T347 蓮生活佛英文文集103－Mara （demon） Destruction破魔(2)
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■Book 103 - The Great Spiritual Response Of Tantrayana
■Written by master Sheng-yen Lu
For more information, please call +1(510)473-4818 or fax +1(510)437-1987.
Contact Address: 3440 Foothill Blvd. Oakland CA 94601, U.S.A.
How do I cultivate that I can be omnipresent, and appear whenever I am prayed at?
To use a modern term, I am using satellite transmission.
I have suffered a lot during my cultivation, but I am also enjoying the happiness and bliss.
During cultivation, I have converged my material body at my nose, and through which I transmit pulses to the moon.
When the pulses reach the moon it will re-bounce to me. I do this seven times each session.
I am cultivating the internal transmission capability of human body. And I understand how it works and I can use it effectively.
（When the disciples pray to me, they are able to receive my transmission.）
Likewise I transmit to:
The Moon,
Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto
My transmissions could reach these planets and return to me.
In my deep meditation, my mystic power will open up all the channels and enable the video monitor in my mind to show what are out there in other planets, so that I can see them clearly.
This form of cultivation is not well understood by others, as it is complicated and must be accompanied by a verbal secret. I have learned this from Qing Zhen the priest （Lian Ming the monk）. Amongst others the techniques involved include breathing practice, form practice, concentration in the air, transmission, retrieval....etc.
That is using the minor circulation of a human being to be in unification with the major circulation of the universe. And eventually reach the stage of unification of Heaven and Human.
What I wrote is full of mysteries. It is weird and eccentric. Many may think I am a nut, or it is just a dream, a fabricated story. But I am telling you what I have just said is true. It is something beyond science.
I am able to enter the dreams of my disciples to give sermon, to teach dharma, to cure sickness, to destroy maras. Many revered dharma master just shook their heads as they were unable to know what is happening. They just can’t understand the level I have achieved, they lost their words and could only shout: ”Impossible, how can it be!”.
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There are too many similar letters, let me just quote two of them for you:
1. A few nights ago, I saw a black object appearing in my dream. Forming a sword mudra and pointing the sword at the black object, I chanted ”Om mani padme hum ” a number of times. The object disappeared later on.
2. Early last month, in the stage of dreaming and non-dreaming, I saw an ugly wooden man, who was after me. I was really frightened and ran up a hill. A monk who seemed to be the Grandmaster picked up a sword and gave it to me. He advised me to chant the mantra of Vajrasattva: ”Om bolu lan zhe li”. Brandishing the sword, the wooden man immediately toppled. And the monk also disappeared.
Frankly speaking, I admire Shakyamuni Buddha who stretched his arm through the walls to touch Ananda’s head, who was frightened by the mara.
Buddha was so compassionate to have consoled Ananda at the right time.
Following the spirit of Shakyamuni, when my disciple was attacked by a wooden man, I appeared at the right moment to give him the wooden sword and taught him ”Om bolu lan zhe li”. The wooden man was toppled immediately when the sword was used.
（I will always appear in the disciples’ nightmares to solve their mara hindrance. Sometimes I also appear in the day time, in fact quite often, to solve the mara hindrance of my disciples. I am really the master in mara-destruction.）
T347 蓮生活佛法文文集 Le Diamant immortel不死金剛
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■Le bouddha vivant Lian-sheng Sheng-yen Lu
■Book 200-L'Éveil parfait et universel
Une tranche et encore une tranche d'Illumination
—L'esprit intelligent de la vie—
■Traduit du chinois par Sandrine Fang
■Copyright © Sheng-yen Lu ©2013, Éditions Darong
Le mot « diamant » désigne dans le bouddhisme tantrique des objets rituels comme le pilon de diamant et la clochette de diamant ; ce sont deux objets très importants dans le bouddhisme tantrique. Dans la pratique du bouddhisme tantrique, ces deux objets rituels sont indispensables. Le pilon de diamant comprend le pilon à un fourchon, le pilon à trois fourchons, le pilon à cinq fourchons, le pilon à fourchons ouverts (utilisés par le tantrisme japonais), le pilon à fourchons fermés (utilisés par le tantrisme tibétain).
Le mot « diamant » est amplement utilisé. On n'en parle pas dans ce chapitre.
Je considère personnellement que le diamant représente trois sens :
– l'inaltérabilité ;
– l'immortalité ;
– le coeur de la bodhi.
L'inaltérabilité, c'est parce qu'il est dur. On peut dire que sa forme ne change pas et sa couleur non plus, ainsi il est incorruptible.
L'immortalité, c'est parce qu'il ne connaît pas la mort. Il n'est pas venu, il n'est pas parti non plus, il existe constamment.
Le coeur de la bodhi est une allégorie, il représente le coeur de bouddha qui détruit tous les ennuis et obstacles, l'achèvement parfait
et complet, ainsi que la miséricorde et la compassion. Ayant le coeur de la bodhi, tout devient parfaitement accompli.
Voici ce que j'ai saisi :
Ma vie existe constamment et est immortelle. Votre vie existe constamment et est immortelle. Sa vie existe constamment et est immortelle.
Où est-ce que je me trouvais avant ma naissance ?
Ma réponse :
« Dans un sommeil profond, dans la méditation. »
Où est-ce que je me trouve après ma naissance ?
Ma réponse :
« Je suis réveillé, sorti de la méditation et apparu. »
Où est-ce que je me trouverai après ma mort ?
