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HIỆP THIÊN ĐÀI
OFFICE
THƯỢNG SANH
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No.: 121/TS
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GREAT WAY -THIRD PERIOD - UNIVERSAL SALVATION
( 45TH YEAR
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TÂY NINH HOLY SEE
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THƯỢNG SANH
CHIEF OF DIVINE
ALLIANCE PALACE
Respectfully addressed to: Hiến Pháp [Juridical Renovator]
Chief of
Justice Department
Ref.: Sage letter No.: 15/ĐS dated 12th
June 1970
Dear Gentle Brother,
In
according with your suggestion, I agree to let Department of Religious History
publish to propagate His Holiness Hộ Pháp’s Preachments from 1946 to 1955
at Tây Ninh Holy See.
Selected lessons for publishing must be
censored by Bible Censoring Department.
Regards,
Holy See, 14th May
Year of Dog
(17th Jun. 1970)
THƯỢNG SANH
(Signed)
These
preachments in this book are the precious speeches of His Holiness Hộ
Pháp, a Head of Great Way - Third Period - Universal Salvation, a great man of
generation, so the edition and collection Board was founded with Đức
Thượng Sanh’s agreement to promote the edition and collection toward
those Preachments. Now, this work has been obtained a satisfactory result,
consequently the Board
carries out to print for all followers to comprehend these
precious speeches.
In
the History Religion Board
of Great Way-Third Period-Universal Salvation, the Easter-Wester, ancient and modern
books in library are available for researchers
and believers. The books of “Preachments” of His Holiness Hộ
Pháp will be stored in this Library
for readers coming to study.
His Holiness Hộ Pháp is
one of predecessors founding the
Great Way-Third Period-Universal Salvation,
who firstly implemented Three
Ways: “Virtue way, Service way, Speech way”.
About the Virtue way,
He is the first person
who followed sacred call to found a
Religious source for all humankind to enjoy the
great favor of the God
- Supreme
Being.
About Service way,
He both did the virtue way and did service of founding religion.
From nothing, he created the
material things, held the winds to create a Great Work of Religion on this
earth. If he was not a Venerable Man, how could he be successful?
About Speech way, He handed over the precious speeches
in Preachments that we are reading. The readers and all followers should pay
attention that there are other sublime teachings.
For the sake of Juridical Renovator [Hiến Pháp]
of Divine Alliance Palace
[Hiệp Thiên Đài] holding the position Chief of Religion History
Board, I respectfully introduce this precious book to the readers that these
book are worthy to be handed down forever.
Yours sincerely.
Juridical
Renovator Trương Hữu Đức.
For
each chaos, it is the time books become bait for the fire. Looking
back the history: events of “Part of
Books”, appropriations of book happened as a corollary toward history
events. This status has been lasting for era; those are the methods of
malefactors in targets for carrying out the Ignoramus Policy and Strict Acculturation.
Those
sad experiences are reasons pushing us to try to carry out collecting these
documentaries.
We
think that: “If documentaries of prayer-book were just stored in a
concentration place, it could not prevent cruel people destroying books”. Consequently,
we have decided to make many copies for many entrusted people who were faithful
to the Religion to be able to die in order to preserve Immortal’s speeches that
He represented the God to preach the Tao.
If
the situation changes unfortunately, the separations of books will happen
again. We think that among these separations of books, some will be fully kept
by the enthusiastic people.
This
work is not a work of a person or an association but a work of nameless persons
devoting all abilities in order to serve the preserve ideal for the dogmas
tradition of Caodaism. While this book is giving to you, there are some
passionate persons exhaustedly slump down in acting this ideal.
Our
action was not a superficial idea in a short time, but an aspiration during the
chaos. We always prayed the Supreme Being and Mother Buddha/Holy Mother to be
blessed that we could a fortune chance to act that aspiration.
Nowadays,
the vista of the sky has been bright, the aspiration has been completed. We
would like to fully submit to the Sacerdotal Council all documentaries written
and collected by us in years with following up the purpose of preserving the
precious speeches of His Holiness Hộ Pháp.
From
this time, the copyright fully depends on the Sacerdotal Council. We would like
to hope that the Sacerdotal Council authorize to be censored and published so
that everyone can know the cherish teachings of His Holiness Hộ Pháp that
He loved to teach us when He was here, on this earth.
Holy See, 15th
June Bính Ngọ/Horse Year (1966)
Shorthand Department
01. ON OCCASION
OF NEW YEAR’S GREETING AT POPE HOUSE
The His Holiness Hộ Pháp’s
reply at the Pope’s House on the occasion of new year’s
greeting of organs to Him
[1st January Quý Tỵ
year]
Bần Đạo/I feel moved after
hearing the confidential speeches of Religious Politics organs for Bần
Đạo/me.
Before Bần Đạo/I returned to
homeland after 5 years of exile in Foreign Country, I had thought that the Vietnam’s
destiny would wait my return to use the bliss ability to reach achievement, and
the all national people’s heroic spirit would rise to destroy dependent chain.
Bần Đạo/I heard when staying at the Island of Ocean.
Alas! Conversely, when
Bần Đạo/I returned the fatherland, I saw that the indomitable
will and heart of national independent recovery did not exist except the Caodai
Military’s ability.
Dear Religious Politics Organs,
Administration, Divine Alliance Palace [Hiệp Thiên Đài], Charity
Body [Phước Thiện], Military, please you all stand quietly for
5 minutes to commemorate Marty sacrificed because of national destiny, regime
of true Religion to execute their Divine mission by their blood. Bần
Đạo/I would like asking you to meditate for praying.
Dear my friends in Divine Alliance
Palace, foremost Cao
Tiếp Đạo [Religious Legislator – one of twelve Zodiacal
Dignitaries] with your precious speeches have come to my spirit profoundly.
Actually, if this life can be considered: this life on the earth is an animal
but she is an useful one, it will also make Bần
Đạo/me pleased.
The upper Supreme Being and
Holy Mother love and all lower children of Supreme Being despite of male and
female support. Bần Đạo/I think that there is not another
better Divine reward. All greetings of all Supreme Being’s children respond my
merit by an expensive value that nobody perhaps knows.
My friends in Divine Alliance
Palace! You are holding
the Divine just balance of Religion that the Supreme Being places on this earth.
The bliss or misery of whole humankind also depends on your Justice one day.
Bần Đạo/I would like to remind the Supreme Being’s essential
speech signed with us: “Justice”, which Bần Đạo/I have
recommended it to the Divine
Alliance Palace.
Bần Đạo/I like
to say the thanks to the Administration. From my return fatherland, due to the
ability of whole Supreme Being’s Holy Body, Bần Đạo/I have
enough ability, power to execute my Divine duty strongly and stately. Bần
Đạo/I thank you and pray that the Supreme Being grants divine wisdom
to all male female followers to understand the Supreme Being’s holy will more
thoroughly, in order to establish the misery saving organ for people, to make
bliss for Vietnamese race, as the race of the Holy Body of this period.
For a next short time, the
Sacerdotal Council of Đường Nhơn [Chinese’s Sacerdotal
Council] will should a significant mission. Bần Đạo/I predict
so that you prepare and know your duty in advance.
For Charity Body’s
Sacerdotal Council [Hội Thánh Phước Thiện], alas! The
more Bần Đạo see misery of human beings, the more Bần
Đạo/I get the hope from Charity Body.
After a period of stabilizing
nation, the national people’s misery will fix the power, for foremost soldiers
who sacrificed because of their nation sustained miseries, poorness, who wanted
to save their future bring the bliss for them; we need to give them a little of
happiness. Bần Đạo/I only wait the Charity Body.
Caodai heroic
Soldiers! I/Master say the thanks to you again.
During six or seven
years, I was guiding you to step on the path of infinite sacrifice. If you
meditate by your heart about the action of using your moral to fight because of
homeland and Religion, you will see that you have reached the victory.
Bần Đạo/I assert surely that: my speech is not excessive and
you have overcome two stages.
In the first stage,
you created a revolution ability to oppose government by Vietnamese race’s
fight ability to have such a strong play. In front of Bần Đạo’s
sight, I can see the government opposing day indomitably of your race.
Nowadays, it steps
into the stage of national independence recovery and it also depends on the
strong opposing stage. Thus, you your national independence recovery can last continuously.
For that reason, your brothers wish a day to fix the nation’s destiny soon
only. However, how pitiful! Your brothers with that desire will have to repent
at their final time.
Consequently,
Master/I let you know that the stage of national independence recovery has
elapsed and the national decision stage comes, as the stage of forming your
nation regime. The Vietnam
independence is steadfast or non-steadfast, Bần Đạo/I do
hesitate to say: your nation independence protection ability with a steadfast
glory depends on the international ability only.
How happy! Although
the independence lost in 80 years has just regained, over powerful countries
admitted. By any way, nobody has the right to usurp that independence, to
destroy it. Your nation reforming regime of stage will come soon.
Today, Master/I will
tell you clearly and you will feel surprised to query why we were in a quiet
stage, a complexion happened. Be calm! Master/I explain to let you understand.
That situation came and Master/I will guide you gradually to the correct
position. That is your mission that you must do. My body only pushes you to one
more step. You should not think that your mission of nation independence
recovery is all, but you will have to do more. Master/I will push you to the
step of forming the national regime and of creating the your
independence protection method steadfastly.
When returning from
the Foreign Country, Master/I made a paper agreement with France governor. In that agreement,
Master/I forced him to restore Vietnam
domain from Cà Mau province to Nam Quan frontier, which means that it must be
restored to the power of Bảo Đại king who succeeds our
Emperors. In Nguyễn descent, only He has enough power to face the
international aspect. Thus, when returning, Master/I stopped
over in Hongkong to speak to Him: According to the international law, the King
is the Emperor maintaining. For all Vietnamese in stage of King
abdicated, I also said that: The King places the national people’s bliss on the
King’s precious throne because of “God child does not tell a joke”. Over the King’s
national people, He is also a State Head. I would like to promise to the King
that this stage will reach the stage of “constitutional monarchy” only, not
reach the Republic.
The State Head
accepted and promised so. Consequently, nowadays, He has executed promises done
with Bần Đạo/me on the time of forming the
regime of People Right, Bần Đạo/I have to keep my
promise that Bần Đạo/I will set up the Constitutional
Monarchy.
Bần
Đạo/I assert that if you gather faith mixed with the completely
national faith of races, the Head of State will never change His promise, your
Master/I will not fail to keep my promise. Thus, Master/I can make your race
independent.
02. TROOPS DISPATCH CEREMONY
The His Holiness Hộ Pháp’s lecture
on the Caodai Troops Dispatching Ceremony on 9th January Quý Tỵ
year
Dear
Mandarins, foreign Ambassadors, our Prime Minister of Government, Lieutenant
General Bondis and present Gentlemen,
Today is the day of
Caodai Troops Dispatch. Bần Đạo/I feel very
moved.
Dear Gentlemen,
please feel pleased to let Bần Đạo/me advise my soldiers some
speeches with foremost religious aspect. Bần Đạo/I have ever
told, Caodai Master Sergeant, Sergeant to let you understand thoroughly.
After your master’s
exile in Foreign Country, when returning to the fatherland, Master/I appointed you a new
significant mission that you perhaps know that mission as the national
salvation. Your Master/I have no worthy gift for you
for your sacrifice during continuous 10 years, except for two Religious Flags
that Master/I granted to you with my placed spirit. When the anniversary of
Troops Dispatch, your Master/I am your Divine Father. Consequently, you
commemorate Martyrs sacrificed because of Nation. Master/I need not to explain,
but you understood that deep sentiment.
Today is the
national decision stage. Master/I grant a new significant mission to you, which
is more dangerous and difficult.
In order to have
Caodai Soldiers to be united in one, steadfast and strong to save national
future, to create bliss for your race, your Master/I do as a Head as the
Professor to teach Vietnam race. However, my blood is from your race, thus I do
how to be worthy in role of a citizen. Therefore, Master/I execute the Divine
mission to be worthy.
Your Master/I granted the Military Flag with four words “Utter
Loyalty to Country”. The world will perhaps contest that those four words are
without correct action, they just show form only.
For that contest,
Master/I tell you to remember that only Mother of Nhạc Phi Bàn Cử [1103 – 1142-
a Character of China] wrote four words “ Utter Loyalty to Country”, so that Nhạc Phi saved
Tống dynasty from the decline country.
For Vietnam,
there are two Generals:
Võ Tánh
Ngô Tùng Châu
They sacrificed to
restore Nation. Your Master/I assert determinedly
that: you may see that those four words will change the race spirit, will help
you be more imposing and powerful.
03. HIS HOLINESS HỘ PHÁP ADMONISHES CAODAI SOLDIERS
His Holiness Hộ Pháp said
thanks to Guests and admonished Caodai Soldiers on 16th January Quý
Tỵ year
Dear Guests,
Secular and Religious Dignitaries,
Firstly, Bần
Đạo/I would like to bow my head to say the thanks to all compatriots
of both sides of Secular and Religious crowded, solemn presence to make the
Caodaism more glorious. Bần Đạo/I lower my head to say the
thanks to you all.
Dear all
compatriots,
Bần
Đạo/I would like to tell You while the
National destiny comes to the significant stage, which is considered as the
difficult stage to decide its future destiny. Especially, Bần
Đạo/I have some speeches to writers, ambassadors. Over 9 years of
sight, today is your significant mission because this time is the stage of
spirit fight, or called as: “we continue to fight for psychology aspect”. We
think that over nine indomitable years in restoring the nation’s independence,
you have a national history readily that your precious pen point maybe
bequeaths a framework as the old spirit of Ancestor bequeathed, to your
generation one day.
The indomitable will
after 80 years of domination induces our compatriots to desire to escape and
restore our Ancestor Nation’s independence bequeathed. With such a beautiful
nation, it forces us to sacrifice our blood as habits long since.
For natural law on
this earth, we cannot petition anything, but we must buy, ransom by investing a
value, which is same the value of object we want. Alas! The object that all
national compatriots want is too expensive, therefore
we had to pay by a very expensive price, as the blood during nine fight years.
Dear compatriots,
writers who are guiding the spirit of our current race, you perhaps made a
query when you were free “The path of Caodaism calls itself as the National Religion.
The query: by its complete character, it became a Great Way for World while Vietnam
is in such that situation, what is their solution method? When you have free
time, you perhaps make a query. In that case, which path, solution must all
intellectuals select, especially the situation is
after my exile from 5 years in Foreign Country? In 1946, you also understood
deeply the nation’s situation. Bần Đạo/I confess that at that
time, Bần Đạo/I was at a loss without exit. One side as
Việt Minh took advantage of patriotism spirit of all compatriots with one
aim of national salvation standpoint. By that powerful force, they kept all
lives of race and nation in their hands from South to North. If their fight
structure has been an authentic national structure, the result and national
union would have been done in achievement. Harmfully! They trended to two
tendencies of two blocks such. They especially looked at the strength of
Communism block. Their falsity was to follow that block to decide the Vietnam’s
future destiny. If their decision brought victory of interest for nation’s
race, Bần Đạo think that we need not to explain, but everyone
would be able to know it thoroughly as a change of master only. We can see the
independence flag, but the dependent status is still old. In that case, how can
race have bliss? When I came back, the danger was that this side scrambled
people and other side also scrambled people. This side was Việt Minh,
other side was France
and the National block was in middle danger situation with two weapons of two
sides.
