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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!.

Friday, October 9, 2015

Lord Bo Tien on the laws of the land and of God

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.