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Whereas Plato's
"Matter" = material, or a metaphor for the physical body as image,
Whereas an example of "transported and installed in space" = the
manifestation of Sungchili's Divine Light Avatar, or "Fen Shen," in a
Canadian harbor.
Plato's theory of "Forms" embraces all phenomena, all beings, all
appearances in the spatio-temporal universe. In Buddhism these are called
dharma, and in Confucianism, beings; they are identical with the real forms
of all things whose altered states are perceived by the Original
Consciousness. Plato's god is clearly distinct from the "God" of Jesus.
Jesus' God can create all things, whereas Plato's god is able to emulate the
forms of all things in the universe and install them in space, and to
transport all the ideal values of Truth, Goodness, and Beauty in the
metaphysical domain, intermingled, combined and channeled, into the lower
world, just as the original image and material are appropriately merged to
become the actual "natural universe." All actions, all forms, and all images
revealed in the natural universe are known as "the reality of the dharma
realm" in Buddhist terminology. An example of these are the contents and
realities of the dharma-realm often gratefully praised by the faithful
believers of Sungchili's "Fen Shen;" the total content of the realities seen
by these faithful may be subsumed in what Plato calls the "natural
universe."
The Platonic natural universe is created and made manifest by Plato's
Original Consciousness, a concept that is on par with Jesus' vision of God's
Kingdom of Heaven. However, Jesus regards the Kingdom of Heaven and God as
Objects, while Plato regards the deity and its images as Subjects. Plato's
chief disciple, Aristotle, followed Plato's system of thought and used it as
a basis to formulate his metaphysical ontology. True substance is Subject,
is the "Original Consciousness," is the "Original Self!" In Aristotle's
conception, all existence in the universe has to be determined, transformed,
and brought into being through substance. Hence, substance unifies all
existence in the universe. This has corollaries in Confucianism-Taoism "The
Universe is in my mind, and my mind contains the Universe" and in Buddhism
"All dharma arises from the heart's intentions."
The Aristotelian metaphysical conception that "all entities and phenomena
dwelling in the spiritual universe are dependent on its spiritual substance
for existence" also has its parallels in Buddhism. Buddhist scripture
states, "Just as Amitabha has his own nature, so does the Pure Land lie in
the mind." [1] The Flower Ornament Sutra states, "The Buddha of the ten
directions and the three periods of time (past, present and future) must
look at the nature of the Dharma realm and realize that all things in the
universe are created by the consciousness." [2] The scriptures also state,
"The three realms are created only by the consciousness; a single
consciousness produces all dharma." [3] In summary, when the collective
Original Consciousness of humankind reveals itself, it will be intimately
inter-related with all the phenomena of the universe. It is only through
these concepts that Sungchil's "Fen Shen," or Divine Light Avatar (more will
be discussed on this topic later), which was manifested and seen in places
as far away from Taiwan as Canada, can be fully understood. If the Original
Consciousness of humankind is erased or ignored or deemed non-existent, then
the realm of Ultimate Bliss (Nirvana) and the Pure Lands of the Buddhas will
also cease to exist. Therefore, Plato's natural universe, Aristotle's
spiritual universe, and the material universe created by the Christian God
must all exist through the Original Consciousness.
When one can understand Plato's position that his god emulates the Forms,
creates their after-images, and then transports them to the "natural
universe" to exist as corporeal substances, one can immediately penetrate
the meaning of Jesus' words: "The Kingdom of Heaven is near." [4] The
journey of the Kingdom of Heaven from "far" to "near" suggests that the
Kingdom of Heaven is brought "closer" by way of the conscious alteration
that happens within Jesus' Original Consciousness and creates the phenomenon
of "transporting" movement. It is this emulation and then transportation of
the Forms existing within the Perfect Realm that constitutes the imminent
arrival of the Kingdom of Heaven. When the Pharisees asked Jesus, "When will
the Kingdom of God arrive?" Jesus replied, "The kingdom of God does not come
with observation; "Neither shall they say, ¡¥Lo here!' Or, ¡¥Lo, there!' For
behold, the kingdom of God is within you." [5] Precisely because the Kingdom
of God cannot be seen by the physical eye, but can only be seen by the eye
of the Original Consciousness, it belongs in the category of "formless
Forms," or "True-Form realities." When the Kingdom of God descends, it will
be neither here nor there. This shows that God's Kingdom has no fixed
location, but is, instead, characterized by mobility.
