An Interview with a Reporter on the Thoughts of Yongsan Buddhism-6

   




   You said that Buddha the World-Honoured
manifests  himself  when  you  hold  a   great
Dharma assembly, and washes away karmic
hindrance of the Buddhists who were present.
Could you please elaborate   on  the scene
more in detail?

   As  the  Dharma  prince  of   Manjushri   in  the
Realm of the Buddhas, the important mission of I,
Jajae Manhyon, is to deliver the Dharma talks,
visiting numerous Buddha-lands including the
saha world until the end of all time. When I give
a Dharma talk at the assembly of Hyonjisa, my
Reward Body Buddha abiding in the Absolute
Realm comes into my body.  As I have attained
Buddhahood for the first time, Buddha the World-
Honoured sits on the crown of my head, and
Manjushri and Samantabhadra Bodhisattvas stand
on both sides of him. Sanghaeng and Jonghaeng
Bodhisattvas Mahasattvas who are the leaders of
Bodhisattvas Mahasattvas also stand on both
sides of my Dharma seat.  The Five Tathagata
Buddhas and many other Buddhas also come, and
numerous  Pure  Land  Bodhisattvas,  holy
multitudes, and hundreds,thousands and millions
of heaven beings gather at theDharma assembly.
Buddha the   World-Honoured   sends  out  the
Immeasurable Light, and washes  away karmic
hindrance of those  Buddhists  who  are present.
Also, numerous Buddhas who are present emit
light.  No matter what Dharma assembly you may
attend in the world, there is no other Dhrama
assembly where the Buddha washes away karmic
hindrance of those who are present there.

   This is the only Dharma assembly in the world
where karmic hindrance of those Buddhists who
are present there is washed away!  This has a
significant meaning in it.  If  a Buddhist attends the
Dharma assemblies of the Great Monk only, his
karmic hindrance will greatly be washed away;
when he departs this life, he can depart in comfort,
can be freed from the three evil destinies, and can
also go to heaven (the deva realm).  In the Chapter
of the original nature of the Tathagata in the
Nirvana Sutra, there appear the words of the
Buddha, "A sentient being into whose pores the
great nirvana light goes will accomplish the path
of a Buddha by all means."  I hope that you will
clearly understand the fact that, if  a person comes
to the assembly of a Buddha where a Great Monk
expounds, and receives the Immeasurable Light
(the Great Nirvana Light), he may meet with
enormous cause and conditions of attaining
Buddhahood in his next life.  This will be such
rare cause and conditions that a person could
barely experience once in thousands and tens of
thousands of lives.





    It  seems  to  me  that   present  world
Buddhism has severely been split.  Great
Monk, what do you think of present Buddhist
circle?

We can divide the main current of present world
Buddhism into three, namely southern Buddhism
centering   around  Southeast   Asia, Northern
Buddhism  around Korea, China, etc., and Tibetan
Buddhism.  But the problem is that there is no
Buddhism that has transmitted the true Dharma
lineage of the Buddha.  Southern Buddhism has
many limitations in itself  because it does not
admit Mahayana sutras with the exception of the
five Nikayas (the Agama Sutra).  The practice
method of vipashyana sets the goal of mainly
attaining arhatship.  The teaching of northern
Buddhism   and  its Seon  practice (of course
including Korean Seon of phrase investigation)
have been mixed with Taoism of China.  So it has
a lot of differences with original  Buddhism.
Tibetan Buddhism also has many problems in its
teaching called 'the attainment of Buddhahood
with this very body' and in its practic method.  I
wish to indicate that it is against the principle of
universal reason that the Dalai Lama carries on
his leadership line by continuously reincarnating.
The common  problems  and  limitations  that
present world  Buddhsim has are as follows; first,
they do not admit and are unaware of the
existence and awesome spiritual powers of the
Buddha; second, they do not admit the subject of
transmigration by erroneously interpreting the
view of no self, and do not know of the existence
of the spiritual bodies; and third, they have no
practice method of achieving complete liberation
from birth and death.  In addition to these, it is a
big problem that they are clearly unaware of the
Dharma grades based on the level of practice, and
that  they  are utterly ignorant  of the  realm of
tranquil   extinction   of  the   Buddhas   and
Bodhisattvas.   The  problems mentioned   above
correspond to the  basis  of   Buddhism.
Consequently,  present   Buddhism  must be
changed   for  the  better. Present   Buddhism has
become diminutive so that it cannot argue its
greatness as  the universal truth.

  Yongsan  Buddhism has  been born to carry on
the Dharma lineage of the Buddha at this very
point, and open the era of the true  Dharma again.
The main thought that Yongsan Buddhism aims at
is that the Buddha is alive; that the spiritual
bodies transmigrate; and that we must chant the
sacred name of the Buddha, relying  on  other
power and self-power on the basis of the Noble
Eightfold Path.  We can say that saving sentient
beings through teaching the true Dharma, and
realizing protection of this nation and world
peace through Buddhism are the principles of
Yongsan Buddhism.


source /An Interview with a Reporter on the Thoughts of Yongsan Buddhism
publication/Hyonjisa, Yongsan Buddhism