Question 21: Divine Father, our Spiritual Master, Mr Tam, has previously taught us to invoke mentally the six sacred words of Amitabha to open the Six Chakras(34) of the body in order to acquire the six supranormal powers.
Mr Tam has recommended clearly that it is mandatory to mentally invoke the six sacred words "NAM MO A DI DA PHAT"(35).
Even for the non-speaks of Vietnamese who adopt the Meditative Contemplation(121) of the school of Non-Being, when they practice the Dharma, they should also learn to invoke mentally this mantra in Vietnamese when practicing the spiritual ascesis. Mr Tam was of the opinion that we will get good results when we invoke these six sacred words in Vietnamese(36) in the proper sounds. Thus, would You please explain to us further about these points?
Answer: A Di Da Phat (Amitabha Buddha) or Buddha of the Infinite Light (37) is the name of an Infinite Lucid Buddha representing the Lucidity of the Universe or the Lucid Mind (tri) of GOD.
Within you, there is also A Di Da Phat (Amitabha Buddha) because you are also Small Gods: A Di Da Phat (Amitabha Buddha) is the essential character(38) of "Lucidity" that you have let go mouldy and become covered with lichens when you began learning the Impureness.
Therefore, after you wake up from a profound "sleep of ignorance" which has buried your mind for a long time, and want to attain to lucidity, you should continually invoke this Mantric Name(39), meditate on it to gradually reawaken the lucidity within you.
Because, to meditate constantly on A Di Da Phat (Amitabha Buddha) means to think unceasingly of the "Lucid Character" within you.
To keep one's mind on this essential character all the time will naturally vivify, develop it until it presides within you.
This is an excellent manner for you to become quickly lucid. Therefore, when you invoke assiduously this Mantric Name in your mind without being perturbed by any worries, with your spirit void and collected, then the six sacred words(35) will vibrate within you and emit a flux of spiritual energy that makes the six Chakras(34) radiate.
Anyone with a slight degree of Clairvoyance would experience this with the invocation of the six mantric words "NAM MO A DI DA PHAT", by which the six Chakras of the body will gradually open and develop to help you acquire the six supranormal powers(40).
However, I see that to invoke the six mantric words in the Vietnamese phonetics can present csome problems to My children among Occidental practitioners. So, if they find it difficult to invoke in Vietnamese, they may do it in Sanskrit "NA MO A MI TA BHA"(41).
These six Sanskrit words, which mean "Respectful Hommage to the Buddha of the Infinite Light", have been phonetically transcribed into Vietnamese as "NAM MO A DI DA PHAT".
And to invoke them in Sanskrit is even more efficient than it is in Vietnamese because the sounds emitted in Sanskrit almost have the sonority of the ones propagated in the Universe with their vibrations almost in phase with those in the Universe, which also reinforce more their flux of spiritual energy.
Here, I use the word "Sonority" to imply "the Pranic Sonority"(42), a sound gamut lying beyond the ordinary hearing range and you can only hear it after having acquired the "Clairaudio".
Remember that when you invoke something do it mentally, for to do it vocally will waste your spiritual energy. You should keep your mouth closed and your tongue curled upward to touch the upper gums with incisors against incisors. This coporeal status will ease the meeting between the Governing-Vessel and the Conception-Vessel(43) at that point(44), permitting the spiritual energy in your body to circulate continuously without being wasted to the outside through the mouth where the junction of the above meridians(45) is done.
By that means, the energy within you will also be more prolific. Therefore, during daytime, if there is nothing worth talking about, you should preferably remain quiet and set your mind on the invocation of Buddha or GOD so you will be less disturbed. In addition, it is for the better to keep your mouth closed to prevent the dissipation of energy.
Remember that if you worry too much, the Spiritual Energy (than) will be scattered. If you talk too much, the Vital Breath Energy (khi) will be used up.
If you indulge yourselves in sex abuses, the Seminal Essence Energy (tinh) will run out. When desiring to enter the Divine Way, to accede to Lucidity, Serenity, and Joy, you must make every effort to conserve the Three Gems: Seminal Essence Energy, Vital Breath Energy, Spirital Energy(46) and to consistently engage yourselves in reinforcing them to avoid the weakening of your spiritual energy, and consequently your lucidity.
Question 22: Divine Father, we invoke the six mantric words of Amitabha Buddha(35) to accede to the six supranormal powers and to gain lucidity. Could You let us know how efficient is the mental invocation of Your Mantric Name compared to that of Amitabha Buddha? We noticed that among Your different Names that there is no specific number of words such as the number of the six sacred words of Amitabha Buddha.
Will You please explain to us whether the number of words making up GOD's Name have any bearing on the mental invocation?
Answer: Well, the different Mantric Names of GOD do not require any specified number of words: some are short and some are long. That must tell you that GOD is Infinite and is not constrained by any limitation.
Therefore, you can invoke any one because the number of words have no effect on the mental invocation of GOD's Name. Any number of words can be Mine, provided that you do it with the thoughts to unite yourselves with GOD, the Creator.
I see that My children among the Westerners for example, are sometimes perplex to see that GOD's Mantric Name in Vietnamese is too hard to invoke and remember. In this case, you just invoke "GOD the Creator" in your language.
When you concentrate your thoughts on the Creator of the Universe, your Small Individual Souls will vibrate and your Divine Sparks of Light will radiate, sending "signals" to get in touch with the Great Divine Soul.
Then at that moment, if you know how to meditate on your mystical union with the Great Divine Soul, your spiritual energy will harmonize with the Great Sphere of Sacred Light of the Universe.
If you assiduously practice this Meditative Contemplation and keep your mind always united with GOD, your Small Individual Souls naturally will become quickly lucid, and achieve sooner the mystical union with GOD to return to the Divine Origin of all life.
As for the effectiveness of the mental invocation of GOD's Mantric Name compared to the Amitabha Buddha's Mantric Name, I make it clear to you as follows: When you invoke mentally these six sacred words of Amitabha Buddha, you awaken the "Lucid Character" within you by thinking of it.
