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Chapter 15 - Light From The Mala
Living in New York is a disciple by the name of Lian-shih (Hung-wei Liao). When he saw a set of five magnificent mandala pictures of Gurus, Personal Deities, Buddhas and Bodhisattvas in a Gelugpa temple, he liked it so much that he acquired five sets (a total of twenty-five pictures) and mailed them to me in Redmond, Washington. The five pictures were: Shakyamuni Buddha, Amitabha Buddha, Four-armed Avalokitesvara (Kuan Yin), Cinta- mani Avalokitesvara, and Guru Tsongkhapa. They were indeed extraordinary and magnificent. At this time, another disciple from Chicago, Lian-pan (Pao-p'ing Wei) came to see me. Lian-pan was going to set up a Tantric shrine at home, so I gave him one set of the pictures to frame and hang on the wall above his altar, to make it look more magnificent. At the same time, I also gave him a mala, which I had especially empowered by the following procedure: first I picked up the largest bead with my right hand, then I coiled the mala three times around the four fingers of my left hand, then transferred it to my right hand. To empower it, I formed the Lotus Mudra and raised the mala above my crown, while visualizing my body multiplying into a thousand. I then recited seven times the following mantras:
After this recitation of the mantras, one round of the mala (counting the beads for recitation) is equivalent to having one thousand rounds of the mala. I told Lian-pan if he sincerely recited the Guru's Heart Mantra, then evil would be turned to good fortune and he would be saved in case of danger. This is because the Guru's Heart Mantra is the ultimate, wonderful Dharma of the Great Sun Tathagata (Mahavairocana), and is also the king of all mantras. It is a mantra of great luminosity. With this mantra all evils will be chased away. Lian-pan took the pictures and the mala back to Chicago. He set up an altar and hung the mala on the wall. He took it down only when he did his practice. Every day he recited the Guru's Heart Mantra one hundred eight times or one thousand eighty times. One day, Lian-pan's wife, Lian-c'hi, who was also a disciple of the Master, went to pick up their child's birthday cake, which she had ordered earlier from a bakery in Chicago's Chinatown. As she was walking down the street, a speeding car made a left turn and almost ran into her. In order to avoid running over her, the car screeched loudly to a stop. Startled, Lian-chi was shaken and lost her balance. As she fell down, she hit the back of her head on the curb and was knocked unconscious. Luckily, someone at a nearby store recognized her and immediately informed Lian-pan. When Lian-pan arrived, he rushed her to the hospital. By this time, her face and nails had already turned a darkish gray. The doctors tried to resuscitate her. While the doctors were trying to save her, Lian-pan didn't know what to do. Suddenly, he thought of reciting the Guru's Heart Mantra. He quickly went home and returned with the mala. By this time, his wife's eyes had rolled up, and both her face and nails had turned dark. Shaking their heads, the doctors concluded that she had brain concussion and that there was little hope. Holding the mala, Lian-pan calmly and sincerely chanted the Guru's Heart Mantra-praying that the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas and Master would save Lian-chi. When he came to the third round of the mala, the dark color on Lian-chi's face and nails started to recede. Her skin gradually returned to its normal, pinkish color, and she finally woke up and was able to talk. She told her husband: "I fell and blacked out and knew nothing after that. I didn't even know if I were dead or not. After a while I became aware of something. I saw a circle of very bright white light in front of me. I looked closer and saw it was a mala that emitted light. The mala was circling. The beads and the light made me feel extremely comfortable and relaxed. It was just like going from a place of darkness into a bright world. At the same time, I heard the chanting of the Guru's Heart Mantra and, unconsciously, I joined in and started chanting myself. Then I woke up." "What did you see?" Lian-pan asked. "Nothing, except the mala and the light." "That's it, the Master has especially empowered this mala. Since we have been chanting the Guru's Heart Mantra regularly, when there was danger, this mala and the Guru's Heart Mantra acted as a protecting charm releasing bright light. It saved your life. This mala is really our life saver. It was the grace of the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas and Master. We must thank the Master." Another instance occurred. Lian-pan has a younger sister named Hsiao-p'ings Wei, also living in Chicago. She suffered from migraine headache. Once the headache started, she would be in terrible agony and unable to move. Lian-pan felt pity for her and decided to chant the mantra to help her. One time, when the migraine attacked again, she was lying on the bed groaning. Lian-pan lit an incense, begging the Master, Buddhas and Bodhisattvas to empower him. He started reciting the Guru's Heart Mantra for about two rounds of the mala. Then, he placed the male on her head. Miraculously, the pain stopped. Not only that, it never recurred. She had had migraines for more than ten years and they occurred about seven or eight times a month. After her brother's recitation, she was completely back to normal and did not even have to take painkillers anymore. It was a miracle. Hsiao-p'ing Wei promised her brother that she would come to Redmond to take refuge in the Master. It had been quite useless to get Hsiao-p'ing Wei to take refuge, because she was a Catholic and had always opposed her brother's belief in Buddhism. But, because of the miracle, she no longer opposed him and she started to believe in the power of Holy Red Crown Vajra Master Lian Shen. She wanted to come to take refuge herself. The effectiveness of the chanting is not restricted to the Guru's Heart Mantra. One can also recite the name of Amitabha Buddha or Kuan-yin Bodhisattva. Chanting the names of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas has many advantages. It can eliminate negative karmas, enable one to achieve one-point concentration of the mind, and accumulate unimaginable merits. In the Pure Land sect, through chanting the name of Amitabha, a practitioner is able to be reborn in the Western Paradise of Ultimate Bliss, if he or she reaches a continual state of mindfulness of Amitabha. Chanting the name of Buddha is one of the best ways to liberate oneself from sufferings. I, the Holy Red Crown Vajra Master Lian Shen, the Tantrika, have spent many years chanting the name of Amitabha, and have attained a great amount of realization, from it. Although the current practice is mainly Tantra, I still have not relinquished chanting the name of Amitabha. I am a practitioner in Taoism, Sutrayana and Vajrayana Buddhism.
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