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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.
HIS HOLINESS HỘ PHÁP BLESSED – HIS LETTER IN BEGINNING ẤT MÙI YEAR
His Holiness Hộ Pháp preached at Holy See at night of 1st
January, Ất Mùi year [24th January 1955]
Today is the new year eve of Ất Mùi year [year of
Goat]. Similar to previous years, Bần Đạo/I remember this time
of 15th October Bính Dần year [Tiger year] for beginning Đinh Măo
year [Cat year] that the Supreme Being founded the Tao at Từ Lâm Tự
pagoda [G̣ Kén]. At this night of that year, after attending the ceremony and
holding the automatic pen apparatus of séance, the Supreme Being asked all HIS
children to be present at place: “I/Master
raise the pen apparatus, all of you cross under it, so that I Bless you”. His Holiness Cao Thượng Phẩm
and Me were pulled up by the Supreme Being in the middle of the Great
Altar to raise the Pen Apparatus so that HIS children crossed under it.
Bần Đạo/I obey the Supreme Being’s
order to Bless all male and female children of the Supreme Being at this night.
All of you pray to the Supreme Being blessing with “Divine Favour”.
His favour will be covered all of you.
HIS HOLINESS HỘ
PHÁP BLESSES
Tonight, Bần Đạo/I do not preach, but
read the letter that I have sent to all Vietnamese. Attachment with this letter
is my “Manifesto” to Heads of States and leaders of race in the world. Bần
Đạo/I will explain the letter cursorily.
Now, Bần Đạo/I read the letter that I
have sent it to all Vietnamese.
THE SPRING LETTER OF HIS HOLINESS HỘ PHÁP AS
CAODAISM HEAD TO ALL VIETNAMESE COMPATRIOTS IN BEGINNING YEAR OF ẤT MÙI
Dear all Vietnamese compatriots,
In the beginning new year of Ất Mùi year, Bần
Đạo/I pray to the Supreme Being by heart to grant the divine
blessing to all Vietnamese to quit from the mutual murder and chaos soonest.
Bần Đạo/I would like then to speak out some speeches to
all Vietnamese.
For almost indomitable ten years of delivering the dependent yoke, of
obtaining the independence for nation and race; all compatriots have been
contributing many drops of blood and miseries. The fight standpoint to obtain
the freedom and happiness of race after 80 years of domination induces each
Vietnamese citizen’s intense compatriotism to trend to the Independence and
Union for fatherland.
How harmful! the fight structure for that target has separated the race
into many methods and wills: Vietminh and National Mass.
Although they are Vietnamese compatriots with methods of fight, do their
nouns and marks perhaps have ability separate children of a nation, a race and
consider as mutual hostiles?
How painful! The mutual murder has happened because of different
definition of methods and nouns used in sighting task.
From the 9th March 1945, the national liberation began. The
methods applied to seek glory for nation has not obtained completely.
Conversely, it occurred the disaster of land separation. From 17th
parallel to Southern area, it belongs to National mass. From 17th
parallel to Northern area, the Vietminh controls it. Disaster of separation of
two Emperors in the past happens again.
Bần Đạo/I make a question: For whom did that struggle
for slavish deliverance bring the interest?
Is it because of the Nation and all compatriots? What induced this
Vietnamese race to be separated? If there is one race, there must have one
Nation only. We try questioning: who created the internal chaos of race? Was
that the power of foreign country, which made our race separated?
Two international policies are the society democracy doctrine and society
communism, which promise that the humankind will modernize and reform society
because the present society organization has brought disappointment to
humankind much. It has brought the pains more than bliss. Two sides also
promised to seek an amendment method to seek the good and destroy the bad. That
promise is still alive to the humankind’s miserable mind for foremost poor
civilians and backward nations, who always wish that the achievement comes
soon.
Those two new society doctrines are fighting together to meet the whole
humankind’s confidence on this earth. Their fight is very drastic and chaotic
with an enough power to separate the humankind into two senses of purpose.
How harmful! The humankind has not seen any bliss except for a mutual
tragic drama. We should let our belief follow the time and space for their
failure and success, but at this time, we have been suffering pains too much.
We want to lend for interest, but we have not seen any interest because the
promise was done by mouth only without engagement and at this time, we lost our
capital seriously, painfully and unjustly.
The race catching the shadow and ignoring the real thing of Vietnamese is
always in that way that made a disease of race. The Compatriots will ask that
which method Bần Đạo/me use to prevent damage. Bần
Đạo/I will only answer simply:
- Whenever all Vietnamese are awake in their National soul, they will be
able to stand and protect their life firmly at that day.
- Whenever the intense compatriotism of Vietnam is delivered from the
situation of exploitation to transform into a holy torch sacrificed to their National
altar, they will can stand their Nation and race firmly at that day.
- Whenever the mind of Vietnamese esteems the past to fix their destiny
to be a powerful nation with enough prestige against the world, in order to fix
the national destiny due to their ability without relying on foreign power,
they will be able to deliver from the dependent yoke over spirit and material.
The current position is the Northern Vietnam is dependent under the China
Communism, the Southern Vietnam’s life is in hands of other country.
Consequently, we cannot know on where we can rely to reach peace and security.
If this situation elapses continuously, the peace that they have ever promised
is a visionary peace only.
Bần Đạo/I wish and petition to all compatriots to be
lucid to fix our destiny and future ourselves.
Bần Đạo/I am welcome to wish all families enjoying the
bliss.
Bần Đạo/I also sent this letter to the Saigon
broadcasting station. It was broadcasted already at this time of tonight.
Bần Đạo/I reckon that the yoke of national separation
will make the humankind painful and dangerous that we cannot imagine about it
because of the destructive power of modern weapons for foremost atom bomb.
If the humankind does not attempt to seek peace and bliss from the
Supreme Being’s divine path, the humankind will be destroyed. If the humankind
is in distress of destruction, it is because of their sin. There is one issue
that Bần Đạo/I want to let the France know: “This race is not
familiar with independence. There was nothing, which could prevent their
fight in delivering their slavish yoke over China in the past. Hốt Tất
Liệt [忽必烈] had dominated
all nations in Europe, but he met an utter defeat when going to Vietnam”.
Bần Đạo/I petition to two governments to unite together
in oneness. All Vietnamese do not discriminate party, Religion to unite
together, not to separate into two.
Bần Đạo/I pray that they are lucid to fix their future.
Our future is dominated by us that we do not need any petition. Especially,
Vietnam wants France to speak to America that the Vietnam has overturned
France’s power and they never need another power replaced.
His Holiness Hộ Pháp’s teaching
on occasion of spring wish of Religious Organs to Him on 1st
January, Ất Mùi year [Year of Goat]
Dear Supreme Being’s Holy Body [Thánh Thể],
Canonized Dignitaries of Two Sexes, the Great Merciful Father’s beloved
children, today Bần Đạo/I am honored because the Supreme Being
has granted a favor to let me have a pleased life of awakening path. Qua/I need
to speak one necessary issue to all Supreme Being’s children, so that all you
understand thoroughly.
Before opening the Caodaism, the Supreme Being had said:
if there is a new Religion, which brings us an incomparable bliss, it is still
not interesting. For that reason, the Supreme Being used our internal Way as
our Ancestor’s Way to found an International Religion. My happiest thing is
that point. Despite of being a Religious Head of an International Religion, it
requires to ignore my blood, spirit, courage, will. If it was not due to our
Ancestor’s favor and virtue, how could such this feeble race in Orient enjoy an
incomparable favour? For just that amount, we also find that we must sacrifice
our life bravely to return to favor of that highest and noblest Spirit.
My friends of Hiệp Thiên Đài [Divine Alliance
Palace], you have been present from the embryo to this time. When the Religions
just appeared, you came to share all miseries in painful situation and glorious
situation. Nowadays, nobody is better than you about directing the Religion.
The Tiếp Đạo [Religious Legislator] reminded my two journeys
to Europe and Asia to make the Religion’s fame glorious.
Dear friends, we sacrifice one life to be a sinless
crane, a crane of peace. Nobody knows that the Supreme Being also used His
crane to replace white dove that people call it as a dove of peace, but there
is no peace. The mission of a divine crane forces us to carry the Tao on this
everywhere on this earth. If whichever race on this earth does not know the
Tao, fault will belong to us.
Actually, although
our mission is painful, tiresome, Bần Đạo/I have not felt
satisfied over spirit aspect, over the deliverance and solace for people. At
this period, you find that the humankind is so painful that we cannot describe
to it. For pain of body and spirit, the Supreme Being has entrusted the misery
saving flag to you, thus you need to seek the method to deliver the humankind
from misery. If Bần Đạo/I did not shoulder a special mission
at the beginning time, you would not perhaps pay attention much.
Now, my old body is impossible to suffer tiresomeness as
I have done before. However, I still attempt to execute. Bần Đạo/I
find surely: among 9,200,000 Men of original Soul, they do not only live in
Vietnam, but also live everywhere under other races.
It is very pitiful that although the Supreme Being’s
Holy Body has not executed their mission, their spirit and conformation are
lucid and bright under the Religious shadow.
They are waiting your shadow of misery saving flag very
much. You attempt your step more because of the divine army who has been
following the Supreme Being to escort Him from the world creation. The Supreme
Being’s Divine teaching shows: Bần Đạo/I am a Divine Bodyguard
[Ngự Mă Thiên Quân]. That dignity and noble power must execute the
mission with one question:
Can we repay to the favor, replace the Supreme Being’s
image to execute His mission? If we cannot do that, we will be ashamed when we
return to the Divine world and meet Him. Although I just have my final breath
in any situation, Bần Đạo/I determinedly obey the Great
Merciful Father’s order to reduce pains of His children. I think that you have
a will as me.
Dear Canonized Male Female Dignitaries replacing the
Supreme Being’s image, Bần Đạo/I wish you to look at His
children who are miserable and unlearned about moral spirit that they are
shorted of decisive spirit for their destiny. Moreover, they are also shorted
of the spirit to protect their life. We find that we need to teach, support and
solace them.
Indeed, the Supreme Being’s Holy Body replacing His
image is hurried to create position for His children. The image shadow of
Canonized Dignitaries replacing the Supreme Being’s image is meaningless, but
the importance is that the Divine parallel value is compared with the Deity,
Saint, Immortal, Buddha only. If our younger brother creates a divine throne
and escape from the reincarnation, our fortune will be so great, much less that
at this time, whole Supreme Being’s Holy Body is displaying the path to help
them step on thrones of Deity, Saint, Immortal, Buddha. Bần Đạo/I
think that there is not any other mission, which is honorable and noble as this
mission.
They have been suffering many miseries of Secular aspect
and Religious aspect. Nowadays, the Supreme Being’s Holy Body lets us receive a
mission to guide the posterity. There is only one good method for us to protect
us from error that for our mission over our posterity, we have one method only,
which is our love for them. Although that love goes through foolishness,
stupidness, disgrace, we always love and love them only. The love helps us
execute our mission fully that we needn’t find other method. Dear children in
Charity Body, your Sacerdotal Council of Charity Body [Hội Thánh Phước
Thiện] is the Sacerdotal Council of Divine Alliance Palace [Hội
Thánh Hiệp Thiên Đài]. Our group has only over ten persons, thus we
have no method to solace all Supreme Being’s children.
Over ten persons transformed into you who are our
personification to replace us to seek method to deliver the people from misery,
in order to make the misery saving flag given to us by the Supreme Being,
forever continuous.
This year is the most important called as the year of
peace. You should believe so, you believe the peace by your mind. The peace is
the time that you solace people in miseries and that is your peaceful sight.
In your mission of replacing our image to deliver
people’s misery to overcome the nation’s trials, you may see a painful sight
that you cannot describe invalids, miseries, obstacles and all adversities.
You may see the current circumstance that the Northern
compatriots leave their legacy to move to the South. How pitiful! Qua/I am
afraid that under their discouragement, they become sorrowful and weary. You
see them and support, uphold their life. Qua/I scare if the mistreatment and
disgrace happens after love for them. In that case, we feel so ashamed for our
race. Qua/I entrust our mission via the personification to you to solace house
to house, one by one under their pains.
Dear children in the Nation Independence Recovery
Association, for things that your Master/I was impossible to execute, you
replace me to do. The children in Military also do the same. Is it possible
that Master/I ride a horse and help you do your mission? You have sacrificed
your blood through your important mission of saving nation, people. Nowadays,
it has reached an achievement as Master/I wished that although the 17th
up-or-down parallel is separated in people’s sight, your spirit never contains
that conception because where your misery saving flag, as the Flag of Life
Protection and Humanity appears, that place is your Divine fortune of family.
Master/I am afraid that you do not set foots on locations, and those locations
are still miserable. Master/I am afraid of that point only. For the work of
Nation Independence Recovery Association, is it possible that Master/I am
involved in politics over against people? Master/I am Vietnamese; I fight to
seek a good future for Vietnam. There are many things that you can execute
them, but Master/I cannot do, you have methods to execute while Master/I have
no method. Indeed, long since, all victories are due to your service, not due
to my service.
