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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!.

Wednesday, November 22, 2017

In the Know. On the Go

No 1572  of Living Life Series 1




In the Know. On the Go

Who are we? Why are we here? Why we face problems? Why we often find it onerous to go on in life? What do we need to know before we can be on the go? 

Bo Tien 武天 says that the problems of men are many and plentiful. The moment we arrive to this world, we face problems. We must know why before we can be on the go. 

What do we need to know? Why are we of flesh and blood? What are the consequences of being of flesh and blood? Do we need to grow and have place in this world? We do. 

Then the obstacles we face should not cheese us of. The obstacle is the way. To move on in life, we must overcome obstacles. We must be stoic about this. The obstacle shall be our path in life. We open up many paths in life, one after another. We create what we want at each phase of life. Always remember to know why there is obstacle. Do we need to overcome the obstacle we face?

We do but there will come time when what we do may get us nowhere in the long run. That day may come sooner or later when we have arrived at a job, started a family and children grow up to set families of their own. Do we handle every obstacle by making that obstacle the path in life? There is a limit.

Bo Tien 武天 says that with blessings from God and saints, small issues become no issues. Big issues become small issues. But there is the element of fate so long we are of flesh and blood. We will face illness, ageing and death. 

There will be times when the obstacle cannot be overcome and cannot be the path in life. We have to face reality and be in the know and still be on the go in life. 

There are many ways to find blessings. We need to know that life is what it is. There will be storms. God and heavenly saints help us to weather storms. Bo Tien 武天 says storms will not last forever. We too of flesh and blood will not last forever. 

This we must know before we can be on the go. We can have finite control over our body of flesh and blood. But there is need to know often we cannot have peace from the world we are in. 

But we can have peace in our hearts. With inner peace, we are calm and can handle life better, come what may - the ups and downs, the yin and yang. 

But mind you, this does not mean we do not belong to the world. We still have to be part of the world. Where we run to, the world is there? We must know this. 

We must make do. We must meet our material needs. We do face obstacles in trying to do so. We need to know this. We still need to be on the go. 

But ultimately, we must know what are means and what are ends. We must know what is behind all religions and cultures. We must know the common basic goodness that is behind all religions and cultures. 

This Bo Tien 武天 says is the Inner Truth. To know this is the starting point to balance what we can have in life. 

We must have worldly needs. But these are not ends but means only to the end. The end is to have inner peace. 

We must be in the know of the nature of life. Then we can be on the go. In the Know and on the Go is what we must have at each moment of life. 

We must go the way of the heavenly saints. We must know how to bless others if we want to be blessed. Blessed are those who know how to bless others. 

The body of flesh and blood is only the means to the end. We must know this. We must know that our spirit filled with inner peace will last forever - not our body. We must abide by this - to be in the know and on the go not just in the present life but also in the afterlife.


In the Know. On the Go