Learning Point No 255
Extract from 1978 anniversary message by Lord Bo Tien through his emissary.
The emissary then requested for the image of the Lord Saint to be
brought down to the table before Him. Pointing His fingers to the oil lamp and
the image, He said. "The oil lamp represents you and the image represents the
lord." Lord Bo Tien's 1978 Anniversary Message . *
The image depicts the doctrine. The doctrine of truth is what all need to know of from heavenly saints like Lord Bo Tien and not who they are or their personal history. There is pristine inner truth behind life. This inner peace can only be there if there is balance of the yin and yang contingencies or conditions of sentient life, as represented by the feet of the lord saint balancing and in control of the two figurines.
We should neither deny nor be subject to the throes, the 'push' and 'pull' of worldly contingencies of yin and yang - polar opposites like gain loss, happiness sorrow, honour dishonour, birth death, ups and downs etc.
The inner peace is the inner or ultimate truth behind the thrusts or expressed approaches of all religions.
Religions differ in approaches and styles. They have to employ varied and at times differing ways to secure the attention of as many beings lost and engulfed by the yin yang swirls of the sentient world.
The image depicts the doctrine. The doctrine of truth is what all need to know of from heavenly saints like Lord Bo Tien and not who they are or their personal history. There is pristine inner truth behind life. This inner peace can only be there if there is balance of the yin and yang contingencies or conditions of sentient life, as represented by the feet of the lord saint balancing and in control of the two figurines.
We should neither deny nor be subject to the throes, the 'push' and 'pull' of worldly contingencies of yin and yang - polar opposites like gain loss, happiness sorrow, honour dishonour, birth death, ups and downs etc.
The inner peace is the inner or ultimate truth behind the thrusts or expressed approaches of all religions.
Religions differ in approaches and styles. They have to employ varied and at times differing ways to secure the attention of as many beings lost and engulfed by the yin yang swirls of the sentient world.
The oil lamp represents men in the
mission and their role to enlighten all on the inner truth behind life that the
image portrays. Men must be the oil to keep the light of the mission alive and
vissible. The mission is not to convert but to enable all to be better in having
divine peace regardless of their religious and cultural environment.
* (Do also go to Historical version of Bo Tien Chor Choo's 1978 Anniversary Message... and the list of review articles mentioned)
* (Do also go to Historical version of Bo Tien Chor Choo's 1978 Anniversary Message... and the list of review articles mentioned)
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