No 1028 of Living Life Series 1
All religions teach on the need to be good and not to do bad.
Goodness has to do with love. Love must not be for oneself alone but for others as well.
We also cannot be good to others and not good to oneself. To be good, we cannot forget ourselves.
We too cannot live as though others are not there. We must consider others as well as our own interests.
We must love life and not cause harm and hurt. Ultimately, we must have purity of thinking. We must purify the mind. As we think, so will we be.
We cannot achieve overnight the ideal purity. It is better to go one step at a time. It is good enough if we just be a little more good and pure so long as we do not consciously want to be not good.
We cannot be like God and saint overnight. We may even backtrack now and then.
We may be far from purity but religions enable God and saints to be with us even if we are far from good enough. We just need to believe and have faith. We need only to start off with this and with a little or even with no good at all. We will then be on our way though still far from ideal. We will hopefully learn along the way.
We will be near yet far. We will be far yet near. This did the good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 say.
We must accept ourselves for what we are and not feel guilt. We must do what we can. We cannot be hating ourselves for the not good in us or for the lack of purity ideal.
Guilt brings on dislike and even hatred to self and that is not good, let alone contribute in any way to purity of the mind. We should continue to progress and even a wee bit at a time is good enough.
But once a year or so, we must have more concerted effort to improve on and be more entrenched in the habit - to be good and pure.
At a temple of the good lord, there is the annual purity observance of 49 days before Mission Day on 13th day of the ninth lunar month.
Mission Day celebrates and commemorates the day of the first descent by the good lord in 1969 to introduce the mission of saving souls through all religions. The message is that all religions are one in mission though they may be different.
Goodness has to do with love. Love must not be for oneself alone but for others as well.
We also cannot be good to others and not good to oneself. To be good, we cannot forget ourselves.
We too cannot live as though others are not there. We must consider others as well as our own interests.
We must love life and not cause harm and hurt. Ultimately, we must have purity of thinking. We must purify the mind. As we think, so will we be.
We cannot achieve overnight the ideal purity. It is better to go one step at a time. It is good enough if we just be a little more good and pure so long as we do not consciously want to be not good.
We cannot be like God and saint overnight. We may even backtrack now and then.
We may be far from purity but religions enable God and saints to be with us even if we are far from good enough. We just need to believe and have faith. We need only to start off with this and with a little or even with no good at all. We will then be on our way though still far from ideal. We will hopefully learn along the way.
We will be near yet far. We will be far yet near. This did the good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 say.
We must accept ourselves for what we are and not feel guilt. We must do what we can. We cannot be hating ourselves for the not good in us or for the lack of purity ideal.
Guilt brings on dislike and even hatred to self and that is not good, let alone contribute in any way to purity of the mind. We should continue to progress and even a wee bit at a time is good enough.
But once a year or so, we must have more concerted effort to improve on and be more entrenched in the habit - to be good and pure.
At a temple of the good lord, there is the annual purity observance of 49 days before Mission Day on 13th day of the ninth lunar month.
Mission Day celebrates and commemorates the day of the first descent by the good lord in 1969 to introduce the mission of saving souls through all religions. The message is that all religions are one in mission though they may be different.