Dear all
compatriots, which path could I lead in that situation? There is one ready path
that our Ancestor bequeathed, which has been spending 4,000 years that I have
to step on. Alas! That path contains uncountable blood and pain. We have
sacrificed blood of Caodai soldiers to be the rampart to protect the race’s
life under the flag of Life Protection of Humanity and Universal Concord. If
all compatriots understand its secret thought, you will shed tears to
understand Bần Đạo/me.
Bần
Đạo/I have ever declared “Caodai Military appears to be a partition
of sacrifice in death, so that race can avoid the death, to protect race’s
life, to preserve the “Charity and Justice” bequeathed by Ancestor”. Bần
Đạo/I sometimes feel very painful, but when thinking about that
noble Divine mission, the solace also comes in mind a little.
Caodai Soldiers from
Master Sergeant, Corporal to soldier, Master/I push you to sacrifice to save
race and Nation again. You still fight for your nation’s future destiny to
obtain the independence of your race and Nation.
04. THE RELIGION’S MATERIAL DHARMA
His Holiness Hộ Pháp preached
at night of 29th January Quý Tý year
In
previous services, as our time was for oath ceremony of Military, I could not
preach. You all perhaps want to hear. Bần Đạo/I get rather tired, therefore the voice becomes hoarse in preachment. The
Supreme Being’s children try to listen.
Nowadays,
the varying status of Religious youth has been attached by the chaotic movement.
Their heart and morality becomes shifty and anxious. Consequently, today
Bần Đạo/I preach the Caodaism’s Material Dharma, which means
that it is: our Caodaism’s law. Bần Đạo/I have ever preached
the Secular Way
of Caodaism as the Confucianism of changing the world that the Confucianism is our
Ancestor’s Way bequeathed long since.
Indeed,
only the essence of Confucianism becomes the exemplary for current life. We
find that our Confucianism is a society Religion that its trait is that the
Supreme Being comes to establish the Confucianism to dominate the world.
What is
the essence of Confucianism? Is it the tactics of “Improve oneself, dominate
country, pacify people” as the noble guideline of Rev. Mạnh Tử with
“Great Learning is due to making virtue brilliant, to making citizen new, to
stopping tip good”.
Now, all
Supreme Being’s children gradually listen to my preachment over the phrase
“improve oneself” firstly: From the Antiquity to nowadays, Sages always use two
words “improve oneself” as the basic. Those two words have appeared for long
time. If we read the Confucianism history, we will see that it appeared in
Huỳnh Đế dynasty before Jesus Christ’s birth thousand
centuries ago.
Actually, although
it is the very ancient method, it appears in all epochs. The aim of Religions
is to improve oneself despite of individual, society, or complete humankind
that human’s heart always examines things to differentiate good, bad. However,
they do execute while they can differentiate bad and good. That is the opposite
point that no Saints on this earth can find its reason.
Consequently,
the human’s psychology trends to bad and lives far away good.
Thus, Religious Heads form the Religions and teach how to “improve oneself”.
The individual or society must lean on two words “improve oneself” as the basis.
Bần Đạo assert that it starts at the method of making virtue
brilliant.
Harmfully!
The human on this earth ignores virtue, not to create virtue. How can their Way
reach the achievement? People can see that darkness of virtue only because they
do not know that the virtue has no image and nobody can control its power. To
form that virtue to be respected by people, his heart must be complete. Due to
that virtue, we can know people’s secret. However, they just make virtue by
using the vility only. As they choose that path, they only seek people who do
not know method of making virtue, so that they show their unreal virtue because
if there is no virtue, the human never forms the reputation.
We find
that from the Antiquity to nowadays, in spite of a citizen or a King who wants
to establish his position, he must lean on the virtue. If we find them using
the vile virtue, he will never maintain that virtue. When he reveals his nature
by ignore his unreal virtue, he will use cruelty as Sở Bá Vương
[西楚霸王], Tần Thủy Hoàng [秦始皇]. Therefore, although his fortune is steadfast, it will also decline.
For
persons who never take care of reputation, Bần Đạo show an evidence that Hứa Do [a recluse of China
history] is a Righteous Talent. Nghiêu king sought and invited Him to succeed
throne, however He considered riches and fame as the pomp, wind, cloud only. Therefore, He did not take interest in it. The
value of Nghiêu King over Him was meaningless, therefore there is a sentence: “A
bird makes nest in forest in chattering on a branch of tree. A mouse drinks
water of a river to become full. As I/subject am acquainted with my leisure,
even you give throne to me, I will not do. I only make virtue. All positions,
riches and fames on this earth are valueless if they are compared with the
virtue”.
As people
wish to execute that virtue theory, but they can not do; the reputation of
Hứa Do compared with Nhan Hồi [The best student of Confucius called
as Nhan Uyên - 顏淵] when He
propagated doctrine in Tề country. The King of Tề country invited
Him and appointed Him with a high position. However, he replied that: “I/subject
am acquainted with my leisure. The leisure cannot be
changed with the value of position and fame. If you want to change it, you
should know how important the value of making virtue is”.
How
harmful! on this earth, many Sages and Scholars have
not understood the value of making virtue yet. Thus, they make dirty for their
honor. If they bequeath that unworthy value, it becomes meaningless. Two
thrones are mutually opposite as two opponent points.
In the
Caodaism, Bần Đạo/I have taken the Supreme Being’s children
and Religious youths to be His future Holy Body. If all you are aware of misery
to be the method of oneself improvement and virtue, that value is very easy as
we eat chili only.
Consequently,
the Supreme Being’s children and His Holy Body must spread that Divine virtue
over people to save people from misery.
05. FEAST OF REV. CAO THƯỢNG PHẨM –
SUPREME BEING CREATES FORTUNE FOR HIS CHILDREN
His Holiness Hộ Pháp preached
at Holy See at night of 30th February Quý Tý year
From the
time of my disease to today, Bần Đạo/I was
not preaching. Therefore, tonight offer the petition to Rev. Cao
Thượng Phẩm for your Divine promotion throne. Bần
Đạo/I wish His noble heart whose was applied to Bần
Đạo/me and Supreme Being’s children.
Tonight,
Bần Đạo/I preach an important subject.
This today
important ceremony concerns the Divine fortune that the Supreme Being
establishes it on this earth. At this time, there are three races enjoying the
Supreme Being’s special favor.
The first
race is the Indian race called as Brahman [Brahmanism]. The Supreme Being came
to open the Religion and formed the great Divine Fortune for them firstly.
The second
race: He Himself as the Jesus Christ came to establish the fortune for that
Hebrew, who exists until now.
The third
race: the third time is the period that Vietnamese race enjoys the third
special favor. The reason why the Supreme Being came to His children is because
this period is the Last Cycle of Third Transition [Hạ Ngươn Tam
Chuyển] beginning the First Cycle of Fourth Transition [Thượng
Ngươn Tứ Chuyển]. He came to unite all His children in
oneness. He came to form one true Religion to select His children to be His
Holy Body [Thánh Thể] as a misery saving organ to create the Religious
fortune for His children as male female Youths in the Religious gate.
Especially, the womankind suffered disadvantages, had to suffered more miseries
and poor situation that those still appear in your mind now. However, those
obstacles also disappear to yield the leisure that you are going to enjoy a
great Fortune that the Supreme Being has saved it for you readily. That great
Fortune is yours, thus you must maintain and protect it. To protect that great
Fortune, you must love together, support together, suffer
misery together to keep it steadfastly.
At this time, Qua/I
stand at the pulpit and say: the children’s future of Supreme Being will be
incredible rich. From 1926 to this time, the Caodaism reaches over twenty
years; you consider why there is this great fortune. Is it from Supreme Being’s
infinite mystery granted to us with this achievement. He
gathers His children to be His Holy Body. There is the strangeness that the
stupid will become wise, talent become better with his
fluent ability to serve the Religion. Consequently, He hands over the great fortune to His
children, so that they use the Divine power to win misery, as the misery saving
organ. Therefore, Rev. Cao Thượng Phẩm and Interim Pope
sacrificed their life to the Caodaism, as Bần Đạo/me. If you esteem
the Supreme Being’s True Doctrine, you must nourish your younger brothers, save
them from misery and you have to enough method to protect their life. Qua/I tell
you that and you perhaps understand that business and enrichment never create
such this great fortune and protect His children’s life. If you want to protect
your younger brother’s life, you should not use the authority for amendment,
but you must use moral to advise them to execute the universal concord of True
Religion because the Supreme Being’s coming with Sacerdotal Council
establishment is that He wants to fix the Vietnam’s destiny.
Qua/I tell frankly that if it did not lean on
the Supreme Being’s Holy Body, nobody would do successfully. Bần
Đạo/I only mention your future. When you enjoyed the Supreme Being’s
Divine power, Qua/I reply on you to sacrifice your
freedom to establish the great fortune with its appearance. Your uncountable
sweats have dropped because of that great fortune.
On my return after the stage of my exile in
Foreign Country, all fortunes done before were destroyed except for Holy See, old
Gratitude Temple [Báo Ân Từ], House of Funeral Ceremony [Khách
Đình], Hộ Pháp’s House, Pope’s House.
From 1946-1947, you began to re-constructed
despite of male and female. You all suffered many miseries, sacrifices for
building within some years only. This fortune belongs to the poor persons, who constructed
devotedly. The more you suffer miseries, the higher you get the Divine Fortune.
You are richer and richer. Your riches are not same to the one of Religions on
this earth. Your riches are to essentially to protect
your younger brother’s poor miserable life. Nobody has the right to master this
Great Divine fortune. Have you understood yet?
How strange! A Religion, which just uses two
words “Compassion and Justice” as the basis, contains a brilliant future. You
also know its Divine Religious power like other Religions. If the Supreme
Being’s Holy Body conversely holds power with a reply spirit, people will look
at and go far away all. Qua/I tell frankly that if you execute according to the
Supreme Being’s true religion, there will not have any power, which can oppress
it.
If we want to do favor and virtue, we need to
execute how to make His Holy Body worthy, which means that His children must
share sufferings, rice to be worthy of role of Holy Body, of His misery saving
organ.
You should
remember that you are servers of Religion only, which is not same the other
Religions that they want to become lord of others. If we want to be a lord of
others, we are the Supreme Being’s servant because that thing is better.
06.
FEAST OF REV. CAO THƯỢNG PHẨM
His Holiness Hộ Pháp preached
by occasion of Rev. Cao Thượng Phẩm’s Feast [1st
March Quý Tỵ year]
Dear Canonized Dignitaries [Chức Sắc Thiên Phong] of
Sacerdotal Council of Divine Alliance Palace [Hội Thánh Hiệp Thiên
Đài], of Nine Divine Planes Palace [Cửu Trùng Đài] and
Religious Politics Organs such as Charity Body [Phước Thiện],
Military and male female children of Supreme Being,
Today is the anniversary feast of Rev. Cao Thượng Phẩm.
Bần Đạo/I tell, preach and have a heart to heart to you yearly
about this anniversary. If I repeat it again, it will be useless. Therefore, Bần
Đạo/I stand here and mention Rev. Cao Thượng Phẩm
only with one point of His recent death. The Rev. Cao Thượng Phẩm
and Interim Pope were same. In the stage of embryo, people disdained the
Religions very much. Thus, Bần Đạo/I assert that: They used
violence to make these two persons suffer misery that we can not describe it.
Such this Feast sometimes arouses the moved sentiment of all Supreme
Being’s children and Bần Đạo/me. However, Bần Đạo/I
try to restrain it.
Over twenty years has been elapsing. Bần Đạo/I recollect
the day that we moved His Lotus Throne [Octagonal Coffin] to the Tower, Bần
Đạo/I promised an important thing to Him that Bần Đạo/I
would avenge for Him. All you will think surely about the normal secular
revenge by sword or cruel scheme. Bần Đạo/I do conversely to
use all both masses of spirit of Rev. Cao Thượng Phẩm and
Interim Pope to make an incomparable infinite love as the psychology standard
for Vietnamese race, and as a fight power that the mass of infinite love will
be a precious tool for revenge to save the race from the slavery. At that time,
some Supreme Being’s disciples as our friends were mean in character. How could
we avoid people disdaining us?
About force, there was not any tool in hands. For moral education, there
was no person who could hold the Nation’s future destiny. There was no
mastermind to undertake and decide achievement or decline of Nation. How could
we avoid people separated?
Bần Đạo/I dare to assert and declare strongly that: Bần
Đạo/I will avenge because nowadays, Bần Đạo/I am
not weak, solitary as previous time.
Yearly, there is nothing, so that people can see the spirit power, as the
national spirit power of race. Bần Đạo/I assert surely that:
What Bần Đạo/I executed unsuccessfully will be executed by My disciples. Today, the result shows its appearance to
prove my prediction. There is nothing happier!
If Rev. Cao Thượng Phẩm’s soul is present here, He will
bear a witness that He never sees that My predictions
happen wrongly.
Is that prediction very efficient because my spirit matched with results
happening? One day, when returning to the Divine world, there will have an
outburst of laughter happened between Him and Bần Đạo/me that
there is nobody on this earth who can enjoy that outburst of laughter.
Preachment of His Holiness Hộ
Pháp done one 1st April Quý Tỵ year
Bần Đạo/I have just met Rev. Cao Thượng Phẩm
to discuss about building the Meditation House [Tịnh Thất].
However, He did not tell in detail. The general shows: Wait the Feast of Holy
Mother, as the next Mid-Autumn and the Holy Mother [Đức Phật Mẫu]
will descend to teach my query about building the Meditation House for
Womankind just done, as the Enlightenment
Palace [Trí Huệ
Cung/Thiên Hỉ Động]. The Myriad Dharma
Palace [Vạn Pháp
Cung/Nhơn Hòa Động] for Man has not been built yet because it
must establish on the mountain. It is impossible at this time according to His
speech and He said: At this time, you can lean on the finished Palace of Consciousness [Trí Giác Cung/Địa
Linh Động] and Womankind goes there, so that the Holy Mother [Mother
Buddha] teaches and discusses about Meditation House.
Today, Bần Đạo/I preach the Secret Dharma, as the Secret
Dharma of meditation and evolution framework of Creator of Supreme Being’s
children. The Supreme Being brought that miracle to us, so that we can obtain
evolution. Bần Đạo/I already explained that evolution law, thus
Supreme Being’s children can understand that from all things to human position
as souls, they must progress forever, which means that the evolution law forces
our soul to evolve from matter to human.
We could see that law among all things via a gold stone, which progresses
into an inestimable pearl. We find that its evolution to reach position among
matters is very noble.
For invaluable Metal called as platinum, its value is due to the
evolution law.
For plants, orchid is different from wild grass. The plywood is not same
to pine-tree.
For human, small-minded man never matches with a Hero because the
small-mind man’s spirit can not compared with the Hero’s spirit. If we mention
Four Souls, the Deity cannot be compared with a Buddha. We find that the evolution
law always faces on all things and no way can prevent it.
For our life, we should not misunderstand its death’s meaning. The death
helps us step on the progress path. If a reincarnation is not complete, we
guess it by looking at the death. That life is same a student standing among a
class in a trial. Our body is at a trial and we only know if we can pass or
fail after our death. The failure or pass happens in this stage. The evolution
law is the miraculous organ that there is no soul who can escape from it.
