VI. How Must We Live If We Were to Be Happy Forevermore: the Theory of Practice.

 VI. How Must We Live If We Were to Be Happy

Forevermore: the Theory of Practice.

 

 

1. One Must Take Refuge in the Orthodox Dharma and Practice

with Chanting the Name of Sakyamuni Buddha.

 

 

If we were to be happy, we must cut off the karmic obstruction of the evil deeds which is the seed of unhappiness, and if anyone wish to be saved by extinguishing the obstruction of karma, he must meet the congregation of the Buddha and take refuge in the orthodox dharma.

And as it is impossible to extinguish the obstruction of karma by the self power, it is almost out of the question to be free from the three evil ways and transmigration without taking the refuge in Buddha.

At present Buddha's congregation, which is rare to meet in millions of kalpas of eons, is being held at Hyeonjisa Temple of the Vulture Peak Buddhism.

I sincerely implore to you all to take refuge in the orthodox dharma and chant the name of Buddha so that you may receive the grace of empowerment of Buddha. That is the only way for you to live happily in this life, die peacefully like going to bed when the time comes, and then not only go to the heavenly realm avoiding the way to the three evil ways but also to the realm of enlightenment where the everlasting happiness is.

The practice of chanting the name of Buddha is the orthodox way of practice you may find in many sutras. Many Buddhas and Bodhisattvas also practiced the chanting the name of Buddha. So did the two Great Masters of the Vulture Peak Buddhism for scores of years and attained the Buddhahood.

There are many Buddha's names to chant, but you must chant the name of Sakyamuni Buddha who is the Buddha of Buddhas. At present Sakyamuni Buddha is abiding at Hyeonjisa Temple in Korea as a personified Buddha-body.

You must also read the Diamond Sutra, recite the Buddha's dharani, and chant ardently the name of Sakyamuni Buddha as a hungry child is calling the name of its mother.

 

 

2. You Must Observe the Immaculate Precepts

and Practice the Filial Duty Along with the Bodhisattva Way.

 

The precept is a stern mandate of the World-honored One to live without committing sin. Without precepts, one cannot enter samadhi, and without precepts, one cannot also hope to receive the empowerment of Buddha. Therefore, one must observe the immaculate precepts as if they are his own life.

The basic five precepts are not killing, not taking anything that is not given, refraining from sexual immorality, not lying, and avoiding intoxicants. Along with the basic five precepts, one must practice ten good deeds. They are generosity, morality, mental cultivation, reverence, amicable association with others, dedication, rejoicing in the merits of others', teaching the dharma, listening to the dharma, and lastly correcting one's own view. Most of all, one must repent the sin with all one's heart.

Along with all these, one must also practice the filial duty to his parents and ancestors. The filial duty is the principal ideology of Buddhism. It is also the cosmic law of repaying the debt for the grace one received from the parents and ancestors beyond the concept of morality.

It is the primary duty to observe the filial duty when the parents are alive. But the true filial duty is to deliver the dead spirits of one's parents and ancestors suffering in the realms of hungry ghosts and hell.

Next is to lay up the roots of virtue through incessant practice of Bodhisattva way, such as helping the poor neighbors. One must also practice compassion and the selfless Bodhisattva way for others' benefit. This is also the best way to receive the grace and empowerment of Buddha.

The wisdom and blessings are like two wings of the way to enlightenment. Especially, the practice of the wholesome roots and merit for the benefit of other beings performed at the congregation of the Buddha is the unsurpassed way to be reborn in the realm of enlightenment.

 

 

3. One Must Practice the Prenatal Education of the Bodhisattva

of Great Compassion for the Happiness of the Descendents.

 

 

The prenatal education decides the fate of the embryo, and it is much more important than the lifelong education after its birth. It is the education not only for oneself but also the education and practice for the happiness of the posterity.

