God and saints love men. This is the teaching of religions and in some religions, this love extends to all beings. Some even use the term loving kindness instead of just the word love.
Loving kindness by God and saints cut both ways. God must shower love for all, both the good and the wrong or rather the not so good. How can God not love those who are not so good and have done some wrong, more so when the deeds hurt men and not in the least God? In fact, all have done some wrong.
Loving kindness by God and saints cut both ways. God must shower love for all, both the good and the wrong or rather the not so good. How can God not love those who are not so good and have done some wrong, more so when the deeds hurt men and not in the least God? In fact, all have done some wrong.
Ji Gong is an example of a saint who does not forget to manage the welfare of the wayward. He loves them not for their wrong but for the good he can cultivate in them. He brings them round to virtuous life and he blesses them even more.
Like saints such as Ji Gong, we too can extend love to all men and even those whom others consider evil or damned. We must however do so in wise way, otherwise we may harm them if our love for them make them worse off than before.
Ji Gong the living saint is no less the expert in this. He leads the way to make good men who are otherwise bad and misinformed. He is able to be part of the crowd and succeed to influence the hearts of men. He is after all Ji Gong.
He will always behave like one of them so as to merge easily into the crowd with them. He is well known for his crazy ways and is known as Crazy Ji. He may appear eccentric as such but he could be like one of the crowd and be able to convince people that more easily as he does not speak from the high pedestal. Miracles and saintly powers are not enough. The solutions he prescribed are often startlingly simple but effective.
Additionally, due to his sincerity from the heart, the monastery who turned him away because they had enough of his eccentric ways as man eating meat, drinking wine and frolicking with beggars, children and monkeys was indeed turned around by him to regard him as a buddha. He has a prominent place at that temple till this day.
Wisdom or purity of heart is needed. What matters is what we have in our hearts like what Ji Gong stressed. We can change people to think good of us or to be more good with our hearts. To do so, we must be rich and good at heart.
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| Ji Gong Huo Fo Lord Ji The Living Buddha Benevolent and yet firm and loving to wrong doers OMITOFO |
Ji Gong the living saint is no less the expert in this. He leads the way to make good men who are otherwise bad and misinformed. He is able to be part of the crowd and succeed to influence the hearts of men. He is after all Ji Gong.
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| Ji Gong like a vagrant and commoner was able to merge with the crowd |
He will always behave like one of them so as to merge easily into the crowd with them. He is well known for his crazy ways and is known as Crazy Ji. He may appear eccentric as such but he could be like one of the crowd and be able to convince people that more easily as he does not speak from the high pedestal. Miracles and saintly powers are not enough. The solutions he prescribed are often startlingly simple but effective.
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| A prominent carving of Ji Gong at the China monastery. They liked him so much that they had him carved into the wall though they had earlier on turned him out into the streets when they could not stand his crazy ways as a novice monk |
Additionally, due to his sincerity from the heart, the monastery who turned him away because they had enough of his eccentric ways as man eating meat, drinking wine and frolicking with beggars, children and monkeys was indeed turned around by him to regard him as a buddha. He has a prominent place at that temple till this day.
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Wisdom or purity of heart is needed. What matters is what we have in our hearts like what Ji Gong stressed. We can change people to think good of us or to be more good with our hearts. To do so, we must be rich and good at heart.
We cannot however do odd things which only reveals our lack of wisdom. For example, we cannot confine the practice of loving kindness to the aged sick in a temple home and in the same very temple decide that some fellow followers of the temple saint must be dealt harshly by expelling them.
Loving kindness must be universal and cannot be for selected ones. It must be extended effectively to those who dislike us. Love only for select ones is not the loving kindness Lord Bo Tien and all saints talk about.
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Such love confined to the selected is not true loving kindness but only outward show. It is the antithesis of loving kindness. It is empty actions with no richness and purity of heart. What matters is not what we do or what goes through the gut but what we have and do with our hearts as reiterated by Ji Gong.
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| Ji Gong image standing tall at another temple Here portrayed in serious reflection which of course is not the norm. What could he be reflecting on? He is with the Luohans. |
Loving kindness or love for men and beings in the name of God and saints is magnanimous and cannot discriminate believers of other religions from those of the religion we profess. There is no two ways about it.
People somehow have two set of standards, one set for those they have no objections with and the other for those they somehow find objectionable.
There are many examples on this. For instance, there are people of religion who commit adultery and sexual misconduct with fellow adherents of the same religion. That is definitely not loving kindness but obvious blatant misdemeanor. That is unkind and mean.
But the ridiculous part is that this is not uncommon in a place of worship such as a temple. They think that it is the gift of God to have the privilege of sexual bonding with religious brothers and sisters.
Why are some men like that? Why must they abuse the sanctity of a temple? The reason is that insects do come to a flower. Blame not the flower. Also the near may be far and the far near. All these did Lord Bo Tien say.
One way to avert this is for us not to hero worship any man in a temple even if we love him for charisma and leadership. But do be kind and have regards for all far and near to God because the near may be far and the far near. Our hero worshiping may make devis out of men and make them far from God. Far is near and near is far. This is the truth we must know.
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| Is any temple for the holier than thou type? Think again and ask why it should not be so. The rather easy going and happy go lucky may be near though far from God and saints. Isn't Ji Gong the happy go lucky sort like the many in any temple or church? |
One way to avert this is for us not to hero worship any man in a temple even if we love him for charisma and leadership. But do be kind and have regards for all far and near to God because the near may be far and the far near. Our hero worshiping may make devis out of men and make them far from God. Far is near and near is far. This is the truth we must know.
The lord saint of a temple may seem strange to have men at a temple who are like insects to a flower. But that is the way of saints. The wayward are never discriminated against in the eyes of saints.
They more than others deserve the attention and love of saints. Loving kindness must be extended to all. With regards to loving kindness, there are no two ways of going about it.
Prodigal sons must be loved if they can come back to the fold be it that of God or men. No such thing as an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth but better to offer the other cheek when slapped on one cheek.
God and saints may even be like that and we may think they are dumb. Worse still, we may simply think they don't exist and the very making of men.
