The awakening to the same goodness in all religions

No 1124 of Living Life Series 1

We see in the likes of Jesus, Buddha and what have we the same need to be good. 

Good has to do with being not bad. Bad has to do with harming or hurting others. 

Good is beyond no harm but being loving and an asset to one and all, not just to ourselves and those around us but to all - as many as can be. 

If this is so, how can it be good if some say the goodness of God and saints is only for some and not for others. This will imply that goodness is not for others. This is a mistake. 

They will then be not good. They are no longer good. They will be breaking the very teaching of the saint of their religion. Though near to the saint of their religion, they are yet far. (The good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 reminds us that the near can be far and the far near. How true this is !)

We are taught to be good. How can we in the name of God and saint, in the name of a religion extend good only to ourselves and the not good or harm to others. 

Good is beyond no harm but being loving to one and all. Not doing so is to run counter to the teaching of God and saints - counter to all religions. 

Goodness is basic to all relgions and the inner truth of all religions. The good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 descended in 1969 to stress on this - to awaken all to this. He wants to bring about the awakening to the same inner truth of goodness in and behind all religions. 

That is why on Vesak Day and for that matter on any other day, the Buddha taught that we bless everyone with wellness and happiness. Everyone includes those in all religions or even those with no religion. They too can be well and happy. They too can be good, avoid evil and purify the mind. All can be saints one day. 

May all beings be well and happy. May all wherever they may be and in whatever religion or even if none be well and happy. May all without exception be enlightened one day. 

This is true goodness, true love that is of God and of all saints. We should cultivate this wholesomely and wholeheartedly. 

Making it in life

No 1123 of Living Life Series 1

Make it simple. Make it easy. This must be when we want people to take the plunge in spirituality or in any life event. 

But make it realistic and not ridiculously simple. Don't overdo. Don't under do either. 

Don't oversell. Don't undersell either. Don't make it cheap. Don't overprice. Be correct. 

Don't prescribe or impose platter of conditions. Don't have no conditions whatsoever. 

That is it. This is how to execute or negotiate a life event. Have a balanced approach. 

Remember no pain no gain. Also all pain is sure loss and no gain either. 

A gimmick of sorts if others say Heaven will take over our pains though we may feel consoled somewhat. Well, they can say so but somehow you will still have the pain. 

No one can bear our cross. Don't pass the buck to others. Don't delegate the pain to others more so to those we adore. We should shoulder our own cross. 

But don't go for a cross too heavy for us to shoulder. Don't go for too many wants in life. Then we will be less crossed with life. Then we will not be easily crossed by others. Problems and issues will then seem to be trivialities.

Be logical and moderate. Use logic - common sense. This is the way. Sages of old refer to this as the Way or Tao 道. 

The good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 says this. The Way is in his image. His feet atop elements balance them. The Way is the Word. The Word is the lord. The lord is the Word. 

Be logical. This is how to make it in life. Do not throw logic out of the window. This is bad enough. Do not make it worse by doing so in the name of God and saints. 

The good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 says that problems and issues of life are many and plentiful. This is the lot of men. 

So what if there are problems? Carry less wants and lighten the burden of life. Isn't this common sense? This is the way to make it in life. 

But if you insist on having more wants and carrying more problems, then it is your business.  Despair not. You can choose to be stubborn and stay put. God and saints will still make it their business to help you. That is the wonderful part. 

You can still ask for reprieve from the saints but ultimately, you need to know the Word they represent. You need to live life with wisdom. The Word is God and saints. God and saints is the Word. 

As Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 says as well. My image is the Word. The Word is my image. The ultimate blessing and help from God and saints is the Word. We will better make it in life. 

Evangelism may be counter-productive

No 1122 of Living Life Series 1

What matters is that we are happy and at peace. It is not how much we have or what we believe. If we have little but are happy and at peace, we are better off and nearer to the peace of God and saints then those who have more but not at peace - not at all happy. 

If we know little of religious thought but are happy at just believing in God and saints, we are better than those who know allot but the knowledge do not make any impact or difference to life. 

We may be far from the Word but near to the peace that the Word is intended for. The near to the Word may be far from the peace that the Word if practiced will bring. 

Thus do not play God and try to evangelize what we believe. What matters is that others are at peace and happy. If they are so, do not rock the boat. The good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 dissertation on far and near is awesome. The near may be far and the far near. This he did say. 

