July 11, 2026
Highlights of Padmasambhava Principal Deity Group Practice
By TBSN
Q&A
Lotus Zhengyi from Taiwan
Grandmaster, may you be well and at peace.
Thank you, Grandmaster, for your compassionate guidance and Dharma transmission.
With palms joined.
HH Living Buddha Liansheng’s Answer
HH Living Buddha Liansheng advocates equality without distinction. Therefore, passing a True Buddha School protection token over Golden Mother’s great incense burner for blessings is perfectly fine. Regardless of what one practices, the ultimate goal is to return to the One, and the One ultimately returns to Zero.
Generally, the steps of practice are: forming the mudra, visualization, mantra recitation, and entering samadhi. HH Living Buddha Liansheng demonstrated the mudra of the Wish-Fulfilling Precious Conch Practice for everyone at the ceremony. For visualization, practitioners visualize the Wish-Fulfilling Precious Conch becoming enormous, with everything they aspire to obtain contained within it. After completing this visualization, they begin mantra recitation.
Because this practice was transmitted by Shakyamuni Buddha, practitioners may recite either Shakyamuni Buddha’s mantra or the mantra of the Wish-Fulfilling Precious Conch Practice. After completing the mantra recitation, place the right hand over the left hand, which symbolizes the conch. This represents that everything within the Wish-Fulfilling Precious Conch has been perfectly accomplished and is received by the practitioner.
HH Living Buddha Liansheng also spoke about his deep affinity with Cihui Temple. It was at Cihui Temple that he first encountered Golden Mother of the Jade Pond and learned of his own origins, which marked the beginning of his life of spiritual cultivation and Dharma propagation.
Regarding sudden wealth, HH Living Buddha explained that some people simply do not have the destiny to win the lottery, no matter how many tickets they buy. Some people's wealth is accumulated gradually over time. Therefore, each person's karmic conditions and affinities are different.
Ultimately, life is all about affinities. Where there is affinity, things come together; where there is no affinity, things disperse. There is no need to overly complain or force matters. When one sees through the gatherings and separations of the world, one's mind naturally becomes more peaceful and stable.
Spiritual cultivation is like playing baseball. Blessings are like the wind that helps carry the ball farther, but the one who swings the bat is ultimately oneself.
HH Living Buddha Liansheng’s Commentary on the Surangama Sutra, Volume Five
Ananda respectfully said to Shakyamuni Buddha that, according to what the Buddha had previously taught, there are two fundamental meanings: one is the cause, and the other is the effect.
People in this world may attempt to untie these knots, but if they do not know where the knots originate, then they will ultimately be unable to untie them.
Ananda and the disciples in the assembly who were still cultivating toward Arhatship were the same. Everyone did not understand how these knots were formed. Since beginningless time, beings in the Saha World have continuously undergone cycles of birth and death. Although they have heard the Buddha’s teachings and even entered monastic cultivation, they may understand today yet forget tomorrow.
Therefore, they hoped Shakyamuni Buddha would have compassion for those suffering in the ocean of samsara and reveal how to untie these knots, allowing beings to avoid falling into samsara and the three lower realms. At that moment, all disciples prostrated before Shakyamuni Buddha, sincerely hoping that he would reveal the method to untie the knots within their minds.
HH Living Buddha Liansheng explained that spiritual cultivation is truly not easy, especially because sentient beings’ habitual tendencies are the most difficult to transform. Human life is often driven by desires for wealth, sensual pleasures, fame, food, and sleep. These are all knots, and they arise from the six sense faculties. If one remains deluded by the six senses, it becomes difficult to untie the knots within the mind.
A practitioner who wishes to attain realization must know how to cultivate through the six sense faculties. Only then can the knots within the mind be gradually untied one by one.
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