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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, August 2, 2012

Let us cultivate the peace of the saints

Learning Point No 112








Even Gautama Buddha the perfect one is not spared from the ills of the flesh. He had diarrhea from contaminated food and had to lie down on one side to pass on to final bliss.

Jesus the son of God and the King of the Jews had to suffer the indignity of being crucified on the cross.

But one thing that stands out was that they were at peace. How many of us could be at peace at our final moment?

We can only do so if we have cultivated the peace of spirit in our routine day-to-day life.

We have to still the mind from bad habits of dis-ease, ill will, attachment and false views.

How often we sulk when someone irritates us or if others are more better than us? How often do we live with the thinking that sickness can affect others and not us, that others can die and death will not knock at our doors?

Cultivate the peace of the saints by stilling the mind. We need to have mindfulness and to be exact moment-to-moment mindfulness.

There are many ways. One way is to call upon the saints and sing incantations to invite them to be in our spirit whilst we go about our moment to moment life.

Then there will be less space in our minds for bad habits and thoughts. Chinese Buddhists do recite or sing repeatedly and habitually "Namo Omitofo".

But you can choose any others to still and purify the mind from being defiled by bad mental habits.

We can put on a good exterior but our mind are full of unpleasant thoughts which we must minimise but not feel guilty for them.

Guilt is itself an unpleasant thought being ill thinking of oneself for one's misdemeanors or transgressions.

Jesus had no unpleasant thoughts on the cross and Buddha was a picture of peace even though he had diarrhea at time of passing on to final bliss.










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