No 776 of Living Life Series 1
No one knows better about God and saints than the person himself. No one can really tell a person how good it is to experience goodness other than the person doing so on his own.
Others may tell him the wonders of their belief or experience but there is nothing like the person experiencing and believing on his own. No two persons have the same experience of the same religion or sect. "To each his own" seems to be true in every way.
But it is also true that no one can say they can go it alone. They must act as one and as a group but even in a group, "to each his own" seems to be true as well. Everyone needs support of society and family in one way or other but every individual has his own life to lead.
He can only see his life mirrored in some way in the lives of others and decide if he would like to have the same. But it would never be exactly the same. Life is like that.
Lord Bo Tien (武天菩萨) exhorts that we learn from the lives of others - the good and not-so-good. That way we do not make the same mistakes and can be more good than whatever good we already have.
While we cannot expect others to run our lives, let alone live our lives for us which is impossible, we can work as a group and within the group, the good lord says there will be those of different skills and capabilities. Thus we can look to fellow beings for blessings. We can be blessings to one another.
This is in addition to asking for blessings from God and saints. But mind you, we have to live our lives and help ourselves. This does not mean we do away with help of fellow beings or the blessings of God and saints. This does not mean there is no element of fate as pointed to us by the good lord.
Helping ourselves means living life and making the best out of life with help when help is necessary and help comes our way. No man is an island to himself. Many too need to be married and all need family and kin.
For living life, we must be able to have that peace even in the here and now and not wait till tomorrow or worse still till kingdom comes. We move on in life and go for the peace of the moment.
It matters not if we get what we want tomorrow. We may get a little, part of it or all. We may even get none. The most important is to have peace of the moment and whatever we do must result in more peace and calm of the moment.
If we go for too much or expect too much, we may suffer from it and will be far from peace. If we go for nothing or for broke, we are lost, heart broken and not at peace.
Get life moving but always be focused on having peace of the moment. This requires balance of the polarities and contingencies of life, the yin and yang as depicted by the feet of the good lord Lord Bo Tien balancing and resting on the elements in his seated image. Nothing like having the peace of moment and moving on in life in peace as well.
Isn't this what all religions are about but couched in different terms and scenarios? Religions too must go on their own but yet they have to work as one in a way. They always have to be so, otherwise there will be less of peace among men.
Since 1969, the good lord Lord Bo Tien (武天菩萨) emphasizes on the oneness of religions but reminds that religions will always stay different and have their own dogmas and rules to attract and hold on to the diversity of people the world over. There is need to have different ways to capture attention of people and to meet their needs so as to bring them to God and saints - to save their souls. There is need for global approach.