Now, we mention the mysterious organ of Supreme Being that He placed in
the stage of Opening the Cycle and of Changing World [Khai Ngươn Chuyển
Thế] with an emblem of “Third Period of Universal Salvation” [Tam Kỳ
Phổ Độ]. We know that He comes to grant amnesty to His
children. Bần Đạo/I tell you that: If He did not dominate
power in White Jade Palace
[Bạch Ngọc Kinh] fully, as the Supreme Being, as our Great Merciful
Father with a fully infinite incomparable power in hands, the mysterious organ
of amnesty would not be granted to His children.
Consequently, in Holy Mother’s prayer, there is “Spending immeasurable
reincarnations to meet Tao”, which means that we meet the Tao and meet the
Supreme Being. He uses His Divine favor to grant a universal salvation for all
His children. We can not discuss completely when we could enjoy that favor. The
Supreme Being’s delivery miracle is that He comes and establishes the Caodaism
to grant universal amnesty to His children under His incomparable power, which
makes all His children follow the Way. He makes His children hear and see
everything. If His children obey Him, how will He do because those are His
speeches only? If His children know how the secret of delivery miraculous organ
is, they will know their real nature. Bần Đạo/I make sure that
there is no soul, no Buddha who can create the delivery organ.
About progress aspect of spirits and souls, their delivery obtainment is
different. It means that if we want to obtain the deliverance to be a Buddha.
However, it is not easy for us to obtain that miraculous delivery. You must
understand that point much.
Consequently, Bần Đạo/I preach the Secret Dharma of
meditation with an essential purpose as your method to enlighten your crown
chakra [celestial eye]. The Sakyamuni Buddha only obtained His delivery life
actually. The persons who obtained Buddha throne, also
leaned on the meditation miracle to make them eternal, to live three previous
reincarnations. After that, we can know our Law of Causality so that we lean on
this life to lead to a future to obtain Buddha throne of three previous
reincarnations. Only Secret Dharma obtainment helps us know who we are, know
how path is. We can say that we obtain delivery organ, it does not mean that we
can create the delivery organ. The delivery obtainment is an evidence to prove
we enlightened our wisdom.
We find that uncountable Great Immortals,
Buddhas living in this earth with a physical body before obtaining the infinite
miracle of meditation. Now, they use their wisdom to discover atom, ascending
miracle. After all, they die, but they do not obtain the Supreme Being’s
delivery organ. How pitiful! If the miraculous organ of meditation, as that
secret dharma can help them obtain the delivery organ, we perhaps feel pitiful
for Taoism and Buddhism because the Taoism saved 200,000 men of original soul
only and the Buddhism save 600,000 men of original soul only. At this time,
9,200,000 men of original soul are staying here to cruel tools to kill
humankind. The question is: what did they do before to be able to obtain that
delivery organ? If they obtained it, it is so pitiful for Supreme Being with
tiresomeness and disgrace in this Last Cycle. He comes here because of their
karma. He comes to teach method to obtain the delivery organ. Please do not
think that the cultivation and perfection are in bushy beard without miraculous
moral. They desire to be an Immortal, Buddha, but they do not know what the
delivery organ is. One day, when they enter the Meditation House, Bần
Đạo/I will let them see the reality of delivery organ.
08.
FUNDAMENTAL TRUTH DHARMA
His Holiness Hộ Pháp’s
preachment done at Holy See, night of 15th April Quý Tỵ year
Tonight, Bần Đạo/I will preach little longer. All
Supreme Being’s children will get more tired and do not complain me because
each time of preachment comes late.
Tonight, my preachment also includes the Fundamental Truth Dharma. Thus,
the Supreme Being’s children should pay attention much to list it. The
Religious seekers make a query “why does the Supreme Being come to form the
Religion?”
Tonight, Bần Đạo/I preach the Great Religious fortune
over His children’s misery. They make a question “for what does the Supreme
Being come while the previous Religious Heads came to form Religions?” The
issue is that they see the old meaning as old previous Religious Heads. We
study to make the question clear.
Does He come to share misery with His children? Does He come to us with
His compassion, mercy to save all His children from misery? Don’t we have
another reason beside that reason for explanation?
How strange! He comes to form Religion, but He does not descend the earth
via a body. However, He can share His children’s misery by an incomparable
Divine love. He has all strange methods by using the Divine power in building a
Caodai religion. This issue is not an easy.
Bần Đạo/I tell that: He comes to establish a Great
fortune for us, thus we have the way to see and observe thoroughly. He comes to
gather the spirit of good humans. He leans on their body to be His Holy Body
[Thánh Thể] as the Sacerdotal Council that His Holy Body is present to
replace His visible image. The evidence is that He uses the incomparable power
to share misery with His children. That is true. The cleverness depends on the
union of His good children to be a Holy Body only and He only gives them the
right of Master in teaching all living beings. If they are worthy in their
mission of Master, they will be able to reach the role of Father, Eldest
Brother of His children.
The evidence is that in His Holy Body from Priest [Giáo Hữu],
Bishop [Giáo Sư], Archbishop [Phối Sư], Cardinal [Đầu
Sư], Censor-Cardinal [Chưởng Pháp] to promote to Pope [Giáo
Tông], this position of Pope is called as Eldest Brother only.
For what does He use right of eldest brother? Is
it the brother right replaced for father? It is true. In a family, to maintain
the family ethics, the Father perhaps has to select a the
eldest male brother, who has enough ability to teach his younger brothers in
standard. That selection is the natural reason. What does he,
as the eldest brother take role of Father in the family for? Does he replace
their father to manage the family, to nourish his younger brothers? The is the natural cause.
If the Father selects to replace the father right in nourishment,
guidance over his younger brothers, the sure issue is that the eldest brother
has enough virtue, thus the father entrusts him. The most important issue is
that he has to do how not to let his younger brothers poor, miserable,
up-and-down, slavish in secular path. He must do that to be worthy of role of
Eldest Brother.
The Supreme Being comes to establish the Religion and says: “Master/I
come to share my children’s misery”. He forms the Sacerdotal Council to create
the body essentially, so that it transforms into the Great Divine fortune of
Way.
Today, we can say that: the Great Divine fortune power of Way becomes
rich. What purpose does it become rich? In front of our sight, the previous
Religions are very rich, luxury. However, have they shared His children’s
misery? Not yet! If it happened, that is the Supreme Being’s Divine power, as
the God only.
Does the humankind raise their head to moan with the God when they face
on more miseries because they do not know to whom they can moan, except the
God? Numerous miserable spirits moan to Him, scream for miseries in miserable
life.
We try thinking that the brothers can see misery, poorness, slavery, all
difficulties in life over their physical body. His children fall into such bad situation
while brothers do not guide, solace, support, nourish His children for one day
only. They do conversely; they take advantage of their young brother’s misery
to change it into their honor and luxuriousness. When the Father knows His
children’s misery, petition in that situation, we try thinking how the Father’s
spirit is. If in a family, the mission of a Father is all, the Supreme Being
perhaps gets same and more.
Bần Đạo/I explain it so and Bần Đạo/I
assert that if the great Divine fortune of Way cannot protect beggar as a
wanderer among markets and they cannot enjoy the Religious riches, this great
fortune is false and waste.
His Holiness Hộ Pháp preached
on occasion of anniversary of Female Cardinal Lâm Hương Thanh on 8th
April Quý Tỵ year
Dear Female representative Dignitaries of Religious Politics Organs and
male female Followers,
Today is the Feast of Female Cardinal Lâm Hương Thanh, who is
the eldest sister of womankind.
Bần Đạo/I recollect the beginning time of Religion
opening stage from Bính Dần year to this time. I feel that it is short as
a dream. A Sister, who suffered all miseries with the Supreme Being’s Holy Body
in order build this Religious fortune, did not see how achievement’s appearance
was when She died. Bần Đạo/I thought
that if She regretted at the final time of life that
She queried how the Caodaism would become; She wondered if Her younger sisters
would have enough determined energy, talent to make the Religion in form. That is
the issue about which She worried most. Bần
Đạo/I recollect the Supreme Being’s prediction: “If the Religion is
achieved, I Myself will come”. I think that the most
important worry at final time of life did not only come to Sister, but also
come to Brothers who died.
Dear all Female sisters, younger brothers of Supreme Being’s Holy Body,
we should think about that to know that our action is the bliss, which is
granted to us by the Supreme Being because He sees our misery. Consequently,
nowadays, we are satisfied to see the Religious misery saving organ in its
conformation. Thus, the true doctrine is placed everywhere on this earth. The
happier thing is that even there has not been any person of Holy Body going
abroad for propagation from Vietnam,
all nations answer and admire. If we think about that, we will find that: the
Supreme Being’s never has enough ability to do that. Only the incomparable
power of Supreme Being can execute that.
If we consider the aspect of merit, we get interest, but never get loss
and we contribute little but we enjoy much. We have to admit that that issue is
the reality.
How harmful! There was one bad thing that Her
legacy was more honorable, wealthy, happier than others. According to common
thought, Her bequeathed legacy can be eternal. Bần
Đạo/I Đạo feel most heart-broken that Her
legacy has been destroyed. When I recollect this issue, Bần Đạo/I
regret much. In the needy stage of building the Holy See, Bần Đạo/I
went to Her to borrow money while the international
finance crisis happened. The importance was that the foundation of see was
done, but we did not have money to continue build the body. Bần Đạo/I
went to Her to borrow money. Bần Đạo/I
met Her when She was in debt; rice’s price went down;
one bushel of rice cost 0.2$. Her rice was stored full in warehouse. If they
were sold, the total amount would be low. Her poorness was very strange, not
same to others persons that nobody imaged. She did not have money, but She showed a safe [5 inches] including gold and diamond
fully and spoke to me: “In this difficult stage, there is no way to have money.
Therefore, you take these to pawn them in Sài Gòn. The amount is not lower than
eighty to ninety thousand Dong”.
Bần Đạo/I can borrow them. When paying back, how can I
do? I felt tired of situation. Bần Đạo/I said: “No! these have been handed down for three generations. Now, you
let me pawn them. How will we do if we can not redeem them? She said
determinedly: “I am not always poor. You should accept my suggestion. I will
manage method to pawn them. Bần Đạo/I determinedly denied and
went back with empty hands to build the Holy See.
If at that time, I used that legacy for
building the Holy See, it would help her a great
merit. As I felt mudding and afraid not to have ability to pay debt, I could
not help her a great work.
Dear sisters, as our life on the earth belongs
to the Supreme Being’s Holy Body and we step on the Divine fixed Path of
Supreme Being, we should not worry poorness, miseries. Do not misunderstand! At
the Divine gate, it does not mean that we can make merit when we are rich and
we can not do if we are poor. You should remember that point and you should not
forget it. In front of you, you can see many rich men and we think that they
have a great merit, method of serving the Religion imposingly. They think that
they are more efficient than Spirits in the Divine World. The justice does not
depend on this aspect and you must remember this key point. Qua/I advise that
you, foremost womankind consider the previous path of Eldest Sister to know the
old and present condition. You look at the bad and good points in order to
decide your Divine mission proudly. You try to follow your eldest sister’s
previous path. You should follow do as your eldest sister did.
10.
CAUSE OF NATURE AND WISDOM
His Holiness Hộ Pháp’s
preachment done at Holy See, night of 1st May Quý Tỵ year
Bần Đạo/I feel that the Supreme Being’s children are
dimer and dimer. Tonight, just a few followers attend service thinly. I should
not have preached today. However, even one follower is present only, Bần
Đạo/I also preach.
Tonight, Bần Đạo/I preach the cause of nature and cause
of wisdom.
The human’s nature always shows its native features that we need not to
observe it. We find its cause, which appears the spirit of previous life. The
wisdom belongs to life, which means that it appears via our reincarnation. We
can obtain a highest position because we suffer obstacles in perfection and
cultivation. When our wisdom appears, we normally understand that we obtain the
Dharma.
At the Antiquity, the Orient philosophers observed profoundly the status
of wisdom and spirit. The previous Sages as Saints were in that case.
Therefore, every day they queried “Can I have a method to harmonize my nature
with spirit wisdom? If there is no method, how can the wisdom harmonize with
nature?” Actually, if we find that our nature is backward over our wisdom, we
can know that we have not obtained the throne yet.
At the Antiquity, we find that from uncountable theories, people leant to
know, but they did not the cause. Thus, Sages reckoned that: must reach the
Sprit [Thần] to obtain throne, so that we can do correctly.
In the past time, as people did not know the secret of Tao yet,
philosophers such as Tô Đông Pha reckoned in book
with three ranks of human.
“Uneducated Superior Human is still good.
Educated Middle Human becomes good.
Educated Lower Human is not good”
Why is it? It is because that they have not understood yet. The cause of
Superior Human reaches a specific point due to their perfection and
cultivation. They can understand Celestial will thoroughly, can see the
Geography. That obtainment is not from one reincarnation only, but it must
spend many reincarnations.
According to the Buddhism, they believe a doctrine that before a new
reincarnation, human must eat dull-witted gruel by an old woman, so that we
forget our previous lives. It perhaps happens according to faith. For aspect of
philosophy, we can see that: If we believe the karma, we know how our previous
and present lives are. If the previous life suffered misery, this life has to
face on a great misery and we cannot stand for this misery. If the previous
life enjoyed honor, in this life we receive a solace of previous honor, so that
we can exist on this earth. Unluckily! In previous life we suffered misery, we
continue suffer another misery in this life; we will never stand and we will
not be able to exist on this earth.
Consequently, the Divine law forces us to forget the nature and wisdom.
Thus, when we are born as a baby, we have to learn, study. When we can
understand them, the knowledge helps to open the crown chakra, so that we fix
our cause. The evidence is that the Buddha as Dalai Lama reincarnated to be a
King. In the King’s court, there was a Priest who kept doctrine and law. When
He reincarnated as a baby in the Priest’s family, the Priest knew that the baby
was a Buddha reincarnated, but he still taught that baby.
Actually, the cause is not parallel to the fate. The fate never happened
contrarily because in the Kiều work, Nguyễn Du poet expressed that
the word “talent” and “fate” are not parallel. Thus, the cause and talent are
nothing. They are just a surplus tip. If the life is talented without good
cause, he can do nothing. If we have no good cause, we will never win our
karma.
Indeed, tonight Bần Đạo/I let the Supreme Being’s
children know that: Our perfection and cultivation depend on the cause of
previous life. Thus, at this time we meet the Supreme Being coming to us. Our
nature can harmonize with our wisdom. That is due to our cultivation and
perfection.
Mr. Tô Đông Pha said: When we reach the
level of the Superior Human, we can know that our religious life has reached
the throne.
Consequently, all Supreme Being’s children try to execute your path. One
day, you enter the meditation house to pursue the word of “fate”.
His Holiness Hộ Pháp’s preached
at the General Headquarters on 2nd May Quý Tỵ year
Today is the National Holiday Ceremony, as the Pacifying Ceremony of
Vietnam of Rev. Cao Hoàng Gia Long. [Gia Long King -嘉隆].
According to the history, the Pacifying stage from 1502 to 1789, the Vietnam’s
separation of North and South happened over the Lê emperor with two Kings. The
South was considered from frontier of Hoành Sơn mountain
to southern direction controlled by Nguyễn King. The South was from the
frontier of Hoành Sơn mountain to northern
direction controlled by Trịnh King. The nation was in chaos. In South,
parties with fights happened because Lord of Tây Sơn Nguyễn Nhạc
and Nguyễn Huệ made chaos. Everybody can understand because of
clear national history. Bần Đạo/I need not to repeat it more
again.
