JADE EMPEROR, or CAO DAI, TEACHING THE TAO IN THE SOUTHERN QUARTER
Quan Thánh Đế Quân
Greetings to all disciples, all sisters and living beings.
The eyes of wisdom illuminate the universe,
With holy virtues, I care to maintain
Vietnam in prosperity and peace,
And to open the Tao’s gate unto the world.
Quan Âm, Buddhisattva of the South Sea
Greetings to all disciples, all sisters, and all living beings.
The primordial faith in the South saves living beings,
Using the holy virtues to change the world’s situation.
Pray for divine blessings to defuse all disaster,
In meditation, use the Yin wind to find peace within your heart,
And you will reach wisdom.
Lý Thái Bạch:
Greetings to all disciples, all sisters, and all living beings.
The Tao is open to the South, bringing harmony and prosperity,
The white star of the divine light shines into people’s hearts.
Connect your hearts together for the future generations,
And lead the way to the Cloud Palace
Living beings, be in deep meditation in order to meet the Great Mercy.
26 - The Supreme Being
teaches: You have to put all your heart into spreading the Tao and to love and
to help each other.
The 18th day of the 1st
month of the year Đinh Mão (year of the cat)
JADE EMPEROR, or CAO DAI, TEACHING THE TAO IN THE SOUTHERN QUARTER
Greetings to all
disciples, all beloved daughters and all guests.
I am happy for you
disciples here who have sincerity and respect and the heart of guiding humanity
to the right path.
Being one day late in
founding the Tao would leave millions of human beings lost in sin. I therefore
want each of you to put all your heart into spreading the Tao.
What makes Me most
happy is your mutual love and assistance, mutual sharing of happiness and
misery, and mutual guiding and supporting each other on the road to the Tao,
like brothers and sisters from one family, in order to escape from this earthly
shore of chaos and struggles where millions of souls are immersed in the
seduction of materiality, power, and honor.
I command that you
should not lose your grasp on mutual love because of petty earthly matters;
that is not the behavior of virtuous persons.
I ascend.
( p. 139-140,
Collection of Selected Holy Messages, Book Two, 1972)
27 - The Supreme Being teaches: Misery and
disasters from East to West, according to divine arrangement, will befall cruel
countries that have generated animosities in this world.
The 19th day of the
first month of the year Đinh Mão
JADE EMPEROR, or CAO DAI, TEACHING THE TAO IN THE SOUTHERN QUARTER
Greetings to all
disciples, all beloved daughters.
Listen, all living
beings.
The Tao of God has been
established three times, saving millions of souls. You should take care to step
in the right direction to realize the miraculous mechanism of these
revelations.
The Creator has already
arranged to guide and bless all living beings during this last era.
Great Spirits, because
of justice, have assisted and saved predestined people from sinful downfall.
You should be aware of this situation and follow the guiding light to the road
of wisdom and find the quiet spring of the holy mountain to wash off the
earthly debris of confusion.
Out of love, I meet with
the Three Religions, sprinkling holy water out into the universe to save
incarnated higher souls before Judgment Day. Misery and disasters from East to
West, according to divine arrangement, will befall cruel countries that have
generated animosities in this world.
Whoever hurries to step
onto the right path to serve humanity and build up divine merit to counteract
karma will avoid future sorrow. Living beings, try to understand.
I ascend.
(p. 140-141, Collection
of Selected Holy Messages, Book Two, 1972)
28 - The Supreme being
teaches: You have to work cooperatively with one another to walk the road to
Eternity.
The 20th day of the
first month of the year Đinh Mão
JADE EMPEROR, or CAO DAI, TEACHING THE TAO IN THE SOUTHERN QUARTER
Greetings to all
disciples, all beloved daughters, and all living beings.
I am happy for you for
meriting blessings to find the right path. You have to work cooperatively with
one another to walk the road to eternity. Although you cannot see it, you may
reach your ultimate destiny if you come to realize the principle of the Tao
that I have carefully taught you. If you could achieve more enthusiasm for the
Tao, you would reach it sooner than you imagine. That blissful dimension is not
far away. It is right here on this planet, though it alludes you because you
have been occupied with life’s base attractions and forgetting the noble way.
You must know that in
this universe, human beings are My precious children and I take time to care
for all of you, making sure that you will repent and ultimately enjoy My
blessings.
I ask you: Would that
be your intention?
Tr…, relate this to all
your younger brothers and sisters!
I ascend.
(p. 141, Collection of
Selected Holy Messages, Book Two, 1972)
29 - Ly Thai Bach teaches
about the construction plan for the Holy See.
Tayninh (Gò Kén
pagoda), the 27th of the 1st month of the year Đinh Mão (2-28-1927 )
Here is Thái Bạch.
Greetings to all
disciples and all sisters.
Bính Thanh, the figure
of the Buddha Gautama Sakya Muni in front of the Hiệp Thiên Đài (Heavenly Union Palace
As for the new temples,
remind disciples to pray to the Supreme Being to sanctify them. Besides, a
temporary temple has to be built on the empty lot. The temporary Hiệp Thiên Đài
has to be built in front. You disciples must clear the forest in front of this
lot. Place a stake at the center, then at the Cà Na Pond, place another stake
50m away from the first one. The Holy See is to be built between these two
stakes. Remember to measure 27m from the first stake toward the Cà Na Pond
where you will build the Bát Quái Đài (Octagonal Palace
This afternoon, Hộ
Pháp, and Thượng Phẩm must put a pen at the end of the corbeille à bec and provide a
large piece of paper. Then evoke me so that I can draw. Bính Thanh must also be
there. Besides them, no one else is allowed to be in the temple. Obey.
