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| Let God Almighty through saints guide us to better days. We should not think we can guide God to give us better days. We should not play God for "God is" but we are not. God knows best. We don't. It is as simple as that. |
Other than for the initial phase, direct guidance in any temple by the temple's patron saint will not be necessary as the doctrine would have been passed down.
The members should know that the doctrine is the saint and knowing the doctrine is knowing the saint.
Not being in tune with the doctrine and not being guided by doctrine will place that temple on the wrong direction. The members at the helm will then think they can decide what is best to do. They try to be self-righteous in their narrow way and will do good but doing good alone is not enough.
Doing good to many will be just welfare activities for worldly welfare which is good but what about the more wholesome and inclusive spiritual well being and the saving of the spirit or soul. Thus for those not imbued with doctrine and its practice, the Mission will be that of men and no longer that of Heaven through a temple's patron saint.
Doing good to many will be just welfare activities for worldly welfare which is good but what about the more wholesome and inclusive spiritual well being and the saving of the spirit or soul. Thus for those not imbued with doctrine and its practice, the Mission will be that of men and no longer that of Heaven through a temple's patron saint.
Such a temple will no longer be as mission orientated. Since, the saint or image is the doctrine and the doctrine is the saint or image, the image of that temple's patron saint will be lifted to Heaven. This is the same as saying that the doctrine if not valued will have to return to Heaven. By the way, the lifting up of the image and doctrine to Heaven would not be just figurative but could be literal somewhat.
The self-righteous but ignorant in that temple might think they knew best and might even burn the image of their patron saint thinking that they wanted to replace the image for a better one. That would be one way that the image of the patron saint of any temple who strayed away from divine path (onto human path) would be lifted back to Heaven
Do note however that the doctrine could go elsewhere even to 49 successful temples or say up north or south to where it would be valued so that the mission of that saint could move on unimpeded.
Men may not be ready or correctly poised for the mission but the whole host of immortals of the patron saint of a temple are ready, on the go for the mission and cannot wait for men to be ready.
Men without admitting it tend to look at what social benefit they can get through a temple and go for this benefit as the main meal rather than the appetiser. This is because the doctrine has little impact on them or they do not have the zest for wholesome and inclusive spiritual.
They may want to do good in form of charity and welfare but somehow the weakness of men will take over. They look at the fringe benefit. Will they stand to gain socially and win recognition of other men? They will turn the fringe benefit into the main benefit but in a discreet fashion without admitting this openly.
To do this, they have to pilot the course of the temple and supposedly claim they are going for lofty ideals of God but that's only a cover or front for their personal social agenda or gains. They take up the piloting of the temple on behalf of the patron saint. They want to guide the house of God and saint and not let God guide and pilot the house of God and saint. This happens not infrequently in many temples or churches but as Lord Bo Tien said, "A flower cannot prevent insects from coming to it"
Men may not be ready or correctly poised for the mission but the whole host of immortals of the patron saint of a temple are ready, on the go for the mission and cannot wait for men to be ready.
Men without admitting it tend to look at what social benefit they can get through a temple and go for this benefit as the main meal rather than the appetiser. This is because the doctrine has little impact on them or they do not have the zest for wholesome and inclusive spiritual.
They may want to do good in form of charity and welfare but somehow the weakness of men will take over. They look at the fringe benefit. Will they stand to gain socially and win recognition of other men? They will turn the fringe benefit into the main benefit but in a discreet fashion without admitting this openly.
To do this, they have to pilot the course of the temple and supposedly claim they are going for lofty ideals of God but that's only a cover or front for their personal social agenda or gains. They take up the piloting of the temple on behalf of the patron saint. They want to guide the house of God and saint and not let God guide and pilot the house of God and saint. This happens not infrequently in many temples or churches but as Lord Bo Tien said, "A flower cannot prevent insects from coming to it"
To surmise and to put it simply and succinctly, we may say thus. Let God Almighty through saints guide us to better days. We should not think we can guide God to give us better days. We should not play God and decide what God should do in our individual life or in the running of a temple of God.
The mission of life in one's individual life or in the life of any temple must be God-based and God-directed, not man-based and man-directed. Hope this is clear to one and all. Otherwise, God will not be with us and in us. We will only be thinking we can decide for God and God will have to listen. That will not be right and far from good and Godliness.
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