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Chapter 17 - Mara (demon) Destruction
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.
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.
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:
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.
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!".
There are too many similar letters, let me just quote two of them for you:
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.)
Let me quote you an actual case of maya destruction:
A rich man by the surname of Wong bought a big house. The price was rather cheap as it is said all the previous owners died of mysterious deaths.
As the rich man was upright and straight forward, he did not believe in the existence of god and ghost. He decided to buy the house. Two months later, his daughter died of a heart attack.
One night, his wife walked to the Eastern courtyard which was surrounded by trees. When she returned, she contracted a strange decease. Her body started to bloat up. She would sleep in the day and became active in the night. She would talk to herself and move around the house, as if she is sleep-walking. Gradually, from an elegant,and pretty lady, she became unkempt and filthy and worse still, bed-ridden.
Fear mounted in the family, the family members pleaded with the rich man, and asked him to move house. But he refused, thinking that he did no wrongs this life and he should not be fearful towards ghost and god alike.
A doctor was asked to treat her sickness. But to no avail, as the doctor could not find the cause. A medium was also employed to carry out ritual, but this too was of no use. After more than a year, the sickness turned for the worse. His wife had a mental breakdown - always seeing ghosts. His wife told him: "There are many graves under our house. Our daughter has become a ghost now, and she is staying just below the corridor. As the ghosts numbered more than twenty, an ordinary dharma master will not have the power to deal with them."
He asked his wife,: "What kind of sickness are you suffering from?" She answered: "Ghost sickness!" He asked again,: "Why I am not affected at all?" The wife replied,: "Ghosts only bully those who are timid and shuned those who are upright." He asked again,: "What can I do to save you?" His wife said,: "Nobody can, not you, not those revered dharma masters." The rich man did not believe.
He invited more than fifty monks from XXX to do soul deliverance rituals many times, and fire-mouth yoga rituals three times. The house was very noisy during the process.
His wife said:"It is a noisy child play."
Then a famous witch and a medium again were asked to do rituals. Car loads of paper gold and silver were burned during the rituals. The wife said,: "Million dollars worth of hell money were robbed by the king of black mountain."
Finally, a Tibetan Living Buddha was invited to do many rituals. His wife said,:"This Living Buddha was just pretending. As the ghosts started to tease me, my sickness gets worse."
One day, in her dream she cried and laughed at the same time. Her husband quickly asked: "What is wrong with you?".
"Just now I was wandering at the corridor, and met our daughter. She told me once she attended a ghost meeting, she learned that, there is a genuine cultivator in this world. The enlightened man has endless power, and only he can conquer the ghosts."
He asked hurriedly "Who is he?" His wife replied: "His religious name is Lian Shen".
Through his contacts, somehow the rich man managed to contact me. He asked me to do ritual for his wife a number of times.
I did not agree. Apart from writing articles, cultivation, and giving sermons, I do not want to do geomancy work or performing ritual at a private residence.
Then the rich man increased his reward, again I rejected his request. Finally, he suggested that I named the price I wanted. I told him,:"You go to Seattle's Lei Tsang temple and buy a porcelain picture of mine and let me initiate it. The picture can go to your house on my behalf. After seven days if the matter is still unresolved, then I shall personally go to your house, how about this arrangement?" He reluctantly agreed.
When the porcelain picture was put in house, his wife started shivering. She tried to run away from the picture, as if the picture was trying to capture her. And she screamed intermittently at night. The rich man prayed very hard, he even started to chant the guru mantra.
Seven days later, the wife suddenly went into coma for 24 hours. When she regained her consciousness, she washed herself up and began to put on make up. This was the first time she behaved normally, she even shared her food with others.
He asked his wife: "What is the matter?".
The wife replied "For a long time, I was in a dream, not knowing who am I. When I faced the porcelain picture, the radiating light frightened me. I saw a dharma master who wore a Five Buddha Crown sitting on a lotus seat. When he rang the Vajra bell, rays of rainbow light radiated. I fainted when I saw the illumination. Now that I am awake, I thought I had been living in another world".
Thereafter the woman was leading a normal life.
I am telling you now, the rich man's wife was possessed by a ghost. The ghost was unable to go near her when my porcelain picture was delivered. With my dharma power, I was able to send all the ghosts to the Universal monarch, who arranged for their transmigrations to the six realms of existence.
I also brought her daughter's soul to the county god who became her god father. She is now helping the county god to do some secretarial work.
The true story of maya destruction was a bizarre one. For those who believe in the law of karma, they will believe what I have just said.
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