CHAPTER III: Appearance as A Layman
15. Reverend Tịnh Vương Incarnating Lord Maitreya Confirms That There Is Rebirth
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15.1 How Are People with Rooted Goodness Liberated into a New Life?
15.2 How Are People with Rooted Cruelty Liberated into a New Life?
15.2 How Are People with Rooted Cruelty Liberated into a New Life?
People with a cruel nature when alive are inflicted with indescribable punishment at their rebirth into a new life. If the condemned are common people, punishments will be inflicted on them in one lifetime for their personal sins.
For kings, leaders, or authorities, once they give cruel orders, making millions of people live in misery and starvation, leave their fatherland and bring uncountable suffering, they will be condemned to the Avici Hell. That is why the brilliant king, the great salvation, ought to consider the people’s and country’s benefits carefully before giving an order. —T. V.
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Reverend Tịnh Vương Incarnating Lord Maitreya Confirms That There Is Rebirth
Though living in his palace, surrounded by all of his numerous courtiers, the leader, promulgating a cruel order, in his death will be pierced and butchered by the people who have died unjustly and in suffering, who are wielding swords. The leader's subconscious (wise soul) still hears the yells and roars. He becomes frightened, mumbling with delirium, and hastily runs to escape from the people who suffered in death chasing him. These people, making him account for his faults, shackle him and bring him to the dark prison of Incessant Avici.
The Incessant Avici is a place where life is cruelly imposed. There are always disputes in all activities, including eating and drinking, and justice is violated. There are neither pagodas, temples, nor shrines, and only the strongest people can stay sufficiently fed. Laws are not enforced there, and there is only the reign of strong individuals. Particularly, the people there do not know anything about human rights—it does not mean human rights are nonexistent.
In the Avici Hell, humans always live the horror of barbarous tortures, many scenes of crime interrogation are much more horrible. It is impossible to relate all the crimes of bad and greedy authorities who hurt and deceived people.
Everyone is frightened talking about death, because it is natural for a human to be anxious in their lifetime and fearful of their death. Some of them believe that death is the end of everything; thus, they often venture without fear of anything in the human world. A person, after dying, reaching the negative world or any other world, never remembers the place where they came from. They still think that they have always lived in that negative world or any other world. They completely forget that they came from the human world. They live as if they are a guest, not remembering that they were married, had children, or were a leader in the human world. They also do not remember their house and wealth in the human world. They continuously wander until a covering curtain envelops them. They then become unconscious, that is, they enter a fetus.
The same is true for this human world. If someone comes from the Divine world, the negative world, or the Deity world to the human world after their life ending, they also think that they have been in the human world; they wander until they enter a fetus to be reborn. All of them forget where they come from. That is the true change of one’s lifetime from one place to another in order to be born and to die. —T. V.
In order to know where a person will go after their death, we just have to observe what they did when alive. From their actions to their words, they have sowed benefits or the rooted evil that brings about suffering to others. It is on that basis that we can correctly affirm the place where they will go after their death. This is very practical; neither deluded nor false.
It is exactly like a pharmacist who combines substances to make medicine: Each drug, a mixture of certain ingredients, treats a specific sickness. Whether a dying human will be reborn fortunately or unfortunately depends on the pharmaceutical product—the sweetness or the bitterness in themselves—that they created when they were alive, causing them to enter into a corresponding world or precept scene. They are immediately reborn in that world or precept scene, happily or miserably, according to their blessed reward or retribution.
Ordinarily, there are two cases of liberation into a new life for a human with a disease. In the first case, the human has an internal disease involving their body. In the second, they suffer from typhoid fever, related to their sense. The two cases are often interpreted reasonably for one’s death.
In the case of typhoid fever, the human is in a coma, talking deliriously. They say that this person, after death, will be guilty and reborn miserably. The one who has an internal disease in their body, still wide awake at their death, and speaking clearly: They conceive that this one will go to Heaven. These two reasoning interpretations are erroneous.
If a human clearly realizes where they will go after death, they should know how to create usefulness, manage virtuous character while still alive, cultivate their humanity, and have pity on others’ misery as one’s own life. One should console and help those around one who have suffered, and make them peaceful and joyful as oneself. By doing that, though acquiring a nervous disease in one’s old age, one will also be liberated into a new life in the Deity or Divine world after death. One’s mind then becomes clear-sighted, and that nervous disease will return to the nervous patient. It will no longer involve the true rewardable consequence of one’s previous existence. These are true words.
The most important thing for a human, presently, is character construction. The one who creates a basis, a frank and noble instinct, whatever their manner of death, will be truly rewarded in spaciousness and should not be afraid of falling into hell, hungry ghosts, or animals—that never happens to them. As human beings, rare are those who know how to examine themselves for their immoral deeds or to show their forgiveness toward those who are cruel to them. —T. V.
While enjoying happiness, we (the leaders) must look at the misery of the people, and when they lament and clamor, we must consider our good or bad actions for which they are clamoring. While innocent people, belonging to neither side, are suffering, how can their leaders be heroic or notable? Those in a world can never see all the wrong of their world; it is only seen by those of an outside world. Therefore, when those in the same world correct the wrongs they see, another wrong appears. If someone outside shows us the wrong and helps us to correct the wrongs together, everything will be good. Lamentations and blame from the people will be avoided. That is the truth. Thanks to this policy, the Western countries have promptly advanced, and their people are in easy circumstances.