Buddha Himself discoursed about the prenatal education in the Universal Section of the Bodhisattva of Great Compassion in the Lotus Sutra. This new step of prenatal education is also entrusted to the Great Master Jajae Manhyeon of Hyeonjisa Temple by the Bodhisattva of Great Compassion who manifested in Master's samadhi.

The prenatal education of the Bodhisattva of Great Compassion can relate good affinity with the substance of soul before the conception, and after the conception, the prenatal education can raise not only a genius but also a sage through purifying the karmic obstruction by the miraculous spiritual power of the Bodhisattva of Great Compassion. No other foreign prenatal education can be compared with the prenatal education of the Bodhisattva of Great Compassion, which should be promoted at the level of the nation.

The List of Hyonjisa Temples,

Propagation Centers &

Buddhist College

 

 

Homepage: htt//www.hyonjisa.com

 

Head Temple: Hyonjisa Temple

95 Jichon-ri, Sabuk-myon, Chunchon City, Kangwon Province.

Phone: 033) 243-1795 & 1787

Fax: 033) 243-1371

 

Busan Branch: Busan Hyonjisa Branch Temple

15th floor, Yisen Tower, 1439-2 Oncheon 2-dong, Dongrae

District, Busan City.

Phone: 051) 554-5150, 556-5524

Fax: 051) 556-5150

 

Daejon Branch: 14-39 Byeon-dong, Seo-gu District, Daejon City.

Phone: 042) 525-5325, 5345

Fax: 042) 525-5035

 

Koseong Branch: 195-2 Daejin-ri, Hyeonnae-myeon, Koseong County,

Kangwon Province.

Phone: 033) 681-5515

Fax: 033) 681-5538

 

Daegu Propagation Center: 50-13 Daemyeong 5-dong, South District, Daegu

City.

Phone: 053) 654-5557

Fax: 053) 654-5507

 

 

 

Seoul Propagation Center: 630-41 Jayang 1-dong, Gwngjin District, Seoul

City.

Phone: 02) 453-5953

Fax: 02) 453-5954

 

Jeju Branch:

Phone: 064)783-5355

Buddhist College:

Phone: 042) 525-5355

 

V. The Subsistence of Buddha and Speaking of the Lord's Power of Deliverance: the Theories of Buddha and Deliverance.

  

V. The Subsistence of Buddha and Speaking

of the Lord's Power of Deliverance:

the Theories of Buddha and Deliverance.

 

 

According to the law of nature, the good deeds will receive pleasant rewards, and the evil deeds, unpleasant rewards. The substance of soul is where they are all stored. Because of the substance of soul where the karmic obstructions of all evil deeds are stored, human beings must suffer poverty, sickness, misfortune, etc. and after death, must also suffer the cycle of afflictions transmigrating the realm of animals.

The only way to deliver the sentient beings from affliction is to extinguish their karmic obstructions and then lead them to the world of happiness. However, the law of nature is such that unless the appropriate retribution is paid, no karmic obstruction can be extinguished. Nevertheless, Buddha who is completely unified with the law of nature has the power of deliverance to extinguish the karmic obstruction.

 

 

1. Buddha Who Subsists as Buddha-body

In the Ultimate Reality of Selflessness.

 

The World-honored One and all the Buddhas who attained the Buddhahood abide as such in the ultimate reality of selflessness. This is the lion's roar of the new Buddhism of the Yeongsan Buddhism toward the world. As Buddha's wisdom and compassion are completely with the noumenon of the universe, the Lord always leaves the majesty's Buddha-body in the ultimate reality, and the subsistence of Buddha means the subsistence of this Buddha-body.

The World-honored Buddha, who was the first to attain the Buddhahood, and all the other Buddhas subsist as the triple Buddha, Dharmakaya, Sambhogakaya, and Nirmanakaya. Dharmakaya, or the Dharma-body is the transcendental universal Buddha-essence unified with the absolute reality of the universe with the light of cosmic wisdom.

