CHAPTER IV: TRANSMISSION OF THE PRECIOUS DHARMA

C. DOCTRINE

7. The Seal-Indication III of The Lord’s Teaching: The Assimilation with Human Beings, The Salvation Dharma in The Eastern Salvation Period

7.1 Under the Divergence of Judgment

7.2 Why has the Oracle Scriptures come into being? The Like-the-Truth Judgement

7.2 Why has the Oracle Scriptures come into being? The Like-the-Truth Judgement

When the Oracle Scripture originates, mainly from the sincere heart’s expression, the sincere mind naturally gives rise to thousands of Dharmas of suchness. Those thousands of Dharmas are originally from the mind, and once produced the Buddha soon attests them. This attesting Buddha is the Buddha of Dharmas, not the Buddha of the Buddha’s Intelligence – One Essence – True Enlightenment. —T. V.

The Oracle Scripture is usually expressed in the form of poems and verses, due to the practice by fixed thoughts of the Fairy-Deity’s intelligence. Despite the sincere heart of Dharma practice, the fixed thought still is the mind generating thousands of Dharmas. The appearing Buddha hereby is the Buddha of Dharmas attesting, not the Intuitive Buddha of the True Enlightenment attesting. The fixed thought belongs to the dualism and the intuition belongs to the One Essence. Living beings thus are often mistaken and wrongly attached.

C. DOCTRINE

As for the Oracle Scriptures and the sincerity of the witness: when there is a believer having faith in the scriptures’ Dharma, this believer immediately corresponds to the suchness of the masses, and thus the apparition is generated and manifested like the truth to the sincere believer, but it is not yet true to the insincere one. Therefrom, there is a saying: “Supernatural efficacy or inefficacy that depends upon yourself.” The scenery and the sentiment are co-response; the progressing scenes are matching with the sincere witness, yet it is not matched with the insincere one. Those are the sincere words about the like-the-truth judgement of the Oracle Scriptures. Such a remark matches the spirit of the Oracle Scripture but does not match the Buddha intelligence. The Buddha intelligence, according to the Buddha’s transmitting precious words, is the non-duality, so its recognitions are as follows:

Living beings are often touched by scenery, giving rise to their sentiments, just like where there is a cause, there must be effect. There is no effect without cause. Therefore, the faith brings about the supernatural efficacy, while the faithlessness does not. Those who have no faith are indifferent and the Dharma nature thus did not appear to them, making it inefficacious.

Tao practitioners, who practice the correction according to the realistic truth, the path of intuition, belong to Buddhist Intelligence. When seeing the scene of the Lord’s family, with chaos caused by His wife and children, these practitioners immediately controlled their rebellious character, later resolved their flowering Dharma natures, and thus becoming sensible, understanding thoroughly. They could clearly see the false judgment about waiting for Long-Hoa of those who practiced with fixed thoughts, that have become the eternally mistaken.

In the means of judgement about the Thất Sơn mountains: The Founding Master appeared in India, whereas Thất Sơn is situated in Cambodia and Châu Đốc, Vietnam, so the Buddha did not make it as the attested transmission, and it would therefore be difficultly disscussed. However, LONG-HOA—THE COMPLETE SALVATION, the Nagarjuna tree, and Lord Maitreya are homogeneous and naturally, in relation with the appearance. The appearance in some place or nation should be judged from it. On the contrary, in the case of Thất Sơn, the scene itself must manifest around Lord Maitreya, called the “Fire-Outburst One Scene.” That means favorable or unfavorable circumstances, before or after, above or below, inside or outside, these are all the Dharmas of Salvation in the Eastern Salvation Period. The Lord has assumed the responsibility of saving the living beings as well as the Four Species, so He is called the Supreme Buddha of Great Power. —T. V.

The Salvation Dharma in the Eastern Salvation Period: The Period of Return and Dharma-Ending Age is the period of equal salvation. All Tao practitioners and living beings are all saved. Why so? It’s because all Dharmas have been proceeding in their extremity, the practitioners and non-practitioners are all affected by the circumstances beyond endurance, that caused the living being natures to manifest all toxicity without omission.

