Because human beings are following impregnated habits, the thought becomes fine or rough, generous or stingy, good or evil. Therefore, it represents various levels of Dharma practices, from ordinary people, learned people, to Fairies or Deities. Thought gives rise to joy and sadness, happiness and misery throughout the Three Thousand Great Thousand Worlds. A Meditation practitioner can see clearly the mobility of thought in all ten directions, overcoming countless strata of thought to be awakened. It also easily makes a Tao practitioner think erroneously, and thus falling into attachment, believing themselves to be someone. Many cases happening, because of erroneous perception, not being able to meet the truly knowledgeable One who could enlighten them, Tao practitioners keep on holding the thought to live in chaotic thoughts and become tranquilly clinging at the accomplishment of their practice.

With regard to the stream of thoughts, thought is usually thought, and soul is soul; It cannot say that the thought is the soul. When the stream of thoughts develops systematically and lucidly, it is called wisdom; when obscure and vague, it is termed idiocy. For that reason, there are different levels, divided into different classes, and each class uses its own type of thought. People, whether moral or immoral, are all using their thoughts, complying with their thoughts in perception. It is difficult to take the thought of one class to use in another, except that each individual by their mind, will, and instinct has formed and trained themselves for some time to make the thought healthy and appropriate for use. Otherwise, any effortful constraint to help in whichever condition will gain less success.

Why? Because each thought has its independent nature, only the persons with their fixed thought can resolve it by themselves. —T. V.

Thought produces consciousness karma; being a living being, nobody can escape from it. It is the source of unconsciousness that makes human beings and the Four Species attached and clingy. If a Tao practitioner practices by moral conduct, they are still attached; If they practice by wisdom to demolish attachment, they are still attached. These two ways of practice cannot escape from the consciousness karma. If practicing the sitting meditation, emerging from contemplation is to be tranquilly clung in contemplative meditation, that can’t help escaping from the consciousness karma either. Many Tao practitioners erroneously fall in tranquil clinging and do not know how to abolish ignorance. In reality, when Reverend Long-Hoa Sangha Chief guided the ranks of Venerables, Arahants, Fairies, and Deities, who were present in Long-Hoa Superior Association, they all could see and realize that the Dharma practice requires the relief of karma. But on the part of resolving karma, everyone found it very difficult, too much difficult to escape from the transformation of thought.

Therefrom, there are different high and low levels of Dharma practice, attestation and non-attestation for the Tao practitioners around the Lord. On account of such importance and utility of thought, the Reverend Long-Hoa Sangha Chief, Supreme Maitreya Buddha has recommended the corresponding level of virtue and intelligence. The thought with conscious ideas generates virtue, that is the contemplation Dharma. While the thought at the position of spiritual consciousness produces the result of supernatural power,[107] that precisely is the Dharma Body. Thanks to the Lord’s explicit explanation, the majority of true disciples could understand while passing from the High Level (Mahayana) to the One Level (Ekayana), but they were unable to carry it out. Because the thought contains a group forming the CHARACTER, they could at most correct their character in the High Level (Mahayana). However, entering the thought to observe meticulously the Dragon vein of the Dharma Body is belonging to the One Level (Ekayana), most of them could not catch up, the Lord therefore had to stop for their sake. A whole Buddha’s life in the past with one more Buddha’s life in this century, that is indeed long. Most of the Holy Followers can clearly understand the High Level (Mahayana), but they are far away from the Buddha Level (Buddhayana), so how can one gain a thorough understanding just by judging with reason?

Therefore, it is difficult to transmit the settled thoughts of one class to another. Hence, although having met the Buddha, it’s not possible for the Buddha to constrain anyone without their strong will, even Tao practitioners of sacred rank, despite the availability of the Buddha’s great compassion, great will and great courage.

