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The Living Life Series is dedicated to Lord (武天) Bo Tien. 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 affliliation 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. 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.

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Doctrine (and image) if not valued will be lifted back to Heaven and go to 49 successful temples

Learning Point No 101

 Extract from  Self-righteousness is good but not good enough and can be detrimental...




"The doctrine is in the image.
Doctrine (and image) if not valued
will be lifted back to Heaven
and go to 49 successful temples
where it will be valued."
Lord Bo Tien said



Other than for the initial phase, direct guidance in a temple by the temple's patron saint will not be necessary as the doctrine would have been passed down. The members should know that the doctrine is the saint and knowing the doctrine is knowing the saint. Not being in tune with the doctrine and not being guided by doctrine will place the temple on the wrong direction. The temple will no longer be as mission orientated. The image  of the saint will be lifted to Heaven, that is, the doctrine if not valued will have to return to Heaven. The ignorant in that temple may even burn the image of their patron saint thinking that  they want to replace the image. Do note however that the doctrine will go elsewhere even to 49 successful temples or say up north to where it is valued so that the mission of that saint could move on unimpeded.






Sunday, May 13, 2012

Why Mission is of Heaven and not of men?

Learning Point No 100




Do pause and reflect why the lord saint said that the mission he is carrying out for God is not the mission of men but the Mission of Heaven. Men is not able to do what Heaven and saints can do. The agenda of mundane life can blind men to the mission proper. Men should not make the decision even if it is a majority opinion for the wise with foresight and insight are few and scarce. The mission needs only to depend on Heaven and on one or two good men but must benefit all men more so those lagging behind and those who know not what they do or would regrettably do what Heaven would not do.




