Living Life Series 2: Yin yang aspects in salvation of souls

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.

Saturday, April 13, 2013

Yin yang aspects in salvation of souls

Learning Point No 288

At the end of this post or article, you should be able to have inkling why Ji Gong is frequently portrayed as always looking and reflecting on crickets in a bowl.

Why is Ji Gong fascinated by crickets?

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The cessation of trancing as way for Lord Bo Tien to communicate with men in Singapore by 1984 is to indicate that this will no longer be the way as men have the gullibility to mistake the saint in man and the man in saint. Men may be worse off in the end. Men tends to see the means as end and the end as the means.

Lord Bo Tien

The cessation by the lord saint of trancing was and is because the doctrine has been imparted in the 13 years of the first phase of his mission since his first descent in 1969.

We must grow the candle flame of knowledge based on on the basic doctrine and understand the need to kindle and bring on the grasp of the basic doctrine in other men.

They must understand that the basic doctrine of God and the need to be like God and to be near to God by yin yang balance is basic to all religions.

Men cannot be saved by good works alone and men too cannot be saved by just asking to be saved.

There must be combination of these two but the proportion may differ from man to man and from life station to life station in the same man. Yang is active. Yin is passive. Just believe and seek refuge. There is yang within yin as well.

Even Kuanyin Posat requires more than just passive faith and confidence. She too imparts some doctrinal value of belief and need to be pure and steady, not to judge oneself or others but to grow the love of life for the individual and for others.

"Release judgements about yourself and others and focus on the love and light that is within everyone." This is already doctrine and the active or yang nature of approach within the predominant yin. You need to live or practice doctrine and not surrender to be saved.

While her vow is to help all even those who do not actively pursue doctrine, and all that beings need to do is to seek her help, her approach is still mixture of yin and yang though more of good passive yin - mere belief and confidence that she will keep to her bodhisatva vow to help all who call out to her.

With Bo Tien Mission, there is the three prong approach as exemplified by the trinity of images of the shrine, with Buddha at centre, Lord Bo Tien on his right and Goddess Kuanyin on his left.

Each embodies both yin and yang and the balance of the two. There is yin within yang and yang within yin. Yin is translated as soft or passive and yang as hard or active. This principle is in the Bagua as depicted by the dot within yin and yang.

Bagua

But Lord Bo Tien image embraces more of the yang - the discipline and doctrine than on mere believe in him. But as said before there is yin within the apparently predominant yang.

Taken as a trinity, the three images personifies yin and yang balance. The three images too remind us that some need more of yin and some more of yang but in time all must have the ideal yin and yang balance and mixture as represented by Buddha.

Amitabha Buddha

Now who is this Buddha, Gautama or Amitabha? This is perhaps immaterial for one is the other and the other is one though they are not the same, yet same. We should be able to see and merge the two as one and yet see the one as two. The divine energy of either pervades the universe and has no limits. They are one.