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| The Lord Maitreya is preaching |
In about 1980, one day at number 42 of Hong Bang
Street, Nha Trang, there was a true female disciple who came from afar to visit
the Lord Pure King. After prostrating herself before the Lord and inquiring His
health, then she said:
– "From 1975 until now, I have heard the rumor two or three
times, but recently, one of my relatives from North Vietnam came to see me and
tell the story. I could not believe what I heard and thought that since the
people in the North had such a miserable life and hated the communists, they
might have fabricated the story. For the first time, I traveled by coach to
visit some of my relatives in the North. When the coach passed through the
territory of Ha-Nam-Ninh province, I could see these big words written on the wall:
“You,
God step aside. The Farmers Association is standing up to replace You.”
I then believed their stories to be true. I also
heard that in the temple of the North, Buddha statues were damaged and thrown
into a corner. The communists used copper statues to cast weapons and
ammunition."
I was present when she was talking. He kept silent, not mentioning
these stories and told her to practice through correcting one's nature in this
period. When she bowed to Him and left, I saw Him stand to settle His robe and
solemnly burn 7 sandalwood incenses on the altar of the Three Dharma Elements.
The 7 incenses represented the 7 precious super matchless powers of The Buddhas
of Ten directions.
He attested for the Dharma-Ending Age, and the
extremely unruly things of mankind qualified as the doomsday. Living creatures
used their two hands and their intelligence to build their work, not believing
in the Buddha, so there was no efficaciousness for those who were right. As
they challenge Buddhas, devas and deities, they still joyfully detached. Just
like growing an orange tree and taking care of it, we shall harvest a sweet
fruit. Growing a pepper and taking care of it, we shall harvest a bitter
pigment, yet we can't blame it on anyone. Why?
Once the act, speech, or thought of living creatures
is passed, everyone believes it will be lost or forgotten. But it does not
disappear for the high level Buddhist meditator. It conserves the act, speech,
and thought of every living creature in every case of the Tathagata store, and
naturally gives it back to you at the right time. Recently, scientists
discovered that human speech and acts were not lost, but they ran around in the
space of the universe.
Years later, the Hanoi press could not dissimulate the
truth, and occasionally announced that North Vietnam had to continuously cope
with natural disasters. Torrential rains, described as the cruelest ones of the
century had ravaged more terribly than ever in the history of development and
existence of the Vietnamese people. The aftermath of these disasters resulted
in serious material losses for the North. Especially, the people suffered grave
spiritual injuries, which made them very anxious and frightened.
Sometimes the press lamented: Nature did not favor
us. We must be on guard to prevent and to struggle against storms. In the eyes
of the Buddhist meditator, they can only prevent, and cannot struggle against
storms. , One beautiful morning, ten years later (in 1989), He told me: “Today
people believe in the Buddha, and return to the temples in large numbers.”
Living creatures’ nature became more and more cruel
and polluted and could no longer absorb the creative energy, which is the
necessary living matter in the universe. Man’s longevity had been reduced. Left
alone, the bad character increases while man’s longevity decreases gradually at
the rate of 10 years a lifetime. This is very dangerous; so the Buddhas had to
help them discreetly leave pollution. With better natures, mankind can absorb
more creative energy and his longevity increases again.
The Enlightened One,
who masters his way of birth and death, and becomes Immortal, is the way of the
Supreme Buddhayana. He has neither hatred nor love, and is neither good nor
evil. He often skillfully acts to bring, at most, the goodness to living
creatures. Saints and the sages, at the awakened level, are only pupils, unable
to realize salvation. Therefore, they could not understand the salvation of
living creatures by the Buddhas and Tathagata.
• The moans become hatred, exhaling into the blue
sky, and Lord Supreme Maitreya started salvation
Any Vietnamese citizen, accustomed to the
traditional city life, will be frightened to hear that they would have to leave
their native land and go to a dark mountain with unhealthy climate! Everyone
hearing the new economic policy of the North applied to the people of the
South, would be scared of it. Indeed, the economic situation and the life of
South Vietnam were stable before 1975. A few years after the invasion of the
North, communists, with their proletariat policy of the USSR, had rapidly
degenerated and exhausted South Vietnam. There was a strange dreariness and
sadness everywhere, from the family to the society.
The people were forced to go to new economic zones,
where the forest had not yet been cleared, the road was not yet opened, or was
built with clay, which made the displacement very difficult and limited means
of traveling. The climate, and water, was unfavorable, and every family coming
to a new economic zone had its members die from malaria. The dangerous diseases
became incurable in underdeveloped countries like Vietnam because of the lack
of medicine. Traditional remedies did not treat them efficiently. Almost
everyone infected with this disease in new economic zones was bound to die.
