Of what use is a temple in the name of a saint if the people in charge merely wants to monopolise it for their own ends and not serve the wider ends of the mission of Heaven.
Will the lord saint step in to address the quandary? A saint would say that the flower cannot be blamed for insects coming to it for nectar. This did Lord Bo Tien say as well.
You do not blame a saint if men who come have second thoughts on what that temple should be doing. Men will often reckon they know better and when they are divided in stand, what follows will not speak well for all, unless they can accommodate the differences and harmonize like yin and yang of the Bagua to work as one yet different.
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| Bagua |
This men must work towards. Men of differing persuasions in a temple must live together like the different religions under the same Heaven.
A temple thus is a place for learning for men to gel like yin and yang, yet remaining distinctly different like yin and yang. This is the human phase a temple has from time to time to negotiate, a divine hurdle that men must overcome.
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| The Taiji in Bagua |
Heaven can only shed rain in pity if men somehow fail. Men need to learn till they are good at it one day.
The Bagua solution applies not only to a temple but to any group, people, family or society that may often be caught in the quandary of differing persuasions.
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