So I would invite all other monks and nuns never to say such things like, “no hell, no Amitābha Buddha’s Land,” or any other Buddha’s Land, because you yourself will go to the deepest possible hell. I promise you I tell you the truth. God is my Witness, Buddhas are my Witnesses.
You have to encourage people to recite the Amitābha Buddha’s Name, because the Buddha said that personally, taught that personally, and described all the beauty of that Land for you so that if you imagine it, you will go there. […] It is similar, almost identical with the experience of some of the God-disciples of mine when they went to visit the Western Paradise of Amitābha Buddha.
“Each of Master’s disciples has similar, different or more inner spiritual experiences and/or outer world blessings; these are just some samples. Usually we keep them to ourselves, as per Master’s advice.
A Journey to Heaven – Amitābha’s Western Paradise or ‘Extreme Bliss Pure Land’
Master once told us that following Master to practice meditation is ‘we die every day while alive,’ meaning our soul consciousness can come and go between Heaven and Earth without having to wait for this physical body to actually die.
I had the honor to visit the Amitābha’s Western Paradise or ‘Extreme Bliss Pure Land’ a few times during my meditation even though I’m not practicing the Pure Land Buddhism, but the Quan Yin Method that Supreme Master Ching Hai has imparted to me, which enables me to tour the Western Paradise while living. That’s why the Quan Yin Method is a complete and perfect method, the ultimate of all spiritual practicing methods.
I saw that the Western Paradise was exactly the same as described in the Buddhist Sutra: the ground paved with gold and the palaces made with soft and elastic gold, looking transparent and shining with golden light. Pillars inside and outside of the palaces were all inlaid with gemstones of seven or nine colors. Everything there was composed of light. The radiant buildings there were like those ancient buildings on Earth, including gorgeous Buddhist style, Islamic style, or elegant Catholic style, as all buildings here on Earth are imitations of those in Heaven. The buildings in Heaven were truly so beautiful that no worldly language can describe them. The palaces all had their own consciousness, like living creatures that we can communicate with. Even though they apparently had doors, but we could just get in without having to pass through any door or any obstruction.
The colors of flowers and plants there were especially transparent and bright and they could all sing. The trees there were also glittering with light and radiating a kind of subtle vibration, as if singing. The light there was so strong that I couldn’t distinguish between trees, flowers, or plants in the beginning. Even animal-people there were all sparkling. The mountains there were also green and very radiant and vivid in color.
I first visited the lower level of the Western Paradise, which was either for people who had meritorious rewards while living on Earth or had chanted the Name of Amitābha Buddha and had less karma. After arriving there, they had to first clean their contaminated parts after living in the big dyeing tank of Earth, and then gradually rise up to the middle level after being thoroughly cleansed.
In the middle level were those who had practiced spiritually and meditated more but still had lots of distractive thoughts. I saw some of them still missing their previous worldly pleasures; for example, whatever they wanted to eat would appear for them to enjoy instantly, and whatever they desired would instantly be created just by their thinking.
One thing worth noticing was that I saw some monks and nuns who had practiced the Pure Land Buddhism and kept the precepts rather strictly. They were reborn into the low or middle level there and regretted that they hadn’t practiced well while in their human bodies; they wanted to practice diligently after going there.
Therefore, in each level of the ‘Extreme Bliss Pure Land’ there’re Buddhas or Bodhisattvas mercifully giving lectures. When Quan Yin Bodhisattva lectured there, all beings would miraculously transform into teenage girls to listen to the lecture, wearing exactly the same clothes. Then Quan Yin Bodhisattva would give a lecture through vibration which the whole audience could understand.
I also saw that when Amitābha Buddha went there to lecture, every being would miraculously turn into young boys to listen to the lecture, and Amitābha Buddha also used vibration instead of language to let everyone understand. After the lecture, everyone would return to their own original clothing, which to me was so interesting! I also joined them to listen to the lecture.
Over there, every being had a ‘home’ – a ‘lotus flower.’ They would meditate, practice spiritually, and recite sutras, and so on in one’s own lotus. One lotus there is bigger than our Earth, because one eye of Amitabha Buddha alone is already as immense as the Universe. Therefore, beings in the Western Paradise were correspondingly very, very big, unlike us Earthly humans who are so small. Even though it is the Buddha’s world, if beings there don’t practice well, their lotus flowers would wither and lose light; they cannot cheat.
