No 1352 of Living Life Series 1
Bo Tien 武天 says that loving kindness is for all and comes from the heart. It is the everything we need to do and to have.
Ji Gong 济公 says that what matters is not what we do, what goes through our gut but what goes through and what comes from the heart.
Bo Tien 武天 in 1975 said that love is the beginning, the middle and the everything of what we should do and have in religion, whatever the religion it may be.
Love is still and will always be the strongest force on the planet. Love must be whole and not because we want a reward or something in return. There must be no strings attached.
If there is hatred because of love, then this is not love and far from wholesome love. We must not damn people to hell and still talk of love for God and for religion.
We must do good, be good and think good not because we want to be rewarded but because we simply want to be good.
Bo Tien 武天 says that doing charity is good but best is to do so not for own good or get a name and praises. That is still good but not good enough - not wholesome.
Love is in all religions. Love is everything. Love makes the world go round and there is no end to love. If there is the end, then love is finite and limited. Even if someone hurts us, we must somehow still love him and win him over.
No hatred please. If someone hates us, remember what Buddha says: Hatred is not appeased by hatred but by love alone is it quelled. Jesus said that we offer our other cheek when someone slapped us on one cheek. That is to emphasize on need to have no hatred but to have love.
Love must be limitless. Please have no end to love in whatever we do and with whomever comes into our life.
Love is not about control or be controlled. That will not be ideal. Such love comes with limits and is conditional.
With limited or conditional love. religion will only end up with no love for those outside the religion and even for the same religion, there will be no love for those outside their subgroup. How can we say that if you are not one of us, we don't like you? How can we ever say that we can only like you if you are one of us and do what we do and believe in the same way we do?
That there are increasingly more sects and denominations within a religion stems from this serious fallacy of many. Perhaps many within the same religion never even see eye to eye. They never even love one another unconditionally and have to part ways.
They have wrong concept of love. They only love those who do what they do and believe in the same way as they do. They have no place for those who differ. Thus those who differ must end up having their own denominations.
But this cannot be helped as most are not cultivated enough in loving kindness. Most are lopsided and bias. They will err even in love. So long as this is the case, there will of course be many more denominations and sects.
At least, these provide more opportunities to reach out to men and more will come to know God and saints and learn to have love though bias and far from wholesome. Thus for religions, there will be not one by many and sects or denominations within any religion, even that much more.
For the wiser of the lot, there is need not to flow downstream with the current (the sects and denominations) but to go upstream against the current to reach the upper source for clear water - to reach the ability to have pure and wholesome love. This is as explained by Bo Tien 武天 .
They strive to be like the Buddha, Jesus and Ji Gong 济公in cultivation of wholesome love and like the pure ones, they have to move away from the establishments and appear to do the unthinkable to the many in establishments.
It is not that they love religion less but that they love religions even more. They will invariably ruffle feathers in the process as many will misunderstand them.
Ji Gong 济公 says that what matters is not what we do, what goes through our gut but what goes through and what comes from the heart.
Bo Tien 武天 in 1975 said that love is the beginning, the middle and the everything of what we should do and have in religion, whatever the religion it may be.
Love is still and will always be the strongest force on the planet. Love must be whole and not because we want a reward or something in return. There must be no strings attached.
If there is hatred because of love, then this is not love and far from wholesome love. We must not damn people to hell and still talk of love for God and for religion.
We must do good, be good and think good not because we want to be rewarded but because we simply want to be good.
Bo Tien 武天 says that doing charity is good but best is to do so not for own good or get a name and praises. That is still good but not good enough - not wholesome.
Love is in all religions. Love is everything. Love makes the world go round and there is no end to love. If there is the end, then love is finite and limited. Even if someone hurts us, we must somehow still love him and win him over.
No hatred please. If someone hates us, remember what Buddha says: Hatred is not appeased by hatred but by love alone is it quelled. Jesus said that we offer our other cheek when someone slapped us on one cheek. That is to emphasize on need to have no hatred but to have love.
Love must be limitless. Please have no end to love in whatever we do and with whomever comes into our life.
Love is not about control or be controlled. That will not be ideal. Such love comes with limits and is conditional.
With limited or conditional love. religion will only end up with no love for those outside the religion and even for the same religion, there will be no love for those outside their subgroup. How can we say that if you are not one of us, we don't like you? How can we ever say that we can only like you if you are one of us and do what we do and believe in the same way we do?
That there are increasingly more sects and denominations within a religion stems from this serious fallacy of many. Perhaps many within the same religion never even see eye to eye. They never even love one another unconditionally and have to part ways.
They have wrong concept of love. They only love those who do what they do and believe in the same way as they do. They have no place for those who differ. Thus those who differ must end up having their own denominations.
But this cannot be helped as most are not cultivated enough in loving kindness. Most are lopsided and bias. They will err even in love. So long as this is the case, there will of course be many more denominations and sects.
At least, these provide more opportunities to reach out to men and more will come to know God and saints and learn to have love though bias and far from wholesome. Thus for religions, there will be not one by many and sects or denominations within any religion, even that much more.
For the wiser of the lot, there is need not to flow downstream with the current (the sects and denominations) but to go upstream against the current to reach the upper source for clear water - to reach the ability to have pure and wholesome love. This is as explained by Bo Tien 武天 .
They strive to be like the Buddha, Jesus and Ji Gong 济公in cultivation of wholesome love and like the pure ones, they have to move away from the establishments and appear to do the unthinkable to the many in establishments.
It is not that they love religion less but that they love religions even more. They will invariably ruffle feathers in the process as many will misunderstand them.