In 1778, Nguyễn Nhạc [阮岳] declared as the King and
appropriated Northern Vietnam. This means that
chaos happened in whole Vietnam.
In that period, there was a person who made the Vietnam
glorious against the China
was Nguyễn Huệ [阮惠]. When He received Nguyễn Nhạc’s order, He expelled the
Chinese troops off Thăng Long capital. Nguyễn Nhạc nominated
Nguyễn Huệ as Bắc Bình Vương [北平王]. However, Tây Sơn [家西山] applied the theory of “restore Lê dynasty and destroy Trịnh dynasty”.
However, Tây Sơn desired to gain the nation. At that time, the ground from
South to North belonged to Tây Sơn.
As the Nguyễn’s destiny was coming to the end, one hero as Nguyễn
Ánh [阮福暎] appeared. He traveled everywhere to
suffer many miseries. He was a hero to save the Vietnam from separation. He
bequeathed a glorious history of Vietnam. He pacified the Vietnam
from South to North.
In the journey of pacifying the nation, Bần Đạo/I show
that there were two Loyal Subjects that they called “Loyal to King”. Those are
Võ Tánh [武性] and Ngô Tùng Châu. When Tây Sơn used whole force to gain the Bình
Định, Võ Tánh and Cao Hoàng Gia Long King did not need to rescue
Bình Định bastion, as the Qui Nhơn. Therefore, by taking
occasion that Tây Sơn did not beware, they gained the Phú Xuân
successfully. Both Võ Tánh and Ngô Tùng Châu died out of loyalty. Actually, our
Vietnam
united from Nam Quan frontier to Cà Mau province was due to Cao Hoàng’s force
and two loyal Subjects as Ngô Tòng Châu and Võ Tánh. We feel proud to say that:
those two persons were our compatriots in South.
Besides, the Gia Long’s work is not only from the pacifying merit, but
Rev. Cao Hoàng Gia Long as Nguyễn Ánh also gained two provinces in
Vietnam map as the Sơn La province and Lai Châu province. If we open and
read the history, the France
declared firstly: “Le Grand Legislature du Vietnam” for the person, who took
the Vietnam’s
destiny in law greatly. The noble point was that in 1802, He reorganized
internal and external divisions. He used His Old Laws, which were great without
description, to reorganize, renovate fully. He brought us the new geography,
new mandarin, new law, new military equipment, new politics form, new people.
All things were reorganized by Him. If we were not under the safety regime long
since, Bần Đạo/I make sure that: Rev. Gia Long Cao Hoàng’s
great merit would become a great work over the Nation. Today, we come here to
place our spirit in His spirit essentially.
Bần Đạo/I wish that the Supreme Being’s children, all
heroic Caodai militaries look at His heroic will to execute and make Vietnam
independent.
His Holiness Hộ Pháp’s preached
at the Holy See at night 4th May Quý Tỵ year
Bần Đạo/I would like saying thanks to all Supreme
Being’s children, government, Religious politics organs, both male female
followers and children of chorus.
Today, all Supreme Being’s children come to Holy See to give wish for my
longevity. I think that the Supreme Being granted bliss to me on this earth
very much. One day, when returning to the Divine World of Eternal Life, I never
forget this favor.
Bần Đạo/I would like to repeat a story: about 9am of
tomorrow will be the close of market. My Mother said: I do not know what time
of 5th [lunar calendar] it is. It is my birthday. Tomorrow will be
the day that Bần Đạo/I reach 64 years old only without a spare
or missing day.
Bần Đạo/I think that 64 years lasting are same to a
dream. During 64 years, Bần Đạo/I never enjoyed bliss. Due to
melancholy, sentimental nature, I only worried pensively much than enjoying
enthusiasm. Due to the fate, I have to suffer many miseries.
Bần Đạo/I would like to summarize my biography. I was
born in a family with many members. Bần Đạo/I belonged the second blood child. The family united together
that I was the eighth in family. My father stayed at An Hòa [belongs to Trảng
Bàng, Tây Ninh province]. He followed the Confucianism. The family was
well-to-do. My father was the sixth in my grandfather’s family. My father faced
on a calamity concerned an event in Cần Đước [belongs to
Long An province], thus French sought to escape him.
Due to poor family situation, my father had to go to French army to save from
situation. Consequently, Bần Đạo/I recollect that he suffered
a miserable play to the spirit. He was going to die, but he himself solaced him
when looking at his children to continue life. When he promoted to the Sergeant
of French Army, he called for capitulation, thus old military arrested and
fought him by 10 strokes of whip. With 10 painful strokes of whip, he regretted
not to forget until end of life. After going to army, all my brothers followed
the father to be officers. Only Bần Đạo/I and seventh brother
did not know French and stayed.
When I was young, Bần Đạo/I tell truthfully that I never
took advantage from others to gain a cent even I was poor. I completely kept
upright.
I recollect the time of that Bần Đạo/I was a boy leaning
at a school in Tây Ninh province. When I went back from school and sat for a
meal, my mother asked my mother: “You let all children follow military, don’t
you let any child follow pen?” My father answered: “They follow military, thus
they have no victimizing method. The person following pen often victimizes.
Thus, I do not accept that way”. My mother indicated me and said “This boy is weak, let him follow the path of pen!” My father said:
“alright! If he follows path of pen, but he is corrupt, I will wring his neck”.
Due to that word, my whole life was poor, but Bần Đạo/I was never corrupt for cent until my resigning mandarin day
to lead a religious life. My sister reported a strange issue happening to me.
When I was young, bringing me up was very difficult because when I caught a
chill, I died. I often died until 10 years old. Uncountable times of death
happened. When I caught chill, whole family had to stay awake next me because
they scared that Bần Đạo/I would die.
My parents lived in a Religious faith of Confucianism, but they had to
attend the Catholicism, so that they wished me to be baptized according to the
Catholicism ceremony. In that situation, my family scared too much. Until 7
years old, Bần Đạo/I died again. When I revived, my body did
not have any feelings because before they had knocked my head and neck, pulled
hands and legs. I suffered many pains.
The calamity of my family was the death happening often, such an extent
that my parents, brothers, sisters became Christian to pray for my life. For
that reason, the Catholicism appeared to my family.
If the unluck happened, my sentimental melancholy at 17 years old would
kill my mother. As my mother was inflexible to induce obstacle happening and I
could not study abroad. If the Divine power met my wish, Bần Đạo/I
would study abroad and my mother would die. At that time, Mr. Lưu Khắc
Ninh burnt all documentaries, thus I could not go abroad. When I became a
mandarin, I just looked at the family’s misery until my father’s return with a
family, which did not have enough living place. The brothers and sisters had to
live this house temporarily. Bần Đạo/I find that the
heart-breaking secular life happened to compatriots who suffered pains,
independence. Therefore, they never enjoyed bliss.
From my 17 years old to this stage, Bần Đạo/I always
fought, I never rested in peace. Till the last year of return from foreign
exile, Bần Đạo/I was happy with this physical body to become
servant of Supreme Being. Bần Đạo/I desired to maintain this
life to bring bliss for Caodaism. Although it is steadfast or not, Bần
Đạo/I always serve silently because I see the Supreme Being’s
children’s misery in front of sight. Therefore, Bần Đạo never
can take a rest in peace. The generation will know how the previous independence,
misery of spirit and body were and know which method Bần Đạo/I
saved the generation from the slavery. That point is the bliss if my life.
At this time, although it gets very tiresome, Bần Đạo/I
feel happy because I have been enjoying the Supreme Being’s favor by being a
servant of Supreme Being and His children.
His Holiness Hộ Pháp replied
after Religious Politics Organs had gave longevity wish
Dear Male Female Canonized Dignitaries, Leaders of Religious Politics Organs,
male female followers and children,
Bần Đạo/I would like express my thanks to you intensely.
That thanks is not expressed by mouth only, but showed my heart.
Dear all Caodai followers, patriotic personalities, comrades in fight
journey for Vietnam, Bần Đạo/I confess that if my useful life
did not lean on the Divine imposing power and Supreme Being’s special private
favor, this life would be same to others. There was no specialty because
existence and death with nothingness happen same to
beings on this earth. By reason interpretation, if we have head, legs, hands; humankind also has the same. Nobody is better or
worse because every person is an element in all living creatures. If there was
the Divine special favor, Bần Đạo/I would be just same to others.
The difference is the intense compassion at most. That compassion induced the
Supreme Being to understand and know to select me to be His essential element.
Dear friends, Canonized Dignitaries [Chức Sắc Thiên Phong] of
Divine Alliance Palace
[Hiệp Thiên Đài], Religious Legislator [Tiếp Đạo-
one of Twelve Zodiacal Dignitaries of Divine Alliance Palace], I have said: we
only trend to the spirit morality. Actually, if we interpret the matter by our
secular spirit, we will always see a battle for earthly fame, reputation,
position that people are infatuated. For me, Bần Đạo/I keep
away from them. I am not fond of fame, interested in interest because I know
the incomparable mass of spirit of 4,000-year-race, which contains a strong,
imposing and noble spirit. I understand that it contains a power, which can
transform forever. Due to that thought, Bần Đạo/I only take it
as the medium to save the nation from the Vietnamese race’s dangerous
situation. This is same to a man, who buys a pearl and sells for interest at
most. It does not contain other spirit value except for identification over the
pearl to buy and sell for interest. If it can help to fix the race’s happy
future, the action will be different from the heroic spirit of people in
decision of national destiny only. Bần Đạo/I have no merit at
all. Consequently, Bần Đạo/I only fight by spirit. Besides it,
Bần Đạo/I do not want to pay attention. Is the strength of
Caodaism due to the reason? We should reflect it.
Dear Dignitaries of Nine Divine Planes Palace [Cửu Trùng Đài],
you have obeyed the Supreme Being’s order to replace His image, to stay with
His miserable children, to teach firstly, to solace secondly, to support
thirdly. That important mission is always in my mind. If one day, the emblem of
Divinity is showed, executed; how much the honor over your important mission
will reach level. No! it is not enough for this life
only. Behind us, our younger brothers will succeed to make the Supreme Being’s
Holy Body eternal. When it is eternal, the Nine Divine
Planes Palace
never disappears. That is the reality.
Younger brothers of Charity Body, Qua/I have one
body, one head, one brain, one image as you. You should look back to see misery
of living beings to understand that the Supreme Being’s purpose of coming is to
share misery His children and to save His children from misery. Qua/I entrusted
the mission to you via the word “Charity”. Qua/I desire one thing that you look
at the misery of world you then support, solace, uphold them. That is my desire
placed in your hands. When I think about your merit and Divine mission, which
are difficult and heavy that the more you have to shoulder, the more moved Qua/I feel. Consequently, Qua/I
have been living with you for over twenty years under the sentiment of master
and students with misery.
Qua/I say the thanks to you.
Children, Caodai heroic soldiers, every time Master/I look at you,
Master/I can see your spirit, which makes Master/me
solaced. Master/I often tell you that Master/I have one Father, who gave
Master/me two tools such as the Boat of Wisdom/Prajna [Thuyền Bát Nhã]
and Vehicle of Books of Nation [refer the National Civilization]. For the Boat
of Wisdom, Master/I can entrust the Supreme Being’s Holy Body by the guidance.
For National Vehicle of Books in danger and difficulty, its progress will lean
on your ability to push it ahead. For my purpose, you have fulfilled two parts.
One part still remains, thus Master/I entrust you to push it more. Master/I
only say: a few people on the National Vehicle of Books make heavier while you
are pushing the Vehicle together. You must do how to invite, petition, kowtow them to go off to be lighter, so that you can push it
ahead.
The Nation Independence Recovery Association decides the future destiny
for people safety policy. The future regime exists inside that association.
Master/I hope that: the spirit of Nation Independence Recovery Association
helps to our program form to go to the end in achievement. In that case, the Vietnam’s
future will become nice and perfect. The future has not come yet, but Bần
Đạo/I feel happy and satisfied in advance. Bần Đạo/I
hope that the Nation Independence Recovery Association will let me enjoy that
bliss, not let me be disappointed because it is so sorry for me. Bần
Đạo/I entrust that association fully. One step of progress makes
change of Nation. Therefore, we have to try our best effort.
Before end of speech, Bần Đạo/I say the thanks to all
people of Secularity and Religion.
On occasion of birthday 5th
May Quý Tỵ year [15th July 1953], His Holiness Hộ Pháp
exhorted the pardoned offenders [over 20 persons]
Today is your free day to go back your family. You must see your citizen
obligation over your country. When returning your family, you must work hard to
nourish your wife and children prosperously. You should not do damage over your
country, but you must do how to be worthy in reorganizing the Nation.
For human on this earth, nobody is perfect. Your unrightful action is a
kind of disease that you need to give up, in order to do useful action for
Nation’s great task nowadays.
You should remember that.
His Holiness Hộ Pháp preached
at Holy See, night of 15th May Quý Tỵ year
Bần Đạo/I let all Supreme Being’s children know that
tomorrow is the ceremony that we welcome the Relics Pearl of Sakyamuni Buddha.
We can say that we are pleased because the Holy See receives that precious
pearl. Long since only Indian Buddhists enjoy that bliss.
After leaving the earth, His Bhandanta [Most virtuous Monks] took His
body to cremate to remain a little of bone. His Disciples worshiped those as
precious things, which means that they worshipped
their Master.
This Holy See is also a place for His seat. We also receive a bliss because a Bhandanta of Indian Buddhists offered a
Pearl of Relics to the Holy See.
Bần Đạo/I would wish all Supreme Being’s children to
welcome crowdedly. Our Religious Virtue responding to the Sakyamuni Buddha will
make the Supreme Being pleased.
Tonight, Bần Đạo/I preach the Love Law and Just Power,
which are not limited in space and time. Indeed, the Supreme Being comes to
form the His Holy Body as this Sacerdotal Council replaced His image on this
earth, as this 68th globe, to essentially let humankind know that:
He comes to share misery with His children. He leans on the physical body as
the elements, as good human on this earth to form the Sacerdotal Council called
as His Holy Body. He entrusts that law to the Sacerdotal Council. However, that
law does not contain many things. It just contains one things
only. His law is the Law of Love, called as Law of Mercy. For His rule, that is
the Justice.
At our See, there are Three Saints signing the Peace Treaty with the
Supreme Being receive the Law of Mercy, called as the Law of Love to save His
children, so that they can return to their old throne. The Supreme Being’s
power applies the Power of Justice only.
We try using our earthly mind to study the Law and Power to know why He
takes two tools entrusted in our hands and asks us to replace His image. At
this pulpit, Bần Đạo/I often preach that: we should lean on
diminutive to reason the great issue, lean on the smallest issue to reason the
greatest issue. That is the cause without strangeness.
Indeed, we live on this temporary earth with two knots of debt:
1. The debt of blood is the debt to our parents.
2. The debt over Creator is the debt over the Supreme Being.
Those two debts can be called two Gods: upper God and lower God. We have
understood their nature well already.
When our parents bear us, do they only wish that we love together? Due to
that love, our parents preserve our life, nourish us
to become good man. Is the Love Law is the top of the mission of parents? We
need not answer, but we can understand it.
Now, they establish a family with children, daughters-in-law to become a
Great family. What do they want when they combine all spirits? Do they pray for
one thing that all members in Great family love together only? They wish that
thing only. Is it the natural law of parents that the Creator has predestined. We cannot deny except for a determination.
