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Move Forward By Xi Yuan August 22, 2002
I know a practitioner who has been depressed since he went wrong in his path.
As a fellow practitioner, I only want to say, the depression is not your true
self. Teacher says in "Melt Into the Fa": "I once talked about what a good person is and what a bad person is. It
is not that one who appears to have committed a bad deed is a bad person and
one who has done something good is a good person. Some people's minds are
full of bad thoughts--it is just that they have not shown them or have slyly
concealed them relatively well; yet these are truly bad people. Some people,
on the other hand, are not bad to begin with but occasionally commit wrong
deeds; these people are not necessarily bad people." As a practitioner who studies Dafa, we should not always look at things from
an ordinary person's perspective. Neither should we measure a practitioner with
an ordinary person's standards. Teacher says in "Coercion
Cannot Change People's Hearts": "Some students have written things like the so-called 'guarantees to stop
practicing' or 'statements of repentance' when they were not in their right
minds and forced. None of those were genuine expressions from the students'
hearts--they were done against their will. Although they had attachments,
were momentarily taken advantage of by the evil, and did what a cultivator
should not, a cultivator ought to be looked at in his entirety." Allowing oneself to become "transformed" [forced to renounce Falun Dafa]
under pressure is not the right thing to do. However, if you become depressed
because of this wrongdoing, and even think about giving up cultivation practice,
I think that is even worse. I admire two kinds of people: one is a person who
keeps running all the way to the end; the other is one who has stumbled but does
not care what has been lost and gets up from the ground and continues to run. As
practitioners, if we have already done something wrong, then let's examine
ourselves to see why and what attachments we have not yet let go. I know that
what many of us now worry about most is being "transformed". We are afraid that
all that we have achieved in our cultivation will be ruined. If one is depressed
because of this, I think it exposes a fear of not being able to achieve
consummation. One should get rid of this fear with time. This person still
hasn't let go of "self" and hasn't let go of the selfishness of worrying about
what will happen to him or herself. Cultivation practice is very serious. As Teacher says in "Path": "Can you
imagine what it means for a cultivator if this stain isn't washed clean?" No matter what happens, let go of all the attachments; once again participate
in the Fa-rectification. If you have stumbled, then look for the reasons and
continue to run. Do not take pleasure in the hollow spot in the ground that you
created. There's no time for it and there are many kind-hearted sentient beings
waiting to be saved. Cheer up, don't take your gain or loss too seriously. Don't take your honor
or disgrace too seriously. Let go of yourself in the path of cultivation
practice, on the journey of Fa-rectification, my dear practitioner. Please move
forward. Posting date: 9/5/2002
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