No 1136 of Living Life Series 1
Saints do not need to be popular. They only want to be right with regards to men.
Men of saints adore their saints. Men are the ones who want to be popular. To them this is the only right. What is right must be popular. If not popular, it is not right. This is their concept of what is right.
In attempt to be popular, they give in to the crowd and they do what they can to win over the crowd even in the name of God and saints. They veer away from what is truly right. The not-so-right is justified as perfectly right.
What can sweep people off their feet must be popular. What is dead right is usually never popular. That is ironical but what do we expect of men.
What is right is far from the mind of the majority. They only go for what they can have and gain here and now by mere belief and not by what they must know and do before they can truly have and gain in the end.
They don't even want to do anything that smacks of effort. Worst of all, they don't even want to think. All they want is to have and better still let others think for them.
Thus they come in big numbers like insects to the flower and this the good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 wants us to ruminate on.
To do so, we need to calm down and meditate - be mindful and not be swept away downstream in the river of life. The good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 says we have to go upstream against the current to the upper source for clear water - for clarity of life.
We cannot just be swept downstream and follow the crowd. That is a tall order for many. The easiest is to join the crowd - just be swept along. Thus the majority will be lost to God and saints though they may hail God and saints.
They do not think. They just let others think for them. They end up far though near to God and saints. But God and saints know that and will not forsake them.
God and saints assure them that if they call upon God and saints, they will be blessed, and through grace of God and saints, be reborn in afterlife to a heavenly abode to learn more and more to think for themselves and not let others think for them.
Then they will learn to be thinkers and be on the way to better rebirths. They will have logic or common sense Tao 道 to attain the peace of the heart - the peace of the spirit and mind.
They will end up thinkers not just believers. They will have inner peace like the saints but not immediately and with cultivation of more perfect pure thoughts over many lifetimes.
Thus the many who do not think but let others think for them will still be saved. They started off as believers and non-thinkers but will still end up thinkers and good at that - good at Tao 道.
They may be far from logic or Tao 道 initially but are still near to the Tao 道 of God and saints if to begin with, they have faith of sorts even if they let others think for them. Thus men who let others think for them can end up thinking in the end. Men without Tao 道 can end up with Tao 道 .
But the reality is that why don't we think now and not wait till afterlife in heavenly abode to think? Be thinkers and not followers.
Think for ourselves and do not let others do the thinking. There must be logic or common sense in life or in religion.
Tao 道 is common sense and is in life and in any religion. This must be the understanding we need to know.
The good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 would have achieved his divine mission if we can just think for ourselves regardless of the religion or life we are in.
All religions are one in Tao 道. There is the same God and Tao 道 in any religion, any life and any society. Logic and common sense cannot be different in different persons and religions. That will be illogical. Religion cannot be without Tao 道 .
If we fathom this post, then we will realize this. The Tao 道 of some may not be Tao 道 at all. The Tao 道 they know is not Tao they should know.
But the Tao 道 that is not Tao to them may be Tao 道 if it can lead them to Tao 道. How perplexing can simple common sense or logic be? Truth is indeed simple and yet profound to many.
Tao 道 is not the starter for the many. If introduced from onset, Tao 道 will not work. The Not-Tao is more appealing and in the long run will be more productive in bringing beings to Tao 道. They will still have Tao 道 though without Tao 道.
Many have to start without Tao 道 to end up with Tao 道. But they will never admit that they do not have Tao 道 to begin with. Who would think that they have no logic - Tao 道? We will be asking for trouble if we tell this in their face.
But alas many men with no short of intellect are often carried away by their fancies and behind this is the denial of common sense. Tao 道is common sense but many take it as simply too profound and perhaps even illogical and bewildering - beyond them.
This is because they are not settled in mind. They do not silent the storms in their mind. Howe can they silent the mind when they are attracted by the noisy din of the men at the pulpit?
Only when there is calm and no storms will they be calm and see the true nature of life and be able to have common sense. Common sense eludes men when they are carried away by noise and emotion.
Religions to be popular and to swing with the crowd must do the unthinkable. Crowd and popularity comes first. Without crowd where will be the financing and the life in a house of God and saints. They bring in the crowd first even if there is no Tao 道 to begin with but in the end they will still inject Tao 道.
The narrow minded will frown at it. They think they are above the majority. They think they have Tao 道 but may end up with less of Tao 道 in the end if they are conceited and opinionated. Pride begets a fall. Pride clouds the mind and a cloudy mind may lose out in common sense.