And you have to purchase the piece of land at Cà Na
Pond for future use as Động Đình Lake.
Obey.
I ascend.
(p. 142, Collection of
Selected Holy Messages, Book Two, 1972)
30 - Ly Thai Bach
teaches: In order to surmount difficulties, you must have perseverance and
dedication and try to put the Tao above all.
This is Lý Bạch.
Greetings to all
disciples and all sisters.
Disciples, this is a
difficult time for spiritual travelers. In order to surmount difficulties, you
must have perseverance and dedication and try to put your virtues above all
other desires on this Earth. The Tao is about to embark. You just need to
embrace the challenges, which are like a final test for you. The spreading of
the Tao has been predestined by the divine mechanism, which will always prevail
over human efforts. I just try to let you know that you have to pay attention
to your work. The road is full of difficulties but you have the divine guiding
light, which will assist you in reaching your goal.
The three religions are
meeting with the Great Mercy to plan for the establishment of the Tao
everywhere on this planet according to divine will in this final era.
I ascend.
(p. 142-143, Collection
of Selected Holy Messages, Book Two, 1972)
31 - The Supreme Being
teaches: Use your merit to surmount obstacles and to reach Eternity.
JADE EMPEROR, or CAODAI, TEACHING THE TAO IN THE SOUTHERN QUARTER
Greetings to all
disciples, all beloved daughters, and all guests.
Although the Tao has
dispersed its blessing to all living beings, people are still mired in their
earthly dream. People have not been able to escape secular seductions; done too
few good deeds and too many evil ones; too little of merit but too much of
crime. Nevertheless, these things have just happened according to divine
arrangement.
I love you all equally,
but many of you have to pay your karma. I am heartbroken when I have to uphold
justice according to the divine mechanism. What you need to do is to keep
following your path, using your merit to surmount obstacles, to wash off
earthly silt, in order to reach Eternity. Very few people can surrender to the
saffron robe and live a monk’s life in order to escape from the turmoil and
confusion of a world where honors, power, and wealth are perceived as lofty.
How sad! What a regret!
There is no wind
blowing into your sail. The wild geese keep returning to their old familiar
places. The path of the Tao is nearly forgotten and covered with the moss of
neglect. But then, as you begin your
spiritual journey, no one can say if this is a blessing or a misfortune!
I ascend.
(p. 143, Collection of
Selected Holy Messages, Book Two, 1972)
32 - The Supreme Being
teaches: You should work harder in order to surmount difficulties.
Your Master, children!
I want to inform you
clearly.
You have progressed
quite well on the road to the Tao. In order to complete your responsibility you
have to surmount difficulties to reach your noble goal. Most of you have put
your hearts and mind into the effort because you respect Me and because you
want to save humanity. But many of you have also used an evil heart, creating
turmoil and hatred at the gate of the Tao.
I have the mercy and
the love of life to guide you. I would not treat you unequally. I would not use
your own evil actions to hurt you. You are children of one same family and are
treated equally. However, I would pay more attention to the weak. Many times I
intended--but did not have the heart--to punish the ones who abused their
positions and titles to create turmoil in the Tao. However, the Saints and
Angels have recorded all their actions and will discipline them at the end.
There are many hypocrites. You could not trust anyone more than yourselves.
Many have come to the Tao just for the opportunity to discover important secret
matters. The miraculous mechanism was already arranged in the divine book. The
Tao was opened with the goal to guide predestined persons to traverse the
difficult road to return to Me. It’s totally up to you to reach your goal.
I could not tell you
all about the divine mechanism. Tr., T., H., have almost completed their duties
and their karma. That’s why there was such an incident; otherwise, they could
not avoid greater disaster. It was that I wanted to save them.
I have implemented the
spirit of safety and peace in creating the Tao. In the past, many times humans
shed blood for the Tao without success. That’s why I have to expose you to all
the sorrows of the road to the Tao, so that you may gain experience and be
successful.
M., N., S…, from now
on, you don’t have to attend routinely such a session like the last one if
there was no issue that involves you, because it would only waste your time. I
have sketched out the trail for you to follow. You don’t have to worry. Because
even if you try to go too fast, you couldn’t reach the goal sooner; and even if
you were to slow down, it would still not delay your journey. All progress
flows from Me. All difficulties are just to make you work a little harder. If
all disciples are of the same heart as you, the road to the Tao would be very
joyful and nothing could break your spirit. You have to think about it.
S: reported about T.M.
Alas! Money, good food,
and prized possessions have seduced ordinary men. But take heart! I would not
use such a person in promoting the Tao. Even ordinary men would not use ill
gotten gains. Look at examples of old stories. If Hàn Tín had not betrayed his
friend, he would not have died suddenly, seemingly without reason. In the
example of Trương Tử Phòng, if Phạm Tăng did not do things against God’s
will, all karma would be resolved instantly.
