Let us be like Ji Gong 济公 and Dua Di Ya Pek 大二爷伯

No 1368 of Living Life Series 1

How do we bring religion closer to the people who need religion most - people who would never be more involved however much we try to do? 

Well, we can avoid telling them the serious religious principles which would otherwise bore them and put them off. We concentrate on how to please them more so their senses. We bring them from the world of society out there to the house of God and saints to experience more of the world out there and to show them that this will be even better in the house of God and saints. 

They will get more of the world in a religious context. But isn't that defeating the core purpose of religion - to awaken them to think more of what is the ultimate purpose in life? 

The ultimate purpose is to know that there is more to life than we know. But why flood people with more of the world in religious context? Isn't this ironical?

But seriously, is there the need to give up with the world - to renounce the world? The answer is that we can be with the world but be able to see through life. 

Take a leaf from Ji Gong 济公. He gave up the family life and wealth to become a monk in a monastery, only to return to the world of society to drink, eat meat and be merry. He renounced the monastery and the conventional life of a monk. That is why he is never depicted in yellow or saffron robes but in green or grey rags of a street wanderer. 

Ji Gong 济公

But mind you, he preferred the life life that is carefree without family and kin. His family was the people. He did not follow rules and convention, and what people expected of a religious person. 

Ji Gong 济公

Instead, he cultivated the purity of the heart or spirit. What matters is not what we do or what we eat or drink, how we dress and so on, but what matters is how to learn from life, be in control and be pure? 

We have to learn and learn. The purpose of life is to learn and be pure. We have to spin our life and not let life spins us around. Be on top of life and not let life be on top of us. Be master of life and not let life and the pleasures of life be our master. 

Thus Ji Gong 济公does not go round controlling people and dictating how and what they should do. He sees the goodness in everyone and find ways and means to bring out more good in such people - for everyone must be better at what they are regardless of religion, culture, race and what have they. 

This is exactly what Bo Tien 武天 wants all to do. This is the mission he set out to do in 1969. 

We must see this need to bring out the best in all and not end up bringing out the ugly side of humanity in the name of religion. Popular religion tends to end up bringing out more of the ugly side of man. 

Pastors and monks end up doing the unthinkable (e.g. deepening their pockets, have harem of wives) in the name of God, saints and religions. Let there be Ji Gong 济公 in everyone of us. 

Dua Di Ya Pek 大二爷伯 the duo who had to go to hell but ended up as gods of hell (to be exact guards of hell) are revered by many because they had pure hearts while they were alive as men in China. They would rather help people and save them from being forced into opium addiction while alive as man. They were persecuted for the good they do. 
The loving kindness of Dua Di Ya Pek 大二爷伯

Dua Di Ya Pek 大二爷伯

After death, they continue to help people though they are in hell. Aren't they saintly even though they are depicted in ghastly fashion as hell guards because of the way they died ? 

Let there be like Ji Gong 济公 and Dua Di Ya Pek 大二爷伯 in everyone of us. Let us have a good heart and not be concerned with what we have, we look and what others expect of us and how we want to impress others. 

We do not flow downstream with others but pick up the courage to go upstream for clear water. Bo Tien 武天 says that men of religions can only be really good if they are prepared to go upstream and not just follow the crowd. 

Bo Tien 武天

Flowing downstream with the crowd and with convection is never good enough. Few are able to be better by going upstream to the upper source for clear water. This will be not the norm and the roots of religion began with prophets who disregard the norms anyway. 

Most who go out of the norms end up doing the wrong things and that is the problem. Thus how many could be like Ji Gong 济公 and Dua Di Ya Pek 大二爷伯? If we can be just a wee bit like them, that is already good enough, wouldn't it? 

Focus on truth and not God, saint or Bo Tien 武天

No 1367 of Living Life Series 1

Bo Tien 武天 says that in time to come people will forget him and think he does not exist. That does not matter. 

What matters is that we know what he stands for and not what great feats he can do to demonstrate his saintly or godly majesty. 

To him, what matters is that we know how to be better at being good, not only in the religion we are in but also in life. 

Obviously, we will be better Buddhists if we are Buddhists, and we will adore the Buddha and take refuge in the Triple Gem of the Buddha, the Dhamma (the truth of life) and the Sangha (the holy order of monks). We will be better in the truth - the Dhamma which is the pivot of the Triple Gem. The Buddha and Sangha will be meaningless if there is no Dhamma.