At the utmost, realizing one’s extreme toxicity, one is frightened and repent towards the good will because there is the Supreme Venerable Maitreya, who has secretly managed the Tathagata Constitution moving. The Tao practitioners and non-practitioners are all discreetly saved completely, that is called the Period of Eastern Salvation of Appearing Enlightenment. And the Four Species are also saved according to the Proclamation Attesting the Universe as mentioned in the previous chapter. Therefore, the Lord is named the GREAT POWER SUPREME MAITREYA BUDDHA.

There are two cases of the Fire-Outburst One Scene: The Salvation Dharma from the Lord is renouncing the family, or the Complete Salvation from the Lord is taking on the characteristics of a layman. Although they are different, the two above cases have the same manifestation: By renunciation of family, the Lord would have six monks and a lady-owner of the temple. As the layman, the Lord still has six children, a wife as well, and the same Four Followers. —T. V.

If the Great Power Supreme Maitreya Buddha appeared from the explosion of the Thất Sơn mountains without being born by His parents, the form of opening Long-Hoa by any means would be unnatural. Therefore, the Lord could only appear in reality in these two cases:

The six monks or six children represent the Six Taos. Each monk, or each child, has their own character. Being different from each other in their manner and their actions, for that reason they are called the Six Taos. Whenever gathering, they discuss about the Lord’s manner of walking, standing, laying, sitting, and sometimes they go to see the lady owner of the temple or the mother to tell of it. The Lord really knows all of that and He often says, “these six people are the Six Taos in manifestation, do not mind anything about them.” —T. V.

The Lord appeared as a layman, His six children did not understand the miraculous utilization of their father, so they all reacted differently according to their character through the manifestation of the Six Taos.

A very few true Buddhist disciples still continued to come to the Lord calmly. With all His chaotic family scenes, the disciples still following the Lord, the neighbors laughed at these disciples and looked at them scornfully. At the same time, the family members of these Buddhist disciples rigorously forbid them from continuing the practice. Besides, the Lord’s son attacked these disciples, not allowing them to visit Him; one of the Lord’s daughters informed the police to arrest any disciples who still frequented to see the Lord. In fact, these Tao practitioners were very resolute, in spite of seeing and hearing the unrighteous events, they were still faithful, eluding and secretly grasping any opportunities to meet the Lord as usual.

The Lord said that: it is the Dharma of no-hesitance and fearlessness; must execute without attaching to the manifestation of the Taos by His children. A very few remaining disciples still believed in the Lord, but they returned only occasionally to see Him. A majority of 3000 disciples left without giving news.

Later, when the chaos was over, a great number of new disciples also failed because they were told about unrestful Dharmas, which was too strange and unacceptable for them. The remaining others have still preserved their faith. At the end of the Lord’s life, there remained about 100 true disciples who only heard, but did not have a chance to witness the scenes of tantrum.

At that time, living in the re-education camp, I still was adequately informed about the Dharma situation, but with courage and will, I still received the True Dharma and resolved my living being natures. When I was discharged from the re-education camp, I still continued to cultivate and remained close to the Lord as I used to be.

Because of the difference between human intelligence and Buddha intelligence, between the manners of practice of the Two-Levels (Dviyana) rank and the One Principle, the more they are admonished, the more the six monks and the lady owner of the temple become unified in their action. The wife and six children were in one side and persistently criticized and blamed the Lord in every way, in everything. In hearing that the Lord is a Buddha, their incredulity increased and enhanced all kinds of manifestations. The Lord could say nothing, because the divergence of judgement generated the criticism and the unpleasant things. As for the faithful disciples, some could have the right judgement, but others were still confused, not clear about the Lord’s Miraculous Utilization in the Period of [His] Return and Complete Salvation. So that the Lord wrote a poem, emphasizing that He had two important responsibilities: The first is THE REORGANIZATION OF THE BUDDHA PATH and the second is THE COMPLETE SALVATION IN THIS RETURN. —T. V.

