No 7 of Living Life Series 1
The image depicts the doctrine.
The doctrine of truth is what all need to know of from heavenly saints like Lord Bo Tien and not who they are or their personal history. There is pristine inner truth behind life that will yield inner peace.
This inner peace can only be there if there is balance of the yin and yang contingencies or conditions of sentient life, as represented by the feet of the lord saint balancing and in control of the two figurines.
We should neither deny nor be subject to the throes, the 'push' and 'pull' of worldly contingencies of yin and yang - polar opposites like gain loss, happiness sorrow, honour dishonour, birth death, ups and downs etc. This inner peace is the inner or ultimate truth behind the thrusts or expressed approaches of all religions.
Religions differ in approaches and styles. They have to employ varied and at times differing ways to secure the attention of as many beings lost and engulfed by the yin yang swirls of the sentient world.
The oil lamp represents men in the mission and their role to enlighten all on the inner truth behind life that the image portrays.
Men must be the oil to keep the light of the mission alive and vissible.
The mission in life is not to convert but to enable all to be better in having divine peace regardless of their religious and cultural environment.
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