The "Lucid Character" will therefore develop until the time you reach the goal. It helps you to see and recognize the Source and know the Origin of your True Nature(59).
And what is the significance of the invocation of GOD's Mantric Name? Invoking GOD's Mantric Name is in reality invoking the Mantric Name of your Soul.
Because who can you really be other than a Subdivided Soul, a Small Spark of Sacred Light of GOD who descends to earth to learn in order to understand your Entire Nature, then returns back to your Old Ranking Position when your Spark of Sacred Light is bright enough to harmonize with the Great Sphere of Sacred Light.
Therefore, when you invoke GOD's Mantric Name, which is also your True Mantric Name, your "True Divine Spirit"(47) or your Soul at that time will awaken. To invoke GOD's Mantric Name is to invoke your Mantric Name. It is to pay tribute to yourself and to stimulate, to remind, to awake, and to vivify yourselves while resuming the Master's role in the administration of your microcosm(75).
You have so far let yourselves be engulfed in the lethargy of ignorance and of darkness. You have not been in control of yourselves and do not know how to manage and direct your microcosm, causing the established order to become disturbed by an excessive lack of will and daydreaming in the "sleep of isolation", as if you have forgotten yourselves.
Therefore, when you invoke GOD's Mantric Name, it is the time for you to think of yourselves and shake yourselves awake: this will stimulate and reanimate your Spark of Sacred Light, progressively bringing it out of the languor so as to reestablish the Sovereign Power in you.
Thanks to that, you will awaken yourselves slowly to cognition, know who you are, where you came from, and where you have to return to. You will know yourselves and be more aware of your role as the Leader of a Microcosm, by which you have to manage, direct and reestablish the order that has been abolished because of your self-indulgence.
Therefore, to mentally invoke the Mantra NAM MO A DI DA PHAT is to awaken the lucidity within you. To invoke mentally GOD's Mantric Name is to awaken your very self. And when you are awakened and vivified again, the "Lucid Character" within you will naturally revitalize, because it is part of you: when you drowse, it also drowses, when you awaken, it also awakens.
This is to let you see that by mentally invoking GOD's Mantric Name you have already included the invocation of Amitabha Buddha's Mantric Name within it. Do not worry, do not be afraid that by mentally invoking GOD's Mantric Name, you have neglected that Amitabha Buddha's Mantric Name and cannot arrive to open the six Chakras(34). Of course, you can, My children! Indeed, when you awaken, the lucid part within you also vivifies and develops, gradually lending to the opening and development of the chakras.
My children, GOD is the Cosmic Universe. To invoke GOD is to invoke the whole Universe. All Buddhas, Immortals, Geniis, Saints are included in GOD without any exception. Do not be afraid that it lacks anything, you do not need to consider invoking both GOD's Mantric Name and Amitabha Buddha's Mantric Name, or Quan-Am(48) Bodhisattva's Mantric Name etc... I notice that many of My children have invoked both GOD's Mantric Name and Amitabha Buddha's Mantric Name, together with the Mantric Names of many other Buddhas. By doing so they aim to be on the safe side! Many more Buddhas will protect them for the better! Those children believe so because they have not yet understood the Principle of the Universe.
They do not know yet who they are, that their Nature is Godlike; they have not yet realized the extent of their magnificence: they are not conscious being in effect the Sovereign Rulers over the Universe!
In reality, Amitabha, Avalokiteshvara (Quan-Am), Maha- Sthamaprapta (Dai The Chi)(49), all exist withing them as components under their supervision and guidance! Amitabha is "Lucidity", which is their Nature of "Lucid-Mind"(50), Avalokiteshvara (Quan Am) is "Love" which is their Nature of "Merciful-Compassion"(51), Maha-Sthamaprapta (Dai The Chi) is the "Force of Thought" which is their Nature of "Intrepid-Courage"(51). Therefore, in the earth-world you worship the "Triple Essence of Buddha"(52) without understanding that these Three Buddhas symbolize the three essential characters(38) of "Lucid-Mind, Merciful-Compassion, and Intrepid-Courage of GOD".
It is the same with the worship of the Trinity in Christianity: GOD the Father is the nature of "Lucid-Mind", GOD the Son in the rank of Love is the nature of "Merciful-Compassion", and GOD the Holy-Spirit is the Force of Thought which is, in fact, the nature of "Intrepid- Courage".
Most of you do not understand the Truth, therefore, you pray to the Lord, invoking Buddhas and GOD with the intent of securing their support and protection. You think that GOD or Buddhas exist somewhere outside of you, but are unaware that these Divine Spirits also exist within you. This Nature of GOD is also yours, for you are really GOD yourselves!
If you do not accept this and presist in praying for protection and support, then your praying is mere superstition and interest-seeking! Most of you have invoked Amitabha Buddha's Mantric Name to protect you, Avalokiteshvara's Mantric Name (Quan Am) to preserve you from sufferings, and now, GOD's Mantric Name most often to ask HIM to spare you from calamities etc... This is selfish-praying and interest-seeking-invocation. They are selfish thoughts because you have not understood yourselves yet.
So what is the Right-Invocation?
When you mentally invoke the six sacred words of Amitabha(35), you should know that you are pulling yourselves together by awakening the lucidity and rekindling the light within you in an effort to overcome the darkness of ignorance. That is how you meditate on Amitabha right at His play of Amitabha.
When you mentally invoke the Mantra of Compassion of Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva(53) (Nam Mo Dai Bi Cuu Kho Quan-The-Am Bo- Tat), do you understand that you are awakening Love, the Compassionate Nature within you? You awaken it, develop it to open all your heart, to always do good in bringing relief to the unfortunate and dispense joy to others: This is how you meditate on Avalokiteshvara (Quan-Am) right at His place of Avalokiteshvara.
When you invoke GOD's Mantric Name, know that you are also invoking your own Mantric Name. You are in effect GOD who has split His Great Soul into Sparks of Sacred Light to descend on earth to learn.
