Let us face facts. God is God, not man

Learning Point No 371

Let us face facts. Are we closer to God and his saints by having more choice of religions and sects, by having more differing styles of relating to God and saints? 

The answer is a big 'Yes' as there is need for God to bless all men with more choices and more chances. What is good to John may not be good to Jane. That is a reality. 

If there be only one choice, then God is being not fair loving and just as that choice only appeals to a minority. What about the interests and needs of the many others? 

If you say that to worship God, all must carry incense sticks, then many more may be alienated than be attracted to have affinity with God and his saints. 

If you say and insist that all must sit cross legged in meditation for a few hours every day, then you are raising the barriers for men to get closer to God and saints. 

This is not that there is no value in meditation but that there is more to religion and affinity with God and his saints than meditation. 

Also, there are many ways to kindle the light in us than just sitting full lotus cross legged in guru style meditation. Prayer of any form or even free style is in a way meditation of sorts. 

As said before and need to say again, there must be choices and God provides many so that many can higher chances of developing affinity with God and his heavenly saints. 

Praise God for his love and understanding. Let us face facts. God is not like some men.  Men may be that narrow minded and want to alienated others by creating barriers for them. They may want to have exclusive hold on God. 

God opens himself to all even those whom many think are beyond redemption. They too have the right and places with God in their own ways and no one can say they are condemned or goner for good. That is why God is God and not man. 

For men, there is eternal damnation or hell if you are disobedient but for God, how can that be if God is God and a loving and benevolent God. Men may like to curse and damn but not God. 

Even those already in Hell will be saved by His saints who heed the cries of those in Hell. They will show those in Hell how to cultivate the Way or Tao even in the midst of Hell fire. This is so that they may leave Hell and be in Heaven and beyond like the saints themselves. 

King Yama the lord of Hell is ever too busy helping them as well to think and energise any past good they have so that they need not be in Hell even a second more than necessary. 

King Yama

Linyin monastery monks might have condemned, defrocked and sent away from the monastery the young novice monk Ji Gong as he did not behave with decorum, drank wine and ate meat. 

Ji Gong - Lord Ji

But he was pure and cultivated at heart. "What matters is what goes through the heart and not what goes through the gut or one's outward display." 

This was the pivotal principle of Ji Gong. His practice was based on this. He succeeded and is the living Buddha after all.