No 1173 of Living Life Series 1
Is a person less a member of his nationality just because of his religion being different from that of another? Is the same person more of being of a foreign nationality just because he takes up a religion introduced by another from a foreign nationality?
Won't a person be still a member of his nationality even he embrace a the favored religion of a foreign nationality? If it is so, then without doubt, he is very different from the foreigner who inducted him into the religion.
He will find ways for the new religion to him to be an expression of his nationality. Though both professed the same religion, the cultural approach makes them appear as different.
They are of the same religion and near to each other but yet far from each other due to cultural expression of the same religion.
The good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 often quoted saying that near can be far and far can be near comes in again for us to reflect. He even added that it may be better for one to be better in the religion one is borned into by learning from his teachings that the same basic truth is behind all religions.
It is far better for one to be better in the religion one is in than be awkward in a newly adopted religion as he will be heavily colored by the culture he grew up in.
Give this some thought. Be better has nothing to do with change of labels. Be better at what we are and not try to be what we are not.
Ji Gong 济公 goes the mile in this respect. He just be better at what he is. He follows his heart and not the expressed practices of religions in the culture he was born into. He was and is not for any specific religion or against any. He is like Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨.
Ji Gong 济公 says that what matters is not what one does or what goes through the gut but what is in the heart or what goes through the heart.
Follow our heart and not try to ape others. What is heart felt for others may not be for us. But of course we can naturally and subconsciously and unintentionally transform and imbibe a foreign culture or religion into our own.
There will ever be the distinctive cultural color to religion. Religion in any country will be distinctive from the same religion in the country of origin of that religion.
The country of origin of the religion may decide to call the religion by another name. This is due to pride in their culture. They want to be distinctive.
Won't a person be still a member of his nationality even he embrace a the favored religion of a foreign nationality? If it is so, then without doubt, he is very different from the foreigner who inducted him into the religion.
He will find ways for the new religion to him to be an expression of his nationality. Though both professed the same religion, the cultural approach makes them appear as different.
They are of the same religion and near to each other but yet far from each other due to cultural expression of the same religion.
The good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 often quoted saying that near can be far and far can be near comes in again for us to reflect. He even added that it may be better for one to be better in the religion one is borned into by learning from his teachings that the same basic truth is behind all religions.
It is far better for one to be better in the religion one is in than be awkward in a newly adopted religion as he will be heavily colored by the culture he grew up in.
Give this some thought. Be better has nothing to do with change of labels. Be better at what we are and not try to be what we are not.
Ji Gong 济公 goes the mile in this respect. He just be better at what he is. He follows his heart and not the expressed practices of religions in the culture he was born into. He was and is not for any specific religion or against any. He is like Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨.
Ji Gong 济公 says that what matters is not what one does or what goes through the gut but what is in the heart or what goes through the heart.
Follow our heart and not try to ape others. What is heart felt for others may not be for us. But of course we can naturally and subconsciously and unintentionally transform and imbibe a foreign culture or religion into our own.
There will ever be the distinctive cultural color to religion. Religion in any country will be distinctive from the same religion in the country of origin of that religion.
The country of origin of the religion may decide to call the religion by another name. This is due to pride in their culture. They want to be distinctive.