You are the Master in control of your Microcosm(75); your nature is identical to that of the Creator of all Beings and whenever you invoke that Mantric Name, let your consciousness harmonize with the Cognitive Consciousness(54) of the Universe, let it vibrate in consonance with the Great Soul of the Cosmos. That is how you meditate on GOD the way HE wants, and that is how you have put yourselves in the right position.
To invoke this way is to know the proper invocation. That is the Right-Invocation and also the Right-View, the Right-Faith, the Right-Meditative Contemplation, and the Right-Mindfulness of Buddhism, My children.
And I tell you that when you know the Right-Invocation, even though you do not pray or do not ask for favor and protection, you are still protected and helped in a more efficient and powerful way. Why? This is easy to grasp because the mind of the one who invokes GOD for self-interest does not get illuminated as when the Right-Invocation is done, for his Soul is weak and evolves little, and because he only leans himself on the extrinsic powers for support without being aware of his inner potential.
That is way, when you invoke with the expectation to get help or protection, your spiritual energy is not fully realized as well as when you know the Right-Invocation which will cause your spiritual energy to harmonize with the Sphere of Lucid Energy of the Universe. When you invoke Amitabha Buddha, the spiritual energy within you will shine and vibrate in harmony with the Sphere of Spiritual Energy of Amitabha Buddha, a part of the "Lucid-Mind" Energy of the Universe.
When you invoke Avalokiteshvara (Quan Am), the spiritual energy of Avalokiteshvara (Quan Am) within you will brighten up and vibrate in harmony with the Sphere of Spiritual Energy of Avalokiteshvara - the energy of "Compassion" of the Universe. When you invoke GOD's Mantric Name, your Soul will then vibrate and the Spark of Sacred Light will shine in unison with the Great Sphere of Sacred Light.
Thanks to that, when making the Right-Invocation you will surround yourselves with an aura of beneficial energy, much more intense than the one done by interest-seeking. It will protect you and alleviate your misfortunes caused by the overburdened Karma.
And the more this sphere of beneficial energy around you expands, the more protection you get, so that your misfortunes will further dissipate even though you do not pray or beg for assistance like the one who does for the interest-seeking invocation. Thus, by adopting the proper attitude, you will be the most apt to rescue, to bless, and to protect yourselves, and make it more beneficial for you than those who practice the interest-seeking invocation for their spiritual energy radiates less.
Naturally, when it is in your interest to ask for benediction, the Ones in the Sphere of Lucid-Energy in the Universe will send you some of their Lucid-Energy to protect, to rescue, and to relieve you from misfortunes as you think of them. However, to invoke for an interest will delay your spiritual evolution, because with the habit of expecting and relying on extrinsic powers for help, your Small Individual Souls will always remain weak and your mind will develop more slowly, thereby retarding your evolution.
In brief, when you invoke Amitabha, visualize yourselves as Amitabha. When you invoke Avalokiteshvara (Quan Am), do it as if you were Avalokiteshvara (Quan Am). And when you invoke GOD's Mantric Name, see yourselves as GOD and become one with the Great Soul of the Universe. This way will help you evolve more quickly; it will enlighten you as well as bless and protect you more efficiently. The brighter and the purer you become, the more relieved you will be from the bad fortunes caused by the inertia of Karma(55) and the bad fruits that you have created.
I have just gone over with you on the right kind of invocation. As for the mental invocation of GOD's Mantric Name, you do not need to be preoccupied about. That is fine for those among you who know how to invoke GOD's Name! As for others who are still perplexed, and not used to invoking GOD's Name or have not yet understood its significance, they may just continue to invoke Amitabha's Mantric Name, because the mental invocation of Amitabha's Mantric Name is to open the mind to lucidity.
When you accede to lucidity then you will naturally see that your True-Being is GOD.
Question 23: Divine Father, please inform us whethere the spiritual ascesis of the Esoteric Science of Non-Being that we are practicing is actually a Heart-Dharma(56)? And what does the Heart-Dharma and the Esoteric-Dharma mean?
Answer: The Heart-Dharma(56) is a method that consists of going directly into the "Core of the Self"(57), regardless of the visible plane with its external appearances, to interiorize the spiritual light by reflection(58) in order to perceive deep into "the Origin of your True Nature"(59).
In short, the Heart-Dharma or the Meditative Contemplation(121) is really the approach which can bring about your self-image through a scientific search of Non-Being.
And what is the Esoteric-Dharma? The Esoteric Dharma is a secret initiative method of uncommon access by which practitioners only get selected through the Oral Tradition.
So far, the Heart-Dharma used to be the Esoteric-Dharma and has been but rarely divulged. That is why you often hear expressions such as "Esoteric Initiation of Heart- Dharma" or "Heart-to-Heart Initiation of Esoteric-Dharma" etc... Why has this Esoteric Initiation been restricted? In the past, when a Master or a Patriarch at the spirtual school of TAO (Way)(62) wanted to initiate someone to the Heart-Dharma, He would usually look among His followers for a possible candidated of virtue who is not burdened with terrestrial karma and who is aspiring toward liberation, readily renouncing all wordly desires.
Then the Master would call that disciple aside to bestow upon him the invaluable Esoteric-Dharma by the Oral Tradition so the latter can follow to perfect and liberate himself. That is the way the Dharma has been conferred so far! As for the method of Esoteric Science of Non-Being it is also a Heart-Dharma with an initiation which has not been held back but is widely divulged to the common people so that everyone may practice.
That is part of "the Universal Heart-Dharma".
Therefore, if you like to become lucid(22) quickly, to develop the claivoyance sooner, to evolve more rapidly so as to free yourself from the Cycle of the Four-Griefs (birth, old age, illnesses, death), the Malefic Ways, and the metempsychosic existences, you must learn the Meditative Contemplation, practice the Heart-Dharma, and devote yourselves to the Spiritual Ascesis in a more diligent or zealous manner for your success.
