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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, July 21, 2013

Indebted to a lord saint

Learning Point No 359





A saint does more for us than we do for him. It is not in the nature of a saint to want absolute allegiance to himself. If he is a heavenly saint, he does not need men more than men need him. He does not need men to fawn on him. 

Only the insecure in men do need others to fawn on them. If someone tells you that he is the one and only one who could be of benefit to you, would you believe in him? 

Action speaks louder than words. A saint does not need to talk you into allegiance. He just does what is right and will help not because he needs to prove to you or to get your allegiance but because it is in the nature of a heavenly saint to reach out and to help all those who come his way. 

There is totally no preconditions, no meeting of qualifications before he will do so. You don't have to be baptized or be anointed as his follower before he will help you. Only self-centered and ego-centric man does that. 

Thus a saint helps all and even if they do not make good after his help, it does not matter. But there will be many of those he reached out to who will make good and be well motivated. They will feel indebted to the heavenly saint and be attracted to his philosophy and mission. 

There is no way they can please him more than he can please them. But that is beside the point. The point is that he is a heavenly saint and is beyond and does not have the flaws of men. 

Men will be indebted to him and call him lord not out of fear, not out of wanting his favor but out of awe for his love for all beings regardless of their plus and minus points. His glory is in the love of men and not in how much men fawn on him. 

Thus there is a universal prayer to all heavenly saints at Bo Tien mission related temple. 

"To all heavenly saints we greatly adore. 
We believe in your existence and 
thy glory is in the thought of men. 
We seek for thy protection and guidance 
so as to live better for the time to come." 

 We will always be indebted to a lord saint so long as he is one. But a good saint may be portrayed in bad light, as insecure, jealous and as being needy of allegiance. This is the wrong of men and not at all the fault of the heavenly saint. 




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