicing with Him is still ill, so the Blessed One has to appear with His ill body of four elements to show it to the four orders of disciples.

I have witnessed in the time of Lord Supreme Maitreya that He has determined to give the precious gems to the four orders of disciples, but most of them have wrongly believed that the Lord Supreme Reverend Maitreya is sick with a lack of bloodflow to his brain. As all living creatures are having the sickness of mind deficiency, therefore, the Lord Supreme Maitreya Buddha has to appear with a mind deficiency. He has then wonderfully applied the dharma, expelling, excluding, and manifesting severely with the true disciples of the inner circle and allowed the true disciples of the outer circle to disturb, creating the chaos to keep guard and drive these faithful inner circle disciples out so that they could not come to see Him. That is the second examination.

Because of all the chaos, the faithful inner circle disciples would not return to see Him. He has then reminded them, complaining about them for not paying Him a visit, but when they do, He has again bluntly expelled them. The disciples with joy and detachment have to sit patiently in the drawing room, waiting for the occasion to look over the window to see Him.

He has skillfully used the Devadatta's descendants to expel the faithful dharma protectors, venerables, and bodhisattva. Only then, they would have clearly manifested their true cruel faculty. Afterwards, He has ordered the descendants of the Devadatta to assault, expel the dharma protectors, venerables, and bodhisattva of the inner circle. Because of the outburst of His mind sickness, the acts of expelling and assaulting match the natural disposition that is the dharma of suchness. As for the Most Venerable of Ti Dien, he represented the formless belonging to arahant's conduct, not the dharma of suchness. By using the formless of the mind sickness to attain the Suchness.

Lady Tang Trinh of the Venerable rank who is very close to Him is still mistaken, saying that He is ill. Again, the Golden Body is the Tathagata, which is never ill at all. Because the four orders of disciples are ill, He has to appear to be ill, mainly guiding them to overcome the attachments of obstruction, of doubt, and help them perceive the precious pearl that is the dharma of suchness.

Those who took the opportunity to manifest all the obstruction, cruel faculty and jealousy in attempt to physically injure and verbally humiliate the faithful disciples of the inner circle, showed the descendants of the Devadalta to be derived from the mara and devil, the pirates and bandits.

He has appeared having the cerebral disease derived from the suchness dharma. He also ordered His inferiors to assault upon more than ten disciples in the list of the inner circle, because that is the suchness dharma. However, none of them has become attached and hindered. On the contrary, they have tried to find the way, taking better care of Him. It is extremely hard to go into the Buddhayana (Unique Career Vehicle).

“How noble it is! Leaning only on a small point to get the infinity of direct retribution of their individual previous life, with the tolerance in their mind and body, the respect and forgiveness to all, they have put themselves in a very wonderful position. So, the bodhisattva has made the great vow: I’m vowing to serve the limitless Tathagata.” –T.V.

You have just to recognize the suchness dharma in His appearance to save living creatures, just by a small beginning point to get into the way of liberation through wisdom and to have the infinity of direct retribution of your individual previous life. Though being assaulted, they did not get angry with Him nor did they complain about the cruelty of the Devadatta's descendants. Hence, the body and mind have become generous and tolerant, that is very wonderful.

The Bodhisattva who has not yet comprehended thoroughly the Golden Body and the Buddha-Power thus he would not yet be sensible to recognize entirely the suchness dharma. The suchness dharma is the very no master. By that time, he should be self-aware to accomplish the Mahasattva. The Ci Tian Dah Sheng in the memory of the Western travel has symbolized the mind of the Master of Tipitaka, even though the Ci Tian Dah Sheng could realize supernatural things and jump as far as to the horizon, he could only under protection of the Buddha's hand. That means the disciples who practiced for fairy-deity mind are able to receive the protection and salvation of the Buddha-Power. Although, no matter how talented the Ci Tian Dah Sheng was, he ought to honor Tipitaka as his Master. That implies wisdom and virtue should be in parallel to the utmost. The parallelism of the virtue and wisdom lead to the acquisition of the true originality.

In Long Hoa Association, the Lord Supreme Reverent Maitreya has usually recommended very meticulously that the bright disciple should improve morally through practice in order to be paralleled. It is only with the parallelism of virtue and wisdom that one could acquire the true vow. Having intelligence in realistic life, you would be more clever than other human beings, but your every single act depends upon the intelligence, using human beings’ intelligence to exploit others and be on top of the world. Eventually, it comes to an end until everything would collapse, and destroy terribly. For that reason, you should build up virtue; even if you have some deficiency in intelligence it is still more beneficial to life.

The dharma protector who needs to improve himself morally is the one whose moral level is low. He has to consider carefully and curl his tongue seven times before speaking, calmly making a choice between the bad and the good before acting to avoid falling in the evil faculty.