I have said you should
work harder in order to surmount those difficulties.
Try to understand.
I ascend.
(p. 143-145, Collection
of Selected Holy Messages, Book Two, 1972.)
33 - Quan Am teaches
female disciples: You have to cooperate with each other in order to guide
future generations.
Quan Âm, Boddhisattva
of the South Sea
Greetings to all
disciples, all sisters, and all living beings.
Dignitaries, be seated.
Listen, younger
sisters.
I have the honor to
witness your respect. You have to cooperate with each other in order to guide
future generations. Many sisters have not put all their heart into the Tao. You
have to try harder to deserve the love of the Supreme Being and to be proud as
Vietnamese women. You will not miss out on your rewards, but time is running
out, if you delay you may lose track. I am glad you have labored in completing
your responsibilities, which I have been expecting from you all.
Take heed of exemplary women of the South,
You will join together as in one family home.
Women shall guide one another in the Way,
Mirroring goddesses upon lotus throne.
Please take heed, disciples and sisters.
I ascend.
(p. 145, Collection of
Selected Holy Messages, Book Two, 1972)
34 - The Supreme Being
teaches: You have to love and help each other while guiding humanity. If
because of secular ambition, you become divided, hating and fighting each
other, you would make poor examples to future generations.
JADE EMPEROR OR CAODAI TEACHING THE TAO IN THE SOUTHERN QUARTER
Greeting to disciples,
to beloved female disciples, and guests.
K… Listen to Me.
In the field of meditation, the noon bell chimes soon,
Hurry back to Me as is your fortune.
Virtue like moonlight illumines
The fallow field lit by color in autumn.
Life’s flowered apricot wilts in the snow,
Evil dies but Virtue rises to the Tao.
On this path, gentleness is borne,
And you will return to your spiritual home.
The sky rises above all
aspects of life. The holy way is leading every worldly step. There are many
changes at the end of this last era. This 68th planet has suddenly received a
sacred light to awaken people, shining the way to save predestined people and
protecting them from being destroyed by the cruelty of humanity. Many people
have foundered in the ocean of sufferings, painting a sad picture of human
life, where humanity could neither balance good and bad deeds nor pay attention
to karmic laws. Forests and mountains of their homeland are waiting for them to
return, but they are still lost in the abyss, their desperate calls for help
unheard. All previous credits of love and service to humanity, all holy
teachings of sages and saints are washed away during the one hundred year of
life’s games. If there were no miraculous way to remind humanity to
self-cultivate, they would still be fighting and killing each other for
materiality until the end, in which there would be no more human traces.
The way of God has
shone forth. People should try to wake up. Life is not long enough for them to
be idle. In the school of life, people should balance the blessings and karma,
and cultivate self before it is too late. Human beings, try to understand.
I always want you to
get together to open the good path, to love and help each other, to share your
joy and your sufferings, while guiding humanity. If because of secular ambition,
you become divided, hating and fighting each other, you would make poor
examples to future generations, and the great way would therefore be preempted.
Paying attention to My words would be a great sincere and respectful gift to
Me. I bless you all.
(Ascension.)
(Page 146-147, Collection of Selected Holy Messages, Book
Two, 1972)
35 - The Supreme Being
teaches: If the Tao were not created, people, because of their cruelty, would
reincarnate again and again to pay their karma, and no one would be fully blessed.
The 4th day of the
second month of the year Đinh Mão (March 7, 1927)
JADE EMPEROR OR CAODAI TEACHING THE TAO IN THE SOUTHERN QUARTER
Greeting to all
disciples, to beloved female disciples, and guests.
Disciples, listen to
Me.
Over more than one long
year, you have undergone many hardships in trying to promote the Great Way that
I have founded because of My love for humanity, who face drowning in the ocean
of suffering because of Karma. I hold the secret miraculous mechanism powered
by justice to move the universe, and therefore life has to evolve in cycles so
that the process of purification would lead to the perfection of humanity and
the transformation of the Earth into Heaven. Evils would be destroyed, gentle
people would ascend to heaven; the strong but evil people would be vanquished
while meek and virtuous people would triumph.
If the Tao were not created, people, because of their cruelty, would
reincarnate again and again to pay their karma, and no one would know when this
earth would be fully blessed and the profane would evolve to salvation.
The merit school is
almost out and you get to deal with some difficult tests. Most of you have some
credits of serving humanity, but the outcomes are still uncertain. You did not
show good examples of virtue and love as I have arranged. I have said: “The
divine machine has to change according to your virtues, and therefore I had to
modify the miraculous mechanism using love and peace to lead you in your
cultivation. Previously, humanity had many times undergone hardships and
self-sacrifice for the Tao, but because of their uncertainty together with many
vicissitudes of life, brotherhood among humanity has not been realized.”
Cruel people have used
their secular force to disturb the progression of the Tao. Though the chaos and
sufferings of the human community were bound to happen, your service to
humanity and your virtues should not delay in shining the way for future
generations to follow to reach Nirvana. I therefore have modified your steps,
creating joy, gentleness, and enthusiasm, instead of sorrow, worries,
difficulties and discouragement for you to overcome. Although this would lessen
some of your merit and therefore your rewards, peace is bestowed to all
humanity. Do you understand that divine mechanism?
Tr…, try to understand.
So too, you other disciples.