The sutra described the well-known ‘Eight Merit Water’ in the Western Paradise. I saw that it was transparent water which was extraordinarily ‘pure, cool, sweet, soft, moisturizing, calming, thirst-quenching, and nourishing all qualities.’ Beings could go there to wash whatever dirty stuff is attached to their souls and then return to their house – the lotus flower – to continue practicing meditation.
There’s only happiness in the Western Paradise, no suffering or vexation, that’s why it’s named ‘Extreme Bliss Pure Land.’ Almost all the residents in the top level of the Western Paradise were Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, where They study laws and mysteries of the Universe and prepare to liberate beings, in anticipation of becoming Buddhas or Bodhisattvas of even higher levels, which is the goal They are striving for while living there.
After visiting the ‘Extreme Bliss Pure Land’ a few times, my realization is: while still in this human body, we should endeavor to be vegan, practice spiritually, lead a virtuous and loving lifestyle, and diligently practice the Quan Yin Method, which is the highest. Then, we don’t need to wait until we die to travel to various high Heavens with our consciousness. Heavens welcome spiritual practitioners like you and me.
Master has prepared the ‘New Paradise,’ an incredible Heaven that is even more extraordinary and magnificent, for good disciples and good people. Thank You, Master! It is difficult to repay Your Grace. I can only kowtow to You three times from here. Respectfully, Ji-Guang from China”
But this monk, Thích Nhật Từ, in one comment, he denied all that, and denied Quan Yin Bodhisattva and Great Strength Bodhisattva, Đại Thế Chí Bồ Tát, and denied his own Master, Shakyamuni Buddha, the Name by which he has become a monk, and it’s from that Name and prestige and power that he gets a reverend status from the Buddhist followers, has offerings from them, and lives a comfortable life. So this is truly ungrateful.
I don’t know how many more monks are talking harmfully like that. I only know one, because I just accidentally saw it on YouTube on the Internet. I did not look for it. I did not know his name all these decades of my life. I only knew it recently, some weeks ago. The same with Trần Tâm and Huệ Bửu, etc. I never knew them. I never looked into monks, nuns, what they’re doing. Just accidentally, God made me know it, so that I can tell you.
Please believe that there is Amitābha Buddha’s Land. Please recite Amitābha Buddha’s Name, believing in the Power of soul-saving of Amitābha Buddha. If you don’t like Amitābha Buddha, you recite the Name of Quan Yin Bodhisattva, because Quan Yin Bodhisattva is also by the side of Amitābha Buddha. And Mahāsthāmaprāpta Bodhisattva, Đại Thế Chí Bồ Tát, meaning the Great Strength Bodhisattva. They rescue you, all three of Them. You choose one. But Amitābha Buddha is the Chief there. So, you please recite His name. If you don’t trust me or believe in me, anything, just recite “Amitābha Buddha.” Think of Him, pray to Him, endear yourself to Him, and ask for protection from Him.
And if you are a Sikh, then remember Guru Nanak and all the other Gurus. And then recite the Granth Sahib daily, whenever you can. And if you are in other religious beliefs, then recite the Saintly teachings of Jainism, Hinduism, Christianity, Confucianism, Taoism, Cao Đài-ism, Hòa Hảo-ism, I-Kuan Taoism, etc. Recite all these Saintly teachings that are passed down to you. Recite it, read it every day, whenever you can. All this will be formed into a habit so that when you die, that’s all you will remember. And then you will go to the Land that is contained or in connection with those Saintly teachings that you read. That’s all there is. Because that’s how you save your soul.
I would advise again: all the Buddhist followers, if you did not choose any other method in Buddhism to practice to save your soul, then you should recite “Amitābha Buddha” all the time, all the time. Until even when you sleep, you eat, it’s only His name, and His scenery. If possible, you can find the sutra. You read it so you can visualize Amitābha Buddha’s Land, so that when you die, you will go there. And you will immediately recognize that is the Land that you wanted to be born in, to be free forever. You may be in a lower level, but then you will never go back to the life and death cycle, and you’ll never go to hell. So please do that. I wish you all the best from my heart that you will be liberated and be reborn in Buddha’s Land – any Buddha’s Land that you have chosen to believe in and worship.
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