The Buddha Path does not acknowledge the Soul. It only accepts the wrong thoughts, the insane arising thoughts; if the thoughts exterminate the other thoughts unsettledly, those are called chaotic thoughts. Because of the completely erroneous, insanely chaotic and uncontrollable thoughts in oneself, one is expecting with chaotic thoughts, hoping for it to become the truth, never reaching the truth, they are therefore coming to the falseness. Because thought is false, things must be transformed and changed according to the affirmation of thought, becoming the temporary life of the Four Species in general and of the human beings in particular, in which every precept scene is changing in the transmigration of birth and death. For that reason, the Buddha has said: “Thousands of Dharmas are insubstantial; Life is a dream.” — must practice seeking liberation from the dream and expectation, returning to the Supreme Truth with permanent attestation. —T. V.

The perfect brilliant Buddhas clearly see all false thoughts of living beings. Because living beings wrongly follow illusory thoughts, their mind lives within illusory thoughts. How wonderful it is, the Lord of Supreme Will Amitabha has promulgated the thought liberation from life, helping living beings reform from the chaotic and obscure thoughts into the bright thoughts toward the Tranquility-for-Salvation World. Following the right Tranquility-for-Salvation path of the Buddhas is not easy either. Should not wrongly conceive that the practice of the Tranquility-for-Salvation is the easiest way; Because of that false conception, one is controlled by thought, not fully understanding the belt of birth and death on thought.

In the path of practice for liberation, a Tao practitioner must be able to realize that thoughts have countless strata progressing ceaselessly. Thoughts are as numerous, endless, and immeasurable as the sand of the Ganga River, each grain of sand is a generated thought, and each thought is a distinct seed. If a Tao practtioner tranquilly clings to a conception, they must receive a grain of sand to enjoy it.  For the Great Bodhisattva or Bodhisattva, who knows how to make use of each seed as each Dharma precept for the base of his practice, it therefore becomes a seed of the Tathagata, being extremely useful; until a profound acquirement is achieved, it belongs to the Great Ego, meets the Tathagata, has no more mistakes, and is directed towards the Super True Enlightenment. Therefore, the Great Bodhisattva rank is very prudent in vowing to serve the boundless Tathagata, vowing to learn the boundless Buddha Dharma. For Tao practitioners who make that vow as a matter of form, that is another thing, because this sentence is so ordinary!

Because of being lost in thoughts, becoming chaotic and illusory thoughts, living beings must be subjected to a temporary and unreal life — That is called thousands of Dharmas are insubstantial, transforming life into a dream. The Buddhas, therefore, have illuminated the path to liberation from the birth and death. So, why do Tao practitioners not seek for liberation? In whichever religion, followers also need to liberate themselves from birth and death. Even coming to the Heaven world, they will also die at the end of their lifetime, then be in the birth and death over again — it’s not comfortable and peaceful immortally.

The ego’s unreal thoughts precisely are the Soul’s representation of living beings, who obscurely follow the unreal thoughts, thereby leaving the Authentic Enlightenment[108] and not being able to return to the Eight [Nirvana]-Masses. The Eight Masses’ Soul is constant and forever lasting.

Because of the Buddha’s acknowledgement of making living beings accomplish the Buddha Path, the Lord, therefore has encouraged Bodhisattvas to conduct the vow to save living beings, realize the vow to penetrate Dharma precepts and to practice seeking the Prajñà, in order to completely receive and inherit the Prajñà Intelligence with blissful peace and utmost joy, getting out of the belt of unreal thoughts, mastering one’s own body and life, mastering thousands of Dharmas, and achieving a thorough comprehension from True Enlightenment. —T. V.

The Super One of True Enlightenment, like the Lord, thoroughly guided the Bodhisattvas. Therefore, this One employs suitable language to preach according to Tao practitioners, in order to guide living beings appropriately. The Bodhisattva rank relies on thoughts to absorb numberless strata of unreal thoughts of living beings lost in the birth and death so that the Bodhisattva profoundly attains the Prajñà Intelligence, getting out of the unreal thoughts’ belt, being the master of their own body-fate and of thousands of Dharmas, profoundly attaining the True Enlightenment. The Bodhisattva can then continue to realize the vow and conduct the vow for deep penetration until completely accomplishing the constant and permanent Soul of the Eight Masses before becoming a Buddha.

