No 1434 of Living Life Series 1
Please don't ever think others are wrong even if they are wrong. How right can we be and that is something we should be mindful off.
If we are mindful, we know we cannot be right enough. We are often wrong.
Without this attitude of the mind, there will be no progress in life. Without this, science will never progress and scientists will never challenge accepted norms and make new discoveries.
We must be able to accept that others and their views no matter how far fetched to us can still be in some ways right even if we think they are wrong.
We too can be somewhat wrong even if we think we are right.
With this in mind, we must learn from life. from our own lives and thinking and from the lives and thinking of other men.
This is more so in religion. This is the advice of Bo Tien 武 天 and we must reflect on this.
Reflection brings on more awareness and a sharper mind to see things as they are. This is the essence of meditation. This is in life and in all religions.
To develop this clarity of the mind, we need to have inner peace through reflection. Only when we are calm and at peace can we be more aware and think clearly.
We will not jump into hasty and badly thought out conclusions. Religious people who have not the wee bit of inner peace tend to be hasty, jumpy and pass judgement on others beliefs and practices.
The ego that they know best gets the better of them and they take it upon themselves to do what they think God should do? As echoed by Bo Tien 武 天, they forget that God is God and man is man.
Who do they think they are to think they are spiritually better off and others are lost to God and saints? There will obviously be hardly any iota of inner peace in them.
Religion can be its own undoing if there is no inner peace in adherents. Without inner peace culture, religion can be its own undoing.
Inner peace comes from grasp of the inner truth for the need for intrinsic goodness in life. This goodness is in all religions.
The truth in life is that there is the ups and downs, the upside down and the right side up. But what matters is to be atop and balance these which the ancestors of old in China refer to as the yin and yang. Then there will be inner peace.
Religions ideally are never meant to be yin or yang, or more yin and less yang or even more yang and less yin. Religions are meant to be the balance of yin and yang for there to be inner peace for one and all.
Religions are starting points which may differ but the end point is the same - inner peace through balance and being atop life.
Then there is more peace and heaven on Earth here and now. No need to wait for the afterlife.
No need to hold on to promise by anyone who bargains with you to believe and it is yours not now but in the afterlife. No need for such salesman gimmicks.
Without inner peace culture, religion can be its own undoing. Bo Tien 武 天 sets out to enable men to realise and grasp the inner truth to have inner peace though whatever religion they are in. Then they will be better than what they are in their respective religion.
If we are mindful, we know we cannot be right enough. We are often wrong.
Without this attitude of the mind, there will be no progress in life. Without this, science will never progress and scientists will never challenge accepted norms and make new discoveries.
We must be able to accept that others and their views no matter how far fetched to us can still be in some ways right even if we think they are wrong.
We too can be somewhat wrong even if we think we are right.
With this in mind, we must learn from life. from our own lives and thinking and from the lives and thinking of other men.
This is more so in religion. This is the advice of Bo Tien 武 天 and we must reflect on this.
Reflection brings on more awareness and a sharper mind to see things as they are. This is the essence of meditation. This is in life and in all religions.
To develop this clarity of the mind, we need to have inner peace through reflection. Only when we are calm and at peace can we be more aware and think clearly.
We will not jump into hasty and badly thought out conclusions. Religious people who have not the wee bit of inner peace tend to be hasty, jumpy and pass judgement on others beliefs and practices.
The ego that they know best gets the better of them and they take it upon themselves to do what they think God should do? As echoed by Bo Tien 武 天, they forget that God is God and man is man.
Who do they think they are to think they are spiritually better off and others are lost to God and saints? There will obviously be hardly any iota of inner peace in them.
Religion can be its own undoing if there is no inner peace in adherents. Without inner peace culture, religion can be its own undoing.
Inner peace comes from grasp of the inner truth for the need for intrinsic goodness in life. This goodness is in all religions.
The truth in life is that there is the ups and downs, the upside down and the right side up. But what matters is to be atop and balance these which the ancestors of old in China refer to as the yin and yang. Then there will be inner peace.
Religions ideally are never meant to be yin or yang, or more yin and less yang or even more yang and less yin. Religions are meant to be the balance of yin and yang for there to be inner peace for one and all.
Religions are starting points which may differ but the end point is the same - inner peace through balance and being atop life.
Then there is more peace and heaven on Earth here and now. No need to wait for the afterlife.
No need to hold on to promise by anyone who bargains with you to believe and it is yours not now but in the afterlife. No need for such salesman gimmicks.
Without inner peace culture, religion can be its own undoing. Bo Tien 武 天 sets out to enable men to realise and grasp the inner truth to have inner peace though whatever religion they are in. Then they will be better than what they are in their respective religion.