The Lord’s six children of human intelligence and Tao practitioners of the Two-Levels (Dviyana) had a different judgement from that of the Buddha intelligence. Therefore, His children and His wife disbelieved the Lord is a Buddha; they also intended to prevent His Miraculous Utilization in every way, intensely increasing in time, causing an explosion that was heard and known by everybody in the city of Nha Trang. For the Lord’s True Buddhist disciples of the Two-Levels (Dviyana) rank, they were so frightened that most of them fled and gave up the Dharma practice.

Among them there were more than 10 Venerables, who have been accustomed to practicing by renouncing the family through many previous lifetimes, could not endure the formless and retreated into their private homes. The Dharma Protectors’ rank also failed in great numbers. That was the time of [His] Return and Dharma-Ending Age when the Lord appeared to completely save living beings, making them recognize the wrong and fictitious practice of the Two-Levels (Dviyana) and return to the practice of the Intuition with results of boundlessness, entering the ocean.

Besides the internal evolution, the outside in the time of Return and Lost-Life is too hard for everything. Every family with its chaos, or a temple with their problems, being unpeaceful, is immediately subjected to move by the communist government into the wild areas. For that reason, the Lord and the Four Followers patiently kept silent, relying only on the resolution of the Great Power. The Lord has known it well, but never spoken out. —T. V.

Since 1975, historical events in South Vietnam began to unsettle. The Lord immediately intuitively saw the need to open Long-Hoa to the stage of high dignity. The Lord opened unrestful Dharmas into existence in correspondence with the Tathagata Constitution, which was intensively moving according to the Suchness Dharma.

Only the sensible Tao practitioner having the Tathagata Constitution’s Eyes could see and know it. It’s so rare to find such a true Buddhist disciple who could see and know. As for the Lord, He still silently opened Dharmas, intentionally creating the fiery chaos. The majority of the Lord’s disciples became astonished and bewildered in presence of chaotic scenes in the secular world as well as in the Tao. At that time, every disturbance or disorder in the family or in the temple was reported by the group of vigilant neighbors, immediately the ward authority would force the involved parties to go to the new economic zones, facing the hardship and death in front of them. Everybody was obviously frightened and preserved themselves and their family.

The Lord, on the contrary, did not hide but showed everybody to see and know the unrestful Dharmas—He had a concubine—so that His wife and children manifested all scenes of Asura, Animals, Hunger Ghost, and Hell to rebel against their father and husband. Many times in dead end and having no-means for resolution, the Lord had to rely on His effortful and virtuous merits accumulated through incalculable lifetimes, called the Great Power to render peace and safety. Only the true Buddhist disciples with deep sentiment or higher those with awakened sentiment could have sympathy and protect for each other so as overcoming in each hour, each day, not to be forced to the ‘new economic zones’ or to the ‘labor camps’ by the government.

Facing such the Dharma happening, a number of unlisted Venerables and Dharma Protectors in the previous section were so afraid that they fled, being scared to bear the brunt of another’s deed and abandoning the Lord with His alone resistance.

Here is what the Lord Himself taught and I heard these words: 

Later, when Long-Hoa True Dharma comes into the world, many of My true disciples who ran away before, will braggingly speak up and show off themselves to be the disciples of the Maitreya Buddha. They will eloquently exaggerate yet excellently preach the Dharma, but that Dharma is the passive enlightenment. You should inform the human beings not to be mistaken by those who only speak well on the theory without act, not conducting their vows. —T. V.

The Four Followers frequently came and got close to the Lord. Sometimes, the Lord just quietly sat; some other times, He resolved unconscious attachments. The Lord taught without any omission, just because their Buddhist intelligence and level were insufficient to receive them all. The Lord considered the Four Followers as His own children. He often said:  I am happy when you are receiving the precious Dharma, I am glad when you are resolving erroneous passions, so these verses were written…

… The good, true disciples are my consolation.

