Chapter 6 - Escape From The Inferno Of Death

Since the English publication of one of my spiritual books, multitudes of Western students have come to take refuge.

One of them is a Mr. Raymond, an international trade businessman. His company mailing address in Seattle is P.O.Box 738, Seattle, Washington 98111.¹ He had previously learned Kalika and was introduced to me by Doctor Chieh Wen. Mr. Raymond then took refuge in the Holy Red Crown Vajra Master Sheng-yen Lu, the Venerable Tantric Practitioner.

In January, 1985, Mr. Raymond came to say goodbye to me before leaving the country to do business overseas.

At that time, I gave him a Dharma picture of mine and a copper amulet and told him that he could chant the Guru Heart Mantra anywhere, at any time. I also told him he could take out the Master's picture and practice the Guru Yoga during his trip.

Mr. Raymond asked me if this journey was inauspipious.

I did an aura reading on him and replied, "You will have a frightening experience in Southeast Asia. However, once it is over, everything will go smoothly for you."

I specially told him that the Master's spiritual light would protect him at all times, and that he should be afraid of nothing.

On the night, February 13th, 1985, Mr. Raymond was in his room on the third floor of the Regent Hotel in Manila. At nine o'clock, he took out the Master's Dharma picture and did his practice. He went to bed at ten. At about eleven o'clock he saw the Master in his dream, wearing a yellow robe and a yellow hat, and smiling at him.

In his dream, Mr. Raymond asked the Master, "Aren't you in the United States? Why are you here in Manila?"

"I've specially come to see you, Lian-piao." (Mr. Raymond's refuge name is Lian-piao.)

"It is a long journey! I am very grateful to you for doing that."

"Do you remember that prior to your departure, I told you that you will have a frightening experience in Southeast Asia?"

"Yes, I do. I do. I do."

"Now, it's time to get up, now it's time to get up, hurry, hurry, ..."

Master shook Lian-piao vigorously with his hands and Lian-piao was like a boat being rocked violently back and forth by the wind and tides. Still in his dream, Lian piao continued to murmur,

"Master, please do not shake, do not shake..."

Then suddenly he woke up. There was no Master.

It was a dream. But the dialogue in the dream alerted him. He got up and checked the time-it was eleven thirty p.m.. Mr. Raymond opened the door. There was thick smoke outside. Instinctively, he put on his clothes, grabbed his briefcase, rushed down the stairs and, in no time, was out on the street. By this time, the fire was burning ferociously in the hotel. Mr. Raymond stood on the spot, terrified. For a moment this, too, felt like a dream.

The fire at Manila's Regent Hotel began in two places. One was in the conference room on the second floor, the other was in a room on the ninth floor. The fires started at around eleven-thirty p.m., and quickly spread throughout the hotel. Damage was extremely serious.

There were twenty-two identified dead, uncountable numbers of injured, and many unidentified bodies.

Among the dead were two Americans: Edward Carroll, a U.S. Internal Revenue Service official based in Tokyo, and Lewis Carrol Rowney, a serviceman stationed at Subic Bay Naval Base.

Mr. Raymond saw a woman standing on the eighth floor's balcony crying, "Help! Help me please!" But, no one moved, because nobody could help her. Many people jumped to their deaths. Some were killed by sharp, broken glass, some hit protruding blocks and broke their limbs. It was cruel to watch.

The huge fire, people escaping, suffocating, burning, and jumping off the building interwove in a living tragedy. People become totally helpless in such a situation. Inside a third-floor room, three people, hugging together, were burned to charcoal.

Mr. Raymond felt extreme sorrow, but he was grateful that he was completely unharmed. He even had his valuable briefcase in his hands. He wholeheartedly believes that the Master is a Buddha, a Bodhisattva whose works of miracles are not myths, not absurdities, and not groundless.

Mr. Raymond said that the wisdom of Master is very rare. It was the Light of the Master that woke him up in the dream. From the United States, a ray of Light emitted by the Master traveled thousands of miles to reach Manila - this is an act of omnipresence. Mr. Raymond is grateful for his second chance in life and believes that the practice of the Guru Yoga and the chanting of the Guru Heart Mantra have ultimately saved his life.

Mr. Raymond's account of this true incident proves the great power of Padmakumara. Padmakumara is a Bodhisattva from the Pure Land of Amitabha Buddha, and a Great Energy of the Universe. This is an era of salvation by Padmakumara. Vajra Master Sheng-yen Lu is only one of the many transformations of Padmakumara, incarnated in a human body in order to help release the world's beings from suffering and misery.

The events recorded in this book, The Mystical Experiences of True Buddha Disciples, are fact. They are absolutely not fantastic "myths." One should know that the number of people helped and saved by the Master has reached tens of thousands.

Many people might wonder how Vajra Master Sheng yen Lu is capable of making multiple appearances to help his disciples. As a matter of fact, I have explained this many times before. During the course of cultivation, one can, in the state of meditation, concentrate the power of the mind and unite it with the Great Energy of the Supreme Consciousness of the Universe. If one can do this, one will possess the power of the Great Energy, the Great Energy of meditation and wisdom.

To say one possesses the Great Energy of meditation and wisdom is equivalent to saying that, by applying the energy of the weak magnetic field of our human body, one can command the energy of the strong magnetic field of the Universe. You and the Universe become one and, when you think of doing something, the Great Energy of the Universe will do it for you, as if you were doing it yourself. It is like radiations beaming reciprocally at each other. This is supernatural and exceedingly powerful.

I knew beforehand that Lian-piao would be in a frightening predicament.

However, as he always chanted the Guru Heart Mantra and practiced the Guru Yoga, I knew he was in tune all the time with the Great Energy of Padmakumara. When disaster fell on Lian-piao, the Great Energy of Padmakumara manifested in the form of the Master to save him. Therefore, he escaped the inferno of death.

The same logic applies to sincerely chanting the name of the Buddha. If one does this, one is thinking of the Buddha all the time. The Buddha knows about you because you always call upon him. Then, when you are in trouble, the Buddha will know and manifest to rescue you. Many people practice the Pure Land [method] by chanting the name of Amitabha Buddha until the mind becomes concentrated and singly focused on Amitabha.

For the same reason as before, the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas will appear and rescue the practitioners. This is rebirth in the Pure Land through chanting Amitabha.

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