A PROTECTIVE BOUNDARY FOR THE SHRINE

What do you mean by defining the protective boundary? How is the ritual performed?

When a protective boundary is defined for the sacred shrine, all evil spirits will not dare to enter the protected area, while the good ones will frequent the place and stay. The size of the boundary can vary from small to big. A big protective boundary can cover an entire planet, a continent or a country. (For the Benevolent King country protection ritual, the protected area is as big as a country). A small protective boundary can be defined for a ritual site, a place for precepts observation, a house, or a sacred shrine.

As understood by Living Buddha Lian-Sheng, the boundary ritual practiced by Vajrayana Buddhism is as follows:

1. Vajra-pillar- erect pillars on the ground.

2. Vajra-wall- a square wall.

3. Vajra-net- a net is hung in the air, with the four corners covering the whole Vajra shrine.

4. Maha-Samaya- using mudra to define the boundary outside the area of fire.

Today, I am going to introduce the ritual of Vajra-fire to you; a ritual which is a profound secret and seldom taught:

1. Clean yourself and enter the shrine. After invocation, perform the Fourfold Refuge, great Prostration, Great Offering, and the Four Immeasurables.

2. Form the vajra-net mudra: cross both hands, let the two last fingers and index fingers touching one another and facing upwards. The two thumbs must not touch each other, the back of your hands face upwards; this is the mudra.

3. Visualization: the sacred shrine is the focal point. A ray of white silk net is being emitted from the crown of the root-deity, which envelops the whole area. It is just like a fountain; spraying water into the sky, and falls down in the shape of an umbrella. This is the umbrella visualization. You may visualize it to be as big as you wish. This visualization is of utmost importance.

4. Vajra-fire mudra: both palms face upwards, the right palm on top of the left. Both thumbs contact and face upwards. This is the mudra.

5. Visualization: Visualize the Vajra-net is burning with fire, such is the visualization of the fire umbrella.

6. Chant the mantra:

OM NAMO SVAHA- chant 7 times (fire-net).

OM SILINMA- CHANT 21 TIMES (protection).

100 Syllable mantra- chant 3 times.

7. Next, enter the "true mind" of the fire court. Setting up the purest Vajra-fire in the air, and as if it is protected by the wheel of maha-will, immediately, all kinds of evil will not be able to penetrate. A practitioner who performs spiritual cultivation in the sacred shrine will gain enlightenment, his greed and hatred will be eradicated, and his cultivation perfect.

8. Rise from the meditation and do the dedication of merit.

The convergence of vajra-fire, all the evils spree

Through constant cultivation, tranquillity is achieved

And all major misfortunes disappear

Heavenly and earthly beings, in the sacred shrine they meet

The virtue is the same as a temple radiating its brilliance into all directions.

9. The auspicious ritual is complete and perfect.

Living Buddha Lian-Sheng always encourages the use of Great Compassion Mantra for empowering the water, for purification and definition of protective boundary. So, he has now disclosed the ritual and hopes that all True Buddha practitioners can now understand the way for setting up a sacred shrine, the consecration ritual, and how to define the protective boundary. And he hopes all the rituals can be carried out perfectly.

There is another ritual for defining the boundary known as Mahasamaya. It is the greatest ritual for defining the boundary, which must be taught personally by the Grandmaster, as it is no ordinary ritual. There are two sayings about this ritual:

"Those who are against the path will not be able to untie or ruin it. For it is regarded as something similar to the King of the Dharma Wheel, and the crown of the Buddha."

"All the saints will not be able to descend to the practioners’ sacred shrine within 500 yojana (measurement of distance), for this is the King of Wheel and crown of the Buddha, it is capable of destroying all the phenomena."