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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.

Saturday, July 27, 2013

Are we worshiping Ego instead of God in a church?

Learning Point No 368




Many of us go head over heels in love with a saint or founder of religion and that can be interesting for us not to reflect and analyse further. We don't even know the saint except for what others say or what was written. 

He is likely to tell us that above him there is God or Buddha but we are more likely to have the affinity with him than God or Buddha. 

Many may even die to life out of commitment to the saint. Why is this so? 

Faith and affinity seem to be reasons. But more likely, the saint we idolize personify the ideal we somehow do subconsciously want to have which we cannot find in ourselves or our fellow men. 

So psychologically, this more often than not is a projection of our subconscious and a cover up of our own inadequacies, our mortality and our very lack of mortality and perfection. This is the way we find solace, satisfaction and perfection. This we in religion call faith. 

But such faith may not withstand the test of time and the weathering by the trials and tribulations of life, what we often attribute to as temptations. That is why the prophets and saints say that what is more important than idolising of a saint is the embracing of the doctrine he professes, effecting it in life and making it come to life. 

Haven't we heard that the Word is God? Lord Bo Tien said that he who sees and knows the doctrine sees and knows him. He who does not, does not see and know him even if he or his image is before him. 

The gospel may be before us and in life. Life is the living gospel. We may have read it, known it but if we live not in the Word, we know neither the Word nor God and his saints even if we are in a temple or church umpteen times a day. 

This realisation is not new but somehow, men avoid reality and prefer to live in denial and they deceive themselves into thinking they know and they care. But what they really care is themselves. 

God or saint merely becomes a projection of their own ego. When they see God or saint, they really see themselves, the ideals in themselves  and cling on to themselves. So men must know the Word and the Word is God. If not, when they worship God or saint, they end up worshiping their own ego. 

Worshiping Ego or God depends on knowing the Word and living in the Word. Are we worshiping Ego instead of God in a church or temple? Small wonder some even say that God is the super Ego! 

This is cause for reflection and concern and is the very reason why the lord saint Lord Bo Tien has to undertake the mission to bring to life the Word or Doctrine in the existing religions and sects and not start a new one. 

The Word has been lost or diluted by changes over the centuries since the days of the founders or pioneers. Dogmas evolved over time are supposed to help in this direction but may not do as well as intended, or worse still have the unintended effects. 

Somehow, we must reinvigorate, reintegrate or reconstruct the pioneering spirit and Word which our forefathers the pioneers knew and wanted us to know. Only then could we know the Word and live in the Word. Only then can we live in God. The Word is God. 

Otherwise we may well be worshiping Ego instead of God and saints in a church or temple. So do ask ourselves thus. Are we worshiping Ego instead of God in a church or temple? 

There is really no need at all for guilt or fear in doing the unthinkable but such negative attributes the lord messenger Lord Bo Tien said can only harm and distance us from God and living in the Word. (God is no Ego and does not need to instill fear or guilt to elicit subservience.)

Just make good and live in the Word. Be happy and rejoice that we can make the start and move on in the Word. There is no place for fear and guilt. There is no need for sin mentality please, for having this is not good at all. But never say that having this is sinful!



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