■Book 103 - The Great Spiritual Response Of Tantrayana
■Written by Master Sheng-yen Lu
■Preface
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The verse I wrote previously was:
Living Buddha Lian Sheng teaches a major Tantra,
Vajrasattva changes into Vajraheart
A spiritual response occurs when the two embody into one,
Unwholesome karma eradicated and purity remains.
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To show you a letter as evidence:
Dear Grandmaster,
All the best to you
At 5:15 a.m. on 5th of November, you appeared in my dream. I kneeled down in front of all the dharma brothers and you. I confessed to you all the precepts I have broken. You used a round tool to pull out all my hindrance (an ugly creature looked like the body and the tail of a fish). A pool of blood was spotted nearby. After vomiting, I felt very light. You told me, “Your body is clean now, and you will be very healthy.”
It is beyond description, taking into consideration I have just cultivated the repentance rituals for three months (group practice is held on every Wednesday)
Thank you for pulling out my hindrance, I shall cultivate daily to repay your favour, and follow your teaching life after life. We shall not part until enlightenment.
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Many True Buddha disciples had spiritual response after cultivating the repentance rituals.
1) After cultivating it for 21 times, a disciple saw himself in a pure and clean lake. Living Buddha Lian-Shang radiated light to empower him from the air. The water turned into laser when
the radiation passed through. It was amazing when the black water flew from the cultivator into the lake, it was immediately purified.
After the spiritual response, the disciple felt very fresh, as if he had a new life. His internal strength increased a lot.
2) Another disciple only cultivated the dharma for one week and he started to vomit. The sickness lasted for 3 days, and it could not be stopped. Although he did not vomit anything, those with spiritual eyes could see he vomited dirty things like worms, little turtles, small snakes, mosquitoes and centipedes. Thereafter he felt fresh, and all his sickness suddenly disappeared.
3) A disciple suffering from asthma cultivated the dharma for 49 days in order to eradicate his unwholesome karma created in his previous lives. One night using a vajra, a vajra god beat him up. He was thrown up and down and tortured the whole night in his dream. Finally he was forced by the Vajra god to eat a few stalks of grass. He felt nausea, and vomitted a little black man. His asthma was cured thereafter.
4)Another story is even more wonderful. A disciple only cultivated the repentance ritual about a month. In his mediation, he was brought to the heaven realm to ride a dragon. Like a wind, the dragon flew. He saw mountains, rivers and lands below him. He was dumbfounded. He was even given an audience with the Buddha.
He was so moved that he almost cried.
Buddha said to him, “you don't have to cry.”
He asked, “How come by cultivating repentance ritual, I am able to see you?”
Buddha replied, “the five directional Buddhas change into five Vajra Dhara. And Vajrasattva is the six Vajra Dhara. Since he is the embodiment of five Buddhas, you will surely be able to see the Buddha”.
The disciple wrote to me, and said “This is fantastic, repentance is a major dharma.”
“Living Buddha Lian Sheng is almost the reincarnation of a Buddha.”
I know of many true stories of having spiritual response when cultivating repentance rituals. I just mentioned a few as records, since we have limited space.
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I believe amongst the three ways of repentance, spiritual response from the “Qu Xiang” repentance would be more magnificent and trust-worthy. “Zuo Fa” repentance is too common, and “Wu Sheng” repentance is too high sounding for ordinary people to use. Only those who have good foundation can master it.
Personally I lay a stress on “Qu Xiang” repentance. The spiritual response derived from it can have many levels:
Buddha touching the head,
Boddhisattva radiating light at the cultivator,
Eating white and vomiting black food,
Riding a heavenly horse in the air,
Dreaming about taking a bath and cleaning yourself,
Dreaming about putting fragrance on your own body,
Dreaming about flowers falling from the sky,
Dreaming about your transparent body radiating light,
Dreaming about initiating the eyes of a Buddha image.
I believe even a saint will have committed some faults before. If we are able to cultivate the True Buddha repentance ritual, all our predicaments can be eradicated, like mountains, oceans and planet being destroyed by fire. Doing repentance can burn away our distress. It can extinguish the fire in hell and result in coolness in the heaven. By cultivating repentance ritual, we can reach a high level of meditation and obtain profound wisdom and longevity. We are able to reside in the pure land and see the blossom of purest lotus flowers. It will eventually lead to Buddhahood and we are enlightened.
Now let me give you the theory of “Wu Sheng” repentance:
It is said in the Avatamsaka Sutra:
“Bodhisattva uses his right view to observe the world and knows all the dharma derived from karma. When he examines all the dharma, he knows they stem from cause and effect. If there is no birth; there will not be death.”
It is said in the Commentary on the Prajnaparamita Sutra:
“The law of Karma is without self-nature, that is why ultimately it is emptiness. Emptiness is not the work of Buddha, nor the work of human beings.”
It is said in Avatamsaka Sutra:
”The accomplishment of a Buddha is very difficult to understand, only Buddhas themselves can really understand the truth of all dharma”
These are the foundations of “Wu Sheng” repentance
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