
- By Grand Master Sheng-yen Lu
- Translated by:Yuan Zheng Tang Translation
Committee
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Chapter 9 - The Halo Of The Guru Mantra
To begin this short article, allow me to quote from a letter:
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Mani Padme Hum
My most respectful
Grandmaster,
Time flies, it
has been more than a month since I received your reply of
12th September. Please accept my apology for not written in
to thank you earlier, for which my sister had complained many
times already.
You are kind enough
to bestow a Gui Ren (lucky man) charm to my sister and at
the same time empower her and her friend with radiating lights.
Their unwholesome karma have since reduced considerably. They
also came to realise your timely reminder and helps. We are
very glad indeed. My sister has been suffering from gastric
problems, and has never been on a vegetarian diet before.
After she read your reply, she went on a vegetarian diet for
a whole day and chanted one thousand and eighty times of guru
mantra. She also began to chant True Buddha Sutra one to two
times a day. Whenever she is free, she will chant the guru
mantra silently. No words could describe her inner gratification
to you. As she can't write well, she asked me to write in
on her behalf. Please forgive her discourtesy.
My sister was
very happy to have communicated with you. She has the greatest
faith in you. She could feel the empowerment by your Buddha
light, which is strong and great. She was very happy to tell
us ,one day after finished chanting one thousand and eighty
times of guru mantra with the utmost sincere heart, she went
to bed. When she was about to sleep, she saw two halos with
green light vividly. The same thing happened again about ten
days ago, when two gold yellow halos radiating light on her...
What is your explanation?.... |
Lately, when disciples ask for charms, I wanted them to chant guru
mantra one thousand and eighty times.
The short mantra will do.
The short mantra is "Om guru lian-Shen sidhi Hum"
The meaning of the mantra is "the great teacher of the universe,
the Pure Buddha Land of Living Buddha Lian-Shen, may everything
be accomplished."
Why must we chant this mantra?
Because when you ask for a charm, you must be very devoted. With
a sincere attitude, the charm will be effective. This is a fact
all of us know.
Once you chant the mantra, there will be spiritual response with
Padmakumara. The Lotus Youth (Living Buddha Lian-Shen) will be able
to empower and protect you, and everything you asked will be fulfilled.
There must be spiritual response in order to use charm, and chanting
mantra will lead to spiritual response.
A green halo - is to bestow dharma medicine.
A golden yellow halo is to increase the causation with Buddha.
Those who see the halos of guru mantra will have great causation
with Buddha and will get great merit.
What is the guru mantra?
It is a dharani, a magnificent dharma of the guru. An enlightened
person who after seeing the true self, will culminate his true experience
into a mantra. Vajra guru Lian Shen's heart mantra can be one of
the following:
Long mantra - Om Ah Hum, Guru peh, Ah ho sasah maha, Lian-Shen
sidhi Hum.
Short mantra - Om Guru, Lian-Shen sidhi Hum.
One word mantra - Hum.
Chanting guru mantra is:
Chanting the guru mantra secretly,
your prayer will be answered.
With the utmost sincere heart,
is the greatest secret.
Linking with the guru,
there are endless uses.
Are we able to have spiritual response after using the charm drawn
by Living Buddha Lian Shen?
Let me quote you another letter.
| My
dear Grandmaster and his wife,
Om mani padme
hum,
After reading
your letter, I understand that time is still not ripe for
me to be a monk. I am doing daily cultivation now. I have
read all your spiritual books, and work even harder. One of
these days in the future, I will be able to move to Seattle
to learn the dharma from you.
First I must thank
you, my grand master, for seven years ago a doctor confirmed
that I was suffering from a polycistic kidney. The sickness
can deteriorate any time, and is potentially dangerous. After
receiving a charm of "not to deteriorate", My sickness
really did not deteriorate, I am very grateful, and wish to
praise the master for his endless power...... |
A famous dharma teacher, who is also a Zen master, always slandered
me in his dharma talk, using all kinds of sarcastic remarks.
Once some True Buddha disciples invited him to midland to give
a dharma talk.
He did not bother to find out who invited him in the first place.
In his sermon, he ridiculed me as a medium, a tool of god and ghost,
a crazy nut...
The True Buddha disciples who were listening to his sermon were
out of wit. They did not know what to do with him, since he was
invited. It is an insult to have listened to some one who have humiliated
your root guru. The matter was not happily settled.
One day. The Zen master's mother suddenly became crazy. She consulted
many doctors, but the sickness was never cured. The dharma teacher
held many repentance sessions for her. Strange enough, she cried
even more often and longer.
Finally someone suggested to him to seek help from Lu Sheng Yen.
