Karma of renouncing Mahayana Bodhi Vows

Mahayana Bodhi Vows – essentially are Boddhisattva Vows to liberate sentinent beings – once made cannot be broken.

There are no fixed rules on making Bodhi Vows – as each Buddha and each Boddhisattva have their individual Vows to liberate sentinent beings which are different from one another.

Once the Bodhi Vows are made, it become Divine and will be blessed and protected by Dharma Protectors of 10 directions of 10 realms.

If under tremendous difficulty or obstacles or hindrance or stress when carrying out the Bodhi Vows and decide to renounce or temporary renounce the carrying out of Bodhi Vows, karma will come – almost immediately.

For example, experiencing the splitting up of the body (4 Great Elements of the Body) – where the body subjected to extreme bodily pain like :-

1. Excruciating pain in the neck muscle
2. Pain that go deep into the bone
3. Constipation
4. Extreme cold to the point of whole body shivering.
5. Cold sweat
6. Insomnia – where the pain is akin to body start splitting up.

All the pain will stop miraculously, when One realized that these are the karma relating to renouncing of the Bodhi Vows where One made – and decide to reinstate or re-continue the Bodhi Vows.

Such experience can be verified by the experience that 观世音菩萨 had undergone when She was carrying out her Boddhisattva Vows. She encountered extreme difficulty at one point in liberating sentinent beings and decide to give out. At the point when She did that, according to the recorded sutra, Her body breaks into thousand pieces and she suffered tremendous physical pain.

When this happen, 阿弥陀佛 appear and He expound the discourse of Boddhisattva Vows once made cannot be broken and have to be carried out regardless of whatever trials and tribulations, whatever difficulties and hindrances or obstacles One encountered. Otherwise karma of bodily (4 Great Elements) breaking up will occur.

Having heard the discourse, 观世音菩萨 repented Her decision to renounce Her Boddhisattva Vows and 阿弥陀佛 is able to transformed Her karma of body breaking apart into thousands of hands and eyes of Wisdom to perpetuate all 10 realms (and all the sub-realms) – to help to liberate all sentinent beings to fulfil Her Boddhisattva Vows.

Some Arahats who decide to become Boddhisattvas to liberate sentinent beings after seeing the sufferings of sentinent beings also realise such body break up when they renounce their Boddhisattva Vows.

One famous Arahat who want to be Boddhisattva was tested by a Heavenly Realm Being to dig out his eye to mix with medicine to save him. The Arahat did so. But the Heavenly Being took his eye and stomp on his eye and exclaim that the Arahat gave him the wrong eye and demanded the other eye. The Arahat was furious and exclaim that He cannot continue with His Boddhisattva Vow because sentinent being are too ignorance to be liberated.

At this point, the Heavenly Realm Being manifest himself and tell the Arahat that he is not ready to be a Boddhisattva.

It is noted that both examples of 观世音菩萨 and Arahat – of bodily (4 Great Elements) breaking up when the Bodhi Vows are renounced – can be experienced in human realm. Such as the bodily pain described above – so excruciating that the body is like splitting up. It can be miraculously stop, once the renouncement of Bodhi Vows are terminated and decide to continue with the Bodhi Vows.

Bodhi Vows must be fulfilled even to its Eternality – as it is Divine and it cannot be compromised.

Thus the Bodhi Vows below – that surpass all Buddhas and all Boddhisattvas ever made – must be fulfilled even to its Eternality (hopefully in this Universe – and if cannot be fulfilled will continue into the next Universe or up to infinity Universe – until the Bodhi Vows are fulfilled in FULL).

But all Buddhas and Boddhisattvas only can 度有缘人。

无缘人，不是不度，是不受度 - 而白白错失了机会。
无缘人只能等到有缘才能度。(Which usually means they will have to undergo their karma and realise their sufferings and look for spiritual reliefs).
 

大悲愿

(大悲心, 大愿力)

十方六道(天、人、阿修罗；畜生、饿鬼、地狱)

不空，誓不成佛

十方众生(天、人、阿修罗；畜生、饿鬼、地狱)

渡尽，方证菩提。

十方十法界(六道众生、声闻-四圣人、缘觉- 辟支佛、菩萨、佛) 加持及普渡

If all 10 directions 6 realms fail to attain Emptiness, I Vow not to gain Buddhahood.

Until all 10 directions sentinent beings are liberated & gain Full Enlightenment, will I enter into Final Nirvana.

10 direction of 10 Dharma realms (6 sentinent beings realms, Saints, Paccekas, Bodhisattvas & Buddhas) provide Blessings & Support.

The 3 Vows to liberate begin from my country, my earth, my universe.

