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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, December 30, 2017

Is the respect for elders less than before?

No 1671 of Living Life Series 1. 




Religion is for the living young while they are still alive. This is obvious and the oldies and the dead no longer have the limelight in religion. But in Asian traditions of old, they were given limelight. 

But with the excuse that there should be no other God, the trendy young have conveniently downgraded the respect for elders. There is no qualms at all in using God as the excuse to sideline the elderly and the dead to near oblivion. 

How can respect for elders be less of a divine instruction of God? Bo Tien 武天 has all along uphold this respect for parents and elders. 

But this respect has also lost ground in those who were co-opted to do his mission to revive the emphasis on goodness and purity in all religions. 

The elders in many a religion or temple who brought in the young are increasingly being sidelined and even sort of disowned. Why is there this trend? 

If there is less respect for elders, then will there be less respect for those in other religions? For now, it seems there is no such problem at all. There is still enough level headedness and rationality. 

God sends Bo Tien 武天 to check the trends and return religions to their original goodness and purity. This is the mission to return religions to the original pristine true goodness. 

Bo Tien 武天 refers to this as the Inner Truth as it is less obvious at the front of religions but somewhat relegated more to the rear.