How difficult it is, but many of those of the Precept-Buddha have been wrongly attached and believed themselves to be Buddhas, just as the Lord witnessed so many such people in this Period of Inferior-Life, it is truly impossible to tell all about them.

When the Bodhisattva simply uses the moral conduct, that is not sufficient on the path of practice to seek liberation from dreamy expectations. The moral conduct must be accompanied by the will and vow, he is then called the Bodhisattva with complete morality-vow. Otherwise, moral conduct alone, when conservative and stabilized, only becoming a wood statue and dried bud, he is living in the thoughts of embracing the ego, in emptiness and distance. The Bodhisattva with will and vow is precisely the Moral Bodhisattva who already has ascended to the crown. Without the will and vow, the Moral Bodhisattva is only posing as Bodhisattva with his consolidated thoughts, never exploiting the thoughts in himself to illuminate all over and be self-awaken. —T. V.

A Bodhisattva consolidating the moral conduct is usually esteemed by all. Therefore, in the presence of unrestful, throny, difficult Dharmas that need to overcome the straits, they are often discouraged. For that reason, a true Bodhisattva needs to make a great vow with persistent will in order to advance farther on the way to complete liberation. It is by this way that the Bodhisattva could fully conduct the vow and profoundly attain numberless strata of living beings, fitting in tranquility and disturbance, aiming at carrying out the vow of offering to the Tathagata. The Bodhisattva is then clean, free of impregnated habits; he is fearless, self-masterly, greatly compassionate, and completely liberated through knowing, seeing, and solving. The Great Bodhisattva attainning self-master is no longer polluted at all, no matter how he penetrates the Dharma precepts, only for the purpose of gaining comprehensive insight. Even those of the Two-Levels (Dviyana) could not comprehend his work, the Bodhisattva still practice in reality, seeing reality in order to embrace  the entire Dharani Constitution together with the Tathagata,[109] entering the True Contemplation of Samadhi, and waiting for the occasion to be ordained by the Buddhas to become a BUDDHA.

When deeply entering into Dharma precepts, if being cursed, the Bodhisattva is still ascending to the crown because that is the indispensable Bodhisattva Nature he ought to realize.

On account of erroneous passion universally, each embracing ego receives each aspect of thought as a clinging place, becoming the living beings’ limit. On the representation’s part, it must be lively, flexible and harmonious, from the tranquility to the disturbance, naturally evolving in everywhere without omission. Hence, the thought takes the initiative in the Three Thousand Worlds and the Three Postures of the Buddhas.

In the place of the Three Postures, the Buddhas unanimously rely upon the original vows to save living beings entirely, thereby accomplishing the True Enlightenment. The Buddha, therefore, makes His appearance so that living beings could meet Him. This appearance is the position, the incarnation of Buddha; whereas the Bodhisattva rank, returning to the world, relying on the constitution to make his appearance, is in charge of the regulation of manifestations. The incarnation of Buddha has the privilege to attest the universe independently; while the incarnate Bodhisattva, saving the living beings, attests the level of achievement in practicing the Dharma of living beings. The Buddhas are therefore the full truth, the perfect good, and the True Enlightenment. —T. V.

Thoughts are representative of the Soul. It is, therefore, inherently lively, flexible, and harmonious. It’s present eveywhere, from the place of tranquility to the disturbance, mastering the Three Thousand Great Thousand Worlds, even the Three Postures of the Buddhas. The Buddhas are always in great benevolence and great compassion, constantly having the same original vow to completely save living beings to True Enlightenment like the Lords. The Buddhas, therefore, primarily rely on the living beings to open the Tao, in order to see and know the characteristic of each Dharma so that the Lords could make His appearances accordingly to completely salvage living beings to become the Buddha.