Our strict rule of family always keeps children in harmony, in living
under mutual love. We know: “Bear child, not bear his nature” because each
child has specific spirit, ability and path. Nobody is same to any person. If
the family has same children, that family will enjoy good bliss.
We find that children in a family do not resemble for their character. If
we want children to be in harmony, in mutual love, the strict rule of family
must be in exemplary, which means that the Way of parents must behave to their
children by power of justice. How the earthly framework of parents is, the
Creator law is same.
What does the Supreme Being want via the natural law? Does He want
humankind to admit fellow human in blood sentiment, in same Father? If all
Supreme Being’s children knew that: “People born on this earth, with miserable
situation love, help together to share misery mutually”; the Supreme Being
would not come to form the Religion. However, what purpose does He come to form
the Religion? Does He come to seed the grain of Love, to seed compassion in His
children’s mind? We find that it is the evidence. That Law of Love in Heaven
throne is His Holy Body on this earth. As we receive entrusted mission from
Him, we are an element of Sacerdotal Council.
How strange! We obey that Law of Love and we hold the power, which is the
power of justice. Actually, all we cannot deny that. Contrarily, in the Supreme
Being’s Divine gate and in infinite love, the incomparable boundless power of
justice does not belong to His children. That is the natural issue.
Bần Đạo/I say that the Law of Love is not limited in
direction. We can say that in a family, we have sons and we have to seek
daughters-in-law of other Family. If we have daughters, we have to marry off
our daughters to other Family. Just by that way, they can live in our family
under the balance. That is about no limitedness and direction, let alone the
Supreme Being’s infinite love.
Bần Đạo/I only remind an important issue, so that His
female male children hear and pay attention much.
The human in childhood contains nothing. However, we become old, we will find that our tears in our life have dropped
for our grandfathers, grandmothers, parents, uncles, relatives died. That love
in blood makes us understand how its value is. Be careful! We are painful, miserable,
compassionate in miss, thus we have to worship by rites. The filial piety must
be in that way. However, be careful! Nobody knows that they are standing in
front of us in body of child, we behave to him
frigidly, or hate him. When returning the Divine world, we look at him and feel
ashamed. The ashamed feeling makes us reincarnated.
I am sure that there is no other pain, ashamed feeling, which can be
compared with that situation in the Divine world.
His Holiness Hộ Pháp exhorted
Teachers and students at the Reward Ceremony at Đạo Đức Học
Đường school on 17th May
Quý Tỵ year [27th June 1953]
Dear Male Female Canonized Dignitaries, Officials, all people attending
this reward ceremony to make it more solemn, Bần Đạo/I pardon
to let me exhort my children.
Children as teacher of Đạo Đức Học
Đường school [meaning: Moral School]!
Your sacrifice from beginning time of Religion to this time has fostered your
generation’s spirit and mind to the end of success. Such this achievement with
your great work has been recorded by the history.
Today, your Master/I come here not to say the
thanks to you because the speech at mouth contains meaninglessness. Master/I
wish you a thing that my love combines with you because it is the precious
thing of a Master for you.
We are born on this earth in the Vietnam country,
we are an element of society at most. Bần Đạo/I usually say
that we have one body, one head as others. If we can do efficient things to fix
the society’s destiny, the race’s destiny and Nation; that achievement is due
to our determined effort and will in unanimous cooperation, in united spirit,
to have an agile ability.
You are same to me/Master. Master/I recollect the beginning time of Religion, I was solitary, oppressed by force at the Religion
in the stage of embryo as a tender egg. The secular situation was in
independence. People were poor and compatriots faced on misery with the death
in front of sight. The death gradually came to make my spirit very painful.
However, Bần Đạo/I always determined to show my desire to save
the nation, to save people. Thus, that spirit helped to reach that desire. If
we teach youth of our next generation in the unanimous heart and virtue, we
will be able to save national destiny and race from dangerous situation.
Consequently, we have to try to do. You find that how was the beginning
time of Religion? How was your country? Master/I have the brain as you. The
strangeness is due to the Supreme Being’s miracle that the He granted it to
Master/me to unite your spirits in oneness in conformation. Master/I explain,
so that you can understand more that: At that time, people oppressed, disdained
Bần Đạo/me much, but Bần Đạo/I received
solace because Bần Đạo/I myself said that: my unique body can
be trampled by you, but you never trample the future backing.
Due to that determined and brave will, this moral spirit has been
progressing forever in union to be a steadfast and stronger weapon to fix the
national destiny at this time.
Your spirit is same to my spirit. How your will for your younger
generation under your training is, my action to you was same. It gradually
progresses to a feature of beauty. We try to make it in its conformation to
train the race’s future, so that we will have a good future for nation and
race.
Male and female students! This earth contains two powers of spirit:
1. The word of “Talent”
2. The word of “Heart”
For the words of “Talent” and “Heart”, previous philosophers reckoned
that they belonged to invisibility. However, our ancestors as our race
described clearly, thoroughly without dubiousness.
At this time, are two spirits as Talent and Heart parallel, which fights
together to orient for humankind and to fix the race’s future? Yes, they are.
However, we need to re-consider the situation to know clearly that: The words
“Talent” and “Heart” are fighting together at this time to fix the humankind’s
destiny.
In Europe, the word “Talent” seems to
win the word “Heart”. Where does the word “Talent” push
the humankind into? We wonder that two great wars in Europe
induced humankind to kill together. Is it a good lesion for the word of
“Talent”? The word of “Heart” still disappeared uncertainly in time.
Does the Supreme Being come to make the word of “Heart” brilliant in this
Orient? Bần Đạo/I believe that point determinedly. If the
humankind does not believe the word “Heart”, but rushes into the word “Talent”;
they will fall into the path of extermination. Thus, we must admit that: two
words of “Talent” and “Heart” are parallel. It is impossible if we have the
Talent without the Heart. The converse case is same.
Those two spirits of humankind must be parallel to preserve the
humankind’s life forever on this earth. At this time, the frightful issue
happens to the humankind’s future destiny that they will “enjoy” a future
reward or punishment. Those two masses of spirits contain the boundless power,
which can save the humankind’s life on the earth, which is called as “Heart”,
but it can destroy the complete humankind on this earth, which is called as
“Talent” showing in power of atom.
Is that power is a medium for the “Heart” and “Talent” in experiments?
Master/I wish that you look at and follow the “Heart” as your standpoint
purpose. The word “Talent” is surplus because your race’s “Heart” has been
spent 4,000 years under independence of powerful races in most China
and the “Heart” has been protected immortally. That “Heart” is not far from us
because it exists in your mind, in your ability and you only gather people’s
future to be the tool, in order to orient your future.
His Holiness Hộ Pháp exhorted
Teachers and students at the Reward Ceremony at Lê Văn Trung school on 18th May Quý Tỵ year [year of
Snake]
Dear male female Canonized Dignitaries, male female Officials, I thank
you because you condescend to attend the ceremony to make it more solemn. Bần
Đạo/I pardon you to have some speeches to Military who contributed
merits in building this Lê Văn Trung school.
Children of Military! Master/I say the thanks to you and confess that:
Master/I have enjoyed your bliss that you contributed. You have won front
battle and also have got perfect for the aspect of spirit. For your action,
long since the force aspect, no many nations on earth have done. Master/I have
said that will of your action done nowadays is a rare matter in force aspect,
which will set up the example on over the world.
Master/I usually say and think myself that if Master/I did not entrusted
the phrase of “Life Protection-Humanity” to your hands, in order to protect the
Nation, to uphold your younger generation so that they can live and live in the
Religious gate because the Religious gate is the Eternal Divine gate, which
saves them from misery, makes people awake; you try thinking where would drift.
You look at the world in this period that people are using the strength to
oppress weakness, using the wisdom to disdain credulity. What power do they
lean on? Do they lean on the troop force to do pitiful things? You perhaps do
not understand thoroughly. Master/I show you the European civilization “Secular
Hand” while the Oriental civilization uses this trick. The military of nations
do not serve the truth for humankind little, but they oppress about heart
aspect much.
We try thinking about our society that despite of a feast, an
association, we express indiscreetness in exemplary, they will complaint and
disdain us and reckon that we are not worthy to be parallel in society with
them if there are some persons prissy.
There is another reason that one person, who killed one person is forced
and sentenced into Just Court by the just law of society, which forces him to
compensate one life. We try making a query that for persons who killed
uncountable people in battles, they are promoted and respected and people raise
them to the top with full reputation badges at their breast; in that case where
do we find the justice of society? It has not been the society of humankind
yet.
Conversely, such a society is the enemy of humankind. Consequently,
Master/I feel proud of you. I/Master entrust you happily and proudly to hold
the knot of Life Protection and Humanity because your sight is about spirit
aspect, not reputation which kills the humankind’s life inhumanly, unreasonably
because of interest.
Children of Education! You have received the mission of educating the
future spirit for your race. Master/I feel satisfied about that point. You
should try to do more a little.
Bần Đạo/I recollect the beginning time of opening the
Caodaism, there was a Teacher coming to query the Supreme Being, who called
Himself as A, Ă, Â at that time. The A, Ă, Â answered:
“To teach
children, teach yourself first,
Education merit is as important as the work of giving birth.
Religion and earth, must know earth is import,
One bright light point is a holy soul”
The Supreme
Being only mentioned about one point of bright light. Therefore, you teach your
younger that bright point of light. You try to teach the students as your
younger brothers, who will succeed the work of Caodaism, of Nation and race.
You will find that they will not be haughty. Despite of a prissy person, he
must lower his head to respect and praise the noble proudness. Bần Đạo/I
Myself see your noble actions and Master/I must lower respect and praise you.
Master/I say the thanks to you to help Master/me enjoy that bliss.
Male female students! You have looked at your brothers already, how do
you fix your future destiny? You have seen scanty, hard, miserable life of your
Teachers in front of your sight that Master/I never see that your Teacher’s
life carries a little of bliss. If you want to show your gratitude to
your Teachers worthily, Master/I only wish you to become wiser to make
reputation, in order to make your Teacher’s glory brilliant. That is my
confidential word placed in your mind, so that you orient your future.
At this time, in your Religious path, there are two important points over
spirit: Love and Honesty. If you can keep those two points, Master/I make sure
that on how difficulties and obstacles you have to face in your progress path, it will still change easily and smoothly. Bần
Đạo/I assert this issue determinedly.
His Holiness Hộ Pháp preached
in the Enthronement Ceremony for Buddha Relic at Holy See, night of 18th
May Quý Tỵ year [year of Snake]
Today, we celebrate an inferior Ceremony [Tiểu Đàn] of Buddha
Relic-in-place of the Sakyamuni Buddha. Bần Đạo/I have placed
the Buddha Relic at Dome of Canonization [Nghinh Phong Đài] for three
days, so that the Supreme Being’s children can contemplate the Sakymuni Buddha.
Todays is the third day and Bần Đạo/I
do sacrament His being seated. We happily receive the blessing that of Supreme
Being grants us the favor at the Holy See. It means that the Supreme Being
takes the Sakyamuni Buddha so that He lives with us. Bần Đạo/I
need not describe how value and bliss are.
Strangely, the Supreme Being’s actions always make us surprised. What is
the Sakyamuni Buddha Relic? Bần Đạo/I explain to all Supreme
Being’s children: Before the Sakyamuni left His body, He had given a testament
to His Disciples that his body would be incinerated. In spite of burning the
body, it never burnt all, it still remained some pieces of bone, which were not
burnt and called as Relic.
Afterwards, the England
cooperated with India
unearthed to have a box covered by crystal with a phrase on face “Relic of
Sakyamuni Buddha”. At that time, the England kept that box of Relic.
After that, the India
became independent and claimed it back. However, at that time, the sovereignty
fight revolutions were still under the United England. Until the India
became independent, the Buddhism system of faith declined much. Among 3,500
people, the Disciples just reached 10 million Disciples. Therefore, due to
national chaos, the government kept a part, and let Sri Lanka kept a part. Rev. Narada
Théra offering the Relic to the Holy See is the Sri Lanka people.
The Sri Lanka has ever
offered the Buddha Relic to the Japan
through Indochina [Saigon] and that ceremony
we very solemn. Rev. Great Monks can see in front of your sight how intense the
Buddhism faith of Vietnamese is.
Luckily! Mr. Bửu Chơn is Vietnamese as a Disciple of Rev.
Narada Thera – Deputy Pope of Sri Lanka Buddhism. Mr. Bửu Chơn
wanted to beg for that Pearl of Relic to place in Vietnam. Thus, the Rev. Narada
Thera gave Vietnam three
pieces of Relics: one piece for Mahayana [Đại Thừa-Great
Vehicle], one for Hinayana [Tiểu Thừa], and one for Hinayana
Buddhism in Kim Biên [Belong to Cambodia].
In Vietnam,
the Sakyamuni Buddha’s Disciples of Hinayana branch enjoyed bliss in union
while the Mahayana branch still was in demur. Thus, the Hinayana branch
received and the Mahayana branch has not received yet without determination.
They discussed to build a special Tower for worshipping Relic. For that reason,
Rev. Arada Thera entrusted the Queen Mother because Rev. Narada Thera let the
Queen Mother decide freely.
Three Bodhi trees were given: one for Hinayana branch, one for Cambodian
Buddhism Hinayana branch, one for Mahayana was taken to the Holy See.
Especially, the Pearl of Relic in the Holy See is the private gift of Rev.
Narada Thera – Deputy Pope of Sri Lanka Buddhism. We find that the difficulty
of Relic delivery to the Holy See is due to the great merit of Protector of
Republic Relief [Bảo Sanh Quân] of Divine Alliance Palace [Hiệp
Thiên Đài], who was the Deputy Prime Minister Lê Văn Hoạch. He
suffered many difficulties that all Supreme Being’s children could see. He
condescended to beg that Pearl of Relic. Therefore, on the day of His return to
Saigon, Bần Đạo/I on behalf of all Supreme Being’s children
and Sacerdotal Council said the thanks to him already. Bần Đạo/I
will give an order to the Religious Politics Organ to make a Letter of
Gratitude to His merit.
All Supreme Being’s children have heard the preachment of Rev. Narada
Thera over the Great Buddha as the Sakyamuni Buddha. He said that the Sakyamuni
Buddha was same to us because He had a body, a life, a death as us. He was not
a personality in mythology. However, His sublime to His spirit and His previous
cause reached the Buddha throne. He reincarnated with a physical body as
everybody.
People have admitted his soul’s precious sublime before the
reincarnation. Religions always do the same that they want to idolize their
Religious Head at an extraordinary position and they obviously fabricated many
reasons like influences of mythology. People’s spirit always scare death and
want to live, moreover they want that life to be immortal in their mind.
Harmfully! The Eternal World does not exist on this earth with our
physical earthly body, but that Eternal world exists in the Divine invisible
world. This earth contains misery only. However, as they want their Religious
Head to be extraordinary, they fabricate many doctrines of mythology. At this
period, science overturns that reasons scientifically that they cannot deny.
They said that the Jesus Christ was naturally born by a chaste female. In
the Jesus Christ’s Religious biography, His father was Saint Joseph and His mother was Mrs. Marie.
They also said that the Sakyamuni descended at Mrs. Maya’s armpit. They
considered the Lao-Tzu in same thought. At this time, all followers of
Religions solve those matters difficultly. They used the mythology reason as a
truth.