“The disciple once surmounting an obstacle and thoroughly understanding the evolution of all dharma could see that there is no devil nature any longer. They should overcome every minuscule obstacle, arising from the internal. Therefore, the disciple could fully understand that the separation and obstruction originating from the devil karma and the karma power of the devil power is very considerable. Whenever surmounting the obstacle, controlling perfectly his original nature, the disciple could be truly aware of the three worlds, six ways and know about the dharma body through his own nature, in an adequate manner, to attain the enlightenment of eight elements.” –T.V.

In the reality, it is extremely hard for the Bodhisattva to practice the dharma under the guide of Lord Supreme Maitreya Buddha. Every time he makes a vow, he is just contravened by the dharma, which continuously paralyzes the vowed-will Bodhisattva. Consequently, many venerables have given up or gotten tired of difficulties and eventually left, too. These are in great numbers, though they understand well the truth. Finally, it seems easier for them to sit, preaching the dharma, and they are thus impregnated with the Sravaka conduct, and unable to cultivate perfectly the Pratyeka-Buddha conduct.

Rarely, the Lord has found a Bodhisattva who could surmount the obstacles and thoroughly understand the evolution of all dharma. By that time, he could be self- aware that he not only needs to surmount the devil nature that it is not derived from Mara the devil nature. The disciple needs to be conscious of overcoming every obstacle where body and mind become one, and there is no more devil karma called contravening karma power. Simultaneously, he makes the deliverance of suffering and patiently follows the vow of the Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva and the Mahasthamaprapta Bodhisattva. So that he makes the vowed will close to the Samantabhavera Bodhisattva and enters the Buddhayana or unique career vehicle.

From the disciples to the living creatures, if laziness exists then it requires working hard that is called diligent practice. Once laziness is nullified, diligent practice is no longer needed. If more diligence in that conditions then it becomes an illness. In the unique career vehicle dharma, the Bodhisattva knows to do what is necessary; hence, there is no generated dharma. For living creatures, as there are still diligence and laziness, there are still birth and destruction. The relative dharma is stupidity, but the absolute dharma is enlightenment. Until whatever you do is right, you would attain the eupreme enlightenment.

The disciple's practice is limited within the three spheres and six ways. Those are sense sphere, form sphere and formless sphere, and the six ways that are deva, man, asura, animal, hungry devil and hell. Adequately accomplishing the three spheres and six ways, you would attain the full dharma body of eight elements. The eight elements are eight natural great purities: The eight elements comprise the soil element, the water element, the wind element, the fire element, the emptiness element, the conscious store element, the Tathagata element, and the enlightened form element.

“If the disciples are not yet enlightened from their own nature, the self, dharma body, all is in the dharma sphere and Buddha sphere. Being caught in the Buddha sphere, you will quietly dwell in the dharma body. With time, there will be appearance in the three spheres to guide living beings to attain the supreme enlightenment of Great Eight Pari Nirvana.” –T.V.

The Self catches those who are quietly dwelling in the Buddha sphere, their dharma body has not fully practiced and they have to go through three spheres, six ways, helping living beings without deficiency of any dharma sphere before you can have complete salvation. It is by saving living beings that you could attain the supreme enlightenment of Great Eight Pari Nirvana. The salvation is truly difficult, why?

• To see strange, unconventional things, you have to realize strange, unconventional facts.
• The strange, unconventional dharma is hard to hear. Be joyful and detached.
• All the good and the evil, without attachment without objection, therefore, mind and thought are perfectly clear.


–Self-Enlightenment Sutra

In doing strange unconventional facts, you have to pray to the enlightened Buddha for teaching, manipulating strange dharma to be able to see strange, wonderful things. The strange dharma is hard to hear. You should not be rebellious and doubtful toward whatever you are hearing, you have to know perfectly the dharma nature and be joyful and detached. Until, you could spontaneously hear, even those are very hard to hear, with disentangled mind, without boredom, and yet tirelessly finding the opportunity to improve.

You should be aware of yourself in that way about your hearing and seeing. As for knowing, you also need to observe carefully even the smallest thing without negligence, and you should neither be self-proud or self-satisfied with great knowledge. The more you help living creatures’ nature, the more you enrich your knowledge, that is very joyful, but you should not be attached to that joyfulness either. Until, you have acquired the supreme enlightenment. Practicing that way, you would not fall in the Buddha sphere. For that reason, the Venerable Ananda has written in the beginning of the sutra: Initiating the sutra, the supremacy and the profundity of the wonderful dharma. Among the thousand, and thousand of dharma, it is hard to meet a supreme enlightened Buddha with sufficient sovereignty and Buddha-Power to become Buddha. If you could meet a Buddha, that would be your profound root-faculty, miraculously to perceive the words, thus acquiring the preservation of the truth and vowing to interpret the whole Tathagata dharma in its true meaning.

