Living Buddha
By Dechan Jueren
In
1989, the bone relic of Buddha, sutra and tantra engraved in silver
plates, and other ancient artefacts of the Esoteric School, were
discovered in the sky chamber of the North Pagoda in Chaoyang. Later, a
mandala of the Esoteric School was also found in the crypt of the
Famensi Dharma Doorway Temple. These discoveries predicted the revival
of the Esoteric School of Buddhism.
I
had experienced all kinds of suffering and every time I died, in that
hazy state, an old man would appear to save me and bring me back to
life. When I was six years old I fell into a river and drowned.
Villagers found my body downstream and recognized me as the son of a
Traditional Chinese Medicine doctor. My father was working at the
neighbouring town when he was told the news. It was a moonless night
and he had to walk miles over an old battlefield known by the locals to
be haunted and infested with wild animals; none of the villagers would
dare venture through that area at night.
At
the age of 38, I was the factory head of a large machinery company in
my hometown Chaoyang in northeast China. On 24th Oct 1989, just after
3pm, I had just finished my work in the office; suddenly there was a
knock at the door. It was the Chief and Deputy Chief of police from the
Chaoyang railroad station. They brought in an old man. The moment I
saw him I was dumbfounded! It was he who came to help me every time I
died. This was the first time I had met him in the flesh. I froze
instantly and did not move until the cigarette I was smoking burnt my
fingers. After a brief conversation, I willingly resigned from my
position and followed the old man to the mountain.
Six
months later, and on the instruction of my guru whom had just attained
the rainbow body (a body of pure light), I left the mountain and began
my journey to spread the Esoteric Dharma teachings worldwide giving all
my assets to charity and to the cause of reviving Buddhism.
I
received the Dharma Lineage of Mahavairocana Dharma King from the 48th
Mahacharya Huiling of the Esoteric School. The initiation took place
at Zhaojue Monastery in Sichuan Province, with the renowned Master
Qingding as the witness. I received all and every dharma instrument,
sutra, tantra, robe, and crown of Subhakarasimha, Vajrabodhi and
Amoghavajra. I became the 49th Mahacharya and the sole Lineage Holder,
also referred to by the Chinese as Living Buddha.
In
1990, I began transmitting Dharma in China in order to reveal the
exquisite spirit of the esoteric practice. I had journeyed everywhere,
as the Chinese expression goes, “From the white mountain to the black
water, through the south and the north of the great Long River.” Many
have come to grasp the method to know oneself, the means to change
oneself, and the courage to conquer oneself.
No one limits you
except you, and because of this you are limited by the conditions of
your environment. When you recognize the existence of your deep-rooted
bad nature of non-receptiveness, vanity, envy, anger and lazy habits,
and begin to apply the method of not allowing the bad nature to rise
again, then the beastly nature can be withered. Only so will you
liberate yourself from your self-limitation and the limitation by the
conditions of your environment.
Esoteric
practice can make you really see the ignorance, attachment, and
limitation of human life that brought suffering to yourself. Only when
you have truly grasped the method to know yourself and applied the means
to change yourself, you will be able to liberate yourself from
suffering.
Once you have grasped the esoteric
practice, being of good health, inner peace and wish fulfilled is very
basic. There will be amazing discoveries as you continue on entering
the state. You will truly know that no one can give you wisdom; only by
following the correct method of cultivation can you have it.
Wisdom emerges on its own once you fully enter the state of reality
