No 1270 of Living Life Series 1
People have short memories. But God don't mind. Many ask for help. But once they have been helped and their prayers answered, they lost their devoutness. They take things for granted. They expect more. They get turned off from God and saints. Why? They don't seem to have their prayers answered any more. Sad isn't it?
When men are in need, they can promise the sky and the sky no less they will tell God and saints. But God and saints will help, not because of what men promised.
Love for all is why God and saints help all beings, never mind if men end up disappointing. God holds not on to men for what God gives to men. God expects no gratitude - no favors in return.
In fact, God and saints expect men to have short memories and to take things for granted. Once blessed and given, they seem to forget that they were given and blessed.
Why? The reason lies with why men are not yet saints and far from saintly and godly.
They are ego monsters in some way. They have monstrous appetite. They need to satiate their ego. They want and want. Oh, with such a good appetite and an unhealthy one, they forget they were in distress. Once out of distress with God's grace, they forget they were in pain and they hunger for more.
Men need to be reminded that without God's help (which they don't need to work for it and God will just give), men will never get themselves out of the rut. They will be stuck in the mud or cesspool or worse still the quick sand and have no future. How can they cultivate spirituality?
But alas, once they get out of the quicksand of distress such as poverty and pain, they forget, and forget they do. It just comes so naturally.
Instead of picking up themselves and go for it wholeheartedly in cultivation of goodness and peace of spirit to be a bit more like God and saints, well, they think they have arrived at paradise. They simply forget. Men have short memories.
Thus if men can do this to God and saints, they can do that to you. You may do all you can to help them. But if they have short memories and forget God, how can they not forget you.
But if this happens, do not feel hurt. Do not be angry. They are the ones you wanted to help in the first place. Don't turn the table on them. Don't be a control freak. Wish them well and even help them even more. Do not run them down.
Be like God and saints. Bless and help without expecting gratitude. Then you will stand among the gods.
Yes, stand among the gods. Help without strings attached. Help and blessings are not for bargain or sale. Help is of love. If love is for sale, then it is not love. A father would love his prodigal son. We too must be like that.
Love and help others without conditions. Help and wish them well. No need to remind them that you have been of help. That is the way of God and lord saints.
The good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 is like that. If man is like that, other men may think he is foolish. Well, society is like that. What to do?
Accept society as it is. Do your part and be like the light even if a lone light to shine away the darkness of men. If one light is already good, a bunch of lights will do even better. This did the good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 say, didn't he?
If we set out to help, don't give up because men have short memories. Persist and continue to help. One day there will be those who wake up and join us to love and help without expectations, never mind if people have short memories and forget that we even help in the first place.
The worst is for us to try to take it back. Do not condemn them just because they forgot that we help them.
Don't hold on to the good you have done. Continue to do good. Wish not the bad if people forget the good we help them to have.
Hold on not to good done. Let go and do more good. God and saints are like that. They don't even need us to sing their praises. So can we. Don't bother if others comment that we are stupid because we help but those we help turn us off in the end, let alone praise us.
Stand among the gods while among men. That is the way to be and the way to go. Be in heaven while on earth and in hell of men. Be a beacon of life and love. Be divine and yet still man indeed.
Be like an immortal but yet very mortal. That will be humbling indeed. The humbled will be exalted and the exalted humble. That is what Jesus and what all saints will say.
Stand among the gods while among men. Many a leader of men in a temple tend to forget this and they try to correct others. They can try but if they know better, would they?
Just be good and expect nothing in return. But such a leader do tend to get carried away and they become more man and less god. Well, let them be. They do have good intent. Their good intent is exactly the problem of all problems - perhaps the mother of all problems in a temple.
People have short memories. But God don't mind. Many ask for help. But once they have been helped and their prayers answered, they lost their devoutness. They take things for granted. They expect more. They get turned off from God and saints. Why? They don't seem to have their prayers answered any more. Sad isn't it?
When men are in need, they can promise the sky and the sky no less they will tell God and saints. But God and saints will help, not because of what men promised.
Love for all is why God and saints help all beings, never mind if men end up disappointing. God holds not on to men for what God gives to men. God expects no gratitude - no favors in return.
In fact, God and saints expect men to have short memories and to take things for granted. Once blessed and given, they seem to forget that they were given and blessed.
Why? The reason lies with why men are not yet saints and far from saintly and godly.
They are ego monsters in some way. They have monstrous appetite. They need to satiate their ego. They want and want. Oh, with such a good appetite and an unhealthy one, they forget they were in distress. Once out of distress with God's grace, they forget they were in pain and they hunger for more.
Men need to be reminded that without God's help (which they don't need to work for it and God will just give), men will never get themselves out of the rut. They will be stuck in the mud or cesspool or worse still the quick sand and have no future. How can they cultivate spirituality?
But alas, once they get out of the quicksand of distress such as poverty and pain, they forget, and forget they do. It just comes so naturally.
Instead of picking up themselves and go for it wholeheartedly in cultivation of goodness and peace of spirit to be a bit more like God and saints, well, they think they have arrived at paradise. They simply forget. Men have short memories.
Thus if men can do this to God and saints, they can do that to you. You may do all you can to help them. But if they have short memories and forget God, how can they not forget you.
But if this happens, do not feel hurt. Do not be angry. They are the ones you wanted to help in the first place. Don't turn the table on them. Don't be a control freak. Wish them well and even help them even more. Do not run them down.
Be like God and saints. Bless and help without expecting gratitude. Then you will stand among the gods.
Yes, stand among the gods. Help without strings attached. Help and blessings are not for bargain or sale. Help is of love. If love is for sale, then it is not love. A father would love his prodigal son. We too must be like that.
Love and help others without conditions. Help and wish them well. No need to remind them that you have been of help. That is the way of God and lord saints.
The good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 is like that. If man is like that, other men may think he is foolish. Well, society is like that. What to do?
Accept society as it is. Do your part and be like the light even if a lone light to shine away the darkness of men. If one light is already good, a bunch of lights will do even better. This did the good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 say, didn't he?
If we set out to help, don't give up because men have short memories. Persist and continue to help. One day there will be those who wake up and join us to love and help without expectations, never mind if people have short memories and forget that we even help in the first place.
The worst is for us to try to take it back. Do not condemn them just because they forgot that we help them.
Don't hold on to the good you have done. Continue to do good. Wish not the bad if people forget the good we help them to have.
Hold on not to good done. Let go and do more good. God and saints are like that. They don't even need us to sing their praises. So can we. Don't bother if others comment that we are stupid because we help but those we help turn us off in the end, let alone praise us.
Stand among the gods while among men. That is the way to be and the way to go. Be in heaven while on earth and in hell of men. Be a beacon of life and love. Be divine and yet still man indeed.
Be like an immortal but yet very mortal. That will be humbling indeed. The humbled will be exalted and the exalted humble. That is what Jesus and what all saints will say.
Stand among the gods while among men. Many a leader of men in a temple tend to forget this and they try to correct others. They can try but if they know better, would they?
Just be good and expect nothing in return. But such a leader do tend to get carried away and they become more man and less god. Well, let them be. They do have good intent. Their good intent is exactly the problem of all problems - perhaps the mother of all problems in a temple.
