We cannot do great things for the Mission of Heaven to save souls but we can do small things that make the difference to mission. We have finite life and abilities.
Whilst cooperation is the key to mission, men end up manipulating other men. But that is no loss if men can learn from the lessons of life. But have we or can we learn?
If we can, we are assets to mission and self. If we cannot, life must still go on. Mission goes on. It is the mission of Heaven.
Nothing matters more to Heaven than our learning to stand more on our own feet than to depend on Heaven. Whilst the door to Heaven can stay open for us, we have to walk through the door ourselves. We can get waylaid and diverted by the many issues of life (the yin and yang) and if we fail to see the door that Heaven opens for us.
Mastery or to put it simply, the balancing of yin and yang remains our immediate necessity.
We can keep focus on Tao and this requires effort. Though we can enter the door to Heaven, even in this life, unless we are steady, we can walk out again and be lost as well.
The path of Tao can be trying and tiresome to the traveler. That is why we have saints like Amitabha to offer the Pure Land and Lao Tse of the sages of old.
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| Lao Tse the traveler who explained Tao |
Having cognizance of all these, it is sheer odd for men to squabble over the nitty gritty. When it rains, it is like Heaven taking pity on men for lacking in worthwhile perspective of life.
The least we can do is to do the small things and these can add up. With grace of Heaven, we may still make it so long as we attempt to do our part.
Do make do and be at peace with life especially its imperfections. We too are not perfect as of now. What more can we expect of mortals like us. There will always be the frustrations in yin yang world but do not let these get the better of us.
Life of yin and yang goes round and round. We must get the better of them and have the peace if we do not want to end up in pieces and shreds.
Just do what we can and somehow even if we do not readily make the grade and be saints, we can still be with the saints of Heaven. We can be in Heaven even in this life.
We can go through the door to Heaven but remember we may slip out again unless we stay vigilant and atop the yin and yang by doing ever more the small things that make the difference.
In our memoirs of life, at least we could write down the small things we had done for ourselves and for the mission of Heaven to save souls.
That the mission is that of Heaven and not of Man is a sheer relief because we may not be able to save ourselves adequately and comfortably. How can we do more and be that noble in mission?
At the same time, we cannot be that ignoble as to do nothing. Just do the small things, be it in life or in mission and they do add up. They do make the difference.
Omitofo always and ever more
The least we can do is to do the small things and these can add up. With grace of Heaven, we may still make it so long as we attempt to do our part.
Do make do and be at peace with life especially its imperfections. We too are not perfect as of now. What more can we expect of mortals like us. There will always be the frustrations in yin yang world but do not let these get the better of us.
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| Yin and yang always in passionate embrace and going round and round in life |
Life of yin and yang goes round and round. We must get the better of them and have the peace if we do not want to end up in pieces and shreds.
Just do what we can and somehow even if we do not readily make the grade and be saints, we can still be with the saints of Heaven. We can be in Heaven even in this life.
We can go through the door to Heaven but remember we may slip out again unless we stay vigilant and atop the yin and yang by doing ever more the small things that make the difference.
In our memoirs of life, at least we could write down the small things we had done for ourselves and for the mission of Heaven to save souls.
That the mission is that of Heaven and not of Man is a sheer relief because we may not be able to save ourselves adequately and comfortably. How can we do more and be that noble in mission?
At the same time, we cannot be that ignoble as to do nothing. Just do the small things, be it in life or in mission and they do add up. They do make the difference.
Omitofo always and ever more
