By a Dafa Practitioner in China

(Clearwisdom.net) Fellow oversea practitioners, you are so lucky to have the chance to see Teacher so many times over the past few years. There is no way you can understand the yearning from the practitioners in China. Especially during the almost five years of severe persecution, whenever we think of our Teacher, it makes our hearts become more enlightened and strong.

How many practitioners in China have not yet seen Teacher? How many Dafa practitioners who have given up their lives to safeguard Dafa had not yet seen Teacher? From the published lectures, we can always find some individual practitioners not showing adequate respect in their manner when raising questions to Teacher. Definitely, it is very easy to identify the questions that were raised by everyday people or spies who have ulterior motives. I am not pinpointing these groups of people, as I even include our new and veteran practitioners who may have this deficiency.

Actually the new practitioners, who may not have a deep understanding of Dafa, should respect their Teacher and keep a polite and correct manner when asking questions. If necessary, the veteran practitioners should remind them. In the society of everyday people, we should be the model of showing respect to Teacher.

In Teacher's lecture "Teaching the Fa at the Discussion on Creating Fine Art", I see that problem still exists. I perfectly understand practitioners' excitement in seeing Teacher and how anxious they must be to have their questions answered by Teacher. This does not give us the excuse of neglecting our manners. Respect and politeness does not mean making long compliments before asking questions. The heart of respect from Dafa practitioners manifests from inside and cannot be faked. It is pure and magnificent. The question itself may be the same, but if it were asked with more respect, then perhaps it would not give the feeling of something being amiss to a reader thousands of miles away.

We will know how to handle it well if we could all understand how precious Dafa truly is.

Posting date: 11/10/2003
Original article date: 11/9/2003
Category: Practitioners' Insights
Translated on 10/27/2003
Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2003/10/28/59653.html

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