No 1197 of Living Life Series 1
Times have changed. Instead of going to a temple or church to be alone and one with God and saint, people progressed from that to have group worship.
With group worship instead of of just having the priest or monk recite the texts for us, soon the crowd joined in the recital. Previously the texts recital was reserved for the priest.
This was followed in time by not just reciting the holy texts but by singing which was taboo in the long past.
Later dancing, clapping and shouting came into the picture. These are the ways of men. The sense of traditional propriety became eroded and lost to time.
The ways of men do change and will change. But remember the ways of God and saints are always ever the same.
The good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 commented that in all religions, the ways of men are never the same as the ways of God and saints.
God speaks one to one through silence. The silence of God is loud to the faithful but void to and not heard by those not faithful. They end up wanting to hear their own voices and noisy at that
The noisy ones in a church or temple may at times be like empty vessels. They may have no substance - empty and noisy but very showy.
They like what the good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 says are far though they think they are near. The sermon of the near and far by now is well known. The far may be near and the near far.
The silent may be more substantial than the noise of empty vessels. Men in relating to God move from one to many, from personal touch by God and with God, to distancing by crowd from the God here and near, from silence to noise, from substantiality to empty and noisy showiness.
The ways of men are far from the ways of God and saints. God and saints are quiet and silent but more effective.
The silence of God is more effective than the noise of men. Traditional cultures of the East are more effective in their silence than the noisiness of cultures beyond the East.
Silent and solid is God and noisy and empty are most men. If cannot hear the silence of God, then make more noises and at least hear their own voice and noise. Then don't they wipe our from their lives the silence that is God in the very house of God?
Let there be silence if we want to hear God. Let there be noise and merry making if we want to hear men instead of God. Accord to God and saints what are due to God and saints and to men what are due to men.
But some men driven by emotion and not by logic that is Tao 道 even howl like wolves in the darkness and silence of the night. Some talk and sing in mumbo jumbo. Some writhe and squirm like snakes and serpents.
They do not even accord to themselves what should be for men. Do for Godsake or rather for goodness sake, be more man even if we are not ready to be more godly and more than man.
With group worship instead of of just having the priest or monk recite the texts for us, soon the crowd joined in the recital. Previously the texts recital was reserved for the priest.
This was followed in time by not just reciting the holy texts but by singing which was taboo in the long past.
Later dancing, clapping and shouting came into the picture. These are the ways of men. The sense of traditional propriety became eroded and lost to time.
The ways of men do change and will change. But remember the ways of God and saints are always ever the same.
The good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 commented that in all religions, the ways of men are never the same as the ways of God and saints.
God speaks one to one through silence. The silence of God is loud to the faithful but void to and not heard by those not faithful. They end up wanting to hear their own voices and noisy at that
The noisy ones in a church or temple may at times be like empty vessels. They may have no substance - empty and noisy but very showy.
They like what the good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 says are far though they think they are near. The sermon of the near and far by now is well known. The far may be near and the near far.
The silent may be more substantial than the noise of empty vessels. Men in relating to God move from one to many, from personal touch by God and with God, to distancing by crowd from the God here and near, from silence to noise, from substantiality to empty and noisy showiness.
The ways of men are far from the ways of God and saints. God and saints are quiet and silent but more effective.
The silence of God is more effective than the noise of men. Traditional cultures of the East are more effective in their silence than the noisiness of cultures beyond the East.
Silent and solid is God and noisy and empty are most men. If cannot hear the silence of God, then make more noises and at least hear their own voice and noise. Then don't they wipe our from their lives the silence that is God in the very house of God?
Let there be silence if we want to hear God. Let there be noise and merry making if we want to hear men instead of God. Accord to God and saints what are due to God and saints and to men what are due to men.
But some men driven by emotion and not by logic that is Tao 道 even howl like wolves in the darkness and silence of the night. Some talk and sing in mumbo jumbo. Some writhe and squirm like snakes and serpents.
They do not even accord to themselves what should be for men. Do for Godsake or rather for goodness sake, be more man even if we are not ready to be more godly and more than man.
