The image of Lord Bo Tien portrays the need to be atop and balance the polarities or dualities of life. We cannot have only yin or only yang but need to find the fine point of combination of yin and yang, sometimes more yin and sometimes more yang.. The left hand of the lord saint in salutation bids us to be ever mindful and steady to go for yin yang balance as depicted by the feet atop the elements. The scepter in right hand depicts the mission for yin yang balance for all

Sunday, September 22, 2013

Yin and yang leadership in a temple

No 18 of Yin Yang Equations 

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Yin is soft or passive and yang is hard or active. We can say that yin is female and yang male. Yin and yang work together and yet can counter each other. 

The countering can be negative or positive. In yang, there is also yin but there is more yang than yin. In yin, there is also yang but there is more yin than yang. 

Yin and yang can be in perfect harmony only in perfection like in the realms of the saints. But in lower dimensions or realms, there is no such perfection but often they serve to counter one another and cause problems because there is imbalance. 

But more often, if there is some spirituality in men, yin and yang do check one another in positive way but this is not as ideal as yin yang harmony of the saints. 

That is why in the mission related temple of Lord Bo Tien, the good lord appoints a religious leader and a management leader. Such two key systems or duality is found in any spiritual society, or temple. 

The religious leader is more on the religious side but he too has management and non religious role and strength  Likewise the management leader is more on the management side but he too has religious role and knowledge. 

Both leaders in human setting of any society or temple are not in harmony all the time but yet more often than not, they can complement one another through checks and balance. If they collide at times this is not good but as they do check and balance each other and keep each other on their toes, they complement each other. 

Woe befalls a temple if either one gets rid of the other and wants to go it alone. Then yin and yang no longer complements one another through checks and balance. Such a situation is not wholesome in any temple, more so in a mission related temple of Lord Bo Tien. 

Incidentally, if there is weakness of religious leadership and a credible one cannot be there in a temple, then alternatively, a spiritual or religious council of a few men would provide the collective religious leadership to fill the void. 

This was mooted by representatives of the lord saint for the mission related temple of the lord saint Lord Bo Tien after passing on of the religious leader and medium. But human issues intervened even before the implementation strategy could be worked out.