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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.

Friday, August 17, 2012

The wise go neither for nothing nor everything but for peace

Learning Point No 126






There is one thing we have to know for sure. We came alone and we will leave alone.

The more we want to have, the more we have to work for them. What we do in past lives will determine what we can have in present. How we can have them and even more is up to us.

But the more we have, the more we need to give up in the end. Everything is up to us to work for but in the end, we have to learn to give up. Isn't this the truth of life? 

We must be comfortable for what we can have and what we will have to give up in the end. If not, going for what we can have, will be a pain for sure, and unwinding from what we have too will be a pain as well.

Everything is nothing and nothing is everything. This is painful, nonsensical and rubbish talk to many but a comforting and awakening thought to the wise.

The wise are not living under illusions. The wise neither go for nothing nor go for everything. The wise go for the peace in life in every situation and are not affected by all life events, exigencies and contingencies.

A wise man is like the lotus standing out amidst the mud and swirl around. The wise go neither for nothing nor everything but for peace amidst the unease of emptiness and plenty.

Even a temple of the lord saint  Lord Bo Tien is not spared from duality of emptiness and plenty but a temple of the lord must be whole and divine in peace amidst emptiness and plenty.

Do not judge an individual or temple by appearance and worldly endowments but by the abiding divine peace the individual or temple holds for you.

The individual or temple must be like a candle to light up your lives.  A collection of such persons or temples would do even better like a collection of candles. Lord Bo Tien reminds us on these perspectives with the 1975 mission day sermon. Lord Bo Tien's 1975 Anniversary Message





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