If we know truth, we will be better in the goodness of whatever religion we are in - more pure and clear - not flow downstream with polluted water.  

The truth of life is in the world and in all religions. All we need is to go upstream against the current to reach upper source for clear water. This is what Bo Tien 武天 wants all to know and certainly not who he is and what he looks like. 

It is not at all an issue not to focus on Bo Tien 武天 but instead on the goodness he wants us to be better in - in whatever religion we are in. Not focusing on God or saint is not an issue at all but not the case if we do not focus on the truth. 

Yes, to be blunt, this may sound blasphemous. Forget God or saint but not the truth. Forget the truth and just focus on God or saint is however an issue to contend with. 

That is why many say God is the Word and the Word is God. See the Word in God and saint. Know the Word and we know God and saint. 

See God or saint but blind to the Word is not what should be. We will never know God or saint that way even if God or saint is in front of us. We will be far from God and saint even if God or saint is beside us. 

If we know the truth and live in the Word, we will be surrounded by God and saints. 

That is why Bo Tien 武天 says the near can be far and the far near. Thus those who are not Buddhists but belong to another religion may be near to Buddha if they are in tune to his teachings and practise being good and pure.

In life, we must focus on the good in us and in others - more so our good values and their good values. We must not focus on the bad in us and in others. 

By focusing on the good, we bring out more good in us and in others. We must focus on the good of culture and religion and bring out more of the good in culture and in religion. 

We must not focus on personality and end up bringing out the worst - personality cults. We must focus on the good in persons and nurture and bring forth more good. 

Zen followers do not focus on Buddha but on goodness. That is why some even satirically say there is need to "kill the Buddha" thought and the idolising of the Buddha or God or saints. Will that spell the end of the road for religion? On the contrary, that will invigorate and expand religiosity. 

Vesak and the Gift of Truth

No 1366 of Living Life Series 1 

Vesak reminds us of the Buddha and the best way to honor the Buddha is to grasp what he taught and understand that what he taught will make everyone a better and a more sound person in whatever religion or culture he or she is in even if a buddha he or she is yet to be or buddhahood never cross his or her mind. 

The Buddha did say that Sri Lanka has the credit of preserving for many centuries the early original teachings of the Buddha and without the holy lineage of monks there like Ven Bellanwila Dhammaratana, the world will not be able to have such blessings. 

No wonder the Buddha says that his best gift to the world is the gift of Truth. This gift is for all. There is no string or condition attached. We can continue to be who we are and to be in our respective society, community and culture. 

We do not sell our self to him to accept the gift of truth. In the first place and in reality, self is an illusion and brings about delusion - makes us lose touch with the ultimate reality. 

We are not nothing and at same time we are not unchanging. How can we conceive of an eternal unchanging entity - the self. We certainly are what we are and will be. But there is no unchanging self. 

When we can grasp this, we are on the way to enlightenment - never mind when this will be. But when we know this, we can taste inner peace and will be on the road to even more. We will at least be saintly in a way even if we are no saints as yet - just like the late elder George Koh Beng Chiang. 

The teachings and values highlighted by the Buddha were and are not new. They were there even before the historical Buddha. There were many enlightened ones and saints before him. 

They were and are present in all cultures and religions. But it was the Buddha who was able to package them excellently as the Dhamma. This is his gift of Truth to all. Many must hold on to this gift dearly not only on Vesak Day but all the time. 

Bo Tien 武天 wants us to know that the same truth is to be found in all religions. This he refers to as the inner truth which unfortunately many could not see clearly. 

Even many Buddhists fail to grasp because they were just flowing along downstream with the additions and what have we. They obviously fail to discern the basic or essential teachings. 

They too must go to the upper source for clear water - for the early and original renditions of the Dhamma. They must go to Sri Lanka and the venerable ones from Sri Lanka. 

The house of God rejects the likes of Ji Gong 济公?

No 1365 of Living Life Series 1

When we go to a house of God or saint, we must be well dressed and it is considered disrespectful not to do so. 

But who wants us to be well dressed? It is the people and not God. They say that it is disrespectful to God. Well, then what about those who are not well off and the poor.  Are they not entitled to be in a house of God just because they cannot afford to dress well? 

Not only must we be well dressed in a house of God, we have to conduct ourselves well, not lie on floor in a house of God when we are tired. That will raise eyebrows and invite rebuke. 