Master/I only contribute through speech. Such your path
is very long of a half way. You get attempt and get lucid how to make your
Divine mission represent the image of your race. You have avoided one issue of
people’s temptation and bribery, thus Master/I have a peace of mind and find
that the Nation Independence Recovery Association never yields in front of
bribery. For that reason, Master/I entrust a part of the world change organ to
your hands. Master/I praise for your victories in past years. Especially, the
point, which makes pleased, is that your civilian affair organ is corresponding
to me. You get attempt on path of civilian affair.
For Northern compatriots, Bần Đạo/I
used to say that: the beautiful land bequeathed by our Ancestors from Nam Quan
Pass to Cà Mau has been exchanged by much blood of race. There is not piece of land,
which does not belong to our sovereignty. You should remember that. Do not feel
sad because of emigration from the North, get attempt on work more. Long since,
the history shows evidence that if there is a national accident that is the
time we unite together. The Northern people and Southern people do not know
together. They just consider others as being foreign people; this point is most
dangerous.
Nowadays, we naturally meet an union method. All
compatriots in spite of Southern people or Northern people get attempt on a
necessary thing to and develop the infinite love that our Ancestors bequeathed
in our mind, with methods of unifying strongly and closely. Although it is
tiresome, you still get attempt to execute it. That execution will recur as two
Emperors of Tây Sơn in the history; which means that it happens according
to the map of National union of Nguyễn Lord that in order to have a
national union, race had to unite all abilities together.
How harmful! there is the most misery that from the time
of our Ancestor’s civilization, of National Religion, we were controlled by
people under the destruction of nation and race. For this reason, this
situation happens. If there was not Việt Minh, our national history would
reach a glorious page.
The Northern compatriots should remember that this land
is your land that you are not putting up at other people’s land, but you are
living in your family of your Nation. Thus, do not be sad to attempt to unite
together for National union.
Bần Đạo/I would like to give a good
wish to all Supreme Being’s children.
His Holiness Hộ Pháp’s preachment done on 8th January Ất
Mùi year [Year of Goat]
Tomorrow, Bần Đạo/I will go to the Celestial Palace of
Joy [Thiên Hỉ Đài] to preach the reason why the Supreme Being was
waiting for 30 years in building His Temple. I think that most Supreme Being’s
children of two Sexes have known this point well.
Actually, today is the anniversary of Caodaism propagated into the
international scope. If we mention the its propagation to the international
scope, we should also mention the current situation of all powerful nations on
this earth. Especially, the Supreme Being’s children perhaps know the
humankind’s current situation under contrary doctrines well. They fight to
obtain the essence of humankind on the earth.
Bần Đạo/I need
not to discuss to avoid offensiveness, but I just say that: It is not correct
that they was wishing that thing. By a heart without fame and wealth, Bần
Đạo/I assert that: two groups, which want to usurp the humankind’s
essence to be the world lord, are two Doctrines such as Democratic Society and
Communism Society.
We find that their fight
standpoint steps in the drastic stage because of mutual fight. Bần Đạo/I
do not know and guess how they will act over against. We pay attention to one
point that whenever they cannot use reason to solve together, it forces them to
use the weapon for resolving. At that time, there will have no solution to
solve their mutual fight.
One side just fights artfully,
deceitfully according to character of hooligan, who always to win people for
all actions, to ignore the gentlemanlike character. That is the mass of
Communism, who relies on their ability to become haughty.
We depend on the diminutive issue
to discuss the major issue. When we live in a society together, all Supreme
Being’s children always find that if we live next to them, they only know the
power as the hammer and axe, take the fight, their crafty character to be their
tool.
The proverb tells: one persons
says nonsense, nobody cannot retort. If somebody expresses reversely, they use
hammer to make threats against him. It is a thing that the honorable man scares
most. Therefore, there is no special method to dominate them, dominate cavemen
who use the Communism doctrine to fight for victory only even they ignore the
charity and morality. They fight for life to create their bliss even they do
despicably, small-mindedly. They just care to enjoy their bliss.
For Democratic Society, they are
the colonialism using all properties of compatriots, gathering all people’s wealth
to be their strong power. We find that if we take two sides to put on the Just
balance, they are same without any strangeness. One day, people will be awake
to find that we were a tool for them to act play to make us miserable. People
will be awake not to let them exploit any more despite of the vile play of
Religious Heads or parties of robbery. If all people do not look at them,
people are not close to them; they will disappear from our sight. They think
that they are strong and other people will scare them, thus they still maintain
the zeal to hold their prestige. Whenever people hate not to look at them, they
will disappear naturally.
Whenever feeble nations do not
let them exploit from those two parties and those nations self-control, people
will obtain the peace. Only that method helps them become peaceful. If one
person is impossible to do, many persons can combine forces. If one nation is
impossible, many nations combine their forces to act over against their power
to dismiss those two masses to reach the peace for people.
His Holiness Hộ Pháp thanked guests and exhorted Caodai Soldiers
on Troop Dispatch Ceremony on 9th January Ất Mùi year [Year of
Goat]
Dear Mandarins and Dignitaries of
Secular aspect and Religion, Bần Đạo/I firstly lower my head
to say the thanks to all compatriots of both sides of Religion and Military
with full attendance to make the ceremony more solemn and glorious. Bần
Đạo/I lower my head to thank you all again.
Dear all compatriots, Bần Đạo/I would like to state for the
current destiny of Nation and race, which are running to an important stage
because it is the time for our difficult stage to fix the future destiny.
Especially, Bần Đạo/I would like to gently advise writers,
historians that after over nine years of night, it is time for your important mission
because we must fight over spirit and intellectual aspect if we do not want to
say: we are continuously fighting over psychology aspect. We think that over
nine years of reclaiming the independence for Nation, you have got the history
readily and one day, you will bequeath a national history with a framework like
our Ancestor’s old spirit to the next generation under your pen, which is that
the indomitable will under 80 years of domination induced our compatriots to
retrieve to reclaim the independence of our Ancestor’s Nation. Such that
beautiful nation forces us to sacrifice our blood. The Celestial Law on this
earth of antiquity and the present time is same that there is nothing that we
can beg. We must exchange by an amount how to be parallel with the value of
thing that we want to have it. Alas! The thing that all compatriots want it is
too expensive, previous without an imagination, thus we must pay by an
expensive price of over nine fighting years.
Dear compatriots, writers who are leading our race’s spirit and mind at this
time, you perhaps have one question at your leisure: For the Religious path as
a National Religion that its character obviously becomes a Religion for world,
what is their solution when they are facing on the national disaster?
At your leisure, you maybe make such that question. For that situation, we try
thinking that which path do the intellectuals choose? Especially, after my
exile of 5 years from foreign country to fatherland in 1946, you perhaps know
the national situation thoroughly. Bần Đạo/I confess that at
that time, Bần Đạo/I was hard-pressed with no exit. One side
as Vietminh took advantage of patriotism of all compatriots to found a nation
saving organization. Due to that strong force and power, they took destiny of
race and Nation from South to North. If their structure was a true national
structure, the obtainment and National union would be done and obtained
already.
How harmful, the people had to look at two directions of two masses.
Especially, people looked at the mistake of Communism that people relied on
that mass to fix the future of nation and race. That was the first mistake.
If their direction could bring a victory for nation and race, Bần Đạo/I
think that it is not necessary to speak out, but all compatriots can understand
how it was. It is same to the situation of a servant with a new master. We look
at the independent flag, but the dependence is same to previous time. Thus, how
can we race bliss? Harmfully! This side fights over people, other side still
fights over people. This side is Vietminh, other side is France, National mass.
Two dangers are in front of people.
Dear all compatriots, please help me point out one path. There was only one
path that our Ancestor bequeathed. The path of over 4,000 year-civilization is
the path that Bần Đạo/I must step on. However, to step on that
path, we can not count miseries because we have sacrificed blood of Caodai
Soldiers who created bastion to protect race’s life under the flag of “Life
Protection-Humanity-Universal Concord”. If all compatriots understand its
psychology, you will shed tears as me.
Once, Bần Đạo/I declared that Caodai Military would appear to
be a partition of death to let race live, to protect race’s life, to preserve
the Ancestor’s humanity bequeathed. Bần Đạo/I used to feel so
painful.
However, when I think about the Divine noble mission, it solaces me a little
bit in my mind.
Caodai Soldiers from Non-comissioned Officers and Master Officers to Soldiers,
Master push you again to sacrifice to save your race and Nation. With such this
future and destiny, you continue to fight over to obtain the independence for
your race and Nation.
His Holiness Hộ Pháp poached on 12th January Ất
Mùi year at the office of Charity Body - Sacerdotal Council on Inaugurating
Ceremony of Palace
Today is the Inaugurating Ceremony of Palaces at the same time of Holy See’s Inaugurating
Ceremony.
Firstly, Bần Đạo/I visited Palaces of Divine Alliance Palace
[Hiệp Thiên Đài] and Nine-Divine-Plane- Palace [Cửu Trùng
Đài]. Bần Đạo/I went there only, did not preach. Bần
Đạo/I come to the Office of Sacerdotal Council of Charity Body [Hội
Thánh Phước Thiện] and let you know the purpose and reason why
the Sacerdotal Council of Charity Body appeared. Due to the Religious
Constitutional Law [Pháp Chánh Truyền], the Supreme Being came to found
the Sacerdotal Council o Divine Alliance Palace [Hội Thánh Hiệp
Thiên Đài] and Sacerdotal Council of Nine-Divine-Plan-Palace [Hội
Thánh Cửu Trùng Đài]. Before the Supreme Being came to hand over
authority of Religion as the Celestial Law, He had intended to open the door of
Twelve Heavenly Creators [Thập Nhị Khai Thiên] to pace the misery
saving flag on this earth, in order to save all His 9,200.000 Men of Original
Souls [Cửu Nhị Ức Nguyên Nhân]. The Supreme Being entrusted
to the Divine Alliance Palace. In Divine Alliance Palace’s Dignitaries, there
are 15 Fifteen Zodiacal Dignitaries. Among 15 Dignitaries, there are 4-5 person
receiving the order only. The Supreme Being asked the brother Cao Thượng
Phẩm with mission of saving the world. He exited to leave the heavy
burden for me that Bần Đạo/I used to say in the New Year ceremony
at Great Terrace of Universal Concord [Đại Đồng Xă], at
Sacerdotal Council of Nine-Divine-Plane-Palace, at the Sacerdotal Council of
Charity Body of Hộ Pháp, as the Divine Alliance Palace. The Sacerdotal
Council of Charity Body replaces the Divine Alliance Palace to save whole
humankind from misery, but how can 4-5 persons of Divine Alliance Palace found
the misery saving organ to obtain the Dharma? The Supreme Being asked to found
the Dharma Branch [Divine Alliance Palace has three Branches, such as Dharma
Branch, Religious Branch and Secular Branch] while the Religious Constitutional
Law does not stipulate it. Bần Đạo/I relied on the Supreme
Being’s poem to found it, even souls are being banished everywhere, they will
rely on the Buddha gate to return to Him.
The poem is:
“Awake, sacrifice body to Buddha gate,
Attempt to cultivate for deliverance.
No merit, no way to return to old throne,
Awake to offer body to obtain Dharma”
According to that Supreme Being’s poem, Bần Đạo/I founded the
Phạm Môn [Buddha Gate] to produce the Twelve Ranks of Divine Throne [Thập
Nhị Đẳng Cấp Thiêng Liêng]. If there was the Buddha
Gate, there would be impossible to found the Sacerdotal Council of Charity
Body. The word “Phạm” refers the “Buddha”. “Phạm Môn” implies the
“Buddha Gate”, does not imply the surname of Phạm. In the past, there
were many persons saying that Bần Đạo/I founded the Phạm
Môn [Buddha gate], it meant that the foundation was due to my surname “Phạm”.
Bần Đạo/I was like a partition to suffer everything. Why did not
Bần Đạo/I reincarnate in other Families such as Nguyễn,
Trần, but reincarnate in the Phạm family to suffer misfortune? For
those disputes, Bần Đạo/I did not care them, but I just always
attempted to finish the achievement. Due to the justice, Bần Đạo/I
stand here to confess that the Religious fortune, which can exist here, relied
on the Phạm Môn/Buddha Gate. If there was not Buddha Gate/Phạm Môn,
Bần Đạo/I would be steadfast here. The Supreme Being had
appointed me to receive 72 Disciples. Among them, there were 36-37 persons
serving the Religion. At that stage, Master and disciples had to suffer misery
to seek method of building the fortune, but people overturned to such extent
that the foods from six provinces to the Holy See were also prevented to let us
be hungry. How pitiful! Disciples were disheartened to follow Bần Đạo/me
determinedly until the time of building the Sacerdotal Council of Charity Body.
