Living Life Series 2: Blessings can turn ugly

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.

Sunday, September 16, 2012

Blessings can turn ugly

Learning Point No 178
Extract from Life and Blessings - The Inner Truth Way

There are many of us brethren who are upset by disappointments even when we have blessings coming our way. Often we will be happy with a new job, a promotion in our job or doing well in an examination. But when we examine or get used to the blessing, we become unhappy.

We asked why we made certain mistakes in a test or examination and why we cannot be better. We asked why we could not have as many a promotion in our job as some others and the promotion which was actually a blessing was regarded as something to be depressed about. We become sad when the blessing we have could have been better.

Lord Bo Tien has reminded us that in life we can have blessings or happiness but they are like the flower. The flower is beautiful as a whole but when we examine the flower in parts, we may not admire it as much and may even find the parts ugly. Life blessings are like that. When we do not have them we want them. When we have them, we soon find them wanting. Worldly blessings are like the flower, beautiful to behold as a whole but not so when examined and taken apart.

We can be disappointed with blessings however beautiful they may be in the beginning. This is the irony of worldly blessings. Blessings can turn ugly. The problem is not so much in the blessings but in our approach to life. Do we have the insight into the truth of life? Have we learnt from the lessons of life?

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NOTEWORTHY INFORMATION

A number of the pointers given by Lord Bo Tien in his messages were somehow edited out in the year 2000 publication LORD BO TIEN'S GUIDANCE as they were deemed inappropriate, either deemed not correct or not unnderstandable because the grasp and understanding years ago were lacking. Thank Heaven that the historical versions were saved by the late Senior Brother Chong Sim in his draft book My Interpretation of LORD BO TIEN MESSAGES. He obtained nine years of the messages from Brother Peter Kong. Brother Peter Kong had done a great meritorious deed in handling the historical translated scripts of the messages to Chong Sim. The historical versions can be read at Bo Tien Temple Outreach at http://www.livinglifeseries5.blogspot.com/

Dated this 9th December 2012