Peace is what matters, not what we have or know. Others should cease and desist from trying to tell us what to do. They may end up rocking the boat. They may disrupt the peace and stir up a storm. They may create awful consequences that are far from awesome.  

Trying to be too smart may have the opposite effect on us, more so when others try to shaft things down our throat. This is regardless of whether these others are of same religion or not, whether of same temple or not. 

Even of same temple, unpleasantness often arise when people try to tell fellow others of the temple what they should do or not do. 

Evangelism may be counter productive. Evangelist streak may not only disrupt the existing peace but end up bringing in the wrong type of crowd who come purportedly for spiritual ends but actually harbor worldly intentions. 

Evangelism may attract the wrong type of people and they come like insects who come to a flower for nectar. The parable of the flower and the insects is put forward to us by the good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨. 

Evangelism if excessive and not thoughtfully planned and tastefully executed may pit brother against brother in the same faith or religion. This may effectively bring about poaching of members within even the same religion. 

This may end up with one approach discrediting another and in favor of another. There may be more damage done than the intended good. Evangelism may be counterproductive and that is a reality we need to be mindful off. 

In reality, all are good in their own ways. All are needed for the good of the many. We need more to reach out to more - not more to chisel off the beauty of religion and make religion ugly. 

There is always the same God and basic good in all religions and in all approaches. This is the message of God and the good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 set out in 1969 to bring more to be aware to this. This is the mission of the lord. This is simple yet profound and awesome. 

Redemption through hyper-grace is great

No 1121 of Living Life Series 1

Whoever says that to be saved we must believe in one religion over others is just being unconvincing more so when the many in the same religion cannot agree with one another on what to believe and how to believe and practice. That is exactly why there are the denominations and the sects. 

Whoever says that all religions will do is more correct but if they say that those who believe in no religion are lost to salvation and are making sweeping statement. 

Didn't all religions or rather God and all saints say that what matters is the Word and not the belief in God or saints. Belief is not enough. Of course the belief in God or saints should rightfully bring one to the Word. 

But men passionate with hyper-grace preached that belief in God or saint will do. They say God and saints will pay for the imperfections of men. They suffer on behalf of men. They pay for the imperfections of men to make them perfect and enlightened. This is the movement of hyper-grace. 

This contradicts the teaching that God or saint is the Word. The Word is God. This is pointed by the good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 when he says that the image is the Word and the Word is the image. 

Without giving due regards to the Word and practicing it, how can men be saved? If we agree that the Word behind all saints is to do good, avoid bad and to purify the mind, then the hyper-grace movement poses issues. 

Can we be wilfully impure or bad and do what we want and then go for confession and seek grace and be saved? That is tantamount to say that we can be bad but if we believe in a saint we can pass our wrong to him. He will suffer for our wrong and we will be redeemed. 

This is simply too good not to believe and accept for the many. Redemption through hyper-grace is great. It is one way to the ultimate but not the only way. It is perhaps a steeping stone to ultimate enlightenment. It may work for some but not for all. It may be their only way for now. 

A moderated and tempered version is practiced in Mahayana Buddhism. Moderated it is because there is need to be good to be worthy of being saved by grace. But some say that many may just go the easy way. Just believe but continue to be bad and be saved. 

But without the moderated approach, the reach of Buddhism or for that matter any religion will be severely hampered. Without this approach which some still regard as hyper-grace, many souls will be lost. 

Vesak flag for all

No 1120 of Living Life Series 1

A flag for all 

with peace for all 

and not just a few

not just for select few

or those who adore the Buddha

but for all who adore other saints

or even if no saint they adore.

But it is better we know this.

To all heavenly saints we greatly adore

Thy glory is in the thought of men

We seek for thy protection and guidance 

so as to live better for time to come. 

All saints are one for the goodness of all

This we must know

This is what the good lord

Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 wants us to know

Then we be better in what we are

Better in the religion we are in.

Better even for those in other religions

Better for ourselves and for others.

This is what we should be

This is the way, the truth and the light.

Didn't Lord Jesus said so 

when he said that he is 

the way, the truth and the light?

Through saints like him,

we will surely know 

the way, the truth and the light

that is in all religions and in life. 

If more know this, 

the mission of Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 

is making its mark. 



Never mind if they know not him

But they who know the Word

embodied in the Vesak flag

know and see him or any saint. 