Actually, the tiresomeness of Phạm Môn’s brothers and sisters were at
empty hands to build the Religious fortune. They relied on nothing to create
the Religious conformation, relied on nothing to create visible conformation as
the Misery Saving Organ appearing from the Sacerdotal Council of Charity Body,
which is their important obligation. In recent time, in front of us, Orphanage
[Bảo Cô Nhi], House of Funeral Ceremony [Khách Đ́nh] with full
rituals. Thus, Bần Đạo/I tell you who go to the Holy See, to
use medicine. If you take medicine to become good, it is alright. If the health
does not get fine, they let the House of Funeral Ceremony of Sacerdotal Council
inter by any way. Besides, they have to also take care of building the great
Religious conformation. Bần Đạo/I also mention the its
greatness, do not mention the diminutive fortune of building the Trí Huệ
Cung [Enlightenment Palace] called as the house of cultivation for Womankind.
One appearance, which is being begun building, is the Vạn Pháp Cung
[Dharma Palace] on the mountain, called as the Rest-Home, which is the
Cultivation House of Mankind. The nowadays religious conformation has appeared
in front of all human beings. Everybody feels touched because in the past time,
there was the physiognomy without the image. Nowadays, both physiognomy and
image appeared fully, thus the progress of Charity Body Sacerdotal Council
becomes steadfast from this time that there will have no obstacle, which can
prevent the Supreme Being’s misery saving organ to be stopped. Bần Đạo/I
let the Sacerdotal Council of Charity Body know that: From this time, the
Sacerdotal Council of Charity Body can be secured.
His Holiness Hộ Pháp explained the Apostle’s Merit in the
Cremation Ceremony on 15th January Ất Mùi year
Dear Male Female Canonized Dignitaries, all Supreme Being’s children, Religious
Youths,
All Supreme Being’s children perhaps make a query about the meaning of Holy
See’s Inaugurating Ceremony and Cremation Ceremony of Apostles.
It is not strange that you need not to seek meaning on this earth. All
followers of all Religions always desire for their enlightenment in their
religious life.
The Prophetic saying of antiquity shows:
“Predestined to meet Third Period-Salvation
The title will exist perpetually”
The quaint point is for us to select the path and obtain the enlightenment
skillfully.
For all national civilians, there are many Venerables and intellectuals for two
sex. Why didn’t they compete the position of Mr. Lê Văn Trung, Mr. Cao Quỳnh
Cư, Mrs. Lâm Hương Thanh, Mr. Lê Bá Trang? Is it possible that
there are at all only? There will have others more.
Alas! If we think about their merit in their life and there are people who seek
their great Divine fortune, they will crave for such those thrones too much.
Their fame is worthy in that way. Our Religion and our mission are their
personification. Did we make their Divine value more precious and sublime?
All Supreme Being’s children understand that the Bát Quái Đài [Eight
Trigrams Palace] is the soul of Religion, is the seated Palace of Supreme Being
and Divine Spirits. The Deity, Saint, Immortal, Buddha have sought them
to obtain one position there for their seat. It is not easy for one person in
one life to obtain such that throne.
Male Female youths! Think, seek a future fortune, know the esteem or disdain,
firmness or fragility, value or valuelessness. Bần Đạo/I think
that all Supreme Being’s children have decided method and path already.
The fire will burn those Apostles, who will transform into Divine torch to make
the Caodaism brilliant, to call the humankind’s spirit, so that they seek their
deliverance path, their path of saving them from misery. It is also a Divine
Torch to guide all Supreme Being’s children’s spirit and His Holy Body.
For their fame and merit, Bần Đạo/I need not to discuss again.
I just find the Great Merciful Father’s divine call in the embryo time of
Vietnam’s dependent yoke. Their fame, fortune could be destroyed by the
oppressing power to make their body miserable and to also make their future
fame miserable, however they also ignored it. Only the divine call of Supreme
Being was important for them. Especially, they left the secular life to serve
the Religion. All Supreme Being’s children will make a question: Ooh! …Why did
Hộ Pháp consider them under a same position because of different merit?
Bần Đạo/I only reckon definitively that for Law, Bần
Đạo/I act as Hộ Pháp, although how the chaos was, Bần
Đạo/I only used the power to preserve the Supreme Being’s True
Religion only. Besides, they are my friends, my noble brothers. Secondly, all
sins of traitors in front my sight are meaningless. Their real or false value
will be impacted by the divine torch to flare up the Vietnam’s national Soul,
as the ancient spirit and ancient civilization. That is the most important
thing.
All Supreme Being’s children should remember that point.
His Holiness Hộ Pháp’s preachment done at Holy See at night of 30th
January Ất Mùi year [Year of Goat]
Dear Male Female younger brothers and sisters, tonight Qua/I do not preach,
just talk you. I apology to Canonized Dignitaries as the Supreme Being’s Holy
Body.
In last time, Qua/I invited the Chiefs of Religious Town [Khâm Thành] and
Chiefs of Religious Area to go to House of Hộ Pháp [Hộ Pháp
Đường]. Qua/I preached the Great Assembly of Dragon and Flower
because it will happen in this Holy See. You also know well that the great
Religious fortune is due to your hands despite of Female or Male. The Supreme
Being has been coming here for 30 years to say frankly that: The Great Merciful
Father is a poor old man expressing in two sentences:
“Nothing and solitary shows poverty,
The legs rely on a branch of white lotus”
He says that He is
an old man to come to use one automatic pen to found His Holy Body and entrusts
a most important mission, which is to found the fortune for all His miserable
children. You try thinking that we are not a lord of this world or a nation. We
are here with a pair of empty hands. Nowadays, Qua/I have overcome a distant due
to the Great Merciful Father’s guidance and your sacrifice of tears to build
such this Religious fortune. If we admit a real status, we confirm that it is
not enough rich, but it is a shade, a common Temple, so that His miserable
children rely on His Merciful shadow.
You also know well how your sacrifice value is. Qua/I do not need to explain in
detail. In this chaotic stage, Qua/I and Supreme Being’s Holy Body know your
up-down situation, know how your life is destroyed. Your difficulty is to
protect the younger generation as the entail future of Religion. We should not
have pushed you to make you tiresome for your mind, so that you gradually step
ahead due to the Supreme Being’s favor of guidance, provided that you gradually
go ahead, but you do not stand still.
Over 30 years, Qua/I have been living with you and His Holy Body. You look back
and find that your brothers become old. I am 66 years old. Is it possible that
Qua/I live eternally with you to help you forever? This great fortune can be
maintained due to your will. You must attempt on your path. Nobody knows when
your Ancestor’s path happens again, so that they enjoy the bliss and fortune
from you. It is unfortunate that the divine mission that the Supreme Being has
entrusted, contains many things, which force our attempt to execute things
urgently, which the Supreme Being had predestined. You also know the Đại
Tường Prayer [Major Beauty Requiem Prayer], the Supreme Being says:
“Genesis Heaven under Religious Head,
Maitreya Buddha holds power of deliverance.
Descend to amend the true doctrine,
Universal salvation opened, Hell disappears”
Qua/I needn’t
explain those except the last sentence “Universal salvation opened, Hell
disappears”, do you understand it? From this time of opening of Great
Way-Third Period-Universal Salvation, the humankind until the end of world, the
Hell disappeared. The Pluto’s invitation of Ten Courts of Hell will not exist
anymore. You will not be fallen into the Hell anymore. You have not been
dominated by the power of Ten Courts of Hell. This is the most important thing.
“Dragon Flower Assembly selects Buddha”
The Dragon Flower
Assembly is opened to select a Buddha or many Buddhas.
“Nirvana exterminates demons”
The Nirvana mops up demons, who will not go around there.
“Descend via Hộ Pháp Di Đà,
Run Evil Control Staff to exterminate demons”
Those are easy.
Everybody knows well.
“Gather visible Religions in oneness,
Examination for Immortal and Buddha”
It is an examination
for Immortals to obtain the Buddha throne.
“Amend world from bad to good”
Qua/I do not need to
explain that sentence.
“Keep life due to Supreme Being’s love”
In next year of Rat, the Assembly of Dragon and Flower
will be opened to select the Buddha throne at this Holy See. You must attempt
to do in time. Qua/I make sure that you will not catch the time. If Qua/I exit
in advance, that sin will belong to you, not me. Remember that. Qua/I attempt
on loyalty to Religion, on filial piety to the Supreme Being [Đức
Chí Tôn] and Holy Mother [Đức Phật Mẫu], thus Qua/I only
desire one issue that your Divine blood current can enjoy an important favor
but Qua/I do not know when you can have it and Qua/I have no right to fix it in
advance. Qua/I promise and wish how to induce your Divine blood current to see
the Supreme Being on this earth, with His Divine power as He has ever gone to
the Tibet Temple. When we mention the Tibet Temple to where the Supreme Being went,
Qua/I should report the story, so that all Supreme Being’s children can
understand it.
In 1917, when the Communism usurped the Russian Empery, the feudal Mandarins of
Russia had to flee. Except for the Red-Skin Russian, the White-Skin Russian had
to flee from their massacre. Among them, there was an Earl fleeing to the Tibet
with His some friends over twenty persons. The Dalai Lama [達賴喇嘛] heard their misery and obstacle and loved them so
much, he then protected and took care them.
Dalai Lama was Buddha King of Tibet. You know well that he did not stay in the
Tibet as a hiding persons, but he protected and nourished other people. One
day, the Earl felt sad and remembered His wife and children because he went
there alone and His mandarins also left their family in Russia. The Dalai Lama
understood the Earl’s feelings. Nobody understood that He preached to the Earl.
One day, the Dalai Lama made preparation to enter the Holy See. He worn dresses
strangely from other normal days. That induced mandarins surprised to ask him.
He could not conceal. He confessed that: “Tonight, the Supreme Being comes”.
The persons in misery situation felt very happy when hearing the title of
Supreme Being. They asked: “Can we enter the See to meet the Supreme Being?”
The Dalai Lama answered: “You just follow me”. He guided them to enter
the Temple. They queried with a question: “how can we know the Supreme
Being’s coming and How does the Supreme Being come?” He answered: “I
advise you that when you see bells around the Temple ringing at the same time
and you hear the sound of horse running loudly, that is the time the Supreme
Being comes”. The Dalai Lama guided them into a room with muddy light. He
took the Earl and other people to the room and asked them to pray. The Earl was
very sorrowful and he prayed. Nobody knows that it was due to the Earl’s prayer
or Dalai Lama’s miracle or the Great Merciful Father’s Divine miracle to make
strange that behind the room, there was a piece of black felt cloth to spread a
large room.
The Dalai Lama asked the Earl to look at there. All they prayed and looked at
the cloth piece. At the first time, it seemed as a mass of smoke flying into
the room where the Dalai Lama was drawing. The smoke overflew to mix with the
black smoke behind. The white smoke appeared a room of Earl’s house to show
that the Earl’s wife and child were sad. He saw that sight and lowered head,
cried. Others also shed tears. The smoke disappeared and the piece of felt
cloth got previous status. After looking there, the Dalai Lama guided them into
the Temple at time of Rat [12am] as we always attend the service at night. The
fact came truthfully. All bells around the Temple rang at the same time and
they also heard the noisy sound of running horses. All Venerables stooped their
heads down. At that time, only the Earl and other Russians were curious to
raise their eyes to look. The Temple was muddy, not bright as our Temple with
electric lights. However, the Temple became brilliant as daytime, the halo
lighted to make the Temple radiant. It seemed that one shadow entered the
Temple from external space. At that time, they felt frightened and lowered
their heads. When the Supreme Being preached, they could look at the Supreme
Being with a beautiful appearance in radian halo. They just described that
amount only.
After preachment, the Supreme Being said: “For 40 years, the humankind
always suffered miseries”. Every 50 year-time, the
Great Merciful Father [Đức Đại Từ Phụ] comes
to the Tibet Temple. Therefore, we calculate that from 1917 to 1955, it is a
period of 38 years. The humankind will reach peace after two more years.
Consequently, Qua/I find that it happened correctly. However, we will consider
if it is correct. The Tibet Temple enjoyed the Supreme Being’s favor that we do
not know how the Tibet’s profound virtue was and when their Religion appeared,
but they could enjoy such that great favor.
For the Jerusalem Temple in Palestine of Near East, the Supreme Being has ever
gone there once. He went there too imposingly. People remind it and make me
afraid. In the Jerusalem Temple, the Monks served about sacrifice such as
incense, flower. They belonged to the descent of Lévis who was the youngest
child of Mr. Abraham.
Qua/I make sure that the Supreme Being will come to this Temple. He has not
come yet. Why hasn’t He come yet? The reason is that we have not been perfect
yet.
You must attempt more. From this time to the Great Assembly of Dragon and
Flower, it reaches failure or success and Qua/I open the Great Assembly of
Dragon and Flower successfully or unsuccessfully, Qua/I entrust the obligation
to you.
