No 40 of Living Lfe Series 1
All beings need to cultivate themselves through rebirths to be united with Divinity in higher dimensions. Lord Bo Tien is an example of saints or messengers of God to help us.
To achieve this, the ultimate way is to have purity and to lead a simple life.
When we attain some degree of purity and simple life, blessings come our way in form of material blessings. We can take them as gift of Heaven but once we indulge in them, we cling and become ego-orientated, become attached and less able to be pure and simple.
There are two ways / paths of elevating ourselves in life and to be reborn in higher dimensions.
One way is to perform God’s works, and blessings will come our way in this life and the next.
Another way is to be pure and simple. But it is easier to be pure and simple with less ego or self when we are poor and have little than when we are rich and have more. Simplicity and pureness will bring us closer to God and to have blessings. Meditation helps us to enhance the pureness.
Blessings come in seen and unseen ways, in worldly and non-worldly ways.
Worldly blessings must be regarded as gifts of God for us to be thankful to Him
If this is our attitude, we naturally adopt humility, we do not indulge, and we can remain pure and simple.
If we indulge and waste away our worldly blessings, we deplete away our blessings
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For those who could not develop spiritually fast and adequate enough, despair not for the interim solution is to do God’s works and be blessed both in this life and the next.
We will continue to have blessings so long as we do God’s works, but human weakness is such that somehow or other, we tend to be complacent and indulge and waste away the blessings that come our way. Blessings or merits come through divine spiritual energy of God that pervades us.
Those who are heavy with God’s work (but not as good in cultivation of divine pureness) stand to gain a better next life in higher dimensions where they stand better chance to cultivate divine purity further.
Dependence on direct route of cultivating ultimate purity is difficult as we have many opportunities to be attached. Doing God’s work is the better complementary and augmenting way to free us from incessant rebirths in lower dimensions and insure us for chance of higher dimensions in future rebirths. The two ways should be considered as twin paths.
What then is divine work? It must benefit others such as loving thoughts or impartial liking for all beings, actions of compassion for fellow beings, joy and rapture for good done by others, and detachment from yin yang contingencies of life.
We must go about life unruffled by ups and downs, gain and loss, praise and blame, sickness and health and yet be part of and be in harmony with this yin and yang of life. This is portrayed by the seated image of Lord Bo Tien with feet balancing the yin and yang.
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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!.
