No 1023 of Living Life Series 1
Instead of motivating others to be as good as them, some will only want others to look up to them and to depend on them rather than be as good as them. Such men want to help others but yet desire badly to have sense of control and dominance over others. This is ironical. They want to help but not all the way.
Worse still, they want to think that the saint they look up to is also like that - fear of losing control over others. When others become somehow as good as the saint or close to being as good, they become apprehensiveness. All that these others need to do is to say they are like the saint or the saint is in them and they will be damned as ant-saint.
The Buddha and saints are not like that. They would rather that others and as many as can attain what they attained and be Buddhas and saints.
But some of their followers who have qualms and unwilling to go the whole way will cry foul and say others who want to be Buddhas or saints as the anti-Buddha or anti-saint acting and even think that they are masquerading as the stand-in or spokes-persons for Buddha or saint.
They may want to help all to be saved and liberated and to be Buddhas or saints but yet after motivating them, there may be times when they seem to do otherwise. Aren't they insecure and undoing what good they have done? In a way, they are creating storm in a tea cup.
Of course, there will always be wolves in sheep clothing. Some who claim to be trying to be Buddha or saint simply want the excuse to say that they are Buddhas-to-be or saints-to-be with sole aim of attracting attention to blow up their egos and ungodly and ungainly ways. They act as though they are already Buddha or saint. Well, in a way that is being human.
Like what the good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨, they are like insects coming to a flower for nectar. Blame not the flower for insects coming to it. Blame not the religions for having such men.
Be a Buddha like the Buddha does not mean you be a Buddha to replace the Buddha or that you are the demon in disguise as Buddha.
There is by the way no anti-Buddha in Buddhism. Even those who are against the Buddha like his Earthly cousin Devadatta will one day be Buddha. This the Buddha proclaimed.
If indeed, there is the anti-Buddha in Buddhism, then all who are referred to as Bodhisattva like Buddha of Light (Amitabha) and Kuanyin Goddess of Mercy are anti-Buddhas. But this is not the case, or is it? Do think clearly and be wise.
The fear of the penetration or rise of the anti-saint within the followers of a saint in any religion is a concern in both good and bad ways. But it is usually not good though admittedly, there may be wolves in sheep clothing. The bottom line is to be wise. Keep an open mind. Judge not less ye be judged. Didn't the Lord Jesus say this?
It may just boil down to having different views and a matter of "we know better" creating storm in a tea cup. We cannot stop people from thinking differently from us. If we can, then there will only be one religion and not many. If we can, there will be no creativity, innovation and diversity as well as no right and wrong ... and who is more right or wrong. The world we know will no longer be there.
There is by the way no anti-Buddha in Buddhism. Even those who are against the Buddha like his Earthly cousin Devadatta will one day be Buddha. This the Buddha proclaimed.
If indeed, there is the anti-Buddha in Buddhism, then all who are referred to as Bodhisattva like Buddha of Light (Amitabha) and Kuanyin Goddess of Mercy are anti-Buddhas. But this is not the case, or is it? Do think clearly and be wise.
The fear of the penetration or rise of the anti-saint within the followers of a saint in any religion is a concern in both good and bad ways. But it is usually not good though admittedly, there may be wolves in sheep clothing. The bottom line is to be wise. Keep an open mind. Judge not less ye be judged. Didn't the Lord Jesus say this?
It may just boil down to having different views and a matter of "we know better" creating storm in a tea cup. We cannot stop people from thinking differently from us. If we can, then there will only be one religion and not many. If we can, there will be no creativity, innovation and diversity as well as no right and wrong ... and who is more right or wrong. The world we know will no longer be there.