The most important
issue you all have to pay attention to is to take care of the holy house. Each
of you has to bring in a little effort, and your name and your good example
would be remembered by future generations. Try to understand.
Tr.., people who wish
to be initiated should be accepted. Let them know that the New Codes have been
established. The Hierarchical Council just needs to implement them.
This would be good for
you, your virtues and services.
(Ascension.)
(p. 147-148, Collection
of Selected Holy Messages, Book Two, 1972)
36 - The Supreme Being
teaches: At the end of this 6th month, I will stop all initiation séances, and
from then on you have to use only your sincerity in order to spread the Tao.
JADE
EMPEROR OR CAODAI TEACHING THE TAO IN THE SOUTHERN QUARTER
Greeting to all disciples,
Tr…, since the founding of the Tao, most disciples
pay all their sincerity to guide humanity and to promote the Tao. They are the
ones I trust to put all their efforts into clearing away the thorns to lead
humanity on the divine path to escape from the ocean of sufferings, which is
this nonsense planet.
The Tao has been established. Most disciples have cleansed their dirty
feet, undergone many hardships to spread the love and to show good examples to
future generations. However, the lifeboat, according to the divine mechanism,
has left behind many profane people; they are the unfortunate disciples who did
not maintain their virtues, and committed evil actions, bespoiling My precious
Tao.
You have put all your intention into the Tao, and
many times have undergone hardships, trying to set good examples for future
generations to follow to reach Nirvana, the state in which there is only bliss
without any worries. Your merit will determine your final destiny. At the end
of this 6th month, I will stop all initiation séances, and from then on you
have to use only your sincerity and all your accumulated knowledge in order to spread
the Tao.
Following are My last words you should heed: Don’t
worry about evil people, they have their own destiny, you just need to keep
climbing the divine ladder toward unification with Me, which is the most
precious aspiration of humanity. I allow you to accept initiation of disciples
just like at other places.
I bless you all.
(Ascension.)
(p. 148, Collection of
Selected Holy Messages, Book Two, 1972)
37 - Ly Thai Bach teaches: You should follow the holy
teachings of the Great Mercy. You may submit to me the petition of promotion
for whoever has closely followed the rules and regulations of the Sacerdotal
Council.
September 12, 1927
Lý Bạch
Thượng Trung Nhựt, the Great
Mercy has given you a great responsibility of spreading the Tao, in collaboration
with the Sacerdotal Council, to find the way to lead dignitaries and disciples
in their activities and practices. You have to be just with all your sincerity
to interact with disciples without disappointing them. Everything was arranged
by the Great Mercy; you all just need to take time to go forward.
Whoever does not keep up their virtues and
cooperate with each other to promote the Tao will be watched by Superior
Spirits. Their records will be judged at the end according to divine laws. You
should follow the holy teachings of the Great Mercy. You may submit to me the
petition of promotion for whoever has closely followed the rules and
regulations of the Sacerdotal Council. Whoever has ambition to create another
way, leading people into a wrong path, will unfortunately end up at the bottom
of the abyss despite all merits of their previous life.
You should prepare well the teaching of the Tao.
The local councils as well as each disciple will have their own duty, and shall
meet once a month on the full moon evening to discuss local activities, to
review rules and regulations so that they would befit the majority of people .
Then, the Tao would have the highest and most important value, and you would
find satisfaction in moving forward.
At each meeting with the local councils, the three
Đầu Sư should be present, as well as the three members of the Hiệp Thiên Đài as
witnesses, and the minutes should be well recorded.
Among the disciples, I have to inform you that most
female disciples don’t have sufficient CaoDai knowledge. You have to mandate
them to be present at the routine worship ceremonies to listen to the sermon so
that they could learn together with male disciples. Later, I will choose from
among them one capable of giving the sermon to female disciples at a separate
worship session.
Tr….: Please allow monthly worshipping ceremonies
in Cholon.
You have all the right to decide.
From now on, H… will be a member of the Hiệp Thiên
Đài.
Those are the recommendations for all. Give your
best effort for the Tao. Show your
sincerity and respect to the Supreme Being.
(Ascension.)
(p. 149-150)
38 - The Supreme Being teaches: I use peace and
tranquility to lead you on the divine road, but if dignitaries are concerned
more about titles and positions than cultivation of virtues, their punishment
would be doubled.
September 17, 1927
Your Master,
Children,
I have said I used peace and gentleness to lead you
on the divine way. You should pay attention, put all your mind and your heart
to work, and you will certainly progress regardless of obstacles. The only
problem is that you are separated from the holy teachings, and are just too
busy with secular affairs. The Giáo Hữu should be concerned about the sermon
for every major worshipping ceremony. They should have prepared a text of holy
teachings to read to all disciples so that they could receive holy teachings to
stimulate their progression on the divine way.
So do Tr… and L… Th…, My beloved daughter.
Tr…said: I have given the topics of the sermon to
the Giáo Hữu last night at the ceremony at Cầu Kho temple.
Good! Any Giáo Hữu who is not up to their duty, and
does not listen to My instructions, should be reported to Lý Bạch for
proper action.
Tr…: addressed about
the printing of holy messages.
Good! But holy messages
and poems should be carefully selected and then approved by the Sacerdotal
Council before publication.