The values in the flag are universal

and  present in all religions

They are better than those 

near to him or their own saint 

but far from the Word.



The far may be near 

and the near far.

This too did the good lord say

that is true for all faiths.



Dear friends, what is the Word? 

Many say the Word is God and saints

God or saint is the Word. 

Even Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 says

My image is the Word

The Word is my image.



The Word is about goodness

Be good

not be bad

Be pure

This is behind all beliefs.


If you are good at this 

but not a Buddhist 

you are better than many Buddhists 

who pay lip service and put up a front



As Ji Gong 济公 did say

What matters is not what we do 

or what goes through the gut 

but what goes through the heart  

The Vesak Spirit

No 1119 of Living Life Series 1




Do good

Avoid evil

Purify the mind

This is the teaching of the Buddhas.



Don't all religions teach this? 

They do

But men may think otherwise

And that is a problem

Not the problem of God and saints.



Men are fallible

God and saints are not

Men think they are right

others are wrong

So there will be no peace

That is represented by the Vesak flag

Many hang on to divine grace and not the Word

No 1118 of Living Life Series 1

Whilst it is true that salvation is by the Word and not by the grace of God and saints, some or rather many still hold on to saving by the grace. 

The closest if any to saving by divine grace is the promise of saints like Goddess Kuanyin that if many call out to them, they will come to do what they can. Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 says that those who have faith and call upon the saints, the saints will come to them. 

Issues will be no issues. But big issues can at times only end up as small issues. But there is the element of fate. 

Fate may have to play out in current life as result of what we did in past and we have to face consequences and learn from it. Ultimately we can be better off from the learning. 

Many often leave to the guiding saint and when the fate of death comes, they believe they will be ferried to next life in a heaven created by the saint to learn or to rest. 

But eventually they have to come down and continue rebirths in one form or other till such times they have perfected the Word in life and be saints. Well, ultimately they have to live in the Word and be perfect in good, have no evil whatsoever and be pure. 

Ultimately reality bites and all are saved by the Word and not by grace. Divine grace cushions us and help us to learn and be on the path to true salvation. 

Western paradise or the Pure land is what many want through just believing. But it is just the interim - a resting place for respite. The heavens popular religions refer to are just for respite.

Ultimate salvation is by the Word and not by grace. Just believing and leaving the saints to make life work without efforts by ourselves will never work in the long run. 

Many spiritual people are here after respite in heaven where they learnt the Word. Now they are here to live in the Word. Are you one of them? Heaven is simply not enough. Heaven is only a means to the end. The end is sainthood - enlightenment and no less. 

Many still hang on to divine grace and not the Word. Popular religion has to go along in this direction - or men will turn a blind eye to religion and be dead lost to spirituality. 

There is really no choice but to dangle the carrot of saving by grace to bring in the crowd. Better that men come to religion than be lost to religion - never mind if untruths are told in the name of religion. 

Untruths work better than truths. That is why there are fairy-tale like write ups on creation, rapture and doomsday. 

But the dire consequence due to sheer fanaticism is unthinkable when men are encouraged to die for God  as a result of slanting of truths - the untruths. Do God need us or his saints to die for him if he is God?

Untruths thus have flipsides. Men are deluded to think in the wrong direction. They live not in the Word and instead of loving all, they cause harm to many. Eventually, this will boomerang to cause harm to themselves. 

History bears evidence to this. The crusade of Europe is justified even when may are killed. 

But ironically, saints like Jesus would rather suffer than others suffer. Jesus suffered indignity, anguish and pain on the cross. This is rather than to be crossed with his detractors holding the reins of worldly powers and influence of mighty Roman Empire. He won the hearts of men across religions and across time. In a way he became a martyr. We hold him close to our hearts. 

Prince Siddharta rather be ascetic to be a Buddha later than to be King and get entangled in battles with loss of lives. He would rather be a beggar and nobody in order to be somebody - the Buddha. 

Saved by the Word and not by grace?

No 1117 of Living Life Series 1

Vesak always make us recall the benevolence of the Buddha. His gift of the Word is unconditional. No one has to believe in him. The gift of truth by the Buddha is still for him or her. 

As long as we understand the truth and practice it, we are on the way to salvation - to enlightenment. We will not be condemned even if we do not venerate him. 