“众生无边誓愿度，

烦恼无尽誓愿断，

法门无量誓愿学，
 

            佛道无上誓愿成”

Where do humans come from? Where do humans go back to?

Let all go back to the basics.

Where do humans come from? （人往何出来？）
Where do humans go back to? （人回到那里去？）

Answer :-

- 人从凡恼来。(Human and all Sentinent Beings - come from stray thoughts or vexation) - Samsara -  because when we have stray thoughts anchor in 3 evil roots of Ignorance of Universal Law, Attachment to Ego or Greed, Hatred and Anger - we become Samsara bound - through vicious cycle of rebirth without respite - under the Universal Law of Karma - good or bad - as long as there is even 1 stray thought.

- 回去无凡恼的地方去。。(Human and all Sentinent Beings - should go back to State of No Stray Thoughts or No vexation) - Nirvana enwrap the entire Universe.

Universal Law means =凡恼是菩提 --- Samsara (Sea of Sufferings - Law of 12 Dependant Origination of Life or Adam & Eve)
is
Nirvana (No Birth, No Death, Karma cease to operate - Eternal Peace).

Samsara of stray thoughts (is illusion)

有凡恼， 是凡人。（Have stray thoughts or vexation, is humans or sentinent beings) - Samsara (Sea of Sufferings of endless rebirth in 6 realms due to karma)
没凡恼， 是圣人。(No stray thoughts or vexation, are Saints) - Nirvana (No Birth, No Death, No karma)
超凡入圣，脱胎换骨 （Transcend from human or Samsara to Saints or Nirvana, Transform womb to Lotus, and change human skeleton or form to 4 Great Elements of Nirvana)

Graphical repreentation of this Dualistic States (Samsara and Nirvana) :-


Like Sun

 
or Dharma Wheel

or in Spiritual Enlightenment

where Bodhi Heart - is the core to Supreme Enlightenment !!!

修心唯上乘。(Practice and internalise in the Heart - is Supreme, Highest Grade)
修法唯中乘。(Practice through Teachings - is Intermediate Grade)
修戒唯下乘。(Practice through Precepts - is Lowest Grade)


There are many Dharma ways (or many religions) or religious practices and methods to attain the Supreme Enlightenment.

Supreme Enlightenment is a neutral Universal Law - which is not the sole properties of any religions.

Some people or group of people, by their nature or characteristics are more adapt to certain Dharma ways or religions or religious practices and methods to attain the Supreme Enlightenment (which is a neutral Universal Law).

Understanding this and internalise this is the Attainment of "Perception and Non-Perception" - ie. going beyond "label" - and is the Attanment of Formless Heavenly Realm of "Perception and Non-Perception".

There are reasons why this karma of sharing with the Church :-

(1) Western people are more open, receptive to new ideas, democratic form of free speeches.

(2) Western people have been sharing science and technologies with the rest of the World.

(3) The past history and karma of Arahats sharing the Dharma and Universal Law of Supreme Enlightenment with the Prophet Jesus.

修心唯上乘。(Practice and internalise in the Heart - is Supreme, Highest Grade)
修法唯中乘。(Practice through Teachings - is Intermediate Grade)
修戒唯下乘。(Practice through Precepts - is Lowest Grade)

So now let share the  Practice and Internalisation in the Heart - the Supreme, Highest Grade to Attain Supreme Enlightenment.

The unedited and pure form of using the Bodhi Heart, the core to attain Supreme Enlightenment through recitation is as follows:-

心經  (Heart Sutra)
觀自在菩薩 行深般若波羅蜜多時 照見五蘊皆空 度一切苦厄 舍利子 色不異空 空不異色 色即是空 空即是色 受想行識亦復如是 舍利子‧是諸法空相 不生不滅 不垢不淨 不增不減 是故空中無色 無受想行識 無眼耳鼻舌身意 無色聲香味觸法 無眼界乃至無意識界 無無明 亦無無明盡 乃至無老死 亦無老死盡 無苦集滅道 無智亦無得 以無所得故 菩提薩埵 依般若波羅蜜多故 心無罣礙 無罣礙故 無有恐怖 遠離顛倒夢想 究竟涅盤 三世諸佛 依般若波羅蜜多故 得阿耨多羅三藐三菩提 故知般若波羅蜜多 是大神咒 是大明咒 是無上咒 是無等等咒 能除一切苦 真實不虛 故說般若波羅蜜多咒‧即說咒曰‧揭諦‧揭諦‧波羅揭諦‧波羅僧揭諦‧菩提薩婆訶


This is the layman and pictorial explanation of :-

Bodhi Heart is the Core of attaining Supreme Enlightenment.

The layman explanation of 心經 (Heart Sutra).

