No 1169 of Living Life Series 1
It is often so easy to promise to give to people what they want and then we can get their vote of allegiance. Whether we can deliver on promises and whether this can be sustained is the problem.
It is also easy to create fear to ensure that people will cave in to what we want them to agree. Just play on the fear factor. This is the alarmist approach.
We can certainly coerced people into submission or agreeing with us. We may not be able to buy their hearts but we can get their votes of concurrence, albeit unwillingly. This is another problem of men.
The good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 says that the problems and issues of man are many and plentiful in life - be it religious or in secular life.
Many men peddle religion by being either populist or alarmist - often even both combined.
But these will mean bending and twisting what is right to extent of presenting the wrong as right.
The analogy to the river and its downstream by the good lord is especially apt. Many twist and add on to religion such that the original basic teachings are no longer in the fore.
What is presented is not the clear water of the upper source but the highly polluted water of the downstream unrecognisable from clean water at the upper source. That is popular religion.
No pioneer or saint of religion can stop this. This is in the nature of men.
Men too tend to impose by creating fear of hell fire. Believe or being damned. This is alarmist.
No need to be populist or alarmist. Religion is not meant to gain favor or accolades of men. Religion is not to succour up to men.
Man is no lord and God and saint should never be lorded over by men. God and saints too do not want to lord over men. It is not necessary to create fear and alarm to round up men to do the bidding of God and saints.
What is necessary is just for men to be right. Religion run by men must be right, not populist or alarmist.
Don't worry if there is no crowd. Just bring out the good in men. It is a no-no to force out the good through alarm as this is never good. This is more the way of the devil.
It is also not right to treat men like kids and promise them what they want. What they want is often far from good though good at first.
Don't kid men by being populist. Don't be devil to men by being alarmist. Just do be right, not populist or alarmist.
Above all, do let God take care of the individual and not act for God. We will end up making mockery of divinity - only to attract mockery from other men.
The problems of men are indeed many and plentiful as the good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 did say.
It is also easy to create fear to ensure that people will cave in to what we want them to agree. Just play on the fear factor. This is the alarmist approach.
We can certainly coerced people into submission or agreeing with us. We may not be able to buy their hearts but we can get their votes of concurrence, albeit unwillingly. This is another problem of men.
The good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 says that the problems and issues of man are many and plentiful in life - be it religious or in secular life.
Many men peddle religion by being either populist or alarmist - often even both combined.
But these will mean bending and twisting what is right to extent of presenting the wrong as right.
The analogy to the river and its downstream by the good lord is especially apt. Many twist and add on to religion such that the original basic teachings are no longer in the fore.
What is presented is not the clear water of the upper source but the highly polluted water of the downstream unrecognisable from clean water at the upper source. That is popular religion.
No pioneer or saint of religion can stop this. This is in the nature of men.
Men too tend to impose by creating fear of hell fire. Believe or being damned. This is alarmist.
No need to be populist or alarmist. Religion is not meant to gain favor or accolades of men. Religion is not to succour up to men.
Man is no lord and God and saint should never be lorded over by men. God and saints too do not want to lord over men. It is not necessary to create fear and alarm to round up men to do the bidding of God and saints.
What is necessary is just for men to be right. Religion run by men must be right, not populist or alarmist.
Don't worry if there is no crowd. Just bring out the good in men. It is a no-no to force out the good through alarm as this is never good. This is more the way of the devil.
It is also not right to treat men like kids and promise them what they want. What they want is often far from good though good at first.
Don't kid men by being populist. Don't be devil to men by being alarmist. Just do be right, not populist or alarmist.
Above all, do let God take care of the individual and not act for God. We will end up making mockery of divinity - only to attract mockery from other men.
The problems of men are indeed many and plentiful as the good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 did say.
