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!.

Tuesday, June 9, 2015

No want of enlightenment if indeed it is the goal

No 890 of Living Life Series 1

We do not want to be just good. We must not just believe. We need to be enlightened.

We may like to be in Heaven. We should not wait for afterlife. We should want to be in Heaven here and now.

By the way, heaven is just for those who believe and who has done good. Enlightenment is for those who know being good and having faith and devotion will not be enough.

We need to be pure and free from wants. Even the want to be enlightened is a want based on clinging and attachment. This will drive us away from enlightenment.

To be enlightened is to be pure
and to be pure is to be one and
at peace with the world and nature.
Do not be slave to wants.
Be master of the world -
neither run away from it
nor let it enslaves us.

Enlightenment is purity with free from wants. We treasure the free and light easy feeling of not being tied down to wants.

To be free from wants does not mean we do not live. It does not mean we deny our physical existence and neglect our bodily needs.

We need to be in flesh and in the world. We need to meet worldly calling before we can have higher calling.

It does not mean we sit cross legged round the clock. It means we must be mindful and insightful round the clock though we must have some committed or quiet time.

We need some form of worldly calling that best suites us to meet the higher calling. We must be pragmatic in setting the worldly calling. We must not waste too much time on the lower calling. We must have no problem in making the worldly calling and use it as springboard to make it in the higher calling.

We must have sufficient time, space, leeway and resources to make the higher calling. We must not end up taking almost all what we have just to make it for the lower calling leaving little or none for the higher calling.

White marble image exudes purity

We must waste no time and enter into purity cultivation, if possible even while going for the worldly calling. We cannot adopt the attitude that enlightenment can wait for while today is a certainty, tomorrow is not.

We seek the peace of the here and now such purity cultivation yields and crave not for the enlightenment in the horizon. That craving would weigh us down and make it even more remote.

Whatever purity and freedom from wants we can have is valuable in reducing the burden of wants. It is invaluable in yielding some peace of sorts for here and now.

The peace of now is a taste of the ultimate enlightenment but even such peace is illusive and not the end-all. Such peace is only the means to the end. Let not the peace be mistaken as the end.

Hua Shan - one of the five
sacred mountains of China
evokes thoughts of purity
and spirituality like the Himalayas

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.