Misunderstanding of Exorcism by most faiths

Recently, a couple of news on Exorcism come up practise by quite a number of religions. And the understanding of exorcism based on reported or explained by many religions are as follow :-

"Exorcism is the practice of evicting demons or other spiritual entities from a person or an area they are believed to have possessed."

I think this is not correctly understood - as it can be explained in scientific, psychological, engineering and paranormal Supramudane term.

Without proper understanding of this phenonmenon, Exorcism will be misconstrued - because most of this phenonmenon are related to mental faculty and not physical faculty - as defined by the understanding of most faiths above.

Since the topic on Exorcism did not have a "posting" column, I will post it here.

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Now to first undestand why people encounter "demons or other spiritual entities" - and believe they are being possessed by them - we have to understand mental faculties - specifically the 5 mental aggregates of - consciousness, feelings, perception, judgement, mental formation.

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Next, we used engineering, physics and scientific principles - radio frequencies and channels of receiver and transmitter pair - to explain the phenonmenon of why some people behave or see things abnormally - where psychologist and psychiatrists fail to explain and treat ---- specifically the paranormal or supramudane phenonmenon.

Where in Universal Law - called it 小化身 or in engineering term :-

- A mobile phone set (transmitter) make a call setup with a call manager - where the call manager establish the source of the call and destination of the call, will ring up the destination phone set (the receiver) and establish the call via the right radio frequency and pick up the call.

- or like a video conference call (transmitter) using the right channel to establish the right destination video conference call (receiver) and the video image of the recevier and the transmitter are established

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Now let explain why people see and behave abnormally (if psychologist or psychiatrist) establish that the person is not due to mental sickness?

In Paranormal or Supramundane term, the following activities take place :-

A person mental faculty - is governed by 5 mental aggregates of :-

(1) 1st mental aggregate - Consciousness - eg. eye consciousness, ear consciousness, taste consciousness, touch consciousness, smell consciousness. This form a stimuli - which in supramundane term is call "zen" - when such consciousness go beyond mundane consciousness - and activated the supramundane subconsciousness. When this stimuli consciousness - only provide mundane consciousness - most human react normally.

But when a human is good in mind training or mind practice - especially in meditaion - it unravel all the potential of subconsciousness and supramundane consciousness (or in engineering or physics or scientific term - the radio frequency or channel - not detected by normal human) - and go into a different realms (paranormal realms or supramundane realms).

Paranormal realms - are usually unwholesome realms - such as hell realms, hungry ghosts realms, asura realms.

Supramundane realms - are usually wholesome realms - such as Heavenly realms (eg, Sensual Desire Heavenly realms, Form Heavenly realms, Formless Heavenly realms) or Nirvana realm.

(2) 2nd mental aggregate - feelings eg. lousy feelings, good feelings, neutral feelings - experience by human after receving the stimuli of mundane consciousness or supramudane consciousness.

(3) 3rd mental aggregate - perception - as human receive the stimuli of conscicousness, develop feelings - will based on their perception - develop a picture that help them to understand what is presented to them.

But for people who encounter paranormal or supramundane sentinent beings or enter into these realms - will react differently - mostly not understood by human beings. Thus people tend to claim that this people are possessed or have mental problems.

(4) 4th mental aggregate - judgement. Based on the person's perception and their past experience - with the stimuli consciousness recevied and the feelings they experienced - people will form judgment.

But for this people that have not encounter such paranormal experience or supramundane experience - what judgement will they form? Of course, they will form judgement based on the paranormal realms or supramundane realms they are in based on their interaction with the sentinent beings of that realms.

Thus human with them will discover how come he or she behave strangely - not how a human should behave.

(5) 5th mental aggregate - mental formation - that result in speeches or actions. Based on the 5 mental aggregates the person recevied, they will behave like the sentinent beings of the paranormal realms or supramundane realms.

　

Note :- people not trained in mediation or master the mediation - but experience funny behaviour normally come into contact and enter into paranomal realms and encounter the sentinent beings of other realms - because their balance of 5 mental aggregate faculties - some how are synch with that particular realm frequencies or channel.

A balance of all the mental faculties to enter into respective realms need to be in place. (ie. the right radio frequency or TV channel need to be in place - in order for human to communicate and coexist with the different realms).

Normally, other sentinent beings of other realms cannot enter and possess a human body. (Only bacteria, viruses or worms enter into a human body). It is the synching of radio frequency or channel - that cause them to be in the "receive" or "transmit" mode - and see them in a different realms - and not seen by people who are with them. Thus people think that they are having mental problem or they are possessed.

Don't use exorcism - ie. to expel them - they will wallop you - if they possess more power than you. Talk to them nicely like talking to any friends and alleviate their sufferings.