Children! Most
disciples would like to be divinely appointed, but don’t understand what it is
about. Many Saints, Immortals, and Buddhas, who don’t have important karmic
debt, when incarnated, just need to practice regularly their cultivation, and
they may return to their original positions without the need of divine
appointment.
Divine appointment is
designed for Saints, Immortals, and Buddhas who have left the world. They have
to perform great services to humanity in order to return to their initial
positions. Remember, because of love, I granted you divine appointment, but if
dignitaries are concerned more about titles and positions than cultivation of
virtues, their punishment would be doubled.
Tr…, L…, Th…, beloved
daughters, My three children!
Because of love, this
is the last divine appointment for you. Now the rules and regulations have been
established, and if you won’t follow them, Lý Bạch and Quan Âm would protest.
From now on, whoever deserves the function, would be recommended and selected
by disciples. Only Lý Bạch can propose a divine appointment. And I will then
approve.
Tr..! Try more to
interact with the government. There will be support from angels. Don’t worry!
I bless you all.
(Ascension.)
(p. 150-151, Collection of Selected Holy Messages, Book
Two, 1972)
39 - The Supreme Being
teaches: I have trained each of you so that you will have all authority to
realize the divine will to lead humanity and to spread the Tao to all the
world. Whether you fail or succeed, I would wait until the end to judge on your
accomplished work.
The first day of the
10th month of the year Đinh Mão (1927)
Your Master.
Children, it has not
been too long since the recruiting séances were stopped, and there have been
many difficulties. I have trained each of you so that you will have all
authority to realize the divine will to lead humanity and to spread the Tao to
all the world. The celestial machine has determined to found the Tao to save
living beings. If today, at this time, the Tao could not be perfectly
established, when would it be? How many of you would have enough divine credit
to reach unification with Me? I have revealed a little about that issue. Try to
find out and understand. Don’t misunderstand that the Tao spontaneously becomes
prosperous and leads you automatically to the liberation no matter what your
virtues. Whether you fail or succeed, I would wait until the end to judge on
your accomplished work. I have foretold to you about the worldly chaos, which
has begun to spread. If your skills are
not sharpened with great virtue, peaceful cooperation, complete modesty and
harmony among each other, the Tao would become a tangled mockery, which would
be difficult to disentangle even with My mercy.
You were predestined to
reincarnate from your initial spiritual position to the world of suffering to
serve humanity and thereby fulfill your divine duty. I have guided each of your
steps to lead you back to the Tao. If you do not cooperate with each other in
peace and harmony, I would be heartbroken watching you fall into the abyss.
You have to understand
that and try to complete your tasks yourselves. If out of love, I had to do
everything for you, and lead you by hand out of difficulties, you would not
gain enough of your own merit and then have to reincarnate again many times
before being able to return to your spiritual home.
Some of you became evil
and fell into the seduction of the three-religions court. Be cautious on your
way to complete your task. I would rather drop some of you in order to save the
millions of humanity. Understand!
Tr., Your
responsibility there is great, you should take care of the disciples.
Tr., do you know whom I
trust among disciples?
Answer:…
Have any of you
listened to My previous holy messages?
Except HTD., You are
the disciple that I have ordered Saints and Immortals to guide, and you were
close to Me during the spreading of the Tao. You have understood the way I used
to found the Tao. Why were you so wrong in falling into evil seductions?
I don’t use
superstition. If you happened to be superstitious, did not follow the right
way, and set up many nonsensical scenarios, the Tao would fall to heretics, as
you may have seen.
(Ascension.)
(p. 152, Collection of
Selected Holy Messages, Book Two, 1972)
40 - The Supreme Being
teaches: In antiquity, many martyrs were not as well blessed and recognized as
you are now. I just aspire you to love one another following My holy example.
Love is the key to the thirty-six heavens, to Nirvana, and the White Jade Palace
Here is your Master.
In antiquity, many martyrs
were not as well blessed and recognized as you are now. What else are you
expecting? You should not be discouraged.
The more one suffers
and commiserates, the more one feels impatient. You should not feel regret,
because suffering for millions of human beings is a worthy act.
As I have taught, just
aspire to be able to love one another following My holy example. Love is the
key to the thirty-six heavens, to Nirvana, and the White Jade Palace
(Ascension.)
(p. 153,
Collection of Selected Holy Messages, Book Two, 1972)
41 - The Supreme Being
teaches: Before I stopped the séances, I had clearly given orders, but you did
not deliver My words, and they became confused, it is your responsibility.
Cholon, November 29, 1927
Here is your Master,
children!
Tr.., I have many times
counseled you disciples about using justice and concordance to fulfill your
duty to the Tao; I am sad to see that you already have divisions among each
other. You were concerned about your honor and secular advancement and forgot
the worthy duties that I have entrusted to you. I have led you out of miserable
situations, but you still have not put all your hearts together to prevent
future difficulties; how would the Tao be established in time to save millions
of human beings?
One is trying to build,
ten others are trying to halt. You have ignored seniority among you and the
divine titles that I have granted to you, and have used your power to oppress
many gentle, virtuous disciples.
Alas! It has been but a
few short days that you were separated from Me, and the great Tao has already
become a worthless meeting! And the very ones who were disrupting the Tao are
the torch bearers selected by the Three
Religions Court
I have said I set up
evil beasts around you, but you did not heed my warning. How could I bend
justice?
