No 1370 of Living Life Series 1
What is the mission of religion? Why are there religions? Are we to accept that religion is poised to show that one is better than another?
Well one religion cannot make it to serve all. Well, the preference and likes of people do defer. What is better for some will never be better for others.
Thus even in the same religion, there will be sects and in sects, there will be schools. There will always be differences.
God and saints must reach out to people in many many ways but the basic or inner truth behind all be it religion, sect or schools will be one. This the good Bo Tien 武天 refers to as the Inner Truth.
Even then, the way people look at inner truth may be from certain aspects and therein lies the problem.
How to be good? To be good is what is behind all. Moreover we need to be ever more good - to be better than good all the time. There is always more room to be good.
There is plenty of room to learn. Life as it unfurls from birth to death is there to for us to learn and the lessons of life vary from person to person and in the same person, from time to time.
There is no end of learning on how to be good. This is the inner truth of what is behind life and religions.
Focus on inner truth and not on what men tells you. Even what men tell you about the holy texts can in fact end up more voluminous than the holy texts. These can end up as the new holy texts. This would be absurd but that again is how to reach out to people and bring more to religion. Is there a better way?
In fact, the so-called original holy texts are the collections of many views of the early followers of a religion. Many take this as the Word. Even this is simply too complex and we will fail to see the inner truth.
Often we end up derailed, distracted and diverted and we end up seeing not the inner truth. That is life. That is religion though not meant to be like that.
Often, religion portrays the myths as historical and ignore the actual historical facts. What we know of religions are more myths and it would be not easy to decipher or see through the facts, let alone the inner truth behind religion.
It is undeniable that it is the myths that are magical and enthralling - that captivate the hearts. The magic or holding power lies not in the facts but in the myths. Myths may not be truthful but at times can still lead us from passion to mindfulness of the true nature of life - the inner truth behind life and religion. This is of course not typical
Myths can capture the imagination and make us think more than myths. We can be spurred on to see through what is real and eventually see through the true nature of life - the inner truth.
That is why Bo Tien 武天 reveals next to nothing about himself except for what he wants us to know - the inner truth basic and common to all religions and cultures.
It is better for us not to know about a saint or prophet. Even if we know, the facts will be forgotten and what we pass on will be the myths. Better to know the Word a saint or prophet stands for - not who he is and what he looks like - lest we end up fueling more myths which are at best exaggerations of what is and was though often far from the facts.
Well one religion cannot make it to serve all. Well, the preference and likes of people do defer. What is better for some will never be better for others.
Thus even in the same religion, there will be sects and in sects, there will be schools. There will always be differences.
God and saints must reach out to people in many many ways but the basic or inner truth behind all be it religion, sect or schools will be one. This the good Bo Tien 武天 refers to as the Inner Truth.
Even then, the way people look at inner truth may be from certain aspects and therein lies the problem.
How to be good? To be good is what is behind all. Moreover we need to be ever more good - to be better than good all the time. There is always more room to be good.
There is plenty of room to learn. Life as it unfurls from birth to death is there to for us to learn and the lessons of life vary from person to person and in the same person, from time to time.
There is no end of learning on how to be good. This is the inner truth of what is behind life and religions.
Focus on inner truth and not on what men tells you. Even what men tell you about the holy texts can in fact end up more voluminous than the holy texts. These can end up as the new holy texts. This would be absurd but that again is how to reach out to people and bring more to religion. Is there a better way?
In fact, the so-called original holy texts are the collections of many views of the early followers of a religion. Many take this as the Word. Even this is simply too complex and we will fail to see the inner truth.
Often we end up derailed, distracted and diverted and we end up seeing not the inner truth. That is life. That is religion though not meant to be like that.
Often, religion portrays the myths as historical and ignore the actual historical facts. What we know of religions are more myths and it would be not easy to decipher or see through the facts, let alone the inner truth behind religion.
It is undeniable that it is the myths that are magical and enthralling - that captivate the hearts. The magic or holding power lies not in the facts but in the myths. Myths may not be truthful but at times can still lead us from passion to mindfulness of the true nature of life - the inner truth behind life and religion. This is of course not typical
Myths can capture the imagination and make us think more than myths. We can be spurred on to see through what is real and eventually see through the true nature of life - the inner truth.
That is why Bo Tien 武天 reveals next to nothing about himself except for what he wants us to know - the inner truth basic and common to all religions and cultures.
It is better for us not to know about a saint or prophet. Even if we know, the facts will be forgotten and what we pass on will be the myths. Better to know the Word a saint or prophet stands for - not who he is and what he looks like - lest we end up fueling more myths which are at best exaggerations of what is and was though often far from the facts.