To treat such people with funny behaviour :-

(1) Always bring them to see psychiatrist or psychologist first. By using medication, can change their brain chemical to balance their mental faculties and bring them into human realm.

(2) If this people are not due to mental problem, thie people are usually trained in meditaion and has maintain a focus point or enter into a radio frequency or channel - that cause him to enter into trance or other realms called 小化身 .

To help such people in this state, try to break their focus so that their balance of mental faculties to enter into a trance or other realms are broken, and they will slowly transcend back into human realm.

Don't need a priest or religious person to do it - as long as one understand the engineering principles and human behaviour.

But if people feel more at ease with a priest or religious person to do it - then no harm going for it.

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For example, some novice may be tuning and scanning the air for a radio frequency and happen to chance upon a foreign air broadcasting and receiving the broadcast when the radio frequency synch with the foreign air.

Or a novice switch or scan a TV channel and happen to synch with a foreign TV broadcast when chance upon and synch with the foreign TV channel.

Similarly, when a person happen to balance his or her mental faculty of his or her 5 mental aggregates and receive stimuli of paranormal or supramundane consciousness - he or she will behave abnormally and synch with the paranormal or supramundane environment and start communicating with the sentinent beings over there. People around with such person - who are not synch with the paranormal or supramundane environment may thus not be able to appreciate why this person behave abnormally.

Or when people are exposed to an environment eg. haunted house - their 5 sense consciousness will be exposed to the paranormal or supramundane consciousness. For some people who are particular sensitive (stronger paranormal 5 mental aggregates receiver), will be able to pick up the paranormal or supramundane consciousness and start communicating with the sentinent beings over there.

Thus it is a very scientific explanation of "being possessed" that are wrongly understood - and lead to "exorcism".

It will be better for psychiatrist and psychologist to handle people with abnormal behaviour, because they are trained to understand human mental behaviour, trained to handle people with abnormal behaviour or violent behaviour without hurting them.

When psychologist and psychiatrist have used their professional medical training and medication on the victims with no visible improvement, then engaged experienced respective religious people of the respective faith to calm the person down, rebalance their mental faculties of 5 mental aggregates by understanding how this person enter into a "trance" states - and bring them back to the "correct balance of 5 mental aggregates" of human realm.

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Thinking aloud, religions can be "scientificalised" - by applying psychology, science, math, physics, engineering and complement religious understanding - to strengthen the respective faiths - and align to the Universal Law.

By doing so, disciples of the various faiths can "strengthen" their beliefs in their respective faith and promote wholesome values and align to the Universal Law - where all 10 realms sentinent beings dwell and exist in.

By doing so, there will be less fighting, conflict, disupte in the World in the name of their respective religions.

Good idea?

In the Law of Relativity and the dualistic principles :-

"Science is explainable by Religion. Religion is explainable by Science".

If religion can be proven and reproduce by scientific means - than religion become science.

If science cannot be verified by 4 Great Elements - due to its psychology and abstract manner - and religions can explain it - then science become religion.

Correct or not?

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Now, one realm is conspicously missing - that is the Animal realm.

Why Animal realm is missing in the earlier discussion ?

(1) it is deliberate to give people sufficient time to sink in the paranormal and supramundane concept.

(2) The crossover of the Human realm and Animal realm - is the most scientific evidence of how different realms - inter-communicate - and thus provide strong argument and understanding for inter-communication between other realms such as Heavenly realm, Hungry Ghosts realm, Hell realm, Asura realm and the Nirvana realm (Enlightened Beings in Human realm can actually testified to
it).

How does Human and Animal communicate?

- via 5-sense consciousness - such as touch consciousness, voice consciousness, ear consciousness, taste consciousness, smell consciousness

- and the subsequent interaction of 5 mental aggregates - of feelings, perception, judgement and mental formation.

Human cannot be "possessed" by Animal. And Animal cannot be "possessed" by Human. Both communicate via the 5 sense consciousness. This is the same for other paranormal realms and supramundane realms - where human use the mental faculty of 5 mental aggregates to communicate and see and coexist in the respective realms - or so call "coexist in another dimension" or "parallel Universe".

(Note :- Human and Animal coexist in the same dimension, whereas other realms coexist in another dimension).

So when Human communicate with Animals such as dogs, cats, cows, elephants, deers, camels, dolphins etc - will use the same mental faculty with them to help them understand what the humans want and obey the humans. Conversely, the animals will also help humans to understand what they want.

Thus scienfiic ways of explaining religions and how religions explain science are mention above.

So i hope people of different faiths have understood the true concept of "possess by evil spirits" and "exorcism" in the right context - and administer the right approach to people who exhibit funny behaviour.