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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.

Monday, October 29, 2012

Life is unique for every being

Learning Point No 250
 





Yearn not for the good life that your neighbour has for what is good for him may not be good for you. This is not that you will have less and also not that you will have more. One man's meat is another man's poison.

What you can have must be within your resources and abilities and within your family and social context. Resources refer to not only current worldly or material resources but also to what you can potentially have and this is determined by what you are able to tap on before you are born, both the good and not so good, or what the sages of Tao refer to as the yin and the yang as well as fate based on the accumulated forces of past.

Sages say that your birth year, date and hour of birth give some indication of your life potential that you have from the past before you are born.

To those who believe in past as past lives, this would have more significance.

But to those who do not, let us say that God or divinity makes a stand on what you can potentially have and not have, so that each individual is unique and must make life work for him to the optimum but not beyond as the latter will be counter-productive and cause untold miseries. 

For instance, one who is preoccupied with making money when he is supposed to help others eg a doctor may end up rich by going overboard but the consequences may rob him off his wealth and even his life.  

No two persons are alike and the success story or modus operandi is unique to the person.

It is not that Heaven is unfair and some are better off than others. Remember that the lessons one has to undergo in life are not the same for all. 

The yardsticks required of the better endowed may be more exacting than for the less endowed. That is why it may be more difficult for the well-off to go to Heaven but the truth is that even this is not exactly true though generally correct for other parameters may come into the equation. 

Matthew 19:23-24 “I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”
 
 
 
 
 

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