(Grand Master Lu’s Book 51 -“Highest Yoga Tantra and Mahamudra”)
True Buddha Translation Teams (TBTTs)
(continued from p11, issue 950)
I shall herein disclose everything about myself: I was born on May 18, 1945 (lunar calendar) at noon, in Houhu, County of Jiayi. My father’s name is Lu Ershun and my mother is Huang Yunu. My last name is Lu and my first name is Sheng-yen, and I was born during the midst of air strikes by Japanese warplanes. Therefore, my parents were on the run and I was born on a chicken farm. 1945 was the year of the rooster.
My religious journey led me to follow Christianity, Taoism, the Tiande Sect (Heavenly Virtue), Sutrayana, and Vajrayana Buddhism. Later, I saw that I was the emanation of White Mahapadmakumara of the Maha Twin Lotus Ponds in Sukhavati, who had returned to the human world due to my previous vows to deliver sentient beings. This is my fourth reincarnation on earth.
I practiced the respective sadhanas of the four Vajrayana schools, according to the respective transmissions of the lineage orders. In the Kagyu School, I am the forty-second lineage holder counting from Vajradhara, the seventeenth if you count from the Karmapas, and the thirty-third counting from Tilopa.
Amitabha Buddha of Sukhavati, Guru Padmasambhava, and the Karmapas all entrusted White Mahapadmakumara of the Maha Twin Lotus Ponds, with a heavy responsibility to incarnate four times on earth. These reincarnations are evidence of his great compassion. The Holy Red Crown Vajra Guru, Master Sheng-yen Lu is also the Immovable Vajra Master who is not affected by any slanders or criticism. In the future, he shall become a Buddha with the epithet, the Non-Evil Eye Tathagata. The Maha Twin Lotus Ponds is a realm that was manifested by the Non-Evil Eye Tathagata.
I first had my spirit awakened by my teacher Lin Qiandai. Later, through various circumstances I received trainings from the invisible spirit guide, the Eminent Sanshan-Jiuhou. I cultivated according to the teachings of Taoism, Sutrayana, and Vajrayana, beginning first with Taoism, then Sutrayana and finally Vajrayana. My teachers include Lin Qiandai, Taoist Master Qingzhen, the Eminent Sanshan-Jiuhou, Venerable Yinshun, Venerable Leguo, Venerable Daoan, Venerable Huisan, Venerable Xiandun, Venerable Jueguang, Master Xiao Changming, the Sixteenth Gyalwa Karmapa, Tai Situpa Rinpoche, Guru Pufang, Guru Thubten Dargye, Sakya Zhengkong Lama, Guru Padmasambhava and others. I have mastered the teachings of the Great Perfection, Mahamudra, Lamdre and Yamantaka Sadhana. Examples of these accomplishments include the Seven Treasures , the Mother-Child Luminosity Tantra, Clear Light Yoga, teachings of Kunga Drolchok, and sadhana on the peaceful and wrathful deities, among other practices. I received spiritual responses in all of them.
I have been endowed with the blessings of the buddhas, bodhisattvas and the power of White Mahapadmakumara through my yogic union. This profound revelation of the Highest Yoga Tantra and Mahamudra will allow sentient beings to be guided by the buddhas’ light, and be empowered by the buddhas to attain buddhahood. Those who hold this book should immediately pay homage to the Mahamudra lineage holders because the emergence of this kind of dharma work is rarely seen. This book constitutes the great secret of Padmakumara’s mission to ferry sentient beings to the other shore.
(The end)