“In the past period, a previous life of the Sakyamuni Buddha had existentially appeared as a bodhisattva who is called the Sadapariluta Bodhisattva in the Sutra of the Lotus (Saddharmapandarika Sutra):

At that time, the Sadapariluta Bodhisattva had acquired the essential form of the Samadhi, seeing that all living creatures are the corresponding forms of the Buddha’s appearance. He has known well the corresponding with Tathagata, manifesting hundreds of thousands of conducts of walking, standing, laying, sitting that are full of the good and the evil, the clean and the dirty nature. He has then come to each of them bowing and respectfully said: You are Buddha yourself. All of them believed Him to be crazy. They do not comprehend that the one who is passionately playing cards and passionately practicing the Buddha dharma, at the same time, could even become Buddha, the one who is passionately playing fairy and at the same time passionately practicing for awareness could still become Buddha. That is the full enlightenment without sphere.” –T.V.                                

The Bodhisattva acquiring the Samadhi practices the salvation of living creatures’ nature in a unique way. This is something that all the bodhisattvas of the past, the present and the future have to go through. He sees that all living creatures originally have the Buddha nature with thousands of incarnations and each incarnation is an appearing Buddha, but because of their stupidity, their greed, hatred, ignorance and competition in various ways, their Buddha nature is completely hidden.

All bodhisattvas should know how to manifest their bodies in various conducts in order to save effectively living creatures’ nature, so He creates the conduct to make living creatures disdain and blame Him by manifesting all the good and the evil, the clean and the dirty. He then reviews His mind to see whether it is perfectly clearly; if there is still fluctuation. He has to practice voluntarily to make it clean, that is the salvation. Afterwards, the bodhisattva attains the conduct of Sadapariluta that means even the living creatures disdaining and blaming the Bodhisattva neither feels being disdained, blamed nor hateful, but exceedingly becomes more joyful and detached in offering it to Tathagata.

Therefore, the bodhisattvas do not neglect any dharma in their practice in order to save themselves and others. Living creatures and those of second rank vehicle often disdain and blame the bodhisattvas so that they become tardy and cannot follow the path of bodhisattvas. Actually, it is very hard to have an opportunity to meet again in order to diligently practice for the liberation through wisdom.

Those of second rank vehicle have seen the conduct of Sadapariluta of the Bodhisattvas, hastily call down evil upon the Bodhisattvas; their merits are thus considerably damaged. Without preservation they will fall in hell to receive the results of their deeds.

When Sakyamuni Buddha had practiced for bodhisattva in the past and has realized the vowing of Sadapariluta and the Maitreya Bodhisattva and has also created the conduct of Sadapariluta in this Dharma Ending Age, afterwards He has formed the conduct of solemnity to attain the Buddhahood. The way in the past and the present of the bodhisattvas aiming to attain the wonderful fruit of Bodhi should be manifested in the essential form of the samadhi until complete perfection is acquired. There is no other way than this unique vehicle to access the supreme vehicle.

Living creatures should not be rebellious in seeing the vowing of bodhisattva injured immensely and should not cherish and hope for the obscure dream either. You should see and hear the appearance in the essential form of the samadhi of the bodhisattva in order to acquire the self-knowledge of the formless the enlightened form. The enlightened form is precisely the Buddha form.

The Bodhisattva does not establish dharma subject in practicing for the wonderful fruit of the Bodhihood, but he must have multiple conducts because living creatures have multiple sicknesses. There is no dharma subject in this Final Law Period either; the salvation is based only on how deep their fundamental abilities, the motive power and the negligent condition and the enthusiastic condition are. The Bodhisattvas must have known well the path of the present Buddha who recently attained the Great Eight Pari Nirvana, so they all must focus in dissolving wrong conceptions which produces karma in order to save living creatures. There are no Buddha’s footprints in the emptiness, but the bodhisattvas can recognize the Buddha’s footprints and follow them without error.

Although in the emptiness there are no marks left, it is marvelous to discover the footmarks so the bodhisattva has pointedly made up his mind to dissolve in natural tranquillity for the living creatures, those of second vehicle and the arahant rank who are attaining only. Because of that, those who are passionately playing cards, impregnated with the fairy path, if leaving attachment and rebelliousness and meeting a bodhisattva would be guided to escape from the immersion and attain enlightenment.

The dignity of the Buddha Nation in the Vimalakirtinirdesa Sutra said as follows:

"The insight-mind is the Bodhisattva's pure land. When the Bodhisattva becomes Buddha, the living creatures with non-competition are reborn in that land.

The body-mind is the Bodhisattva's pure land. When the Bodhisattva becomes Buddha, the living creatures with sufficient merits are reborn in that land.

The digestion of insult is the Bodhisattva's pure land. When the Bodhisattva becomes Buddha, the living creatures with the adequate thirty two beautiful forms are reborn in that land.” –
T.V.

Being ordained high virtuous, most venerables get older or ill, lose consciousness and die after a long practice of the dharma. Why?

When your body follows your thought, and you are acting accordingly to your words that you still are the living creatures protecting dharma. That is the living creatures mind. Therefore, your body and your mind are the two. When you have corrected yourself so that your body could do exactly what you are thinking, and they are only one, you have acquired the truth then.

