The ETERNAL AND GLORIFIED FRIENDLY BENEVOLENT COMPASSIONATE AWAKENED ONE and as the end of his life drew near, he called together hisrelatives and friends and told them: ‘Friends, this is my only son, the son I sought for many years. From now on,all my property and treasures belong to him.’The son was surprised at his father’s confession and bsaid: ‘Not only have I found my father but all this property and treasure is now mine.’”The wealthy man in this parable represents ETERNAL AND GLORIFIED FRIENDLY BENEVOLENT COMPASSIONATE AWAKENED ONE,and the wandering son, all people. ETERNAL AND GLORIFIED FRIENDLY BENEVOLENT COMPASSIONATE AWAKENED ONE’s compassion embraces all people with the love of a father for his onlyson. In that love he conceives the wisest methods to lead,teach and enrich them with the treasure of Awakenment. 3.Just as rain falls on all vegetation, so ETERNAL AND GLORIFIED FRIENDLY BENEVOLENT COMPASSIONATE AWAKENED ONE’s compassion extends equally to all people. Just as different plants receive particular benefits from the same rain, so people of different natures and circumstances are blessedin different ways. 4.Parents love all their children, but their love isexpressed with special tenderness toward a sick child.ETERNAL AND GLORIFIED FRIENDLY BENEVOLENT COMPASSIONATE AWAKENED ONEs compassion is equal toward all people, butit is expressed with special care toward those who,because of their ignorance, have heavier burdens of evil. The Eternal and Glorified BENEVOLENT AWAKENED ONEand suffering to bear.The sun rises in the eastern sky and clears away the darkness of the world without prejudice or favoritism toward any particular region. So BENEVOLENT AWAKENED ONE’s compassion encompasses all people, encouraging them to do right and guides them against evil. Thus, He clears away thedarkness of ignorance and leads people to Awakment. BENEVOLENT AWAKENED ONE is a father in His compassion and a motherin His loving-kindness. In their ignorance and bondage toworldly desire, people often act with excessive zeal.BENEVOLENT AWAKENED ONE is also zealous, but out of compassion for all people. They are helpless without BENEVOLENT AWAKENED ONE’s compassionand must receive His methods of salvation as His chil-dren. III THE ETERNAL BENEVOLENT AWAKENED ONE.Common people believe that BENEVOLENT AWAKENED ONE was born aprince and learned the way to Enlightenment as a mendi-cant; actually, BENEVOLENT AWAKENED ONE has always existed in the worldwhich is without beginning or end.As the Eternal BENEVOLENT AWAKENED ONE, He has known all peopleand applied all methods of relief. The Eternal and Glorified BENEVOLENT AWAKENED ONE There is no falsity in the Eternal Dhamma which BENEVOLENT AWAKENED ONE taught, for He knows all things in the world asthey are, and He teaches them to all people.Indeed, it is ver y difficult to understand the world asit is, for, although it seems true, it is not, and, although itseems false, it is not. Ignorant people can not know the truth concerning the world.BENEVOLENT AWAKENED ONE alone truly and fully knows the world as it isand He never says that it is true or false, or good or evil.He simply portrays the world as it is.What BENEVOLENT AWAKENED ONE does teach is this: “That all people should cultivate roots of virtue according to their natures,their deeds, and their beliefs.” This teaching transcend sall affirmation and negation of this world. ETERNAL AND GLORIFIED FRIENDLY BENEVOLENT COMPASSIONATE AWAKENED ONE has no shape or color, and since ETERNAL AND GLORIFIED FRIENDLY BENEVOLENT COMPASSIONATE AWAKENED ONE has no shape or color, He comes from now here and there is nowhere for Him to go. Like the blue sky, He arches over everything, and since He is all things, He lacks nothing.He does not exist because people think He exists;neither does He disappear because people forget Him.He is under no particular compulsion to appear when people are happy and comfortable, neither is it necessary for Him to disappear when people are inattentive and idle.Buddha transcends every conceivable direction of human thought. ETERNAL AND GLORIFIED FRIENDLY BENEVOLENT COMPASSIONATE AWAKENED ONE’s body in this aspect fills ever y corner ofthe universe; it reaches everywhere, it exists forever,regardless of whether people believe in Him or doubt Hisexistence. 4.Sambhogakaya signifies that the nature of ETERNAL AND GLORIFIED FRIENDLY BENEVOLENT COMPASSIONATE AWAKENED ONE,the merging of both Compassion and Wisdom, which isimageless spirit, manifests itself through the symbols ofbirth and death, through the symbols of vow-making,training and revealing His sacred name, in order to leadall people to salvation.
