Saturday, July 18, 2009

Chaodoyio and divine selfishness

Choadoyio is a religion that began in Korea during the Japanese occupation in 1860. Su-un the founder had a religious experience which he called the post cosmic creation. This experience entailed meeting God and being given a talisman amulet. The crux of the teaching is one serves the God with, and everyone has equally the God within their heart. This lesson came to Su-un whole contemplating how to impart fair treatment for all when the rulers were thinking of only serving their own whims and hearts desires. The post cosmic creation included a unity of all religion into a Korean way that synthesised the old shamanistic beliefs with a universal relativistic perspective. the second sage extended the idea to say everyone is God and should be equally treated as such, as did the first sage who wanted the rulers to serve god universally by serving God selfishly in themselves as an extension or reflection of that which lies within. The third sage pointed out the extension of serving others as serving the self within. This doctrine is non xenophobic and entails embracing all ways as a means of achieving social equality and alleviating suffering. It believes in a transcendent God that fills all spaces, here on earth and in nirvana while it focuses on creating heaven on earth and the divinity of all people and the diviner will that allows all people to act divinely to all by acting divine in themselves and for themselves.
Thus true divine selfishness is acting towards others with altruistic intentions that include oneself in any gain everyone gains.
the third sage noted that the divine post-creation was coming and all people would become virtuous and earth would become heaven as if set up by a transcendent one. The first sage said each person reaching transcendence has a post creation event and ultimately the earth will reach such a universal event where all will be universally transcendent, be they virtuous people sharing in transcendence or transcendent sages themselves. The second sage noted that transcendence was necessary even as virtuous people to reach heaven on earth and form global society as such. So end of days is the universal enlightenment where people are either transcendent or share as virtuous people the transcendence in general of everyone to a world formed as a universal transcendent being or The Messiah when its everyone.
Peace till next week

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