MAITREYA ERA - 12.1 and 12.2

After the First World War of 1914–1918 and the Second World War of 1939–1945 came the Geneva Convention of 1954 and the Vietnamese civil war that led to disastrous consequences, including the division of the country: countless families have suffered from misery, grief, and now, from separation.

CHAPTER III: Appearance as A Layman

The world was clearly divided into two camps in extreme contrast to each other. One camp was the liberalism of the capitalists, supported by the United States and the Western nations. The other was Communism, led by the Soviet Union, which advocated creating conflict with the Free World. These were favorable conditions for the Communist Soviet Union to expand and industrialize its countries. They reached the rank of international superpower, and were able to fight for supremacy against the United States.

In the Second World War, the United States and the Communist Soviet Union shook hands with the same intention of exterminating Hitler (Nazism). Once German Nazism was dramatically defeated, the United States realized the invasion of the Communist Soviet Union into the Eastern European nations The USSR’s[39] troops occupied them and established administrations with the Communist pattern. The US recognized the USSR as a creator of enemies, and therefore that the future peace of the US and its Alliance should not be neglected.

Karl Marx, the first ancestor of Communism, interpreted Darwin’s doctrine of the “two camps” world, based on “the struggle for existence.” It was applied by the Russian Communists to the “class struggle” of the mid-20th century, which prepared the way for a Third World War (a Nuclear World War), which could exterminate all life on earth. It was this kind of “two camps” world, liberalism and Communism, that competed to produce nuclear weapons, preparing a chess position that threatened to put the world into the turning point of doomsday.

After the Geneva Convention, from 1954 to 1975, many upheavals accumulatively occurred in Vietnam. The world’s situation became serious with the rupture in 1956 between two superpowers, the Communist Soviet Union and Communist China. This rupture became greater and greater, creating such a dangerous separation that they were about to kill each other by pushing the nuclear buttons! These events made great impacts on Vietnam.

During the period of 1968–1972, taking advantage of the separation between the two Communist elders, the Soviet Union and China, the United States entered into collaboration with Communist China to deal with the Soviet Union, making both sides’ nuclear weapons hang over humankind’s heads!

Even more seriously, after three years from 1972 to 1975, the United States firmly consolidated its relationship with Communist China, and allied the Western European nations and Japan in a whole-world strategy. It was able to besiege the Communist Soviet Union, making the Soviet Union vigorously develop their nuclear-missile-equipped atomic submarines. By that time, everyone with a certain understanding believed that the Third World War was coming; atomic weapons would exterminate all lives in this globe. Not only humankind, but also other species would not survive.

The methods for producing nuclear-warhead-equipped missiles and atomic bombs are not an absolute secret today. What a catastrophe!

In April 1987, the New Jersey US Infantry Academy, studying strategic matters, declared that many nations were already in possession of atomic weapons. These nations included the United States, England, France, Russia, China, India, West Germany, Japan, Taiwan, and South Africa. There are other countries that will also have atomic weapons in the future, totaling 23 nations in the world that have had, or will have atomic weapons (at the time of this writing). Is that the world approaching doomsday?

[39] The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).

On June 8, 1972, an aircraft unintentionally dropped napalm (a chemical bomb) down the Trảng Bàng area, 40km distance from Saigon.

12.2 Vietnam is a Place for Scientific Experiments

From 1954 to 1975, during the 21 years the country was separated, the United States helped protect South Vietnam, while the Soviet Union and Communist China supported North Vietnam. The war deeply darkened the country, and became a narrow World War in South Vietnam. The Third World War nearly broke out because of Vietnam. The heroic competition between the United States and its allies in one part, and the Communist Soviet Union, Communist China, and Communist Eastern European countries in the other, caused the Vietnamese people to undergo a terrible destiny resulting from experiments with modern war science inventions in this country.

The Vietnamese people underwent doomsday! For the Buddhas, it was the Dharma Ending, because of extreme suffering, extreme endurance, extreme evil —extreme Dharma posture! All Dharmas were at their extremes, so it was called doomsday. Sacred thoughts understood this, but secular intelligence conceived that doomsday would be the time our globe disintegrates and humankind is destroyed!

This secular conception lacks a demonstrable basis. All things created by humans have their cause, and they will receive their fruit. Humans create the causes, and once there are enough conditions for growth, they will become fruit. The power of human karma has created chaos everywhere, and when they receive the evil fruit’s consequence, they will be suddenly awakened and turned to good. According to cyclic law, prosperity, at its end, turns to decadence; evil, at its extreme, reflects itself and can see itself. It firmly fears itself and then shows repentance. Reverend Tịnh Vương, incarnating Lord Maitreya, witnessed the intoxication of thousands of Dharmas in this Period of Return and Dharma-Ending, so the Lord made His effort to open Tao Dharma and hand it down to the world. This way, humankind would gradually recognize the true value of the enlightening Tao, and thus reform themselves to be peaceful and safe, free from birth and death transmigration.

All material phenomena do not escape from the principle of Formation – Existence – Destruction – Nothingness. If our globe were disintegrated, it would occur in accordance with this principle. When the Buddhas have arrangements, the Buddhas must also enlighten humankind. It is hard for humans to be able to recognize true value, then build and maintain it by themselves, neutralize intoxication, and clear their minds; their bodies, owing to their correspondence with the mind, are free from danger and catastrophe. This is an important, heavy, and difficult responsibility handed down by the Three Postures of Buddhas; the Lord has to successfully achieve, and then attests that the Dharma-Ending Age returns to the True Dharma.

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