No 1499 of Living Life Series 1
Let us meditate on this. When our phone hangs or works slow, we delete all unwanted pics, files & data. In the same way, when our life hangs or slows down, let us delete unwanted memories and experiences of our life and get some extra space to focus on correct living... Life is short. Let's live it to the correct way.
Likewise, when the mission of Bo Tien 武天 does not seem to make any headway in terms of doctrine and is headed in the wrong way and worse still even detracting from the devotional and welfare activities, what must be done? We must delete the egos of men so that no man makes use of the mission to promote his own ego and standing in the eyes of other men.
That is why the saint Bo Tien 武天 says that in his mission to promote the goodness basic to all religions, a religious leader is his choice and not the choice of men. even if the appointee has poor habits for if the saint so decides, he can choose to train even a criminal to lead. But of course, there will be strong points in such an appointee. There will be the yin and yang in such appointee.
When it comes to choice of men, sometimes and very strangely, the choice can be from the very one who wants to promote himself as the director and the rest just toe his line.
Then mission of doctrine of promoting the good in all religions will never be. Even there is little of the mission of devotion and charity but the personal mission by a man or two to further his or their own standing in society which is his or their individual ego.
In the early years of the mission, senior brother Philip and Elder Ling were the choices of Bo Tien 武天 - not the choice of man, be the man - be the man himself or other men.
We can see this in the world. They make themselves idolised by other men when men are not even supposed to idolise God.
When traditional Chinese culture makes sculptures out of God or saint, they frown at this as unbecoming. But it is worse to make other men idolise and sing praises of the man who chose himself to lead the flock through sheer charisma and wit.
We should delete such practices from the RAM of ongoing religion. The choice of God and not man must run the RAM of religion.
