It is sometimes better not to belong than to belong to a religion, sect, temple or institution if you want to be free to relate with and think of God and saints.
You do not have to worry if you need to think and act like other men. The sad part is that man is still animal. Monkeys see and monkeys do. Men like to ape other men.
If someone at the pulpit shout that it is alright to commit more, many will just do so and amazingly without much of a thought. This they say is faith.
But is this well placed faith or just blind faith? Is there wisdom? Is this faith in God and saints? Is this just faith induced by manipulative men in the name of God and saints?
There is freedom of thought and democracy in the secular world but in the religious world, if we try to do so, we are out of tune. We may be accused as weak in spirit and being tempted by the evil one.
Why is there less freedom in religion than in secular world? Well, this is not true or is it? God has no part in restricting freedom of thinking on spiritual matters.
It is sometimes the few men at the top who dictate how others worship and what they should think or believe spiritually. This like it or not is true but yet not true.
Well, the rare wise ones prefer to be left alone in matters of how to relate with God and saints. Ji Gong in his youth as man did just that.
He refused to toe the line and was considered eccentric and mad. He drank wine, ate meat and followed not the decorum of monks in the famous Linyin monastery in age-old ancient China.
You do not have to worry if you need to think and act like other men. The sad part is that man is still animal. Monkeys see and monkeys do. Men like to ape other men.
If someone at the pulpit shout that it is alright to commit more, many will just do so and amazingly without much of a thought. This they say is faith.
But is this well placed faith or just blind faith? Is there wisdom? Is this faith in God and saints? Is this just faith induced by manipulative men in the name of God and saints?
There is freedom of thought and democracy in the secular world but in the religious world, if we try to do so, we are out of tune. We may be accused as weak in spirit and being tempted by the evil one.
Why is there less freedom in religion than in secular world? Well, this is not true or is it? God has no part in restricting freedom of thinking on spiritual matters.
It is sometimes the few men at the top who dictate how others worship and what they should think or believe spiritually. This like it or not is true but yet not true.
Well, the rare wise ones prefer to be left alone in matters of how to relate with God and saints. Ji Gong in his youth as man did just that.
He refused to toe the line and was considered eccentric and mad. He drank wine, ate meat and followed not the decorum of monks in the famous Linyin monastery in age-old ancient China.
He was defrocked and asked to leave, literally expelled from the temple. That was more a blessing as he could then be ever more free to relate to God in his own way. The rest you know is history.
He succeeded and became saint. He left behind a legacy but he refused and still refuse to overpower others, restrict or impose on others just because he is above them. In fact, he would never want to be above others and prefer to sit and roll on the floor. That is the Ji Gong we know.
That is exactly what God is like. He is not like men but man like Ji Gong can be like God. God never impose, restrict or curtail how we relate to him.
How come some men make him out to be different and want us to fear him. God like Ji Gong is our friend. God does not lord over us though he is lord.
He succeeded and became saint. He left behind a legacy but he refused and still refuse to overpower others, restrict or impose on others just because he is above them. In fact, he would never want to be above others and prefer to sit and roll on the floor. That is the Ji Gong we know.
That is exactly what God is like. He is not like men but man like Ji Gong can be like God. God never impose, restrict or curtail how we relate to him.
How come some men make him out to be different and want us to fear him. God like Ji Gong is our friend. God does not lord over us though he is lord.
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