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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, September 22, 2012

Spiritual man, temple or religion can backslide

Learning Point No 196
Extract from Inner Truth Practice Perspectives







"A situation may arise when complacency sets in. The individual may be carried away by his worldly prowress due to his spiritual blessings.. He then focus on the worldly. He has less focus and time for personal spiritual cultivation. He back slides and becomes weaker spiritually without even being aware. He is then not as good in effecting the pristine spiritual principles and as a result, his worldly life becomes complex, messy and problematic. He has less time for himself. He has no peaceful and easy life. There is lack of insightfulness and he gets carried way by the worldly contingencies, the yin and yang. He got entangled in the cobweb of worldly life. He is controlled by life and not in control - not at peace."

A temple too can suffer the same fate. The pioneers toil to build a temple. The second and third generations take over. A few will clamour for control to get worldly fame, and they make it difficult for others to share in the pie. This is due to lack of spiritual focus which takes back seat to give way to worldly focus.

That is why religions can lose focus with time and that is the very reason that requires the Jade Emperor to send Lord Bo Tien to rectify the problem.

But the temple in his name too may suffer the same plight but the lord saint like a building contractor will persist in his mission by having new workers. If one generation or two cannot succeed, subsequent generations may be inducted till success is in sight. Heaven will not give up though man may do so.

The concrete building  of a temple is not the sign of success but it is the calibre of the people that makes up the temple that counts. A temple is the people and not a concrete building however majestic it may be.

If there is no quality in the people, a temple building is no better than a paper house chinese culturalists  burn as offering for their departed ones. Of what use is a paper house offering to those who burn it as offering?

Of what use is a concrete building to the lord saint if the men in the building only have heart for worldly matters and personal agenda? Sadly, the building no longer serves as a temple but a community centre for socio political agenda.


 
 

 

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