Spiritual Cultivation and Movement
Must receiving divine mandates and orders involve visiting outside temples?
English translation draft · Based on the Chinese article. This is not a word-for-word translation approved by Master Shengyuan.
Not necessarily. First consider your ability and sincere aspiration to help. In my practice understanding, when these conditions are present and circumstances mature, connected deities you normally serve at your center may provide corresponding missions and support.
If learning at your own center and serving connected deities, do that practice well first. Receiving assignments at one temple today and another tomorrow without knowing how to do earlier ones resembles collecting prospectuses and examination papers without enrolling or answering. How would that alone produce learning?
Of course, outside visits may sometimes be needed. Reporting to higher deities or externally organized assessments may involve different requirements, like traveling elsewhere for a national examination to receive orders. That differs from urgently seeking a new one every week.
Knowing yourself, confirming ability, and understanding the mission matter more than continually seeking places to receive orders. Practice returns to your source and self-understanding. More mandates do not mean better cultivation, and having none does not mean poor practice.