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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!.

Saturday, November 11, 2017

One Inner Truth but Four Pillar Reality of many religions

No 1549 of Living Life Series 1 
The world is made of many nations but what makes the world tick as one is when the world is one without borders and barriers. 

The world would share the goodness of being one though made of different nations, races and cultures. 

In religion, this is even more true. The world can never be of only one religion but the world will ever be of many religions. 

Even in any one religion, people will not agree and there will be divides and sects. But this reality should not give rise to dominance and conflicts. All must agree to disagree and to respect one another for the differences. 

Bo Tien 武天 went further to add that we must all know that the same goodness is in all religions but how to deliver any religion to attract various types of people, cultures and context of society is another issue. There is need for presenting religion in many ways -in plethora of diversity.

There is of course need for sects and schools even within a religion. But this should not blind all regardless of religion, race, culture or nation to the oneness in goodness in religions and the sects of each religion. 

 Goodness is there in any religion, sect or culture. This Bo Tien 武天 refers to as the Inner Truth, and the diversity of religions as the Four Pillar reality we need to accept - four need not refer to four religions but to beliefs of various peoples in the four cardinal directions. 
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