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.