The following paragraphs, like the last two blog articles, are from the PREFACE from my forthcoming book Thus Have I Seen: The Marvelous True Buddha Dharma and Its Power to Transform. I will explain the meaning of the Seven Gems more in later posts. This is just to establish context. Stay tuned.
There is one more confessional statement I want to make. Many years ago I wanted to establish a website to tell the world about my Buddha Master and Guru and explain how a Buddha had incarnated into this world to make the teachings of Shakyamuni Buddha more relevant to our troubled times and to correct mistranslations and errors that had crept into the original teachings over the millennia. This Buddha, an incarnation of Dorje Chang Buddha, the teacher of Shakyamuni Buddha in another time and place, was living in America and I wanted other Americans to know about it. I requested guidance on how I should do this and received an image of a sun and moon riding on clouds that contained seven rainbow-colored gems. The meaning of this image was explained to me and although I found it very interesting and used it on my website for years, I never fully understood its significance or what I should do with it. When I redesigned my website, I dropped the logo and had not given it much thought until I started to write this book. Just as I had the flash of recognition of how all the bits and pieces of Dharma I had received over the years fit together, I was also able to see how beautiful and important the symbolism of this logo was and how useful it was to telling my story .
With this background, I begin the journey and will, hopefully, be able to end with the synthesis of what happened and what other non-Chinese speaking beings need to be able to find and practice the true Buddha Dharma that can enable them to become enlightened.
[The following section explaining the Seven Gems is from “Chapter Twenty-five: What Can You Do?”]The Buddha Master told me in a dream how I should propagate the Dharma when He helped me develop the logo for the Xuanfa Institute. He said I should use the following seven gems to propagate the Dharma:
- RED-Good Fortune: Following the teachings of the Buddha can enable you to have good health, wealth, and avoid disasters and enable you to have the resources you need to be able to both practice the Dharma and bring others to the Dharma.
- ORANGE-Holy Manifestations or Miracles: I have shared some of my experiences with the supernatural abilities of holy beings who do follow the teachings of the Buddha.
- YELLOW-Five Vidyas: Following the Buddha’s words you, too, can obtain supernormal powers and extraordinary skills and learn how to behave like a Buddha or Great Bodhisattva. These are explained in Chapter Twenty-Two.
- GREEN-Wisdom: You need to study and practice Imparting the Absolute Truth Through the Heart Sutra and other texts as per the following strategy to learn the correct Buddha Dharma.
- AQUA-Compassion: See Chapter Twenty-one: “True Compassion” and the following strategy (Chapter Twenty-five: “What Can You Do?”).
- BLUE-Sainthood: See Appendix B on the paths to develop your wisdom and compassion to become a Holy Person or Saint.
- PURPLE-Enlightenment: You are able to escape the suffering of samsara and will ultimately become a Buddha.
CLICK for PREFACE, Part I – Thus Have I Seen: The Marvelous True Buddha Dharma and Its Power to Transform
CLICK for PREFACE, Part II – The Phoenix and the Chicken
CLICK for INTRODUCTION, Part I – Why I follow H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III
CLICK for excerpts from CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE–Your Yidam.
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