As for the Bodhisattvas, when returning to this secular world, they have to rely on the Tathagata Buddha’s constitution. They are taking on the responsibility of saving living beings by following the Buddha path with precise principles, neither strictly following the sutra nor leaving it. The Buddhas master all thoughts, so the Buddhas have full authority of the measureless and boundless Buddha power, with fearlessness and self-mastery, manifesting the great means and bringing the peaceful way to living beings. As the Reverend Long-Hoa Sangha Chief, Supreme Maitreya Buddha, the Lord stably arranged the world where the two opposite blocs could share their co-existence in peace, repressing the nuclear danger menacing humankind. The war between two blocs no longer mencaced humandkind, making all live in peace. The Lord attested the situation of the world, which was preordained by Him righteously.

It’s impossible to describe in full meaning by words: the Lord is the One, who arranged to reform the current conditions of China and Vietnam today—it is an intersection for the East and the West. Should not think it is yourself who produce and create it. It is because for the living being leaders, the Buddhas have used the Samadhi Contemplation to bring about unthinkable righteousness. There are thousands of truths in these confidential words. For those who have known well the Samadhi, only a slight action can reveal the real truth.

Seeing the world, the Lord has promulgated the Proclamation Attesting the Universe. As for the Tao, the Lord has restored the order in the Dharma practice, following the precise principle of the Three Postures of the Buddhas. The Bodhisattvas and Arahants ordained by the signed and sealed mandate of the Buddhas, would save living beings according to the Buddhas’ constitution. The Bodhisattvas can do nothing outside the Salvaged Nation of the Buddhas. Due to the Bodhisattvas’ conduct-vow, they can progress gradually to the Truly Enlightened Buddha. There must be a perfect parallelism of the Tao and the life in order to become a Buddha of True Rank, True Enlightenment. This is an advice: reconsider yourself before you term yourself a Buddha.

If the thought is not erroneous, the Consciousness Constitution is not erroneous either. Not being erroneous, one then is perfectly bright — the Tathagata meeting him or he meeting the Tathagata that is identical one. Doing like that, practicing like this, is still not sufficient to complete and to appear under the form of the Eight Masses of Nirvana. Why? That’s because the Eight Masses requires the experience of every Nirvana-Mass, the entire absorption of all Eight Masses, completing the True Enlightenment. What are the Eight Masses? The first six are:

1- Earth Mass                              2- Water Mass

3- Wind Mass                                 4- Fire Mass

5- Relative-Emptiness            6- Consciousness Constitution.

Among these six Masses, the universe only consists of Four Masses: Earth, Water, Wind, and Fire. Besides the Earth, Water, Wind and Fire, there are two additional Masses in the Four Species: Emptiness and Consciousness Constitution; therefore in rebirth, the Four Species are the masters of the universe. The inheritance of the Four Species is not outside the True Reward and the retribution of their deeds in harmony with their thoughts. Therefore, from the Divine Human rank, they have made use of the thought for their progress, to those of the Two-Levels (Dviyana) who have to employ their fixed thought to create the heaven world or to succeed in their objective foundations. Besides that, there are the Three Realms—the Desire Precept, the Form Precept, and the Formless Precept—as well as the worlds of Divine Fairies, those are applying to the Relative Emptiness and Consciousness Constitution; all are forming the Three Thousand Great Thousand Worlds. Its quality and quantity are according to countless strata of classes, which are formed through cultivating.

