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!.

Sunday, April 5, 2015

Temple is where love resides

No 851 of Living Life Series 1

Whoever can deny that in any temple, there is the need for good administrators to formalize matters and put in order what are spiritually driven. That which are effected by the spiritual tend to be informal but if proposed to and taken up by the administrators would become that more structured, respectable and wholesome.

But administrators with knack for administration often do lack spiritual grounding and direction and spiritual people tend to lacking in the ways of the world - more specifically the ways of the land. They the spiritualists know more of the ways of Heaven and less the ways of the land.

Men are like that and they either lean towards more yang or more yin. It will be some time before they can be more correct even in yin or yang, let alone be balanced and right in both. They are long way off to reach the ideal and if they do then, they are saints.

In a temple of a lord saint, the good lord Lord Bo Tien (武天菩萨) says that people in a temple must learn from one another - harness the good of fellow men and learn from their weaknesses. They must see the gospel of truths and untruths in one another.

Rather than just asking Heaven to bless, they can bless one another and be better off. They can help one another and not run down one another. They can harness one another's resources and skills. They can and should not worsen the liabilities of one another and amass and heighten liabilities - akin to making mountain out of molehill in the process.

Men in their arrogance due to pride think they know better and criticize one another. Of all places, they often do so in the holy sanctity of a temple. They give their ego free rein and unchecked in a temple - in the very place where their individual egos are to be reined in.

The good lord advises us not to be judgmental but to adopt loving attitude. We must be positive and want to help one another to be better by helping one another rather than be at loggerheads. We must want to help and not hurt. Instead of rubbing in that others are wrong, they must aside their wrongs and move on in forgiveness. To err is human and to forgive divine.

Yin must not clash with yang and yang with yin. Let yin and yang move in tandem and make up for each other's shortfalls. This is the teaching of saints of all religions. This the good lord Lord Bo Tien (武天菩萨) continues to explain to us in depth.

He says that men must bring out the good of one another and must want to help one another, not hurt one another, not be vindictive but be ever forgiving. This is the purpose of having temples.

Temple is the people and not the building.

People must want to love the world and what better place to start off with than in a temple. Instead of fighting out over differences, they must love to be different and it is in being different that men can see the contrasting strengths and weaknesses.

Strengths are for us to emulate and to help others. We learn from others' weaknesses.

We do not goad over the wrongs of others. That will drive a wedge in relationship. We love through forgiveness - through live and let live. That way we can cooperate more completely and be in harmony and uphold the peace.

Humanity should see more of the good and less of bad. They should help one another to be more good by rendering help to one another where weaknesses may well be liabilities. This is loving kindness in action. Temple is where love resides and reaches out to the world with love.

The opposite is ill-will or anger. Why of all places must temples be where anger reside and have a field day? Vindictiveness and vengeance do not belong in temples. Love do and with love, we do not demand and we do not point fingers. We do not end up as cliques to pit against one another.

Temples should be the nests of love for humanity. This must begin with those in the temples. The people and not the building is the temple. If people are not gelled as one, the temple is not whole and will in time fall apart and end up relic of the past.

Temple is where love resides. Then yin and yang will embrace each other and not collide with each other. Instead of anger rubbing off one another with every contact, there is love. This augurs well for the temple and for society at large.

Temple is where love resides and without love, there is no warmth and there is no light.

If the fledglings in a nest fight with one another over the mother bird, soon there will be no nest. If members of a temple clobber one another, they will dismantle the temple.

Temple is the people. People must stay as one like a collection of candles to better shine the light to one another and to others. This the good lord Lord Bo Tien (武天菩萨) alludes to when he refers to people of a temple as candles or oil lamps.

Let a thousand lights brighten up a temple in unison and harmony. This can only be reality if there is full cooperation. This will bring on the smiles and cheers to the lives of all in the temple and in society.

"Ke Lok Si Illuminations 01" by Flying Pharmacist - Own work (own photo). Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ke_Lok_Si_Illuminations_01.JPG#/media/File:Ke_Lok_Si_Illuminations_01.JPG

Where there is love to brighten up life, there is the temple. A temple is no longer one where there is no love, no cooperation, no peace and no joy being there in the place even if you call it a temple. The family is the first temple as love abounds and brightens up life. The great Gautama Buddha said that, didn't he?

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.