(Clearwisdom.net)
Dafa practitioners are one body, and every Dafa particle is one part of this body. We cannot separate ourselves from the body. We should not consider ourselves as lone individuals. It should be clear on the basis that we belong to one body, and that we belong to Dafa.
When I consider myself as just an individual, when I think of my problems as only my own personal problems, when I think my fellow practitioner's problems as their own problems, I am placing myself outside of the body, and I am not in the Fa.
Because I was not in the Fa, and was not in the body of the Fa, I thought that tribulations of my fellow practitioners resulted from their own omissions, and that they needed to come out of it by themselves. With this thinking, I agreed with the old forces' deviated notions and with their persecution, and I remained indifferent to those persecuted fellow practitioners in different areas. This was my understanding when my mind was not on the Fa. I did not get a clear understanding from the Fa of how wrong it is for the old forces to take advantage of practitioners with omissions to persecute the Fa, and Fa-rectification.
What each practitioner does and what each practitioner says represents not only that practitioner, but also Dafa's image. For those who have not read the book and do not understand Dafa, all they have to go by is our words and our behavior.
Teacher has said: "...when you can truly understand the Fa, practice cultivation in the Fa, and be an upright and genuine cultivator, you are harmonizing the Fa. In other words, you're also safeguarding the Fa. This is because the conduct of each student in everyday people's society represents the image of Falun Dafa. Isn't that right? If we don't conduct ourselves well, we'll undoubtedly tarnish Dafa's image, and it couldn't be said that we're harmonizing the Fa." (Falun Buddha Fa: Lecture at the Conference in Singapore) [Provisional translation] Isn't this still a serious issue?
Correcting our own behavior is not validating how good we are ourselves, but validating the Fa! We have no excuses for carelessness in our thoughts and words. We are responsible for the Fa and for the one body. If we do not do it well, it will affect the salvation of the world's people and the rescue of countless beings related to them. If we do it well, the world's people will see Dafa's greatness. If we do it justly, we can correct everything that is crooked. What we do well itself is rectifying the Fa, validating the Fa, and saving the world's people.
To truly be dissolved into the Fa, there is not the concept of individual mighty virtue. We do not belong to ourselves; we belong to Dafa. We are not building individual mighty virtue, but Dafa's mighty virtue. We are particles of the Fa and are building Dafa's mighty virtue. We must do well. We must be strict with ourselves.
We must righteously walk the path before us because it is what future beings will refer to. We must be responsible towards the Fa, and we must do well!
