No 1048 of Living Life Series 1
The good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 reminds all in any temple or religion to obey the laws of the land in as much as they want to obey with the laws of God and saints.
It is necessary that in any temple there must be separation of the management of the two. There must be the administrative body and the spiritual body. Each body must take the directions from the other.
The spiritual body must not try to administer and to even influence administration and money matters.
Likewise, the administrative body must take directions on spiritual from the spiritual body but remains the authority on financial and administrative matters.
If the administrative body calls the tune and overrides the spiritual body, then there will be loss of spiritual direction. There will be more worldly than spiritual calling.
If the spiritual body dictates what the administrative body should do, then financial prudence and compliance to the laws of the land may be thrown to the wind. Governance will be poor.
This is a perspective of the application of yin yang balance which the good lord refers to in his latter messages.
It is for this reason that historically he chose Elder Ling as temple head and P. Philip as spiritual leader. P. Philip would never have made it as temple head and Elder Ling as spiritual leader.
But if in time, men rewrite history and forgo the two appointments to run a temple, then what will become of the temple? Ask Elder Ling if you want to know more.
It is necessary that in any temple there must be separation of the management of the two. There must be the administrative body and the spiritual body. Each body must take the directions from the other.
The spiritual body must not try to administer and to even influence administration and money matters.
Likewise, the administrative body must take directions on spiritual from the spiritual body but remains the authority on financial and administrative matters.
If the administrative body calls the tune and overrides the spiritual body, then there will be loss of spiritual direction. There will be more worldly than spiritual calling.
If the spiritual body dictates what the administrative body should do, then financial prudence and compliance to the laws of the land may be thrown to the wind. Governance will be poor.
This is a perspective of the application of yin yang balance which the good lord refers to in his latter messages.
It is for this reason that historically he chose Elder Ling as temple head and P. Philip as spiritual leader. P. Philip would never have made it as temple head and Elder Ling as spiritual leader.
But if in time, men rewrite history and forgo the two appointments to run a temple, then what will become of the temple? Ask Elder Ling if you want to know more.