Well do we need to put an outward front when what we need to have is to have a good heart and be pure and at peace with life and with God and saints? 

The saints of God are not attired to the nines and in fact wear humble robes often not flattering at all. What matters is what is in their hearts - not what they do, how they dress and present themselves. 

In his days, Ji Gong 济公 was chided for behaving badly and not dressing well. His robes were ragged and tattered and far from presentable. 

He did not carry himself well. He rolled and laze around on the floor even in a holy place. He was unkempt. He drank wine and ate meat. He was a monk in a monastery and they asked him to leave. 

But unlike many of the presentable monks then, he was clean and pure at heart though not outwardly in the way he dressed and he was not up to mark and norms of behaviour expected of a holy man. 

But who is more saintly? Were the monks then more holy and saintly than him? He was and is but not the many others who took the great efforts to impress others - alas only to put on an exterior. (...though of course only a few were back sheep and many have no bad intention. It was just that they had to follow convention) 

Do we therefore not take a leaf from Ji Gong 济公 and be good and saintly at heart? 

What is the point of flowing along downstream with the crowd and be one with the crowd. As remarked by Bo Tien 武天, it is more important to go against the current and go upstream to the upper source for clear water, to have pure heart - never mind if in the process we fail to dress well and observe decorum. 

This is not to say that we purposely irritate others by being unkempt and unbecoming in conduct and behaviour, but that we need to spend more effort to have pure heart - to go to the upper source for clear water. 

We of course are far from being Ji Gong 济公. Ji Gong 济公 had his purpose. His body language was a wake up call for many to be more sincere in wanting to be good, pure and saintly. 

Appearances help but what matters more is how we are at heart. So long as how we dress or behave does not cause illwill and hurt to others, we can dress casually. Others may not like it and think we are not classy enough for the house of God. Are we disrespectful to God if we do not dress to the nines?

Well, they are like Pharisees in the days of old. Do we need to be like them or be concerned with their remarks? We don't need to but we don't have to go all the way out to rile them. That would be tantamount to belittling ourselves and disappointing God and saints. 

Others who put up a front to impress but are not up to the mark at heart are far though they think they are near to God and saints. The near may be far and the far near. 

This was pointed out by Bo Tien 武天 who is a saint but has no intention to want us to regard him as one. No need to know that he is saint but to know that what he teaches is applicable and in all religions. He refers to this as the inner truth in life and in religions. 

If the house of God is more a house of men, then it would reject the likes of Ji Gong 济公. This is because men fail to make the difference between man and God. Man is man and God is God. The ways of men are not the ways of God and saints. Bo Tien 武天 too reminds us of this.

Can one be religious, yet not have a religion?

No 1364 of Living Life Series 1

Can a man of religion be not religious? Can a man without religion be more religious than many who profess a religion? 

The far may be near and the near far. Didn't Bo Tien 武天 mention this? 

Other saints too do not draw the line and insist that only those with a religion can be religious. They never insist that we belong to one before we can adore the saints. People of course may do so but not saints. 

But mind you, usually it is those of religion who are more likely to be religious. 

Can one be religious, yet not have a religion? Well, it is not the norm. But what matters is that he aligns with purity and goodness that is of God and saints. It is better to be pure and good than to worship God and saints. 

The Word is in life. The Word is God and saints. He who knows life knows the Word. He is near to God and saints though he may appear far. 

Bo Tien 武天 adds that like God and any saint, he is the Word and the Word is him. The Doctrine is the saint and the saint is the doctrine. 

He who knows the Word knows God (or saint). God (or saint) is the Word. The Word is in all religions in some way and is also in life outside religions. 

Room for food for thought on helping others?

No 1363 of Living Life Series 1

Helping others is not for helping oneself. Do not for instance run an aged home to glorify oneself. It would be insincere that way. 

But there is still good done for others. Bo Tien 武天 did say. 

Few help others without thinking of self. Many simply think of self gain before they decide to help others.

But if one goes overboard to help others and sacrifice his own needs, it is another matter. Some cannot help themselves and they badly need help themselves. In either scenarios, it is obvious. How to help others if one is of no help to self? Can still be done and justified, but perhaps not ideal and not as effective. 

There will always be exceptions to the norm. For instance, a dying person who cannot solve his own predicament may still be able to help others even before his last breath.

