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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!.

Saturday, August 8, 2015

The worth of religion depends on men.

No 978 of Living Life Series 1



The religions of the world are by themselves enough to reach out to men and give them meaning and purpose in life. That they might not arrive at this is because men fail to see the inner truth in religion. 

 The inner or basic truth is one and same in all. The founder sages introduced them in the way most appropriate to the society and times when they came as man. 

 Through the years the times change and if people stick to the same, the teaching may be out of context and not that appropriate. What if the teaching cross divides and go round the world? Surely the same presentation of teaching will give rise to more misrepresentations. 

 That is why the teachings are not as efficacious and effective and men at the helm had to do something that will capture men's attention. This can be both good and not so good. 

 Thus it is important that we go to the inner truth and understand in context. By so doing, we will accept that due to different contexts, there will have to have different applications of the same teaching to reach out to men. Thus we end up with proliferation of religions, sects and cultures. 

 This is both good and not so good and it all depends not on God and saints but on men. The worth of religion depends on men. That is why the good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 descends in 1969 to bring out light in men to see the oneness of religions in basic teaching. 

 That is why he started no new religion but wants us to see in the light of truth in whatever religion we are in. We must be better in our respective religions. We must be more worthy of the religion we are in. Then we make the religion we are in more worthy for men.
The different teachings of religions arose based on the same basic teaching elucidated by the sages in the context of their times and part of the world they are in. The basic teaching is how to be good and pure and be closer to God and saints. It is as simple as that but to reach out to all men is not as simple. 

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