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The Great Spiritual Response Of Tantrayana

  • By Grand Master Sheng-yen Lu
  • Translated by:Yuan Zheng Tang Translation Committee

Chapter 8 - Children From The Trayastrimsas (Di Shi) Heaven

Once a Tibetan Living Buddha, the elder of Yellow sect Amchok came to Lei Tsang temple in Seattle. I pointed at one image and said it is "Di shi". Amchok shook his head.

I said again,:"Sakradevanam".

He shook his head again.

Finally I said "Sakradevanam Indra".

Suddenly he understood me.

"It is Indra, it is Indra."

Then I realised, the heavenly king of Trayastrimsas heaven who is living at Sudarsana City on top of Sumeru mountain, and the one in charge of the emperors of thirty three heavens is known as "Indra" to all the Living Buddhas from Tibet.

I strongly believe Indra and I have deep causation.

First of all, I was converted from a Christian to a Buddhist at the jade emperor temple, which has the jade emperor as its main god. He is known as jade emperor to the Taoists and Di shi to the Buddhists.

Secondly, before I came to his world, I descended to Sudarsanan City's good dharma chapter. And Di shi gave me two presents:

The princess of Di shi (Lu Fu Qing), and the prince of Di shi (Lu Fu Qi). They wanted to follow me to the Samsara World.

Thirdly, When I was a guest at the heaven. Di shi accompanied me, and I know the four gardens there:

  1. Vehicle garden where fast and safe space travelling vehicles were found.

  2. Cu-Er garden where the weapons used in the war are produced automatically.

  3. Mixing tree garden where heavenly beings have their exciting fun.

  4. Blessing tree garden where all kinds of magnificent things can be seen there.

I have seen other treasures such as Di shi net - which is without boundary, Dishi's secret vase, which is also known as virtue vase, saint vase, auspicious vase that can reproduce all kinds of treasures and Di shi's bow. Indra was very sincere when he accompanied me.

Fourthly, The True Buddha Sutra which flowed from my heart was prompted by Indra's question. The question and answer session fully explained the extent of causation between Indra and Padmakumara.

Fifthly, At the Sudarsana City's good dharma chapter heaven, I saw the secret Sutra of the rituals completed by Indra. This sutra is different from the ones translated by either Shi Bu or Fa Xian.

In the book "The night of Soul Lake", I talked about the prince and the Princess of Indra, who followed me to the planet earth. This is a mysterious and colourful story. People asked me incisive question on this.

"Is it true?"

"True."

"Any Proof ?"

"They showed Indra mudra, when they were born."

"Who saw this?"

"My wife and Me"

"You are from the same family, so it is not counted."

Because of this doubt, I have prayed many times to Indra. Hoping that more children will come from the same heaven, and they know how to show the Indra mudra. All of them will cultivate Tantra and protect the True Buddha School.

To prove my point I quote a letter:

I bow to Grandmaster,

Om mani padme Hum,

I prayed to the Grandmaster and wished that I could have a baby boy during my cultivations in 1989.

Not long later, that was on 7th March 1990 at 7: 15 a.m. (lunar calendar llth of second moon), my wife gave birth to a child. I was there waiting and witnessed the child birth. As it was a baby boy, I was so happy that I forgot to see whether the baby boy showed any mudra. I only had the chance to look at him again when the baby room opened. I was wondering whether he was from the Indra heaven since he was no different from other children. Silently I talked to the child, I told him I was happy to have him, but I did not see him showing any mudra and I would like to see that. Immediately after my thought, I saw him struggling and his face turned red (his whole body was covered with cloth). His left hand came out from the clothes, and his left thumb pressed on the middle and small fingers. He then curved his index finger and pressed on the back of the middle finger. I write this letter to find out from Grandmaster whether this can be considered a spiritual response.

Enclosed is the child's photograph and fifty Malaysian ringgits, please accept my meagre offerings.

Moreover, please let me have the empowerment of longevity Buddha.

I hope to be more witty and have more faith in Amitabha Buddha.

Your disciple, Lian Hua Xiang Zhen

2/10/92

Once when I was doing miraculous prediction, a woman brought her daughter for consultation. She was quite a cute little girl. Seeing her, I showed an Indra Mudra to her.

Immediately she smiled and showed me the same mudra.

Her mother was surprised to see this.

"Ling Yun showed this mudra when she was born. Sometimes on both hands. She likes red, she will stare at red object and show the mudra. Her behaviour is weird."

"It is not weird at all," I replied: "She is a child from the Indra Heaven, She is the goddess in red. Surely she will like red colours."

The mother asked: "Is it so?"

I asked : "Was there anything unusual when she was born?"

Her mother replied: "Ling Yun was born on third of Nov 1988. The night she was born saw a fire ball appearing at the nearby hill. The neighbours thought the forest was on fire, and called for fire brigade. When the fire engines arrived, there was no fire at the forest, or at any house. The surroundings were very bright because of moving lights from the air.

Later on, somebody saw a ray of light stopped at our roof and disappeared instantly.

Her mother added: "Ling Yun was born in the hospital. After the strange phenomenal, my labour pain started, I rushed to the hospital to give birth to her."

"Any other strange behaviour " I asked.

"Yes" the mother replied.

"Her eye sight is not normal. Eating fish, she will see the bones first. She even saw a hole in my stomach (stomach ulcer).

"Ah, this is penetrating vision"

Her mother continued.

"My house enshrines an Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva. She praised the beauty of the image and claimed that something divine had flew into it.

I turned my head and asked Ling Yun, "Look at me, who am I?" wondering she might see my skeletons.

She answered:"Grandmaster is Padmakumara. Your whole body is full of white light. Padmakumara is the same as Avalokitesvara who came to succour others."

I told her mother:"Ling Yun is the goddess in red from the Indra heaven. She has special skills. It would be wonderful if she can still retain her power when she grows up."

From what I know, among the third generation disciples of True Buddha School, many children came from the Indra heaven. This is the result of deep causation between True Buddha School and Indra.

If you have a child from the Indra heaven, I believe you should do the following:

1. Show respect to the heaven realm.

2. Observe precepts so that sins are not created by the body - better still uphold the eight precepts i.e.

i. Not to kill

ii. Not to steal

iii. Not to have improper sexual behaviour

iv. Not to tell lies

v. Not to drink liquor

vi. Not to use fragrance on the body

vii. Not to enjoy singing and dancing

viii. Not to sleep on a big and cosy bed

3. Chant the sutra of respecting heaven rites

4. Chant the sutra of middle agama

5. Take refuge in True Buddha School and cultivate the True Buddha Tantra.

For the children from Indra heaven, I have written a verse for them

To have such causation is magnificent,

Its valued in the heaven and earth.

Precious fruit can be reaped in the mundane world

Even heavenly beings descended to pay respect.

 

Brightness is caused by purity,

after the mission, movement is unrestrained.

Their descendence for the purpose of reaffirmation,

teaching the wicked to be kind.

 

One of the six realms of existence is heaven,

and to ascend there is human beings

the place is real, pure and without any worry,

protecting the ground that True Buddha Tantra prevails.

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