Never however help ourselves at the expense of others. This is the worst scenario. At least, there must be some good fallout for others around. But this is still not good. Helping others eg charity is not as simple as it seems. Let this be food for thought. 

Never imply to others you help that there is no free lunch and that they must give you some benefit otherwise you will not help them. That would be unbecoming and manipulative. Do you really want to help?

But ironically it is alright to help others to be in the same faith as you as this will help you secure a place in paradise. This is good and what is expected. This scenario runs counter to norms of common logic but can be very helpful to the those who want to convert others to their faith and to those who are converted. Conversion in their eyes is the best gift and help they can give to others.

But isn't there room for second thought? Some say no need to as this is the call of divine. Some refuse to answer this question and simply tell you that the best conversion is from not so good to more good conduct - never mind if conversion to another faith is involved or not at all. 

Perhaps it is better for some to stay put in their original religion but to know better and be better in the religion than to be maladjusted to another religion - be better at what they are. This is stressed by Bo Tien 武天.

Last but not least, it is blasphemous to question what is in the holy texts. But when the holy texts inspired by elders stress on that God and saints need to be glorified for the good they do for us, well then what is so wrong for men to want to benefit and glorify themselves otherwise they would not be so motivated to help others? 

Isn't that more reason for food for thought on helping others? There is more to it than just a simple equation. Well, men are mortals and mortal ways may not be up to the mark with regards to immortals. Thus God and saints like Bo Tien武天 remind us that God (or saint) is God (or saint) and man is man.

Men must not try to think like they are immortals. No easy answer to life and even an issue of helping others can be contentious. It depends on the person and the context and station of life he is in. Insight and foresight must not be lacking. 

The eternal goal of life

No 1362 of Living Life Series 1

Whoever is right even if he is right should never say that others who differ are wrong. He should realise that he is blessed to know more but there will be others too who know better than him. No need to be arrogant and insist others must follow him. 

After all, all of us are just in the downstream of the river of life. As said by Bo Tien 武天, there will be no clear and pure water unless we are at the upper source of the river. 

We will have to be humble and learn from others. There will be some good points we can pick up from those whom we think are wrong. 

We often jump to conclusions when we put things together to suit what we fancy. We must know that what others do and believe must be seen in context of the life and society they are in. 

Just selecting statements made in various contexts of life and times and putting them together may end up justifying what is not intended to as right and convey a warped view that bothers on outrageousness. 

Thus instead of believing that there is goodness and value in all cultures and saints, we can end up portraying that only one culture and saint is right. This only creates problems. 

Thus if this happens, religion or culture instead of bringing men together and making them one in diversity, making them complete and whole in cosmopolitan or composite reality, men end up dividing humanity in the name of culture or religion. 

Men want uniformity or singularity. Men of course want others to be like them. This is the weakness of man. Men creates problems in the process. 

Bo Tien 武天 says that the problems of men are many and plentiful. That is why men need God and saints. That is why there are religions, and that is why one size or style can never fit all. 

But alas, we have passionate people blinded by their love and passion. They forget that they have weaknesses. Even if they are aware they have weaknesses because they are men, they just pay lip service to this. They create more problems when they try to solve the problems of humanity. 

So it is better to be humble and realise we can never know enough, we can never be all right and not wrong. We can even learn from those whom we think are wrong and off the mark. 

We need to eat humble pie. We need to be pure. We are here in life to learn and learn - not just in this life but in the next and many more lives to come. 

We will continue to do so until we do not have to learn anymore. Be happy therefore with life. Life gives us the fertile ground to learn. This is the pure approach to life. 

We have to learn to be more and more right - to be more pure. We are never pure enough. We have to learn all the time. 

If there seems to be nothing more to learn, we will be pure ones - God, saints or buddhas or what have we in religion. Even after we are saints, we have to learn how to better help those in the mire of life, birth and death. 

There is no end to learning and this is the eternal goal of life. This is how we can be like God and saints. Thus some say we are children of God and saints. 

But while this is a beautiful thought, do not be carried away by that and think we are God and saints. We need to be humble, be pure (搜索 Suddhatta 的结果 = 'purity' in Pali)  and this is how we can learn more. We have to be eternal learners. 

The issue is not the religion but the person

No 1361 of LIving Life Series 1 

Be better at what you are, more so in your religion. Do not try to be what you are not and can never be. 

