No 889 of Living Life Series 1
Death is not the end-all but the continuation of the learning process of life. P. Philip died in service of the good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨. He was resurrected in heaven for the good he has done and to learn to do the good he had yet to do.
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| P..Philip in service of the lord saint Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 |
Then that will be the day when we need no rebirths. Certainly we want not endless resurrections. Even one is one too many.
We must attain the completeness of learning and no longer need any further resurrection to learn from life. That will be good but for now we must make do with the life we are resurrected into.
Then when we arrive, we will no longer need to live nor die as we will be pure and complete. We would be above the normal heaven and in the highest of heaven or some will say beyond the heavens.
What is meant by all these talk? Well, to be in a heaven in one sense is just a reward for having learnt and make progress and where our reward is to learn more in heaven to be better for more resurrections till we are complete.
Heaven is the transit for us to make good even better and one day be beyond transits to heaven. For many of us, we do need to make transits to heaven in our cycle of rebirths or resurrections. The fact that we must be resurrected time and again is the admission of this reality. It takes time for us to be complete.
Even God and saints above are subject to resurrections till they are Buddhas. That they have long and near eternal lives reflect that they are near to being Buddhas when they will be beyond form and formless and beyond meditative ecstasy or jhanas which they are good at.
There are various levels of learning and attainment. Thus there are many heavens or what some refer as levels of heaven. This is depicted by the pagoda.
As we progress from good to better, we have transits between heaven and earth and so long as we make real progress, each time we transit back to heaven we are resurrected to higher level or heaven.
Buddha state is depicted as beyond the highest level of the pagoda. Earth is at the ground where the pagoda is. Earth or to be human is where we are resurrected to try out how much we can put into practice what we have learnt in past lives and in heaven.
Heaven is the place to learn from the saints. Hell is where we undergo correction for failing to learn and doing the very opposite of what we should do if we have learnt. There is no eternity in heaven, hell or earth till we arrive at purity of spirit - till we are Buddhas of sorts.
Generally on a positive note, we will learn more in heaven and be even better. That should be what we should have if we cultivate purity and goodness in our daily life.
The need to be pure and good is laid down by the sages and enshrined by men in religions. This is the essence of the inner truth behind religions of men that the good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 set out to resurrect in the minds of men since his descent in 1969 at Singapore.
Complacency and the the pull of worldly pleasures distract men from the goal of cultivation of goodness. Goodness is not good enough but entitles us to be in heaven for transit to learn to about how to be even better - to be pure.
But we need to return and be resurrected as men to see if we could put what we learn into practice. Alas the pull of worldly pleasures may blind us to the higher calling when we are men again. What are meant to be the means become the ends. That is the problem. We end up lost in worldly pleasures.
We should neither deny nor indulge in worldly needs. We have to need worldly needs and achieve the worldly calling before we can be better positioned to answer the higher calling of purity cultivation. How to be pure is taught by all sages in different ways and in essence is same in all faiths. Buddha put this as the Eight Fold Path. It is the fourth of the Four Noble Truths
Do keep the cultivation of purity going and rolling along in life. Do not wait and think we can wait for better times. That would be sloth and torpor that will hinder us to be pure and enlightened.
There are various levels of learning and attainment. Thus there are many heavens or what some refer as levels of heaven. This is depicted by the pagoda.
Buddha state is depicted as beyond the highest level of the pagoda. Earth is at the ground where the pagoda is. Earth or to be human is where we are resurrected to try out how much we can put into practice what we have learnt in past lives and in heaven.
Heaven is the place to learn from the saints. Hell is where we undergo correction for failing to learn and doing the very opposite of what we should do if we have learnt. There is no eternity in heaven, hell or earth till we arrive at purity of spirit - till we are Buddhas of sorts.
Generally on a positive note, we will learn more in heaven and be even better. That should be what we should have if we cultivate purity and goodness in our daily life.
The need to be pure and good is laid down by the sages and enshrined by men in religions. This is the essence of the inner truth behind religions of men that the good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 set out to resurrect in the minds of men since his descent in 1969 at Singapore.
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| 武天菩萨 Lord Bo Tien |
But we need to return and be resurrected as men to see if we could put what we learn into practice. Alas the pull of worldly pleasures may blind us to the higher calling when we are men again. What are meant to be the means become the ends. That is the problem. We end up lost in worldly pleasures.
We should neither deny nor indulge in worldly needs. We have to need worldly needs and achieve the worldly calling before we can be better positioned to answer the higher calling of purity cultivation. How to be pure is taught by all sages in different ways and in essence is same in all faiths. Buddha put this as the Eight Fold Path. It is the fourth of the Four Noble Truths
The Four Noble Truths
