II. How Human Beings and All the Phenomena in the Universe Are Created: the Theory of the Universe.

  

 

II. How Human Beings and All the Phenomena

in the Universe Are Created:

the Theory of the Universe.

 

 

1. Creation of the Universe by God Is a Fiction:

The Established Religion and Philosophy

Are Unable to Reveal the Secret of the Birth of Man.

 

 

There are two points of view about the principle of the creation of human beings and all the phenomena in the universe. One is the creation of human beings and the universe by God claimed by the monotheism of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. Another is the theory of the principle of natural law claimed by Buddhism, Taoism, Hinduism, etc.

The Buddhist idea is that all the phenomena in the universe came out of emptiness; in Hinduism, from Brahma; in Taoism, from the great Way. If we include the process of creation, in Buddhism, they are emptiness and the law of causality; in Hinduism, Brahma and the theory of transmutation; and in Taoism, the great Way and the theory of the birth from the Way.

However, the theories of the universe of Hinduism and Taoism lack the substance of the process of creation of human being, therefore remain as the empty theories of the universe. About the creation of the universe by almighty God claimed by monotheism contradicts the modern science and is not only a fiction but also contrary even to common sense.

Reasons are: 1) Less than ten thousand years of history of creation claimed in the Bible, the contradictions of the process of creation, and the theory of creation from complete emptiness. All these contradict the truth of modern science.

2) Creation of infinite number of plants, animals, human beings, and from immeasurable grain of sands to the solar system in six days is wholly out of common sense.

3) If the creator of the universe is the God of love, why did the lord create the physically handicapped and unhappy people? Why do the good people suffer when the bad people live happily? There is no way to explain them no matter how you try.

In the case of philosophy, we can see the origin of subsistence in the following five ways: the theory of material origin, the theory of metaphysical reality, the theory of theism, the theory of existentialism, and the theory of agnosticism. However, we could not reveal the profound secret of the process of creation of human being and all the phenomena in the universe in such ways.

In the case of science, there is a common theory of big bang for the creation of all the phenomena and the universe. However, they cannot explain how and why it had to be the theory of big bang, let alone the explanation of the situation prior to the big bang.

 

 

2. The Creation of Human Being and All the Phenomena

in the Universe from Emptiness and Then

through Common Actions (共業) of Sentient Beings,

Emptiness and the Law of Causality.

 

 

　　There is no almighty God who created the myriads of phenomena in the universe. The principle of the creation of the universe is the combination of karmic actions of sentient beings, emptiness, and the law of causality.

In the Surangama Sutra, the Buddha discoursed, "All the myriad phenomena in the cosmos and the universe are created as if all of a sudden a piece of cloud appears in the empty blue sky." Recent Buddha's (Sambhogakaya's) words are more distinct, "God is the idol created by human beings. No master ever existed in the dharma-dhatu. The one who is unified with the essence of the universe and becomes his own immaculate dharma-body becomes the master of the ultimate realm of true suchness. All the sun, the moon, the stars in the sky have arisen naturally and then return to nature just as they came."

Emptiness is a self-existent entity. Emptiness is the everlasting great cosmic life of reality that pervades in the whole universe (plenum-Void). Emptiness itself is wisdom, love, harmony, and light. Emptiness also has an intrinsic power of creation and the program for its operation, and in the realm of universe, there are innumerable universes.

In Buddhism, the spatial structure of the universe is called "the infinitely great manifold cosmos of the Buddha-realm." The universe has the four eternal cycle of arising, abiding, dissolution, and then to emptiness just as we have the cycle of birth, old age, sickness, and death, and also the seasonal cycle of spring, summer, autumn, and then winter on earth.

A cycle of the universe from arising, abiding, dissolution, and then to emptiness takes eighty kalpas with twenty kalpas for each cycle: spring, summer, autumn, and winter. At present, it is the kalpa of abiding, and Buddha manifests only in the kalpa of abiding.

When the kalpa of dissolution comes, all human beings and the myriad phenomena in the universe dissolve, and when the kalpa of emptiness comes, the substance of human soul revolves to the spiritual seed and then return to emptiness from where it originally came.