Many of you have
neglected My words. Alas! Recalcitrant children! How can you avoid divine law? You have
created aversion against the Three Religions Court Three Religions Court
Before I stopped the
séances, I had clearly given orders as how to use spiritism. I thought you had
announced My words to all dignitaries, so why the confusion? If you did not
deliver My words, and they became confused, it is your responsibility.
Regarding female
disciples, they seem as if they have never practiced the Tao; only one or two
of them did, while hundreds of others were still just looking for
entertainment. So, how could the Tao succeed? I said I trusted you to guide
them; you must keep an eye on them in order to fix the problems in time to
avoid big mistakes.
From now on, any time
when you call for a meeting, you have to be present there yourself and follow
My orders. There should be three responsible dignitaries of the Hiệp Thiên Đài
to be present as witnesses, so that the decision of the meeting would be
properly implemented.
N.., he lives too far
away and will not be able to attend meetings regularly, while L… is still too
much attached to secular business.
Alas! You have to
withstand all the difficulties, especially at this moment. Tell C… to seriously
heed My words. Arguments are merely profane, not able to shake the will of
sincere disciples.
I bless you all.
(Ascension.)
(p. 154-155, Collection
of Selected Holy Messages, Book Two, 1972)
42 - The Supreme Being
teaches: I have worked hard to guide you in the Tao, and you keep giving Me
disappointment every day. I wonder when you would succeed.
Tayninh, the end of the
year Đinh Mão (1927)
Here is your Master,
children!
I have worked hard to
guide you in the Tao, and you keep giving Me disappointment every day. I wonder
when you would succeed! I have many times counseled you, and you did not take
my counsels into account so that there are many difficulties right now.
Did you know that, if
this were not the Third Universal Amnesty, I would approve the Giáo Tông’s
recommendations to annihilate all your credits. But out of love, I counsel you
again now so that you understand clearly the implementation of the Tao’s
policy.
You should understand
that the Tao is based on love and sincerity. Love is to love living beings more
than yourself, to consider them as important as Heaven and Earth, and consider
yourself lightly. Sincerity is to deal with everything in secular and spiritual
life with sincerity from the bottom of your heart. Even if you are extremely
rich, if you don’t have love and sincerity, you would never succeed in
anything.
I recommend you to live
according to the Tao, and not to try to render services to humanity just for
honor or good reputation in this temporary world. You have to open your heart
and your mind to practice the Tao, not thinking about being famous if the Tao
succeeds. I shouldn’t need to mention this, but I have to because many of you
are still running after honor and position while practicing the Tao. If you
have real sincerity for the Tao, there wouldn’t be delay in the development of
the Tao right now.
When I founded the Tao,
I told you that you would be challenged by evil because you have not detached
from secular attractions; otherwise, if you were strong enough to fight against
evil, they would stay away, and the Holy See would be prosperous, and you all
would be together as brothers and sisters in the same family, realizing heaven
on earth. Wouldn’t this be more worthy than being rich? Wouldn’t this be the
greatest blessing? Wouldn’t this be the liberation for all humanity? Do you
understand? It would be fortunate for the Tao if you do.
Let me ask you a
question: what would the title and the position that I grant to you be good
for? If you were detached from secular life and cling to the Tao, the Holy See
wouldn’t be insufficient in manpower and deteriorating. If you still want to
serve the Tao, you should gather at the Holy See, and detach yourselves from
secular matters. Take heed!
(Ascension.)
(p. 155, Collection of
Selected Holy Messages, Book Two, 1972)
43 - Nhan Am Dao Truong
teaches: If you want to cultivate your virtues, you should start right at your
heart.
Year Mậu Thìn 1928
Nhàn Âm Đạo Trưởng
Dear disciples, if you
want to cultivate your virtues, where should you start?
You should start right
at your heart, which nobody can see. You cultivate your heart to perfection,
then take care of outside appearance, and then you would have a solid physical
and spiritual body that nobody can shake. If you keep paying attention to
outside appearance and forgetting your heart, you are following the way of Hớn
Lưu Bang dealing with his soldiers, which is like a person with only a physical
body and no soul, or in other words, you pay attention to only visible matters
and forget the miraculous mystic truth. Alas! One has a body with bone and skin
but without a soul, which is useless like an inanimate boulder, or a plank of
wood. It’s like a lamp full of fuel but without a flame, not being able to
light the darkness. Therefore, you have to cultivate the heart first, even if
you do not see it, because if you don’t cultivate the heart, and only pay
attention to the outer appearance, it would be like reciting a prayer during a
ceremony, with all physical lights shining, but without the Divine Eye
illuminating your heart. Your ceremony would be empty, only paving the way to
the emptiness of evil and falsehood.
Try to understand;
otherwise, your work of cultivation would be useless.
(Ascension.)
(p. 156, Collection of
Selected Holy Messages, Book Two, 1972)
44 -The Supreme Being
teaches: Anything consented to by all disciples pleases the divine will. I
forbid you to set up séances or automatic writings.
Your Master.
Children! I am pleased
to see changes in your practice and cooperation with each other on building the
Tao. You should understand that any action in the Tao, if it pleases all
dignitaries and disciples, would please Me.
