No 1182 of Living Life Series 1
Threats may work but treats are better. Give treats and compliments to those whom we want to win them over. No one in the right mind will use threats as threats never will win hearts.
Saints love all even those who are not as good as others. Otherwise how would those down and out in morality and spirituality have any chance to make good.
That is why in any of the temples anywhere be it in a temple of the good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 or elsewhere, you may instead chance upon not angels in men but the devils in men.
They are the ones who are close and near to the work of the temple but what they do in the temple other than the work of the temple may raise eyebrows.
Ill-will abounds. Name calling and swearing within the temple is not at all rare. Even drinking and slaughtering of animals like cats had happened.
There were even excuses for sexual misconduct in the upper echelons of those in spiritual leaderships - such as divorcing spouse to marry a young one.
But these do not indicate that there is no God or saint in a temple. It shows that God and saints embrace all even those who are off the mark.
Many are regarded as prodigal sons even if they cannot mend their ways. God and saints will win them over by treats and not chase them to oblivion with threats though in the initial learning process, God and saints may show that discipline is necessary.
Once the learning is over, they are left on their own. There is freewill but many mistaken that they can free wheel around and make a mockery of what a temple should be.
But a temple is by men for men though motivated by God and saints. As long as men are men and far from saints, what do we expect?
Men will be men and familiarity breeds contempt. Silence by God and saints give wings to more of the same. Men throw caution and prudence to the wind and do what they like.
Instead of love for fellow men, they may come to blows and bring one another to the courts. There is hardly any of the courtship of brotherly love amongst men.
