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Video-1200 The Surangama Sutra: Twenty-five Means to Enlightenment, Session Five
Video-1200 The Surangama Sutra: Twenty-five Means to Enlightenment, Session Five
No. 1200
Category / Between Master and Disciples
Event date / 2019.04.07
Place / Taiwan (Formosa)
Language / English
Time (mins) / 30,33,34,36,33,34,36,36,43,32,35
Published date / 2019.11
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So, if you're united together, helping each other, that's good enough. Other countries, they're OK or not OK; we cannot control them. Just be together, connect to each other, helping each other, honestly, sincerely, respectfully. Then everything will be fine. Nothing can just happen like overnight. Just together, Korea together. United we stand. I wish your country the best of luck. A lot of Koreans practice sincerely since I first came to Korea, and so your country keeps changing better and better. And we will have more Korean practitioners. The country's changing all the time.

And then, this so-called “Ultimate Master” came, told me, “It’s You, Yourself.” I said, “I never said anything like that.” And Hes said, “The Ultimate, Ultimate Master is Yourself.” I said, “Ah! So, I have a new title now?” So the voice said, “No, it’s not new. It was always there.” That’s it. It’s just a name. Like the Buddha, He has ten titles. I don’t know how many more titles I have. Don’t ask me. I never check such things; it makes no difference to me. I don’t feel any different, but I feel more powerful recently. I feel more able to cope with karma. I feel more invincible. “More” doesn’t mean complete. Just feel stronger. Inside. Outside is the same. I just feel something, like inside I’m stronger, more powerful.

One time (you) come to see Master in the physical is more than enough. Nowadays, we have even TV. You can see me when I'm talking live. That's also almost like seeing the physical body. And also the Master advises the disciple, to at least come to see the physical Master one time, even though they are initiated by their appointed disciple. Even in Buddhist sutras, they also say, "To hear the Master's name and you see the Master's body, you'll get liberation – even a non-initiate, if they are pure at heart." But nowadays, we have television. It could be OK, it could be good. And real photos are also good. And maybe if the Master is powerful enough, that should be enough. All right then. If you cannot see the physical Master, then watch a video. Or watch something live like Fly-In News or something, when the Master was talking recently like two, three days ago. It also helps. It also helps to pray to the Ultimate Master, (give) thanks to the Ultimate Master.

The Quan Yin Bodhisattva continued to explain what kind of power and ability, Quan Yin Method, She had attained. “If there are those who are studying, who have severed the twelve links of condition-causation, and, having severed the conditions, reveal a supreme nature, and who are superior and wonderful and manifest perfection, I will appear before them in the body of one enlightened to conditions and speak Dharma for them, causing them to attain liberation.” “If there are those who are studying, who have attained the emptiness of the Four Truths, and cultivating the Way, have entered extinction, and have a superior nature and manifest perfection, I will appear before them in the body of a Sound-Hearer and speak Dharma and help them (to attain) liberation.” “If there are living beings who wish to have their minds be clear and awakened, who do not engage in mundane desires and wish to purify their bodies, I will appear before them in the body of a Brahma King and speak Dharma for them, causing them to attain liberation.”

"If there are heavenly beings who wish to escape their heavenly destiny, I will appear in the body of a god and speak Dharma for them, enabling them to accomplish their wish." In case you're falling down to some heavens, you can ask Quan Yin Bodhisattva to lift you up. Or maybe ask the Ultimate Master. So whatever you wish, She will help you. Just don't wish nonsense. Just wish for liberation, that's the best. Anything else just causes you more trouble, prolongs your suffering in the Shadow Universe, even in the High Kingdom, High Heaven. Useless. Some great Masters have not been above the Shadow Universe, so, therefore, the liberation above the Three Worlds is good enough already. Because above the Three Worlds, you will always have a chance to meet high enlightened Masters, and They will lift you up, up, up, up, and teach you until you're uplifted to the higher level again.

"Also, World Honored One, using this Vajra Samadhi, of Becoming Permeated with Hearing and Cultivating Hearing, and using the miraculous strength of effortlessness, because I have a kind regard equally for all living beings in the Six Paths..." "I can enable living beings throughout the ten directions who are suffering and in distress to attain liberation by contemplating their sounds." That's the power of practicing the Quan Yin Method, of the hearing faculty – but inside, the original one. Not the ears, because with the ears, we only hear outside. So, when we cut off the attention of hearing outside, no sound, no relying on any sound around us, then we can hear the true preaching, the true Dharma, and attain the true power. So, practice Quan Yin Method and help others. Your soul, your higher soul, elevated higher and higher, and then you can always help other beings, automatically. That is real love.

