This party reminds me of the past in Wuhan more than 20 years ago. At that time, I just graduated from college and worked in a foreign trade company in Hankou. My sister who came back from Singapore is in charge of the company and takes care of me. Later, she asked me to join her organization "Lily Club" to study the Bible. Every Saturday afternoon, believers will bring their favorite gifts and 10 yuan money as dinner expenses. Everyone will study the Bible together and sing praises to God. It is my happiest time of the week to exchange ideas and get together every Saturday. Their piety sometimes deeply infects me. Later, my sister converted me to Christ and became the son of God, so I joined without hesitation and fell in love with this group of people with pure faith in my heart.
I remember when Christmas approached, my sister asked us to make the most sincere wish and bring the best gift to the party. Everyone writes their wishes on New Year cards and puts them together with their own gifts. My sister said that she believed in the Lord and that the Lord would help us realize our wishes. My ex-wife (then my fiancee) insisted on attending the party with me that day. This is her first time to attend our party. Who took whose gift? It will be given to the master soon. The host will let the giver and the receiver meet on the stage and bless each other. Then the host will read the greeting card. It happened to be Christmas, and dozens of people attended the party. The whole venue was warm and harmonious. Later, it was my turn to draw a lottery, and I actually got a gift from a beautiful woman. It took her a week to knit a wool glove. Light blue gloves embroidered with a red love, simple and simple. The greeting written on the greeting card is very beautiful and almost sacred. I can't remember exactly what she wrote. The general consciousness is that she believes in the arrangement of the Lord, and the person who draws her gift is willing to be her other half under the witness of the glory of the Lord. May the Lord achieve her and the person who draws her gift, and hold your hand all your life and grow old with your son. It's a bit like an ancient woman throwing hydrangeas when choosing a spouse! When we gathered on the stage to wish each other well, the host read the words on the greeting card, and my ex-wife suddenly turned sunny with excitement, unhappy and even angry. At that time, the host didn't know my situation. After reading the girl's wish, he also said a hymn-like blessing. The following Christians blessed in unison. At that time, my ex-wife came on stage and returned my gift to the girl with a full face of displeasure. At that moment, the girl was embarrassed and at a loss. I also froze in public. At that time, my brain was buzzing, and I didn't know how to comfort the simple girl's wishes and broken hearts. Somehow I got out of the party. Later, my ex-wife resolutely refused to let me go to this lily party again, or it would be endless with me.
Spiritual journey is a completely different road from secular life, but I later found that there are some taboos in true faith that everyone is not allowed to touch and is unwilling to really open to others. Christians who live in light and love can only experience that feeling personally, but they can't express it in words. Once they express it, they lose the light of love and the true meaning of love.
The true Christ serves the society and has the spirit of Mahayana bodhisattva. Many Christians do well, but I have also met some Christians who, in the name of the Lord, reject dissidents and sometimes go to extremes. Later, when I worked in Goa, India, I sometimes went to church to listen to the preacher's sermon, and gradually felt the danger of some people in religious organizations. Many people in this area have a big dark side in their inner world. From my heart, I don't want to join any one. Any organization, in the end, will eventually use the power of sects to realize personal selfish desires and evil, enslave and even persecute the same kind. This is terrible. Think about all the wars in the world, almost all of them are formed in this way. It is wise that ideology and spiritual world cannot be truly understood, and it is wise to keep silence at a distance. Since then, I have been separated from all believers and can eat and drink together. Because we are not qualified, if we pretend, anyone can pretend to be a leader, but we can fool the world ourselves, but we can't fool ourselves.
Later, when I contacted Buddhism and Taoism, I gradually discovered many secrets. Read the Bible again. The words and expressions in it and the things behind it are the same as those in Buddhism and Taoism. All roads lead to the same goal, so it is so harmonious and unobstructed, and the world has a panoramic view. I sincerely respect those Christians, Buddhists and Taoists who truly understand and implement their teachings, but I will not join any organization, this world. I don't want to rely on anyone or any organization to live. As long as I can spread my wings and fly, I don't want to be a caged person or a cage maker to enslave others and bind myself. Even if I have such energy, compared with my own spiritual freedom, my fame and fortune are really like dirt, and all tangible things will be gone. You can't take them away. Nothing happened. It is a good way to benefit people all your life, not to mess up all your life, and to die a fair death. Many people try their best to maintain their own selfish desires, together with their own bodies, which are ultimately empty dreams, but they violate the minimum conscience and pursue image. I don't think such a life will be really happy.
This is the inner pursuit of Christians, so from the perspective of Buddhism, what is the sacred significance of loving light? These are the seeds of ignorance. In the dual world, love and hate, holiness and everything are the products of spiritual consciousness, and all names are self-restraint and flaunt. Buddhism's understanding of nature is that everything is empty and spotless, which is the most important thing.
People's spiritual world can only walk alone, talk nonsense and be silent. Teacher nan huaijin said when he was alive, why do so many people like playing mahjong and don't like Buddhism? If I really speak Buddhism, three feet of grass will grow in front of my house. Such an overhaul of pedestrians has exhausted the sadness of "being a teacher" and "being ignorant and fearless"! It also sounded the alarm for some so-called contemporary masters.
I live in this beautiful phantom age. Except for material wealth, everything advertised in this era has basically fallen into the dust. Masters are everywhere, fools are everywhere, and everything will be self-inflicted.