Most would rather study, recite, and read the sutra and preaching it well than endure suffering to correct the character and bad habits. So the body and mind remains separated in two. That is the living creatures’ way. The truth is a unique path that leads to awareness. Many truly believe are in the Buddha form, but do not practice for their mind. Sometimes, the mind accepts the correction, but the body refuses to practice it, so there is no Insight. For the Bodhisattva, the body and the mind are unified; the mind and the dharma are fused into one. That is the Bodhisattva's Pure Land.

The disciples with unsettled thoughts in their mind should meditate to achieve the pure mind. Having the pure mind that is obviously the pure land of bodhisattva, they would acquire wisdom. And the wisdom without attachment that is everywhere is the pure land and the insight mind is penetrated.

Meditation and pure mind are originally unified as one. If they are only one, you will have wisdom. Lack of meditation would neither develop wisdom nor penetrate the insight mind. Reliance upon meditation achieves enlightenment. In the time of Long Hoa Chief Monk Maitreya Buddha, He had meticulously recommended diligently practicing meditation. However, many disciples lazily meditated, neglecting or even giving up meditation because of difficult situations arising. He has advised and coaxed them as a loving father would do to his unwise children.

The disciple, whose body and mind are separated in two, despite a long time of practice, after he departs from life, will be reincarnated to this secular world and can not go to anywhere else. When the body and the mind are not unified, the mind and the dharma will be separated into two parts which will oppose each other. Just like the disciple follows the Buddha, his mind wisheses for enlightenment. On the other hand he rejects all the dharma whenever it comes to him. Evidently, because of the separation of his mind and the dharma, he cannot have access to the pure land. When becoming the Buddha, his entire living creatures’ nature, which has been tranquilized, will be sent back to the solemn land of Buddhas and reborn in the Buddha nation.

The digestion of insults, which knows how to dissolve all dharma with the virtue conduct, will directly perceive the pure land of Bodhisattva. That is also called the patience of the third vehicle with cessation of birth and death. On the other hand, the living creatures who are just patiently keeping silent neither corrects nor dissolves the dharma for a while and will become stupid, without wisdom.

“The Bodhisattva relies on the Tathagata's merits. Calmly sitting in preaching the dharma to countless living creatures of His to make them receive the dharma and understand the interpretation, all of them have achieved many various ways of liberation. It is those who have previously offered to the Tathagata that can say it today.”
–T.V.

The Bodhisattva never prepares the text for his lesson, nor studies the sutra for his dharma teaching. The Bodhisattva is very close to the four orders of disciples and living creatures. He relies on them, creating merits through practical cultivation, realizing that hearing seeing and knowing are exactly the Tathagata dharma and basing on the living creature's sickness and that of the faithful disciple to preach the dharma correctly accordingly to their acquired seeds, acquired karma, making them understand and be enlightened. Indeed, by vowing so the Bodhisattva could get numerous documents and various ways of liberation to offer to Tathagata and become Buddha.

The Bodhisattva gradually intuits the sufficient sravaka conduct, the pratyeka conduct, and the arahant conduct, comprehensively having no more the desires of individuality, personality, only leaning on the spontaneous dharma in himself, in the living creatures, in the faithful disciples to make salvation.

“There was at that time a master bodhisattva acquiring supernatural power who traveled all over the Three Thousand Worlds of the Dragon-Man. Using the power of destruction and defilement, he could know the living creatures' defilement karma. Using the power of penetration of minds, he could understand the dragon-man's mind. Using the power of full life, he could see the longevity in every sphere. And using the supernatural power, he could see clearly the self of the devas and fairies.” –T.V.

By practicing closely to Long Hoa Chief Monk, we could see that He has fully the six supernatural powers to manifest countless miraculous and marvelous things to save the four orders of disciples in the dharma and human beings as well as the Four Species in this Dharma Ending Age. He has known all of the faculty karma and defilement karma of every true disciple and unceasingly advised them to detach in order to be clear of their defilement karma.  Therefore, He has often wonderfully applied the formless to the disciples at the Central, but they have still remained faithful, obedient and respectful to Him. For those who are practicing in the same Long Hoa association without one-pointed mind and being non-committed, they could never understand His wonderful application. He has still helped them in their favor to have a material, happy life according to their wishes.

“The Master Bodhisattva has often made use of his five eyes and six supernatural powers to measure all. Men, devas, fairies all are receiving the direct retribution of their previous lives and are reborn with their physical body. The Master Bodhisattva is surprised and bursts out these words: How strange it is! Having the body without self-authority, and living upon the corresponding birth and death without fully awakening is just like a dummy.” –T.V.

In this Dharma-Ending Age, the Bodhisattva Maitreya has witnessed and attested all kinds of disciples from human beings to fairies and devas who are reborn with such a body and mind because of their karma seeds. The manner of your conduct, your lifestyle and your pollution would make you reborn in a corresponding place to receive fairly the direct retribution of your previous existence and receiving the results of your deeds.

Having the body without authority is the body without practicing for the comprehension with the Buddha. Without enlightenment we would not truly have the authority of Buddha-Power, it is only the Mara-Power, which commands irresistibly while the body is just a dummy, twisting and turning upon the person who has created the dummy.