No need to worship Buddha to qualify to practice the Word he taught. Anyone of any religion or even if none can practice what he taught. What he taught is universal and not the purview of anyone or any religion. 

There is no denying that what matters is that we know and practice. No one will be saved by grace of God and saints. Perhaps at most if we stretch our imagination, it is through their grace that we have the Word. 

But venerating God and saints alone without living in the Word is of no avail. We may seem to be near to them but we are far from them. We know not the Word, let alone practice it. 

In fact those who know and live in the Word but know not God or saints, may choose to not be crazy over God and saints and distance themselves from God and saints are near though far. 

This is what the good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 taught. He even says that we do not need to know him but what matters is the Word he stands for. 

He who knows, sees and live in the Word knows, sees and live in the lord. The good lord even says, "My image is the Word. The Word is my image." 

What then is the Word or truth? Religions put it differently but it is still the same. 

Let us just refer to the teachings of the Buddha. All his sermons are just presentations of the truth. Some sermons are just simply too philosophical and not easy to digest for many - the ten perfections, the four noble truth, the turning of the wheel of life, the eight fold path and so on. 

But the understanding Buddha knows this and he sums up the truth in just a few words. Do good. Avoid evil. Purify the mind. This is the teachings of all saints. 

Better off by being not religious and rigid with religion

No 1116 of Living Life Series 1

Gautama Buddha is a revolutionary of his time. He never took the word of the holy men. He tested the words that came direct from their mouths as gold was tested by fire during his time. 

It was unthinkable then for a man to attain spiritual development if a man did not follow what holy men taught. But he did. He became the Buddha - no less the fully enlightened one.

Centuries have gone bye. Men have progressed. But just like their forefathers, many just accept wholesale the words of the holy men - namely the pastors, priests and monks. They also accept the holy texts as truth. The odd part is that there are many versions of the texts and there are gross and inevitable differences.

The men of today and even in the future are told and will be told to accept what are written in scriptures and what are said by religious leaders. No need to ask why. No need to have doubts. This is and will be the same old mistake.

Just we believe and all will be fine. Of course, this will be fertile ground to brew the unthinkable - to be misled or to put it bluntly to be led by the nose.

We can empathise with how Gautama in his ancient times had a tough time trying to tell others not to believe just because holy men said so or just because the beliefs were in the holy texts passed down. 

When he became enlightened as Buddha, he wanted those who followed him to not even accept what he said or what others say he said. 

They must use logic and question. Common sense must prevail. Only when they are convinced, should they believe and put to practice. (They must not believe just because so-and-so said so - not even if they heard directly from the Buddha or for that matter God or any saint.)

With such approach, how can there be a religion in his name? There shouldn't be? But there is Buddhism but how else can the West accept his teachings as an entity? 

Even if we say it is not a religion as we should not religiously stick to what he said and taught but always to question and ask the reason "why", it is far more a spiritual way than those ways found in the religions of the day and age. 

We don't have to be rigid and religious in abiding to what he taught. There is no blasphemy and bigotry. We are just being logical, being what we are and no less human beings. 

We should not allow the animal nature in us get the better of us. We should not be cowed to follow a leader blindly but to be intelligent and even correct him if needed. 

Others may think we are not respectful of the Buddha. In fact, those who follow blindly and wholesale without any thought and reflection though near are near though far from what the Buddha expected. 

The good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 reinforced this when he said that in all religions, the near may be far and the seemingly far may be near. Those who question, challenge and have doubts with the teachings of God and saints are near to God and saints though seemingly far.  

Well, well, please do not be taken aback and have fear and guilt when others say, "How can you be so disrespectful of a saint by not believing in him?" It is not a question of disrespect but a question of being logical and wanting to apply logic - common sense. The sages of old in China refer to this as Tao 道.  

To be religious, we do not forgo common sense - Tao 道. Forgo not logic when we want to be religious. We cannot be religious and rigid in religion and that way we are better off in religion. We are better off in whatever religion we may be in or even if none. 

But as the good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 says we must have doubts as doubts spur us to want to know better. But at no time he said should we have guilt and fear, for even if we do wrong, we certainly wrong ourselves and others - not God and saints!

So what is the big deal if we are wrong? We learn from our wrong and can be better off. Thank goodness that this is the case. The Vesak flag captures the free spirit that we should have - flying free in the wind with no guilt and no fear. 

