The lord saint Lord Bo Tien made himself known in 1969 so as to let all know the need to go to basics of the love of God and the need for love of life - one's life as well as those of others.
In the life of worldliness and the warp of yin and yang, men become entangle in more of the same and plain forget the basics. They are busy with the worldliness they surround themselves with and forget the passing time and the basic reality of life - birth, disease, ageing and death.
The anti-dote or solution for this is to have love of God and love for life - not to deny life despite its harsh realities and not to indulge as though the realities are not there. Then there will be love based on peace that comes from balancing the competing vicissitudes of life.
Knowing thus the purpose of His Mission, we know he is not here to build concrete temples or to start new religions but to revitalise religions on the basic footing of inner truth. It is how to have inner peace from proper way of love for God and for life, our own as well as the lives of others that matters.
So it is not consistent to make the anniversary of his descent on the 13th Day of the Ninth Lunar Month a grand one. There is no need for display of his heavenly or divine majesty or to show the success with reminder of how his temple has arose from nothing to a grand concrete building.
His temple is of people and of beings with heart. It is never a building. The sky or heaven above can be the roof and religions are the pillars. All beings are in his temple. There are no chosen or select ones.
There are and were already many earthly temples that have grand or even grander buildings and of what use is it to have one or few more. What difference will this make?
Moreover this is not in accordance with his mission which is to awaken men and beings to the basic inner truth. For this men can be in any religion and any temple or church. Having temples in his name and having grand annual celebrations are out of line with his mission.