It is likely that you may be better in whatever religion you are already in than to be not well adapted in another new one. 

Be better in your religion by knowing more of the Word from other religions. 

But if you are confident, any other religion too will be fine so long as you can make it. 

Make the choice best for you and not just follow what others do and say. You must know what is best for you. Isn't this very true? 

All religions are one though separate. Any religion will do but you must be comfortable with it and can be at peace and ease. 

Learn from this blog site to find out what more Bo Tien 武天 has to say on this.

The mission of the good lord is to enable all to be better at being good through whatever religion they are in - to be better at this and if change of religion is not needed, why not? If change is for the better, then why not as well? Ultimately, all must be better at what they are and in.

Make the choice of what we want our life to be and how we want to anchor our life spiritually. Others can influence us but ultimately what matters is that we know what is best for us - not follow what others think is best for us.

Many will want to do differently from their parents and society but is this undesirable? Well it depends.

Know what is best and make the choice. We may make a mistake but don't we learn from mistakes and knocks in life? We will be better off from the learning.

We will come out better. We need hard knocks to succeed in life both in worldly sense and spiritually. 

If a priest or pastor knocks us on the head or does something unbecoming, do we run away from the temple. Most will but the resilient ones stay put and come out better as well. But how many can be like that?

So the choice of staying put in a religion (temple) or changing to another is not the issue. The issue is the person. Yes, the issue is not the religion or temple but the person.

As also said by Bo Tien 武天, it is the Word and the Word is in us and in any religion or temple. The Word or truth is in life - in the person. Do we get it?

Do we know life and are we at peace with life, come what may - the ups and downs (the yang and the yin) and the unavoidable changes in life.

This ultimately Bo Tien 武天 hopes all, regardless of culture, background or religion, are able to arrive at. Have we arrived? When can we arrive?

Well before we do, we need religion and we need saints to guide us and hold our hands - to pick us up when we fall. But some think they have arrived and decline the helping hand of a saint?

Why go to the upper source of religions?

No 1360 of Living Life Series 1

The good Bo Tien 武天 commented that it is easy to flow with the current downstream but what we get is polluted water.  Yes there is water but polluted. 

What we need is pure water. It is way more difficult to go upstream to the upper source for clear water. 

Thus going to popular religions and just following the crowd in what they do is like going downstream. The crowd keeps adding on and diluting the original clear teaching. 

Going downstream and following the crowd is way much easier. Like it or not, we must admit that to get to the pure doctrine of religion, we must not flow with the crowd but go upstream and not accept lock stock and barrel what others do and believe. 

Another instance of what Bo Tien 武天said on not flowing downstream is in relation to his temple. It is easier to start a new religion or to give the impression of a new religion or sect but this will defeat the purpose. 

People will do more of the same as in other popular religions. They will want to show how different the new religion or sect is from the rest. But this is exactly what Bo Tien 武天 does not want. 

Why is this so? There is the same pure water in any religion or sect. What matters is not to flow along with what people do or believe but to make the effort to go upstream against the flow to reach the clear, pure and simple teachings of the upper source. This can be done in any religion. This is common to all religions. 

What is needed is to make the effort and not just accept what is said or what is popularly believed and done. Thus his temple in physical form is a no-go. 

His temple is not a concrete building but the people who want to go for the clear water of any religion at the upper source. It is such people that make up the temple. He added that as long as there is even one or two who know and who care to do so, his temple will go on. 

His temple is the mission. It is not a concrete building. It is not to have a concrete building but the building of the concrete thinking of people in all religions on the pure teaching at the upper source of all religions. 

There is the same basic teaching of how to be good and pure like God and saints of all religions. The mission is to enable people of all religions to go for the clear water at the upper source. 

The need to right the wrong even in religion

No 1359 of Living Life Series 1

All of us go through the same reality of life. But we always think that we will be distant to what happens to others. Isn't this denial? 

In fact, popular religions as made out to be are actually promoting this. We delude ourselves to think we will be saved and we will be protected. 

Yes, God and saints do shelter us and guide us but whatever happens, we still go through the same phases of life - from cradle to grave. It is denial that makes us think we will remain evergreen. 

Even in a temple or church, when we go there, we seldom socialise with those below or above our age group. We stay with those of our generation and that makes us feel we never grow old. 

