No 1143 of Living Life Series 1
Go for logic Tao 道 - not religion, saint or God. People can be godless even if of religion, of saint and of God. But without being God based, can people be logical? Read on...
Don't let whoever runs a temple be the push for the temple. It doesn't matter. The means should not become the ends.
The people should not be the attraction. The good works too are not but what really matters is the pure thoughts behind all these - the purity of spirit. It is the Word - not even God.
But they say the Word is God and God is the Word. The good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 says that the Word is his image. His image is the Word. Image is not just the wooden or marble image but the divine image people have of him in their minds.
The Mission of the lord will be of the Word - the Doctrine. It is how to promote the pure spirit in men and not the good works or the people or the temple or of any religion - but just the Word behind and beyond religions.
Ji Gong 济公 puts it point blank as such. What matters is not what one does or what goes through the gut but what is in the heart and goes through the gut.
Do meditate or rather to put this bluntly do ruminate on this. No one can say that they cannot think and ruminate.
If the term 'meditate' is used instead, people give the excuse that meditation is not for them as yet. Meditation is too profound.
But what is needed is for people to think - to ruminate. Surely all can think. Thinking or common sense is Tao 道.
Tao 道 is not beyond you or me. You don't have to be anointed one, to be baptized or to receive the tonsure to do this. You don't even need to be in any religion, temple or church.
To be in one may help but can be a hindrance as well but to be not in one may not help either. What is needed is to be logical about life and be pure at heart.
We need to think for ourselves and not let others think for us. We must not stop thinking just because of religion, a saint or of God. Worse of all is to stop thinking because we are just to believe what is spoken by the man at the helm or because the written word says so.
The sages of the East uphold this principle of free thinking and not restrictive institutional religion. They did not care about religion.
But it is people who divide men of thinking into this and that religion and in process curtail free thinking - logical thinking which is Tao 道.
All can have logical thinking without being Taoists. Thinkers can be of any religion or even if none.
Go for logic Tao 道 - not religion, saint or God. People can be godless even if of religion, of saint and of God. But without being God based how can people be logical.
The question begs the answer and the answer begs the question. Can we be logical without belief in God? Can we be illogical even with belief in God? Well, we need to think clearly and not let others think for us.
