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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!.

Friday, June 9, 2017

Life and learning in the same world temple we share

No 1446 of Living Life Series 1



We are in the world. The world is under Heaven. The sky is the roof of the world. Heaven with God is the roof. All are in this big house of God. The world is one big house or temple. 

Is there the need to say your temple your temple is not my temple. Your religion is not my religion. 

The true religion is life. The world is one big holy place. Life is the true religion. Life is the holy text. The world is a holy place. Time is the gift. How we make use of the gift to make life meaningful and rewarding is up to us. 

We should not desecrate the world temple, the holy text of life and the gift of time by thinking, speaking and doing unworthy things. This will be great mistakes on our part. 

We should not take life for granted. Time is so limited. We must not waste time away. 

But do not be carried away. We often even forget we must rest. Resting is not a waste. We need to recharge by resting. 

Rest is more worthy than thinking, speaking and doing hurtful things which will desecrate the world - the common house of God for all. 

Many waste time (the divine gift) but want to have chance to live longer but they have not much time left. So the lesson and remedy is this. 

Do what we can and be fruitful in doing good. Give peace to oneself and have peace to share with others. Make progress and work and contribute to the world in our own small ways. 

Do not try to put on shoes that are too big for us. Be modest and let others do their parts as well. What we cannot do, others can do. That would be wonderful. Rejoice for them and with them. Learn from them in whatever way we can. 

We cannot be them. They too cannot be us and may not be able to do what we can do. We can cooperate with them. But do not ape or want others to ape us. 

Often, it is best we do what we do best. No need to ape or be aped. This is best. 

We do our part. Others too as well. Together we can do more even if we act not in concert. This is still alright. 

Do not look down on ourselves and feel so let down. Have no guilt for self. This is worse than looking down on others. 

We are in the same one world temple. Many up there, down there and out there are waiting to come to this world temple. 

So when we are among the limited many who are here, we treasure who we are and what we have. Time is short and fast. Time is precious. We don't have time for all the good we want to do. 

We cannot waste time by overdoing and getting tired. Then we treasure not life. Rest is more worthy than overdoing and be tired. We rest so that we can focus on the more worthy issues when awake. 

We need to start to live better, to continue to live better and to have the best at the end of life. We need inner peace in life. 

This is the worthiest of the worthy. All others do not last and do not follow us around. We need only the basic to have all the rest. Without the basic, what we have or can have is of no value. 

Inner peace is what we need to be happy here, now and for eternity. We are in the world temple and this is the best place to pick up and grow the inner peace. 

We are in the holiest place. We are in the world. 

We need to recharge the spirit. We need to rest by night so as to be at peace in the day. We need to be at peace in the day so that we can really rest by night. Without rest, there is no inner peace. Without inner peace, there is no rest. Rest and inner peace go hand in hand. 

Even God needs rest and he has the perfect inner peace. We too need rest for the far from perfect inner peace we have or can have for now. 

It is simply lucky that we are in the world - the universal temple for all regardless of religion, culture and nation. So do our best but do not over do and forget to have rest. 

The above sums up what Bo Tien 武 天 wants to share with us, whatever the religion, race, culture or nation we may be in or have.