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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!.

Tuesday, February 2, 2016

In religion, many feel but do not see

No 1082 of Living Life Series 1 



The problem with religion is that there is the vocal few who insist that they are right and others wrong and lost. They are the self-righteous who think that if they are right surely others are not right. 

They are so driven and passionate about this that they deem it the wish of God to save others or at least to prevent others from misleading people. That is due to the egos of men. They are self righteous to point of conceit. They are self-centered rather than people centered. 

The reality is that all are right and yet not right. All need to learn from one another. It is like the blind men and the elephant story. 

Every of the blind men is right in his own way but yet wrong. They have the good feel of the part of the elephant but never see the elephant in totality. 

They have the feel and experience but they do not see. Most men are like that. 
That is why the good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 says that men are problematic. The issues and problems of men are many and plentiful. Even in helping fellow men who are in need, men create lateral and downstream problems in the process. 

They often capitalize on their acts of compassion for other agenda. This would be counter to their intention to help. It is more like they want to further their own aims rather than help others. 

They capitalize on the problems of fellow men. Small wonder the good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 adds that we learn from one another and from life to be better at being who we are. 

 In religion, many feel but do not see. Many feel and not only don't see, they don't even think. Then they tell others that they are right and others wrong. They don't even have logic - common sense which sages of old refer to as Tao 道. 

 Without Tao 道, how can there be effectiveness. Tao 道 is behind ultimate effectiveness Te 德.  

 In religion, many go by feel and not by logic. How can they see what is right to believe in? 

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