Try not to consciously and wilfully make mistakes. But fear not and have no guilt if we make mistakes. Mistakes taken positively maketh the saint out of the man. We must fly free in the wind with no guilt and fear. Just reflect on the Vesak flag.  

Ji Gong 济公 the living saint embodies the free spirit of the Vesak flag. He does not put on acts or a front to impress. What matters he says is not what one does or what goes through the gut but what goes through the heart. 

He is not religious and rigid with religion. He is not bothered and not bordered up by religion. He is better off and he is a free spirit at that. There is no denying that he is welcome by all - not just as saint but as a friend. He is good and worthy company. 

It is good and wholesome to associate with the wise and not to associate with the unwise, to honor those who are worthy of honor and to live in a locality where we can find simultaneously all saints like Ji Gong, Buddha and Jesus. This is captured in the first stanza of the Discourse on Blessings by the Buddha. 

Is there the need to divide men in name of religion and sect?

No 1115 of Living Life Series 1

The teachings of the Buddha is a continuum of the teachings existing in his time as man in the Indian continent. He pointed out how he viewed things differently. 

Likewise the teachings of Lord Jesus is a continuum of the teachings of the prophets of the Jewish culture. He too pointed out how he viewed things differently. 

But modern men are told that they started new religions. 

When the teachings of the Middle East and Indian continent reached China, they are merely integrated into Chinese culture. But modern men somehow see the need to say that new religions were introduced to China. 

Isn't this revealing and explains why it is men who cause problems among men by choosing to coin the institution of religion. 

The institution of religion causes divide and pit men against men in the same culture and race. 

On the excuse of being of a different religion, men in one culture and race act as though they have embraced another culture and race. 

But yet, somehow they are different and remain basically as belonging to the culture they come from. Thus they will want to be different from those of another culture though they profess the same religion. They view beliefs through the culture they grow up with. 

Thus if we know this, why not drop the term religion but the term religion is here to stay. The problems of men are many and plentiful. This the good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 says. 

Men like to feel and think they know better than other men and because of this they proclaim they are of different entity. Yes they may be different but yet not because the differences lie in their cultural orientation. 

If they do not stick to term religion and to the same religion as such, they still think they are different and more right in that religion. They will say that they are of a new denomination or sect. This divides men too and pit brother against brother. 

It is the ego of men that is the root of all the problems. Ego is rooted in ignorance. Never think we are better. Always remember, we have more to learn and can learn more from others and from so doing, we learn to be better than the good we already have. We can be better at what we are. 

Just drop the ego and the divides. Then we can break down the divides and learn more and be better. Do not be myopic. 

Religious divides impede spiritual enlargement. Embrace the beliefs of others to add on to what we believe. 

Open up and not close doors in the name of religion or sect. Is there the need to divide men in name of religion and sect? 

The belief in all saints

No 1114 of Living Life Series 1

If there is belief in Buddha or any saint like Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨, there must be the belief in all heavenly saints. This includes Lord Jesus. 

No one can tell us not to believe in any specific saint just because we started off by believing in one saint. 

The good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 even taught us this prayer. "To all heavenly saints, we greatly adore. We believe in your existence and thy glory is in the thought of men. We seek for thy protection and guidance so as to live better for the time to come." 

No one can stop us from believing in all saints and insist that we believe in only one.  This is the universal truth. 

If any tells us to believe only in one and not the rest, then if we agree with him, we will be misled by the anti-saint. The anti-saint will capitalize in a saint to mislead men to do what the saint won't want us to do. 

Men can easily be misled by the devil if the devil speaks for a saint. The devil masquerades as the saint and is the anti-saint. Only the devil will say that he is the only saint and no one else. 

We can see through the disguise if we know the Word. The Word resolves around universal love for all beings and this includes all saints. 

Better be lost in a temple than not be in one

No 1113 of Living Life Series 1

Have we not heard that empty vessels make the most noise. Many promises are made by men and not by God and saints that if men take up allegiance to a saint they be saved by the grace of God and saints and not by their own good. They say that the good in men can never be good enough. 

Yes this is true but not doing any good beyond just believing in God and saint may actually be not at all good for then many will end up doing no good except being good in belief. 

This may not be true. Let us think through. If there is belief in God and saints, then there must one day be belief in the Word or doctrine they stand for. 