Question 24: Divine Father, if the Heart-Dharma can help human beings enlighten themselves rapidly, progress more quickly toward the sphere of liberation, then why has it not been more widely divulged to assist the common people in leading a life of spiritual perfection instead of keeping its initiation secret? Was it because the Masters or the Patriarchs were narrow-minded or selfish like the skilled physicians who know a good medicine but only divulge its true prescription to their progenitures and close friends?
Answer: Here, I am going to explain why the Heart-Dharma has not been divulged to the crowd. They do have reasons, My children!
The Heart-Dharma(56) is of great value.
To pass it on to an improper hand who is unfit to safeguard it would just end up wasting it as if it is to throw a valuable thing into the sea! For an adept of heavy Karma and an impure character, who is still imbued with infatuation, lacking self-denial and being unmindful of his spiritual liberation then is there any point for him to receive the precious Dharma? He would only destroy it!
Would the devotion to the practice of meditative contemplation while still being overburdened with karmic ordeals make it difficult to remain quiet? With one's preoccupations for materialistic endeavors and one's character still impure, one will be unrelentingly disturbed by the seven passions and the six desires(61) - making it difficult to collect one's mind. So, even though he has received the Heart-Dharma, he would show reluctance to practice the spiritual ascesis and there will be a time when he would abandon it half way.
Moreover, you should also know that there exists many Spiritual Disciplines where they require from their adepts a basis of virtue and a certain degree of purification as a potent foundation for a life of perfection. Also, the spiritual ascesis to the TAO (Way)(62) must be surveyed and is under continual care of the Master-Patriarchs, the True-Masters by whom the adepts have been initiated.
All this trouble is to prevent any possible harm to them. In fact, many of them are particularly attentive to the progress of the Kundalini(63) energy in the human body relating to the aperture of the Secret-Centers(64) and the initiations of the adepts to supranormal powers.
Therefore, if the adepts learn the Dharma without being adequately alleviated or with their mind and character still impure, they may act contrary to the directives and incorrectly mobilize the Kundalini energy with the risk of either mental disorder or physical injury.
Those are a few among several reasons that cause the Heart- Dharma to remain a secret initiation.
And why has the Esoteric Science of Non-Being been freely divulged to the crowd?
- First, because its practice is not so difficult. The mobilization of the spiritual energy is rather safe for the adepts. That is why, it can be widely make known to the common people.
- Next, the divulgation is also disposed by the Divine Will: GOD had revealed to Do Thuan Hau this Spiritual Discipline to pass it on to the common man. Why? Because this is the Final Era. This Kalpa (65) is the Kalpa of Decadence.
This is the era of misery, of afflictions designed for the purification and selection of Souls having the spiritual level to enter the Superior Era of the New-Creation, also called the Era of Wisdom. It is the stage where humanity must pay the karmic debts, enduring all kinds of ordeals in this world.
Thus, GOD has also sent His Benediction to the world to save more of His children. Accordingly, this can be considered as the Great Amnesty of Heaven and Earth.
I will likewise make every effort to help and save those children who do their best to lead a life of spiritual perfection, who strive to return to GOD, regardless of their heavy Karma(14) and their previously dim spiritual dispositions.
Thus, GOD has provided humanity with all kinds of means and opportunities. Unlike the previous restrictions, HE has disclosed the Heart-Dharma even to those of insufficient spiritual dispositions(13), who are hindered by their heavy Karmas such that at any spiritual level of a bright or dark past, of a heavy or light Karma, His children can have every chance to return to the Origin if they are determined to lead a life of spiritual perfection and progress positively in this Final Phase.
Pretty soon, GOD will act(66) so that the Spiritual Disciplines of relatively uncomplicated practices will be widely divulged to the world and propagated for the benefit of everyone in this Final Stage with all kinds of "vehicles"(147) or "rafts" at their disposition to be one of their own preferred means to return to GOD.
Your present spiritual ascesis of Esoteric Science of Non-Being (1) is an excellent "vehicle" to carry you to the sphere of liberation. In the field of Non-Being, of the esoteric section of Caodaism(33), there also exists a pragmatic Spiritual Discipline; but so far, it has only been divulged in a very restricted manner by the Oral Tradition.
Nevertheless, it will be sooner or later divulged to the crowd. Recently, by the the mediumistic writing, I have announced the Oracle at different places to permit the gradual disclosure of this Spiritual Discipline.
Question 25: Divine Father, You have taught that in order to proceed faster to the sphere of liberation, we must practice the Heart-Dharma. What about the people who do not know the Meditative Contemplation(121) but behave well and do Charitable Deeds in their life? Will they be able to liberate themselves?
Answer: Here, the heart of the matter is in the ultimate aim for which people do the Good and accumulate the Spiritual Merits. Are they performing Charity for the motive of obtaining Spiritual Merits, self- liberation, or is it only for saving other for misfortunes and dispensing them joy? We would have to know the motives in order to give judgement.
My children who practice the Good all their life in quest of Spiritual Merits are creating Good Karmas that will send them back into the Cycle of Reincarnation to reap the fruits of their good deeds.
To practice the Good with such a spirit is simply to bind yourselves to the Cycle of Metempsychosis(60) and immerse yourselves forever in the Four Griefs (birth, old age, illnesses, death); because when you karmicly transmigrate again to inherit these precious Spiritual Merits, there is no assurance that you might no longer contract new karmic relations which may detain you in the transmigration and rebirth!
Those of My children who all their life practice the Good in pursuit of self-liberation are better off: their Souls have made more spiritual progress. However, if they have earned a lot of Spiritual Merits without their minds being adequately illuminated, they must reincarnate again to lead the life of spiritual perfection in order to evolve, to open their mind until they become enlightened enough to liberate themselves.
Meanwhile, thanks to the Spiritual Merits from their previous existences, they will be less afflicted by bad Karma and will instead encounter on the way toward perfection more fortunate conditions that will help them evolve more quickly.
But those children, who practice the Good with the will to serve pople, to deliver them from misfortunes or to dispense them with joy, are the ones whose souls are at a higher level of evolution: with such spirit, they will get enlightened faster because they practice the Good without hope for reward, without falling preys to desires but simply do it out of Compassion.
