Sakyamuni Buddha was born more than 2,500 years ago in the ancient city of Kapiro. His father was King Gingwan. At the age of twenty, after he fathered a son, at midnight, he left home to search for the truth. At the age of thirty five, he received initiation of Tao from Buddha Dipankara in spirit and was enlightened. He then started the teaching of Truth for more than forty years.

Buddha Sakyamuni revealed the secrets of the timing for the general propagation of Tao and its profound impact on people who would be inspired with belief when his disciple Subhuti asked, World honored one, will there always be men who will truly believe after coming to hear these teachings?

Buddha answered, Subhuti, do not utter such words! At the end of the last five hundred year period following the passing of the Tathagata, there will be self controlled men, rooted in merit, coming to hear these teachings, who will be inspired with belief. But you should realize that such men have not strengthened their root of merit through one, two, three, four, or five Buddhahoods, but through countless Buddhahoods; and their merit is of every kind. Such men, coming to hear these teachings, will have immediate uprising of pure faith. Subhuti, the Tathagata clearly understands and sees these people who will attain infinite prosperity and virtue.

In the tenth chapter of the Great Collection of Lunar Treasure Sutra, Buddha is reported as saying after his death that there would be five successive periods, each of 500 years. These periods are as follows:

1] Period of Enlightenment or Salvation

2] Period of Meditation

3] Period of Learning

4] Period of Temple Building and

5] Period of Dissension and Decay of Faith.

If we look carefully, there is a general degradation of the faith through the time after Buddha Sakyamuni returned to Void or Heaven of Truth.

We are now in the last period of Dissension and Decay of Faith after 2,500 years. Buddha has revealed the coming of the true transmission of Tao during this period. The main reason that people will be inspired with belief when they receive transmission of Tao is because they have been cultivating and preparing spiritually through countless lives of incarnation. These people will be able to have immediate uprising of pure faith and by cultivating and propagating Tao, they will attain prosperity and virtue.

Buddha Sakyamuni left behind a very important Buddhist symbol. This symbol hides the true meaning of the path of Tao to Buddhahood. Likewise Jesus Christ also left behind a crucifix symbol in the form of a cross. Both symbols are Heavenly secrets leading to the Truth of life.

The last message left by Buddha to his disciples between two bodhi trees outside the city of Guniro at the foot of Snow Mountain 2,500 years ago carries great meaning in the teaching of Tao. This is a teaching by my Heavenly Teacher JiGong;

Undergoing the difference of time and space, words that one utters at the current level of awareness may have changed in half a year. But still, the voice of the heart right at this moment must be expressed outward. Then only can it be converted into energy and be digested (dissolved and transformed).

During this final stage of Universal Transformation, we all belong to a group that strives upward for the Way to Full Enlightenment and works downwardly to carry numerous beings across the bitter sea of life.

Time and space, it is said that all the words uttered by each person are within the Principle of Yin and Yang. Yin represents the earth, female, north, coldness, stillness and the gloomy and negative, etc. Yang represents the heaven, male, south, warmth, activeness and the bright and positive, etc. The last message by Buddha Sakyamuni explains a very deep meaning that one can attain Full Enlightenment at this final stage of Universal Transformation.

Author: T.A Chew