No 90 of Living Life Series 1
Have quality time as well as quiet time for ourselves when we can take stock of our life, how to value / love life and how to be more settled and peaceful. Some refer to this contemplation as prayer time and others call this relaxation and even meditation or mindfulness. This can be any where and any time. There are many ways of doing so. We can even do so while working or walking from one office to another office.
The idea is to cultivate good mental habits and wake up our inert mind faculties which some refer to as third eye or the gift of God. Such good habits if cultivated will carry over as a natural mental attribute beyond our times of divine contemplation, that is, as part of our nature and temperament. We become more mindful, become more aware in every moment of our life. We become more steady, peaceful and wise come what may. Our mind stands 'still' and is calm and serene. Our mind remains more often tip top and yet peaceful and pure when others have frequent storms and earthquakes in their mind. They have muddy mental pollution most of the time. Therefore it is good that we have quality time for ourselves and cultivate our mind.
Mind cultivation is referred in Pali texts by Lord Buddha as bhavana. Lord Bo Tien is depicted with left hand in salutation and both feet astride the yin yang storms of life. This is to depict the need to have bhavana -- in order to be steady, balanced and to have divine peace (both as depicted by left hand in salutation) and to balance and be on top of yin and yang (both feet astride the elements). We can cultivate this to be our second nature in every moment of our life. We should not rush into this but go for small steps and progress. Any craving or thirst for immediate results will unsettle us and upset us.
Truly, we need quality time to bring out in us the divine essence of inner peace and love of life.
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The Living Life Series is dedicated to Lord Bo Tien (武天菩萨). The doctrine is in His image. The image is the doctrine. He who sees, understands and effects the doctrine sees and knows Him. He who does not see, know and effect the doctrine sees not and knows not the saint even if the saint or His image is beside him. The far may be near and the near may be far. Let the doctrine and the saint be part of our life. The lord saint in your life can be any heavenly saint of any religion, sect or school. The doctrine of truth is behind all and this is the Inner Truth that leads all (regardless of their religious affiliation or even if none) to inner peace and heaven on earth here and now and not just in the after life. The ideal worship and devotion is to know and effect the doctrine of God and the saints. The best gospel is the gospel of life. We learn from our life and the lives of others. The true temple is the world we live in. The sky is the roof of the temple and religions and sects are the pillars of the temple. All under Heaven are in the temple. Needless to say that all the saints we know are in this temple. Ji Gong Posat too is no exception. The whole wide world and web is the temple and must be regarded as a sacred place --- a temple for living and learning. It is more important that everyone that counts plays a role in this universal temple if due focus is to be given to the Mission of Heaven. Men must not be distracted by the agenda of men and end up serving the mission of man. That would be a far cry from the Mission of Heaven. We worship God and saints, not man however good that man may be. There should be no hero worshiping or idolizing of man whether he is a charismatic pastor, priest, monk, medium or lay leader. We don't even idol worship the image of any saint but reflect on what the image stands for. - the doctrine in the image. Omitofo 阿弥陀佛!.