Saturday, May 12, 2012

INDEX OF POSTS FOR SERIES 2


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  • Nothing new but better insight
  • God Knowledge
  • Universal Prayer
  • The Inner Truth behind religions
  • Change in orientation over time for every religion...
  • Mission to lead by example for others to follow
  • Religions are the same though different
  • The House of God for all
  • Religions in overall Divine Plan of God
  • Mission of Heaven
  • Rebirth is the will of God
  • Believe in all saints
  • The Five Respect
  • The Three Sitiawan Pointers
  • The challenges of a new temple
  • On prayers, life and fate
  • Three Baptism and Three Success Phases
  • A fellow brethren can be the answer to your prayer...
  • Learn from the gospel of life
  • Good work is not enough
  • Do not judge others
  • The best gift
  • The way to immortality
  • The Ideals and The Doctrine
  • Seeing through life
  • Know the work of man from that of saint
  • Respect the laws of the land not just the laws of God...
  • Goodness is beyond wealth
  • The Way, the Truth and the Light
  • Mission is beyond welfare, help and care
  • The taste of deliverance
  • Money in bank, Man in Heaven 钱在银行,人在天堂
  • Religions are different but complementary like sunshine and water...
  • Fear of God is not what God expects
  • Know the saint from man and man from saint
  • Seeing dust in others' eyes
  • Wholesome for diverse opinions
  • No one is regarded as a rotten apple
  • Way to inner peace is simple yet elusive
  • The three eternal gifts of wisdom from Bro. Philip...
  • The Divine Advice
  • Consensus and cooperation
  • Cultivate the spiritual light
  • Man may fail Heaven but Heaven will not fail man
  • Men can wait but Heaven cannot. Men can serve but not lead ...
  • Be rich in spirit
  • The many issues of men
  • The doctrine will appeal more to followers of all faiths...
  • Temple of man or saint?
  • The direction of the mission
  • Yin yang optimisation for better fate
  • Love the way to go but what if....
  • All are God worthy
  • Rich in tolerance, rich in fortune 大量,大福, da liang, da fu...
  • The problems of man
  • Respect elders and pioneers
  • Temple matters we need to know
  • Be seated with the lord in Heaven
  • Love for life
  • The peace of life
  • Ji Gong on issues in life
  • Spiritual values good for both worldly and spiritual life...
  • Ji Gong epitomises spiritual vision and purity
  • On handling conflicts
  • Leadership in a religious organisation
  • Benevolence is integral to Tao
  • Temple must welcome all
  • To know or not to know
  • Religion should stay out of the politics of men
  • The first temple and the first 'gods'
  • The saint is not man and man is not saint
  • The lord saint on the mission
  • The fraternity in any temple cannot be exclusive
  • No one group can go it alone be it for a temple or for religion...
  • Let there be the gift of forgiveness
  • The parting direction....
  • The need for religious body in a mission of the lord...
  • Folly to delegate oldies to honorary roll and put them aside with no say and no roles ...
  • The signs of bad days ahead for a religious organisation...
  • The wayward is welcome to a temple but a man of God is often no saint in his life time  ...
  • Do not be caught in religious paradox
  • Mission to save souls is beyond charity
  • Doing good alone is not enough
  • Yin yang harmony in life
  • Be not ruffled by the colorful lives of those in a temple or church...
  • If only you know
  • Let the mind be quiet
  • More to it than meet the eye
  • The stages of sainthood or purity
  • Advice to love ones
  • Life and people may change but the truth of life will not...
  • No mission, then no temple and no religion
  • Be pure and free if you want peace
  • The decision of a man you may question with care at times but not that of a saint...
  • Purity is the way
  • God in him and in us
  • Let your heart be in God more than in men if you want peace...
  • Why not here and now?
  • No 'idolatory' please
  • Why Mission is of Heaven and not of men?
  • Doctrine (and image) if not valued will be lifted back to Heaven and go to 49 successful temples ...
  • Worship God and not man
  • The laws of Man and the laws of God must go hand in hand...
  • Give God your heart, and not your money
  • Serving wealth or God
  • Man is man and God is God. 
  • God unlike many men does not need praise
  •  A Godly reminder
  • The human obstacle in a temple or church
  • No God in man or man in God
  • Heed the divine call
  • Let us cultivate the peace of the saints
  • Less can be more and more can be less.
  • Do not end up worshipping the devil in man in a religious organisation. 
  • Be like God and saints and not just like them.
  • Do not belittle God
  • Do not end up in the church or temple of man 
  • Be at rest and that will be best
  • The mission is beyond concrete building and charity..
  • Men and not God and saints need our money
  • Completeness and emptiness are vexations in life
  • A little perfection amidst imperfection makes the difference.
  • Who say that demon cannot be present in a temple or church...
  • Life is like the Journey to The West
  • God and saints are not judgemental.
  • The wise go neither for nothing nor everything but peace...
  • Love others the way God and saints love us
  • You are not wrong if you find a temple or church is not for you...
  • Let us appreciate and learn from Ji Gong
  • To each his own
  • Do try to be a buddha in life
  • Affinity (缘分 yuan fen) is a factor in life
  • God has not changed but man has.
  • Know more by knowing Ji Gong
  • Fault not Heaven for the faults of leaders in a church...
  •  The divine assurance
  • Amen - so be it
  • Do not be gullible or risk being abused
  • Just be your better self and not act like a saint...
  • God knows and will
  • Take it off-line and move on
  • Truth by any name or form is just as sweet