The disciple not following the Bodhisattva's footprints would be certainly commanded by the Mara-Power. It dictates every movement of the body, which is still subjected to the transmigration of birth and death. The disciple is very faithful and enthusiastic but without understanding precisely the line of the birth and death.  No matter how long he has been practicing, he is still subject to the transmigration of birth and death just like other living creatures. In this Final Law Period, He has used the five eyes and six supernatural powers to initiate the dharma path for the four orders of disciples during His 37 years at the cities of Nha Trang, Saigon, Qui Nhon, Da Nang, Hue, but those who acquire the truth are rare.

We can see how difficult the practice of the dharma is while many people, not knowing the line of birth and death, hastily proclaim themselves to be saints and Buddhas. They are all commanded by mara-power, many of them have been invaded in their whole body by the mara-power without knowing it, how strange the practice by self-feeling is.

“I am now using the supernatural power corresponding to the mind’s eye store to know, but am still wrong in the dharma sphere of full knowledge. From the outside to the inside, from the top to the bottom, if I am not fully aware of my own body, not thoroughly understanding myself and not seeing the line of the birth and death, how can I be enlightened?

After asking himself, the Master Bodhisattva calmly came to a slab of stone to rest and at the same time reviewed all over his body and mind through thousands and thousands of stages of time to attain enlightenment.” –T.V.

When still practicing, Lord Maitreya Bodhisattva had usually reminded the future rank of bodhisattvas to review all over their body and mind with countless living creatures natures, every promptly rising and falling thought, in order to penetrate the three bodies, four minds, five eyes, six supernatural powers and gradually move to enlightenment.

He, Himself, had to review carefully all His body and mind and make a note so that the future Bodhisattva should diligently practice and review theirs too. Otherwise, they would easily be controlled by the Mara-Power. One time, one of His true disciples in Binh Dinh, after a course of meditation in the hot weather, wishesed for a fresh wind, suddenly a cool wind blew. Delightful in believing that he has corresponded to the Tathagata universe. Afterwards, he himself proclaimed to be enlightened.

He has sweetly told him that wishesing for something and getting it while not yet having the self-power, is not yet being enlightened, that is the perception belonging to the confused activity mobilized by mara-power. You should not be attached to it. Keep on dissolving and relieving till the direct appearance that is true appears. The mara-power is very wise, it knows, sees and hears all your thoughts and plays a hoax on you by its appearance. Without the Lord, that really would be an eternal mistake. The mara three vehicles in yourself are waiting for carelessness in your hope, in your wishes to deceive you. You should not hasten to believe in it, the mara, under the name of somebody, tricks many people, it talks in such a manner to make the disciple wrongly believe in it.

“Coming to the world, the Buddha bases on the fundamental abilities, faculty and nature of living creatures to guide them to know ascending and to develop their mind to become the bodhisattva nature. The bodhisattva nature, which has the homogeneous substance of tolerance, helps countless living creatures without minding and feeling happy with the progression of the living creatures sphere. It is the same for the Buddha nature.” –T.V.

Each living creature nature is just a nature. Every man, even the deva and the fairy has countless natures that are called immeasurable living creature natures. The Buddha is reigning on the lotus throne with each lotus petal representing a living creature nature. He has mastered and controlled all the living creature natures, so He is sitting on the lotus throne. The lotus lives in the dirty and nauseating mud. The Buddha sits on the lotus throne symbolizing in the secular world there are adequate living creatures with the natures, which are greed, hatred, delusion, joy, anger, love, cruelty, permanence, happiness, self, and purity. He has diligently practiced in the secular world and became ascendant in presence of difficult scenes. Ascension is the Bodhisattva's seed nature, which becomes Buddha nature later. As for living creatures, in presence of hard and difficult situations they manifest their vile and bad characters called mara natures and have to live in the suffering sea of birth and death.

Once attaining enlightenment, all the clean, dirty, good, and bad living creature natures would not be polluted and have abundant merits called Buddha natures. There is a Buddha reigning in each lotus petal that is the Buddha nature. The Buddhas have skillfully made use of them in the salvation of living creatures. They remain eternal, neither increasing nor decreasing. They are immeasurable, limitless and unthinkable. Having tamed living creature natures, the Buddha achieving the Buddha nature acquires the title of supreme tamer, one of the ten titles of the Buddhas of Ten Directions and Three Lives.

“When the Bodhisattva is willing to offer to the Tathagata Buddha, all the bodhisattvas simultaneously appear and assimilate, becoming a secret form and suchness form. Because of that, the bodhisattvas have incarnated as the mountains, rivers and lands, essentially completing pleasantly the Tathagata, generously offering, and orderly multiplying from the vegetation to the streams, from the drinks and foods to the flowers and fruits. The world is called natural.” –T.V.