Knowing that its existence depends on the conscious alteration of the
Original Consciousness, Jesus had to say: "The Kingdom of God is within
you." [6] Since Jesus had already stated that the Kingdom of God could not
be seen with the physical eye, because it is located within, the only way to
see God's Kingdom is by manifesting one's Original Consciousness. Moreover,
the Kingdom of God cannot be entered with a fleshly body, as Paul mentions
in his First Letter to the Corinthians, 15:50: "...flesh and blood cannot
inherit the Kingdom of God." Humans must undergo a transformation,
resurrecting our fleshly bodies into spiritual bodies; then, and only then,
can we enter the Kingdom of God. The Kingdom of God can be accessed only
after our resurrection.
When the Bible mentions "resurrection," it is precisely referring to the
manifestation of the Original Consciousness, and "our spiritual body" refers
precisely to our "Fen Shen" (literally, a "splitting of the self," a
physical disassociation that releases our spiritual selves as a conscious
and separate Divine Light Avatar). Thus, the resurrection, or manifestation,
of the Original Consciousness is directly translated into the ability to
"split" ourselves from our physical bodies to release our Divine Light
Avatars, or "Fen Shen!" Hence, we know that Jesus' Kingdom of Heaven belongs
in Plato's natural, or spiritual, universe. The multitudinous phenomena,
entities, acts, and Forms manifested in this natural universe have forced
the biblical statement, "God created all things," [7] to have a distorted
interpretation - that of God creating a "material universe." Instead of
saying that God created the material universe, it is better to say that the
Original Consciousness makes manifest the "natural universe." By the same
token, the realm of ultimate bliss described by Sakyamuni Buddha and the
Kingdom of God spoken of by Jesus are also phenomena of the
natural/spiritual universe that can be brought into existence through the
conscious manifestations of the Original Consciousness.
The Buddhist realm of ultimate bliss is both billions of miles away and
right before our eyes. It moved from far to near, to the space right in
front of Vaidehi, who having laid eyes upon this kingdom, yearned endlessly
for rebirth there.[8] The manner of kingdoms "descending" or "approaching"
from far to near proves that the myriad phenomena of the universe can, by
way of the Original Consciousness' capability of "transporting" images,
change and switch positions, while possessing the substance and tangibility
of the material universe. Hence, the natural universe is closer to
perfection and is a "higher," more ideal realm than the material universe.
The material universe is subject to change and destruction, so it is not
perfect
The natural, or spiritual, universe, on the other hand, is permanent,
absolute, unchanging and indestructible. Because the Original Consciousness
of humankind also exists permanently, it follows that the natural universe
also exists permanently. Only by manifesting our Original Consciousness and
transforming the consciousness of our physical bodies into Divine Light
Avatars "Fen Shen" can we humans enter the kingdom of God and reach the
realm of ultimate bliss. And only by means of the ability to enter can we
partake of immortality and eternality and fully realize the infinite,
abundant nature of life. Following these ideas, one can immediately
understand how Sungchili's "Fen Shen" could appear halfway around the world
in Canada. Moreover, the myriad photographs depicting Sungchili's "Fen Shen"
causing cities to enter a small room, moving mountains and overturning
oceans, and switching the positions of heaven and earth, can also be
explained and fully understood at the deepest level by way of the concepts
of the Original Consciousness and the natural universe. |
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