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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!.

Saturday, March 14, 2015

To be at peace with the price of being man

No 835 of Living Life Series 1



Humans are attracted to problems like insects to nectar of flower. When there are no problems, they become restless and tend to gravitate to problems. Though they dislike problems, they need to have problems to fill the void. 

The irony is that they become overwhelmed by problems they pick up and enter into. The problems may become too big and too hot for them to manage. They turn to the gods or saints above and expect miracles all the time.

In the first place, why look for problems and create more problems. There is need to have insight and learn to be peaceful. A peaceful person will not want problems. He will move on in life and have less problems with more peace. 

Even a saint who lives as man will have some problems as long as he is man. But he is at peace with life and its problems. He does not create more problems. 

The problems of men are many and plentiful. This the good lord Lord Bo Tien (武天菩萨) says. 
He adds that with shelter by God and saints, issues will be less or no issue. Small issues will be no issue and big issues less of issue. There is however an element of fate. As long as man is man, there is always the background issues of being man. 

Likewise, the price of being involved in a mission of a temple is to be entangled in the differing opinions of men in mission. This too gives weight to the reality that there is the price attached to being man. Man always end up with issues even in mission of a temple saint.

Perhaps, men who know better would no longer want to be men but to be saints in next life. But they must first learn to be men and to be at peace with the price of being men. 


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