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!.

Monday, January 2, 2012

Let there be the sound of silence amidst the noise of life

No 335 of Living Life Series 1

The sound of silence can be frightening and eerie to many but may be welcome to some hounded by the noise of the world. It is frightening if we run away from the hustle and bustle of life, more so if we run away from our very self and go for self-punishment and denial. It is welcome if we remain with life and live with the noise but not be affected by it. We need to respect and love life, more so our own

If men can have silence and yet live in the thick and thin of life, in the very noisiness of worldliness with all the hustle and bustle and their irritations, then it is a very different matter and at the apex of achievement at that. We will be with life and the jarring noise of life but we will have relative silence amidst the noise. We will have 'quietitude' amidst tumultous disquiet. That must be the only way. How can that be? Well there is the choice and men have freewill to choose.

Do we want our own soul to be deafened by the excessive decibels of life or do we go for the seemingly dead and haunting silence of going away or giving up of life? We will dread the way of life that has no life when we shun or try to escape from the excessive noise of life that drives us up the wall. We will need to be with life and yet contend with the noise but not be affected by the noisy noise.

Rather than running away and giving up life, let us have more of silence than noise in life, perhaps silent noise at that. We can wear earplugs or if need be ear mufflers to insulate ourselves from the noise of unrest and dis-ease in life. Then life would be more tolerable with relative silence and may even be more peaceful. There will be quiet peace amidst the noise and unease.

Then our mind can have more silence or platitude to assimilate the noise of life that sages of old refer to as the yin and the yang. We will be in harmony with the otherwise stormy rages of life of yin and yang. Sages advise that we be with life but not be overwhelmed by life, that we live life and not run away from life or worse still want to snuff out our own life. That will be most unloving and smacks of meanness and illwill to life not just others lives but our very own.

We do not want to get away. We want to be with life to see the beauty of life but not be consumed by the upheavels and noise of life. Then life would be peaceful because we could cut off the deafening noise to lower levels and be better able to be at peace and ease to see and know what life should be and can be, what we can have and what we cannot hve, to balance the two and be atop the yin and yang that abounds. This balance is aptly depicted by the feet of the lord saint atop the elements of life.

The yin refers to the passivity and softer nature of life and the yang refers to the activity and harsher nature of life. It is not that one is good and the other not good but both can be good if we are in control and in harmony with them and if we can go about this peacefully and with relative silence amidst the noise and banter of life. We must be able to contend with the noise of life that comes from all directions and in various frequencies and magnitude. We must not be affected by noisy life. Yet, we must not be deaf to life nor to be deafened by the noises of life.

We must be able to have the often elusive peace and live life. If we cannot change the noise in life, we must not run away from life for there is no running away from life. We will live on and on, be it in this life or the next.

Instead, we must create that sound of relative silence amidst the noise of life by leveraging on ear plugs and mufflers that the religions of the world offer us. There is the same inner truth behind all religions and sects to allow us to meet the need for the sound of silence amidst the noise of life.

Life will always be noisy but the noise of life must not rob us from the joy of life. We must be able to hear, to talk and to communicate and to act amidst the noise of life. We must have more of the peace and joy of life and this has to do with the silence of our souls. We need to have inner peace and quiet by putting into practice the way to inner peace and silence amidst the deafening and demeaning noise in life.

The way is to be with life but not be at the whims and fancies of the ups and downs of life. We must be at the centre of the pakua or taiji of life and stand still and enjoy the serenity, peace and silence amidst the swirling yin and yang. We must allow the yin and yang to be balanced and complementary and to be whole and rounded.

True inner peace and silence come from being with yin and yang and not be away from them. The reason is simply because, nowhere in the universe here or beyond can there be no yin and no yang. We can have silence, peace and ease amidst the yin and yang that is amidst the noise of living and existing, here or in the life hereafter or beyond.

Then we will relish in the sound of silence amidst the noise of life and be with God and saints even whilst in life of flesh and blood and have more of this in any life form beyond that of flesh and blood, be it astral, form or formless, or mere pureness of the Pure Ones.

Let there be the sound of silence amidst the noise of life. We must not just pray to have this but resolve and go for the silence of the God and saints. Such silence brings inner peace and paves the way to enlightenment and union with Divinity. It is the fruit of the Tao or Way.

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.