The notables of belief do not distinguish anything among religions. Any religion could teach believers to do good things, to be patient, and to have pity on others. We must respect them, while not imposing what needs to be done. Governing the people in this way, the notables will receive the blessed rewards of Divine Humans after their death.
From those who allowed their descendants to kill living beings would be demanded the payment of life, at their death, by those they killed. If they did not believe in the existence of Deity and Saint, and killed a Tao practitioner of high virtue, they would fall into hell with countless sufferings for many lives. Below is an extract of the sutra written by Reverend Tịnh Vương Nhất Tôn, incarnating Lord Maitreya:
I have entered true contemplation, meeting Deities in the heaven world who often help the human world. The Village Deity, Shrine Deity, Sacred Deity, Sacred King, and Sacred Mother all lamented: Dear Meditation Master, we are all righteous and bright Deities, not short of food and drink with plenty of aromatic flavor, nobleness, elegance, and fragrance. We saw humans create evil karma, followed by rooted evil, and receiving continuous catastrophe, they have respectfully worshipped and supplicated us with their hearts. We were touched and set about to help them to be free from disasters.
Alas, every time we come into the human world, and go to the communal house in the village and shrine, we see that they expose before us a lot of dead bodies, burned, boiled, or roasted. How could we tell them? Where sincerity is mixed with evil karma, we are obliged to help those with sincerity. Because of their customs and desires, humans thought us to be fond of chicken and duck, roasted pork, rare beef, rice wine, soup, and steamed sweet rice, etc. In fact, we did not know what to say . . . It was not thought of by the believers themselves, but priests who desired to eat exploited them to do so. We expect you, Meditation Master, in this Period of Return, to speak for us, so that we will no longer suffer from a bad reputation of requiring such ceremonial gifts through the killing of living beings. [After respectfully requesting, they immediately go to meet the Heaven King.] —T. V.
The sacred, though struck and tortured during the calamity, does not get angry with his adversary. Though departing with a suffering body, he will be completely and truly rewarded to be able to go back to the Tathagata. For example, those who nailed Jesus Christ to the crucifix have lost their nation, and left their country with torture afterwards. Wasn’t it an example for the leaders and their descendants to remember all their life?
During my re-education in Đá Bàn in 1976, during labor time, I met the Đá Bàn Mountain Deity, who came and offered to help me. I answered that I did not need any help, and I wanted to see how much endurance I had. When I was transferred to camp A-30 in Tuy Hòa, I often met other Mountain Deities, who came to inquire about my health, but I still did not want any help. The bodies of the Invisible People, Deities and Dragon Deities are formed from clouds, exactly like smoke, and they dress just as they did when living in the secular world. That is clear to see. When a human dies, with bad character they become a ghost and with wicked one they become a demon; their body is also formed from smoke, like a cloud; When walking, their form is like a wounded fish, which slowly swims. These are seen while awake, but not during meditation or in dreams. Only the eyes of Meditation Master could see them as clearly as if in contact with ordinary people in the human world. Living beings find it hard to see them, because they are hindered by hot tempers, sadness, suffering... The physical eyes of humans also cannot see them.
All Deities have burly bodies like Westerners, dark complexions, and compassion for humans. If there were someone who believed and supplicated a Deity, they were still often helped by the Deity effectively. Once, in the area of re-education A-30 in Tuy Hòa, near Bình Sơn bridge, a Deity shrine that had existed long ago was leveled by the order of the major of police, chief of the camp. When I passed by on the way to labor, I saw the Shrine Deity, who came out to greet me and complained that his refuge was now demolished and that he had to go to the foot of the mountain and live in the bush. I replied:
“I myself am ill-treated now, can’t you see? Be patient to practice Tao Dharma to acquire the Tao of True Supreme Deity later, which is more precious.” The Shrine Deity was satisfied. Later, every time I went into the forest to make firewood in this region, I often saw him guide people to bring food to me. The monthly standard ration was only 6kg of rice and a little bit of cassava. We were hungry every day and sometimes faint, which was common.
In my re-education at camp A-30, I was not “supplied” for many months by my family because of financial difficulties. One day, after achieving my daily task of chopping 1.5m3 of wood, I was sitting down for a rest and a Mountain Deity came to show me an agarwood tree, which I cut down afterwards. Some members of my group secretly exchanged it for enough rice to supplement us for nearly a month.
In 1988, I came from Saigon to attend in the Great Ceremony of the Shakyamuni Buddha's Birthday on the 8th day of the 4th month of the lunar year at the Central Superior Association in Nha Trang. I resided in a hotel at number 50 Nguyễn Hữu Huân Street, near the interprovincial coach station of Khánh Hòa. My room was on the second floor, the highest one in the hotel. At 10 a.m., I was astounded to see a colossal Deity. He stood on the ground; the second floor was only half his height, and his second half was above the second floor. To speak to me, he had to bend far down, with difficulty, in order to be at the level of my room. His foot was about 1m wide and more than 2m long. He had to take only four steps to go from the hotel to Đầm market, Nha Trang, 2km away. He inquired about me after the great ceremony and then went back to heaven.
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