Under the vision of the Buddha, from the miserable beggars to the emperors, the high officers, all are bodhisattvas incarnating in all conducts. Therefore, the bodhisattva must be willing to penetrate deeply into the dharma sphere with all its conducts without omission, primarily offering to Tathagata and knowing the suchness form well, which is the secret form itself. From the mountains, rivers, lands, vegetation to the natural all are the incarnation of bodhisattvas. We can see that, by leaning on the living creatures’ nature to practice diligently the ascension, we could realize the immense Tathagata.

For the living creatures who dare not exchange their competitive nature of win and lose, pettiness, stinginess and selfishness which belonging to the mara nature that are polluted, how could they understand thoroughly the bodhisattva who is vowing all the conducts. Under the vision of the Buddha, there is only the bodhisattva; there are no living creatures. Why? Because for the Buddha, all living creature nature has become Bodhisattva Nature and Buddha Nature. Therefore, under His vision, there is only the bodhisattva. For the practitioners who are not enlightened, they have not yet met the Buddha to attest the mind seal. Therefore, they cannot proclaim themselves to be bodhisattvas.

“Simultaneously, all the bodhisattvas have appeared in limitless dharma spheres to be ordained, respectfully bowed to the Tathagata Buddha and offered to the triple gem all the precious pearls, sapphires, mother of pearls, agates, corals, amber. Dragon streamers, imperial cars with trumpets and drums welcomed and transported Buddhas of Ten Directions who assembled for talk and discussion. The bodhisattvas have primarily acquired their merits, willing to dwell in the dharma sphere of offering eternally. Through such practices, all bodhisattvas are the Tathagata's intentions.” –T.V.

Under the vision of Buddha, living creatures do not exist. Instead the bodhisattva natures appear everywhere along with the Buddha natures in order. Each Buddha nature is a dharma sphere with its particular quality that is called the original appearance dharma sphere. All are solemnly respectful in the constitution of the Tathagata Buddha and offer to the Tathagata Buddha the most valuable things such as precious pearls, sapphires, and mother of pearls, agates...

Every Buddha nature or every Buddha incarnation appears with purity or Impurity in the constitution of the Tathagata, increasing the solemnity of the offering to Tathagata. The bodhisattva nature and Buddha nature are the Tathagata's intentions, which are perfectly used by the Buddhas. Each bodhisattva nature is an incarnation of the bodhisattva, so it is dwelling itself in the dharma sphere of the Tathagata's constitution. Because of his readily ascendant seed nature, he is appealed to offer eternally to Tathagata Buddha, from the non-beginning to the endlessness; thus the bodhisattva has increased the direct retribution of his previous existence.

“By that time, the bodhisattva wisheses to comprehend the Buddha, how would he comprehend then? He has to dissolve his sphere, save the living creatures sphere and thus can see that all are dharma that chain living creatures to the sufferings. The bodhisattva vows to use his body, wisdom, arms, legs, head, and neck as alms to give to living creatures, helping them to escape from the dharma sphere, creating a destination of tranquillity for the bodhisattva’s vow.” –T.V.

The second vehicle disciples have no sufficient power to command the entrance and emergence of the sphere. The bodhisattva ought to be the one, who has intuited the bodhisattva nature. He therefore could enter and emerge from the sphere easily. The living creature sphere, still sinking in its individual seed nature, is not free from sufferings and still caught in the belt of dharma sphere, that is the sea of sufferings. The bodhisattva uses all his will, his faith, to make all means of the form and formless, aiming to dissolve the sphere for living creatures who would be relieved of the dharma sphere. The bodhisattva is not polluted with joy, anger, love, and cruelty; thus he could save all living creatures without being polluted by all dharma. Because of his compassion, the bodhisattva has vowed to use his body, wisdom, arms, legs, head, and neck as alms to give to the living creatures without deficiency of anything in bodhisattva, mainly making it possible for living creatures to be tranquil. That is precisely the bodhisattva using all his energy, his mind power and his body to dissolve diligently for living creatures, helping them to achieve the entrance and emergence of the sphere, possessing the sphere... the enlightenment.

For the living creatures whose character is narrow and whose wisdom is superficial, they could not light in themselves the torch to walk by. In the Final Law Period, many disciples have come to Long Hoa and practiced the dharma with the Lord Supreme Maitreya, along with all the venerables, the patriarchs of the past. But it is quite hard for them to understand a part of it, thereupon how could living creatures be able to enter and emerge from the sphere. While full of ignorance, it is impossible to be aware of one’s own nature.

“The bodhisattva has vowed to enter and emerge from hell sphere, either accepting the sufferings of punishment or enduring the revilement, tortures on his body to allow the living creatures to dissolve their karma defilement in order to escape from the punishment. Such vowing and doing by the bodhisattva is making a destination of tranquillity for the bodhisattva’s vow.” –T.V.

In the six ways, particularly hell is the place where the bodhisattva should enter practically to endure the punishment, the suffering, the torture of his body, the revilement and all the insults in order to dissolve completely the karma consciousness, karma defilement. By doing that the bodhisattva could escape from the punishment. Having sufficiently the abundance of merits, he could help living creatures escape from hell.

