2013-06-26
TBSN Special Announcement! After five years, His Holiness Living Buddha Lian-Sheng and King of Dharma Sheng-Yen Lu completed the Dharma teaching of ’ An Exposition on Hevajra ’ in Seattle Temple on June 1, 2013.

Reported by: Master Lian-Dian

Hevajra is firm, sturdy, eternal, immortal, and great bliss and they were all brought forth by emptiness.
The Samadhi power of Havajra is perfect and it is a great representation of great power, peace, and joy and as such that there is indeed no production or cessation. This is the process of cultivation with no beginning and ending.

After almost five years, His Holiness Living Buddha Lian-Sheng and King of Dharma Sheng-Yen Lu utilized his perfection of great wisdom from achieving enlightenment through continuous cultivation with purification of body, speech and mind to teach the difficult and complex Havajra Tantric Dharma. He enlightened the gist of Dharma-nature of sentient beings with explanation of the profound in simple terms and directly pointed out the essentials of cultivation. His Havajra teaching created a great impact at all times and in all places.
His Holiness Living Buddha Lian-Sheng and King of Dharma Sheng-Yen Lu used his astonishing stamina to continuously turn the unexcelled Dharma-wheel of Havajra in Seattle Temple, Rainbow Temple, and Taiwan Temple. His teaching unveiled ageless enigma of Tibetan Esoteric Buddhism Five Vajra Tantric Dharma and he is the first Chinese mahasiddha who completed the teaching of the deepest Havajra Tantric Dharma.

His Holiness Living Buddha Lian-Sheng and King of Dharma Sheng-Yen Lu of True Buddha School, was with pilgrimage disciples from around the world to perform a group cultivation of the Padmakumara Yoga and to perfectly conduct a Dharma teaching of the Chapter 43 ’ Completing the Path ’ of ’ Emptiness within Great Bliss, An Exposition on Hevajra ’ in Seattle Temple, at around 8:00PM on Saturday June 1, 2013.

Upon His Holiness Living Buddha Lian-Sheng and King of Dharma Sheng-Yen Lu kindly greeting honorable guests, disciples, and Buddhists onsite and those who are watching the live broadcast, he announced that he was going to complete the last chapter of ’An Exposition on Hevajra’ today and he will be starting the unrivalled Dharma teaching of ’ The Nine Stages Dharma of the Great Perfection (Dzogchen) ’ tomorrow in Rainbow Temple. It will take a long time to complete the Dharma teaching of ’The Nine Stages Dharma of the Great Perfection ’ and it will be at least five times more of the Hevajra Dharma teaching. ’The Nine Stages Dharma of the Great Perfection’ will take at least twenty five years as the Hevajra took five years to complete. Suddenly, there was a warm and continuous cheering and applauding and everyone was extremely happy and looking forward to the greatly uncovered secret ’ The Nine Stages Dharma of the Great Perfection ’ be turned and taught by His Holiness Living Buddha Lian-Sheng and King of Dharma Sheng-Yen Lu for a long time.

His Holiness Living Buddha Lian-Sheng and King of Dharma Sheng-Yen Lu then enlightened with detail explanation of Hevajra verse:
From the image of Vajrasattva,
Same as appearing in reality,
Meditates with mindfulness of thoughts,
As entering into a mandala,
Produce magical light as of precious Mani (摩尼),
To benefit its own-natures,
It will naturally reach perfection.

King of Dharma Lian-Sheng addressed the key points of the verse: Hevajra was transformed from Vajrasattva and it is the same as Vajrasattva who had truly appeared in the world that must be endured to rescue sentient beings crossing over the flow of Samsara. We can enter the Hevajra Mandala, unify with Hevajra, emerge our Buddha-nature, and produce magical light as of precious Mani when meditating with mindfulness of thoughts. Once lights reflect and emerge, everything will naturally reach perfection.

King of Dharma Lian-Sheng expounded: You will not fear anything and nothing will trouble you anymore plus you can be on a rebirth in the Western Pure Land once your Buddha-nature appears. The reasons you cannot go to the Pure Land are because there is still matter you care, there is still pain you feel, there is still worry you have, and there is still thing you cannot let go.

Another verse:
Once you are able to quietly give yourself to thought,
Freely corresponding to behave as a Dakini,
Obtaining pleasure of the transcend joy,
Can receive and enjoy what one has,
Completely over the paths of birth and age,
It is a peace and joy from the meditation.

You will be at the same state as all Dakinis once reaching the supreme and marvelous mind.
His Holiness Living Buddha Lian-Sheng and King of Dharma Sheng-Yen Lu used his flying experience in dream as an example. It is an extremely great pleasure to be able to fly in the sky with a freely and easily invisible flying. It is because at that time suffering of birth, age, sickness, death, and shackles was all purified and removed. It is same as obtaining a feeling of peace and joy during sitting for meditation. You are reaching the meditation of peace and joy when an emotion of crying or laughing will no longer have any impact to you.

