CHAPTER IV: TRANSMISSION OF THE PRECIOUS DHARMA
D. SITTING MEDITATION
LORD MAITREYA AND LONG HOA
CHAPTER I: Bodhisattva Maitreya's Past Incarnations
CHAPTER II: Where Did I Come From?
CHAPTER III: Appearance as A Layman
CHAPTER IV: Transmission of The Precious Dharma
A. DHARMA PRACTICE IN CONFORMITY WITH THE SUPREME PRINCIPLE OF THE BUDDHAS
B. VIRTUE: Joyful Detachment Is Virtue
C. DOCTRINE
CHAPTER V: A Nation of Peace and Delight
Constructing the Buddha Land – the Adi Forest
In 1972, I found a mountainous area in Phú Hữu hamlet of Vĩnh Ích village, Ninh Hòa district of Khánh Hòa province. After presenting the place to the Lord, He went to see it and was very pleased. I applied for permission to build a Meditation Monastery to the Vĩnh Ích village’s local government and was approved. This local permission was then transferred to the Land Administration of Khánh Hòa province, which was also approved; measurements were taken and a construction permit for the Meditation Monastery was granted. That same year, the Lord ordered the build of a small house with wooden walls made of forest trees and a thatched roof on the mountainside. Local people used to call this region the Dharma Constitution’s field. Every Sunday morning, the Lord usually went to visit that place, took repose and preached the Dharma as well as transmited Meditation there. The Lord held the Great Ceremony to name Adi Forest Meditation Monastery.
The Reverend Lord Teaching the Tao Dharma in Adi Garden
In 1975, the Vietnamese political situation fully reversed. The Lord’s wife and two true-Buddhist- disciples farmed there. In 1979, the communist authorities levied the agricultural taxes by recall. The mountainous land was only suitable for growing potato and corn, not enough to feed the whole family; no other crops were possible to grow there. The Lord had insufficient money to pay the taxes and knew well the authorities’ intention, the Lord, therefore, wrote a letter to offer the government the land. According to the local authorities, the land would be distributed equally to all people for cultivating, but in reality, the Dharma Constitution’s mountainous land was divided only among three men: the village secretary, the village president and the chief of the village police, who have possessed the land from that time until now.
One day, at the Central Superior Association at the number 42 of the Hồng Bàng Street, Nha Trang, the Lord taught and I heard Him say these words:
“Later, having faithful disciples you should establish a Meditation Monastery with the organization that allows renunciation of families for 3 months, or 6 months depending on the practitioners’ wishes. From Saturday evening to Sunday evening every week, the disciples are allowed to go home to spend time with their families. On Sunday nights, they are present at the Meditation Monastery to continue learning the Dharma doctrine, practicing meditation, and reviewing virtue. Finishing a course, the true Buddhist disciples returning to their families will know how to practically practice the Tathagata Dharmas right at home.”
“You remember not to let them leave their families and stay forever in the Meditation Monastery. Why? In this era of modern science, they must get in touch with society, with the family to penetrate into joy and sorrow, happiness unhappiness, gain and loss, possession and nothingness. Whether at work or at home, when being able to realize, penetrating thousands of Dharmas, people become calmer, smarter, and handle public and family matters more appropriately both emotionally and rationally. A person, who is conscious of correcting their natures, has no more bad habits, hot-temper, dispute, quarrel... Owing to meditation, a practitioner gains insight. Without meditation, it will be very difficult to prevent the breakout of bad habits, cruel characters. An unpeaceful person settles everything with less clairvoyance than the one who is calmer, having no more hot-temper, anxiety, sorrow...”
Meditation Master
Mahasattva-Bodhisattva Di Như,
The First Inherited Patriarch of the
Dharma Constitution Vietnamese Buddhism,
1938–2019.
The Meditation Supreme Sect: A Good-Intelligent-Awakened One must know how to guide each meditation practitioner in accordance with their own mind consciousness; the practice of meditation does not require a good literacy from practitioners because the meditation subject has no writing. A Meditation Master must be the one who clearly understands the movement of the mind consciousness, so the Master can choose the appropriate way to teach meditation according to each true Buddhist disciple. Meditation, penetrating deeply into instinct and potential, presides over the universal illumination as the path to enlightenment to intuit thousands Dharmas idealistically: The Universe and the body-mind are inherently only one essence, not two.