Now this is the second power. She has 14 different other powers, apart from manifesting bodies for different purposes. “Second: since my knowledge and views have turned around and come back,” meaning turned inward already, “I can make it so that if living beings are caught in a raging fire, the fire will not burn them.” If someone believes in Her, in Quan Yin Bodhisattva, and reveres Her all his life, and calling Her for help, maybe with all sincerity, in desperate situation, She will help him. “Third: since contemplation and listening have turned around and come back,” back to the origin of the source, not the ear, but the inside, the hearing, true hearing faculty, true hearing ability, “I can make it so that if living beings are floundering in deep water, the water cannot drown them.” “Fourth: since false thinking is cut off,” means She has no more false concept, only pure, correct truth, “and my mind is without thoughts of killing or harming ever, I can make it so that if living beings enter the territory of ghosts, the ghosts cannot harm them.”

"When the hearing permeates and the essence is bright, Light pervades the Dharma Realm, so that absolutely no darkness remains." So, Quan Yin Bodhisattva even can protect people from the ghosts. "When the sound is gone and the hearing is perfected, and all-pervasive power of compassion arises, and I can make it so that if living beings are travelling a dangerous road, thieves will not rob them." "When one is permeated with hearing, one separates from worldly objects, and forms cannot rob one. Then I can make it so that living beings with a great deal of desire can leave greed and desire far behind." But only when She contemplates on the sound and separates Herself from the physical body. She entered samadhi. She entered into the universal all-pervasive, all-omnipresent, the universal power. When She enters and partakes of that, then She can do all this and that, and all this. That is the response body.

"Because I have obtained the perfect penetration of the sense-organ and have discovered the wonder of the ear entrance, after which my body and mind subtly and miraculously included all of the Dharma Realm, I am able to make it so that living beings who uphold my name obtain as much merit and virtue as would be obtained by a person who upheld the names of all those Dharma Princes who are as many as the grains of sand in 62 Ganges Rivers." "World Honored One," Quan Yin Bodhisattva continued, "there is no difference between the merit of my one name and the merit of those many other names, because from my cultivation I obtained true and perfect penetration." Therefore, She can go everywhere. She can manifest Herself into all different lands and different countries, different realms, and speak to different beings to awaken them and liberate them, because of Her power, because of that. She concentrates so much, that there is no more physical world for Her. All is just pure, pure Light and power, spiritual power.

“Because of hearing and consideration, I escape the six defiling objects, just as a sound leaps over a wall without hindrance. And so, I have the wonderful ability to manifest shape after shape and to recite mantra upon mantra.” “These shapes and these mantras dispel the fears of living beings. Therefore, throughout the ten directions, in as many lands as there are fine motes of dust, I am known as one who bestows fearlessness.” “…The Buddha asks about perfect penetration. From the gateway of the ear, I obtained a perfect and illumining samadhi. The conditioned mind was at ease, and therefore I entered the appearance of the flow, and obtaining samadhi, I accomplished Bodhi. This is the foremost method.” The Buddha says that all Buddhas are reliant on the Sound Stream to come down to the world to deliver sentient beings. And all Buddhas, also enlightened Beings, are reliant on the Sound Stream to go back to the original Source. The vibration currents that all beings have to rely on to achieve what they want to achieve or to go Home. It’s like a highway.

“World Honored One, that Buddha, the Thus Come One, praised me as having obtained well the Dharma-door of perfect penetration. In the great assembly He bestowed a prediction upon me and the name, Quan Shi Yin.” “Because my contemplation and listening is perfectly clear throughout the ten directions, the name Quan Shi Yin pervades all the realms of the ten directions.” “The World Honored One upon the Lion’s Throne emitted simultaneously from His five extremities a precious Light which shone far throughout the ten directions to anoint the crowns of as many Thus Come Ones and Dharma-Prince Bodhisattvas as there are motes of dust.” “It was an unprecedented event for everyone in the great assembly, and they all attained the Vajra samadhi.” Suddenly, everybody sat all quietly, and all entered samadhi, completely out of this world because of all the Buddhas shining all the Lights to that assembly. Lucky people.