Mes réponses :
« Il ne s'agit pas du tout de la mort, mais de l'état originel de l'être : sans venir, sans partir, sans naissance, sans mort, il n'y a radicalement pas d'affairement. »
« Il n'y a pas de sommeil ni de réveil, il n'y a pas d'entrée dans le recueillement méditatif ni de sortie de la méditation, il n'y a pas de manifestation, il n'y a pas non plus la non-apparition. »
« Il n'y a pas de naissance ni de mort, et c'est comme ça à l'origine. »
Mes deux premières réponses ci-dessus font partie du monde phénoménal ; et la troisième est liée à l'absence de forme.
Je dis que mon Éveil est à la troisième réponse.
Je ne sais pas si mes saints disciples le comprennent ou pas.
J'entendis des appels des disciples :
— Révérend maître Lu, vous gardez un état d'âme de miséricorde et de compassion, nous vous prions de nous sauver !
— Révérend maître Lu, nous vous prions de nous protéger pour que notre bonne fortune puisse répondre à nos souhaits et que tous nos voeux puissent être exaucés !
— Révérend maître Lu, pour faire du bien à tous les êtres vivants, nous vous prions de n'abandonner aucun être vivant et de nous enseigner comment sortir de la souffrance et obtenir le bonheur.
— Révérend maître Lu, nous vous prions de manifester la force de vos grands pouvoirs surnaturels pour que les calamités n'adviennent pas, que le bonheur et la sagesse s'accroissent, que la famille soit complète et heureuse, et tous les rancuniers et les ennemis disparaissent.
— Révérend maître Lu, nous vous prions de nous sauver et de nous recevoir dans le royaume du bouddha, à la Terre pure, pour que nous ne subissions plus la transmigration dans les Six Voies ①.
— Révérend maître Lu, je souhaite obtenir l'Éveil immédiatement, je souhaite réaliser l'état de bouddha dans cette vie présente.
[…]
Je ne fais rien, mais je fais aussi tout, car tout est prêt et fait.
Mon Éveil à moi, au Diamant immortel, est-ce que tout le monde
peut le saisir ? Est-ce que vous l'avez compris ?
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① La voie du Deva, la voie de l'Humanité, la voie de l'Asura, la voie de l'Enfer, la voie de l'Esprit affamé et la voie de l'Animalité.
T346 蓮生活佛英文文集103－Mara （demon） Destruction破魔(1)
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■Book 103 - The Great Spiritual Response Of Tantrayana
■Written by master Sheng-yen Lu
For more information, please call +1(510)473-4818 or fax +1(510)437-1987.
Contact Address: 3440 Foothill Blvd. Oakland CA 94601, U.S.A.
I learned about how Ananda was frightened by the mara at the vulture hill from the book ”Westside Story”. Let me reproduce the relevant paragraphs:
（Note - original in classical Chinese）
To summarise the paragraph, it has mentioned about, one day, Ananda was meditating in a room made of stone, which was situated North West of the room occupied by Shakyamuni Buddha.
The mara changed into a vulture, standing on top of the rock, waving its wings and crow very loudly to frighten Ananda.
Frightened by this, Ananda did not know what to do.
Shakyamuni Buddha came to know this immediately. He stretched his hand, and used his magical power to pass through the stone walls and touched Ananda’s head. He told Ananda compassionately, ”That was the impersonation of the mara, do not fear”. Ananda was then able to calm down.
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I have read the mara-destruction dharani sutra of unlimited school, which teaches all kinds of dharma to help us from the persecution of mara.
A lot of people asked me what is mara. I explained to them: ” We must know how to identify what is mara, then we wouldn’t be cheated. Those that are to take away our lives are known as mara. So are hindrance and disturbance facing us in our cultivation.
The mara king of the six heaven （kamadhatu） and his relations and followers in the desire realm are maras. Normally maras can be divided into four types.
1. the mara of passions such as greed, hatred, and ignorance that could harm our body and our mind.
2. the mara of negative forces, the five skandhas（aggregates）, namely, rupa （physical）, vedana （feeling）, sanjna （conception）, samskara （function of mind）, and vijnana （perception） that create all kinds of pains for the human beings.
3. the mara of death - that could take our lives.
4. the mara of kamadhatu - the mara king that could prevent our effort in the cultivation, and doing good deed.
Ghosts are in the Bardo state （the intermediate existence between death and reincarnation）. They are formless spirits and are not maras.
Maras are able to disturb our cultivation, so that we are unable to see our true self, our life and wisdom will be affected. They will force us to harbour ill intension, and rob us of our merit.
（the ghost can make people feel sick, known as ghost-god sickness. Sometimes the ghost can also take human life, it is equalled to mara at this stage.）
Living in a higher level and have dharma power, the ghosts will be kind hearted and commonly called ”gods”.
On the other hand, those existing in the lower level and would like to disturb others are called devil or Raksasa.
Hindrance from mara is not uncommon when we cultivate. To deal with this problem, a Tantric Cultivator must have the right mind and right behaviour. He must chant the mara-suppression mantra and learn either Manjusri Bodhisattva’s five dharma to tie up maras, or how to deal with fifty negative maras from Surangama sutra.
I believe to deal with maras effectively we must:
Wu-Shi––do not bother about anything （immoveable）
Wu-Xin––maintain nothingness （unconfused）
Wu-wo––utmost emptiness （non-destructible）
I am telling you the truth, as I am often called the Religious Mara. Since I have reached the stage of unification of Buddha and mara, I am an expert in destroying the mara. My dharma body has abandoned the world of form and entered into tranquillity. But the dharma nature can be applied in many inconceivable ways. I have all the mystic powers and the great wisdom to change many things. As I am omnipresent, I will appear whenever my disciples pray to me.
-To be continued-