King of Dharma Lian-Sheng then brought up that Esoteric Buddhism teaching is focusing on becoming a Buddha through sound of recitation. Why is it the sound of recitation? The main reason is because of reciting of mantra [also known as True Words.] Mantra is also called ’ Magical Formula ’ which provides many gateways to Buddhist teachings.
King of Dharma Lian-Sheng explained the way to use sound of recitation to reach enlightenment by using ’ Seven Days Buddhahood Practice ’ Visualization of the universal as Yidam in space is the syllable [AH] and the practitioner is the syllable [HUM] when one self is approaching of death. Using the hook of the syllable [AH] to hook the syllable [HUM] of the practitioner and pull you to the Western Paradise of Yidam. The mantra which you need to recite is [Ah Hum].

When a practitioner is reciting a mantra, the recitation needs to be very rapid which is like a lion jump. The practitioner needs to remove all afflictions and push seed of consciousness out of obelion [the region of the skull between the two parietal foramina where the closure of the saggittal suture usually begins] and directly into the heart of Yidam and this is called the Enlightenment of Vidyadhara (持明成就).

His Holiness Living Buddha Lian-Sheng and King of Dharma Sheng-Yen Lu explained White Dakini Padma (Lotus) Sadhaha and Red Dakini Padma Sadhaha. Contemplating and thinking the White (or Red) Dakini sitting on top of the head of the practitioner and the base of lotus of Dakini is right on top of head of the practitioner with Sushumna connecting each other. The practitioner will soon arrive at the Western Pure Land when Buddha-nature was sent to the heart of Dakini.
The White Dakini is Pandaravasini (白衣觀音) and the Red Dakini is Vajravarahi (金剛亥母), Kurukulle (咕嚕咕咧佛母), or Wealth Attracting Goddess (勾財天女).

King of Dharma Lian-Sheng expounded: A true Siddha can directly enter heart of the Yidam without going through body of the intermediate state [the state of existence between death and rebirth]. Ordinary sentient beings will follow their own consciousness and at any moment, they could be either visiting residences of their relatives and families or floating all over places without a fixed residence while going through body of the intermediate state. At the time, they will be able to rebirth in the Pure Land if there is a great Buddhist friend to remind them to remember the Root Guru, the Root Yidam, and the Root Dharmapala and they remember the Three Roots Tsawa Sum and enter their heart. For those who forgot the Three Roots Tsawa Sum and saw illusory objects will then transmigration through the six kinds of rebirth and follow the results of their karma.

A body of the intermediate state will rebirth to the same objects as the deceased family members when itself saw them and was happy to follow;
Will rebirth to a beetle when saw a car and was happy to enter;
Will rebirth to a snake when saw a train and was happy to enter;
Will rebirth to a crab when saw a dooly and was happy to enter;
Will rebirth as an egg when chased by enemy and hid in a cave from dread.

At last, King of Dharma Lian-Sheng Sheng-Yen Lu reminded everyone that you only can take your Three Roots Tsawa Sum - the Root Guru, the Root Yidam, and the Root Dharmapala with you when you are with your last breath.
Hevajra is with a very great power and is the first Vajra-Dharma appeared in Esoteric Buddhism. You will be able to unite with all Vajra-Dharma once you are uniting with Hevajra.

The incisive and precious Dharma talk of His Holiness Living Buddha Lian-Sheng and King of Dharma Sheng-Yen Lu perfectly concluded ’ An Exposition on Hevajra ’ teaching. There were warm applauds from all disciples who attended the cultivation to express their greatest appreciations.

At the moment of appreciation, Master Lianhua De-Huey , Abbot of Seattle Temple, and Master Lian-Yin, Abbot of Rainbow Temple, with senior reverends and reverends represented all True Buddha School disciples to express a sincere appreciation for His Holiness Living Buddha Lian-Sheng and King of Dharma Sheng-Yen Lu laborious teaching and present their khatas and offers. Master Lian-Jia, Deputy Abbot of Seattle Temple, represented true feelings of all True Buddha School disciples and sincerely expressed a graceful and impressive thought of appreciation.
As Master Lian-Jia said: {Grand Master, it is great to be with you! We wish to stay with you generation after generation.}

At last, His Holiness Living Buddha Lian-Sheng and King of Dharma Sheng-Yen Lu joined the crowd to chant and sing the name of Buddha and he then mercifully gave empowerment of refuge, blessed water of great compression, consecrated figure of Buddha and Buddhist art works, and rubbed crown of the heads of all sincere disciples for blessing.

As the Seattle night sky seems brighter and crisper tonight, everyone is sincerely looking forward to His Holiness Living Buddha Lian-Sheng and King of Dharma Sheng-Yen Lu unrivalled Dharma teaching of [The Nine Stages Dharma of the Great Perfection] will once again have a great impact!

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