  • The truth is and yet is not in the written word
  • Are you fortunate or unfortunate?
  • No to the animal in men. No pack behaviour please 
  • No human master please. We want to be with the saints...
  • Temple and mission defined
  • Heaven opens doors to all
  • Multiplier effect of good work put in by pioneers
  • Worldly blessings are like the flower
  • The way to enrich the spirit applies to sentient life but not vice versa...
  • Oneness with diversity and not in partisan uniformity...
  • Animal pack characteristic also seen in men
  • Is the lack of grasp of truth a concern?
  • Oneness of heart
  • On demons and saints
  • Don't be rich and yet poor
  • A temple will not go astray for long
  • A temple attracts even the worst
  • Ultimate welfare is beyond charity
  • Hardship is the way to success
  • Let a temple be complete like the flower
  • What is the mission of Lord Bo Tien?
  • The purpose of Lord Bo Tien
  • Chong Sim's parting message
  • Respect elders to keep a temple or family whole
  • Religions make up the flower of Divinity
  • Yin Yang balance in life 
  • Life is about learning and unlearning 
  • No need for control and manipulation
  • Don't be carried away by the Utopian dream
  • Prodigal son has his place in the sun
  • To endear or to fear?
  • The issue that matters most in any temple  
  • More than just one path to divinity
  • God and the genesis of life and religions...
  • Blessings can turn ugly
  • More to love that we should know
  • Yin yang combination in a temple
  • Go for truth with a pure heart
  • The little things in life
  • The mission and the building contractor
  • Truth truly is simple but difficult to perceive 
  • Peace amidst differences
  • Are you dead to life?
  • Be well rooted to weather the storms of life
  • Go for the upper stream
  • Be like a saint
  • The malady that may beset many a temple or church
  • The three beliefs
  • Worldly life can go with spiritual life
  • The jist of the Four Pillar Doctrine 
  • Mission History 
  • Context of worldly success in spiritual life
  • Spiritual man, temple or religion can backslide
  • The demise of a temple can also be good
  • Embrace doctrine wholeheartedly
  • A temple is also for the non-spiritual
  • The ship of life and temple
  • Let hearts beat as one even if not of one mind
  • Going to God for gain
  • Lord Bo Tien's parting advice in 1984
  • Lord Bo Tien's inaugural message (before 1974)
  • God's way of reaching out to the many
  • Focus on doctrine and practice
  • Purity of heart in the faithful few in a temple
  • Do not expect only the good even in a temple
  • Who sins?
  • Only some make it but doctrine is always for all
  • Solidly gelled as one like elements of pillar
  • Saint Mathew and Worship
  • All saints and religions are one and yet different...
  • Grasp of doctrine is the best worship
  • No to fear and guilt in spiritual cultivation?
  • Heaven here and now and not wait for afterlife
  • No freewheeling with freewill
  • Fear as a tool to coerce submission
  • Guilt and fear in life
  • Pride goes before a fall
  • The inner voice
  • The flower and the 2nd coming
  • Who is Lord Bo Tien?
  • Day for reckoning
  • Belief in a saint is in the Word
  • Do not wish the pain to go away 
  • The flower and insect paradox is no paradox 
  • To seek the inner truth
  • "I must not covet my neighbour’s wife"
  • The demise of a temple or mission is not a loss
  • The truth behind religions
  • Why not as wholesome ?
  • God is all love and that is the truth
  • Let the sun rise again even if it has to set
  • Life concepts from form to formless 
  • That a temple will not make it is to be expected
  • A temple of Lord Bo Tien 
  • Ji Gong's way of success
  • Paradoxical behaviour of many in a temple or church...
  • Two wrongs a temple or church should not have
  • The parts of a flower may not be beautiful
  • The meaning behind the name of Lord Bo Tien
  • The double three
  • Beyond the foundation years of the mission
  • It is God's will
  • The folly of man
  • Bo Tien mission-related temples
  • The lord saint and the gospel
  • The divine test a temple has to undergo
  • Living in doctrine better than mere worship
  • Life is unique for every being
  • Go for the source for the original teachings
  • Any Bo Tien temple will be misunderstood more so with time...
  • Yin Yang balance in life, in society and in a temple...
  • From yin yang in society to even more in a temple
  • The oil lamp and the image
  • Doctrine grasp over mere faith and belief
  • The divine resolve
  • The human shortcoming in a church or temple
  • Did the lord saint decree that his image be burnt if there is no doctrine mission? ...
  • Will newer people be better at the mission job?
  • Social agenda overriding doctrine focus will cause mission to falter...
  • The better of the lot too have erred and must wake up ...
  • What need you to care with regards to care? 
  • Do let God sense prevail.
  • When is a temple of man going to be temple of God?...   
  • Goodness must go in a circle 
  • The Divine Nectar is the Panacea of Life
  • The divine nectar is not just for the goody two shoes... 
  • Twilight glow or gloom is up to us. 
  • Men and not God and saints create religions  
  • Let there be peace within
  • Buddha in Hell for a purpose
  • Let there be no 'prophets' of doom and gloom
  • There are those who know a little and want to call the shots... 
  • Tao is best cultivated when you are man
  •  Mission hampered by lousy men?
  • Don't expect the world of a church or temple
  • No one can be expelled from the temple
  • No big deal in eating or not eating meat
  • Ji Gong and Fengshui
  • The double standards of some men in a temple or church
  • Knowing Kuanyin Posat
  • More to the image of Kuanyin
  • Kuanyin on who she is
  • Origin and meaning of Om Mani Padme Hum
  • Deliverance from suffering and harm
