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The Living Life Series is dedicated to Lord Bo Tien (武天菩萨). The doctrine is in His image. The image is the doctrine. He who sees, understands and effects the doctrine sees and knows Him. He who does not see, know and effect the doctrine sees not and knows not the saint even if the saint or His image is beside him. The far may be near and the near may be far. Let the doctrine and the saint be part of our life. The lord saint in your life can be any heavenly saint of any religion, sect or school. The doctrine of truth is behind all and this is the Inner Truth that leads all (regardless of their religious affiliation or even if none) to inner peace and heaven on earth here and now and not just in the after life. The ideal worship and devotion is to know and effect the doctrine of God and the saints. The best gospel is the gospel of life. We learn from our life and the lives of others. The true temple is the world we live in. The sky is the roof of the temple and religions and sects are the pillars of the temple. All under Heaven are in the temple. Needless to say that all the saints we know are in this temple. Ji Gong Posat too is no exception. The whole wide world and web is the temple and must be regarded as a sacred place --- a temple for living and learning. It is more important that everyone that counts plays a role in this universal temple if due focus is to be given to the Mission of Heaven. Men must not be distracted by the agenda of men and end up serving the mission of man. That would be a far cry from the Mission of Heaven. We worship God and saints, not man however good that man may be. There should be no hero worshiping or idolizing of man whether he is a charismatic pastor, priest, monk, medium or lay leader. We don't even idol worship the image of any saint but reflect on what the image stands for. - the doctrine in the image. Omitofo 阿弥陀佛!.

Friday, December 12, 2014

Be truthful from the heart

No 767 of Living Life Series 1



Many in a house of God say one thing but outside say another. They project a good image upfront but are not what they are at heart. The modern men are like that but the man of ages past too are no different. 

They are model men of religion in the house of God but are not what they make themselves to be. 

This is exactly why Ji Gong (济公) advises that what matters is what is in the heart or rather what goes through the heart and not what one does or what goes through the gut. 

Who is a better role model, the likes of Ji Gong (济公) or the ones who are like the Pharisees of old during the lifetime of Jesus as man?  

Let us be good but let this come from the heart. We must be good from the heart - what our heart tells us and not be what others want us to be. Let there be no act or pretension. Instead, let the truth in us be known and let us not cover the truth in us with falsehood that are ironically meant to project us as more than that good and wonderful. 

Let us be like Ji Gong (济公) and Jesus and be humble and true at heart. There are many sages who are like them but the two merit our attention. We can learn from them

Jesus said that the humble will be exalted and the exalted humbled. Jesus himself lived with the poor and those of humble background and in fact, his original companions, the apostles, were fishermen and neither nobles or notables of the Roman empire nor the priests or rabbis of the Jewish synagogues. 

Ji Gong (济公) in his lifetime as man moved and lived incognito with the beggars after being excommunicated from the monastery for not doing what other monks did. He wandered the streets in tethered clothes of beggars and vagrants - not even robes of a monk. But he stood out because he was true to the heart and not pretentious or acting from a high pedestal. But he stood out and was counted as one among the Buddhas - the enlightened ones. 

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