LIVING LIFE SERIES 1

A BO TIEN (武天) MISSION INITIATIVE LAUNCHED ON 28TH SEPT 2010 BY INNER TRUTH NETIZEN 2. THE MISSION IS TO SHOW THE WAY TO HOPE, INNER PEACE AND ULTIMATELY SALVATION FOR ALL BEINGS. THE PURPOSE IS TO SAVE SOULS. IT IS WAY BEYOND NORMAL GOOD WORK LIKE CHARITY AND WELFARE ACTIVITIES. NO ONE SHALL BE SAVED BY GOOD WORKS ALONE BUT BY MORE THAN GOOD WORK. THERE IS NEED TO BE IMBUED WITH THE BASIC DOCTRINE COMMON TO AND BEHIND ALL RELIGIONS AND SECTS. LIVE IN DOCTRINE. DOCTRINE IN LIFE IS PARAMOUNT.

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The Living Life Series is dedicated to Lord Bo Tien (武天菩萨). The doctrine is in His image. The image is the doctrine. He who sees, understands and effects the doctrine sees and knows Him. He who does not see, know and effect the doctrine sees not and knows not the saint even if the saint or His image is beside him. The far may be near and the near may be far. Let the doctrine and the saint be part of our life. The lord saint in your life can be any heavenly saint of any religion, sect or school. The doctrine of truth is behind all and this is the Inner Truth that leads all (regardless of their religious affiliation or even if none) to inner peace and heaven on earth here and now and not just in the after life. The ideal worship and devotion is to know and effect the doctrine of God and the saints. The best gospel is the gospel of life. We learn from our life and the lives of others. The true temple is the world we live in. The sky is the roof of the temple and religions and sects are the pillars of the temple. All under Heaven are in the temple. Needless to say that all the saints we know are in this temple. Ji Gong Posat too is no exception. The whole wide world and web is the temple and must be regarded as a sacred place --- a temple for living and learning. It is more important that everyone that counts plays a role in this universal temple if due focus is to be given to the Mission of Heaven. Men must not be distracted by the agenda of men and end up serving the mission of man. That would be a far cry from the Mission of Heaven. We worship God and saints, not man however good that man may be. There should be no hero worshiping or idolizing of man whether he is a charismatic pastor, priest, monk, medium or lay leader. We don't even idol worship the image of any saint but reflect on what the image stands for. - the doctrine in the image. Omitofo 阿弥陀佛!.

Thursday, June 18, 2015

Be in touch with the moment

No 893 of Living Life Series 1

There is spiritual learning in every situation we face in life. To be spiritual, we must live life and not run away from life.

Even avoiding life and its problems is itself a problem and there are spiritual lessons to be harnessed from this. The problem is that many go through life blindly and never learn and be wiser from the learning.

In fact they make the same mistakes time and again. Men must wise up and learn from every moment by living in the moment and be wiser by the moment.

To learn from the moment, man must be at peace with the moment, and only then can he be more aware and grasp what is going on and what must be the rational way to handle the moment or to be more specific, the issue of the moment.

Grasp the meaning of the moment. Lavish and treasure it while it is there. Do not fight and struggle from moment to moment nor day dream and waste away the moment. This they say is how to live.

This is the way to meditate on life and to awaken the Buddha nature in us that God and saints talk about.

Let us breathe life into the moment, not snuff out life in the moment nor be breathless over the moment from wanting too much out of the moment.

The moment past is moment gone and dead. We are reborn to a new moment That is life and it goes on and on. If that be so, so be it. Why must men dread death? Men should dread not death but the endlessness of rebirths.

Cessation of longing brings end to rebirths and this opens up more than what life we know can offer. Life offers death. We go for no longing if we don't want death again and again. We go for no rebirths.

All we need to do is to be more in touch with the moment and have more peace of the moment. We need to be at peace with the moment to have more peace. Many and numerous moments of peace bring us to enlightenment.

Be in touch with the moment. True religion teaches us to be in touch with the moment to have peace and not wait for the afterlife to have peace.

Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 says that the problems of men are many and plentiful. This is all because men fail to be more in touch with the moment and know the moment. This is insight and the practice of knowing the moment has to do with insight meditation.

Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 reminds us that before men can have full insight of life, men need the guidance and assistance of saints and sages of religions to walk through life from moment to moment.

They not only need the blessings of saints but they also need fellow men and be blessings to one another. Most importantly, they must cultivate themselves by knowing the moment and be blessings to themselves.

Lest you forget

Do not make the mistake of idolizing any man who tells you about the Word. He is in the same boat as you even if religion refers to him as a religious leader. Mere mention of a religious leader is as good as encouraging idolising of that man. Why must there be hierarchy in religion? Hierarchy is conventional but may end up as liability rather than a necessity or asset. There should be no caste or hierarchy system in religion. No one is to be considered above another in religion. A religious leader or follower is a servant to serve you and not a leader to be idolised. Do not put him on the pedestal and make a monster out of him.

MAY ALL BE WELL AND HAPPY

May all be well and happy. May they have peace. May our departed friends and kins be well, happy and have divine peace. The main writer wishes the best for all for those near and far. Our kins may be far when they had passed on to better lives but they are near though far. He remembers and wishes his parents Mr Siow Soo Koh and Mdm Tay Hung Siang, his uncles and aunties like Mr Tay Koon Huay, his cousins like Mr Tay Chong Sim and his friends like Mr Philip Png well and have abundance of life. May they be rich in spirit for without such ancestors, there will be no posterity - no us and no you and me. They have blessed us and we must blessed them in return forever and ever.