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The Living Life Series is dedicated to Lord Bo Tien (武天菩萨). The doctrine is in His image. The image is the doctrine. He who sees, understands and effects the doctrine sees and knows Him. He who does not see, know and effect the doctrine sees not and knows not the saint even if the saint or His image is beside him. The far may be near and the near may be far. Let the doctrine and the saint be part of our life. The lord saint in your life can be any heavenly saint of any religion, sect or school. The doctrine of truth is behind all and this is the Inner Truth that leads all (regardless of their religious affiliation or even if none) to inner peace and heaven on earth here and now and not just in the after life. The ideal worship and devotion is to know and effect the doctrine of God and the saints. The best gospel is the gospel of life. We learn from our life and the lives of others. The true temple is the world we live in. The sky is the roof of the temple and religions and sects are the pillars of the temple. All under Heaven are in the temple. Needless to say that all the saints we know are in this temple. Ji Gong Posat too is no exception. The whole wide world and web is the temple and must be regarded as a sacred place --- a temple for living and learning. It is more important that everyone that counts plays a role in this universal temple if due focus is to be given to the Mission of Heaven. Men must not be distracted by the agenda of men and end up serving the mission of man. That would be a far cry from the Mission of Heaven. We worship God and saints, not man however good that man may be. There should be no hero worshiping or idolizing of man whether he is a charismatic pastor, priest, monk, medium or lay leader. We don't even idol worship the image of any saint but reflect on what the image stands for. - the doctrine in the image. Omitofo 阿弥陀佛!.

Sunday, July 30, 2017

No two think alike but can still have fellowship

No 1462 of Living Life Series 1
Long is the day when we are unhappy and not at peace. Short is the day when we are happy and at peace. 

But when we rush through the day as though there is no time and turn night into day with no time to sleep and rest, we are not at peace and will be unhappy. We end up stuck with thoughts and bodily discomfort and we live as though we have no blessings and good things in life.

We ask God why he has forsaken us when we are the ones who have forsaken ourselves. We are the cause of our own sorry state. 

But the odd part is that we do not blame ourselves but blame others and even God. 

If we blame Satan, we live in fear of being possessed by Satan. So we do not think about Satan but others in church may think we are and make us live in fear. 

Anyway, we are the cause of our own woes due to being not at peace and will obviously be unhappy. This has nothing to do with Satan and God. 

In life, we always see others having problems and we accept that this is life. But we do not think we will have problems and when problems affect us, we ask why we must have problems. We ask, 'Why me?' We never ask why others must have problems.

Problem is in life and the way is to handle problem if we can but make do and move on if we cannot. We do have more good things happening in life than the not good. 

In life, we often chose what to believe but when told what we are supposed to believe but may hold some truth, we just shut off for fear of going against the thinking of peers. We shrink into our world of belief systems. We just stay put in our narrow world of make belief. That is how we keep ourselves sane and in tune with our peers. But we are not in tune with the rest of the world.

That is convergent thinking which is useful but yet not so. We need to diverge and open up our mind. But risk is that we can get lost with open mind or what is divergent thinking. Staying put means we stop thinking. Convergent thinking is bad in that sense but may be better than being lost in divergent thinking. There must be balance.

Thus we have to accept the different opinions of people even of those who are in our own social circle and whom we think should think the same way. No two can think alike. No two can have the same mix of convergent and divergent thinking. 

A lesson to learn is for us to share the same activities with others. We do not need to have the same thinking before we can enjoy the same activities. But this is easier said than done. 
We must thank Bo Tien 武 天 for telling us this. This happens in and applies to any family, society, religion, sect, temple or culture. No two can think alike but can still have fellowship.
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