His Holiness
Hộ Pháp’s preachment done at Holy See at night of 15th March
Ất Mùi year [Year of Goat]
Tonight, the preachment is rather long. In Great Ceremony, it is not enough
time for preachment, but we are not very tired in Minor Ceremony and although
you listen to the preachment little longer, you are not too tired.
Tonight, Bần Đạo/I preach why the Supreme Being comes, why
purpose He comes and preach how His True Religion is. Bần
Đạo/I have been complained by younger brothers and sisters.
Especially, the Administrative Section [Bàn Trị Sự] as the
Sacerdotal Council called as the youngest Holy Body of Supreme Being, called as
the Supreme Being’s beloved children complained and penetrated to me.
We do not know how the world situation is, all Supreme Being’s children in
spite of Male and Female have been made corrupt use of blood, property and good
heart too much by people to such extent that if the Supreme Being’s Holy Body
[Thánh Thể Đức Chí Tôn] can be open for their Holy eye to
recognize the truth or they are still unquestioning.
That is the reason why tonight, Bần Đạo/I preach three
important subjects that all Supreme Being’s children understand that it is not
for Secular aspect, but the Divine Religious Gate with Male Female followers
also find that the humankind’s spirit has been in trials. Long since, there was
no spirit crisis of humankind on this earth like this. Nowadays, the situation
induces that the more strong and powerful whichever nation is, the more it
falls into a situation of deep crisis that we cannot imagine and describe it.
They must live in a palpitation spirit and fear. There is the strangeness that
the more powerful they are, the more the Supreme Being lets them know that
their power and strangeness are their death. Strangely, that is all. Nobody had
thought that people would apply their mind and wisdom to knowledge to find the
incomparable atom power and continue to find the stronger one as the atom bomb,
which kills human,’s life as an ant, a mosquito, now.
Their strength menaces them and they scare it to such extent that the Prime
Minister as the Mr. Churchill of England have suffered the death in two great
wars. He was an extraordinary top-ranking general of England. By a justice, we
can say that there is not any a Prime Minister who is extraordinary like him.
One day, he moaned and said “I confess to you that from the day of atom bomb, I
have no peaceful sleeps”. He used to say that he did not have good meals,
peaceful sleeps. I think that there is not him but scholars, great talent
politicians, whole humankind, all nations are living in fears. People confess
haughtily but it is very funny and strange that they make a statement that
people’s fear over atom bomb is not different from that the powwow fears for
Souls. They created the power of atom bomb and they must face on them, but they
scared them extremely and correctly. That fear is real, not false or a fear of
pretence.
For that crisis spirit, we have been following the Great Merciful Father’s
foots, thus we know His nature. That is a good incomparable Father that there
is no earthly Father like Him who loves His children extraordinarily,
strangely. How can’t he come in front of the humankind’s spirit crisis? Only
the humankind’s spirit pain forces Him to come here.
Consequently, He comes. For what does He come? It is same to the second
question. He comes to share His children’s miseries. Thus, in the beginning
time, He told frankly that “Master/I come to unify good people to be a body to
save the human beings”. However, He comes to select His good and virtuous
children to bring them to His Divine gate as the Religious gate, so that they
can become His visible body, visible physical body on this earth that it is
called as the Holy Body or Sacerdotal Council. What purpose does He found the
Sacerdotal Council to be the Holy Body? There is not other purpose that He
makes it be His image to share His children’s miseries. If He had no method of
sharing His children’s miseries, He would come to teach and solace over His
children’s pains.
Actually, for His True Religion, the display of His Holy Body is to be His
physical body to share miseries of His children as the humankind. Bần
Đạo/I repeat again that this is not called as the lord of people as
other Religions, but the Great Merciful Father’s Sacerdotal Council [Hội
Thánh] is founded to be His image as a servant of His children. This is the
most important point.
Indeed, we may find that the misery of world does not only spread all over the
world, but Qua/I have said that: The tide of world rises as a storm and flood
cover all, even the Great Merciful gate in order to sweep His children, to push
them into the ocean of misery. You may find that although whole Holy Body or
Qua/I have not saved you all from misery in powerlessness, you admit that: Your
misery is from the attraction of earthly civilization and you are flooded. We
as the Supreme Being’s Holy Body must rush to you, to be flood there to save
you. The persons who make corrupt use of you to make to become a wave of world.
Do you want to avoid it? We want to avoid it so much. There is another bliss,
which can be compared with the bliss that we avoid it successfully. If we
cannot avoid it, we have to suffer it because if you were possible to avoid it,
you would avoid it already and we would be not flooded there. You cannot avoid,
thus it induces all us to join also forces His Holy Body as the Sacerdotal
Council [Hội Thánh] to suffer misery with you. How can be like that? In
the entire misery, there is a part of your self-production. Thus, you try to
confront it not to let the tide attract you. By that way, we also avoid it because
we look at you in flooded situation, we have to take pains to follow you. If
you were not flooded, nobody would ask us to follow you, no power would ask us
to do that.
Nowadays, you moan with the Sacerdotal Council. The Sacerdotal Council can see that
clearly and clearer than you, but we do not know how to save you.
Actually, we have an unique spirit and method that the Supreme Being bequeathed
to us. That is an amour covering us. We need to wear that amour. Each person
tries to prepare that amour, which is your virtue.
If your virtue and faith are strong, your moral becomes steadfast; Qua/I am
sure that you will get a victory and will also help us win. You attempt on
fight by your moral to win cunning ruses, so that we create bliss together.
Qua/I find that the wave of earthly civilization attracts you, but you do not
need to observe, consider to self-control and love together. Reversely, you
fight for housing, interest, power. In this Religious gate, there is not any
excruciatingly humiliating thing, which is more than what I have to suffer it.
You have not conceded the housing together. You still fight for method of
living, but you do not cede to protect together. Therefore, that penalty is
also proper.
His Holiness
Hộ Pháp’s preachment done at night of 30th March Ất Mùi
year [Year of Goat]
Tonight, Bần Đạo/I preach over the subject of a comparison
between the Secular power and Religious power. All Supreme Being’s Male Female
children, and foremost Youth try to pay attention to differentiate the
Religious sight and Secular path, which are mutually removed. However, there is
a strange point: Although we differentiate so, they have a close relation.
Before preaching the Secular power and Religious power. Bần
Đạo/I have to explain how the Religious aspect is, how the Secular
aspect is, then explain their power. All Supreme Being’s children often listen
preachment and understand the Religious power well. As the Supreme Being does not
descend via a human incarnation, He comes to His children via a strange miracle
called as the mysterious Pen. Consequently, He does not speak, but we can hear
Him. He does not have a body, but we can see Him. Bần Đạo/I
often explain normally why He comes. The Great Merciful Father has come. He
said determinedly that He came to share His children’s miseries. If He has no
body, how can He share His children’s miseries? Thus, He must do how to have a
body to share those miseries. In order to have a Holy Body, there is no better
way that the solution of that He gathers His good children to create His Holy
Body that we often called as the Sacerdotal Council. Indeed, He comes to share
miseries. His Sacerdotal Council foundation means to found His image, which
contains the order ranks. From the Canonized Priests [Giáo Hữu] and up
are His Holy Body, which is same to a head. All Student Priest [Lễ Sanh]
and down are similar His legs and hands. He uses the great power as his True
Religion to be a Religious Family.
Indeed, His replaced True Doctrine on this earth is His Religious family,
called as the spirit family. Now, we discuss about the secular aspect that for
any society, Bần Đạo/I have ever explained that people have to
gather in union to protect their mutual life to create nations and societies in
order to create a great conformation called as the humankind. At this time,
Bần Đạo/I reckon that the humankind still wishes to live in
union under a great confirmation of humankind.
Indeed, each society has a Kind, a Lord or a Head of State. Under his power,
there is a Court or Government. All members of Government combined with the
Head of State are the head while civilians as all members of Nationals
civilizations, Intellectuals, Famers, Workers, Businessmen called four social
classes and four conditions are legs, hands and body. That society has a method
to fix a Great Family of a whole race. The Great family of a race is called as
the family and society. Those are the conformations of two aspects.
Now, Bần Đạo/I discuss about the power. The powers of two
aspects are always fixed by the law of Sacerdotal Council. The law of
Sacerdotal Council is to fix the Religious power for Religion, for Great family
of humankind. We find that the Religious Constitutional Law of Caodaism is the
real conformation to found His Holy Body, thus we do not need to discuss about
it. We only discuss about New Religious Code, which the Supreme Being and
Spiritual Pope taught in the beginning time of Caodaism, which required to be
finished within three months. In New Religious Code, all Supreme Being’s
children understand thoroughly that Bần Đạo/I do not need to
repeat many times uselessly. We just pay attention to the New Religious Code
that the Supreme Being fixes Five Prohibition Precepts [Ngũ Giới
Cấm] and Four Great Commandments [Tứ Đại Điều
Qui], to essentially protect Three Moral Bonds [Tam Cang] and Five Constant
Virtues [Ngũ Thường] of all His children. In fact, He has ever
placed His Celestial Law in His children’s mind. The unique Law is the Law of
Love only. The unique Power is the Power of Justice only.
People have founded too many laws, but we find that although their laws are
revised until the end of world, it will not be able to have the method to be
suitable for human’ heart. The Supreme Being comes to found one Law only. That
is the Law of Love that all you understand it. You think if there is somebody
who can avoid that law. If they were not concerned about that Law of Love, they
would never exist. Especially, they want to live with fellow creatures; they
either leave from the humankind, or it forces the humankind to eliminate them
if they do not obey that law. For a law of justice and uprightness, in spite of
a unlearned person, he learns those two precious characters, I think that all
people lower their head to esteem and love him. The Supreme Being’s Celestial
Law is in that way. The Supreme Being’s New Religious Code is to essentially
want us to protect Three Moral Bonds and Five Constant Virtues of humankind.
For this Orient, although any country, any society attaches much importance to
civilization, they have not escaped from that framework. If they want to escape
from it, which means that they want to refuse their society; their society will
become a whichever conformation, not a society.
Now, we discuss the Law of Sacerdotal Council. The Law of Sacerdotal Council is
founded only in stage of that the Supreme Being’s children are trespassed over
the spirit and conformation by the secular mind. The Sacerdotal Council have to
set up the Law, which is not different from a method to protect followers. It
is same to that we see one person going to a hole of well to jump down and we
call him to come back. The Law of Sacerdotal Council must be changed due to
condition of society. Especially, it is for Supreme Being’s children. Actually,
it is meaningless because of no punishment. Now, we mention the criminal
Religious Law. The Religious power forces for genuflecting punishment, forces
to chant the Penance Prayer [Kinh Sám Hối] or to expel from the inner
Holy Land. The higher punishment is to expel somebody from the Religion, but it
does not force to kill follower without imprisonment or murder. That is the
Religious Law. Indeed, that Religious Law of Great spirit family is to help the
Supreme Being’s become Saints. It hurriedly teaches the Supreme Being’s
children to become Saints, so that they hold the Supreme Being’s Misery Saving
Flag steadfastly and strongly to replace the Supreme Being’s image successfully.
For that reason, the whole power framework of Religion is to create Saints.
Now, we discuss about Secular power, which is called as the Way of Human. To be
successful over the Way of Human, people must be intelligent, street-wise. The intelligence
requires the study. The street-wisdom requires the professionalism.
Consequently, a low mandarin gradually reaches higher level by learning more
their expert profession. What purpose do they hold the domination power? What
do they wish? They wish all people to have bliss under protection and mutual
love. Actually, they do not act beyond the framework of Three Moral Bonds and
Five Constant Virtues bequeathed long since. In order to protect them in mutual
peace and love, we have to use the Morality in domination. They have to rely on
the Religious civilization of our Ancestor with a basis of Three Moral Bonds
and Five Constant Virtues. The family and society want to be basic, they must
rely on the Religious shadow. With that basis, they can bring use to nation,
can exterminate toadies.
How harmful! The law, which they set up, is very strict. We sometimes find that
it is inhuman and cruel; they use force to dominate people. Therefore,
the current societies are chaotic because they use the moral in domination.
They do not rely on psychology, but rely on force only. There are prisons,
swords, guns, full of ranks of weapons. Whoever obeys their domination
framework can live and they will kill people who do not obey their law.
Bần Đạo/I recapitulate that the spirit family called as the
Way is the self-cultivation way. The society family belongs to the “nation
domination”. We lack the “family management”. The “family management” is not
about the secular family unit of individual, but it is the divine family
management and society spirit family. If two sides of Secularity and Religion
combine method to use that family management method closely mutually and
accordingly, the world will reach the peace. If another better method does not
have that management, the nation will be always in chaos and human beings have
to suffer misery forever. Consequently, Bần Đạo/I say that: “Religion
without World does not have strength. World without Religion does not have
authority”. If they do not combine management of family, spirit and society;
they will be always powerless.