According to the classification of communist
authorities, the following categories were useless to them: Families in which
members were soldiers or civil servants of the former regime, families of large
or small trading activities, the numerous farms in the south, and families belonging
to the middle-class. All these categories had to go to new economic zones under
coercive orders.
The communist government, at that time, planned to
bring the Northern cadres’ families to fill the vacant houses in the South in
order to build big industrial cities after the USSR trajectory. After one or
two years living in the new economic zone, the hell on earth, they returned to
the cities. The communist officials took their homes away, so they had to live,
wandering the sidewalks of all the cities in the South.
He was touched by the lamentations of the people.
Among them were those who had the capability to cross the sea. The others,
without resource, were freed to go to new economic zones. In the common
psychology of that time, being forced to go to new economic zones was a great
misfortune. They would rather die crossing the sea than accept going to new
economic zones, which they consider to be the last resort. Those who did not
succeed, and were caught in the net, had their house and property confiscated
and forced to go to new economic zones.
Again,
one day, a family of true disciples of the Phap Tang, having followed Him
before 1975, ran to ask for help. They respectfully told Him that the police
and local guerilla abolished the hamlet at Tan Trang Street on the side of the
Dam Market, Nha Trang. Almost 100 families were compulsorily carried by cars to
new economic zones. Tomorrow, the police will demolish His true disciple's
house. He then sat half cross-legged, in the position of right meditation in
His residence at the number of 42 Hong Bang Street, Nha Trang.
The next morning, the police and local guerillas
came again and prepared to continue the demolition of the houses. Suddenly, Mr.
Le Duan, the first leader of the Vietnamese Communist Party, came from Hanoi to
visit the city of Nha Trang. As he passed by Dam market, he saw the furniture
in disorder and the people sitting, weeping. Mr. Le Duan asked them what the
reason was. After hearing what they reported, he turned to blame the provincial
commissioner:
“Your way of working is very strange! The houses are
not yet built; nothing is prepared, and you are sending them to go there to
die?” And he said: “Please stop sending people to new economic zones in this
way.”
The
people then shouted with joy and excitement. They ran to rebuild their houses
and were free from going to new economic zones. His disciple's house was safe,
too. After this overturn of events, He followed to see whether the authorities
would change their plan, but Southerners continued to go to new economic zones
afterwards. He then entered meditation to ask the devas to save the Southern
people, and then relaxed from meditation.
In the year 1977, the whole country of Vietnam
suffered from drought. The crops were greatly damaged by lack of water, but
whenever there was sufficient water, they were also gravely damaged by insect.
The foods reserves were almost empty, too. The drought lasted until 1978 and
people in the whole country were starving. People of new economic zones had to eat
the bulbs of bananas to live day after day, and when the bulbs ran out, they
had to eat tree leaves Desperately starving, they ran into government offices
in new economic zones to ask the cadres to give them some rice to live for the
time, but they had no more rice, corn, or potatoes.
The Communist partisans, then, could no longer
govern and control the people. All of them abandoned the new economic zones and
flocked back to the cities, living densely on the sidewalks and wandering in
their tattered aspect and dress. Every province was full of new economic zone
people living on the sidewalks. Houses of the people forced to go to new
economic zones are sold at the cheapest prices, as if they were offered to
cadres. They needed only a gold ring to buy a house. In some cases, the people
picked only sheet metal roofs and woods from
their houses for their new house in the economic zone and left the whole house.
The cadres had only to ask the ward or hamlet committee to get it.
The lamentations of the people were heard
every-where, and they ran in great numbers to the temples to pray and worship
the Buddha, as before. In the impossible position of forcing the people to go
to new economic zones, the communist authorities had to order the cessation of
the program. The people also reduced their intense temptation to cross the sea.
Today, the people in the South could live quietly in the cities, not forced to
go to new economic zones. Because of His great compassion for living creatures,
the Supreme Pure King incarnating Lord Supreme Maitreya had set out to save the
life dharma.
If the devas, dragon deities, and dharma protectors
did not show their ability and waited until millions of people died in the dark
forests and unfavorable climate, how could the government see its error and
correct it? How many people could survive after that? Taking the evident
example of Siberia of the USSR, where millions of people were abandoned to die
with too many suffering, and separated families, how could it be named a
revolution?