No 340 of Living Life Series 1
Never a day should pass without learning from life past and present soon to pass.
The present well lived is better than the glorious past and a future yet to pass.
Let not the past eat away our present.
Let not dream away about future that yet to be and lay to waste our present soon to pass.
Let's work on the present for the present is a present from the past and a step towards a future so vast.
The present is a certainty and the future yet to be but is sure to come and pass.
Is there more to life than past, present and future that will surely come to pass?
There is, but only if we go for the unconditioned, uncaused and unoriginated --- the peace that transcends life's trials and tribulations, triumphs and trivialities. It is only achieved if we are in the thick and thin of life that is we must not run away for we cannot go away from life.
This peace is there come what may. Sages call that peace - the inner peace that can bloom like the lotus amidst the mud of yin and yang but more than the lotus, it is the one peace that will last for it is unconditioned, uncaused and unoriginated.
This inner peace that transcends past, present and future as well as the life we know is what Lord Bo Tien wants us to know and is spelt out in his image. The doctrine of inner peace is in his image.
There is need to balance life like depicted by his feet on yin and yang. There is need to be steadfast like depicted by his left hand in resolute salute. There is need to hold on to the inner peace mission in life like his right hand on the divine sceptre.
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