LIVING LIFE SERIES 1

A BO TIEN (武天) MISSION INITIATIVE LAUNCHED ON 28TH SEPT 2010 BY INNER TRUTH NETIZEN 2. THE MISSION IS TO SHOW THE WAY TO HOPE, INNER PEACE AND ULTIMATELY SALVATION FOR ALL BEINGS. THE PURPOSE IS TO SAVE SOULS. IT IS WAY BEYOND NORMAL GOOD WORK LIKE CHARITY AND WELFARE ACTIVITIES. NO ONE SHALL BE SAVED BY GOOD WORKS ALONE BUT BY MORE THAN GOOD WORK. THERE IS NEED TO BE IMBUED WITH THE BASIC DOCTRINE COMMON TO AND BEHIND ALL RELIGIONS AND SECTS. LIVE IN DOCTRINE. DOCTRINE IN LIFE IS PARAMOUNT.

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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!.

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Mission to place life on inner truth perspectives

No 296 of Living Life Series 1

of love and inner peace

Old temple premises in the 1970s

In the 1976 message at the old place at Woodlands Singapore, the emissary of Lord Bo Tien said,

"The Lord Saint reminds that His presence is not to initiate a new religion. Rather, His aim is to further spiritual insight in all beings and men (regardless of religious affiliation)."

"He wishes to extend to all beings and men the values of divine and universal love (loving kindness)."

"He calls for all to develop this divine love as part of their nature and integrate it into their being."

"This is because a spiritually inspired organisation or person has to be spiritually orientated based on the approach of the enlightened ones (eg the Buddhas and pure ones)."

"Many have misconstrued practices and veered from that of the spiritual way of enlightened and pure ones."

"His mission is to put things right and to enable better spiritual understanding, insight and practice (in whatever religion, sect, school of practices and spiritual station they may be)."

"His intention is simply and primarily targeted for all to understand better about life and religion."

The last sentence amplifies what the lord saint wants us to know. His mission is to put things right and to enable better spiritual understanding, insight and practice in whatever religion, sect, school of practices and spiritual station they may be. His intention is simply and primarily targeted for all to understand better about life and religion.

We must know why we are here and what each has to learn, and how to learn within the limited time? Each of us have our own combination of finite resources, both the good and not so good. Why can't we be equal in gifts from the point GO? Why health is so difficult for some and less for others? Why some can fare better and some cannot even do so with better resources?

The issue is to have insight of why we came to be what we are now in this life and how much can we change our fate? Are we not master of our own destiny? Why at times we feel we are not? Why is life so ironical to want us to be at disadvantage and sometimes very disadvantaged? The questions do beg further questions and there is no end to the 'whys', and the blame game simply goes on.

Whatever belief systems we ascribe to, the common denominator is that we want to love life and to be at peace. This should be what we want and yet they can be elusive. Thus we end up abhorring life and develop hate when love is elusive because of our perceived notion of divine unfairness.

But we fail to remind ourselves that we are what we were and will be what we can be and make ourselves to be. We have learnt lessons in the past and now we are here to continue to learn other lessons. How and what we need to learn differ from person to person. We must know ourselves and have insight in ourselves. This personal insight must come first before we can understand others.

It is true that Lord Bo Tien in 1975 advised us to know 'thyself' and know others as well. We learn that we are different and never the same. We learn from our our own life, our strengths and flaws as well as learn from those of others around us.

Life is the living gospel and we must accept and realise this through and through. When we realise the very nature of our own lives and the lives of others, we can then have grasp of why we are happy and yet unhappy, why we live more by the day and yet closer to grave by the day. This makes us realise why we are so unsettled. Do we need to be so unsettled? Finally, we need to settle and find peace by handling life and not avoiding life. We should also not overindulge and be overwhelmed.

We need to know what best and how best we can do for this or that. We must hold ourselves back and not expect the sky. We must know and go for our comfort limits beyond which we will just tear ourselves apart. We need to hold ourselves together as one and not be torn and tethered asunder in all directions.

We need to have the correct perspectives. We need to look at life calmly and handle life with ease and in peace. We need to be steady and to be at peace from within before we can be at peace with the conflicting demands and perceived incongruities in life.

Lord Bo Tien wants us to know how to place life in the correct perspectives so that life will be a haven of learning and a bedrock for us to cultivate peace amidst the ups and downs and the trials and tribulations, the joy and sorrow, and the to and fro.

We can be of different faiths and sects but what is important is that we are able to make life meaningful through whatever sect or faith. We can do so when we can place life in the correct perspectives. We need to find the peace within which sages say is divine and of God and saints.

This way we can save ourselves and show to others how to save themselves from difficulties and ultimately to save the souls by capturing and developing the love and peace of the spirit in life. This is the mission we need to know. We need to make it a part of our lives. Then we would have arrived at the inner truth behind all the religions and sects that God and saints provide for us.

Tien that there is oneness of faiths and sects --- namely the inner truth that yields inner peace.

The mission of the lord saint is to emphasize the need to place life on love and peace based on the inner truth of life through whatever religion or sect we are in or even if none.

Let us recapitulate what He said:

"The Lord Saint reminds that His presence is not to initiate a new religion. Rather, His aim is to further spiritual insight in all beings and men (regardless of religious affiliation)."

This of course is based on the insight of the inner truth, the one truth that says that all are of God and though different will converge on that oneness of God --- the need to bring all to God, the need to save all in difficulties and to make them one again through the truth of oneness of God and saints.

"He wishes to extend to all beings and men the values of divine and universal love (loving kindness)."

The pivot of that oneness in God and saints is loving kindness when we have inner peace which is in harmony and synchrony with the peace of God and saints --- that is the Holy Spirit or 'Leng' (Hokkien dialect word).

"He calls for all to develop this divine love as part of their nature and integrate it into their being."

The Holy Spirit has to do with divine love for all what we refer to as loving kindness that has no boundaries and limitations but based on wisdom and grasp of the inner truth behind all religions - that of need for inner peace and union with Divinity --- that of God and saints.

Cheers. Let us be part of the Mission to place life on inner truth perspectives of (a) inner peace and (b) the divine love that arises from inner peace.

The third temple of the lord saint at Singapore

Lest you forget

Do not make the mistake of idolizing any man who tells you about the Word. He is in the same boat as you even if religion refers to him as a religious leader. Mere mention of a religious leader is as good as encouraging idolising of that man. Why must there be hierarchy in religion? Hierarchy is conventional but may end up as liability rather than a necessity or asset. There should be no caste or hierarchy system in religion. No one is to be considered above another in religion. A religious leader or follower is a servant to serve you and not a leader to be idolised. Do not put him on the pedestal and make a monster out of him.

MAY ALL BE WELL AND HAPPY

May all be well and happy. May they have peace. May our departed friends and kins be well, happy and have divine peace. The main writer wishes the best for all for those near and far. Our kins may be far when they had passed on to better lives but they are near though far. He remembers and wishes his parents Mr Siow Soo Koh and Mdm Tay Hung Siang, his uncles and aunties like Mr Tay Koon Huay, his cousins like Mr Tay Chong Sim and his friends like Mr Philip Png well and have abundance of life. May they be rich in spirit for without such ancestors, there will be no posterity - no us and no you and me. They have blessed us and we must blessed them in return forever and ever.