During this Final Law Period, before becoming the Buddha, the Bodhisattva Maitreya Himself had to endure the torture in hell of the secret zone of Qui Nhon, Binh Dinh province for 26 months by the Vietnamese communists. His body has also been punished under all kinds of tortures in order to save his living creatures’ nature. After being relieved of the punishment from hell, He could be truly attained and able to save the human beings, the fairies, the deities and the Four Species in the three realms, six ways. Conducting such vows, the Bodhisattva could penetrate all the conducts to achieve truly. The bodhisattva has thus acquired the parallelism of theory and fact, nature and form, morality and wisdom.

“When the bodhisattva simultaneously realizes the vow and conducts the vow, the bodhisattva is never getting tired of it, passionately carrying out his vow. Why? Because the entity instinct is waiting for enlightenment, therefore, he could leave all without polluted love, offer all without polluted attachment and give all without being polluted by objective imperfection.” –T.V.

The bodhisattva realizes the vow that means the realization of all dharma, and should learn all the deeds from the bodhisattva in the practice of all dharma. He should use the seeing, hearing and knowing of all sounds such as the blare of the trumpet, the beat of the drum and recognizing every sound that he has heard, especially without leaving or taking any sphere. That is the practice of no birth and no destruction, no imperfection and no purity, no increase and no decrease.

Although facing the situation such as the dharma of happiness or unhappiness, favor or unfavor, rain or shine, the disciple would not stop or neglect the cultivation that is the practice of no birth, no destruction. Even though the earth could have been destroyed, the bodhisattva would never have been annihilated. Why? He can rely on the formless to know more profoundly than the arahant. The bodhisattva lives in the bodhisattva nature; he could even know how someone is just by a word! With wonderful application, he certainly understands someone’s degree of comprehension!

The bodhisattva conducts the vow to establish and nurture the true dharma. That is really hard, because he has to reorganize the line of the initiation of Buddha dharma that belonged to the Sakyamuni Buddha, which is wrongly practiced by human beings. Having understood one dharma that means all dharma would be similarly comprehended. Thus, acquiring one dharma leads to the acquisition of all dharma. Within the dharma school, the bodhisattva could see many groups of disciples forming the lotus flowers, by observing the group leader who is not good enough; he knows that the members of this group are also not that good. Along the same lines, if that group leader is excellent, the members of that group are also excellent and they are forming a lotus flower principle. That is the way by which Lord Supreme Maitreya has selected the true disciples at the Central for the realization of the vow and the practice.

Later, the bodhisattva has to penetrate deeply all the dharma without polluted love and attachment, he could master all the atomic elements and guide the living creatures to follow the bodhisattva to be enlightened, then the bodhisattva eventually becomes the Buddha.

“The bodhisattva has realized and conducted as such a vow, willingly making an effort to exchange, the bodhisattva acquired the dharma sphere, entirely admitted the dharma sphere which associates then becomes as the wife and children, husband and wife, male and female, undergoing millions of contrary scenes with all the falls and rises, in proportion to the severity of one's mistake and immersion, to receive the karma, the seed, the love and the death before acquiring the no-birth.” –T.V.

The Bodhisattva realizes the vow. That means the realization of the formless dharma. He does not fear the word of praise and blame nor is he concerned about disdain. He does not lose faith from the revilement of the living creatures. The Bodhisattva conducts the vow that means that the realization of the form dharma, aiming to bring about the living creatures admiration and respect within virtue conduct. Nevertheless, the bodhisattva does not rejoice over it though knowing that all dharma are originally calm and pure.

From a tiny starting-point, which is the essential key to assemble all the atomic elements, that occasionally should need an exchange, hence the bodhisattva acquires sufficiently the belt of dharma sphere, in establishing family with husband and wife, children, brotherhood and all the relatives. Every family has their own lifestyle; but after acquiring one dharma sphere, all the others will proceed in the same way. The only difference is in the characteristics such as bitterness and sweetness, good and bad. Naturally, the bodhisattva understands thoroughly and is able to find out a dharma sphere to attain the Three Thousand Great Thousand Worlds. That is the comprehension of the entire dharma sphere from just a single, small dharma. How can you understand thoroughly by practicing matter by matter? That is the initiation of the sealed mind.

“At that time, the bodhisattva takes the dharma school as his temporary happiness and the progress in the practice as his daily food. He establishes and nurtures the bodhisattva's pure land with his tolerance and generosity. The bodhisattva has to penetrate deeply into the dharma sphere, willingly dissolving it. He should consider the glory as a passing thing, not being clung to it. He is not grieved by insult and disgrace, and does not harbor resentment against it. The bodhisattva has respectfully bowed and voluntarily determined to offer all his body and life to the Tathagata, not preserving any for himself, in order to be ordained by the dharma of Tathagata in front of his head. The bodhisattva has then attained the full knowledge of all dharma spheres that is not yet of the bodhisattva thus dissolving the spheres to be ordained by the Buddhas then receiving the compatible appearance of the body of the bodhisattva.” –T.V.