His Holiness
Hộ Pháp’s preachment done at night of 8th April Ất Mùi
year [Year of Goat]
Tonight is the Feast of Sakyamuni Buddha and Female Cardinal Lâm
Hương Thanh. Was it a random event or predestined event of Supreme
Being? The sister Female Cardinal loved the Sakyamuni very much. Although the
Supreme Being went to her and call her to come to Him, her spirit just followed
the Sakyamuni Buddha only. If we consider her awakening over the Religion, it
is not strange.
The soul of Long Nữ [女龍] assisted the
Quan Yin Bodhisattva for some reincarnations, but when descending, Her cause of
Buddha is still unchanged. Bần Đạo/I would like to explain the
Buddhism doctrine of Sakyamuni Buddha. He had obtained the Dharma already, thus
our Sister understood the miracle of human life. He discovered the secret cause
called as the Law of Cause and Effect. His Law of Cause and Effect is correct
to the truth strangely. We try refusing that there is no effect of past life as
the doctrine of materialism showing that the human on this earth is due to
random and the human’s is same to animal’s life. If that doctrine is the truth,
we should make a question: why is someone at the riches or at the throne when
he is just born? Why are there another invalids, stupid or blind men? If there
was the natural just law of Great Merciful Father as the Supreme Being, how
would we explain that injustice? The Sakyamuni Buddha sought that secret
doctrine, which is the law of cause and effect. The “cause” is what we have
done. The “effect” is the result that we must receive it.
That Law of Cause and Effect is the basis of our life. Many people work hard
and want to display their ability, but they are always unsuccessful. That
unsuccess is not due to their bad ability. In difficult situation, people often
say that “I do not know how my destiny is”, “I do not know what I did to have
such that result”. Those persons follow the Buddhism. For other Religions, we
need not to discuss because we can understand them when looking at them. The
Buddha says: our present life is due to the cause that we created in the past
life. In that doctrine, if we want to have a good life in the next
reincarnation, we must not cause sins in the present life. Therefore, the
people in a same system of Buddha faith can recognize that their karma is heavy
or little via their unfortunate events of affection or subsistence or position
and fame or richness-poorness. The human has to suffer all results of the past.
It makes their miseries combined with miseries of the past.
How do people do when they suffer beyond human’s ability of mind? They have to
seek solace solution. Thus, the Buddhism often solaces spirit of painful
people, so that they awake themselves, to understand their karma that them
caused in the past. Now, they have to seek solution to destroy it. It means
that they avoid the next life that they just pay the debt in this life only and
not to cause sins anymore.
Consequently, Male as well as Female shave their head and leave their secular
life to commit themselves into the Dharma and Sangha to rely on the Buddha door
of Sakyamuni Buddha to seek the solace method. If they have enough knowledge,
self-consciousness, they can produce their future destiny. Actually, the
doctrine of Buddhism solaces the miserable spirits strongly. The Buddha also
relied on that doctrine to be a Buddha because He wanted to create a layer of
Lotus for Him. He descended to be from the Plant, to Animal, to Human, to
Buddha throne to complete the circle of deliverance. He knew the humankind,
knew how their misery was, because He was living on the world to know the
misery of world. The good physicians who know the human’s disease correctly
have ever suffered diseases and they spent experiments in treating them. After
that, they obtained good methods.
The Sakyamuni Buddha also lived and suffered that Law of karma from matter to
the throne of Buddha. His karma was very true. If that karma was ignored, there
would have no doctrine, which could explain the human’s life standardly.
Now, I discuss the materialism. The mankind evolves from the monkey species,
but they are not born by the God. Bần Đạo/I consider
Indian race and find that the Sakyamuni Buddha was the Indian race, who was the
Black-skin race. However, His skin was rather rosy instead of black. Thus,
people called Him as the Golden Body. That is the reason why people painted His
statues by yellow. He belonged to the black-skin race who was a race coming to
this earth soonest.
Let us consider that if the monkey species evolved into the black-skin race,
would be possible that their mind was too excessive that their spirit could
observe the world in that way. Especially, the sublime doctrines over
invisibility of India were highest among other races. We look at races, who
followed the evolution law, for foremost newest White-Skin, race and we find
that they have evolved much from the Black-skin race, Green-skin race, Redskin
race to Yellow-skin race. The humankind’s path of evolution has spent much and
profoundly. However, we look back the White-skin race and find that they are not
better than the Black-skin race because the Black-skin race had come to this
earth firstly. By other way, the Black-skin race is the Mother of other
races on this earth and they are extremely sublime. Therefore, Bần
Đạo/I do not believe that the human comes from the monkey species.
That theory is pointless if we do not want to reckon that is an odd theory. For
the Buddhism doctrine, no person can obtain the Dharma to know the Divine
secret of Natural law legitimately, truthfully. Our Great Merciful Father acts
as a witness about reincarnation of karma via His poem:
“Deification handed over Palaces,
My legacies handed over to remind.
Thousand fortune things are not missing,
So much merits, so many portions”
By that way, the Great Merciful Father Himself says that: the human’s karma and
cause-effect law are still actual.
His Holiness
Hộ Pháp’s preachment done at night of 15th April Ất Mùi
year [Year of Goat]
Tonight, Bần Đạo/I preach to Male Female Youth. Pay attention
so much. Tonight, Bần Đạo/I preach on the word Piety. At this
half-twenty century, the moral is decadent and human ethic is shifty. The
traditional manner from the good spirit of ancestors bequeathed has been lost
authority over moral spirit because of science civilization. We look back and
consider what the civilization of 20th century has brought to the
humankind. Actually, the humankind’s living has changed toward the materialism
more than the science spirit. If we think thoroughly, we will find that it
creates the bliss for humankind’s body, but it destroys the humankind’s spirit.
For philosophers of Europe, especially the France tells a very legitimate
sentence about science lacuna. They says: “The science without conscience is a
danger for the humankind’s living”. Indeed, if the whole humankind’s human
ethics does not have any method of preservation, they will be shifty; how can
that human ethics be the basis for humankind?
Nowadays, due to being short of human ethics, the humankind does not love
together, but they fight for living to wish to be a global suzerain and they
cause so many miseries; not only murder the human life, but also diminish the
riches of the earth. How can the humankind avoid the miseries? They did an
action contrary to the Natural law of Creator that the Rev. Saint Nava at the
Tibet Holy See had to express opinion: The parturition does not require the
male. It means that a woman does not need a man, but she can have children
because the science helps her have children. If that condition happens and
pushes the humankind to a specific point, what will we see? We find that the
humankind’s human ethics will be destroyed. If that condition happens, how
can’t the humankind’s spirit direct to the materialism? They will ignore the
Way of human. A child is born without his father. His father is just a syringe.
What will we see how the humankind’s human ethics is?
Consequently, the materialism of Communism appears, which pushes the humankind
such that situation and the human does not care about the Ancestor anymore. The
Grandfather, grandmother, father, mother, brother,…are comrade. Everybody is
comrade. That doctrine comes from the immorality of human ethics.
Now, we discuss the value of Piety. What is the civilization of our
Confucianism? I think that it is unnecessary to speak to adult, but I only
preach to the Male Female Youth.
Youngster! Do you that your parents born you, nourished you with so many
miseries?
Parents teach their children with scold. Many self-willed children sneakily
say: “He is severe to browbeat…” They sometimes go behind and say many things
sneakily. Until they become wise, their mind becomes conscience-stricken
with a punishment. At that time, they get wiser.
How harmful! Parents nourish a newborn badly with uncountable miseries and
difficulties. They sometimes sacrifice their bliss, contribute whole mind and
spirit with tears to nourish their child. Many families are not due to low
ability. They are miserable because of children. Youngsters have not known
that. You can know that when they are married with their children. At that
time, you will suffer tiresomeness in nourishing your children and you will
know that the gratitude of your parents is great. The Confucianist says: “Nourish
children, know the grace of parents”. The tiresomeness in nourishing
children helps the human know the great grace of parents. The moralists in our
Ancestor’s Confucianism often moan and it easily makes us touched when we read
it: “How piteous! Our parents bear us miserably. Want to return the deep
favour but that favour is like the above immense Heaven that we never repay all”.
We cannot describe and image the very filial piety spirit. For Vietnam, all
you enjoy bliss with prosper. Although it is said about the misery, the
Vietnamese race is happier than races of the world.
Bần Đạo/I recollect my time of being 9 years old. People had
perhaps a poor crop, thus people were hungry. Bần Đạo/I heard
a very heart-rending miserable situation that there was a family, which did not
have ability to nourish their children because price rice was high. One day,
the children abstained from food for some times and they lamented so much.
Thus, their parents could not stand, but they could not also find food for
children. They then cheated to fire by putting the rice husk in pot. While the
children were sitting around the pot, their parents furtively went behind home
and garrotted. Do you know that if you do not show gratitude to your parents,
you will be never achieved? It is said that “Among one hundred virtues, the
human’s filial piety is top”. If the human does not fulfill the filial
piety, he will never reach achievement.
Bần Đạo/I tell a lesson that my teacher of Confucianist
taught: “The Virtuous heart connects with the God, the filial piety connects
with the God”. In the history, there was a master telling a story that
I never forget it.
In
Đại Minh Hùng Vơ stage, there was a poor student whose widowed
mother died, but he studied very well. He both studied and worked to take care
his mother. One day, his mother got sick and died. According to the custom of
Minh dynasty, people of suburb were not permitted to go in the city through a
wall. All people who were ragged would be driven out. People wearing the
mourning clothes were also driven out. That poor student went in the city to
beg to bury his mother. If he worn the mourning clothes, he would be driven
out. Therefore, he worn the “Heart of mourning”. He tore a piece of mourning
headband. Its dimension was like a finger. He sawed his breast and stuffed
inside. His body worn a student clothes to go inside the city.
At that time,
at the suburb, there was a blaze flaring up with a formidable violence to make
Mr. Đại Minh Hùng Vơ frightened to go to the imperial Palace. We saw
people’s misery, he then prayed to the God, so that the fire would stop. He
looked at the fire and saw the Quan Thánh Đế Quân [關公/關羽/長生], Quan B́nh
[son of Quan Thánh] and Châu Xương appearing the fire to extinguish
the fire. At that time, the fire burnt around except one house, which belonged
to the student whose mother died. Mr. Đại Minh Hùng Vơ was standing
at the tower to look at Quan Thánh, Quan B́nh and Châu Xương standing
on the fire. He then kowtowed and waved his hands. They went to Mr.
Đại Minh Hùng Vơ. Quan Thánh lowered his head and said: “I salute
eldest Brother”. Mr. Đại Minh Hùng Vơ then acknowledge that he
was Lưu Bị [劉備/玄德] in incarnation and asked: “Where is the Third Younger
brother, now?” .
He
asked where Trương Phi [張飛]
was. The answer was: The Northern Shogun …..governing. Bần
Đạo/I forgot his name. After answering, three Spirits disappeared.
Mr. Đại Minh Hùng Vơ knew that news, He then immediately sent an
order to the frontier to ask the Northern Shogun to go back. As they scared
slanderous people to cause dangers, they planed to submit the petition to
inform that he died. After that, put him in a coffin with a advice that if the
situation was undisturbed, he would revive. If it was disturbed, they would
carry him back the frontier.
For that reason, that is the
custom why people bore a hole at the bottle of the coffin. When he went back
the Court, Mr. Đại Minh Hùng Vơ felt happy and cried because of
hearing his friend’s death. He felt happy because of seeing the Northern Shogun
going back. He thought that although his younger died, he could see the body.
He just thought about such that plan. However, when he opened the coffin, his
younger brother had died on the way because of suffocating. He both asked for
that man and gave an order to interrogate why all houses were burned except one
house. After interrogation, they knew that the house belonged to the student
with the filial piety. He immediately called that student, confered a title of
Văn Minh Điện Đại Học Sĩ [Academician/ 大學士]. Consequently, you can see
that the filial piety connects the God such that way. If you behave to parents
by the filial impiety, how will the Celestial Law judge you?
From this time, I advise that
you must not complain or chide your parents. You are still young, thus you
should rely on your good and knowledge of your parents. If you are hard-headed,
when you are hundred years old and your cry and tear will be useless. Bần
Đạo/I sometimes stay somewhere and want to remember speeches of my
parents, but I try to see to near of my end. Seeking is to remember the
speeches of my parents.
Now, your parents are alive to
teach, advise, scold you; but you complain and chide. In this Religious door,
Bần Đạo/I wish all youngsters to try to the filial piety as
the exemplary.
12.
TWELVE DIVINE RANKS – OBLIGATION OF HÀNH THIỆN [GOOD DOER]
The Rev.
Master’s teaching done at Gratitude Temple at 4pm 17th April
Ất Mùi year 1955 [Year of Goat]
After inspecting the Hành Thiện [Good Doer] who received the obligation
of helping the Northern compatriots and Twelve United Families.
