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!.

Sunday, July 19, 2015

Bringing heaven and God home

No 940 of Living Life Series 1

Are we dead to life or are we alive to life? Are we alive to life only for the hereafter and dead to the here and now?

Religions try to distract men from the issues and problems of men by telling them of the dream life they can have in the hereafter. Religions may end up making men dead to the life here and now and live for the afterlife.

Religions must be able to inject the good life into the here and now. That is why many religions have grand services that are like musicals and where the congregation can join in to make it more rousing and heavenly.

This is such that this becomes the main event in their weekly routine and the purpose of life for the week is to be in heaven here on earth by being in the house of God if possible few times a week and by having cell group that brings the house of God home.

That is a marvelous development which even the pioneers of religion never had in their days. This is bringing heaven home and transforming worldly life into heavenly life.

Men at the rostrum who can do that are by no means ordinary. They are angels of God and saints who have descended to be with men and to uplift the spirit of men.

But angels too are not free from temptation and they can end up serving the devil in them and making men suck up to them in the name of God and saints. Men can fall prey to them.

Men besotted with them must learn to go for the Word that they talk about and not go for the God in them. This is a must and why is this so?

They will be disappointed and let down if they go for the God in them. But they will be steady and calm if they go for the Word and neither go for the man in them nor the God in them.

This is more so when men near to God can let down God. If the congregation goes for the Word and not the man, though not as near or rather more far from God than the man at the rostrum, they are near though far from God than that man at the rostrum.

Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 reminds us that the far may be near and the near far from God and saints. Though we are not in any heaven, we can bring heaven home. Though far we are near and even in heaven now if we care to go for the Word and not the man. The Word is God, isn't it?

Of what use is knowing God and man if we don't know The Word? In fact, if we don't know God and man but know the Word, we are better off than if we claim to know God and man but are blind to the Word and are besotted with God and man.

If we can know and see the Word, we bring heaven home to us and are with God and saints. We don't have to wait till we die and even if we die, there is no certainty of heaven, or is it there for us when we are far from God and saints by being blind to the Word? Without the Word in us, God and saints are not there even if in front of us.

The Word is the image or saint, and the image or saint is the Word. Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 says so. The Word is Tao 道- the way to be at peace and to bring heaven and God to be with us by being atop and balancing the polarities and issues of life as depicted in the image of the good lord with the feet atop the elements - yin and yang.

The issues of men are many and plentiful. Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 says. Men must stay atop issues and be in heaven. That way men bring heaven and God home - no need to wait to die to be in heaven and be with God and saints.

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.