Achieving Realization through this sutra definitely allows us to return to the Maha Twin Lotus Ponds of the Western Paradise of Ultimate Bliss.

If you can refine all the energetic power of the body’s cellular metabolism into clear light, you will become a radiant being who sends forth a vibration that fills the universe.

A person who possesses spiritual power may cause changes in the material world. He can cause clouds to turn into rain, rain into ice, and ice into vapor. All these transformations are just natural manifestations and “a silent calling forth of the spiritual power.”

As long as one hears the harmonious and graceful, heavenly music that flows through one’s heart, all emotional afflictions will vanish and all of the cells in one’s body will dance to the music. Once this dancing starts, it cannot be stopped.

Many devas, gods, even Buddhas and Bodhisattvas descend to hear Dharma teachings. When I was teaching in New York and San Francisco, there appeared, in the sky, the Light of the Revolving Dharma Wheel.

The “great wisdom light” is the “subtle and wonderful light.” When your mind penetrates through the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth levels, to reach the ninth level of consciousness, it is as if you entered a very dark room and lit a bright candle.

When you reach the realization that “there is not a single thing in this world that belongs to me,” the red vow light will appear above your crown. Your heart will expand and become as immense as heaven and earth, and you will have a heart of infinite kindness to help others.

In the practice of an authentic Buddhadharma, one explores one’s inner world to realize the Heart. When one is able to temper the True Heart by transforming human nature into Buddha Nature, one is practicing the authentic Buddhadharma.

There is a golden saying in Buddhism: When one is deluded, one is an ordinary being; when one awakens and sees, one is a Buddha. All beings and Buddhas are equal.

Unlike ordinary secular people who only have a “little compassion,” which is actually based on an egotistic mind, we spiritual cultivators have to develop great compassion.

The authentic True Mind of the Universe is “No Thought.” At the time of a genuine “no thought,” your mind then becomes wide open, infinite, and merges with the Mind of the Universe.

“Should nations enter into war, then whoever holds this sutra and creates an image of Padmakumara, setting up offerings before it, immediately receives extra prowess wherein no battle can be lost.” Many students have considered this passage to be an advocacy of warfare.