The two remaining Masses are transcendent and called the Tathagata and the Enlightenment about Form. Therefore, when neither being erroneous nor getting lost, meeting the Tathagata or the Tathagata meeting, but not attaining the complete Tathagata, a Tao practitioner has to thoroughly comprehend the endless Relative-Emptiness and know well the Enlightenment about Form of Buddha. —T. V.                                                

If the thought is not erroneous, the Bodhisattva integrates into the constitution of Tathagata, called meeting Tathagata, thoroughly perceiving that the Tathagata is inherently harmonious and perfectly bright. The Bodhisattva rank, in front of him, can recognize the Tathagata meeting everywhere in the four period. The Mahasattva rank still has to enter deeply into the constitution of the Eight Masses of Tathagata to completely achieve the entire True Enlightenment. Only The Founding Master and now the Reverend Long-Hoa Sangha Chief, Supreme Maitreya Buddha can complete the Eight Masses to enter the endless Relative-Emptiness and fully understand the Enlightenment about Buddha Form.

The Four Species are all guided by thoughts. With bright thoughts, they will gain the blessed rewards of Divine Humans. With obscure thoughts will lead to retribution in Asuras, Hunger Ghosts, Animals, and Hells. If one knows how to use thought to master their body and mind and master the Three Thousand Worlds, they will receive the True Reward. The Bodhisattva rank has fully known how to use thought. For the inferior ranks, whatever practices might be, they still be controlled by thoughts. For that reason, the Buddhas have opened the Dharma subject of reciting the Buddhas’ Appellations, aiming at the practitioners’ bright thoughts, who will no longer receive retribution; but living beings without a determined mind are still caught in the birth and death.

The Bodhisattva rank meeting the Tathagata should take the Tathagata Part as a refuge to practice until completing the Enlightenment-about-Form Part, waiting to be ordained by the Buddhas to become a Buddha.

From Tao practitioners of the Two-Levels (Dviyana) to those who practice for blessed rewards of Divine Humans, all are using their thoughts as fixed thoughts. In fixed thoughts, there are all kinds of levels leading to retribution in various precept scenes, such as: Fairies and Deities tranquilly cling to fineness, forming the tangible Nirvana and receiving the Relative-Emptiness as possession. As for Tao practitioners, not seeking for the True Reward, they fall into the intangible Nirvana, neither knowing–seeing the present Buddha nor gaining the Enlightenment-about-Form Part.

Only the Buddhas with adequate the Eight Masses could thoroughly teach the rank of Bodhisattva and Mahasattva Bodhisattva to recognize the Eight Masses. For the Arahant rank, only when they are no longer dwelling in the Buddha Precept, they are able to meet the Tathagata and deeply enter the Enlightenment-about-Form Part. How extremely difficult it is, from the Three Constitutions of Sutras to the wonderful application in the Buddha' words and gestures, all are the Buddhas’ teachings to make the Four Followers enter the enlightenment. However, the Four Followers —due to their nature-seeds, karma-seeds hindering in all forms, creating ignorance overcast— are difficult to perceive; that is the reason for the difficulty.

Because living beings are indifferent, without the firmly determined mind, not having sufficiently strong will like Bodhisattvas, they, therefore, do not have suitable conditions to mature the fruit of their practice.

Must raise ourself in order to resolve our own body-fate, our own thoughts, using the ascending to the crown as bright thoughts, perspicaciously discovering the Consciousness Constitution and returning to the Suchness Truth. By such a manner of practice and realization, there cannot be hindrance and pull from the karma.

Therefrom, being able to realize that The Tagathata Himself does not preach the Dharma nor do living beings themselves hear it. The Lord of Supreme Will has explained: “It must be that you yourself do not hear the Dharma nor do I Myself preach it.” How wonderful and how miraculous it is! The Eyes of The Lord of Supreme Will. Otherwise, if the Tathagata did preach the Dharma and the Venerable Subhuti did listen to it, all these Dharmas would be false Dharmas. Receiving imaginary thoughts, how can one obtain the Enlightenment about Form to thoroughly comprehend the endless Relative-Emptiness, to pass over the other shore of infinite Emptiness – True Enlightenment?