  • Yin yang aspects in salvation of souls
  • Do not make mountain out of molehill
  • The Tao (Way) of the spiritual wayfarer
  • Cultivate Tao now or wait till afterlife?
  • A leader must earn the respect of others
  • Ji Gong's fascination with crickets
  • The Sun Wu Kong in a temple
  • It is the heart that matters
  • Why Amitabha?
  • Do not bribe your way to God and saints
  • Bigots create hell for others and themselves
  • What a temple should not be
  • The Bo Tien Temple of the future
  • Go for the inner truth and not the practices
  • Go to the upper stream for clear water
  • Blame not God and Satan for our failings in life
  • Nothing is further from the truth and is that so?
  • The learning from cradle to grave and beyond
  • Why go for more when you can have more with less
  • The teaching and not the saint is what matters
  • Do not fear of being misunderstood
  • Why not Bo Tien Netizen instead of Living Life Series...
  • Never mind if not yet saint
  • Who needs man to reach God and saints?
  • Harvesting Godliness in the city
  • God and the many heavenly kingdoms
  • God is not dead to our life
  • God is not like man but man can be like God
  • Vesak Day Feature 2013
  • And the Doctrine is God
  • The inner peace of God in us
  • All are one in God
  • The Bagua Solution
  • Dalai Lama on Religion, Temple and Doctrine
  • Can we be selfish and yet wise?
  • Life is about love and love begins with self
  • Saints do not think like men
  • Know the Word and know God 
  • Dare to be different like the sages of old
  • Why newcomers seem to be better off?
  • In touch with God and saints the Bo Tien Way.
  • Men wrong in the eyes of the many may well be right...
  • Much ado over the fools and the wise 
  • Living up to the image of the lord saint.
  • Clueless and lost in the house of God
  • Others' beliefs promote insight on your own
  • Make or break more a choice than a destiny
  • Why bother?
  • Lord Bo Tien in God's grand plan
  • On life and death and what have you?
  • Know the basics and that will suffice
  • Learn from the failings of men of God
  • Men of religion must be more at peace
  • Peace above all else
  • Nothing is cast in stone.
  • No man is an island
  • There are things we better not know than know
  • Why has the father forsaken me?
  • Why must some men forsake a temple or church?
  • Do not take the law into your own hands
  • Nothing more than self interest it seems
  • Do not blame ego or self pride for everything
  • Your God is my God and my God is your God
  • The three phases of life, spiritual and mundane
  • God made in the image of Man ?
  • Easy to be wayward but not easy to be good.
  • A friend in Ji Gong
  • Thou shall not want
  • It is what we learnt and not what we gained that matters
  • Debt to God is not the debt that we know as debt
  • Indebted to a lord saint
  • The unspoken but well positioned design of God
  • The problem of money
  • Demystifying religion
  • The double whammy
  • The hopeless deadlost idealists
  • What exactly is God like?
  • Mission paradox or reality?
  • Conversion woes and wows
  • Are we worshiping Ego instead of God in a church?
  • Are we living up to God's will?
  • Why must followers of the same saint be divided into sects?...
  • Let us face facts. God is God, not man
  • More on the God Knowledge
  • Doctrine grows the light and liberates the spirit
  • The green green grass of home
  • God in the world of men
  • Knowing God by knowing the inner truth
  • In religion, all may be right and not wrong
  • How will Lord Bo Tien achieve His Mission?
  • The folly of men
  • Can we be more like God and saints ?
  • Respect for elders needs no reminder
  • Plea bargains with God may still be alright
  • The Yin Yang concept is central to mission and to life ...
  • Do not be like the wilting flower
  • Managing life fortunes to ensure more lasting peace
  • The Tao that is in all religions
  • Lord Bo Tien's Five Statements on His Mission
  • Cultivate the peace of God and saints
  • The advent of Maitreya
  • Be a winner and not a loser in life
  • Go for the Word and not the religion
  • The true temple is both out there and within 
  • Be resurrected to eternal peace 
  • The two prong approach for salvation
  • Recalling all that the lord saint said
  • What more from a temple dedicated to a saint?
  • God and saints are not dumb and puppets of men
  • Respect for elders is indispensable to any society or temple...
  • Religions differ but yet are one in basic doctrine
  • The wonders of some men in a temple 
  • More on The Tao (Way) for Peace
  • Do not expect much from men at a temple 
  • Review of the pivotal role of precepts
  • The man of God and saints 
  • Temples should be progressive and not regressive. 
  • Of monsters, pastor, temple head and more 
  • No human master or cult please 
  • The irony of some men in a temple or church 
  • Live life like the saints 
  • Be wary of the false prophets around us and in us 
  • Of all places, why in a house of God? 
  • The flower is a beauty as a whole but not in parts... 
  • Unraveling the myths of God and creation
  • Making it in the temple may often be difficult 
  • The best things in life are free 
  • The worst things in life may happen in a temple... 
  • What must we do when it is our turn?  
  • Men may wrong God but will God wrong men? 
  • If men can be more man, that alone will suffice... 
  • Reflections on The Forty Fifth Year of The Mission... 
  • Better for wolves to be in the temple than be in the wilderness... 
  • None of the odds can hinder a lord saint 
  • The Mission and the religion without borders in Chinese temples... 
  • The cell group culture is manifest of Tao
  • The 1984 prediction of Lord Bo Tien 
  • God and the boomerang effect
  • The mission goes on even if men are not ready 
  • Be more man and that would be good enough 
  • Money can create hell for religion