The ancient elders concern with religion

No 1684 of Living Life Series 1  




The sages of ancient China and Asia knew too well that most people are not ready for religious doctrine however simple it may be. 

Real religious practice is for the few who are ready and more into true spiritually. In fact Bo Tien 武天 says the need to be honest, humble and pure at heart is all that is needed in any religion. 

But many men being who they are will not find this inspiring and rousing. If they are just content with devotion and just pray for blessings, there will be no problems. But the moment they get into organised religion, they want to sell their beliefs and ways to others. They want to show they know better. 

Just telling others to be good and honest will not help. They simply want to win more to their side and join them in organised religion. So, they tend to say that to be good is not enough. Others have to give up whatever religious practices they are doing and join them instead. 

Thus religions become enclaves and may cause divides. Religions are meant to reach out to more so that more will want to be good. 

But in the name of religion, the most unbecoming nature of men may be encouraged and what good can this be for the wider good of the world? 

God is aware and if God tells the errant ones that they are wrong, such people may think it is the devil talking to them. Thus the only way is for God to send the likes of Bo Tien 武天 to this world to correct this. 

There is need to bring forth to the fore the need to be good pure and honest at heart. This truth is relegated by many to the backyard and must be returned to the front yard of religions. 

We can say that this Inner Truth must be made known once again so that more in religions will want to go for the goodness and purity of heart and have the view that all religions are one in need for goodness. 

All need to be more good in whatever religion and culture they are in - to be better than what they are.

Why mission by Bo Tien 武天 even with religions?

No 1683 of Living Life Series 1 




When man speaks for God, man makes a man out of God. That is why some in religion say that their God cannot be the God others have in their religions. 

Well would not this make a mess of who is God and what religions are there for? 

Likewise when man speaks for Bo Tien  武天, man makes a man out of the heavenly saint and Bo Tien  武天 will appear as weak and as fallible as any man. 

Well, would this not make a mess of who Bo Tien  武天 is and what he stands for? 

This is exactly why there are those who have lost touch with the need to be humble, pure at heart and to be good not only to themselves but for others as well. 

This is the reason why God sends Bo Tien  武天 to bring the awareness of the inner truth of goodness that all religions started with and that is what God and Divinity stand for. 

The mission is to bring awareness of this Inner Truth to all regardless of religion, sect or culture. 

There is the growing trend for men to lose touch with the goodness at heart that should be the prime focus for insight cultivation of moment to moment mindfulness. 

This trend must be checked for the good of the many and out of compassion for all beings.

Keep hearts lighted with pure goodness

No 1682 of Living Life Series 1 




Let there be light and there will be light. In fact, there is the light we can nurture in everyone of us. 

This is the light of understanding of the need for goodness and purity that is in life and in all religions. 

The light of the Sun will set by night and come on in the day. But the divine light in the heart of a man if nurtured will shine by day and by night. 

Bo Tien 武天 says that the oil lamp in the temple represents the light everyone must nurture. The light will shine up life and let the person and others around to see the way in life amid the storms and calm seas of life. 

A collection of people with the light of the true goodness of heart will better light up the lives of many more to see the light. 

Let us be good and pure at heart and together like the amassing of candle lights, we will shine through the darkness in the hearts of more men for them to have in their hearts the light of the basic goodness all religions started off with. 

It is not who we adore but what they God and heavenly saints stand for that matters. This is the goodness of the heart that is the Inner Truth message Bo Tien 武天 stresses on. 

Such cultivation yields more inner peace. Keep hearts lighted with pure goodness. This is the common ground of all religions and cultures.

God is the same though people are not

No 1681 of Living Life Series 1 




No selected or chosen ones for a heavenly saint. For Bo Tien 武天, there is not even a selected religion or culture. 

But he did descend in 1969 to a Chinese traditional set up and in a Chinese who was a born Catholic but far from religious. 

Would we consider Chinese culture as the chosen religion or culture of Bo Tien 武天? 

Far from it as the people who gathered round Bo Tien 武天 in old days spoke English and were not into culture or Chinese literature. 

Would God also not go for chosen ones or race? Would God favor any religion or sect? 

God would not but some men who insisted that God did ended up causing divides in the very name of God. They even have special name for God and make it to appear that God is of their race and culture. 

God is one but people are many. The God one place talks about cannot be different from God mentioned in other places. God is one but places, religions and cultures are many. 

God is the same though people are not. So there is no selected or chosen people or religion.

Men never good enough for mission by men

No 1680 of Living Life Series 1 




Bo Tien 武天 predicted that the day will come when the very people who are supposed to believe in him will think he is not real but the making of the man he made use of to descend to the world in 1969. Thus the mission he set out to do will not take off if he is to depend on men. 

But he did say no man is ready for his mission  to awaken the Inner Truth that many have failed to see in the religions of the day. There is the basic goodness that all religions started with but many men being not good enough will not see that. 

Instead they may even think that Bo Tien 武天 is not real but the concoction of the man whom he had to use to start off the mission. Why then did he not choose more suitable persons? Well, men being men will think they know better and there will be no difference. 

Bo Tien 武天 adds that it is necessary to make men realise that man is man and heavenly saint is heavenly saint. If man is blind to that and see the saint in man and the man in saint, then this in itself is  good for all to learn and be better off from the learning. 

We will also understand why the Mission to show the Inner Truth of basic goodness behind all religions cannot depend on men but has to depend on Divinity. 

There will be misrepresentation of the mission if God is to depend on men to undertake it. That men never good enough is reason mission not by men.

Go, going, gone or give up and wait to be gone

No 1679 of Living Life Series 1 




Go going and gone. Doesn't this sound like what life is about? But do we not go and cease going and wait to be gone? 