 

 

3. The Unsurpassed Secret of Humanity and the Creation

of the Universe: the Theory of the Nature

of Subsistent-self.

 

 

1) The Substance of Soul Revealed in the Emptiness

of Self, the Seed of Humanity.

 

The universe is created and then operated by the powers of emptiness, the common karmas (共業) of sentient beings, and the law of causality. The Vulture Peak Buddhism expounds the creation of all the phenomena in the universe from a new point of view that everything in the universe arises from emptiness (plenum-Void) which is in fact the original nature of the universe.

When the time of the kalpa of creation comes, from the noumenon of the universe manifest the material agent and the seed of the emptiness of self as the spiritual subsistence. Along with this process, by the energy of emptiness itself, the material agent and the emptiness of self, with the mutual association of the endless chain of non-hindrance, creates the finer spiritual substance.

This spiritual stage of the substance of human is called the substance of soul. The first to reveal from the emptiness of self is the substance of soul No. 1. When the substances No. 2 and 3 reveal themselves following the substance of soul No. 1, karma starts to stick to them. Such is the way how the human beings with the substances No. 1, 2, and 3 reveal themselves.

The human being with the substance of soul is 'the self and master of oneself', the noumenon of self, and the main constituent of creation. It is also the nucleus of cause and conditions, transmigration, and enlightenment. The creation of the physical universe starts when the big bang happens by the power of emptiness itself with the association of the common actions of the sentient beings.

About the world after the big bang, it can be explained by the modern science for a certain extent. It is now about 137 billion years since the creation of the universe, and the earth, 45 billion years since the creation of the universe, the modern science claims.

 

 

2) The Substance of Soul Is Born as Human Being

with a Physical Body with the Ancestors

from the Realm of Stars as Parents.

 

 

Now I am going to uncover the greatest secret of the birth of human beings with a physical body. Man born with the substance of soul described above, will return to the world where he lived at the time of the kalpa of dissolution. If he was in hell, he will return to hell; if he was in the heavenly realm, he will return to the heavenly realm.

However, if the man of the substance of soul was in the physical body of man at the time of the kalpa of dissolution, he cannot return to the physical body of man, because without the mediation of parents, one cannot receive the physical body of man. Therefore, this substance of soul must enter into the uterus to be fertilized when a couple is copulating, and there also must be the substance of soul No. 4 to be born with a physical body.

However, the problem is that all human beings were destroyed at the time of the kalpa of dissolution and not a single soul is to be found now. However, nature has prepared a special measure for human beings. It is to remove the people living in the another world of different level of existence to the earth. People living in this special domain were removed here at the time of kalpa of dissolution to preserve the human race. They are all selected representative people of the world according to their cause and conditions.

This domain is like a heavenly paradise beyond our universe. They live there with a son and a daughter, and their longevity is known to be fifty years. However, one day in that heavenly paradise is scores of years on earth.

When the time of kalpa of arising comes and the earth is habitable, they return to each of their continent on earth and become the ancestors of human being. Accordingly, the people of the substance of soul establish an affinity of parents with these people of the ancestors from the heavenly paradise, enter into mother's womb to be fertilized, grow for ten months in mother's womb, and then born as human being.

At this time, when the substance of soul No. 4 is created in mother's womb, the human beings are born in this world with four substances of soul and a physical body. It is like a fairy story, completely incredible.

Thus, the theory of the origination of all the phenomena from the essence of the universe, not from conditions, of the Vulture Peak Buddhism centered on 'self' is the theory of subsistent-self entirely different and unique from the theory of the established Buddhism centered on 'non-self'.

Especially, the secret of the process from the growth of the inherent seed of human beings to the substance of soul, and then to human beings with the physical body is the first theory of its kind. It reveals the subsistence of the heavenly paradise, a kind of incredible dream, a master piece proclaimed for the first time by the Vulture Peak Buddhism.

It is the proclamation of the cosmic meta-religion of the Vulture Peak Buddhism that revealed the unsurpassed truth no other religion or philosophy could ever even dreamed of. It is also the pride of our country as a fashionable philosophy of pure Korean bland originated in Korea.