You keep silent, so that Qua/I remind your obligation. You know that the
Sacerdotal Council of Charity Body is the Sacerdotal Council of Divine Alliance
Palace [Hiệp Thiên Đài]. In the past, the Sacerdotal Council of
Charity Body [Hội Thánh Phước Thiện], there was a few
Dignitaries. The Sacerdotal Council was then founded readily by the Supreme
Being’s predestination. He continued to entrust that mission to me, which means
that the Hộ Pháp [Dharma Protector] governed the Divine Alliance Palace.
That mission was so serious. At that time, only three Dignitaries of Divine
Alliance Palace received the mission. The Supreme Being said: “I want where
three you go, that the misery does not exist there” and the Supreme Being
let us know that: “The humankind’s misery is over the world. Therefore, My
Holy Will want your misery saving organ to be done how raise that flag to make
e humankind’s misery disappeared everywhere on this earth”
Qua/I did not know how I was, but the Master asked Qua/me to
execute. The Master then taught the transformation Dharma in hundred thousand.
At that time, the Supreme Being taught, thus I had to obey Him, but I did not
understand the transformation Dharma yet that the Supreme Being had granted.
When there had been the Sacerdotal Council of Charity Body, Qua/I was so
reserved. Until the Supreme Being taught that in order to build the Sacerdotal
Council, we had to build the Twelve Divine Ranks [Thập Nhị
Đẳng Cấp Thiêng Liêng]. What a supremely incomparable power!
It was not long from the time He granted to Qua/me, the Sacerdotal Council of
Charity Body, as the Sacerdotal Council of Divine Alliance Palace was built.
Now, there are you to succeed to serve the Sacerdotal Council of Charity Body
to shoulder the miserable saving organ together. You replace our image to be
close to the human beings. Consequently, the Supreme Being had helped Qua/me
much by granting more hands to serve the misery saving organ to be done soon.
For the Sacerdotal Council of Nine Divine-Plane Palace [Hội Thánh
Cửu Trùng Đài], the Dignitaries from Student Priest [Lễ Sanh]
to Pope [Giáo Tông] while for the Sacerdotal Council of Charity Body, and the
Dignitaries from Minh Đức [the lowest position of Charity Body.
Mean: Brilliant Virtue] to Phật Tử and you attempt on mission that
Qua/I entrusted to you. If you fulfill it, you will be an Immortal on the
earth. The gift is not only for you. If other races on this globe suffer to
shoulder the misery of earth they will also obtain the Tiên Tử [Immortal
throne]. Therefore, if you can execute it well, the misery saving organ will be
built. Although the mission is very heavy, you have a good cause because the
Supreme Being permits you to stand among the Twelve Divine Ranks. Qua/I wish
that when I return to the Divine World, Qua/I still you succeeding my fortune.
That will make me happy. The Divine miracle had predestined. Therefore, my
interested bliss is to see one person, who will have fulfilled the obligation
to obtain the Tiên Tử throne living on this earth.
You remember not imitate as officialdom. You must dominate desire of authority
as Qua/I dominate Seven-Head Snake. We only practice the nature of love, not to
hate anybody, to keep calm to shoulder sufferings done by somebody.
Before Qua/shouldered this mission, the Spiritual Pope had let Qua/me do but
Qua/I had not ever done yet. Qua/I want that for each your difficulty, Qua/I am
always present with you. If Qua/I can sit on the ground with you in frugal
meals, Qua/I also feel happy. Nowadays, you sacrificed your life fully to
replace me to serve the misery saving organ. We have selected a low position,
although you unify to eat cold rice, you also feel happy and remember “The
sufferings, obstacles I have been shouldering are that we together shoulder
them for my Master”. For any miserable situation, you lay the blame f me to
let you be light in burden. The Divine power forces you to do that; have you
understood yet? If you think that Divine invisible Spirits supports, your
misery will be also reduced despite facing on miserable situation.
You should ask your brothers to know that your brother’s misery was excessive
from building the Religion. You can ask Hiền Nhơn Cương
whether they caught wind to form the conformation. Your responsibility is to
undertake the misery saving organ for Sacerdotal Council of Charity Body, thus
you have to do and the Sacerdotal Council also helps you because you undertake
one your family hard, but you continue to receive 12 more families. Qua/I know
that you cannot overcome Giáo Thiện [Good Teacher], therefore Qua/I
create 12 fortunes of family for you. It means that I create a boat, so that
you pass to obtain the Hành Thiện [Good Doer]. The promotion to Giáo
Thiện [Good Teacher] as the promotion to the Giáo Hữu [Priest] in
Nine Divine-Plane Palace [Cửu Trùng Đài]. If Qua/I did not create a
boat for you, how would you pass the ordeal?
The number of Charity Body Sacerdotal Council is limited. The Good Doer [Giáo
Thiện] is forever promoted to the Phật Tử [Buddha]. The
Sacerdotal Council of Nine Divine-Plane Palace is limited about number. If
giving an initiation to the Caodaism and obtaining the position of Student
Priest [Lễ Sanh], he has to wait for lack there because 3,000 Priests
[Giáo Hữu] are enough. There are 72 Bishops [Giáo Sư], 36
Archbishops, 3 Cardinals, 3 Censor Cardinals and 1 Pope only.
Your responsibility is not strange that you have the responsibility of father
to build the fortune for 12 families, to preserve legacy, to guide job as your
family. Although you have ever done that job, your attempt will be successful.
Qua/I advise one that you should remember that if one of 12 families sues for
your low responsibility and morality, you will fail in your promise done with
me. The families are in difficulty and misery, but you ignore. One day, they
proceed against you at the Justice Department, then you will not fulfill your
responsibility. You should remember the father obligation and fulfill it. Do
not be lazy to acquire bad reputation “”No teaching for son, that is father’s
error”. You undertake your obligation as you nourish your descendents with
tiresomeness.
You pray by your heart and conclude the assembly.
His Holiness
Hộ Pháp instructed the Teacher Board of Đạo Đức
Học Đường school on 3rd May Ất Mùi year
[Year of Goat]
Dear Secular Mandarins, especially Bần Đạo/I like to say the
thanks to the Chief of province attending the reward distribution ceremony for
students.
Dear Sacerdotal Councils of Two Sexes, Divine Alliance Palace and Nine
Divine-Plane Palace, Bần Đạo/I would like excuse me because Bần
Đạo/I want to give some words of instruction to the Education Office
and Male Female students.
Today, your Master/I understand you in the Education Office most. I know your
will of sacrifice well that you have deprived of all aspects and there is
nothing which can be compared with your tiresomeness. The Religious serious
future is to build the spirit of children that you are the persons create their
future.
Male Female student, you will grow up. For your world, race future and national
destiny, the age as Master, as the Sacerdotal Council always expects of your
mind and spirit. Each race obviously has a specific culture and custom. We may
use some more high-minded culture to compare with our culture and we
cannot admit that it is exactly same to ours because every spirit of every race
has a specific feature. Especially, our Vietnam has been impacted by the
antiquity Confucianism of custom and habits. The whole spirit of Vietnamese is
the framework of our Confucianism antiquity civilization.
Every Religion obviously creates one specific civilization that we can compare
civilization manner of every race; or we may divide every civilization into two
features. One civilization creates one Religion while one civilization trends
to society more than the moral and spirit. Are your race and society backward?
It is not sure. If we observe carefully, we will find that our society
framework of Confucianism can be a future foundation for the humankind. We only
suffer disadvantage that we have not yet known to let people know the value of
that noble civilization. That is the disadvantage. Nowadays, in front of your
sight, you can see your country with influence of two civilizations of Europe
and Asia. European civilization is the Catholicism and the Asian civilization
is your possessive civilization as the Confucianism.
At the transitional period, the education method has not been appeared firmly
to become a natural spirit path accordingly to your race’s mind and spirit.
Bần Đạo/I find that the mixed education of France still exists
and spreads our race’s spirit after 80 years they had been living together.
However, it is not sure that it induces our spirit to trend to it fully because
the culture, civilization, language are different from our intellectual.
Actually, the best method is that you do how to harmonize two civilizations,
which are two educations.
Bần Đạo/I have observed in Taiwan, Japan, Korea already. I
have also calculated to know their method that how they had reformed their
civilization and guided their youths about their learning. Bần
Đạo/I have found their best thing that if all things are external,
they let them be external. If things are internal, they let them be internal
and enclose carefully.
For their external modernist, when we go to their country, we may see all
modernists from dress, to gesture, character. However, there is the best thing
that Bần Đạo/I feel happiest. It is that they still maintain
and preserve their traditional manner civilization surely not to let external
things penetrate.
Actually, your race’s knowledge spent 2,500 civilization years. If you keep the
traditional custom of Confucianism as nations where it came from that you
separate two ones. For external things, you let them be external. For your
possessive things, you keep them internally smartly.
Especially, for Ancestor’s knowledge and ones of Confucianist bequeathed, they
only wish one issue that you learn to execute, not to learn to be a teacher of
Confucianism as philosophers. Your Ancestors forces you to learn those theories
to execute them.
For that reason, your Ancestor’s teaching methods bequeathed, they only wish
one issue that you learn for execution, however your good or bad
execution relies on your service over your race and nation. If saying “serve
all people” is excessive. The serving your family and race is the knowledge
framework your Ancestor bequeathed.
Your Master/I infer from Tam Tự Kinh [三字經)]. I refer
clearly that: “The knowledge is not for philosopher, but it is essential to
serve Nation and race”.
We look at a framework to say that a dog keeps a house. A chicken alarms. A
silkworm produces silks. A bee gives honey with a conclusion “unlearned person
is lower than an animal”. Four those examples imply the services only. That
ability is the top and you have absorbed teachings of Masters over moral and
spirit. Bần Đạo/I only wish that you learn those theories to
execute them worthily.
His Holiness
Hộ Pháp’s reply to the Religious Politics Organs on occasion of His
Birthday at Hộ Pháp House [5th May Ất
Mùi year]
Tonight, Bần Đạo/I perhaps talk much a little. Thank God with
sunshine! If it is in sunshine, all Supreme Being’s children and His Holy Body
can stay and try to listen to preachment.
Bần Đạo/I would not reply to different organs as occasion of
Tet New year. For speeches that Bần Đạo/I am going to speak
out, all Supreme Being’s children and His Holy Body [Thánh Thể] pay
attention and understand profoundly, please. Bần Đạo/I also
save a private space of thought, so that every person may meditates. Everybody
knows that on my birthday, the Supreme Being’s children come to congratulate me
on longevity. Especially, Bần Đạo/I know that I am 66 years
old, I also understand the bottom of all Supreme Being’s children that what
they are thinking and afraid. Bần Đạo/I know that I am so old,
know the Supreme Being’s children’s sentiment placed in this body for 30
years. Consequently, they obviously scare that the body destroys. That is a
natural thing.
All Religious youths and followers look back and wonder whether there is any
worthy reward in a life on the earth? Last time, the organs listed my merits,
but do you know its real value? Nowadays, the whole visible fortune appears
from the incomparable mass of love. Bần Đạo/I have nothing
inside. That is the reality.
Dear Canonized Dignitaries of two sexes of Two Palaces and Charity Body,
Soldiers, Nation Independence Recovery Association, Council of Holy Land and Northern
Religious Faction [Bắc Tông Đạo], Bần Đạo/I
feel sorry.
On this occasion, Bần Đạo/I have many things to express to
Saints as the Sacerdotal Councils of Nine Divine-Plane Palace [Cửu Trùng
Đài], of Divine Alliance Palace [Hiệp Thiên Đài] and Charity
Body [Phước Thiện], who are my friends. We have been suffering
the mutual misery over 30 years, building the religious fortune together,
protecting the bliss and future of all Supreme Being’s children. Now, we
observe whether our actions are worthy to be the Supreme Being’s Holy Body
firstly, consider our actions of 30 years whether they are worthy to the Divine
mission that the Supreme Being entrusted it to us.
For Military and National Independence Recovery Association should pay
attention to this point much because you acquire the name of Sacerdotal
Council, which means that you acquire the name of Supreme Being’s Holy Body in
adventure. Thus, we should wonder what and how we should do to be worthy to the
Sacerdotal Council’s reputation and Supreme Being’s Holy Body. Everybody knows
that the Supreme Being is different and the world is different. Two spirits and
conformations are not united together. Although the natural law forces the
destruction, everybody knows that the secular sentiment and God will must be
executed accordingly.
All you see that over 30 years, how has the Sacerdotal Council been treating to
the world but they have still doubted? They have still doubted the Supreme
Being’s Holy Body?
Bần Đạo/I say that on this earth, there has not yet been
dignity which executes the “using the grace to treat the resentment”, but the
Sacerdotal Council has executed. Although the Supreme Being’s Holy Body has no
right to praise somebody, to disdain somebody, to show somebody’s sin. If we
had a critical right, we should criticize us only. That power will be able to
teach the world to reduce misery and to be very useful for Supreme Being’s
Body. However, we ourselves prohibit us to do that because people may praise or
disdain and we just keep mouth, suffer that.
