No 1013 of Living Life Series 1
Men ask for happiness and blessings. They turn to God and saints. This has been the way since the days of old. They ask for everything and sometimes think that things will drop down from the sky. Heaven somehow still accede if they can. This is always the case.
But there will never be the end. The good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 wants all to reflect that there are many ways for blessings in life.
Heaven can bless us. We can be blessing to ourselves by knowing how to live life, what to want and what not to. We can also help one another and be blessings to one another.
We can also understand life and the nature of life. Let not the wants in life get the better of us. When is enough enough? Why we seem to want more and more and end up having more of the problems of life itself?
The good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨says that the issues of men are many and plentiful. This seems to be the lot of men.
This is due to wanting and longing. But we need to be men and there must still be wants somehow. We cannot want nothing and deny our being man. We will rot away and be in bad health.
We must strike a balance and this is common sense. This balance is the way depicted in the image of the good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 with feet on the elements - denial and wanting.
Well, this truth seems simple but there is more than meet the eye. What is enough and balance differs from person to person.
Sometimes, we need to sit back and pull back our need for more and more. We may think that what we want is not excessive and expect that Heaven must give in to us more so when we cannot get them ourselves.
Even if we do not need the hand of Heaven and can get what we want, we will be so worn out and not at peace and worse still, we will think on how to get other wants of tomorrow.
That is why people must retreat to a temple once a year to meditate and reflect - to sit back and look at life. That is why there is the 49 days purity observance before Mission Day of Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 where we at least have less of wants and realize that life can still go on.
With the experience of 49 days of vegetarianism, fasting before noon, and holding our tongue and not talk needlessly, we will be better off - sort of detoxified in spirit and in body. We will also empathize with those who have not enough and realize how fortunate we are.
Thus this will remind us not to go for more. We can have more by having less. Don't you get it? If not, join those others in the 49 days purity observance before Mission Day of Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨.
We will be refreshed, detoxified and more religiously inclined and better poised for life. We will be able to handle life and its wants. We will still have wants but the wants will not get the better of us. We will be better at pulling the brakes on wants.
This can be practiced in any temple and through any religion. It is not that life detox can only be done a temple of Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨. He merely shows the way. In fact at any temple in his name, people of all religions can take part and be better at whatever religions they are in. Isn't this cause for rejoicing?
This is in fact reinforcing the message in 1969 when he descended and the message is that all religions work at saving men. All religions can make it. Saving life and souls is not the monopoly of any one person or group. All religions must work together to detox and save lives.
But there will never be the end. The good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 wants all to reflect that there are many ways for blessings in life.
Heaven can bless us. We can be blessing to ourselves by knowing how to live life, what to want and what not to. We can also help one another and be blessings to one another.
We can also understand life and the nature of life. Let not the wants in life get the better of us. When is enough enough? Why we seem to want more and more and end up having more of the problems of life itself?
The good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨says that the issues of men are many and plentiful. This seems to be the lot of men.
This is due to wanting and longing. But we need to be men and there must still be wants somehow. We cannot want nothing and deny our being man. We will rot away and be in bad health.
We must strike a balance and this is common sense. This balance is the way depicted in the image of the good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 with feet on the elements - denial and wanting.
Sometimes, we need to sit back and pull back our need for more and more. We may think that what we want is not excessive and expect that Heaven must give in to us more so when we cannot get them ourselves.
Even if we do not need the hand of Heaven and can get what we want, we will be so worn out and not at peace and worse still, we will think on how to get other wants of tomorrow.
That is why people must retreat to a temple once a year to meditate and reflect - to sit back and look at life. That is why there is the 49 days purity observance before Mission Day of Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 where we at least have less of wants and realize that life can still go on.
With the experience of 49 days of vegetarianism, fasting before noon, and holding our tongue and not talk needlessly, we will be better off - sort of detoxified in spirit and in body. We will also empathize with those who have not enough and realize how fortunate we are.
Thus this will remind us not to go for more. We can have more by having less. Don't you get it? If not, join those others in the 49 days purity observance before Mission Day of Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨.
We will be refreshed, detoxified and more religiously inclined and better poised for life. We will be able to handle life and its wants. We will still have wants but the wants will not get the better of us. We will be better at pulling the brakes on wants.
This is in fact reinforcing the message in 1969 when he descended and the message is that all religions work at saving men. All religions can make it. Saving life and souls is not the monopoly of any one person or group. All religions must work together to detox and save lives.
