LIVING LIFE SERIES 1

A BO TIEN (武天) MISSION INITIATIVE LAUNCHED ON 28TH SEPT 2010 BY INNER TRUTH NETIZEN 2. THE MISSION IS TO SHOW THE WAY TO HOPE, INNER PEACE AND ULTIMATELY SALVATION FOR ALL BEINGS. THE PURPOSE IS TO SAVE SOULS. IT IS WAY BEYOND NORMAL GOOD WORK LIKE CHARITY AND WELFARE ACTIVITIES. NO ONE SHALL BE SAVED BY GOOD WORKS ALONE BUT BY MORE THAN GOOD WORK. THERE IS NEED TO BE IMBUED WITH THE BASIC DOCTRINE COMMON TO AND BEHIND ALL RELIGIONS AND SECTS. LIVE IN DOCTRINE. DOCTRINE IN LIFE IS PARAMOUNT.

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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, September 3, 2017

The twin dragons supporting the pearl is for all religions and persons

No 1469 of Living Life Series 1

There are many who do not have the good fortune to have a better material or worldly life all because they are not fated to do so, try as they might.

This is due to the lack of good done in past, be it past in present life or the past in past lives.

It is even more difficult to have the opportunity to be associated with a religious institution.

Even then unless they have done allot of good will they be in more fortunate position to come to know the true doctrine in religion.

Our limited fate or good fortune is like a bankroll. We can overuse it for worldly matters and have little or none for spiritual. Some even are thrifty with worldly needs and reserve whatever good they have for spiritual or religious life. This is voluntary deprivation or hardship if we may like to use the term hardship.

Thus for the many who want to be spiritual and yet lack the good fate for this, they must pay for the wrong they have done in the past and create more good fate or merits by practices such as fasting, undergoing penances like firewalking, foregoing easy life and going on mission trips.

They have to experience family or personal setbacks not that God and saints are punishing them but that they have to make up and enrich their merits or fortune to bankroll their spirituality.

Additionally, many help to setting up aged or nursing homes and hospitals or schools where the poor and the suffering could not otherwise have.

There is thus the twin paths of hardship and good deeds before we can receive the true doctrine inside and behind religions.

Bo Tien 武天 likened this to the two dragons supporting and bringing up the pearl of doctrine.

Once the pearl is there, we must not go one step further. We must not go for what we can get in return for hardship or good done. We must not think of 'we', 'I', or 'you'.

Doing otherwise will put us on the path of cause and effect and create clinging and the endless rebirths. We must understand this and know that the vexations we have are all because of this, otherwise we will not have inner peace.

We must know that inner peace comes from within us and not from without. God and saints only guide us and help to make our life less onerous so that we can stop being ego centered and yet not deny self or life.

We must be one with life, others and nature and even one with God and saints. Then we will have inner peace - the pearl. This is the innate God or true or pure self in us. This had become the guest self when overtaken by the guest or false self created by the five senses and the mind or 'I' sense.

We must cultivate this pearl or gem in us that is innate in us. This cannot be instant but takes time. Do not even crave for this divine gem or pearl for then there will be the ego that craves for it and we will be more distant from the gem.

Just do be mindful and have moment to moment progress in cultivating what inner peace we have. Go for whatever purity of heart and mind we have for the moment.

For Chan practitioners, if the divine aspiration is the ultimate inner peace in pure land of Amitabha, then they should not yearn for the pure land in afterlife but go for the pure land they can have with like minded others here and now.

Yes, they can have heaven here and now and not wait with longing for the afterlife. So can anyone in whatever religion or culture he or she is in. This is the message of Bo Tien 武天 on behalf of Divinity.

Lest you forget

Do not make the mistake of idolizing any man who tells you about the Word. He is in the same boat as you even if religion refers to him as a religious leader. Mere mention of a religious leader is as good as encouraging idolising of that man. Why must there be hierarchy in religion? Hierarchy is conventional but may end up as liability rather than a necessity or asset. There should be no caste or hierarchy system in religion. No one is to be considered above another in religion. A religious leader or follower is a servant to serve you and not a leader to be idolised. Do not put him on the pedestal and make a monster out of him.

MAY ALL BE WELL AND HAPPY

May all be well and happy. May they have peace. May our departed friends and kins be well, happy and have divine peace. The main writer wishes the best for all for those near and far. Our kins may be far when they had passed on to better lives but they are near though far. He remembers and wishes his parents Mr Siow Soo Koh and Mdm Tay Hung Siang, his uncles and aunties like Mr Tay Koon Huay, his cousins like Mr Tay Chong Sim and his friends like Mr Philip Png well and have abundance of life. May they be rich in spirit for without such ancestors, there will be no posterity - no us and no you and me. They have blessed us and we must blessed them in return forever and ever.