We are now warmed by this Dharma Constitution,

Provided that under one roof of temple,

Everyone joyful of restored enlightenment is what I long for. —T. V.

With all the proceeding chaos in the Lord’s family, any true Buddhist disciple determinedly following the Lord in the practice for liberation through knowing-seeing-solving was meticulously taught without any omission. However, the true disciples were not of the same degree of clearly receiving Dharmas, so they were divided into many classes of unequal knowledge. A number of faithful true Buddhist disciples, who were in constant advance, overcoming uncountable suffering and hardship, were guided to resolve erroneous passions in order to perceive the Tao; some of them were enlightened, and others were fully enlightened.

At last, only the true good disciples were the Lord’s source of joy, because some of them already attained enlightenment to full enlightenment. Listening to the Lord’s words and reading His sentimental poems, it could be seen that the Four Followers have loved and respected Him indescribably.

One day, the Lord is sitting at ease.

The disciples are offering tea and He is composing a poem.

They are patiently waiting,

The Lord then joyfully smiles and silently gives His poem.

What we would like to say

The Lord readily responded by the poem resoundingly.

“The Six Taos, six names of His children

Plus the wife, all formed the explosion of Thất Sơn.”

At that time, the Four Followers stand up,

Loudly reciting the Six Taos, six names in the poem:

“KHÁNH, the end of Human beings occurred without a word,

TƯỜNG, without comprehending the tantrum arose.

ÂN, usually full of tears, tatteredly shed.

OANH, the Oriole was glidering over the sea and all over,

XOA, alleviating the situation in a sweet afternoon,

THU MINH, the Brilliant King was reigning peacefully over all,

HIẾN, the offering to the Three Postures was attested by the Fairy-Deity,

Presenting the KIM LÊ fruit, the Dharma Treasure Altar.” 

“KHÁNH, the end of Human Beings occurred without a word,”:

Khánh, the Lord’s first daughter was mute since her childhood, growing up with an aimless lifetime, hiding from her parents and becoming inadvisable. Miss Khánh symbolizes for the Hell’s door.

“TƯỜNG, without comprehending the tantrum arose.”:

The Lord’s second son named Tường, who neither knew the works of his father nor understood the Miraculous Utilization of the Buddha, who Himself is his father. He created a lot of suffering for his father and the Four Followers. He belongs to the animal Dharma, which usually cause disturbance.

“ÂN, usually full of tears, tatteredly shed.”:

The third son named Ân, seeing the chaotic scene of his family, often got angry, cried, shouted, and broke things. He represents the Asura.

“OANH, the Oriole was glidering over the sea and all over,”:

The fourth daughter in the family named Oanh (Oriole ) who usually went here and there or visited the relatives to complain about her family situation, belonging to the Hunger Ghost.

“XOA, alleviating the situation in sweet afternoon.”:

The fifth daughter, named Xoa (Alleviating) often consoled her mother. She belongs to the humanity Dharma.

“THU MINH, the Brilliant King was reigning peacefully over all,”:

Thu Minh (Bright Autumn) is the Lord’s youngest daughter in the family who belongs to the Divine precept.  After opening the Long-Hoa noise explosion, in the Dharma practice of the Four Followers, some successfully achieved the result. The Lord’s six children symbolized the Six Taos. To the secular world, the Lord miraculously utilized Dharmas, helping humankind to avoid the third World War that threatened destruction caused by the two blocs, the liberalism and the communism.

Though the Lord was not a king, His secluded life was not different to a Brilliant King of the world. For the Tao aspect, the Lord has completely accomplished the True Fruit of Buddha. With both Tao and life are perfect and unified, the Lord has richly deserved to be the successor of the Buddha attaining the title of the World’s Most Venerable.

“HIẾN, the offering to the Three Postures was attested by the Fairy-Deity,”:

Hiến (Offering) was His wife's name. Her works protecting Dharma in the family, making the Lord healthy, was the offering to the Three Postures attested by the Fairy-Deity. At the end of her life, she would be reborn to that precept scene and enjoy the happiness.

