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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