Introduction
"To praise The Founding Master Shakyamuni Buddha’s words more than 2500 years ago, the Lord (Maitreya) preached exactly with truths and realities. After finishing reading, monks and nuns, Buddhist followers, sociologists, learned people, and invented scientists: Please form a delegation to visit Southern Vietnam to examine and verify this. You will see that night suddenly becomes day in this miraculous and mysterious world in which we live.
It is very practical and neither illusory nor vague. You will find a new source of life that is tranquilly joyful and full of happiness, not only for the present lifetime, but also for the future ones. If there is no path of reincarnation, why can many Tao practitioners remember who they were, what they did, and where they lived in their former lives? They then also write these down clearly. Sacred People and Meditation Masters who remembered their past lives documented them, and scientists today also heard and saw many documents that were left with demonstrations.
Scientists experiment and examine external objects, but the Eastern Meditation Masters re-examine and discover truths within themselves to know the Universe."
—Mahasattva-Bodhisattva Di Như
—LORD MAITREYA AND LONG-HOA
The Master–Disciple Relationship
LORD SUPREME MAITREYA BUDDHA (in front)
incarnating Himself as Reverend Tịnh Vương Nhất Tôn,
the Dharma Constitution Vietnamese Buddhism
Long-Hoa Sangha Chief (1918–1993),
AND
MAHASATTVA-BODHISATTVA DI NHƯ (behind)
the First Inherited Patriarch of Dharma Constitution
Vietnamese Buddhism (1938–2019).
Early one morning in September 2018, I was sitting in a small quiet room in Little Saigon, Southern California, when I had the honor of receiving a phone call from Master Di Như. Besides telling stories that incorporated teaching and advice for me, the Master said in an intimate voice, “I have come to the U.S. only for the mission of transmitting the true Dharma of Lord Supreme Maitreya Buddha to the Western people.”
Meditation Master Mahasattva-Bodhisattva
Di Như,
the First Inherited Patriarch of the
Dharma Constitution Vietnamese Buddhism,
1938–2019.
Following in the footprints of the Master, I, Tâm Nguyệt, a true disciple of Mahasattva-Bodhisattva Di Như, respectfully introduce to English readers the sutras: the teachings of Lord Maitreya Buddha and Bodhisattva Di Như, the First Inherited Patriarch. My English is limited, but my heart, the heart of a Dharma protector and a messenger to you, is unlimited, as I bring a message from Lord Maitreya, who came to our world in Vietnam from 1918 to 1993. The Lord has promulgated the Proclamation Attesting the Universe, attesting to the Dharma-Ending Age, the Degenerate-Life Period, and transporting it into the True Dharma, the Superior-Life Period.
Following in the footprints of the Master,
USA, November 2022.