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The Living Life Series is dedicated to Lord Bo Tien (武天菩萨). The doctrine is in His image. The image is the doctrine. He who sees, understands and effects the doctrine sees and knows Him. He who does not see, know and effect the doctrine sees not and knows not the saint even if the saint or His image is beside him. The far may be near and the near may be far. Let the doctrine and the saint be part of our life. The lord saint in your life can be any heavenly saint of any religion, sect or school. The doctrine of truth is behind all and this is the Inner Truth that leads all (regardless of their religious affiliation or even if none) to inner peace and heaven on earth here and now and not just in the after life. The ideal worship and devotion is to know and effect the doctrine of God and the saints. The best gospel is the gospel of life. We learn from our life and the lives of others. The true temple is the world we live in. The sky is the roof of the temple and religions and sects are the pillars of the temple. All under Heaven are in the temple. Needless to say that all the saints we know are in this temple. Ji Gong Posat too is no exception. The whole wide world and web is the temple and must be regarded as a sacred place --- a temple for living and learning. It is more important that everyone that counts plays a role in this universal temple if due focus is to be given to the Mission of Heaven. Men must not be distracted by the agenda of men and end up serving the mission of man. That would be a far cry from the Mission of Heaven. We worship God and saints, not man however good that man may be. There should be no hero worshiping or idolizing of man whether he is a charismatic pastor, priest, monk, medium or lay leader. We don't even idol worship the image of any saint but reflect on what the image stands for. - the doctrine in the image. Omitofo 阿弥陀佛!.

Tuesday, May 2, 2017

Not the making of God but due to bad habits in men

No 1405 of Living Life Series 1



Bad habits do not add life to life and may even erode away life in life. They are why some fail or achieve less in life. They are carried over from past lives. 

The bad habit to do well to outshine others is never good though we say competition is good. Life should not be a rat race. 

But we should not idle away life and be forgotten by the world. We will end up with less life. 

What is needed is yin yang balance advocated by sages. This Bo Tien 武 天 reminds us - regardless of our religion or culture. 

Do set reasonable life goals and go for it. But be on top of life and not be saddled by and squashed by life. 

To reach this ideal we have to be pragmatic and not be idealistic and end up no better. 

Don't do nothing and be dependent on God and saints. Don't say that what we need is to believe and have faith. This some refer to as the belief in grace of God through saints. 

They say that saints in all religions suffer so that we may be saved and be blessed. They carry the cross of life for us so that we can get what we want without carrying the cross ourselves. 

We may end up getting crossed with life though we will not dare to think that belief in grace has failed us. We end up holding on to dear life what we regard as the grace of God or saints. 

When we do question the belief in grace of God or saints, there will ever be others who will threaten us and say we are misled by the devil. They think we are possessed and want to exorcise us. 

Isn't this too a bad habit of men in respect of religion? This bad habit makes us have less of life both in the worldly and spiritual world. 

We become bedeviled not by anyone but by our bad habit and ignorance. Bad habit waters away life and erodes down our potential in life, be it spiritual or otherwise.  

Bo Tien 武 天 says that in any religion or culture, there is the common teaching that we must learn from life, both our own and that of others. 

We do not have to even make mistakes and learn the hard way. By learning this way from life and more so from others' lives, we learn to eradicate our bad habits mirrored in others and we also pre-empt what would otherwise be our future bad habits or pitfalls. 

We do not need to carry on the mistakes we made in past life and we can ensure we do not end up having more bad habits and more mistakes. We do not need to learn the hard way. 

Why wait till we make mistakes through bad habits before we can wake up and learn? Some don't even want to learn and just wallow in misery they create due to bad habits. 

They question why God or a saint has forsaken them. They become so obsessed by this. They tell themselves that if God or saint has forsaken them what can they do. Who can undo what God or saint metes out? This seems to be the case for them. They just give up and accept their lot. Is this the wish of God or saint?