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| Keep the oil lamp going It is the light that is the doctrine. The doctrine is the temple saint. The saint is the doctrine. Keep the temple going, by up keeping the doctrine, not the personal fancies of men. The temple is the saint, people and doctrine all in one |
It is way off the mark if a temple is run based on the thinking of men more so of one or two men and not in accordance with the wishes and directions of its lord saint.
A temple is usually set up because of the motivation by a lord saint but with time, men come into the picture and men decide that the communication by the lord saint through man is not to be relied on.
They seem to choose to believe and then choose not to. They see not saint from man and man from saint. Man is man and saint is saint. This the lord saint Lord Bo Tien did reiterate.
It may also be true that men who stick to the word of the lord saint written in the book of the gospel of the temple decide to relegate the book to the backyard. They often succeed with combination of smart moves and ignorant men in the crowd.
They proclaim what they want out of the temple and say that they are the new subcontractors to run the temple. This is the fate of many a temple or church.
The means then become the ends and the ends no longer matter and become part of history. No wonder Lord Bo Tien said with respect to religion and God, that men must go to the upper source of a river for clear water. This means we must go to the basics or fundamentals.
They seem to choose to believe and then choose not to. They see not saint from man and man from saint. Man is man and saint is saint. This the lord saint Lord Bo Tien did reiterate.
It may also be true that men who stick to the word of the lord saint written in the book of the gospel of the temple decide to relegate the book to the backyard. They often succeed with combination of smart moves and ignorant men in the crowd.
They proclaim what they want out of the temple and say that they are the new subcontractors to run the temple. This is the fate of many a temple or church.
The means then become the ends and the ends no longer matter and become part of history. No wonder Lord Bo Tien said with respect to religion and God, that men must go to the upper source of a river for clear water. This means we must go to the basics or fundamentals.
But we must understand history and know in what context, the basics were uttered, how it gave rise to other teachings which become dogmas and why often the latter teachings and dogmas overshadow the basics or fundamentals.
Otherwise in attempt to know the basics, there is the inevitable danger in a temple that the fundamentals may be skewed and applied in such ways as to create new teachings and elaborations which set new dogmas and doctrine so different from the basics or fundamentals. This would of course defeat the very purpose of going to the fundamentals or basics.
A temple therefore can lose its way and stray beyond the original teachings of God and Heaven introduced by the pioneer saint. There is therefore the need for a temple to shape up or be lost and be far from God and saint.
Lord Bo Tien said that the far may be near and the near far. There is much truth in this. It may mean that those running a temple may be the ones who should not and those whom they excommunicated and staying afar from the temple may well be the better ones to run the temple.
Omitofo
Omitofo