We feel that the world is at standstill as those with us from decades ago are still with us. We naturally surround ourselves with such people whether in a temple, church or in society. We somehow unconsciously want to feel that we are still evergreen and young. 

This is the problem of men, more so men of religion. The problems of men are many and plentiful. This the heavenly spirit Bo Tien 武天 did say. 

Religion instead of promoting reality and making us face what is real is actually becoming the vehicle for us to not face reality - doing the exact opposite of what religion is meant to do. 

There is the need to correct this and that is why Bo Tien 武天 set out to correct this - to ensure that religion is able to do so and not be made to do otherwise. The mission to do this must go on and on and there is no end to it. 

There is the constant need to remind people to face reality and this is what religion should do. But many have taken and will continue to take over religion and do more of the same of what they do outside religion - the very thing that religions set out to correct There is no end to the need to right the wrong in religion. 

Religions are meant to right the wrongs in men but when men turn to popular religions, they justify the wrongs they are doing in society by doing more of the same in religion. There are many other aspects or wrongs than mentioned in this post. The fault lies with men and not with God and saints mentioned in religions. 

Bo Tien 武天 says that man is man and God is God. To put it in another way man is no God and no saint until he can be like God and saints.

Men must realise that life is the bible they must read and grasp. One wise Chinese commented thus in the internet. 

As one ages...

'- After 20 years old, "foreign country" and 'hometown" is the same. (No matter where, one can adapt and feel at home) 

- After 30 years old, "night time" and "daytime" is the same. (A few days don't sleep doesn't matter)

- After 40 years old, "highly educated" and "lowly educated" is the same. (Lowly educated persons may even earn more money)

- After 50 years old, "beauty" and "ugly"is the same. (No matter how pretty, at this age, wrinkles, dark spots, etc. are starting to appear.)

- After 60 years old, "high official" and "low official" is the same. (After retirement, their status is the same.)

- After 70 years old, "big house" and "small house" is the same. (Joints degenerate, cannot walk, only require a little space.)

- After 80 year old, "have money"and "no money" is the same. (Even when spend money, also don't spend much)

-  After 90 years old, "man" and "woman" is the same. (Because nobody can still do that sort of thing)

- After 100 years old, "lying down" and "waking up" is the same. (After wake up, also don't know what to do)

Your life and my life is like that, not much difference.

Take life easy. After all, having seen life, that's life.' 

Perhaps we may add that we do not pretend and think we will be the same but be aware and accept the changes as life unfurls. This is true in life and even more so in religion. Do not go to religion only to deceive ourselves that we will never change. 

Religion is meant to make us accept this and cherish changes as they come along. But as said, there is the need to right the wrong, be it in life or in religion. Instead men go to religion to fortify themselves and live as though nothing changes. 

We want God and saints to do the unthinkable - that we never change and die. We want eternal life and when we have to face the crunch and this is not possible, we want eternity in afterlife. We think we never change when we do, that we never die when we die. 

That becomes our delusion and we want this to be real. We insist that this is for real. We even put words in God's mouth and insist that God and saints promise this. 

What God and saints promise is not literal but that we know life better. But we want the easy way and we want God and saints to deliver to us on a platter. We tend to be immature and God and saints do somehow accommodate us. But we must mature and grow up spiritually.

The wise one accepts changes and is at peace. The more ignorant or immature denies this and holds on to dream of eternity not by their own efforts but by what they think is the grace of God and saints. God is indeed graceful to accept our need to be what we are and to be like that. Yes we are indeed like that.

But, we must in the long run not think and be deluded that life never changes and that this is the promise of eternity by God. God and saints will not say that but men like us will. 

Why is this so? Well, we have yet to grow up in strength of spirit. We fear change and prefer the status quo. 

We even hang around and surround ourselves with people of our age in a temple or church. We may not purposely do so. It comes as second nature.

Even the young in church or temple will only hang around with their peers of same age group. Elderly people only remind them of changes and non-eternity. Elderly people should be out of their sight and life even in a church or temple. 

There is the need to right the wrong even in religion. Isn't this true? Now perhaps we will better appreciate why Bo Tien 武天 has a mission to do - to right the wrong even in religions. 

There is no need for him to start a new one to do this... This is common sense, isn't it? But common sense sometimes is not so common and a few may decide to have a new religion or temple in his name. It is happening and this is no surprise. The mission of Bo Tien 武天 knows no end.