“Presenting the KIM LÊ fruit (the GOLDEN PEAR), the Dharma Treasure Altar.”:

In Long-Hoa Superior Association, the Tao result is bringing to True Enlightenment, that precisely is the Dharma Treasure Altar.

After reciting the poem, the Four Followers simultaneously bowed to the Lord and left. As I remember, the Lord often manifested Himself from one nature to another in always saying that is the Miraculous Utilization of Buddha nature. My doubt was increasing day after day because I diligently practiced in believing that the destruction of ignorance would show the Buddha nature. For me, the Buddha nature was a perfectly good and favorable nature, so I felt very uneasy at contrary natures. One day I came to bow to the Lord and expose what I have not yet understood, He smiled and said:

Listen to me, it is beneficial in this life and the future ones to recognize correctly what the BUDDHA NATURE is.

The BUDDHA NATURE is generally embracing all the natures, including all living beings’ natures—which are being held and attached—without discrimination of the good and the evil, the tranquil and the unrestful, called the One Essence – Buddha Nature. Recognizing the Buddha nature is incredible. One must practice correction and letting go in a practical way and apply it to real life to be able to recognize the Truth. Reading and studying the sutra without conducting one’s vow, clinging to the theory, is not true Buddha nature.

The Buddha nature does not differ much from the constitutional treasure, which contains all the precious gems with their various colors, shapes and all the illumination of black, white, yellow, red … Since the Constitution is thrown into the sky, spreading out the whole Tathagata. The unknown one picks up one or two gems at one’s will and believes them to be the precious gems; all the others are not. The one with such recognition belongs to living being natures, while those who absorb millions of natures, countless natures, are those of the Unsurpassable Supreme Rank Nature – True Enlightenment – Buddha Intelligence. Why? All of them are precious gems without difference. A nature inherently is a suchness nature produced in each series, each stage, becoming the inherent nature of suchness; nothing is particular and how come you have to discriminate between one nature and another.

I am so delighted to hear that; I prostrated and praised the Lord who has given me Precious Gems endlessly.

Many Tao practitioners, who acquired the truth and hastily claimed to be a Buddha, are caught in the Precept-Buddha. Let practice in the reality by following the Lord’s footprints that have just left, in accompaniment and collaboration with the Mahasattva-Bodhisattva, in order to hope for entering the right path of the One Principle.

At that time, the Lord looked at me and said:

I am coming in the Period of Return to completely relieve the erroneous passion of living beings, leading them to return to the Buddha nature – True Enlightenment. Those, who listen to and believe in Me, looking at Me by this manner or that manner, readily get the liberation through knowing, seeing, and solving. Otherwise, by continuously looking at Me, continuously attaching to the doubt, then until the next 350 years, I shall appear to attest the complete salvation. After saying that, the Lord passed down these verses:

When the Earth is divided into two parts,

In front of the two rows of Divine Precepts, I’m sitting and attesting. —T. V.

The ordination of Lord Maitreya’s rebirth in the 350 years later:

The first stage of examination of Long-Hoa was over. For Tao practitioners, who have ascended and left their self, could certainly meet Long-Hoa in Vietnam, which is being transformed to completely help living beings to enter the Tathagata Constitution in order to recognize the path of complete liberation through knowing, seeing, and solving. If Tao practitioners were indecisive and hesitant, unable to perceive through hearing the teaching, the Lord would reappear 350 years later to attest the deeds of the Bodhisattva and Venerables through their complete salvation of living beings. Having attained the Supreme Bodhi fruit like the Buddhas of Ten Directions, the Lord would not teach meticulously and repeatedly from the beginning.

In 1993, the Lord already entered the Eight Masses of Nirvana. The Lord attested that 350 years later, the Bodhisattva and Patriarchs would execute the Tao Dharma, rendering considerable benefits and practical salvation to living beings. The majority of human beings in this earth would practice the Dharma by taking on the characteristics of layperson and basing on True Nature.

