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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.

Saturday, May 5, 2012

Be pure and free if you want peace

Learning Point No  93


For more, go to A second look at Vesak. Be pure. Don't go for all or for broke...





Lord Buddha once corrected a monk for wasting his time in aquiring the ability to walk on water and not on practice of purity as only the latter could lead one to enlightenment. One could after all cross a river by boat or by bridge..

Lord Buddha stressed on need to purify the mind off all defilements and to cultivate more moment-to-moment mindfulness and peacefulness. This path of purity (not path of supernatural prowess) is the only road to purity. Supernatural prowess may even cause more clinging and defilements of the mind. Richness in worldly wealth and awesome supernatural prowess may be the very reasons for more clinging and defilements. The way to true peace of enlightenment is just to do good, avoid evil and purify the mind but many think wrongly that if they have supernatural powers, they have already arrived and get carried away.




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