The mission of Heaven for which the lord saint Lord Bo Tien is a messenger is not to attract crowds and not to awe men with his majestic display but to save souls, not through a new religion but through existing religions and sects.
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| Lord Bo Tien |
But fad and fancy of men cannot be ignored even if these are not critical to saving of souls. These are like water of the downstream of a river. At least, they enable men to be in the river. There is no way to get men to think of going to the upper source for clear water unless they are already in the river.
So, if men do not get the young and trendy on board any temple or church, and be in the river albeit downstream, they the young and trendy will be lost to the temple or church. The mission of the temple saint will stagnate.
As for any temple of the lord saint Lord Bo Tien, such a temple may, rightly or not, still hang on to culture and traditions that are fads of old and no longer current and trendy.
As for any temple of the lord saint Lord Bo Tien, such a temple may, rightly or not, still hang on to culture and traditions that are fads of old and no longer current and trendy.
Fad, not the doctrine brings in the crowd. But what type of crowd do men want at a temple. That requires insight and foresight of men at the helm in that temple.
There is need to think out of the box, to innovate and to set the pace and trend for society. Can the temple make it and make good its promise to God and saint?
Heaven will rain in pity when judgement day comes and men wake up to realise they have wasted time and effort. They will then have to face fate and not able to hold their heads high. They may have to make good in some future lives.
It may be of no avail even if others are to remind them of the core purpose of the temple. This will be like casting pearls on swine, to borrow the biblical verse.
Of course, they are no swines but they are men too big for their shoes and with heads too big for their shoulders. They think they are better than others and they hang on to what they do best which is to rest on their laurels.
Fad not just doctrine brings in the crowd and sets the mission of a temple going. Fad just attracts and what follows may not be doctrine centered.
In the case of the mission in the temple led by Lord Bo Tien, are the men that really capable of mission and bringing in the young and successive generations for the temple, even if the lord saint stresses that the mission is by Heaven and not by men? They are but they are simply too carried away by their concrete success and fail to go the mile.
Most men in any temple would rather sit pretty and watch some men of that temple throwing stones at one another. How pathetic can this be? Others are watching. Heaven too is watching.
Alas, men in any temple where this is likely to occur will not realise they are in a glass house of sorts. Men in glass house should not throw stones. The world at large is watching. What mission to save souls is that temple talking about when the men cannot keep the peace and mayhem rules?
There is need to think out of the box, to innovate and to set the pace and trend for society. Can the temple make it and make good its promise to God and saint?
Heaven will rain in pity when judgement day comes and men wake up to realise they have wasted time and effort. They will then have to face fate and not able to hold their heads high. They may have to make good in some future lives.
It may be of no avail even if others are to remind them of the core purpose of the temple. This will be like casting pearls on swine, to borrow the biblical verse.
Of course, they are no swines but they are men too big for their shoes and with heads too big for their shoulders. They think they are better than others and they hang on to what they do best which is to rest on their laurels.
Fad not just doctrine brings in the crowd and sets the mission of a temple going. Fad just attracts and what follows may not be doctrine centered.
In the case of the mission in the temple led by Lord Bo Tien, are the men that really capable of mission and bringing in the young and successive generations for the temple, even if the lord saint stresses that the mission is by Heaven and not by men? They are but they are simply too carried away by their concrete success and fail to go the mile.
Most men in any temple would rather sit pretty and watch some men of that temple throwing stones at one another. How pathetic can this be? Others are watching. Heaven too is watching.
Alas, men in any temple where this is likely to occur will not realise they are in a glass house of sorts. Men in glass house should not throw stones. The world at large is watching. What mission to save souls is that temple talking about when the men cannot keep the peace and mayhem rules?
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| Ji Gong sets his vision on the world |
Ji Gong The Living Buddha gave up on temple long ago. He roams the world and the world is his temple, very much just like what Lord Bo Tien proclaimed of his true temple which is the world. This is true of all saints. If mission of a saint is just so confined to a building, the lord saint would be confined by short-sighted men. How on earth can men confine a heavenly saint to a building?
The whole wide world is the temple of any heavenly saint. This is more so in respect of Lord Bo Tien.
As said by Lord Bo Tien, men may come to a temple for personal gains, just like insects to a flower. They like insects who monopolise the flower cannot stop the saint from spreading his mission. A saint Lord Bo Tien says is like the great ocean that reaches out to many shores.
If men cannot do their parts to spread the mission to many shores, they should at least not impede the divine intent of the saint by curtailing the mission at ground zero.
They should give way, live and let live and ensure they gel like the way saints balance the yin and yang and never be at odds with one another.
Men should learn to reconcile and live as one despite being poles apart in priorities, more so in respect of a temple or religion. That is why there are many and not one temple or religion.
All views and approaches even if not right will have to co-exist to serve the varied needs of society. This is the will of Heaven.
There is no Satan but only the imperfections of men. Men must learn to have more peace and that way reach perfection of saints. Fads are far from perfect but men need fads to liven their lives, more so in religion of man.
Men should learn to reconcile and live as one despite being poles apart in priorities, more so in respect of a temple or religion. That is why there are many and not one temple or religion.
All views and approaches even if not right will have to co-exist to serve the varied needs of society. This is the will of Heaven.
There is no Satan but only the imperfections of men. Men must learn to have more peace and that way reach perfection of saints. Fads are far from perfect but men need fads to liven their lives, more so in religion of man.