That will be dying before we die. We should be alive to life. 

Time is precious and we must treasure and not waste time. 

How do we manage time? How do we manage life? We cannot let life manage us. We must manage life. 

To go on in life, we must progress and we must be sensible and not mess up life. We must keep our peace of mind so that we will not be out of mind. 

We have to be. Otherwise, what use is having more and more only to have less and less of the soul of life. 

We must move calmly and serenely amid the haste and fast pace of life. We should not be left behind. 

Instead we should leave behind the garbage of our wants and frustrations and not let this garbage bog us down. 

We must move on in life ever so light with no hang ups. Carry no burden. 

We have to be in one piece and maintain inner peace in the journey of life. 

This is the simple logic that is plain but yet not plain to those sucked into the whirlpool of the yin and yang of life. 

Bo Tien 武天 says he is not here to start something new or to show one culture or religion is better than the rest. Bo Tien 武天 is here to open our eyes to see what is plain in life. 

We need to have inner peace or end up in pieces. Inner peace is within reach of anyone and is achievable through any religion or even if none.

Seek the Inner Truth

No 1678 of Living Life Series 1

Bo Tien 武天 has told us the answers to life that we can find in all religions. 

Basically, religion must bring out the goodness out of men. 

If there is no goodness but only problems, then men must reflect on where they have gone wrong with the way they practice religion. 

Goodness should bring more inner peace. Inner peace means men will be more loving and less problem prone and less likely to be affected by problems. They will be more humble, honest and pure at heart. 

There is innate goodness that is in and behind all religions. 

This is the Inner Truth Bo Tien 武天 refers to. 

Let all be awakened to Inner Truth and go on to cultivate the inner peace.

The answers are in the questions

No 1677 of Living Life Series 1 




What is in a name? Is there the need for a name? 

Do we need a religion to seek guidance  of God? 

Are we godless if we belong not to any religion? 

Do we have to go to a temple with his name if we believe in Bo Tien 武天? 

Are we closer to Bo Tien 武天 if we go to a temple of Bo Tien? 

Are we barred from respecting the sages or saints of a religion if we do not belong to that religion? 

Are we wrong if we believe in all religions? 

Are we non religious if we believe in God and saints but believe not in any religion? 

Are we far from God if we do not go to a temple? 

Are we near to God if we go to a temple but know not what God stands for and discredit those who go other temples or do not go to temples? 

Do we just depend on God and not our own efforts in life?  

Do we hang on to divine grace and God will provide? 

Do we disown our family and friends if they do not believe in what we believe? 

Do we use our belief in God as excuse to go against the government of the day and cause more problems? 

Is religion meant to solve problems rather than create more problems? 

Can a religion justify and be reason for creating problems and fears in life? 

Bo Tien 武天 has told us the answers and the answers are in the questions. 

Learn from all to be better off in religion

No 1676 of Living Life Series 1. 




Welcome life and be at peace with all that come our way. Accept the choice parts as well as the not choice parts. 

Do not go for more than we can chew. Do not swallow without chewing. Be mindful of every part of life by chewing it and tasting it. This is mindfulness or awareness. Do not go for everything or get sick of life. 

These too we must do with religion. Life is religion. Be religious with life. Be insightful and in the know and not go and go. Good at times to enrich life by being aware of lives of others too. 

Likewise we be aware of other religions and accept what other religions say and do. Get a taste of other religions and add this into the life or religion we have. This is how to enrich the religion of our life. 

Bo Tien 武天 is all for you and me to learn from others and be enriched in life and in spirituality. He said that we can learn from one another and help one another in life. We will be richer and better in life and religion that way. 

Do learn from all religions to be better off in religion we are in. Learn from the strengths and the flaws of people in religions of the day. Stay tuned and be mindful from moment to moment. 

We may refer to this as meditative insight training essential for everyone regardless of religion or culture to be in the know and not go and go. 

We need to go about life with eyes open. We need to be wise. 

Learn from all and not hide away in a niche of our own life. Do not stay secluded in our own religious niche but be open to the teachings of all religions to add value to the religion or culture we have.

Religion promotes truth and not greed

No 1675 of Living Life Series 1. 




Never get carried away by religion. Religion should make us more grounded to life. If we find only joy in our thoughts and not joy in actual life, this is evidence that we are carried away by religion. 

Never be carried away that we will strike the first prize lottery draw and started deciding how we can use the money. 

Religion often tempts men with fantasies which appear real in the minds of believers. Everyone is promised and assured of getting what they want in religion. This is too good to be true and the best part is that they do nothing but just believe, ask and be given. 

Our ancestors too ask to get the luck of the draw in first prize lottery when they pray to God and heavenly saints at a temple. 

But blame not religion for this. Men want the paradise and the best. Who would not want the best? Religion just have to rise to meet the greed of men. 

This is not the making of God but the making of men who will not go to religion unless they can get what they want. Well, if everyone can get the jackpot, who will in their right mind not go for it? 

Why must religion capitalise on the greed and weakness of men? This as said is not the fault of God but the fault of men. 

Men are attracted to religion like insects to a flower for nectar, only to cause the flower to wither. Bo Tien 武天 says that many just follow this trend and flow downstream with the trend. 

But to the discerning few, they go against the current and go upstream to the upper source for clear water. They work for what they want and not expect freebies. They are not driven by greed but are level headed. They stay calm at heart and not easily given to temptation of the ego. 

They cultivate what Bo Tien 武天 refers to as the inner peace which promotes insight. 

Be insightful with religion. Do not let greed be the driver of life. Let inner peace be the driver and you will better know where to go and how to go. You will have the simple logic of how to be good. This Bo Tien 武天  says is the Inner Truth in all religions.