No 57 of Living Life Series 1
In life, men always get involved in blame games. They like to blame others when life doesn't go as expected. This seems to make them feel vindicated, sort of 'not my fault' mentality. But this may create more problems than solve problems.
The problem needs to be addressed and the focus is not on who to blame. Do not even blame oneself. Do not make life into a blame game. Live life. Life is not a blame game. Do not nurture guilt or bad vibes in others by blaming them. This will not help you or them. It will only make matters worse.
Do not blame oneself either. This too is unwholesome. Guilt created eats away zest for learning and improving. Guilt is the bane of life.
No guilt and no blame game in life please. Life would be more pleasant that way. Life presents wealth of issues (problems) for learning and improving. The issues and unhappiness (problems) of men are many and plentiful. Divinity will assist and bless but men must learn from the lessons of life by using the principles of inner truth common to and behind all faiths and sects. These principles are depicted in the body language of the seated image of the lord saint e.g. both feet balancing the elements to mean balancing issues in life for the yin and yang harmony, left hand in salutation to mean to be steady and go forward in life, and the sceptre in right hand to remind us to hold on to spiritual approach to life. All these did the lord saint Lord Bo Tien reiterated to us in the past from 1970 to 1984.
Many would cherish to be born as humans for the chance to learn as human life is a rich resource of experiences for learning and progress up the rebirth chain to enlightenment. This precious chance to be man is unfortunately limited to finite short life span of man (at three to four scores). Time is too short in human life for men to wallow in and be enslaved in guilt and be caught up by the blame game.
Don't blame others or oneself for the pains in life. We learn from pains in life. No pain no gain. No blame please for the pains in life. We can gain from pain i.e. the problems and issues in life. Problems though unpleasant and painful are learning opportunities. There are valuable values in life we can learn life and many of these are spiritual values that give us peace and fulfilment in life not only spiritually but in mundane world well.
Life after all is a gospel. God and saints speak to us through life. Life is the best gospel as it is a gospel that is being written and re-written by God to fit our ever changing needs. It is a living gospel. God and saints speak to us through gospel of life -- through life events and divine event language.
Even if we are in hell, God and saints will not forsake us and will reach out to us in many ways and the gospel of life is one way. Divinity never give up on us but we may unwisely give up on them from time to time.
At times, we may even blame God and saints. Because of our weakness, we even involve divinity in our blame game. Unbecoming as this may be, divinity never gives up on us.
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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!.
