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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.

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Focus on doctrine and practice

Learning Point No 206






The 1978 anniversary message of Lord Bo Tien includes this. "What is lacking often is grounding in the doctrine in members of any temple or spiritual group. For any temple, good results will always be there for good efforts made but members are often lacking in grounding in doctrine. Because of this, many may come to a temple or religious premise with personal motives. Some have self interests, others to gain higher status in society but there are those who are not expecting any returns. It is important therefore to be strong in doctrine and its practice" Lord Bo Tien's 1978 Anniversary Message
 
We should go to temples and churches to learn the doctrine, make it the basis of our life and to purify our spirit. Our sole objective must be spiritual.

With spiritual drive, the worldly blessings will then be there to provide the congenial milieu or environment for divine inner peace which in turn fosters more ample mundane world for more inner peace.

Our objective should never be primarily our mundane worldly concerns with spiritual and Divine Doctrine of Inner Truth taking back seat.

Lord Bo Tien has said that the modus operandi that yields spiritual satisfaction will bear results too in mundane world.

But the ways for mundance world often will usually not be the ways for spiritual satisfaction that sages refer to as inner peace.




 


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