No 962 of Living Life Series 1
The ills are due in part to the nature of man and the longing of men for sensual pleasures such as over eating, over using of the body and mind as well as the lack of use as well.
Religions must come in to nurse men so that they have less ills and more health in all aspects - physically mentally and in spirit.
The solution is to have balance and to be atop the polarities and the vicissitudes of life, like depicted in the image of the good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨.
But when men fail to do this and just go with what come along in life, they are swept around by the ups and downs, the yin and yang. They suffer as a result. They want more and more. The more they have, the more they must have.
Some think they know better. They run away from life but can they? Men too suffer when they deny life needs and rot way.
When they want nothing to do with life, they die in life even when very much alive. They die too when they go for too much.
When they want nothing to do with life, they die in life even when very much alive. They die too when they go for too much.
Too much and too little create woes and ills. There need to be the optimum or balance. Men need to nurse their lives so that they can be at peace with no ills of life.
This doctrine is in the image of the good lord. The doctrine is the image and the image is the doctrine. This did the good lord say.
The image tells us the need to nurse our way out of issues and problems in life and have peace from the ills of life. This is not that there will be no ills but just there will be less ills and sense of calm that allow the person to mitigate and rise above the ills of life.
There is need not to create ills - prophylaxis or prevention. We need to prevent and not create more ills of life. There is need to remove the cause of ills and to get relieve.
But some ills never go away. We need to be atop of whatever remaining ills. We need to be calm to say atop.
Even palliation for intractable ills will not work if there is no fortitude of the mind to be above ills. Only then will there be calm even in a storm.
No matter what, we need to nurse the ills of life. We need to have the peace of life. We need to cheer ourselves up. Nurses provide the care and cheer for physical and mental ills. They provide fellowship and strength.
We must give strength to others to overcome ills of life and what better way than to sing and dance in a house of God to bring cheer to self and all. Join the cheer and merry making. Join in the celebration of life and make life lively.
Call this the work of men or the holy spirit but it works and lessen our need to want more and more. Then we will not create more ills for self.
Yes, we must nurse the spirit of cheer and peace in life but there is that thin line that we must not breach or we end up promoting indulgence. Any sensual indulgence will be no different from others. So please, don't go overboard with indulgence in cheer and end up creating more ills in the process by promoting the very same roots that create ills in so many things in life.
Alas, many somehow simply don't go to the root of the ills of life. They just make do with cheer even in religion and sort of resort to mere mitigation using sensual indulgence as palliation when there is the cure they should go for...
Hope you get the point, otherwise instead of nursing the ills of life, we promote alternative ills and think that we have done a great job at nursing the ills of life. Often, at times men of religion do precisely that which they want not to do in the name of religion and they think they have done their religious job.
They have indeed done a great job and brought cheer through substitution that does not substantially nurse the ills of life but perhaps this is what people want. But mind you, this is not wrong.
They get immediate relief and gratification. This is good enough and will be the way forward. This is substantial enough. It allows them to be happy and to be in cloud 9.
Popular religion must be like that and that is why the inner truth basic to religion is buried deep under layers and layers of popular religion.
Religion becomes archaeological sites for those rare few who are serious enough to dig into to discover the inner truth. This did the good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 say in 1969.
But for many, popular religion is good enough to nurse them from the ills of life and somehow bring relief of sorts though not good enough... So let there be cheer, song and dance in a house of God if this can dull the pain and ills of life.
The choice is left to the individual and not wise to say which is better or right. One man's meat is another man's poison. All are right in religion and there is no question about that. This is the will of God and saints.
The image tells us the need to nurse our way out of issues and problems in life and have peace from the ills of life. This is not that there will be no ills but just there will be less ills and sense of calm that allow the person to mitigate and rise above the ills of life.
There is need not to create ills - prophylaxis or prevention. We need to prevent and not create more ills of life. There is need to remove the cause of ills and to get relieve.
But some ills never go away. We need to be atop of whatever remaining ills. We need to be calm to say atop.
Even palliation for intractable ills will not work if there is no fortitude of the mind to be above ills. Only then will there be calm even in a storm.
No matter what, we need to nurse the ills of life. We need to have the peace of life. We need to cheer ourselves up. Nurses provide the care and cheer for physical and mental ills. They provide fellowship and strength.
We must give strength to others to overcome ills of life and what better way than to sing and dance in a house of God to bring cheer to self and all. Join the cheer and merry making. Join in the celebration of life and make life lively.
Call this the work of men or the holy spirit but it works and lessen our need to want more and more. Then we will not create more ills for self.
Yes, we must nurse the spirit of cheer and peace in life but there is that thin line that we must not breach or we end up promoting indulgence. Any sensual indulgence will be no different from others. So please, don't go overboard with indulgence in cheer and end up creating more ills in the process by promoting the very same roots that create ills in so many things in life.
Alas, many somehow simply don't go to the root of the ills of life. They just make do with cheer even in religion and sort of resort to mere mitigation using sensual indulgence as palliation when there is the cure they should go for...
Hope you get the point, otherwise instead of nursing the ills of life, we promote alternative ills and think that we have done a great job at nursing the ills of life. Often, at times men of religion do precisely that which they want not to do in the name of religion and they think they have done their religious job.
They have indeed done a great job and brought cheer through substitution that does not substantially nurse the ills of life but perhaps this is what people want. But mind you, this is not wrong.
They get immediate relief and gratification. This is good enough and will be the way forward. This is substantial enough. It allows them to be happy and to be in cloud 9.
Popular religion must be like that and that is why the inner truth basic to religion is buried deep under layers and layers of popular religion.
Religion becomes archaeological sites for those rare few who are serious enough to dig into to discover the inner truth. This did the good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 say in 1969.
The choice is left to the individual and not wise to say which is better or right. One man's meat is another man's poison. All are right in religion and there is no question about that. This is the will of God and saints.
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