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Religious scriptures are not apart from the Universal Light Body. Separated from the Universal Light Body, then there are no religions to discuss.

From ancient times to the present, human beings have been confined within the beliefs and worship of religious systems when considering the Universal Light Body. Going deeply into the Universal Light Body's very truth and discerning the complete and true picture of the Universal Light Body is always difficult.

All religious theories use the Universal Light Body as their main idea. Each religious theory has its own name and perception. All religions come from the same source. All scriptures and all theories created their own title, identically titled as Light, for example, the boundless light (Amitabha), the omnipresent bright light (Vairocana), the Great Sun (the Light Body) ... and Lights of God and Heavenly Father of Jesus. Each religion's Light, depending on its era, its race of people, its area, and its cultural background, produced different corresponding variations, different transformations of appearance, and different names and perceptions. Pursuing their original source, they all come from a common body. All come from the Universal Light Body's Appearances in Different forms, just as all people of the world have, from ancient times to the present, perceived the sun the same sun in different ways. If there is a discrepancy, it is only caused by human's sense of superiority and stubbornness.

Originally, all religious doctrines were correct. (Later generations distorted the original doctrines. The distortion is a different issue.) The Universal Light Body is the Inner Self of the universe, the unique subject of the universe. Because of the revelations and understanding gained from all religious scriptures, human beings naturally produced religious beliefs and worship for the transcendently divine nature of the Universal Light Body. The various religious practices, with which people ask to be close to God, such as reading scriptures, praying, deep Buddhist meditation, kneeling worship, deep contemplation, reverence-.- even going so far as offering sacrifices, indicate that the religious scriptures' conception of Eternal Life is already deeply rooted in the determined hearts of believers who, of one mind and heart, aspire to eternal life. For example, in the Great Amitabha Sutra, Boundless light leads believers into the Land of Utmost Bliss to obtain eternal life. The Boundless Light reveals itself according to types of living beings, thereby transforming itself into Amitabha to symbolize the contents of boundless life (Eternal Life). Jesus manifested himself in an image after death and ascended into heaven, also exposing the true meaning of Eternal Life. Does reading scriptures really lead toward the Land of Utmost Bliss! Does believing in Jesus guarantee eternal life!? Theory belongs to religious scriptures and scriptures are only established by written language. For modern people, seeking Eternal Life through written language and theory resembles academic discussions, talk without action. How do modern people transcend theory? How do people put theory into practice!? Although Shakyamuni and Jesus respectively laid the foundation for the concept of Eternal Life with the boundless light and the light of the Christian God, how many people from then on have actually obtained eternal life!? If humans ask for Eternal Life but are restricted only to written language, they will never be excused from death. If there is no actual absorption of the nature of the Universal Light Body, it's impossible for humans to obtain eternal life. Furthermore, how could humans be near or encounter the Universal Light Body!? The answer is to return to one's Original Heart, to unveil one's Original Heart! It then becomes possible to correspond with the Universal Light Body! At this point Eternal Life can become reality.

The most important teaching of Confucianism is the Original Heart. The Original Heart is the Inner Self of physical life. The Universal Light Body is the Inner Self of the universe. The Inner Self of humans and the inner self of the universe share the same bright nature. The Universal Light Body, the Original Heart (Inner Self) and the physical body in unison is called the Trinity. To achieve Eternal Life, the essential natures of the Trinity must harmoniously unite with each other. Based on the real spirit of one's inner self (Original Heart), Buddhism develops the wisdom of one's Original Heart to become aware of the true perception of universal life and establishes the eternal life concept of continuing three periods of time. If the properties of the Trinity are not reciprocally combined, the flow of life consciousness is suspended and trapped in an Ignorant state, making the flow of three periods life consciousness unable to continue. Eternal life is therefore impossible to obtain. If human's internal Original Heart is released to join in the Universal Light Body, the essence of the Light Body naturally exposes vast levels of life and the endless Pure Lands. Therefore. The Land of Utmost Bliss exists according to one's Original Heart. All the various Buddha-lands are manifested from the Original Heart. The contents of all universal life are hidden on the terrain of wisdom in the Original Heart (Tathagata Womb). After the Original Heart is unveiled, its wisdom can understand the whole internal profundity of universal life.