At that time, Tao practitioners of renouncing the family can see the Tao source of the Buddhas handed down to us is now divided into two forms, both of them are bringing the same practical benefits for Tao practitioners with either the traditional form (the renunciation of family) or the non-traditional form (laypeople). In that meantime, the Lord is the Prince appearing in another constitutional-monarchical country at the age of 17; there are two rows of maradin courtiers, including  the Prime Minister, the ministers, the generals, the general directors and the province chiefs, who are called the Divine Precepts, who are solemnly sitting under His power. The Lord will attest the Bodhisattvas and the Patriarchs, who have fulfilled the teaching of the practical truth to living beings impartially.

The Lord’s attestation is mainly for entering the fruit of the attainment of the universe. Therefore, the Patriarchs according to their diligent practicing Dharma and conducting vows will correspondingly receive their fruit of attainment. Afterwards, Tao practitioners renouncing their family, who are still lost the Dharma, will know by themselves that they must return to the practical truth of the Supreme Venerable Maitreya.

These courtiers in that meantime will not be the strange ones; they are the Bodhisattvas, the Patriarchs, the Dharma Protectors themselves who are reborn as laypeople of the Divine Precept level so that they could meet the Lord once again when He returns to this world. At that time, those courtiers are very well educated such as scientists, specialists, doctors, professors, engineers… After attestation, the Lord immediately announces His entering the Eight Masses of Nirvana without staying for any enjoyment in this secular world.

I was recalling all the scenes displayed before the Lord, the erroneous passions of the Four Followers, including myself, which cause the Lord to give uncountable solving words and undergo countless endurance, only because of the karma seeds of living being natures. I wondered, returning home with a vague heart.

Near the time to enter the Eight Masses of Nirvana, the Lord taught again:

Perhaps, I will return to the world.  At the age of 17, recalling previous lifetime, I will stay for 8 to 10 more years to come to life for the complete salvation once again—if seeing the living beings on this globe are threatened under entire annihilation. Coming into being to which nation, which place, that the Great Bodhisattva was already taught by the Lord.

SUPERIOR ASSOCIATION, the 20th day of the 4th month of the lunar year (06-06-1992.)

ATTESTEDLY TRANSMITTING

—TỊNH VƯƠNG NHẤT TÔN

 

The Lord carefully reminded the Patriarchs and the ranks of Venerables, Arahants, and Dharma Protectors that they should practice the Gentle Saints’ conduct. If any of them wrongly followed the formless by themselves that is the unrestful Dharmas, they must be guided by the Bodhisattva, who are executing the Mahasattva, in order to be free from the belt of Dharma precepts. Otherwise, they would fall into the three paths of evil that is extremely dangerous in the incalculable lifetimes.

In the future, if the Patriarchs, the Venerables, the Arahants, and the Dharma Protectors are conducting their vows, but without meeting the Bodhisattva executing the Mahasatva, they must be careful, should not exaggerate, and term themselves a Buddha or Bodhisattva. By doing so, they would become supremely arrogant, falsely claiming the Buddha form, as well losing the preserved precious Dharma, which has been long cultivated.

Tao practitioners should not claim to be a Buddha or Bodhisattva disorderly as in the Dharma Ending-Age as the Lord witnessed. One must have sufficient effortful and virtuous deeds; and one also must wait until meeting the Bodhisattva-executing-Mahasattva to be attested by Him, in order for them to communicate with the Buddha power and formally become a Bodhisattva.

As a Buddha-King, the Lord not only reorganized and rectified the way of practicing the Dharma to hand down to the posterity as well as to the Three Thousand Great Thousand Worlds, but He also restored the orders and stabilized for the sake of living beings on this earth.

For the Patriarchs who have just acquired the truth: Carefully consider whether you could transport the Samadhi, making the peace and safety for the Four Species? If not, do neither term yourself a Buddha nor a Bodhisattva. Be careful! Preserve the fruit of the Gentle Saint to be protected by the Devas, Human Deities, Land Deities, Supreme Rank True Deities, and the Four Teams of Deities to construct the True Dharma.