In Long Hoa salvation, the Lord Supreme Maitreya has clearly recommended all his disciples, from the dharma protectors to the venerables, arahants, pratyeka conduct, sravaka conduct, to the dharma protector bodhisattva to follow the only way: The parallelism in practice of dharma and life is to be unified. Every disciple has a career of his own from the manual worker to the teacher, professor, engineer, physician, doctor... and all disciples should make it as a means to practice in seeking for enlightenment.

When someone in the dharma school of Long Hoa Association has attained the supreme enlightenment and is attested to be a bodhisattva through the verification, the Lord has then made a sealed decision for this bodhisattva simply to take the dharma school as a temporary residence for the realization and conduct of his vow. As far as this life is concerned, the lord has considered that this bodhisattva has sufficiently practiced, who should no longer earn his living by his career, but rather concentrating to realize the unique dharma school to cultivate himself and become Buddha.

For the saints, they have practiced for the dharma of life. Becoming enlightened bodhisattva, they are neither kind nor cruel, neither good nor evil, neither born nor having died. It is by such practice that they could dissolve their sphere and acquire the comprehension of the dharma sphere. The Bodhisattva in the superior level would not abandon those of the inferior. That is called the realization of the vow neither higher nor lower. Therefore, he could never attain the full enlightenment if he selectively picks and chooses, leaving or taking it.

The grain of soil, the granule of sand, which is lying at the foot of the mountain, becomes very solid and strong. Similarly, the more the disciple undergoes the rotation of all dharma, the greater his abilities are. Finally, he will acquire the truth. For those who keep on sitting to preach and study the dharma without overcoming the situations, it would be good for a conversation or discussion just for the fun of it. That is only the initiation of the seal.

In the secular world everything progressively evolves. For those who seek for liberation through wisdom, their karma would burst out and develop. You should not be discouraged, but try to be diligent. If a nature were inherited for many lifetimes, it would take that many lifetimes of practice to dissolve it. For example, with the slow character, leaving the dharma school after hearing the teaching, it gradually will become slow again. The disciple who gets the dharma sphere in such a way and is conservative, it is called the diamond constitution, it is impossible to be enlightened after acquiring a dharma even on the cost of many lifetimes of consolidation.

The disciple should not practice with praying and supplicating without resolution. However, if he detaches the ego, making a vow and following it to cultivate with the bodhisattva who is realizing the Buddha hood, by just one lifetime with the utmost determination of confidence, obedience, respect, that disciples will immediately acquire enlightenment. Once understanding thoroughly what the true dharma is, what the good dharma is, he could realize the Tathagata and meet the Buddhas for the ordination. He is then recognized to have the corresponding body of bodhisattva to appear all over the dharma sphere penetrating thoroughly that is called the travelling of the supernatural power of the samadhi.

“After having experienced thousands of conducts and thousands of vows, the bodhisattva could finally recognize that all the living creatures’ sphere from the second vehicle disciple to the fairies, deities and holy ones, they are different one from another just by their nobility and coarseness, while the karma seed in their living creatures nature remains intact.” –
T.V.

The big and coarse dharma is realizable and surmountable for the second vehicle disciples. But for the small dharma called the noble dharma, they could not overcome and recognize it. Therefore, they would not have the purity eyes. The bodhisattva who comprehends the explicit origination of the coarseness, nobility and finesse, consequently achieves the serenity nature. The character and deportment remain the same as in the past, but the form varies according to the sphere. The disciple, who does not recognize the nobility and finesse, but only sees the coarseness, should diligently cultivate with enthusiasm to have a sufficient spirit. At some time, he will remember his previous lives.

Those who sit fully cross-legged to preach the dharma are not natural, for those who preach the dharma in all situations to save living creatures according to their degrees, their karma seed, are truly the bodhisattva.

The Supreme Maitreya Buddha has cleverly preached every sickness of living creatures, whosoever has met the lord, also admired, adored and respected Him. From general observation from the outside, He appears only as a layman with His ordinary wife and children along with the same circumstances and situations as other people. In fact, those who are enthusiastic about the dharma and follow him even with the lowest result will receive the blessed reward from devas and men.

Already being a living creature, the karma seed is still intact, whenever you make up your mind to correct your natures, after practicing for a while, you will understand thoroughly all dharma. Whatever you do is always correct and precise that is the awareness. Otherwise, you are not sure if whatever you do is right or wrong, you always make mistakes. That belongs to the coarse dharma that is the stupidity.

Knowing that all dharma are insubstantial, practicing with a one-pointed mind and a sincere heart, one day you will find the truth. 

 

LORD SUPREME MAITREYA WITH LONG HOA

INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I: LORD SUPREME MAITREYA’S PAST INCARNATIONS
CHAPTER II: I CAME FROM THE TUSITA HEAVEN

CHAPTER IV: TRANMISSION OF THE PRECIOUS DHARMA
CHAPTER V: A NATION OF PEACE AND DELIGHT
CHAPTER VI: THE VENERABLE OFFERINGS
CHAPTER VII: THE ATTESTATION OF THE BUDDHA KING