Let us face facts. The doctrine phase of mission is in for good and doing well.
The pioneer phase of the lord saint Lord Bo Tien's descent to the world in the first 13 years some 45 years ago from 2013 is now history.
Even the second phase of love for fellow beings is now in place, more as backdrop than the front or forerunner of mission.
People are asking more on doctrine. What must be the attitude of the mind? How do we go beyond the physical needs of the world? What more beyond mundane worldly milestones, events and needs?
What must be the long lasting impact on the spirit and soul in the present life and way beyond this life? Surely, these must transcend the essence and substantiality of the first two phases of mission.
Knowing God and saint is just not enough at all. Worshiping God and saints is beyond prayer and worship?
We must be also go beyond the motivation for doing physical or mundane good for the less fortunate in the form of welfare activities which meet only the worldly needs.
Doctrine must take precedence. It nourishes the soul and enhances it to grow from darkness to light and from light to light. Doctrine grows the light and liberates the spirit.
In both the mission to save souls as well as the individual life, there are three phases.
The first is phase of coming to know God and saints.
The second is the motivation to do worldly good from knowing God and saints by helping the less endowed so they have ample worldly needs.
The third is to go beyond just alleviating mundane or worldly misfortunes of the unfortunate and the poor. This requires growing the light and liberating the spirit by knowing doctrine God and saints stand for.
Doctrine opens the way to save souls as mere belief in God (and saints) and good deeds are not good enough.
The pivotal yin yang balance is the determinant of success in practice of doctrine, be it for mission or for individual life, be it in any religion or in secular life.
Any principle that applies to spiritual if applied to secular worldly life brings about enough comforts without excesses.
This will surely facilitate optimal growth of the peace of the soul. There will be no incessant wants to spur excesses and in process create unrest and impede, or worse still, degrade the soul or spirit.
Doctrine grows the light of God and saints in us and liberates the soul from form to formless and to beyond even formless - to be of pure essence, ever unconfined, without borders and omnipresent like God and saints.
In both the mission to save souls as well as the individual life, there are three phases.
The first is phase of coming to know God and saints.
The second is the motivation to do worldly good from knowing God and saints by helping the less endowed so they have ample worldly needs.
The third is to go beyond just alleviating mundane or worldly misfortunes of the unfortunate and the poor. This requires growing the light and liberating the spirit by knowing doctrine God and saints stand for.
Doctrine opens the way to save souls as mere belief in God (and saints) and good deeds are not good enough.
The pivotal yin yang balance is the determinant of success in practice of doctrine, be it for mission or for individual life, be it in any religion or in secular life.
Any principle that applies to spiritual if applied to secular worldly life brings about enough comforts without excesses.
This will surely facilitate optimal growth of the peace of the soul. There will be no incessant wants to spur excesses and in process create unrest and impede, or worse still, degrade the soul or spirit.
Doctrine grows the light of God and saints in us and liberates the soul from form to formless and to beyond even formless - to be of pure essence, ever unconfined, without borders and omnipresent like God and saints.
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