Six Paths

A being beyond the mundane, possessing boundless wisdom, miraculous power, and unobstructed understanding. Such a being is often respected and revered by the common people. Therefore, people also refer to deities as: Brahma, Indra, and the Buddha. Thus, there are four levels of deities: Buddha-deities, Immortal-deities, Saint-deities, and Asura-deities (Demon-deities); but the word “deity” here refers to the Buddha-deities or Immortal-deities. The Master wrote: “The father is a Buddha, Saint, Immortal, or God, overflowing with blessings” (from the poem “A Reflection” Cảm Tác).

Oracular Notes ̣1975

Beyond the worldly realm, a higher level of understanding:

All sentient beings are born, live, and die; they are dependent on karma and its consequences to become sentient beings in the present.

Reincarnation is a form of manifestation of the phenomenon of birth and death of phenomena through the principle of dependent origination from cause to effect. From this, karmic force is the active power that forms the birth, death, transformation, and circulation, manifested through the past, present, and future over time, depending on the attributes of each individual and the community (individual karma and collective karma), and depending on the speed, strength, and weakness of the karmic agents created by body, speech, and mind, stemming from the three poisons of greed, hatred, and delusion arising from ignorance in our past, present, or future, and circulating accordingly. Therefore, reincarnation arises and exists depending on the power of karmic causes created by each of our actions, and accordingly, we transform from one place to another, from one realm to another, within the three realms and six paths, to receive the karmic consequences of our past actions.