No 1293 of Living Life Series 1
In life we want to succeed. Indeed we need to succeed. But whither goes success once we end up in death?
We still need to succeed somehow and in someway though but not in same way as others. We are no apes and no monkeys. It cannot be monkey says and monkey does.
If so, when the cock crows, we have to start all over again and be what our neighbors are and go after the same things they go after. That would be sad. But indeed this holds true and isn't that pathetic?
What have become of men? Are we chasing after the rainbow or the horizon which recedes ever the more when we try to reach it. What we go after should not end up as the rainbow or horizon.
What we want is security and stability, a means of livelihood that best suits us - our abilities and our needs. Let the means be the means and not end up as the ends. Otherwise, where will be the end?
Why live and why life? Life is a stepping stone to what life stands for - the purpose of life. Of what use if the purpose comes to naught at the end when death comes knocking.
Well that requires us to cultivate our resilience and our insight of life. What can we have that will not come to naught with death? It is the peace within us that will ensure the peace stays with us regardless of what comes our way in life.
It is about having enough and not have nothing. How can nothing gives peace? How can more gives peace when there is the more to the more we can have?
Thus the good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 says that in life and in any religion, what matters is to be on top of life, its coming and going, it's ups and downs, it's ebb and flow - the yin and yang.
The way to do this is to have peace of spirit, the inner peace that enables us to embrace life and not let life embrace, suffocate and decimate us. This is the inner peace that is talked about by all religions but referred to in various ways.
To live is to die. To die to life is to be dead to life even before death. Why live and why life? Peace is all we need come what may.
We still need to have means to have this end of peace. Let not the means be the ends. Be clear in mind and in life.
Dying to life gives no peace. Living it to the sky is no way to peace. Know the ends from the means. Know why we need peace at heart and in spirit.
This matters more than anything else. But many just don't get it, do they?
We still need to succeed somehow and in someway though but not in same way as others. We are no apes and no monkeys. It cannot be monkey says and monkey does.
If so, when the cock crows, we have to start all over again and be what our neighbors are and go after the same things they go after. That would be sad. But indeed this holds true and isn't that pathetic?
What have become of men? Are we chasing after the rainbow or the horizon which recedes ever the more when we try to reach it. What we go after should not end up as the rainbow or horizon.
What we want is security and stability, a means of livelihood that best suits us - our abilities and our needs. Let the means be the means and not end up as the ends. Otherwise, where will be the end?
Why live and why life? Life is a stepping stone to what life stands for - the purpose of life. Of what use if the purpose comes to naught at the end when death comes knocking.
Well that requires us to cultivate our resilience and our insight of life. What can we have that will not come to naught with death? It is the peace within us that will ensure the peace stays with us regardless of what comes our way in life.
It is about having enough and not have nothing. How can nothing gives peace? How can more gives peace when there is the more to the more we can have?
Thus the good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 says that in life and in any religion, what matters is to be on top of life, its coming and going, it's ups and downs, it's ebb and flow - the yin and yang.
The way to do this is to have peace of spirit, the inner peace that enables us to embrace life and not let life embrace, suffocate and decimate us. This is the inner peace that is talked about by all religions but referred to in various ways.
To live is to die. To die to life is to be dead to life even before death. Why live and why life? Peace is all we need come what may.
We still need to have means to have this end of peace. Let not the means be the ends. Be clear in mind and in life.
Dying to life gives no peace. Living it to the sky is no way to peace. Know the ends from the means. Know why we need peace at heart and in spirit.
This matters more than anything else. But many just don't get it, do they?