He was told:" Lu Sheng Yen really has quite a few skills,
I mean real skills. The charms drawn by him is very effective, all
those who used his charms see miracles. All my friends were cured
by Lu Sheng Yen. By words of mouth, he is very well known. Although
he is in Seattle, a lot of people flew there to seek his help..."
The old Zen master was very shy about this, but to cure his mother's
strange sickness, he sought help from Living Buddha Lian Shen.
After three pieces of charm.
The Zen master's mother was fully recovered within a week. She
can rest on her own, went for a stroll, took care of herself.
She did not cry any more, did not murmur, did not see any ghost
any more...
She can eat and sleep.
Now when people ask him: "What is your view on Living Buddha
Lian Shen now?"
He would answer:" This person really has some mystic power
that is unable to explain. I still do not understand the reason.
But he is able to cure the sickness, and that is a fact. This is
a fact of miracle. I do not wish to comment on him."
A dharma master who is noted for slandering me, has changed his
tone now and only says he does not understand me after I have cured
his mother.
I , Living Buddha Lian-Shen wish to make a statement now:
"Those dharma masters that have slandered me, if their relatives
are suffering from strange sicknesses that are unable to cure, I
will wholeheartedly help them , repaying their hatred with virtue."
The Zen master's incidence reminds me of monks from the Mahayana
school of Buddhism, who came to see me.
They said: "Living Buddha Lian Shen, to tell the truth, we
are suffering, and we do not know how to solve the problem, we want
to consult you."
I asked: "What is the matter?"
They answered: "We have learned Buddhism for a number of years
now. We understand how to tame our heart, how to be pure, we are
able to uphold it in the day time. At night , it has become a routine,
we will ejaculate a lot after a few days. We kept quiet, for we
are unable to vindicate. This is a human nature. For an ordinary
person once it is full, it will overflow, it is normal.
But as a cultivator, to ejaculate is ridiculous. Whether there
is ejaculation, we know ourselves. The young ones will ejaculate
a lot. For the older monks, maybe because of their age, the quantity
is not so much."
I asked: "Why do you come here to see me?"
They answered:" We have your spiritual books. You mentioned
about how the monks wet the bed. Although you did not give the solution,
we have the feeling that you know how to deal with the problem.
We hope you could teach us, so that we can solve our long suffering."
They also said:" From the Living Buddha's sermon, we know
you are cultivating "Non-leaking".
We know there are many types of non-leaking, such as non-leaking
in troubles, non-leaking in wisdom, non-leaking in material. The
last one is in fact non-leaking of sperm. A male must cultivate
until his sperm is not leaking, and a female without menstruation.
This is to cultivate "cutting off", it is not when you
are old, nature takes it course and cut you off, by then you are
too old to be a cultivator.When we hear that Living Buddha Lian
Shen has mastered "non-leaking", we have high hope that
you will be merciful and teach us the solution."
I understand the dharma masters of Mahayana school of Buddhism
never cultivate Qi, Mai and Ming Dian. They only know of the triple
gem of Buddha, dharma and sangha, and Precept, tranquillity and
wisdom. They do not know how to cultivate their bodies. They thought
by sheer endurance, they will be able to achieve non-leaking. This
is very difficult, even if the sexual organ is removed, there will
still be ejaculation.
It is not uncommon to see dharma masters of Mahayana school of
Buddhism wet their beds.
Even for the gurus of Tantra, without many years of cultivation
in Qi, Mai and Ming Dian, and without achieving certain level of
response, it is a difficult task to be non-leaking.
There are four levels of Tantra.
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Assembly of external cultivation (wai Yuan hui) - purification
of body, speech and mind.
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Assembly of internal cultivation-(nei Yuan hui) - cultivation
of Qi, mai and Ming Dian.
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Assembly of tantric cultivation (mi Yuan hui) - the
most profound section.
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Assembly of the most profound tantric cultivation (Mimi
Yuan hui) - the Maha perfection dharma.
I wanted them to take refuge in me first.
They had difficulties, but finally agreed to take refuge secretly.
I know their pains, once they take refuge in me, they will not
be able to face their teacher. They might be ousted out from the
complacent traditional Buddhism fraternity.
After their secret refuge, I taught them:
Sleeping light dharma - sleeping in brightness.
Dream Mahamudra dharma - purification of dreams
Ming Dian dharma - descend, ascend, hold, and spread
My dharma is to cultivate the physical body. The sperm that is
full will be turned into Qi by fire, and the Qi will flow in the
whole body.
My special skills will enable all the monks to master the act of
non-leaking; and all the nuns have their menses stopped.
In the near future, I will let all the True Buddha disciples have
the key to success when teaching at the Rainbow Lodge.
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