The Word is God and God is the Word. Know the Word and know God and all saints. 

Of what use is believing and prostrating to God and saints but not knowing the Word they stand for. Then we are far though near. It may be better to know the Word, live in the Word and be godly even if we seem not to believe in God and saints. 

But if we have the Word in us and are godly, God and saints are not only near us but with us and in us. The good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 wants us to know this and there is no need to know him or be near him. 

The near may be far and the far near. No point being near to his image but yet not know him - what he stands for. The Word is him and he is the Word. 

There is the inevitable risk of going to God and saints not for the Word but for nectar of personal gain. But the good lord adds that we blame not the flower for insects coming to it. At least they come into the orbit of God and saints. 

They are lost from the Word but yet they are near to the Word and have a better chance to know the Word if they are in a temple. 

It is better for people to go to a temple for the wrong reasons than to be outside of the temple with poor chance of redemption save for a few who can male it on their own. 

Many are lost and swayed even in a temple but at least they are in one and have better chance of making good. Better be lost in a temple or religion than not be in one. 

They may even distort the teaching emphasis of the heavenly saint. This is not good but the flipside is that if the not-good can bring in more to the temple, this may be of some good. 

The unavoidable consequence in the long run however is that people may be misled. But in any dark cloud, there is always a silver lining. 

A few discerning ones will know that they must rise above this and not be led by the nose. Salvation is not God-given but the seeker must do something more than belief. He must cultivate and be deserving. Believing is not enough. 

Thus this again supports that the far from the Word may end up near. The good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 is famous for saying that the far may be near and the near far. He who is misled by distortion of the truth will see through the deception and open his eyes to the truth. 

He needs not change religion or temple but stay put and know better how to be better in the religion he is in. He will know as what the good lord said that he must not just flow downstream but go against the current to the upstream if he wants clear water. 

Religious labels can be the undoing of spirituality

No 1112 of Living Life Series 1

This is what we understand from the good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨. 

Religious labels do not do justice to those who believe in all saints. To say that they are buddhists because they are followers of Buddha is not exactly correct, for they too are followers of Jesus, Hindu gods and Taoist deities. Religious labels give wrong impressions. They are man-made. 

If a person is a Buddhist just because he follows the teachings of the Buddha, then he too is a Taoist, Christian and Hindu if he is follower of the saints of these religions. But that is odd and not in keeping with convention of the West. 

To say that he can only be this or that and not believer of all religions, is narrow minded and not in keeping with reality. To believe in all means to believe in the saints of all religions. It means to be discerning on what to believe and not to believe in everything. 

In keeping with this, temples integrate the beliefs in all saints. Temples like the heavenly saints are for all and not religion bias. The notion that a temple is a Buddhist temple, a Taoist temple or a Christian one is not doing justice to the temple. 

It is the West who somehow likes to alienate temples by labelling it temples of a specific religion. This is so that they can showcase the need to give up one religion and go for another. Where there is really no religion, where is the need? All that needs to be done is to add on and enlarge the best practices of the followers of the heavenly saints.

Temples and saints are for all. We should refrain from using religion to divide and cause dissension among men. The picture below is better than a thousand words. There are many ways and many temples men can approach God and goodness. This is the message of the good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨. 

Mind you, the good lord is not the latest of saints nor the saint to replace other saints. He is here to let us be close to our own saint and to all saints. 

Even a temple built in his name is not just for him but for all saints and for all religions. It will go the way of all temples - no different and may not even focus directly on the mission to show oneness of religions and beliefs but will absorb all beliefs. 

That alone will authenticate the good lord's message albeit an indirect one though many just go along but never even give even a second thought on his message. All they want is to have good and be good. That is enough but yet not so. The good lord did say the near may be far and the far near. But near and far is the same yet not so. 

Men in trying to please God end up pleasing themselves and often cause displeasure to God and saints. God and saints don't really mind but the problem is that men may be worse off. That is their concern. 

Temples and saints are for all and not for narrow interests or agenda of men. Men may have agenda but not God and saints. The use of label religion may not at all be a good idea. It divides not only men in name of God and saints but also God and saints. Give this some thought. 

To upkeep the message that temples and saints are for all, the good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 taught us this universal prayer. 

To all heavenly saints we greatly adore. We believe in your existence and thy glory is in the thought of men. We seek for thy protection and guidance so as to live better for the time to come.