At that time, the flux of their thought waves within them will vibrate radiantly and beautifully. Owning to that, My children will ultimately develop the Enlightened Consciousness (67) and the Mind of Supreme Wisdom(68).
To practice the Good with a peaceful mind without yearning for a compensation or profit, but only with the spirit to serve people and dispense them joy - is the way of a Bodhisattva. It also helps your mind evolve rapidly toward lucidity, serenity, and liberation.
But, if you want to progress quickly and realize the Spiritual Way in one existence, you cannot practice either the Good or the Heart- Dharma alone, but must rather lead the life of spiritual perfection by realizing both "the Spiritual Merits and the Clairvoyance". More than ever in the Final Stage of this Inferior Era, your must endeavor to be on time for the Third Great Assembly of the Elects.
Thus, you must make every effort to lead the life of spiritual perfection by realizing simultaneously the Spiritual Merits and the Clairvoyance with hope to be on time.
Indeed, the person who is in quest of the Spiritual Supreme Way (69), who wants to avoid the Cycle of Metempsychosis(60) and the Four-Griefs (birth, old age, illnesses, death) must perfect himself by realizing "the Spiritual Merits together with the Clairvoyance". If he only possesses one of these when his Soul leaves the body, it must reincarnate to work for the missing part.
In fact, if you have the Spiritual Merits but lack in Clairvoyance, your Souls will have to return to earth to perfect the unachieved part concerning lucidity. And if you have Clairvoyance but lack in Spiritual Merits, your Souls cannot return to the sphere of liberation for the lack in Charity Deeds. Thereby, you must return to earth to carry out your mission in using your lucidity to help and guide others to accomplishment; only then will you be able to return and enjoy the Sphere of Pure Serenity of Nirvana.
There can be a live proof in the case of Luong Si Hang, My children. His spiritual energy has attained the sphere of Nirvana. He knows the joys of being able to come to the Sphere of Lucidity, of Liberation, and has the intent to leave His physical body for good.
But how can He leave the earth-world when His mission has not been accomplished or when His Charity Work has not reached completion? His Soul is assigned to the earth with the missions to guide people toward the Third Great Assembly of the Elects by teaching them the meditative contemplation(121) according to the Dharma of Esoteric Science of Non- Being.
But so far, since the Great Assembly of the Elects has not revealed the list of its elects, then how can He return when His mission is not fulfilled or when human beings are still drowned in misery, darkness, and undergoing harsh trials: even though He has realized the Spiritual Way and attained liberation He still cannot return to Nirvana to enjoy the Blissful Plentitude. Therefore, one time as He intended to abandon His physical body and die in this life, His Divine Light had hardly reached the Sphere of Nirvana that it was pushed back to earth by GOD's Energy preventing Him from leaving His physical body.
As most of you have witnessed, when He was about to leave His physical body, He had to return to the earth-world in order to be with you. Later on, when He met ME through the Venerable Sanctified Body on earth, He asked again to depart from His body, but I let Him know that His mission has not yet been accomplished. And, although His Soul has reached the Sphere of Buddhas and is lucid and serene, the Wisdom Era has not yet come and the common people who are still ignorant and miserable still need His spiritual guidance.
Therefore, He cannot accept the rank of Buddha to enjoy the felicity of Nirvana, but He has to remain Bodhisattva to endure the hardship and sufferings by going here and there in this world to the rescue of humanity.
Check with Him for what I say so as to know more. By this, I want to stress the importance of Charity Deeds as something of an equal weight to the Practice of Spiritual Ascesis.
In conclusion, you should practice the two parts: "Spiritual Merits and Clairvoyance". To lead a life of spiritual perfection(25) in view of acquiring Clairvoyance is to diligently practice the Spiritual Ascesis, and continuously improve the spiritual exercises of the Dharma so as to open the "Gate of Heaven"(70), and to help the Small Individual Souls clear the Way back to the Heavenly Homeland.
To lead a life of spiritual perfection in view of acquiring Spiritual Mertis is to practice Charity Deeds. But keep in mind that if you do it in order to save others from misfortunes and dispense them joy, you will get lucid faster and evolve more quickly.
Question 26: Divine Father, Mr. Tam has informed us that for spiritual endeavors toward liberation we should put more efforts in the spiritual ascesis and not be too preoccupied with charitable and social activities, which only belong to the Sphere of the Terrestial- Immortals;(71) for this should not be the main work of those who lead the life of spiritual perfeciton with a view to liberation! If one is engaged in doing charity activities in society, one's mind can become susceptible to worldly desires and the Soul will be held in the world of the Terrestial-Immortals without being about to accede to the Sphere of Buddhas, for those who are in the world of Terrestial-Immortals still have to transmigrate karmicly back to the earth-world. Mr.
Tam has also informed us that the roles of Spiritual Chiefs, Spiritual Leaders, and Religious Guides are all assumed by the Terrestial- Immortals. Divine Father, would You please elaborate on this matter?
Answer: I have already answered this question to a few adepts at Ba-Ria in Tam's presence.
To a certain extent, what Tam said was right in the sense that all the general activities of the world in various political, cultural, economical, sociological and religious aspects etc... all the progress of the material civilizations as well as the spiritual one of humanity on earth depend on the activities and the operation of the Sphere of the Terrestrial-Immortals.
Tam is also right that the roles of the Spiritual or Religious Guides are also those of the Sphere of Terrestrial-Immortals. Tam is also right that the roles of the Spiritual or Religious Guides are also those of the Sphere of Terrestrial-Immortals.
Because, to help take care of the earth-world is also the responsibility of the Terrestrial-Immortals. If anyone among you arrives to that sphere after his Soul has left the physical body then he will have the opportunity to meet the members of the "Terrestrial-Immortal Assembly" and see how these Divinities are day and night busy in keeping this earth-world evolving. He will then understand better what I have just said.
