LIVING LIFE SERIES 1

A BO TIEN (武天) MISSION INITIATIVE LAUNCHED ON 28TH SEPT 2010 BY INNER TRUTH NETIZEN 2. THE MISSION IS TO SHOW THE WAY TO HOPE, INNER PEACE AND ULTIMATELY SALVATION FOR ALL BEINGS. THE PURPOSE IS TO SAVE SOULS. IT IS WAY BEYOND NORMAL GOOD WORK LIKE CHARITY AND WELFARE ACTIVITIES. NO ONE SHALL BE SAVED BY GOOD WORKS ALONE BUT BY MORE THAN GOOD WORK. THERE IS NEED TO BE IMBUED WITH THE BASIC DOCTRINE COMMON TO AND BEHIND ALL RELIGIONS AND SECTS. LIVE IN DOCTRINE. DOCTRINE IN LIFE IS PARAMOUNT.

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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!.

Thursday, April 2, 2015

Complying with the laws of God and the land

No 849 of Living Life Series 1

Go to a temple not for the concrete greatness. Go not for the grandeur of festivals and the addiction to greatness of good works. Go instead for what the temple stands for.

What is the grand design in life for beings? What is the purpose in life? To understand this, there must be need to know why there must be death and why we must be at peace with the downs for every up will precede a down. Life precedes death and death precedes life. In life, there is death and in death, there is life.

But in any great temple, people seem to go about life as though death is for others and not for them. They run the temple as though it is no different from the secular world. They cling on to a temple in the very same way they cling on to their worldly possessions.

They not only hold on to the organ of administration but think that they can subsume the organ of spirituality under the organ of administration. Worse still, if they want more and want the world to be at their beck and call and to be devoted to them rather than to God and saints but still in the name of God and saints, they do the unthinkable.

They take on the organ of spirituality and have hold also on the organ of management. They think that God is with them and that what they want they will get. They think they can break laws.

But then they plain forget that they must give to God and saints what is of God and saints and to men what is of men. There are the laws of Heaven. There are also the laws of the land.

It is best that those in a temple who handle and are beholden to the laws of the land must be different from those who handle and are beholden to the laws of God and saints. This is plain common sense.

In a temple of the good lord Lord Bo Tien (武天菩萨), the good lord has divined that there be separate organs to handle the laws of God and the land - namely the spiritual body and the administrative body. Elder Ling the founding administrator had championed this divine instruction.

There may be occasion when a temple will fail to do so and either the laws of God or the laws of the land are infringed. If this happens, then the consequences of such a folly will be grim reminder for other temples not to make the same mistake.

All is not in vain if the worse should happen. They will learn and others too will learn as well from their experience. That will in a way be wholesome...

It is worthwhile for the two bodies, the spiritual body and the administrative bodies to check each other. They must comply with each other's jurisdiction. Then there will be peace on Earth and in Heaven for that temple.

This peace comes from balance of yin and yang. The doctrine of yin and yang is the age-old philosophy of life in China that the good lord Lord Bo Tien (武天菩萨) also brought up in his latter anniversary messages. It is inherent in culture and this enables compliance with both heavenly and earthly laws.

Incidentally, the only way to be at peace with life is to be at peace with death. Likewise, the only way to be at peace with the laws of Heaven is to be at peace with the laws of the land. Life and death like Earth and Heaven are intertwined in cyclical manner. If we cannot keep the peace with the laws of the land, how to be at peace with the laws of Heaven.

In life, there is death and in death there is life
thus the small D and the small L circles
within the yin and yang - death and life

Lest you forget

Do not make the mistake of idolizing any man who tells you about the Word. He is in the same boat as you even if religion refers to him as a religious leader. Mere mention of a religious leader is as good as encouraging idolising of that man. Why must there be hierarchy in religion? Hierarchy is conventional but may end up as liability rather than a necessity or asset. There should be no caste or hierarchy system in religion. No one is to be considered above another in religion. A religious leader or follower is a servant to serve you and not a leader to be idolised. Do not put him on the pedestal and make a monster out of him.

MAY ALL BE WELL AND HAPPY

May all be well and happy. May they have peace. May our departed friends and kins be well, happy and have divine peace. The main writer wishes the best for all for those near and far. Our kins may be far when they had passed on to better lives but they are near though far. He remembers and wishes his parents Mr Siow Soo Koh and Mdm Tay Hung Siang, his uncles and aunties like Mr Tay Koon Huay, his cousins like Mr Tay Chong Sim and his friends like Mr Philip Png well and have abundance of life. May they be rich in spirit for without such ancestors, there will be no posterity - no us and no you and me. They have blessed us and we must blessed them in return forever and ever.