No 13 of Living Life Series 1
Love thy neighbour. Yet if your neighbour does not agree with you and will not convert to your side, what would you do?
You can agree to disagree and he is still with you.
But if you tell him that he is not welcome until he agrees, then it would be unbecoming. Love must have depth and scope like that of heavenly saints.
Even the non believers and criminals too are worthy of the love of heavenly saints.
Many regard those not with them as with their foes. This smacks of shallow thinking.
We must love life by loving others even if they do not see eye to eye with us. Otherwise, there will be no peace, harmony and detente amongst people or states.
If the premise of a state or people is that others have to be part of them, then this will spell trouble and foster discord. Wise ones and saints do not do that.
Loving others does not mean giving up our views and accepting theirs. We must be wise and see the situation and the rationale.
We adopt balanced approach as depicted by image of Lord Bo Tien. We balance the surrendering our own views and preferences and the submission blindly to others views and preferences.
We must be steadfast and confident as depicted by the left hand of the image of the lord saint in salutation pose.
We must hold on to the sceptre of Truth and Divinity as depicted in His image with the right hand of the lord holding the sceptre.
The same applies to how we manage love for siblings, spouse, colleagues and elders.
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