No 1193 of Living Life Series 1
Saints like the Buddha came down to Earth to correct the thinking of men with regards to religion. Men tends to deviate from the truth. Men cannot accept the truth and like to day dream that there is no need to work for salvation.
All they want is to be given. Ask and be given seems the best.
When Gotama attained under the great Bodhi tree enlightenment and become the historical Buddha, he surveyed the world and realised that it might not be worthwhile to preach the truth.
Many will just distort it and go for the easy way out. Many will go for the untruth. Just believe and presto salvation is guaranteed.
If this is so, was there the need for heavenly saints to come our way from time to time?
We have to work for salvation. But men just have enough of work.
Truth is simple but it takes effort and many rebirths to have salvation - the end of rebirths through no wanting. This simply puts people off and they go for instant salvation.
Belief and just carry on with what we want. Salvation is God given. No need to be good. No need to purify the mind. God willing we will be purified.
Someone will take over our shortcomings and we will be pure in mind and spirit. Thus religions run by men undo the efforts of saints who come our way.
From the moment they preached the truth, men of the masses will undo what the saints do. Only a handful will understand and grasp the truth.
The Buddha knew this but God persuaded him to give it a try. There will still be the few who can make it. He was persuaded but like the efforts of all saints, most people go back to square one.
Whatever the saints do and however hard they try, religions will end up far from religious - far from the truth and pander to the dreams of men. They just want to believe and salvation will be delivered like food on a plate.
Religions end up serving untruths and only a few will see through this. This happened before the saints come our way and will continue to happen after they came. So what is the point for saints to make the effort?
But alas, if saints don't come our way and share their wisdom, even the few may not have the chance for enlightenment. That is the reality.
It is in this light that the good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 in 1969 descended to show that there is this inner truth behind all religions.
He said that religions will ever be like archaeological sites for us to dig into to uncover the inner or buried truth. Even if only a few can make it, it is still worth the effort for mission to make men realise this inner truth.
The good lord says that most people will just flow downstream with all the mud and add-ons. Few will go against the current to upper source for clear water.
Of course this is tedious and time consuming. Saints provide the wisdom and guidance. The rest is up to us. Saints though can help but they cannot live life for us. We have to live our own lives.
Religions while championing spirituality end up manipulated by masses and be far from nurturing spirituality.
Religion can be its own undoing. Saints know that. But they will still try to bring out the light. There will always be hope that a few will make it. This few is worth their effort to keep the truth available at least to this discerning few.
Religion indeed is its own undoing. What saints want to undo will still end up as before. This is as though they have not come at all. But the few who can make it makes their efforts still worthwhile.
Saints may be downtrodden in their time as men but men in modern times project them as the ones who condemn and threaten those who do not submit. Isn't this the undoing of sorts?
Saints are humble and loving. How is it that men end up projecting them as the opposite and yet say that saints have the interests of men at heart?
Men of religion indeed may end up undoing the efforts of saints. Religion is its own undoing but saints know this and will not give up.
All they want is to be given. Ask and be given seems the best.
When Gotama attained under the great Bodhi tree enlightenment and become the historical Buddha, he surveyed the world and realised that it might not be worthwhile to preach the truth.
Many will just distort it and go for the easy way out. Many will go for the untruth. Just believe and presto salvation is guaranteed.
If this is so, was there the need for heavenly saints to come our way from time to time?
We have to work for salvation. But men just have enough of work.
Truth is simple but it takes effort and many rebirths to have salvation - the end of rebirths through no wanting. This simply puts people off and they go for instant salvation.
Belief and just carry on with what we want. Salvation is God given. No need to be good. No need to purify the mind. God willing we will be purified.
Someone will take over our shortcomings and we will be pure in mind and spirit. Thus religions run by men undo the efforts of saints who come our way.
From the moment they preached the truth, men of the masses will undo what the saints do. Only a handful will understand and grasp the truth.
The Buddha knew this but God persuaded him to give it a try. There will still be the few who can make it. He was persuaded but like the efforts of all saints, most people go back to square one.
Whatever the saints do and however hard they try, religions will end up far from religious - far from the truth and pander to the dreams of men. They just want to believe and salvation will be delivered like food on a plate.
Religions end up serving untruths and only a few will see through this. This happened before the saints come our way and will continue to happen after they came. So what is the point for saints to make the effort?
But alas, if saints don't come our way and share their wisdom, even the few may not have the chance for enlightenment. That is the reality.
It is in this light that the good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 in 1969 descended to show that there is this inner truth behind all religions.
He said that religions will ever be like archaeological sites for us to dig into to uncover the inner or buried truth. Even if only a few can make it, it is still worth the effort for mission to make men realise this inner truth.
The good lord says that most people will just flow downstream with all the mud and add-ons. Few will go against the current to upper source for clear water.
Of course this is tedious and time consuming. Saints provide the wisdom and guidance. The rest is up to us. Saints though can help but they cannot live life for us. We have to live our own lives.
Religions while championing spirituality end up manipulated by masses and be far from nurturing spirituality.
Religion can be its own undoing. Saints know that. But they will still try to bring out the light. There will always be hope that a few will make it. This few is worth their effort to keep the truth available at least to this discerning few.
Religion indeed is its own undoing. What saints want to undo will still end up as before. This is as though they have not come at all. But the few who can make it makes their efforts still worthwhile.
Saints may be downtrodden in their time as men but men in modern times project them as the ones who condemn and threaten those who do not submit. Isn't this the undoing of sorts?
Saints are humble and loving. How is it that men end up projecting them as the opposite and yet say that saints have the interests of men at heart?
Men of religion indeed may end up undoing the efforts of saints. Religion is its own undoing but saints know this and will not give up.