Harmfully! The truth made all human’s faiths in chaos. We know that the
Creator body contains two parallel Yin and Yang to produce form called as life
of whole creatures on this earth. Just for this power, if it did not contain
the negative pole and positive pole, we would have such this bright
light.
For our breath, if we did not have the Yin Gas called as the Hydrogen and
Yang Gas called as the Oxygen, we would not live surely. We need not discuss
much. If the Universe did not contain the harmony heat and cold, all living
creatures on this earth would not be able to live here.
Much less the Creator law forces to us to have parents, to have Yin
and Yang of our parents to produce our human sentiment. Consequently, the
Sakyamuni Buddha was born as everybody, but His cause was sublime and His
throne reached the Buddha throne, thus His wisdom and enlightenment reached extraordinary
level and the Sri Lanka
called Him as “Mu Ni”, which means to their incomparable Sage. They idolize the
Sakyamuni Buddha’s throne worthily. For the Jesus Christ, due to His lucid mind
of Celestial, origin, they call Him as “A Saint over Saints”. The Lao-Tzu and
Confucius are the same. Their previous origins are extraordinary. They also had
an earthly body, a life, a death, a mind in misery as us.
Bần Đạo/I wish that the Supreme Being’s children
understand that truth for your cultivation, perfection how to be extraordinary,
how to be able to see and understand the Supreme Being’s nature, in order to
learn the light of wisdom that the Supreme Being grants to be thorough as
Him.
If the Rev. Sakyamuni became a Buddha before, I will be able to become a
Buddha because He gave witness. Bần Đạo/I desire that the
Supreme Being’s children try to learn as Him to become a Buddha as Him.
His Holiness Hộ Pháp preached
at Holy See, night of 30th May Quý Tỵ year [year of Snake]
Male female youths!
Tonight, Bần Đạo/I have a special preachment for
you. The Religious fortune future and the Supreme Being’s Holy Body’s future
are created for you and you will succeed our will, you will lead to reputation
to become an element of Supreme Being’s Holy Body one day on this earth. Qua/I
want you to study, thus Qua/I explain for you, so that
you step in the path of exemplary. Qua/I mentioned the perfection, which means
the cultivation of nature to be worthy for your important future mission one
day.
Today, Qua/I preach the truth and good of
humble character against the its reaction: haughtiness.
We try considering that on this earth, we have a body as everybody and we
make a query if we have more than others. We have nothing, which is more than others
are, but why are we haughty? We are born from our mother under a law as we. We
wonder if we have more than two thousand seven hundred million people. Why are
we haughty? We are like a grain of sand of desert.
According to sentimental reason to discuss, we have one head, one body,
not have more than others in order to be haughty. If we discuss due to the
conformation, how our body is, our fellow’s body is same. We cannot lean on
reason to say that we are better than others are, in order to be haughty. For
discussion on the aspect of spirit, we wonder why we are granted the wisdom,
cleverness, knowledge of good and bad, to lean on the spirit to orient our life
if our life has been in exemplary. Alas! If our fellows are more
disadvantageous than us for intellectual spirit, we will find that our better
point is due to our little better religious cause only. Their religious cause
is lower than ours only. If discussing about the religious cause, we are better
than them in a little bit. We just reach a little bit only,
it is not enough for us to feel haughty. Conversely, if our fellows are lower
than us in religious cause and their karma is more than us, we will have to
love them, to feel pitiful for them. How can we hate them, consider that they
are lower than us and we are higher than them. It is unreasonable.
Now, we examine the reactive power. We try thinking that we must be
humble or cunning. If a man has ever been cunning but he never condescends to
pamper others, people never love his life. Despite of stage of young age or 100
years old, he has to learn forever and we never say that his knowledge is
enough. Even his is 100 years old, he has to learn
secular books, books of Sages, to learn the cleverness of spirit moral religion
Head bequeathed. If he is not humble, nobody teaches him and even hates him. If
he is not humble, they will perhaps ignore him to let his miserable destiny
because they hate him and they never teach him, thus he never becomes better.
Although we are at youth, we are humble to serve one old man, the old man will
teach us. We are youth, but our wisdom is good as old men because we are
humble. For persons who are always haughty, people feel dissatisfied because of
their haughtiness, thus their value is meaningless. Moreover, that haughtiness
also annoys people to hate more for their reputation even they have a great
learning.
For the humble nature, we discuss due to conformation aspect. We know
ourselves thoroughly, thus we always seek method to learn unceasingly. If we
are always humble to understand us and know others, our humbleness reaches the
good point even our knowledge is not large. Due to our humbleness, people love
us, support us, guide us, raise us to a worthy
position. They also respect us due to our humbleness. That point produces the
more advantages. For haughty person, even he dies,
they never mind him because they hate him. How harmful! they
can lean on us for their experiments.
Now, we base on the spirit for discussion about humbleness. It forces us
to be humble because we have nothing enough.
Such the Confucius was taught by Hạng Thác [when Hạng Thác
was a child]. When the Confucius met the Lao-Tzu and showed His human ethics to
build the society on the earth. For us, we think that His Way is immense, but
it was still lower in front of the Lao-Tzu. Therefore, it could not satisfy the
human’s desire. As the Confucius’s doctrine was low while the Lao-Tzu’s Tao was
profound and the Confucius was young and Lao-Tzu was old, therefore the Lao-Tzu
criticized the Confucius.
We wonder that such Saint Confucius was taught by a child, criticized by
the old man, but He was humble. Therefore, we admit that He was a living Saint
on the earth.
The haughty persons just perform antics only. Their value contains
nothing.
Bần Đạo/I say: The haughty persons are false without
value to live with others in society because they have lost their spirit and
conformation.
Indeed, Bần Đạo/I used to preach about our life that it
is a normal reincarnation only. People never like the haughty nature. We consider
that the haughty nature never brings an interest for our life.
Bần Đạo/I used to preach that the love is a Divine
legacy. If all Supreme Being’s children form it, you can still reach
achievement despite of Nine Holy Grades of Lotus [Cửu Phẩm Liên
Hoa] in Paradise [Cực Lạc Thế
Giới].
Bần Đạo/I have ever said: If we induce our blood
relatives to love us, that obtained value is the value of copper.
If we induce strangers to love us, that obtained is the value of silver.
If we induce our hostile to love us, that obtained value is the value of
gold.
If we can obtain those three precious things in our life, despite of Nine
Holy Grades of Lotus in the Paradise, we can
still enter it.
His Holiness Hộ Pháp preached
at Holy See, night of 14th June Quý Tỵ year [year of Snake]
Tonight, Bần Đạo/I preach the spirit power over
conformation or the spirit power over the body. By clearer way, it is the
Divine power over our action in life.
Bần Đạo/I have read a newspaper about the discussion
that the Eastern Germany praises to put up
resistance for inhuman action of Communism. How pitiful! Such that powerful
nation is in defeat now, divided into two parts. People are oppressed under two
oppressing powers.
The first is the Allied democracy of Western Germany
and the second one is the Russian party, as the Communism of Eastern Germany.
Therefore, the workers have nothing to fall to the strike to protect their
interest. For any good or bad methods, the Government decide
everything.
It is same for workers! It is also same to master! The Communism policy
firstly upholds worker’s interest, which means that they use master’s legacy to
corrupt the worker’s heart. What purpose do they have to corrupt the worker’s
heart? They do so to hurry them to execute the revolution successfully. When
they reach achievement, they hold power in hands and gradually touch
destination purpose as the master’s interest. It means that they destroy
worker’s interest. It makes worker’s life difficult, deprived, poor. Especially, the nation has just spent the war of
defeat. The nation is poor, people become miserable and they continue to suffer
the autocratic sovereignty. They cannot stand such extent that we face against
amour, gun by hands. They risk their life to oppose the Communism power.
Consequently, Bần Đạo/I say that: In spite of the strong
conformation power, it can prevent to make people’s spirit dependent. That is
the truth.
We find long since that is there any force of conformation, which makes
people afraid? They only use their body to be their force. Whoever follows
their order can live. Whoever follows their order will be killed by them. The
conformation power takes people’s death as the basic only. Thus, it makes their
spirit well-known to consider the death as diminutive issue only. Actually, the
death over them contains nothing while there are some persons who kill
themselves because of miserable situation. They die under a little bit of value
only, but they are not sure. One day people consider their life cheaper because
the sovereignty over the physical body is an animal only. If there is no spirit
sovereignty, it will be destroyed. If they want to maintain, their spirit
controls the sovereignty because the spirit holds the sovereignty, there is no
force, which can oppress it.
We may see that the Catholicism was oppressed by Jehuda under a strong
force. He destroyed the Religion when the Religion was at the embryo stage. We
find that nowadays, this Religion masters people’s spirit. The death was
sacrificed to Religion, thus we can see clearly that the See of Catholicism was
built by blood of Marty.
When the Buddhism was at the opening stage, the Brahmanism counted on
their power in hands to make uncountable miseries. The Buddhism leaned on the
Nava citizen, nowadays the Buddhism has been propagating on over the world and
the Buddhism’s strength will exist forever.
For the Caodaism, what did we see from the Supreme Being’s True Doctrine
of embryo stage? People applied power of cunning ruses, false accusation, immoral action to us, which means that they sought methods
to destroy the Caodaism in the embryo stage.
How strange! There was no force, which could oppress the spirit of
Religion. Consequently, the Caodaism still exists nowadays. Bần Đạo/I
assert that: it will progress to the top point of reputation incessantly how to
save people from misery. Conversely, if people are still miserable, painful
that there is no organ, which helps to solace them; it is because that the
strong conformation power forces them to dance only. However, the spirit power
always masters it.
His Holiness Hộ Pháp exhorted
on the opening ceremony of Training School in Giang Tân on 24th June
Quý Tỵ year [3rd August 1953]
Master/I greet Military
Sergeant Corporal!
Master/I have entrusted the teaching ability for next young generation to
you, so that you fix the Military’s future destiny. The success or failure is
due to your clever teaching over your younger generation, so that they make
virtue, make merit and fix the future destiny of Nation and race.
Children as students! Master/I used to tell you that: Master/I have
suffered difficulty situations that it is sure that there is no religious head,
who must suffer trials as me. Master/I tell you frankly that I entrust the
future to you for your decision. I have ever said that your Ancestor’s 4,000-year-fortune-family
was bequeathed. Master/I appoint you to execute, not to let you step on other
path. Why is it? As you are man, Master/I cannot let you escape from a very
Divine mission in protecting your race by your blood. Master/I have suffered
agonizing things over Religious aspect. Master/I have to do how to prevent
powers, which oppress you in dependence. Master/I have fought in sufferings,
thus at this time your Master/I let you be far away the slavery. You perhaps
understand Master/me via this point.
From my return time from foreign country, in
front of your sight, you have seen my actions as the Colonel Chief Advisor tell
you. Actually, if there was not the extraordinary spirit, we would not have the
determined mind value for success or failure. Between those things to fix your
Nation’s future destiny, you perhaps also acknowledge that my teaching
sacrifice always steps with your action. That is the truth!
Master/I have changed step by step
patiently. My change is also due to fix your Nation’s future destiny. Master/I
do not only tell you or hostile to know, but also want whole humankind and
races on this earth to know. Therefore, my win is a win over that aspect.
For over seven years, Master/I
have guided you to step on the incessant path of fight without a limit or
destination. You have spent your efforts of blood and the result of your work
to point out our race’s destiny is at this time. You have to decide a method of
fixing your future destiny personally. Thus, Master/I taught the Military to
re-open the Training School, in order to gather the Moral spirit to teach
people, to comfort people, to implore people, to cringe people. However, those
actions were not enough. It forces me to lean your fight mission to have enough
the decisive power. Master/I tell you that your fight mission must be under the
flag shadow of “UTTERLY LOYAL TO COUNTRY”, but must not use the power of murder
and weapon to fix the national destiny and to force people to obey our power.
No never! It still misses the soul: which is the spirit power. If the spirit
power is weak even you have a great fortune with a strong power for murder, you
will be able to conquer people never.
The old saying tells: “In
battle, we can kill General, but conquering people’s will is not easy”
Indeed, if you want to get win,
the win is ready at your hands because you have sacrificed your blood much.
Consequently, you must consider and scare that power to fix your destiny.
His
Holiness Hộ Pháp preached at Holy See, night of 29th June Quý
Tỵ year [year of Snake]
Tonight, Bần
Đạo/I discuss about two words of Truth and Falsity.
For foremost aspect of
Religion, if we call something as the Truth, it is called as Right while the
Falsity is called as Evil. The religious used to display he is right by using
those two words. We borrow the French to express that Truth: “Le Vrai est en
rapport avec le bon Raisonnement”. It means: “Truth must be supremely
truthful”. That right must match with the nature of the truth.
People have discussed much
about two words of “Truth” and “Falsity” on the earth. People want to seek the
truth of Materialism. They base on the life as the basis that the life appears
in an animal on this earth. They must do how to preserve that life even they do
inhuman, immoral actions to protect their life. They only protect their life
more than others and they consider it as the truth for them.
That doctrine used to be
applied and made statement from the persons who progress their secular path.
On this earth of this epoch,
that doctrine made people very keen. Actually, their truth is completely called
as the peremptory doctrine.
In this century of mechanism developing
civilization, if there is no fight for life protection, people’s life faces on
many difficulties. Due to the reason of difficulty, in the case, people cannot
have enough ability of fight, they seem to be
eliminated from society. Consequently, they need to fight with a win. They
sometimes meet advantage to win and hold power as the lord of lives. In this
case, they call it as the truth, which is best, most truthful. That discussion
is due to the Secular custom. Due to the Religion, before Religious Heads
obtained Dharma, they had considered that beside their spirit over them, them
over them, there was not any truth on this earth. Thus, they sought their
conformation of self to know them only. In Europe,
Mr. Pythapore and Philosophers founded that truth that the French calls it as
“Conscience”. It refers a person who only finds his conscience. He thinks that
the life with his fellow’s life is the falsity, which does not contain any
truth in front of his sight. His life is also false to them, which means that
he knows that his body deceives him.
In order to find the
truth, they must seek the truth in their spirit and mind only. They take the
mind over the spirit, which is their truthful self only.
Therefore, that is the
reason of Taoism doctrine “Seclude from world to seek Immortal”
We try making a question
that for two doctrines in front of us, which is true?
Luckily! The Supreme
Being let the Lý Giáo Tông teach. We were discussing that doctrine excessively.
Đức Lý Giáo Tông told that: the truth is that we do how to know we
are true, is the truth. We have not done truthfully yet. If we want to know the
word of truth, we will see our life firstly, which knows that we have nothing
beside we have to share life to live together.
Meanwhile, we receive a sperm
of our father and blood drop of our mother to have such this body. It means
that we have been in debt of blood called as the life debt. If we deny that
debt, our disclamation is unreasonable.
Now, our life leans on
society, as our fellows who live with us, help our life, share foods, clothes.
What aspect do we share with them? They help us uncountable things while we
consider persons who helped us, as the unreal one.
Indeed, the Supreme
Being’s doctrine shows: “Your truth must condescend to compassionate miserable
persons. Whenever you still see miseries in front of you, but people cannot
exterminate those miseries, and you do not solace, support them to reduce their
miseries, you will never obtain the right of Tao”.
We find that the Jesus Christ
shared pieces of bread, pieces of fish for the poor persons.
