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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.

Sunday, November 4, 2012

From yin yang in society to even more in a temple

Learning Point No 254






         Lord Bo Tien said thus in the last of his almost yearly anniversary messages in the first 13 years cycle of His Mission, 
 
         "Human beings, being humans, have their limitations. They need to cling on to the big tree of divinity represented by the host of heavenly saints to prevent them from being blown away by the worldly contingencies of life -- the yin and the yang. Thus many in any temple will be swept away from the spiritual life but any such strong wind (of yin and yang) would stop one day and people will return." Lord Bo Tien's 1984 Anniversary Message
         
           Men may be attracted to a temple because of the saint at the temple. This will give them solace and hope in the complex world of society and the contingencies of life such as gain loss, praise blame, honour dishonour, health and illhealth, happiness and sorrow. These are the yin and yang contingencies of life.
 
          Ironically, the very temple that offers the big tree for them to cling on so as not be blown away by yin and yang becomes another place for these men to create yin and yang problems in the temple itself. They derail the agenda of the mission and in its place, they emplace the social mission to meet the needs of the time and society. They focus admirably on good works but they forget that good works alone are not enough. Men must go beyond good works. 

          They are thus swept by yin yang wind even within the temple and they deviate from the primary mission but any "such strong wind (of yin and yang) would stop one day and people will return" to the primary divine focus of the mission of the temple and realise the folly of social focus on good works alone. This is only to be expected and any heavenly saint would accomodate such human nature and  short-sightedness. 

         Men ran away from yin yang issues to find solace in a temple but when they run that temple they create yin yang issues and they do not even know that they have done so. But when they wake up, they will return to the more divine calling of the temple's lord saint ever more ardently and fervently for by then they would have learnt and understood.




 

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