On the other hand, Tam was not exactly to the point when saying that those who lead the life of spiritual perfection with a view to liberation or who are preoccupied with Charity Deeds or engaged in social activities to help the world will have their Souls held back in the Sphere of Terrestrial-Immortals for being unable to accede to the Sphere of Buddhas. Indeed, whethe you will be held back in this Sphere or not depends on you, your Cognitive Consciousness(54) and the level of your Lucidity.
If you work to help the world and plat the role of the Terrestrial-Immortal with your mind and heart bound to it, such as a religious leader wholly absorbed by his position - then your Cognitive Consciousness would be impeded at the Sphere of Terrestrial- Immortals, your Lucidity would only evolve to that level, and your Souls will not be able to accede to the Sphere of the Sublime Liberation.
On the contrary, if you work to help the world and play the role of the Terrestrial-Immortal by Compassion only to save others from misfortunes and dispense them joy and help living beings free themselves from the painful Cycle of Ignorance or assist them in their evolution without being agitated or being tied up to that function, your Mind will be that of a Buddha, and so will your Virtue.
Your mind will then eventually evolve above the Sphere of Terrestrial Immortals, and thereafter, your Souls will even reach the Sphere of Liberation.
My children, take the example of Sakya-Muni Gautama Buddha! He was a Buddha who in the role of a Terrestrial-Immortal as a Spiritual Chief of a religion - had devoted His life to save the world! But His Divine Light was not at all detained in the Sphere of Terrestrial- Immortals. For Him, the role of a religious leader was but a convenient means for the deliverance of living beings.
He assumed the worldly status of religious leader out of pure compassion and pure love for mankind and not because of the honorific vestments of a religious leader. That was to comport as a Terrestrial-Immortal but with the wisdom of a Buddha. Therefore, though He played the role of a Terrestrial-Immortal, He remains a Buddha, for ever.
Moreover, if faced with the need to save living beings from misfortunes and to support the Scheme of Evolution, you still argue over the kind of role you may play or are afraid that the task is not profitable enough and pass it on to other people, then that is also infatuation and intransigeance(9) for you have not yet reached the right level of Compassion and Courage! Indeed, you have not attained the requisite degree of Compassion and Courage and you are still held at that level without being able to develop further! On the other hand, if your Compassion and Courage do not progress, there is no way for your Lucidity to develop either.
Again, the task of guiding the evolution of the earth-world is immense and My scheme for that evolution is really grandiose and multitudinous! Many things are to be carried out in order to save the Souls still trapped in their ignorance or held back in their evolution! So, there is a drastic need for "Militants"(72) to undertake this work, My children! But to whom should I rely on if the ones with lucidity, the ones who have the conditions and the means are not disposed to share the responsibility of helping the world in the evolution of its living beings? I cannot ask those who do not lead a life of spiritual perfection to save others from misfortunes but will only count of those who can rise spiritually and taken on themselves the burden of saving the world from misery.
If these enlightened children are concerned but for their own spiritual growth, their own return to the Sphere of Light, or their own felicity and leave the care of billions of ignorant Souls to whoever wants to take charge, then who else will take the burden if not those who know how to lead the life of spiritual perfection, who consciously strive toward the Good, who are seeking for the Sphere of Light? They should keep this Truth in mind: To care for others is to care for yourselves and to help others evolve is to promote your own evolution.
To lead a life of spiritual perfection is to undertake a journey in the pursuit of Compassion, Lucidity, Courage and to develop Compassion, Lucidity, Courage to the Infinite. And to perform Charity Deeds by bringing help and relief to the world with all your capability is also one of the several ways to develop Compassion, Lucidity, and Courage.
However, Tam's statement was not without reason. He might have worried that your Cognitive Consciousness(54) can become infatuated and disturbed by the role of benefactor so that your mind would not be able to evolve to the Sublime Sphere! But then, look at His example: though His mind can accede to the Sphere of Buddhas, He still holds the role of a Terrestrial-Immortal, My children! He is himself realizing Charity Deeds, exerting all His means to help humanity. He always dispenses His knowledge and spiritual energy to save the commom people from misfortunes.
He also engages himself in social works or in healing people! Next, look back at His life of spiritual perfection(25) in the past, when Tam first started to develop His Clairvoyance, He had already done His utmost to share His knowledge and assist others in their evolution. In the Visible Plane, He devotes Himself to preaching the Dharma(56) and exhorting others toward a life of spiritual perfection. In the Invisible Plane, He sends His energy to assist the adepts in the practice of the spiritual ascesis or to save the souls of the deceased.
He assists the Souls in their spiritual evolution from the Inferior to the Middle Sphere. That is how Tam accomplishes His Good Deeds, builds up His virtues, and strengthens His Occult Substance(73) to support the process of His evolution.
Thanks to that, Tam becomes lucid faster, evolves more rapidly, and by His spiritual energy, has succeeded to reach the Buddha Sphere within a very short time, My children! So you see, besides the Spiritual Ascesis, Tam does not at all neglect the part concerning the Charity Deeds: He not only exerts diligently the Spiritual Ascesis, promotes Charitable Deeds, but also observes the Character Improvement! So, remember the "Three Deeds"(74), My children.
What does the "Character Improvement" mean? It is the observation of the Commandments, the resigned and contious effort which also means the Vow of Good Conduct! You see, at the beginning of His life of spiritual perfection, Tam had already focused all His attention on the realization of His Vow of Good Conduct and the strict observance of the commandments as well as the detachment from wordly matters, and the total devotion to a humble and resigned life. He strives day and night to practice the spiritual ascesis without lingering.
As for you: if you want to progress and get enlightened quickly, you must make every effort to observe the Three Deeds without fail. To exert the Three Deeds is to develop Compassion, Lucidity, and Courage.
- The practice of Charity Deeds is the realization of the word Compassion.
- The practice of Spiritual Ascesis is the realization of the word Lucidity(22).
- The practice of the Character Improvement is the realization of the word "Courage".
You cannot realize the Vow of Good Conduct and will not be able to accomplish it unless you have Courage. Therefore, to keep the Vow of Good Conduct is also a way to enhance or realize the word Courage.