We find that the Sakyamuni
Buddha beg and nourished poor persons at Cấp Cô
Độc Viên garden.
We find that the Lao-Tzu was a
mandarin, but He resigned position to teach a student as Doãn Hỉ. Due to
injustice of society, of life on the earth, thus we find that for method of
solacing the spirit, all Religious Heads always use that method of
“compassionate to miserable persons” to be the truth.
Actually, whichever religions
do not follow the doctrine of Supreme Being and Đức Lý, even how
their doctrine is sublime, they have not shared misery with people; we will
obviously wonder if it is a true religion.
His
Holiness Hộ Pháp preached at Holy See, night of 14th July Quý
Tỵ year [Year of Snake]
Tonight, Bần
Đạo/I preach Love Law and Just Power of Supreme Being who came to
sign the Peace treaty with us, to place true doctrine in our spirit.
Bần Đạo/I
preach the Law of Love and Just Power over humankind’s present life. We find
that whole humankind on this earth, powerful nations, races are in chaos and
the humankind does not enjoy the peace that the Supreme Being has promised,
because the Love Law and Just Power have not appeared on this earth.
“Human’s heart is very
miraculous”! The human’s heart always changes in illusion. According to their
natural law, they want to harmonize humankind’s psychology. Especially, the
intellectuals of humankind set up too many laws, too many powers. However, the
more there are many laws and powers, the more humankind faces on chaos. At this
time, the politics of nations on this earth are converse. They want to seek a
solution to harmonize humankind’s psychology to reach the peace.
How harmful! They
have studied many methods, set up many laws, but it is impossible because those
laws happen due to their relative law, but they are still mutually contrary.
The unique law is the Law of Love, but they always forget it.
Harmfully, they
ignore it, the human’s heart is not basic in exemplary. We try thinking that if
there is not the law of love in a family, the husband does not agree with his
wife; the wife does not agree with her husband; children do not obey their
father; the father does not agree with his children; the subject does not obey
the lord; the lord does not satisfy the subject; how is that family? We lean on
the diminutive issue to examine major issues. A family just needs a strict law
of family only, which is called as law of love. If somebody ignores that law,
it is impossible. The strict law of family forces them to follow the law of
love.
We wonder by a
question and find evidence that: our children are not older than us, the law of
love forces us their natural law.
How strange! Our children
have enough rights to command us because the love takes advantage of us only.
We try depending on the extremely diminutive issue to compare with greatest
issue of humankind and we find that if we throw the law of love, the
humankind’s life will fall into the mutual extermination, to make this earth
declined, to make humankind’s psychology chaotic.
We find well that people
say that they are seeking the peace, but that peace does not contain the law of
love. In that case, that is like seeking a needle under sea only.
The law of love is the
exemplary for us to fix the just power in family. If the wife is not just to
her husband, the husband is not just to his wife; the family never reaches the
harmony. If the King is not just to the subject, the subject will not be just
to the King. If they do not use the heart and mind as the exemplary, the nation
never reaches the harmony. If humankind does not behave justly, the humankind
will be forever chaotic, never enjoy bliss.
Actually, the Supreme
Being’s law placed in the Religion is the Law of Love and the power of Justice.
Whenever the humankind
takes advantage of that law and power, they will bring bliss and peace to
people in future, otherwise the mutual murder will still happen incessantly.
Inaugurating
Ceremony of Management Board Office of “Flower Dragon” market on 15th July Quý
Tỵ year
If the humankind
gathers faiths in one mass, the humankind can do everything. Bần
Đạo/I can see the business from the spirit union. Your prosperous
leisured life coming from the justice and compassion helps Bần
Đạo/me enjoy bliss on this earth.
The New Year is
coming. Bần Đạo/I count on your all good faiths to help the
Management Board and Sacerdotal Council to finish the Long Hoa market [Marker
of Flower Dragon] [at this time, it is temporary]. When it is finished,
Bần Đạo/I am sure that your life will progress to reach a
joyful level and our common house is a Family to train youths to succeed the
Supreme Being’s Holy Body with their ability and will to save human beings from
misery.
His
Holiness Hộ Pháp exhorted in the Inaugurating Ceremony of Management
Board Office of Long Hoa market on 16th July Quý Tỵ year
Firstly, Bần
Đạo/I would like saying the thanks to Canonized Dignitaries,
Officers, leaders of Religious Politics Organs.
When coming back, Bần
Đạo/I heard your sentiments to me about my small merit and Divine
mission that Bần Đạo/I have to execute them. Foremost male
female younger brothers as the beloved children of Supreme Being must
understand what my Divine mission is, so that you have enough spirit and
courage to fix the Religious mission over the Secular mission.
In this 20th
century, the humankind’s spirit on this earth has been reversed by the
materialism or even Bần Đạo/I assert that: the humankind is
miserable about their spirit. If they were not miserable, the Supreme Being
would never come. He came here because of humankind’s misery, to your National Way as
your Ancestor’s bequeathed, called as the Confucianism to save humankind.
Indeed, Bần
Đạo/I did not think that the traditional custom
4,000-year-civilization of your Ancestor today becomes a precious thing for
humankind. It is true that Bần Đạo/I never thought about it.
It becomes the spirit and intellectual as the soul of humankind.
Bần Đạo/I find
that the Supreme Being comes to grant a reviving remedy to humankind from your
Ancestor’s infinite previous legacy. It means that the Supreme Being comes to
use the Confucianism to change the world, moreover our
Great Merciful Father also creates the Sacerdotal Council.
Today, Bần
Đạo/I stand here and explain clearly what His Sacerdotal Council is.
Bần Đạo/I have ever said that: as the humankind is miserable,
the Supreme Being comes to share misery with His children. The Sacerdotal
Council replaces His body to suffer misery with His children. That is the
truth. Thus, He entrust the mission to His Sacerdotal Council. Especially,
Bần Đạo/I knew clearly at the beginning time. He entrusts the
misery saving organ to His children to replace His image, in order to share
misery with His children.
Master/I have said: Under the
Supreme Being’s flag shadow of saving from misery, as all Canonized
Dignitaries-Religious Politics Organs, Bần Đạo/I have trained
the important mission how to let you enjoy bliss, let you reduce your misery.
Qua/I tell frankly and Mr. Khai Pháp [Juridical Reformer – one of Twelve
Zodiacal Dignitaries of Divine Alliance Palace/ Thập Nhị Thời
Quân Hiệp Thiên Đài] stands here and acts as a witness: When the
Caodaism was feeble and poor in oppression and difficulties, Bần
Đạo/I spoke to the government of France that: Whenever whole
Religion, as Supreme Being’s children still poor, Bần Đạo/I do
not do anything except for making them to revive under the glorious bliss. You
recollect that at the poor and miserable stage, Bần Đạo/I
tried to use nothing to build conformation, much less than we sit in the
Supreme Being’s beloved heart, nowadays. It means that we are sitting in the
Holy See. Our life protection mission over you to reach bliss is the important
mission of all Canonized Dignitaries of two Palaces.
Today, Qua/I
enjoy the bliss and feel honorable when I am entrusted the important mission of
Sacerdotal Council by whole Supreme Being’s Holy Body. Qua/I am in role of
interim Eldest Brother of Supreme Being’s children. You also know that it makes
me so worried. Qua/I am afraid that your life faces on feeble situation only.
Qua/I recollect even 2 years
ago from the time that Qua left the Enlightenment Palace [Trí Huệ Cung]
to come here to bless for Long Hoa market [Flower Dragon market]. on 2nd May Tân Mão year [year of Cat due to lunar
calendar], the market began to be built. Until this July Tân Mão year, we spent
2 years only to finish the market. You find how the human’s faith is. If the
humankind gathers their faith in oneness, you can finish everything. Qua/I
still know that business depends on your flexible spirit to induce Qua/me to enjoy this bliss, which is your great gratitude
for me.
We try thinking if you have
shown your gratitude more than. No! Qua/I only wish one thing that every family
has enough legacy for life happily to nourish children in path of learning, and
you do how to be glorious and luxurious. My most wish is that point.
You should not think that the
Cross-Road market has a miracle. Qua/I only find that the Cross-Road market is
very comfortable but narrow. Qua/I only know that: your spirit has progressed
only. Moreover, you lean on your organizer only. Those reasons show us know how
the Cross-Road market is. It has advantage terrain for greater activities.
Consequently, Qua/I use the 47 hectare-forest that there has not been any
a market like that long since. You may see that this area will be dense in some
more years. Now, Qua/I see the jostle already. Qua/I
manage how to enlarge more for you. Qua/I speak out my most important point: in
next year, you will help Management Board. All Supreme Being’s children at Long
Hoa market will contribute to the Sacerdotal Council by their tax, so that the
Sacerdotal Council will build the Long Hoa mark completely. After that, Qua/I am sure that: your life will improve more and more.
The more your life improves, the more the next generation’s future that Qua/I entrust is ensured. Qua/I desire that all Families of
children, who are your trained children, will succeed Our
legacy to be the Supreme Being’s Holy Body. They show all their efforts,
abilities to save people from misery. That is my wish, which is that you help
them fix the Religious future.
You should remember that: that
will be your Ancestor’s glory.
His
Holiness Hộ Pháp taught in Holy Order Distribution Ceremony Dignitaries
of Music Department for local religious service in South, North, Middle and Kim
Biên Religious Country on 18th July Quý Tỵ year
Dear Leaders of Religious Politics Organs,
Today, Bần
Đạo/I come here to attend this ceremony to welcome all Dignitaries
of Music Department, who receive the mission in amending the Rites and Music
due to the true doctrine of Caodaism.
Younger brothers and
children! Master/I feel pleased to see your heart with a path of forming your
legacy cleverly. Qua/I used to tell you that: If a Religion did not have Rites
and Music, its beauty of Dharma in spite of Material Dharma, Secret Dharma
would never reach perfect beauty. Qua/I have ever explained to you why the
Music is the Rite. As you know that the framework of Music comes from the
spirit. Qua/I indicate an evidence that when you in spite of all you in Music
Department from a Musician to the Assistant of Rites and Music [Tiếp
Lễ Nhạc Quân] hold a musical instrument and play it, every person
has a specific style because your spirit through your playing skill carries a
specific spirit.
Actually, the Music is
produced from the spirit, but what is the spirit? The spirit is the soul of
Way. Why is the Music the Rites? We can look at the rites of secular way that
when you perform in a concern even every musician has a specific, good or bad
style, which means that they are mutually different; but you must follow the
long rhythm. If you do not follow it, you never perform in a concern with other
musicians.
Actually, the mutual
harmony framework is called as Rite. Therefore, Qua/I
continue to explain you to understand that the Rites and Music come from sound.
How strange! Now, Qua/I tell
you to know that only Vietnam race with our Confucianism culture carries the
Music, which comes from the sound and races on this earth also admit this
point. The Chinese or races with the influence from the antiquity civilization
of Confucianism contain Music and the Music’s sound is the Rites. The evidence
is that Qua/I have read a discussion in United
Nations: if all races on this earth kept the Rites as the China under their antiquity Rites,
the contradict hostilities in the United Nations Assembly would never happen.
They happen because of their no Rites. Due to no Rites, the humankind suffered
two times of global war. You consider and find that as they have no Rites, they
give a slap on table and leave Assembly of United Nations while the Rite is the
Music. Qua/I look at the evidence that a French says: “La musique adoucit les
moeurs” [Music appeases spirit]. The Music makes custom and manner beautiful.
The France does not only
confirm this issue, but all powerful nations of Europe
also confess this point.
Indeed, at this time, Qua/I
sign the Holy Order to appoint you to go everywhere with an essential purpose
which is that you use the harmony language, use the flute which
Trương Lương [張良] used it to destroyed a mighty
army of Hạng Võ [項籍], exterminated the Sở
dynasty’s legacy and recovered it for Hớn dynasty. Only Trương
Lương’s flute could do that only.
Nowadays, Qua/I entrust you the mission how to induce people to hear
your Divine flute, so that your race’s spirit grows up for a glorious future.
You sweet voice can make people awaked to give up cruelty, to bring a harmony,
noble, comfortable and beautiful path with a victorious moral spirit to save
humankind’s life because they are falling into the path of extermination at
this time.
His
Holiness Hộ Pháp preached at Holy See, night of 30th July Quý
Tỵ year [year of Snake]
Dear Canonized Dignitaries and
two sexes Disciples,
When Bần Đạo/I
went to Saigon to open an Assembly, Bần Đạo/I knew that: in
Religions for foremost Catholicism, they gave an order to celebrate a praying
ceremony so that, all National material and spirit forces would unite together
for an objective of “Great Unity” of all Vietnamese to be a backing for
Bảo Đại State Head to discuss with France, so that we would
become a member of United Nations.
Our independence execution is
not a problem because whether we like it or not, we must reclaim our
independence by ourselves.
The truth in our nation is that
from old movement to this time, the nation has contained many ruses. Previous
Kings also applied, the French power also does. They use the separation method.
Bần Đạo/I think that the nation is same to an ancient tree
living for many years, but people’s mysterious hands oppress the tree’s body
and change it into an ornamental tree for their relaxation.
Luckily! The Supreme Being made
that case disappeared. Bần Đạo/I myself received the mission
to take the oppressed ornamental tree to plan it on the piece of rich land, so
that it can become an ornamental tree. What is the purpose? The purpose is that
whole humankind can hide under its shade.
Actually, my journey is to open
the “Great Unity” Assembly only, but I have not formed the United Nations in
great unity yet. The powerful and secret persons with enough ability sought
ruses to destroy secretly. However, Bần Đạo/I let Supreme
Being’s children know that: The divine order is in hands. Bần
Đạo/I assert surely that there would not have any ruse which can
prevent my progress path to save the Vietnamese race that the Supreme Being has
entrusted me. There would not have any power which can prevent the progress.
Bần Đạo/I assert determinedly that it will reach win.
My first method is to call all
National Parties of France and Vietnam not to use the ruses, but use the just
doctrine for mutual behavior in order to meditate situation and bring the
interest and bliss to two races. Especially, the Vietnamese race has reclaimed
the independence and our great spirit fortune with a
4,000 year-civilization, a manner and a politics style that from the Antiquity
to this time, all races have been suffering much slavery. They always want to
reclaim their dependence.
How harmful! there
is a very bitter issue that they must sacrifice their blood too much. At this
time, we determinedly sacrifice to reclaim country that our Ancestor
bequeathed.
Bần Đạo/I have
pursued the commencement of “Great Unity” Assembly for two years for
achievement. In spite of power force, it is just a position of theory. It never
prevents our fight power.
Bần Đạo/I
celebrate the “Great Unity” Assembly to organize the Communication Committee
from South to North, in order unite National forces together in oneness, which
it same to the order of Bảo Đại Emperor, who entrusted me. A
Committee is formed to sign the treaty with the France because French Government
has not remained the right to sight the treaty, but they let people’s right for
decision.
The Rev. State Head wanted this
method so that, one day Vietnamese will not be able to say that the treaty done
with France
was not due to Him or His Government. That is because He wants to carry out
word “Citizen is Precious”. From this time, it is
called as “Citizen’s right”. Bần Đạo/I worried that Supreme
Being’s children were waiting, thus Bần Đạo/I came back
hurriedly to attend the final month ceremony to show you to know the assembly’s
result. Bần Đạo/I will go back there to continue the assembly
in order to take the most important purpose to build the united Nation and
race. Bần Đạo/I will attend the National People Assembly.