People after all are human. People's superiority and stubbornness cannot transcend the restraints of life and death, while one's Original Heart has no birth and no death it always exists, and is always self content. To unveil one's Original Heart is to attain emancipation. The reciprocal transformation of birth and death produced by humans and their Original Hearts constitutes the cyclical alternation of transient life and eternal life. In the process of the cycle of transience and eternity, the nature of the Universal Light Body transforms and exalts the Original Heart so that life consciousness can become united, the Original Heart hence completely and perfectly matches the Universal Light Body, producing an image of Whirlpool Light Body (the Perception of Wisdom). The Wisdom Body and the Wisdom Light are instantly brought forth, transformed from the nature of the Universal Light Body!! The principle of emitting light and appearing in multiple bodies (such body is called Multi-appearing Body) is validated in this correspondence. The source of light emission is the Universal Light Body. Endless bodies are reproduced from within the Light. Endless reproduced bodies mutually give rise to the effect of emitting light. In short, Multi-appearing Bodies are the bodies reproduced from the Universal Light Body revealing its form according to types of living beings. This is called Light Becoming Form. The character and quality of each Multi-appearing Body are the same as the inner contents of the Universal Light Body. It is according to the form of human species that the Universal Light Body manifests itself as a human being (the Multi-appearing body), therefore appearing in multiple bodies symbolizes the Trinity. Not only is the Multi-appearing Body the combined body of the Universal Light Body and human life consciousness, but it is also the concrete evidence of human's Eternal Life. The Universal Light Body exists forever. The Multi-appearing Body follows it to become permanent. As the brilliance of the Universal Light Body shines all over the time and space of the universe, the Multi-appearing Body also dwells everywhere in the Dharma realms, and revolves without obstacles everywhere in the Dharma realms. Since the Multi-appearing body comes from the Universal Light Body, is born in the Dharma realms, and its livelihood is in Dharma realms, therefore, it is called the Dharma Realm Born and is also named the Dharma Realm Body.

   After Jesus died he manifested himself in an image ascending to heaven. This occurrence of manifesting oneself in a single image elucidated the eternity of human's internal life. Shakyamuni's emitting light and appearing in multiple bodies developed the truth about the universe and human life, revealing the true path of eternity. That the wisdom (Inner Self) of Shakyamuni’s, as well as that of Jesus, merged with the nature of the Light Body are exactly the concrete realizations of the Trinity and the Heaven-Human Unification. Although the manner was different in what the Universal Light Body conveyed during the lives of Shakyamuni and Jesus, their common theme was the same eternal life! It sufficiently revealed the existence and value, as well as the transcendence and eternity of the Original Heart of humans. Originally, life consisted of successive consciousness states. Only human Ignorance obstructs the flow of life consciousness, causing the original life consciousness to recur continuously in the dark wandering domain of consciousness, to struggle within the state of ignorance, and to be unable to pull itself out. Ignorance is the mud and darkness of consciousness. Ignorance then cannot understand the existence and value of the Original Heart. If a dark, muddy life consciousness acquires union with the Universal Light Body, it regains illumination and then purifies itself. The consciousness of the Original Heart transcends the obstacles of ignorance and accordingly resurrects. Consciousness is transformed into wisdom turning knowledge into wisdom. The nature of humans transforms into the nature of the Light Body, with which the Original Heart can sustain the continuity of life past, present and future (the next life). When one's Original Heart adopts the nature of the Universal Light Body, there will no longer be recurring lives in the dark turbid world. One's Original Heart then returns to the radiance of the universe and immediately manifests itself in an image ascending to heaven, moving unrestrictedly, prevailing through universal time and space, existing eternally---achieving eternal life !!

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