Better to have a simple temple
if men can be one in diversity
than to have concrete magnificence
when there is none of the oneness,
only one or two to irk the many
and be the ill-wind to blow men away.
This Lord Bo Tien did say
of any temple of men.
A temple is the richness of people,
the diversity of men that counts
not the grandness of building.
Didn't the good lord say?
High time we should know.,,
But alas men do think otherwise.
not the grandness of building.
Didn't the good lord say?
High time we should know.,,
But alas men do think otherwise.
They prefer empty building on most days
other than the few great days
when men packed the temple ground
and ruffled the uneasy quiet around.
when men packed the temple ground
and ruffled the uneasy quiet around.
Temple of the saint is no different after all
from many others that were and still are,
but is this really the case or is it not?
more so when men there have done well
and continue to do so in their own special way.
They emulate others rather than lead.
This too can be good to show
more clearly what could be better
as the best is often yet to be,
and may yet await for them to do
but when and how this will be?
This is the yin and yang issues
of any temple of a saint
when it ends up as temple of men,
and when mission is more of men
than of saint and heaven above,
as always will be with temples of men.
But alas, they have done some good
perhaps in their own small ways.
No doubt about that for sure.
They be blessed by God and men.
One day they will do better than now
better than good that is and shall be.
Such men the good lord said
they do come to a temple
Like insects to a flower for nectar
obviously for nectar and for gain
Only to put off others there
like ill wind that blows no good.
They do blow good men away
But learn they will and should
To always share and to care
even for men who see life differently
and make life worthwhile for all
and not for them and them alone.
This indeed is the will of Heaven
And the good fate of such men
to be in the temple of a saint.
Who can say Heaven is dumb
and the puppet of such men.
Omitofo
They emulate others rather than lead.
This too can be good to show
more clearly what could be better
as the best is often yet to be,
and may yet await for them to do
but when and how this will be?
This is the yin and yang issues
of any temple of a saint
when it ends up as temple of men,
and when mission is more of men
than of saint and heaven above,
as always will be with temples of men.
But alas, they have done some good
perhaps in their own small ways.
No doubt about that for sure.
They be blessed by God and men.
One day they will do better than now
better than good that is and shall be.
Such men the good lord said
they do come to a temple
Like insects to a flower for nectar
obviously for nectar and for gain
Only to put off others there
like ill wind that blows no good.
They do blow good men away
But learn they will and should
To always share and to care
even for men who see life differently
and make life worthwhile for all
and not for them and them alone.
This indeed is the will of Heaven
And the good fate of such men
to be in the temple of a saint.
Who can say Heaven is dumb
and the puppet of such men.
Omitofo