Bần Đạo/I make a question that is there anybody who knows the
disdain or praise of Sacerdotal Council? Nobody knows all well. Do not decide
you when you see the indifference or unassertiveness of Sacerdotal Council,
because the Sacerdotal Council’s praise may be a great mistake.
“Use grace to treat to resentment”! Is there any body on the earth, who shows
his incomparable benevolent hands to pardon for hostile’s sins, and to
cooperate with them? In this Divine Religious door, the Religious children will
do that. Do you know the Religious rebels, persons of Religious destruction,
persons of Religious damage? Due to their unjust guideline, they everyday
intrigue to destroy the Caodaism, but the Sacerdotal Council dare to let Caodai
children cooperate with them. Nobody says to save their dangerous guideline and
nobody does that. The Supreme Being’s Holy Body never speaks out, but they just
let all people understand underground.
Now, we make a question that: how is the Religious situation compared with the
Secular situation? The Supreme Being’s Holy Body should give an opinion while
we are impossible to praise or disdain. We just stand at the medium level to
harmonize. That harmony standpoint will be disdained because the Supreme
Being’s Holy Body’s life and the Supreme Being’s action are in time and space,
in humankind’s history, not in individual or every nation. Only time and space
will explain them clearer.
We mention the Northern compatriots more on the earth that the Sacerdotal
Council’s misery of special stage is your blood. You feel so painful because
way of world pushes the Vietnamese race and fatherland to the dangerous
location. Every night, Bần Đạo/I only pray for one thing that
this dangerous miserable situation of Vietnam can quit the dependent yoke
painfully. The Supreme Being can give Bần Đạo/me 6 months
only. 3 months are for me to save the situation. Bần Đạo/I am
afraid that the independent yoke will put down the Vietnamese race that we have
no method to save that situation.
All Supreme Being’s Holy Body and His children have wished Bần
Đạo/me to live. My life is long or short due to all His children’s
wish. At this time, the death or life over me is meaningless. Actually, my
death is my peace.
Bần Đạo/I would like to say the thanks to all Supreme Being’s
lower children to higher children. Especially, I thank His Holy Body.
His Holiness
Hộ Pháp’s preachment done at Holy See at night 15th May
Ất Mùi year
Tonight, Bần Đạo/I preach specially for Sacerdotal Council of
Two Sexes and Divine Alliance Palace. Tonight, Bần Đạo/I
preach the Great Majesty and Great Mercy. Two those phrases of Great Majesty
and Great Mercy are the Great Merciful Father’s special power to create the Universe.
He dominates all living creatures due to two those natures. The discussion on
the Great Majesty and Great Mercy, we can mention about the good and cruelty
and then we can refer to two society models. It is same to the Confucius and
Đạo Chích [盜跖] of Confucianism, same to Jesus Christ and Juda of
Catholicism, same to the Sakyamuni Buddha and Dévadata that the doctrine is
infinite. We only rely on the meaning and power, so that the Supreme Being’s
Holy Body go ahead correctly.
How harmful! two paths are separate and the Supreme Being’s Holy Body steps on
one path only. Simply, they are Monk only, or they are Powwow only, which means
that they step on the Secular path absolutely or they step on the Religious
path absolutely. How painful! The Supreme Being’s Holy Body receives His order
to be a servant of His children completely. We wonder whether our Great
Merciful Father hands over us the Holiness or Secularity. Due to our thought,
we think that our Great Merciful Father has handed over the Secularity more
than Holiness. We can see in front of us.
Long since, people just carry on one shoulder despite a great strength. The
Great Merciful Father forces His Holy Body to shoulder two shoulders of
Religion and Secularity. We see two models of Religions in front of us that the
Buddhism leans toward the Religion while the Catholicism leans toward the
Secularity. One side is Secular and one side is Holy. The Supreme Being comes
to found His Holy Body and asks to stand in the middle. By profound discussion
in detail, His Sacerdotal Council must not lean on the Secularity and not lean
on the Religion, but it must be in the heart of Secularity and Religion.
The difficulty of Divine mission is about the Great Mercy. We try finding the
spirit of Great Mercy, Great Compassion, which means that everything must come
from the comparative law and we must be merciful and tolerant. To avoid the
mistake, there must have the street-wise and tolerant spirit and understand the
Supreme Being’s Great Mercy. The street-wise character is that we know us and
other people. In the humankind’s history, there is not the second street-wise
example that the Nghiêu King [堯] had 9 children with 7 sons and 2 daughters but He sought
Mr. Thuấn [舜] for succeeding throne. When He found Mr. Thuấn, He
married 02 daughters as Nga Hoàng and Nữ Anh off. We should see how Mr.
Thuấn was. He was an unlearned person, and ploughed only. His father was
Cổ Tẩu. His younger brother was Tượng who hated him too
much for foremost His Stepmother. He was oppressed unlearned and He just
ploughed. We wonder why Nghiêu King selected Him for succeeding. It was because
Mr. Thuấn was in filial piety. With the street-wise character of Nghiêu
King, He thought that the filial piety was enough. If somebody has the heart of
piety to his parents, has the uprightness to brothers. Two those characters
were enough to dominate people. He guessed and selected Mr. Thuấn.
Actually, His selection was not wrong that Mr. Thuấn became an Emperor
that there has been the second Emperor as Him.
Due to the street-wise spirit of Nghiêu King, the feeble points of Thuấn
disappeared. The Nghiêu King just used the filial piety of Mr. Thuấn
only. That is the street-wise tolerant example that He handed over His throne
for Mr. Thuấn that we call it as the Great Mercy and there has been not
the second body doing again.
Now, we discuss about the Great Majesty, which contains many complicated points
requiring us to have the inferring spirit and pardon for other people’s sins.
We just select one point of my Great Majesty when we dominate us. We must do
that way because that we become the ruled persons and manage the domination.
Our Great Majesty is a remedy to treat the sick person.
The presumable character is sometimes never-ending. There is one issue that
Bần Đạo/I should speak out that there is a pair of French
husband and wife. The wise was impossible to treat because of tuberculosis. The
death was very near. The wife knew that she would not be able to live and the
life would make her husband and children miserable. The mutual love was so
intense and she was next to death, but she could not die. Therefore, she asked
her husband to kill her. It was very pitiful because she cried and petitioned
to her husband for many times. The husband just cried to look at her. Until he
felt that her pain was too excessive to escape that sick, he agreed his wife’s
request. He shot his wife. The Court sentenced to the murder. However,
everybody knew his gentle nature, therefore they acted as a witness that his
wife requested to kill her. Thus, he was pardoned. This is the first example.
Bần Đạo/I read that story when I was at school age child. This
is the second story. There were two brothers learning in a same school. The
High School exam was coming. One friend who failed the exam lost heart and
wanted to kill himself. Luckily! He shared sentiment with other friend.
Although other friend solaced by all methods, it was impossible.
One day, that frustrated person decided to catch a train to kill himself by
rushing into the train. However, his friend followed him behind, but he did not
let him know. The frustrated person went ahead of train. His friend followed
and obstructed him and insisted. That man rose up and said that: “Do you
think that you love me? You just lengthen pain only. That is not
love for me” . The friend of frustrated person knew that it was impossible
to use the dissuading method, but he had to apply another policy by arguing: “Your
body is bad, stupid and failed examination. Now, you want to kill yourself,
then if you die, your soul falls to the Hell to become a stupid prisoner.
Although the Supreme Being grants you the throne of Saint, you will be a stupid
Saint”. Two persons fought, wrestled and argued together. As this man
planed in intention, he did not have a heart to fight his friend painfully.
Another friend was bad-tempered, thus he fought heavily to such extent that his
friend had to be carried to hospital. In the hospital, this friend said: “I
essentially save you, but you made my body like this. There is nothing to say
more”. That man felt touched to embrace his friend and cry. After that,
that man always followed this man until he could pass the examination.
That is the Great Majesty. Those are two Great Majesties. Now, we think that if
the Great Majesty can help that, we should do.
Now, we discuss about the Sacerdotal Council. Younger brothers are crowded
about some millions. Those are right, but others are wrong. They are not same.
For that reason, the Supreme Being founds the Religious Constitution [Pháp
Chánh Truyền], so that the younger generation is taught to understand the
Religion profoundly to live for their friends.
This great Divine family must be in mutual affection to live and die together.
If the Supreme Being’s Holy Body do not teach them to understand the meaning of
life in this Divine door, in this great Divine family thoroughly; it will
be sure that the right person opposes the wrong person. The wrong person will
not suffer to fight the right person. Therefore, the play happens at this
Divine Religious door. Male or Female is our younger brother. We look at their
interest for decision. We follow the solution of European people that we will
rely on many votes for decision. If our most younger brothers accept something,
we follow them and help them do that. If most of them do not agree something,
we try to avoid it. There is one issue that we should pay attention most that
in front of the Great Merciful Father, the Great Merciful Father considers His
children as orphans in spite of Male or Female. Due to His orphans, He leans
the stick to come. He declared that His children were orphans. Now, we also
consider them as orphans who follow their brothers. Therefore, we have to look
after them, teach them. We do not only teach them by speech, but also teach
them action. Especially, the womankind whose psychology is normally fond. There
are many orphans who have not received the love from their mother’s nostril.
They crave for one kiss, thus them seek in their mother’s Religious door. Boys
also seek in their father’s Religious door. The whole Supreme Being’s Holy Body
tries to be a father, a mother of them. You try to teach them everyday.
Bần Đạo/I just feel sad one issue that instead of teaching
them the Holy Virtue, many people teach them to follow a path, which Bần
Đạo/I should not speak out.
From this time, as being the Supreme Being’s Holy Body, please imitate a little
bit like Him to be same His Great Majesty [Hồng Oai], Great Mercy
[Hồng Từ].
Tomorrow, Bần Đạo/I will express my majesty. There is no money
to build the market for younger brothers, but we tried to build 04 cages of
market, so that they take refuge from rain and sun. Somebody used tin camps to
bar the way. There was the imploration to move away, so that younger brothers
have a way to go inside for trading, even they were casted out, but they did
not leave; even they received land for moving, they did not move. Tomorrow,
Bần Đạo/I show the majesty to give an order to remove it all.
Bần Đạo/I try showing the majesty once.
His Holiness
Hộ Pháp preached at Holy See on 12th August Ất Mùi year
[1955] in Major Requiem of Khai Pháp Chơn Quân
Dear Mandarins, Dignitaries and Male Female younger brothers,
Today is the Major Requiem ceremony of Rev. Khai Pháp Chơn Quân
[Rev. Juridical Reformer Angel]. Bần Đạo/I needn’t repeat, but
all Supreme Being’s children know that He is an Angel of the Divine Alliance
Palace that the Supreme Being had appointed in advance.
When reminding His merit, Bần Đạo/I feel very grieved.
Bần Đạo/I never forget His painful merit for Religion.
Bần Đạo/I am sure that among the Dignitaries of Divine
Alliance Palace [Chức Sắc Hiệp Thiên Đài], I relied on
Rev. Khai Pháp most with an evidence that He left, Bần Đạo/I
lost a hand of shouldering the great Divine fortune of Supreme Being on the
earth.
Bần Đạo/I find that His life had not got any interesting
thing. He never took interest in His rich honorable fortune, but He sacrificed
His body to the Religious door fully.
The Supreme Being had appointed very worthily. At the stage of founding the
Divine Alliance Palace, the Supreme Being taught: “If you want to shoulder
the Divine fortune of founding the Religion, you must firstly set the Law up,
the Religion can be steadfast”.
At that time, Bần Đạo/I let the Supreme
Being select, did not let the secular hands select. When receiving the
Automatic Pen to seek Dharma, Bần Đạo/I was guided to go to G̣
Công province to find Mr. Trần Duy Nghĩa. The Supreme Being just let
me know the G̣ Công province. When I met him already, I did not know whether he
was correct because I had not ever went to G̣ Công and I did not have any
friend there. However, I also obeyed the order for seeking. When I just reached
the G̣ Công province, I stopped and asked for information. The persons talking
was the person that I needed to seek. Mr. Trần Duy Nghĩa was
standing at the veranda. He said: “I am Trần Duy Nghĩa” then
invited me inside. Bần Đạo/I did not hesitate over the Divine
power to express all Religious issues. After that, He promised that He would
renounce the rich and honorable life for Religious door. Bần
Đạo/I did not believe in doubt and trick. When He went to Saigon, He
only carried one bag and never went back his family once.
Bần Đạo/I showed the Holy Message that the Supreme Being
taught to seek Him. He spoke two sentences to me. It made me respectful and
kept in heart to believe that this person would be able to join force with me
to shoulder the fortune that the Supreme Being entrusted.
