Greeting
Ladies and gentlemen, I’m grateful for the mercy of God and Holy Teachers, the great virtue of Lao Quian Ren (Grand Senior Elder) and Qian Ren (Senior Elder), so I can have this opportunity to share this topic with you.
First time when I was here, I was like everyone- wondering why I have to be here. Why we should receiving Dao? But I thought it was my opportunity to learn something new in my life. So, I would like to ask you to open you mind, listen and consider. I will not ask you to believe everything I say but if anything will be good for your life that will be my pleasure.
I. Introduction
Life is suffering! May I ask when you wake up and found that this is Monday morning, how do you feel? When you are starving and nothing to eat, how do you feel? When you’re injured from the knife or fell down, how do you feel? When you are sleepy and it’s the working time or in the meeting, how do you feel? When you get stuck in the traffic, how do you feel? So, your lives have the happiness more than suffering or not? And when you’re happy, is the happiness stay with you for a whole day?
We suffer because we don’t know the natural truth. So we spend the time of our life to be born, to study, work, get married, get old and die with the suffering in a single day-someday with a little and someday with the tremendous.
The tragedy of human life is that it is such a mystery to us who live it. The source, the basis, the meaning, and the purpose of our lives are unknown to most of us, which prevents us from living fully, wholly, happily, Although it should not and need not be so, distorted vision and out-of control thoughts turn ordinary life into a secret. Even this life which each of us calls "my own" is obscured by the confusion and turmoil of emotions, beliefs, opinions, and misunderstandings. Not knowing life, we live it incorrectly and in conflict with nature and its truth. Such living is stunted, cramped, petty, selfish, and sorrow-ridden. How we are to step free of that into the peace, coolness, and joy that we know is natural and right?
Dao or Dharma or nature is different in language but all the same meaning means natural truth.
The truth of nature
-The sun rises in the east and fall in the west.
-Water falls down upon the gravity.
-You hit the ball to the wall; it will bounce as the reflection.
-All the stars, orbit in the sky unceasingly.
The truth of our life
- What is life? Now please follow my instructions. Use your right hand to pinch your left arm. Pinch it hard. What do you feel? Painful? You are alive! Why do I Say so? Have you seen a dead person before? Will he feel pain while someone is pinching him?
So what is life? Have you ever thought about this question? There is no difference in appearance between the living and the dead. However, a living person can walk, talk, and think at will; he eats when he is hungry, drinks when he is thirsty, whereas a dead person cannot do all these things. Why? The answer is that a person is dead when his spirit separates from the body. The spirit to the body is like the driver to a car; both are indispensable to each other. Lack of one will make the other become useless.
Actually I may say that the body is untrue because we cannot control them as we want. These bodies born as a baby, get old, get ill, and die. We cannot force them to stay young or to be looks like as we want all the time. But you can control your spirit or your mind; if you have a good practice your mind will be powerful to be calm and peaceful against the reflection of your feeling or temper.
II. Why should we have to receive Dao?
Where do your Physical bodies come from? From our parents, right? But where is our spirit from? For Christ, people believe that our spirits are from god. Romans 8:16: “The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children.” For Buddhist people believe that our spirits are from the nirvana. For Islam believe that spirits are from Allah. Actually no matter where we’re from and where we have to go after die, the important in our life is presents -the gift of our life.
So, if you practice and have a self realization and be enlightened, you will be calm, emptiness & peaceful, no temper-I can say that you can reach the state of god or nirvana or Allah as well.
And how to practice or cultivate? In the previous Jesus Christ, Siddhadha Buddha, Nabee Muhammad, or the founder of the religious, they are enlightened and teach the disciple how to practice until their state of mind enlightened. So, when they’re alive they could manage the life to deal with the suffering easily. In ancient times, the cultivators had to cast aside their wealth and fame, some even left behind their families to cultivate in the remote mountains in order to find the way to be enlightened.
Nowadays people have more realize on the value of happiness in life. Some people do the meditation to control their mind calm and peaceful. If you know the right point to store your mind, it will be easier. In the ritual, the transmitting master will allow you know.
And for having this opportunity to know this is not accidentally.
In the past God send many Buddhas and Saints to the world to transmit this enlightened point; such as Jesus Christ and Siddhartha Buddha. Nowadays people are greedy and more selfishness, harm the nature and other people too much. So we have more risk to face with the calamities outside which are disaster, war, disease, and so many chaos things and calamity inside-the suffering. But god is so mercifulness, wants to help a kind of good person like us stay away from those calamities. And time is different now. So, God send two enlightening Masters to the world to in charge of transmitting the enlightened portal to the people who have the holy affinity. These two Masters are Ji-Gong Living Buddha and Yue-Hui Bodhisattva.
You are so lucky because not everyone has the affinity to receive Dao. You must be equipped with the following conditions in order to receive Dao:
a. You must have cultivated well in your past lives.
b. Your ancestors have performed meritorious virtues.
c. You’re a noble and righteous person.
That is why both your introducer (the person brought you here) and Guarantor are willing to bring you here to receive Dao. This affinity does not come easily, so we should treasure and cherish it!
Conclusion
So today we are here to know that the important part of our lives is the spirit. And you can stay away or not suffer from any condition if you understand your mind and can control it.
Receiving Dao will be guidance for you to reach the enlightened state of mind.
Your donation will buy the dharma books to share people. Or help people in the disaster or who needed. No one in this place can use any one baht of your donation. We were like you, after receiving Dao and we have more study, we can manage our suffering easier, we can change some bad habits and we think it will be great if everyone can have the good opportunity to be like us. So, we dedicate our times to be a staff or lecturer here without wage.
And in the ceremony, there will be the vows to speak out to show the sincere and that is one of the guidance to practice or cultivate. The MC will speak and you just repeat them. And after the ceremony will be another lecturer will explain more about the ceremony also.
Thank you for your listening and I beg for Buddha’s forgiveness if I made any errors in my speech, and I humbly ask the Dao Transmitting Masters and lecturers to supplement any omission I have made. Thank you