Do you know and probably we all do know that men are good at solving problems though there are many problems that are best left unsolved. But even for those problems men take pride in finding solutions, there is a catch.
The catch is that the solutions are problem making in themselves. Men create more problems downstream by solving problems. That is characteristically men.
This is perhaps why the lord saint Lord Bo Tien like many saints say that the issues and problems of men are many and plentiful.
Even in a temple of the lord saint where men of all religions come to seek solace, shelter and guidance, the very setting up of the temple to solve the problems of men and to save souls is in itself the magnet for problems.
The lord saint says that a flower may be a beauty but blame not the flower for insects and ants coming to it for nectar. Likewise blame not a temple for those who are far from having heart for doctrine for coming to it for personal agenda other than that of mission to save souls.
If this is so, then the setting up of a temple is the very cause for flowering of more problems by men for men. Those few who know what is right and proper and therefore near to the lord saint of the temple will end up staying clear and be far from the temple. The far may be near and the near far. This is the very nature of life in the world.
A wonderful solution to the woes of men is yet also the very problem in itself to flower more problems. Why is this so?
It is because men are men and even the good few too are not spared from the many issues of men. Every solution has its flip side.
A solution is capable of being the genesis of other problems downstream. There is need to go to the genesis or upper source of a river for clear water. This the lord saint did say.
We do need to know our mind and be mindfully aware of the on-goings in the mind. If there is the apparent good, there is the flip side. If there is the up there is the down. There is the interplay of yin and yang.
We cannot run away from yin and yang for we are yin and yang as well. We need to be with yin and yang and there is no running away from self or the world.
But we need to be atop yin and yang and be at peace by handling them and not let them handle us. Solving a yin problem may cause a yang issue to surface and vice versa.
Thus in the long term we need to balance and be atop both like depicted by the image of Lord Bo Tien feet in seated pose with feet atop the elements.
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But we are still learners and may not be adept in doing so. Then, there is a way out. We need to seek shelter of heavenly saints so that the candle flame of our life, our very core spirituality will grow and glow and not flicker in the wind.
That way we will be more restive despite the swirling of yin and yang. We will not be affected by the fact that a solution is in itself the cause of problem. Yes, a solution is yet a problem but not so if we know Tao and have divine shelter of saints like Amitabha.
Namo Omitofo..