As the Tao progresses
every day, your road would be harder and harder to follow. But if you use your
virtues instead of your power, your love toward others instead of the love of
self, dedication toward the Tao instead of toward secular honors, you would be
well on your way to reaching the goal of the Tao. Exactly like in secular life,
in religious life if you are involved too much with your honors, powers, and
position, you have to pay with difficulties, dangers, and suffering. You have
to think about this and improve your virtues, being patient on your way, with
perseverance to reach calmness in your conscience (heart). Those of you who are
more interested in titles and powers will be at times punished. You should look
at this as an example. You have heard My counsels regarding stopping spiritism,
but many of you did not follow My orders and became lost on the wrong path. I
shed tears in watching many beloved disciples falling into the abyss. Remember
those examples and watch your step in the future.
I have shown you all
possible options; you have to make up your mind and choose your way to go, with
perseverance. It’s a way to respect and love Me. Obey.
T…, T…, C…, from now
on, you have to cooperate with each other to carry the load of the Tao.
Anything that agrees with the New Codes pleases the divine will; anything
consented to by all disciples, and useful for the Tao, should be implemented
without waiting for My counsels.
When you trust, guide,
and support each other without doubt and reservation, you have offered Me the
greatest joy. For the traitor, the divine law will punish them accordingly.
C…, I forbid you to set
up séances or automatic writings because they would cause great damage to the
Tao. It would destroy the faith of humanity by leading them to impurity.
T…, I have mercy on you
and excuse you. If you do it again, the Three
Religions Court
I bless you all.
(Ascension.)
(p. 157, Collection of
Selected Holy Messages, Book Two, 1972)
45 - Ly Thai Bach
teaches: If the title is granted to someone, this person would bear the title
only, but there will never be two persons of the same title.
Here is Thái Bạch!
Great joy! Great joy!
Divine smile! I shall
explain your titles. For example, if the title Thượng Đầu Sư, Ngọc Đầu Sư, Thái
Đầu Sư, Hộ Pháp, Thượng Phẩm, Thượng Sanh, and even my tiltle Giáo Tông are
granted to someone, this person would bear the title only but never become
another Thái Bạch, another Thượng Trung Nhựt, or another Ngọc Lịch Nguyệt, or
another Thái Nương Tinh, or another Hộ Pháp, or another Thượng Phẩm, or another
Thượng Sanh.
Understand!
Ascension.
(p. 158, Collection of Selected Holy Messages,
Book Two, 1972)
46 - The Supreme Being
teaches: Life is like an examination. If the examination is difficult, and yet
you pass the examination with honors, your success would be more valuable.
Holy See, the 10th day
of the 3rd month of the year Mậu Thìn (1928)
Here is your Master,
children!
C. H…, I see you
bearing so much sadness and sufferings to redeem your soul, that I shed tears
of empathy and joy for your redemption. The secular road has many turning
points with obstacles as arranged by divine will. It is a place for all Angels,
Saints, Immortals and Buddhas to build their merit in order to return to their
original positions. Humans are like merchants at a market, where all their
strength, their mind, and their soul are worn down so that they have lost track
of their soul, and their original positions. Therefore, many Angels, Saints,
Immortals, Buddhas have been contented with their lot, and did not dare to look
up for any aspiration in order to avoid damnation. But if they dare not incarnate,
they would be like students who avoid examinations; how could they regain their
noble position? Life is like an examination; if it is easy to pass, the
examination would not be valuable and meaningful. If the examination is
difficult, and yet you pass the examination with honors, your success would be
more valuable. In this world, you are the children I love most, but as an
examiner, if I gave you the answers, your success at the examination would not
be valuable. Moreover, although I have never been away from you, I know that
you are more than capable of passing the examination, and if I were to help
you, I would damage the value of your honor. The fact that you have to bear
sufferings is from My will. Being in a poor family yet having good virtues are good
examples for other people. You should try to be patient, and your good virtues
would be the ladder to heaven. The sincerity is for your cultivation, and the
virtues are more precious than gold. Being contented with your poverty while
you are practicing the Tao, your merits would be better than the ones of people
of higher class.
(Ascension.)
(p. 159, Collection of Selected Holy Messages,
Book Two, 1972)
47 - The Supreme Being
teaches: Each of you has an important responsibility to spread the Tao which,
if you fail to fulfill, would lead to divine punishment according to the
balance between your good and bad deeds.
Here is your Master,
children!
I allow L… to come in.
Children, you have to keep your promise to the Hiệp Thiên Đài. I have ordered
Immortals to reveal to you some indispensable matters of the Tao, therefore,
these current discontents in the Tao were already arranged and could not be
prevented. You have to understand that each of you has your own great responsibility
to the Tao. Before, when you took orders from the Three Religions Court to
incarnate among human beings during this Third Universal Amnesty, you had
promised to fulfill your responsibility. I, as the Supreme Being who founded
the Tao, also am obliged to guarantee your mission. Therefore, each of you has
an important responsibility which, if you fail to fulfill, would lead to divine
punishment according to the balance between your good and bad deeds. Satan has
taken advantage of the crookedness of some of you, in order to compete with Me,
to lure you to his side. He led disciples progressively according to their
attitudes, away from the right path. As I had guaranteed your mission, and
trained your holy mind, now is the time for the Three Religions Court to judge
your actions according to justice.