Men of saints adore their saints. Men are the ones who want to be popular. To them this is the only right. What is right must be popular. If not popular, it is not right. This is their concept of what is right.
In attempt to be popular, they give in to the crowd and they do what they can to win over the crowd even in the name of God and saints. They veer away from what is truly right. The not-so-right is justified as perfectly right.
What can sweep people off their feet must be popular. What is dead right is usually never popular. That is ironical but what do we expect of men.
What is right is far from the mind of the majority. They only go for what they can have and gain here and now by mere belief and not by what they must know and do before they can truly have and gain in the end.
They don't even want to do anything that smacks of effort. Worst of all, they don't even want to think. All they want is to have and better still let others think for them.
Thus they come in big numbers like insects to the flower and this the good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 wants us to ruminate on.
To do so, we need to calm down and meditate - be mindful and not be swept away downstream in the river of life. The good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 says we have to go upstream against the current to the upper source for clear water - for clarity of life.
We cannot just be swept downstream and follow the crowd. That is a tall order for many. The easiest is to join the crowd - just be swept along. Thus the majority will be lost to God and saints though they may hail God and saints.
They do not think. They just let others think for them. They end up far though near to God and saints. But God and saints know that and will not forsake them.
God and saints assure them that if they call upon God and saints, they will be blessed, and through grace of God and saints, be reborn in afterlife to a heavenly abode to learn more and more to think for themselves and not let others think for them.
Then they will learn to be thinkers and be on the way to better rebirths. They will have logic or common sense Tao 道 to attain the peace of the heart - the peace of the spirit and mind.
They will end up thinkers not just believers. They will have inner peace like the saints but not immediately and with cultivation of more perfect pure thoughts over many lifetimes.
Thus the many who do not think but let others think for them will still be saved. They started off as believers and non-thinkers but will still end up thinkers and good at that - good at Tao 道.
They may be far from logic or Tao 道 initially but are still near to the Tao 道 of God and saints if to begin with, they have faith of sorts even if they let others think for them. Thus men who let others think for them can end up thinking in the end. Men without Tao 道 can end up with Tao 道 .
But the reality is that why don't we think now and not wait till afterlife in heavenly abode to think? Be thinkers and not followers.
Think for ourselves and do not let others do the thinking. There must be logic or common sense in life or in religion.
Tao 道 is common sense and is in life and in any religion. This must be the understanding we need to know.
The good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 would have achieved his divine mission if we can just think for ourselves regardless of the religion or life we are in.
All religions are one in Tao 道. There is the same God and Tao 道 in any religion, any life and any society. Logic and common sense cannot be different in different persons and religions. That will be illogical. Religion cannot be without Tao 道 .
If we fathom this post, then we will realize this. The Tao 道 of some may not be Tao 道 at all. The Tao 道 they know is not Tao they should know.
But the Tao 道 that is not Tao to them may be Tao 道 if it can lead them to Tao 道. How perplexing can simple common sense or logic be? Truth is indeed simple and yet profound to many.
Tao 道 is not the starter for the many. If introduced from onset, Tao 道 will not work. The Not-Tao is more appealing and in the long run will be more productive in bringing beings to Tao 道. They will still have Tao 道 though without Tao 道.
Many have to start without Tao 道 to end up with Tao 道. But they will never admit that they do not have Tao 道 to begin with. Who would think that they have no logic - Tao 道? We will be asking for trouble if we tell this in their face.
But alas many men with no short of intellect are often carried away by their fancies and behind this is the denial of common sense. Tao 道is common sense but many take it as simply too profound and perhaps even illogical and bewildering - beyond them.
This is because they are not settled in mind. They do not silent the storms in their mind. Howe can they silent the mind when they are attracted by the noisy din of the men at the pulpit?
Only when there is calm and no storms will they be calm and see the true nature of life and be able to have common sense. Common sense eludes men when they are carried away by noise and emotion.
Religions to be popular and to swing with the crowd must do the unthinkable. Crowd and popularity comes first. Without crowd where will be the financing and the life in a house of God and saints. They bring in the crowd first even if there is no Tao 道 to begin with but in the end they will still inject Tao 道.
The narrow minded will frown at it. They think they are above the majority. They think they have Tao 道 but may end up with less of Tao 道 in the end if they are conceited and opinionated. Pride begets a fall. Pride clouds the mind and a cloudy mind may lose out in common sense.