However, I see that most of My children of the Esoteric Science of Non-Being who lead the life of spiritual perfection have not fully understood this yet. By the way, the underestimate Charity Deeds for the sake of the Spiritual Ascesis. For them, in order to quickly reach the Clairvoyance and develop the Mind(50), they only have to concentrate on the Spiritual Ascesis.
However, you should understand that, in order to develop the Mind, you have to learn Compassion. The more Compassion and Courage you get, the more Lucidity you will gain, My children.
So, the greater the Compassion and Courage are, the broader the Lucidity will develop. If your Compassion is restrained, your Courage is weak and so your Lucidity will not be able to develop to a higher level. Remember that, you only become more lucid by loving more.
If you are narrow-minded and lack Compassion, your spiritual energy only wanders to a low plane and cannot go higher. Therefore, to attain the state of Buddha, you must be able to open your heart and give assistance to other living beings. Because the heart of Buddha is the heart that loves all living beings and things.
Thanks to that love, Buddha's Mind(50) shines to attain the Sphere of Liberation. But then, in other words, the purpose of the Spiritual Ascesis is to develop Lucidity, and to have Lucidity is to know how to love more, that is Compassion.
Knowing how to love more for one's own growth and exert one's will upon one's False-Self in view of bravely facing difficulties and hardships, and delivering others from misfortunes, that is Courage.
- To summarize, know that:
o If you have Lucidity, you will get Compassion and Courage.
o If you have Courage, you will get Compassion and Lucidity.
o If you have Compassion, you will get Lucidity and Courage.
- It means that:
o In order to achieve Lucidity, you must have Compassion and Courage.
o In order to achieve Courage, you have have Compassion and Lucidity(22).
o In order to achieve Compasssion, you must have Lucidity and Courage.
These qualities are in close relationship and you always have to develop them for the Way back to the Origin by practicing diligently the "Three Deeds"(74), My children!
Question 27: Divine Father, please advise me: You told us to profess our love and I want to be loving but my heart does not feel like it; it can not love spontaneously. What should I do?
Answer: You say you want to love but your heart is not ready for it, do you know the reason? Your Soul, the Master of the Microcosm(75) wants to love but the Twelve Visceral Entities(27) within you do not. Indeed, because of your own weaknesses, your Soul has turned to the Twelve Visceral Entities and let them overcome you.
As the Master of your Microcosm, your Soul wants to love but the Twelve Visceral Entities do not want to! That is because they do not know how to.
If the Twelve Visceral Entities do not know love yet, then you must teach and show them. And how do you teach the Twelve Visceral Entities? By not only engaging yourself to the Spiritual Ascesis, by assisting them to become more lucid, more conscious, but also by educating them through the practice of Charity Deeds.
Because to perform Charity Deeds is to create occasions for your Soul to present the Twelve Visceral Entities within you with the complelling opportunities to learn the practice of love. If the Twelve Visceral Entities do not conform to the Soul's willpower for lack of love then you must force their obedience when being faced with an opportunity for love and devotion requiring their efforts.
Through these practical lessons, the Twelve Visceral Entities will gradually accomodate with the good habits and will almost naturally discover more and more about love afterwards. By knowing more about it, they will become more lucid. So, is not this a way to save them by helping them become more lucid with Charity Deeds? And, aren't these practices of Charity Deeds also occasions for you to love the very Beings(76) in your body? Many of My children in the School of Non-Being think that according to Tam's teachings, the practice of Compassion is already realized by only loving the Beings in their own bodies, which means that they simply need to engage themselves in the practice of the Spiritual Ascesis in order to save them.
However, as you have just seen, to help them become lucid is to have recourse not only to the practice of Spiritual Ascesis, but also to the performance of Charity Deeds. My children, you should remember that to perform Charity Deeds is to practice Compassion! Compassion, on the other hand, is something you can only learn by doing, and if the word "Compassion" is not learned by heart, Lucidity cannot develop. Thereby, how can you grow? If you cannot grow, then how can you redeem the Beings within your Body-Microcosm?
Question 28: But Divine Father, we do not have enough opportunities to perform Charity Deeds and we lack the material means for it. Would You please show us the way?
Answer: You say that you do not have any opportunity to perform Charity Deeds. When you possess love you will certainly have many opportunities to serve others. What you should do is to look for them but not let them find you out. If you want your itinerary to be short and want to get illumined sooner but do not take pains in clearing your trail of thornbush, you will inevitably be held back because of the heavy terrestrial Karma.
So how can you proceed forward easily without being afflicted by trials or without dragging behind on the Way? Disentangle yourselves from the weight of the Karmic Web by paying off all your wordly debts, by your services to humanity, your Charity Deeds and by building up your virtues to enhance your "Occult Substance(73)", and use the Spiritual Merits to overcome your karmic debts, which will thus become alleviated, the burdens being reduced permitting you to proceed more smoothly.
If you are overwhelmed with heavy Karma and are lacking in Spiritual Merits, then for whatever advance on the Path of Spiritual Perfection you may try, you still have to go through a painful affliction that could hamper your evolution.
Are you lacking in means to carry out Charity Deeds? Then, I let you know that you have to conceive Charity Deeds in a broader and more open manner. It is not solely the act of dispensing aims and gifts to the poor that constitute Charity Deeds. It also includes a spiritual connotation which is to save other living beings from misfortunes, to dispense them joy, or in a word to serve and help them evolve.
With experience, you will realize that the most precious gift is the Spiritual Energy because it will invigorate and enlighten them. Indeed, you can daily form good and beneficial thoughts to enlighten weak, unillumined, or evil beings. This is an excellent thing for others and it can be also called a Charity Deed.
If you persevere in this way of almsgiving, you will be purer, and your spiritual energy will be projected beyond the thick layer of impure sphere to accede to the Plane of Pureness in the Universe and become promptly alleviated.
Question 29: Divine Father, we see that in the Monograhps given by the Oracles, the Three Deeds and the Four Virtues have been mentioned. And, You have already explained the meaning of the "Three Deeds" but we have not understood about the "Four Virtues".
