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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.

Wednesday, July 24, 2013

The hopeless deadlost idealists

Learning Point No 364




There will be some who know the doctrine but not well enough to know how to go about it. They want to attain sainthood and enlightenment and think they can do so overnight!  

They may end up creating new sects and even think that anyone can be a saint or buddha this minute if they can just simply will to stop wanting and give up everything this minute, here and now. They are like children in early elementary school thinking that they can be professors at a university overnight. 

They try to convince others to follow suit. But they are day dreaming and the great dream just vaporise and evaporate in their face and they are hopelessly dead lost. 

They give up taking life step by step and feel hopeless the next day waking up and realise that not only are they no where near sainthood but also they are outcast of society, in fact, failures and societal dropouts. 

They end up denying life and lost to society and ways of society. They are delusional and that is sad. Isn't this the case? 

They are the hopeless dead lost idealists. They can only dream on but have no idea how to realise their dream. 

It is far better to be a pragmatist and take life one step at a time, be it in spiritual or mundane life. It is better to be a little somebody than try to be a very big somebody and end up being nobody. 

It is better to be a slow but sure-footed tortoise taking one step at a time than to be a hare which can hop and jump but decided to sleep away its time, beguiled by sloth and torpor thinking that heaven can wait while it daydreams away. 

A man may know little but if he is like the sure footed wise tortoise which crawls slowly, perhaps even painfully to the destination, he can succeed spiritually far faster and perhaps even better than another man who knows allot but daydreams like the hare in the above story. The hare in the story is but a hopeless dead lost idealist.

Let us not be hopeless dead lost idealists who talk and boast allot but are plagued by complacency, sloth and torpor. 

Even in a mission of a heavenly saint, it is better to have a little or no building than to have a majestic concrete building but beset by complacency and social cultural distractions, ever always resting on laurels and not moving on with mission based on doctrine. 

Living Life Series is championing the Mission of Heaven but has no building at all as platform for mission. It has been able to make foray globally to far corners of the world despite having no building, no members and no funds. It has been regarded as insignificant like the poor but hardy tortoise in the hare and tortoise story. 



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