Sambhogakaya, or the body of the manifestation of the universal Buddha-essence in symbolic form is the Buddha who posses thirty-two auspicious signs of excellence and the eighty distinctive bodily marks who delivers the sentient beings with immeasurable light. Nirmanakaya, or the body of transformation is the Buddha Sambhogakaya has created to save all sentient beings.

Here the subsistence of Buddha means the subsistence of Sambhogakaya who is the main Buddha of all Buddhas. What "there is the Buddha-body" means is the proof of the subsistence of Buddha, the proof that the Buddha is completely unified with the universe, and also the proof that the Buddha has the power to extinguish the karmic obstructions of the sentient beings. It is because of Buddha that we can say that Buddhism is the religion of the deliverance of the sentient beings.

 

 

2. Buddha is the Only True Savior of the World,

and Buddhism Is the Only True Religion of Deliverance.

 

 

As Buddha is completely unified with the emptiness, which is, in fact, the noumenon of the universe, the Lord can make use of the immeasurable materials as well as information of emptiness without obstruction. That is how the Buddha is self composed and so omniscient as well as omnipotent without any impossibility. Buddha's cosmic power comes from the hundreds of million strains of immeasurable light which compose the Buddha-body.

It is known that each of the hundreds of million strains of immeasurable light has a special capability. If so, how could we imagine the infinite power of the hundreds of million strains of immeasurable light? It surely must be infinite. Buddha is capable of the fire samadhi, or self-cremation in the fire of deep meditation that could subjugate the Outside Ways.

Buddha is also capable of extinguishing the obstinate karmic obstructions of the sentient beings and then deliver them from the three evil ways. Buddha is also capable of raising Buddhas. Buddha is also capable of searching out the dead spirits hiding under the ground, under the deep water, or in the great empty space. Buddha also has a great power which can fling out even the heavenly body.

That is the reason how Buddha could save the human beings. The karmic obstructions, especially the grave karmic obstructions could only be extinguished by the power of Buddha.

No supreme leader of any religion, or no superman of the Outside Ways could extinguish the karmic obstructions, because they are not at the stage of Trikaya, or the triple body of the Buddha.

They are only able to cleans the light karmic obstructions, the people say. Therefore, Buddha the Dharma King of the universe, is the only true savior of humanity and the world.

I wish to let you all know that if anyone, no matter what kind of grave sin he has committed, who takes refuge in Buddha and performs the roots of virtue could be saved. We all must know the true concept of savior and plant it in the world to save the mankind. This is the reason why we can say that Buddhism is the only religion that can save the mankind.

 

 

3. The Rare and Truly Mysterious Is the Nucleus of Cosmic

Deliverance: the Immaculate Dharmakaya

 

The chief idea that runs through the Vulture Peak Buddhism is the realization of the deliverance of the sentient beings, protection and unification of our country. Korea is the only divided country in the world, and it must be unified and live happily. The world must also be peaceful without war.

This is the Buddhist theory of peace, and there is a chief constituent that sustains the new concept for the protection and peace of the country along with the deliverance of the poor sentient beings. Wat that will be? It is Vairochana Buddha, the Buddha of cosmic energy and immaculate dharmakaya (淸淨法身), who is the main constituent of all the Buddhas in the infinitely great manifold cosmos of the Dharmadhatu.

Vairochana Buddha is the Dharma-body who is originally not a personified entity. However, if all the blissful bodies of Sambhogakaya enter into Vairochana Buddha, they become a personified cosmic light of wisdom and be able to perform the unimaginable combined powers of the World-honored One and all the other Buddhas.

We could say that Vairochana Buddha is a kind of the Heavenly God or the Lord who created the universe. He is the singular and mysterious cosmic nucleus of the deliverance and the pride of Buddhism. This is the reason why we are able to say that Buddhism is the only religion of the true deliverance of human kind.

In fact, Vairochana Buddha manifests regularly at Hyeonjisa Temple of the Vulture Peak Buddhism to perform the work of the peaceful unification and prosperity of our country as well as the peace of the world. All the people of the world must know this fact and be grateful to the Buddha.