He said that: “I think that the descent of Vietnamese race died for 4
thousand years. Nobody knows that the Supreme Being comes o found the National
Religion. The Vietnam will revive surely to save the nation and race from the
slavery yoke of violence France”
From that time, He determinedly helped Bần
Đạo/me and He never wanted to abandon me.
It is alright
when we do not remind this issue. However, when reminding, it makes my tears
shed incessantly. Bần Đạo/I did not only lose one person of
deep affection, but the whole Religion lost a Divine friend.
When the France exiled to Madagascar Island, there were Great Canonized
Dignitaries suffered the situation.
Bần Đạo/I saw Him and brother Thánh Hiền, who wholeheartedly
helped Bần Đạo/me. Other persons were due to interest to drive
away me extremely. I made no comment about Brother Trọng. Especially, Mr.
Thái Phấn Thanh and Gấm relied on the interest of Communism-Russia
to use strength to punish Bần Đạo/me harshly. However, they
did not feel satisfied. They induced the Government to exile to the poisonous
position to kill me indirectly. If there was not help of Divine power,
Bần Đạo/I could not come back the Holy See of Holy Land,
nowadays.
How pitiful! At that situation, the brother Thánh Hiền and He also
petitioned to accompany. Although people fought them, they hid to think about
method to take care me. As Thánh Hiền followed Bần
Đạo/me and drank poison water, he died at deep forest of unwholesome
environment. He embraced Bần Đạo/me and cried with a pray
that: Pray to the Supreme Being [Đức Chí Tôn] and Holy Mother
[Đức Phật Mẫu] that we would be able to send the body
after death. The pray came true.
When returning the Holy Land [Thánh Địa], Bần Đạo/I
tried to get strained to be happy. Actually, Rev. Dharma Reformer and Bần
Đạo/I never forgot the imprisonment situation.
Bần Đạo/I knew that all Supreme Being’s children paid
attention to that issue much, but Bần Đạo/I endeavoured and
advised Him to contain Himself without speech because Bần
Đạo/I was afraid that speaking out would make more grudges and
clashes in the Religious door and it was impossible in description.
From the time of returning the Holy Land back, the Rev. Dharma Reformer often
moaned with Bần Đạo/me because He worried about the mutual
fight of same blood. The France was external, the Việt Minh was internal
and Caodai Military was middle. Somebody felt excited, but He everyday worried
about the mutual fight and internecine war of Vietnamese race.
After the Lieutenant Colonel Trấn [Truyền Trạng Phạm
Ngọc Trấn] had been murdered by Thành’s Military, He usually went
to Trí Huệ Cung [Enlightenment Palace] embraced me to moan that: “
Master! My fear is coming. I moaned with you at the Island as our prison. I
thought that we would be peaceful when returning the Holy Land. Unexpectedly,
as the Military appeared, the plight comes”. He moaned, then cried and He
became consistent. “Master! Due to the advice, master and student came back
to guide the Supreme Being’s children, but they do not understand our state of
mind. Nowadays, Trấn has died, I find that the dangers are coming. The
betrayal gradually happen to make the Supreme Being’s innocent band scattered.
Where will they be able to live peacefully later all? Dear Master, If I could
know such the result and situation, I would rather stay in prison in Island of
unwholesome environment than came back here to see the bloodshed of a history.
The Vietnamese race will be chaotic, the nation is not reformed, people are
devastated. The Religion falls due to that situation”.
The heart-rending moan made Bần Đạo’s tears
shed incessantly. However, Bần Đạo/I tried to get strained in
solace. Bần Đạo/I then relied on pretence to solace Him, so
that He diminished pains. Bần Đạo/I said:
“It is not correct. Our younger brothers are under youth thoughts, which are
not same to seniors. They are hot-tempered, thus they act in that way. They
still treasure the talent, interest. It is impossible to force them to do as
you”. Bần Đạo/I found that He was sad, thus I
sought many ways to make Him diminished sorrowfulness. Bần
Đạo/I built the Trí Giác Cung [Consciousness Palace] and advised Him
to enter it to enjoy the peaceful time, in order diminish the tragic situations
happenings in front of sight.
Bần Đạo/I reflect that I received the mission, therefore I had
to suffer to get strained despite of pain in order to execute the mission,
which is Great Divine fortune to build the future bliss for the humankind
enjoying the peace and universal concord.
Bần Đạo/I have ever saved every smallest bit. In that case,
Bần Đạo/I could enjoy the peaceful life with my family. In
front of sight, they just know the dream of interest only.
They do not know the Eternal Divine endless life over there.
Nowadays, you rely on the Military and follow the interest and violence
excessively to forget the fortune of Great family as the Holy Land, which is
the endless location.
They most relied on the merciful shadow of leaders of Great family to build the
personal fortune with a honorable power as other persons. Conversely, they
destroyed it ruthlessly. They did not recognize the noble value that they had
relied on this Great fortune of family.
Bần Đạo/I tell truthfully that if they do not rely on this
Great family and they disdain it, they will be destroyed in recent time.
His Holiness
Hộ Pháp preached about the Inauguration Ceremony at the National Pantheon
on 16th August Ất Mùi year [01st October 1955]
Bần Đạo/I would have a honor of thanking the Secular Mandarins
and Canonized Dignitaries of Caodai Sacerdotal Council and National Militaries
to make the Inauguration Ceremony of National Pantheon more solemn.
You are same to us who have been suffering a tragic situation of 80 slavish
years. The 80 years are too long with all pains of national people who wish an indomitable
day to save the nation. In that long struggle, many compatriotism ancestors
suffered and sacrificed to the national destiny and race.
The work because of people and nation is continuous. Our compatriots carry out
the same struggle due to the justice, however there are differences about
method. Thus, the mutual destruction happens.
The well-known men and revolutionaries died because of the nation are
worshipped. For unknown heroes died because of the nation, we perhaps carry a
sin over them because we do not think about their sacrifice of noble position
fame and blood. For combatants in current battles, we also know their name a
little bit. We do now know them most. Therefore, their fame and position will
be gradually lost in oblivion.
The Great Way-Third Period-Universal Salvation [Đại Đạo
Tam Kỳ Phổ Độ] only permit the Disciples to serve the
nation and Vietnamese race, does not permit to discriminate Parties.
At
this Temple, you may see the Tablet of Death of Emperors and Kỳ
Ngoại Hầu Cường Để. However, please do not
misunderstand that: The Religion trends to the “Monarchist”. Those Spirits are
listed into the royal and patriot Spirits of Vietnam society only.
Due
to their struggle to deliver from the dependent yoke, they are same to the
merit of other revolutionary fighters.
Due
to commemorating that Ceremony, the Sacerdotal Council decides to build the
National Pantheon to worship all Souls of Heroic Fighters, Meritorious Officials,
Combatants died in battles.
We
think that you have understood the Religion’s actions thoroughly. The local Religion
appears firstly, so that it then becomes the International Religion. Due to the
tolerant Religious thought of our Ancestor, we take the unique faith of method
by worshipping the God and Human that we follow our Ancestor’s example. Indeed,
we have mentioned the home Religion, thus we are also due to our home as the
Nation and Vietnamese race in serving firstly, in order to fix the national
soul, to unify the spirit and force in the Great Unity of National Mass to be
enough method to save the Nation from the danger.
Nobody
knows that if this model is executed successfully, it will not be an unique
method only, but also becomes a method for small and weak nations to claim
their independence and freedom. We think that our brother’s struggle work helps
to solace, and to help you and to serve the Nation.
Conversely,
if we are indeliberate and glacial to let them fall into oblivion over both
body and spirit, we are impossible to refute the ungrateful sin. Nowadays, the
hallowed memories, heroes, forebears, descendants are seated in the mass of
National soul around us.
At
this Divine time, Bần Đạo/I wish you all to join spirit in one
with me to commemorate those Spirits, so that we pray to those Spirits to help
our race to quit the chaos, the internecine war, in order to bring the bliss
and peace to our nation and all people.
His Holiness
Hộ Pháp expressed some words to all Followers on occasion of New Year’s
Greetings on 1st January Bính Thân year
Dear Canonized Dignitaries, the Sacerdotal Council of Nine Divine-Plane Palace
[Hội Thánh Cửu Trùng Đài], of Divine Alliance Palace
[Hiệp Thiên Đài], of Charity Body [Phước Thiện] and
all Supreme Being’s children of two sexes, you and Bần
Đạo/I get one more age. It
means that Bần Đạo/I am 67 years olds.
Dear
Brothers and Young Brothers,
In 20th
century of decline moral, shifty human ethics, falling manner, the Supreme
Being comes to suffer misery with His children, to build one World Saving
Organ, to open the True Doctrine of His Great Way. The Holy Body finds that one
ancient Religion reforming the Vietnam is the Confucianism. Our Ancestor
bequeathed the Confucianism to essentially preserve the human moral of
Humankind.
For that
reason, the Supreme Being comes to use it as the “Golden Rule” for whole
psychologies of humankind. Therefore, He used two words “Change World”. It is
unnecessary to discuss profoundly, but the Holy Body [Thánh Thể/ refer
the Sacerdotal Council] knows well that at this difficult and dangerous stage,
the Great Merciful Father [Đại Từ Phụ] comes to assign
us such that Divine mission which does not contain the body. He comes to
appoint us to be a Father, a Master that how the Divine mission of Father and
Master is to preserve the creator rule, all Supreme Being’s children know well.
The Father mission is to create the fortune and bliss for children. The Master
mission is to help the mind, spirit, fame, position and future bliss for them.
Carrying out two missions is too difficult!
In the Great Divine family of the Supreme Being assigned us is up to that
natural rule, which is the rule of small family. There is nothing strange.
Nobody feels surprised about this era. We have known the human’s psychology
well. In a family with mutual inharmony brothers, all sins are laid the blame
at their Father. In a school, if there are fights, competition over stupidness
or wisdom, fame, position; all those are laid the blame at their Master. That
is the natural thing.
In a family, although the Father is extremely just, a dissatisfied,
extravagant, nonsensical lays the blame at his Father. He says that his Father
harms him.
In a school of personal dignity, if that man cannot be come achieved in career,
he will reckon that his Master is bad in teaching. That is way of world.
My younger brothers and sisters of two sexes! Qua/I tell truthfully that: “That
case happens because followers of Religion do not have enough mutual love, the
moral spirit basis. Thus, it occurs such that way”. You know that if the
unfortunate thing happens in a small family, how is that family? Much less the
Great Divine family that the Supreme Being has assigned. In the Holy Body that
He assigned me, how can we avoid such that case? One Father creates His
children from His blood, sperm, for their body. It means that they are same
possessive master, but he cannot sometimes own over spirit, much less the
Supreme Being’s Great Divine family assigned that there are uncountable minds,
spirits without same thought.
The Master Confucius founded a school, had a right to select his Disciples.
Contrarily, in the Supreme Being’s great family, His Holy Body has no right to
select. Thus, how can we avoid nonsensical persons? You should not consider
that it is important. Reversely, you must fix your mission, attempt to teach younger
brothers who are the future portion of your great family and the Supreme
Being’s Holy Body in the future.
Qua/I used to say that this old weak body attempts to serve the Religious
fortune because of them. If Qua/I am not due to them, I am not silently
creating this Divine fortune. Qua/I am a crazy man to be worthily arrested and
confined in the Biên Ḥa madhouse!
Qua/I have been suffering the misery in whole life. Your brothers also suffer
the miserable situation as me. When Qua/I am alive, I cannot stand if I see
their misery. For that reason, Qua/I create the future bliss for them.
You try thinking that all Supreme Being’s children have been sacrificing their
tears and perspirations for 31 years to found the Great Religious Divine
Fortune. You should make a question: whom have they done for? You will feel
very painful!
For the case of the Supreme Being coming to us, that poor old Man came with a
Flag only. He came under a feeble and poor body. Because of being feeble, it
made a great fortune, which contained your uncountable perspirations, tears and
blood to appear that result.
There is one issue that you should not misunderstand. All Supreme Being’s
children must remember this point: “The riches of Religion are the riches of
all Supreme Being’s million children united. If you all members of millions
were poor, miserable, but you can enjoy this Divine glorious fortune; you must
remember that this result is the achievement of tears and perspirations.
We carry the purpose of Divine mission to replace the Supreme Being to create
the Divine fortune for you. That is the Religious fortune. We wish about the
riches and glory really. The glory and riches are the noble thing of Religion.
Reversely, although how luxury and glorious the Great Divine Fortune of Supreme
Being is, but you are poor and miserable; the riches are the figure of riches
only. It is meaningless. It is a falsity only.
We have been poor and miserable for 31 years, so that the Sacerdotal Council
[Hội Thánh] only wished one point that there would have a method to
nourish all Supreme Being’s children, we did not know that the Great Divine
Fortune would be like this. Qua/I wish one point which is that I can create the
bliss for you. That is the most important purpose.
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