Answer: The "Four Virtues" in question are the "Four Infinite Virtues of the Heart" which are the four modes of Spiritual Conduct necessary for those who want to lead he life of spiritual perfection, striving toward "Kindness, Compassion, Joy, and Abnegation".
These four modes of Spiritual Conduct amount to one Virtue, which is Love, My children! Simple call it Love for you cannot possess Kindness, Compassion, Joy, and Abnegation unless you are able to love! In brief, those Four Virtues can fit in one word, Compassion, and the more Compassion you have developed, the more of these Four Infinite Virtues you will acquire in your heart. In another word, when you arrive at achieving the Three Deeds, you will naturally possess the Four Virtues!
Question 30: Divine Father, in these days, because of the political events and difficult situations, we have become easily perturbed and have problems in the practice of the spiritual ascesis during which we feel heavy, lazy, and exhausted or become often distracted.
Besides, we easily succumb to anxiety, foolishness, or irritability and know it to be a revolt of the Twelve Visceral Entities(27) within us though not knowing how to control them. Would You please show us a way out of this?
Answer: Do you know what are the causes of such a phenomenon and why you have met all kinds of difficulties? This is because of a very thick layer of impure energy covering up the earth-world.
Those among you who have acquired the Wisdom Eye can see that it is increasing and expanding itself in the sky! This impure energy gives you the feelings of heaviness, perturbation, chaos and unavoidably makes you more or less contaminated by it. Due to that fact, those among you who cannot recollect themselves because their willpower is not strong enough, will eventually be subdued by it.
When being assailed by the impure energy that invades from all sides, if your Souls lacks willpower and cannot hold the initiative, it will consquently let the Twelve Visceral Entities within you take over the control and perturb you. That brings you easily to nervousness, irritability, anger, foolishness, discouragement, and unhappiness; furthermore, it may urge you to commit more errors.
In these days, you often feel heavy during the practice of spiritual ascesis. And so, with a lack of willpower, you may feel negligent, weary and will do it perfunctorily. Under these circumstances, it is hard for you to receive the spiritual energy that will give you a lift-up. Indeed, when your physical body does not receive enough pure energy, you feel heavy, sad, weary, hurt, perplex and perturbed. You will be dominated by the Twelve Visceral Entities and may then commit other errors, drawing on worries and misfortunes that will afflict and crush you.
Therefore, I advise you to make every effort to practice the Respiratory Exercises during the day. The more you exercise the better, for it helps you eliminate the contaminated impure energy. Because, when you practice the Respiratory Exercies, by mobilizing your breaths, you let enter that part of positive air (yang) from the atmosphere to make your physical body positive (77) and your Soul will then become alleviated and enlightened. The impure air is so heavy in these days that everytime you mobilize your breath you cannot take in a lot of positive air (yang), therefore, you must make more efforts in the Respiratory Exercises in order to eliminate the foul air (negative-yin) withing you so you could feel less afflicted.
In addition, in order to keep better control of yourselves and to dominate the Visceral Entities within you, try the following approach, My children.
When you are under the weight of emotions, discouragement, nervousness or anger against someone, stop right away what perturbs you, take a long deep breath, and then exhale thoroughly. Keep breathing until you are able to control yourselves. While breathing, curl your tongue against the upper gum.
Keep incisors against incisors and mentally invoke the Mantric Name of Buddha or GOD the Father while focusing your thought at the Psychic Center on the top of your head: in the meantime, invoke GOD's Mantric Name thinking that you are yourselves a GOD governing your body. Then, residing at the position of GOD, start transmitting the best wishes to all Beings(76) within your body-microcosm and to bless the Twelve Visceral Entities(27) within you, who being under the influence of darkness and sufferings, may become unruly for the lack of pure energy and divine light.
Think that you are granting them Grace, Lucidity, and that by your thoughts, you are ceaselessly instructing them to adopt the life of spiritual perfection. Persuade them to evolve, teach them to obey the lucid will of their Master-Soul, so they can quickly break free from the sorrows of the Karmic Cycle.
Communicate with them by thoughts like a father talking to his innocent and ignorant children. When they are unruly, use your thoughts to reprimand and educate them. If you can exert yourselves to this task daily, then your Twelve Visceral Entities will surely be tamed and heading for the Way of Perfection until they are totally subdued to the lucid will of their Master-Soul.
This way of getting into the mystical union with GOD by thoughts, and by blessing, educating, and then guiding the Twelve Visceral Entities within you, is very proper and efficient if you are willing to practice it conscientiously everyday without negligence and without a break. It is a very beneficial way to teach and save the Twelve Visceral Entities within you.
Because when you send good, clear, and energetic thoughts to the Twelve Visceral Entities to instruct and educate them in a friendly but forcefull manner, it will emit a current of pure energy to elevate them to a brighter plane.
Those who have reached the level of Clairvoyance know by experience that the Twelve Visceral Entities(27) do listen to the exhortative preaching of their Master-Soul. It is not pure imagination to say that the Twelve Visceral Entities in the body-microcosm(75) of a human being do exist.
Everyone can experience this when he reaches the level of Clairvoyance. It is true with all of you! When you go from a heavy and impure state to a lighter and purer one, you will naturally encounter obstacles and have to put up a struggle with the Twelve Visceral Entities are indeed like children! Therefore, if you know how to educate, instruct, and advise them often enough with benevolent thoughts, you will arrive little by little at influencing them to progress along with you toward spiritual perfection.
Take the example of the wild animals in the circus and consider how man has succeeded in taming and directing them to act as he wishes. That is because man has taken the trouble to use the force of thoughts to instruct and train them persistently.
It is the same with your Twelve Visceral Entities! If you do not watch after them vigilantly, take care of them, educate them by your willpower or let them have their own way by giving in to them constantly without chastising them or, by being attentive to them one day and neglecting them the next ten days, then they will forget your instructions and will misbehave, usurp your rights or even turn back to persecute you. To sum up, try the above approach to educate and to assist your Twelve Visceral Entities.
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