No 1199 of Living Life Series 1
We have supported the need for popular religion as it appeals far far more than serious religiosity. The good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 says that popular religion is like the downstream of the river. Serious religiosity is like the upper source.
For clear natural water, we need to go to the upper source. But this is too much to expect for the masses.
At the same time it must be made known that people must not put off going for serious religiosity. Don't wait till the cows come home.
Don't expect God through his heavenly saint to take over the yoke of our life, to take over our cross of life and attain enlightenment or sainthood for us. No one can redeem us.
Don't be deluded that others can cultivate sainthood for us - that others can cultivate Tao 道 for us. At best we can have sojourn or respite in heaven for a while - to learn and hopefully unlearn.
No one can thinks for us. Tao 道 is about common sense or logic. We think we have common sense or Tao道but this is not the common sense that saints refer to. We are in a way to put it not so nicely more spiritually dumb than we think.
How can a saint or worse still a man think for us and we have spiritual common sense or logic when we do not even think?Someone do all the thinking and doing for us. Then we become saint.
It is illogical, far fetched and far from Tao 道 if someone can indeed cultivate Tao 道 for us. That would be fantastic.
By all means go for popular religion which is almost effortless like flowing along downstream with all the debris and mud but do not wait till kingdom come for serious religiosity.
Embark on a little bit of Tao 道- a wee bit will do. Many drops of water will make a mighty ocean - never mind if this takes ages.
But while we are far from being the ocean, we still are no saints but every inch common men. We need to be what we are. We need to be men and must not think we are saints just because someone tells us God has sent us his saint to cultivate Tao 道 on our behalf and we will be saints through the cultivation of sainthood by the Godsent saint.
This in eyes of some men would be maligning God and saint but God and any saint would not see it that way. That would be belittling them. They are far from pettiness. They know that many do not know what they do or even if they do know are too weak to want to do.
For clear natural water, we need to go to the upper source. But this is too much to expect for the masses.
At the same time it must be made known that people must not put off going for serious religiosity. Don't wait till the cows come home.
Don't expect God through his heavenly saint to take over the yoke of our life, to take over our cross of life and attain enlightenment or sainthood for us. No one can redeem us.
Don't be deluded that others can cultivate sainthood for us - that others can cultivate Tao 道 for us. At best we can have sojourn or respite in heaven for a while - to learn and hopefully unlearn.
No one can thinks for us. Tao 道 is about common sense or logic. We think we have common sense or Tao道but this is not the common sense that saints refer to. We are in a way to put it not so nicely more spiritually dumb than we think.
How can a saint or worse still a man think for us and we have spiritual common sense or logic when we do not even think?Someone do all the thinking and doing for us. Then we become saint.
It is illogical, far fetched and far from Tao 道 if someone can indeed cultivate Tao 道 for us. That would be fantastic.
By all means go for popular religion which is almost effortless like flowing along downstream with all the debris and mud but do not wait till kingdom come for serious religiosity.
Embark on a little bit of Tao 道- a wee bit will do. Many drops of water will make a mighty ocean - never mind if this takes ages.
But while we are far from being the ocean, we still are no saints but every inch common men. We need to be what we are. We need to be men and must not think we are saints just because someone tells us God has sent us his saint to cultivate Tao 道 on our behalf and we will be saints through the cultivation of sainthood by the Godsent saint.
This in eyes of some men would be maligning God and saint but God and any saint would not see it that way. That would be belittling them. They are far from pettiness. They know that many do not know what they do or even if they do know are too weak to want to do.