Alas! Not too long in
being away from Me, many of you were seduced by Satan because of your secular
greed. I have pity for them, but I am unable to save them. Whoever follows the
right path would have the opportunity to listen to My teachings. Whoever
follows the wrong path would be led away by evil. If you happen to be able to
distinguish between right and wrong, you should guide each other on My behalf
and that of all living beings. Do not drop everything because you would have no
way to fight against seductions; that would cause delay in the spreading of the
Tao. You understand?
C…, T…, S…, You three
have great responsibility to light the way at the beginning; I order you to
cooperate with each other to build the Tao until the end.
(Ascension.)
(p. 160, Collection of
Selected Holy Messages, Book Two, 1972)
48 - The Supreme Being
teaches: You should try your best to guide living being and fulfill your
responsibility.
Here is your Master,
children!
(Laughter!) (Sigh!) My
goodness! Look at you children! One is behaving this way, the other another
way! Sad! Sad! Sad! T…, child! Many times, I have to suffer for taking care of
you. My only wish is that you love each other in My holy virtue. I couldn’t
randomly and undeservedly give you all the supreme titles of Immortals and
Buddhas. I have been bearing difficulties for you, only expecting you to love
living beings and to spread the Tao. I have set up all means for you to have the
wherewithal to establish the Tao successfully. I gave you the power to guide
all souls who are suffering reincarnation. I have so decided and no one could
change My decision.
Have you ever seen such
an honor before? I gave each of you some power; I thought you should value it
and improve your virtue a little, but many of you have disrespected Me, and did
not listen to My orders to gather all My children into one family. Many people
have complained. Under these circumstances, when would the Tao succeed?
Needless to say,
whoever is a virtuous person, when they read the constitution of the Tao that I
have created, should be very happy for humanity. I am obliged to promise to the
Ngọc Hư Cung (Palace of the Nothingness) that if the Tao persists, I would remain
with you and keep an eye on you. You see, My words are extremely important. If
you value the Tao, you should put all your mind into following the constitution
to organize the administration. The Hiệp Thiên Đài has not recognized you, and
in the future, the Tao would not be recognized either. It is deserving of Me to
correct this.
Though the Superior Spirits wanted the Tao to
manifest strongly, I would not use spiritism to explain again, but rather leave
all the responsibility in your hands. You should rely on yourselves to build up
your own positions before humanity so that the Tao would appear as valuable as
it should. Therefore, I have to harness My heart to leave you alone although I
have never been away from you. Do you understand?
Trust
is given to teachers,
To
mete discipline born of compassion.
Thusly
influence humanity,
To
build a world that evils must shun.
In
you, as children, I have instilled virtue;
As
adults you should strive to be virtuous!
Cleaving
to your true spiritual selves,
Tho’
this Earth be abject and tempestuous.
I bless you all.
T…, be patient and wait for My orders. You
understand.
(Ascension.)
(p. 161, Collection of
Selected Holy Messages, Book Two, 1972)
49 - The Supreme Being teaches: I have treated all
disciples as equals regardless of their titles
April 16, 1928
Your Master, Children!
As I have stated, I have treated all disciples as
equals regardless of their titles. Whoever had built meritorious service in
previous lives, I would trust them with more important responsibilities.
Whoever had given less service I would give less responsibility. They all are
my children. Except for administrative responsibilities, they are spiritually
equal. No one can use their power to take advantage of others. Nobody has the
right to abuse or disabuse anyone. Your purpose is the Tao; if you do not prize
this goal, how could you avoid turmoil?
I am the Supreme Being. Many times in the past, I
had to incarnate into the world to guide living beings. If I had not, there
would not be all the religions that human beings are following today.
You must heed My teachings. There have been many
Holy teachings from many Superior Spirits who, out of love, have guided you;
however, you did not follow.
(Ascension.)
(p.162, Collection of
Selected Holy Messages, Book Two, 1972)
50 - Teachings given by Thanh Tâm explaining the verses:
No people walk the street or plough the field. No one is aware of the Tao; I
fear for their destruction!
April 23, 1928
Thanh Tâm
Greetings to all brothers…………
The Tao has been widely available; the seeds have
been sown for two years, yet sincere followers are rare. This was the reason
for the Gautama Sakyamuni Buddha’s lamentation:
No
people walk the street or plough the field.
No
one is aware of the Tao; I fear for their destruction!
Do you understand, brothers?
Why did he say that there were no people walking
the street, brother M…N…? There are lots
of people in the street, but there are no good ones—there are only the walking
dead, empty, deceitful, cruel people.
What did he mean by “nobody ploughs the field?”
brother N. Đ…?
The heart is compared to the field. Nobody
cultivates the heart, just as no one ploughs and prepares the field for growing
rice. Fields left uncultivated become the province of snakes, rats, insects.
People with fallow, uncultivated hearts become like vermin.
The field is ready; so are the seeds and the
implements. People just need to take up the plough and do the necessary work to
bring in the harvest. If they don’t plough—in other words, cultivate the
heart—then they shall not reap. They’ll lose their soul! The last verse
reflects this result.
(Ascension.)
(p. 162-163, Collection of
Selected Holy Messages, Book Two, 1972)
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