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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, October 19, 2012

Two wrongs a temple or church should not have

Learning Point 240







In Lord Bo Tien's 1977 Anniversary Message , the emissary of Lord Bo Tien said, "The temple is the people and organisation - not the building. It is henceforth a full fledged temple even if its physical building is a simple awning shed with four pillars. Members should show respect to God and Divinity by dedicating temple shrine (place where members gather in worship) wholly for praying and worship and nothing else"

In Lord Bo Tien's 1978 Anniversary Message, the lord saint remarked that the image was at the Temple throughout the 365 days. Yet His presence was not felt at all and many are oblivious of what the image stands for. This He said is due to members not being strongly rooted in doctrine. Doctrine has yet to color the daily life of members.
 
The temple of Lord Bo Tien is the people and not a concrete building. The people must have the doctrine and worship at heart.

Otherwise it is futile to have a temple and the shrine of the lord saint. Otherwise the people running the temple will not be spiritually motivated but will end up pursuing other than spiritual agenda.

They will deviate and go for social and personal agenda of men and this will be contradicting and defeating the very purpose of having the temple and its shrine.

In 1977, the lord saint said. "Members should show respect to God and Divinity by dedicating temple shrine (place where members gather in worship) wholly for praying and worship and nothing else"
 
Thus there are two transgressions or wrongs a temple should not have.

The first is to mistake a concrete building as a temple or shrine when it is the right minded people with spiritual focus which constitute a temple.

The second is to allow a sacred temple premise for the gathering and social agenda of people who pay no primary focus to doctrine and divinity.

These two transgressions can be the problems of any temple or church.

But a temple in the name of Lord Bo Tien will have to be exemplary to all other temples or churches. Thank God and lord saint, that this would have been the case for any Bo Tien temple.

 
 
  

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