His
Holiness Hộ Pháp preached at Holy See, on 30th August Quý
Tỵ year [year of Snake]
[Feast
of Great Immortal Li-Tai-Pei]
Tonight is the feast of First
Imposing Governor [Nhứt Trấn Oai Nghiêm] as the Pope of Great
Way-Third Period-Universal Salvation.
We feel very honorable because
of favor of Supreme Being, who granted us a Divine Eldest Brother with an
incomparable miraculous power. Bần Đạo/I recollect the
beginning time of Religion. At that time, Bần Đạo/I did not
have any faith such extent that the Great Merciful Father felt laughable. The
Supreme Being went to my house in Buffalo
year to teach Great Brothers as Religious Dignitaries at this time. He went
house by house to visit His each child. Bần Đạo/I did not have
any faith, jus followed to hear Poems. This reason made the Great Merciful
Father laughable. Poems granted were all good except my strange poem:
“Depressed for no differentiation of good bad,
So sad to see second youngest child.
Master promises to give legacy if wish riches,
Legacy and merit must be parallel”
The Great Merciful Father added
words “Child!” Within seven months of staying in Thủ Đức
district [Saigon capital] people faced on
disease. They got dropsy and died. Many people died. The Supreme Being asked to
go there to save them in Thủ Đức district within seven months
at the Temple.
Due to teaching with the pen of Đức Lý in seven months, Bần
Đạo/I could understand the Tao. There was the best thing that His
things that He taught via séance are my strong sides in my life.
Bần Đạo/I
prove the strange holiness of our Eldest Brother that the Supreme Being had
selected. It is not necessary to repeat many times for all Canonized
Dignitaries as the Supreme Being’s Holy Body. My speeches are essential to tell
all Supreme Being’s children to fix your mind and to have enough faith.
Bần Đạo/I will report enough Supreme Being’s predictions
gradually. Bần Đạo/I confess that I leaned on His teachings to
have a strong faith. If there was the Divine incomparable miraculous Eldest Brother,
my important mission would be ambiguous, feeble, low faithful, low determined,
low steadfast in spirit. Bần Đạo/I think that if lacking those
things, the Caodaism would not reach such this achievement. All Supreme Being’s
children know that there is not any religion, which can reach a great
expansion, noble glory, prompt propagation within over twenty years as the
Caodaism of Supreme Being. Today, Bần Đạo/I prove the truth
that the Religious power can obtain this noble level because of grace of Great
Immortal Li-Tai-Pei as our Divine Eldest Brother, as our Spiritual Pope, who
holds the incomparable Divine power, who holds the invisible power. Bần
Đạo/I leaned on Him, so that today Bần Đạo/I have
such this power and expansion ability. There is one issue that Bần
Đạo/I need to recommend firstly. Woe betides to persons who think
that He is invisible! Woe betides to persons who do not have enough faith to
disdain Religious orders and His imposing power! The persons who offended
against Heaven Law will not able to avoid His punishment. The Supreme Being’s
children can see His justice. He teaches: Must make Merit, make Virtue, make
good Speech, called “Three Works”. He is very just, imposing. His Divine throne
never protects us defectively. The Supreme Being considers Him as a Commander.
His power is too great. In the God’s Court [Ngọc Hư Cung], His power
is very important, great. All Supreme Being’s children should believe Him.
Bần Đạo/I advise you on issue that all you keep moral without
error. Especially, do not reply merit to disdain the order. Woe betides to
persons under His imposing punishment! Bần Đạo/I
and Him have built the Caodaism, thus Bần Đạo/I assert
that issue. We believe Him, who is a just, imposing Divine Spirit but He is
compassionate. We have received a great solace in our life because we are being
protected by Him.
His
Holiness Hộ Pháp preached at Holy See, on 14th September Quý
Tỵ year [year of Snake]
Tonight, everybody attends the
service fully. Bần Đạo/I guess why all you attend service
fully. If you did in normal services, it would be a great bliss in this
Religious gate.
It is a natural law that if the
father is absent, all younger brothers will always look at their brother’s all
actions carefully. The Supreme Being’s Great Family built for His children
happens under a same natural law. All Supreme Being’s children perhaps want
Bần Đạo/me to report the 17 days in National Assembly. That is
the reason why all you attend the service fully.
There is an issue, which makes Bần Đạo/me afraid. Under the
Divine mission entrusted by the Supreme Being, Bần Đạo/I must
place the innate conscience on this earth with a wish how to make all Supreme
Being’s children, whole humankind harmony in mutual love, so that they
recognize the fellow as brothers and sister in blood.
It is not because of different color skin, different race, so that people live
separately, mutually kill. The persons who have compassion on people, always
feel painful when they look at the tragic situation in front of us, much less
Bần Đạo/I received a Divine mission from the Supreme Being to
help all His children love together, to propagate the true Doctrine to teach
human beings in order guide them to the Universal Concord. Vietnam and France are beloved friends, who
have lived together for over 80 years. However, is it possible that I cannot
bring an intense harmony love to enjoy bliss and peace.
In this assembly, Bần Đạo/I only get one target to seek the
harmony method to let two races understand together, in order to solve a
painful problem which is that as they did not understand, they mutually killed.
Harmfully! the Rev. State Head entrusted the mission
in the National Assembly to me. Actually, long since there was not any meeting
that I worried as this during 17 years.
Harmfully! Vietnamese lost
their spirit that there is no way to guide them, so that they step on the path
of humanity and justice as two issues which were fixed by the Rev. State Head.
1. How to make the Vietnam
independent. This aspect is the natural thing.
2. How to seek method to
communicate with France.
For first point, the France
decided themselves because they called upon Vietnam on
3nd July that the France decided to turn back the independent right to Vietnam
fully. It will become boring because we repeat many times. The France would turn the independence to Vietnam. Thus,
that issue of independence is solved easily because the France returned the independence to Vietnam.
The difficult issue is to communicate with France
that Bần Đạo/I worry this point only because Bần
Đạo/I myself that the relation between France
and Vietnam
has not been complete yet. The Vietnamese will perhaps criticize France. Thus,
Bần Đạo/I worry and suggest one point that Vietnam
receives the independence firstly. After receiving, forming the Parliament, we
will decide method of communicating with France
to avoid a problem that Bần Đạo/I have predicted the extremist
action as one just happening in that the France
suggested that the Vietnam’s
independence would be under United France. Consequently, this point made two
races chaotic that they did not know where they should step on. With France, they worry that one side in living with France for over
80 years will not have ability to protect their independence.
With Vietnam, they worry about
one issue that Vietminh thinks: not reclaim everything completely, always fight
in wars, except for complete independence which is suggested by Vietnam. They
lean on the issue of independence as a bastion, a weapon to rebel.
All Vietnamese people want to
reclaim the complete independence successfully, so that Vietminh cannot lean on
any reason for continuous fights. Two above mentioned wills are reasonable, however the matter is that both sides do not
understand together. Thus they have not decided yet. Bần Đạo/I
feel painful for an easy issue that there has not been any method yet to make
both sides understand together to bring the peace to Vietnam
and France.
Bần Đạo/I only pray to the Supreme Being that if the mission
is entrusted to me, please help it be done to make two races understand and
love together. The internal issues are solved not to let foreign country pay
attention. Bần Đạo/I only desire one issue that if the
Caodaism shoulders a mission to harmonize people’s psychology over faith,
society; the Divine power will help Bần Đạo/me act humanity,
act the method to bring peace and bliss to whole humankind.
His
Holiness Hộ Pháp preached at Holy See, on 14th October Quý
Tỵ year [year of Snake]
Today, the Caodaism gets one
more age. Actually, if it was not the Supreme Being’s incomparable miraculous
power to change the National Religion, it would not reach such a noble and
glorious point in a short period.
The Caodaism as our Ancestor’s
Way has been lasting over twenty years only if we calculate from the time of
changing the world. However, the Supreme Being’s Holy Body and all His Male
Female Disciples should remember that: Your Ancestors have been 2,500 years
old. Must remember that point!
Tonight, Bần
Đạo/I keep the promised done last day. Bần Đạo/I
tell the Supreme Being’s Holy will clearly and tell what He wanted. At this
time, all you are querying this issue. The internal Religion faces on many
difficulties even it faces on all aspects of difficulty.
However, for me, Bần
Đạo/I find that every time that the Caodaism suffers disgrace and
difficulty, Bần Đạo/I feel happy because it is the time that
the Supreme Being cleans, beautifies, so that the Caodaism can reach the noble
position. All Supreme Being’s children should believe me to consider if it is
right.
The present difficulty which
humiliates the Caodaism more, is going to beautify the
glorious incomparable throne. In next short time, if Supreme Being’s children
are religious, you will understand that issue thoroughly.
Conversely, when you face on
difficulty in religious life, you should remember my advice to smile at it. Be
happy! because it never happens wrongly. You look back
and you can see how the glory of Caodaism is in this next stage.
His
Holiness Hộ Pháp preached at Holy See, on 29th October Quý
Tỵ year [year of Snake]
Tonight, Bần
Đạo/I preach: What is the Supreme Being’s Holy Body? His children’s
deliverance power is in His hands.
The Natural law of Creator
contains one framework only. The Supreme Being places the golden rule in
Universe uniquely. If we pay attention to study to know that the natural law exists diminutive matters, we will know the nature of great
matter.
We observe a human born on the
earth. From being born to youth stage of 30 years old, we find that we are
still stupid.
In our physical body, there are
three precious things as “Essence/Body [Tinh], Gas/Mind [Khí], Spirit
[Thần] that the Supreme Being granted them to us.
The Essence is our physical
body called as our conformation of animal.
Our mind is the Gas.
Our Soul is the Spirit.
If those three precious things
are not harmony, we cannot reach good point. It means that if the human’s three
precious things were not united together, the human would not a human.
For that reason, with our wise
nature knows life, death and moral spirit. The Supreme Being’s Holy Body [Thánh
Thể] and two sexes of followers pay attention to my preachment. The
Supreme Being’s Holy Body does not only include the Sacerdotal Council, but
also includes all His children in spite of Male, Female and newborn babies
because of their “over hundred thousand reincarnations, they meet Tao”. Due to
that fortune, they are born and nourished by you. The Supreme Being came to
select when you are newborn. You gradually have wise mind and He lets us attend
His Holy Body, called Canonized Dignitaries, also called as Saints. Therefore,
you become “self-reliant in thirty years old”.
Your Divine position on the
earth as Deputy Chief of Religious Village [Phó Trị Sự/ 副治事], Legislative Executor of
Religious Village [Thông Sự/ 通事] [Sub-Dignitaries in religious
village] are corresponding to Pope and Hộ Pháp Thrones, and you can know
your celestial mission. It is very strange that the Supreme Being uses the
justice to form His Holy Body. He places a framework, a law of Creator, a Great
family, which are not different. You can find that the
Supreme Being lets the Disciple be corresponding to the Great Merciful Father,
lets Deputy Chief of Religious Village and Legislative Executor of Religious
Village being corresponding to Pope and Hộ Pháp thrones, lets Chief of
Religious Village [Chánh Trị Sự/ 正治事] be corresponding to Cardinal
[Đầu Sư]. You try thinking if His Holy Body’s framework takes
any mistake.
For example, a pip of
mango sown will become a mango tree. A pip of jackfruit sown will become a
jackfruit tree. When you sow a pip of jackfruit, you know surely that you will
have a jackfruit tree. The law is unique. Qua/I think about cruel intention,
they think that they can destroy the Supreme Being’s Holy Body when there is
nobody left. They never destroy in spite of Sacerdotal Council or Disciple. Whoever
intends to destroy the Caodaism should not be born, that is the better way
because they cannot destroy the Caodaism. That is unique law.
Today, Qua/I
preach the essential issue of delivery power to you. You should consider that
your legs, hands, body or spirit and mind always contain premonition.
How pitiful! People do
not love together, but hate together. If they hate together, it means that they
hate the Supreme Being’s Holy Body. If hating the Supreme Being’s Holy Body,
you will not be able to deny your sins when you return the Divine world to face
on me standing at the Paradise gate. If you
cannot love together, you must not hat together.
32. PROMOTION CEREMONY
OF MAJOR GENERAL NGUYỄN THÀNH PHƯƠNG OF CAODAIM MILITARY
GENEALISSIMO
His
Holiness Hộ Pháp exhorted in the Promotion Ceremony of Major General
Nguyễn Thành Phương of Caodaism Military Generalissimo on 1st
November Quý Tỵ year [6th
December 1953]
Dear Canonized Dignitaries, two
sexes of followers, Guests, representatives Governors of France and Vietnam,
Bần
Đạo/I say the thanks to you with you attendance to make this
ceremony more solemn. Bần Đạo/I would like pardon from you
because Bần Đạo/I wish to express my sentiment to Officers and
Caodaism Soldiers.
Children! Your Ancestor’s
antiquity civilization bequeathed is the Confucianism that your
Master/I am selected with a Divine mission by the Supreme Being to protect that
civilization. Master/I recollect the time when the Confucius asked His
Disciples, foremost His Seventy Sages. He studied nature of each disciple and
asked:
- If Tề
nation fights Triệu nation or Yên nation fights Tề nation, what
will you think?
All Disciples also said:
we must combine forces to become a strong power to fight against Tề
nation. He said: That method only protects our national destiny, it is not a
universal concord way. Only one His top disciple called Nhan Hồi Master
as Nhan Uyên said: if I face on that situation, I myself will select a just
viewpoint to avoid the mutual murder.
For Caodai Military, when
Master/I returned from Foreign Country, Master/I confess to you that I decided
to let you sacrifice in war of Communist side and National side to avoid the
mutual murder.
Actually, our flag of
“Life Protection-Humanity-Universal Concord” with four words of “Utterly Loyal
to Country” is meaningful. Master/I decided to sacrifice your life to protect
your race’s life.
Nowadays, your path has
reached a progress due to our friend as France, who understood the misery and
difficulty and helped us have method of communicating with France, in order to
build the peace under the justice and freedom peace. With my fixed intention,
the situation has reached an achievement. You try to progress with a distance
in front of you. If there are favors of Supreme Being and Holy Mother to make
it finished sooner, your sacrifice will be reduced.
Children! That sacrifice
has wasted many lives and blood. Actually, my tears of blood have shed much.
Master/I wish to do how to stop the war soon to bring the peace and bliss to your
Nation and race. Master/I entrust that future destiny to you. You maintain your
ability as you did before.
For foremost New
Generalissimo - Major General Nguyễn Thành Phương, Deputy
Generalissimo - Colonel Lê Văn Tất, Principal Counselor Commander Lê
Quang Thế, Master/I entrust the future bliss of your nation and race to
your hands. The achievement or failure will depend on your wisdom, incomparable
religious compassion.
Master/I count on you.
TÀI LIỆU LƯU
HÀNH NỘI BỘ
[FOR INTERNAL CIRCULATION ONLY]
Bản dịch anh ngữ Lời Thuyết Đạo
của Đức Hộ Pháp này chưa hoàn chỉnh,
vẫn là bản thảo, chờ bổ khuyết chỉnh
sửa. Khi hoàn thành, bản
quyền sẽ dâng lên cho Hội Thánh.
Kỷ niệm Mùa Xuân Di Lặc
Năm Giáp Ngọ (2014)
Khai Tâm Quách Minh
Chương
