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Handling Experience Sharing Among Fellow Practitioners from the Viewpoint of the Fa-Rectification
(Clearwisdom.net)Experience sharing among practitioners is intended for us to improve our
understanding of the Fa principles, elevate ourselves in our cultivation and Fa-rectification
work, and truly do well the three things that Master Li has told us to do. But if we bring too many
human sentiments and deviated elements into our experience sharing and allow this to go on for too
long, we might leave a gap that the old forces can take advantage of. Yesterday, several practitioners in my region were arrested while sharing experiences with one
another. I feel very sad about this. Because human sentimentalities are added into the mix, certain
experience sharing sessions among practitioners have fallen to the level of the "chatting"
of everyday people. The only difference is that a cultivation term is used to describe the
gathering. This is an area in which practitioners have fallen short for quite some time. After
thinking things over carefully, I feel there are two reasons behind this. The first reason is that
practitioners have not been able to completely eliminate the sentimentality that exists among
practitioners. The second reason is a type of mentality that people have been accustomed to, which
is a deviated element in the old cosmos. As we continuously improve ourselves during cultivation, we often feel that we have less and less
things in common with non-practitioners. On the other hand, practitioners have many things in common
and find it very easy to talk to one other, regardless of differences in age or background. That is
why practitioners often have many things they want to tell other practitioners. But precisely
because of this, the experience sharing among practitioners has often become impure. We are no
longer able to cherish the limited amount of time that we have together and use it in such a way
that we can improve diligently together. Instead we spend a lot of time talking about people and
things that don't directly have anything to do with cultivation or Fa-rectification. An everyday person enjoys telling other people the thoughts that he has developed after using his
own notions to judge and evaluate everything, and he also enjoys showing off his fame, fortune and
personal relationships. On the other hand, what brings happiness to a cultivator is Dafa's majesty
and magnificence, as well as the endless wonder and mysteries of the universe that one can sense
when one's heart is as still as water. For cultivators, when we talk about a certain person or a
certain thing, we should focus on extracting experiences and lessons that we can learn from so that
we can improve ourselves and do well in our Fa-rectification activities. We absolutely can't behave
like everyday people who focus on talking about their opinions on the specific people and things. One day while meditating, my primordial spirit went back to the heavenly kingdom and I was able
to be reunited with my relatives there. No words can adequately describe the joy and feeling of
majesty that I felt. We sat together and used our "hearts" to talk about what has happened
over the last tens of thousands of years. What we expressed weren't only words but also the true
situation of physical substances. The conversation was very serious and magnificent, and it was
filled with the endless power of the righteous thoughts and righteous understandings of enlightened
beings. Sometimes when we share experiences, even though it appears on the surface that we are talking
about things related to cultivation, they actually have no direct relationship with studying the Fa,
sending righteous thoughts and clarifying the truth. Experience sharing should play only a
supplementary role. In order to genuinely improve ourselves, we must place ourselves in the Fa. This
is the only way for us to make genuine, solid improvement. There is an extremely deviated element in the old forces that is also very hard to detect. If one
isn't careful, one can easily treat it as something of one's own. When looking at it with the Third
Eye, one can see it is very sticky and has a grayish black color. It sticks itself tightly on
different layers of particles that make up lives. What it covers is even more microscopic than what
"sentimentality" covers. "Sentimentality" is only something from the Three
Realms. But this sticky substance is extremely microscopic. It was created when the group social
relationship, which was gradually formed as more and more beings were created, became deviated. This
is the source of the deviated way of thinking of the old cosmos. The moment we let our guard down,
it will interfere with us and bind itself tightly against us. Its characteristics are: It makes us
always want to tell others what we have done so they will say good things about us. It makes us
always want to change other people and preserve our own things. It is as if we are living for other
people. We've totally forgotten that we were created by the Fa, and everything that we have was
given to us by the Fa. We should be responsible to the living environments, and the states and
characteristics of beings that Dafa has created for us. We should be responsible to everything that
we have enlightened to. We don't need others to evaluate and acknowledge any of these things. We
don't have to tell people about everything, nor should we carry the desire of wanting to change
other people. This mentality is not something that Gods would condone. Of course, this is something
that is among humans that exists because we haven't become pure enough and we still need other
people to help us eliminate our imperfections. This is also a type of coordination and assistance
among the overall body, but we can't share experiences for the sake of having a "buddy" to
talk to. This will make our experience sharing become too impure. As a result, we end up wasting a
lot of time and pass up many opportunities to save sentient beings. The closer Fa-rectification is to the final stage, the higher the requirement is for us. Whether
we have cultivated well is not only something that relates to our own improvement, it also has to do
with the huge task of the Fa-rectification of the colossal firmament. If we have cultivated well, we
will be able to save more sentient beings and eliminate more evil; if we haven't cultivated well, we
will be able to save fewer sentient beings and eliminate less evil. In addition, we will be subject
to more interference from the evil itself, who might even use the most evil methods to persecute us
in order to destroy all sentient beings. Let us be responsible to ourselves, be responsible to
fellow practitioners, and treasure the sacred environment of sharing experiences with fellow
practitioners. The above is only my personal understanding for fellow practitioners' reference. |