Let's Mature in the Fa As Quickly As Possible
By a Practitioner from China
(Clearwisdom.net) The following is recorded from the experience
sharing of two Dafa practitioners, one of them from northern China and the other
from southern China. A: Recently there has appeared some interference in our cultivation and we
need to deepen our understanding on certain problems from the perspective of the
Fa. Now I hope to take advantage of our meeting and discuss them with you. B: OK, it is no problem for us to make good progress together through our
discussion. A: Here in our area, there was a practitioner who died soon after being
released from a forced labor camp where he suffered severe torture. It is hard
to grasp the essence in such complicated situations and this caused some
difficulties in clarifying the truth. Later, supported by Teacher's power, we
broke up the interference by sending forth righteous thoughts. However, how a
practitioner should view this situation remains unclear. Can you share with me
your understanding? B: A similar situation once happened in our area although in a different
form. It was a situation where the old forces took advantage of a practitioner's
loopholes and he was arrested. This practitioner got out of the detention center
openly and with dignity by sending forth righteous thoughts. After retuning
home, he looked inward to find out his own loopholes and denied the old forces'
arrangement. A: So, please tell me your understanding of our situation from the
perspective of the Fa. B: OK, but it should be made clear that both of us should take the Fa as
Teacher and you should point out with compassion when I make any mistakes. First, the death of this practitioner was the arrangement of the old forces.
When answering the question "Why do the old forces dare to kill Dafa
disciples in the persecution?" raised in Explaining the Fa During the
2003 Lantern Festival, Teacher said, "There are two situations here. One is that in the past the old
forces felt that a type of mentality arose among Dafa disciples, which is,
once you cultivate in Dafa you think it's like having insurance, and there's
nothing to be afraid of, there's no sickness or death, this or that won't
happen, and everybody just has good fortune. But, once that mentality arises
there's going to be trouble. The old forces will do what they want to do,
and once you unknowingly acknowledge their arrangements they'll have excuses
to control you and create various types of danger for you. Of course, Dafa
disciples won't die like ordinary people, and even for those who've departed
ahead of their time what awaits them is the very best -- that's for sure. So
during this period, what they do is take a few away first. Of course, among
those who've died, there's also what they'd arranged in previous lives. "Also, they're doing these things in this time during Fa-rectification
when Dafa disciples are urgently needed in saving sentient beings -- aren't
they causing serious trouble? How many beings can a Dafa disciple save while
he's in this world, right? Isn't that doing something bad? á "Speaking from another angle, my disciples, when the old forces are
able to do what they want to do, isn't that because you've silently
consented to what they want to do?" I think that on this question Teacher has explained clearly. The old forces
are attached to what they want to do and this is a very serious issue for all
practitioners. Secondly, to see the reason that the old forces dared to do so, we need to
check how we Dafa practitioners did our job as a whole. Have we realized the
nature of the old forces? Is it because we didn't study the Fa well, didn't look
inward enough and lacked righteous thoughts? For example, after that
practitioner was kidnapped, did you send forth righteous thoughts as a whole? Did you do anything to rescue him? After this practitioner got home, were you
attached to his personal improvement while neglecting sending forth righteous
thoughts as a whole? Did you help him more in an everyday person's way which neglected disposing
of the evil and failed to clarify the truth in a larger area and save more
sentient beings? Were you attached to other people's improvement and neglecting
looking inward yourself? A: Good points. We do have some problems on these issues. And furthermore, we
do have some loopholes as a whole. B: Here in our area, we also had lessons, which were all caused by Dafa
practitioners' attachments. The complicated situation in your area wherein a
practitioner died contains the factor that practitioners had loopholes and the
old forces took advantage of them. Teacher pointed out in Teaching the Fa at
the 2003 Midwest-U.S. Fa Conference: "What do I mean by 'areas to improve on'? Yesterday a student asked
me, 'Master, why has the United Nations Human Rights Commission turned into
what it has? The U.S. brought up China's human rights problems several times
but each time its efforts were voted down, and in the end nobody would even
bring up the topic. Later on, even the chair position was assumed by a
government that seriously violates human rights.' We should think things
over calmly, and sometimes we really can end up seeing things clearly. It's
not that the righteous elements have stopped working. It's that sometimes
it's easy for the old forces to take advantage of the gaps in what we
do." It was an attachment when we focus only on our personal improvement. When we
are attached to everyday people's way of solving problems, the effect of our
sending forth righteous thoughts will be weakened. If our field of righteous
thoughts is impure and not righteous enough, and therefore unable to save
sentient beings, the old forces will take advantage of our gap. At the same time, the fact that we don't understand the principles of the Fa
in an all-harmonizing way may not be reflected in an obvious way when we are
handling some minor problems. However, it will be a serious problem when we are
handling some big issues. If we are not clear-minded on the principles of the Fa,
how can we all-harmonize our Fa-rectifying work? In the event in your area, if each of the practitioners maintained the
mentality of doing without pursuit, emphasized the progress of helping
practitioners improve, studied the Fa conscientiously and looked inward, kept
sending forth righteous thoughts collectively to get rid of the evil and
clarified the truth on time, then there wouldn't have been any gaps for the old
forces to take advantage of. Not being attached to the results is the state of
mind that Dafa practitioners should have. A: Yeah, cultivation is a serious thing. Especially in the last stage of Fa-rectification,
it will not do even if we go a little bit astray. We have to not only improve
ourselves as a whole, but also, at the same time, to completely eliminate the
participation of the old forces, watching out for the old forces who want to
take advantage of our own loopholes. Teacher said in Teaching the Fa at the
2003 Midwest-U.S. Fa Conference: "And then there's a final type of element. What type of element is
it? You know, I give you automatic mechanisms for increasing gong and other
elements such as the Falun. Also, my Law Bodies are personally looking after
Dafa disciples, and my Law Bodies appointed some Gods who can truly assist
with Fa-rectification to help. But, the old forces have systematically
arranged their elements, too, and in that way they specifically arranged
everything they wanted. So this has put every student under the influence of
specific arrangements by the old forces, and under the influence of those
old force beings. Those beings that the old forces arranged to do specific
things aren't those messed up, low-level spirit or rotten ghost kind of
beings that I've talked about. There are Buddhas, Daos and Gods among them,
though they're all of low levels, and here at this lowest level that is the
human world they're doing things given to them by the old forces." In my opinion, if our foundation of Fa-rectification is attached to personal
cultivation and further advancement, and if we fail to view things from the
perspective of the Fa, then we really should pay more attention to and think
over the principles of the Fa and our progress in Fa-rectification. Take myself as an example, I recently did some Dafa work well and received
some praise. Subconsciously, I had gradually developed a mentality of regarding
myself as infallible, and attachments to doing things, showing off, and looking
outward. On the surface, it appeared that I was still doing the three things as
required by Teacher, and all I did seemed to be for the Fa. However, deep inside
I was attached to the notion that it was "me" doing it, emphasizing my
personal improvement and making myself very busy all day long. Then, I could not
calm down in my Fa-study and improve myself in understanding the principles of
the Fa. I could not see through the relationship between the old forces and my
own attachments. I could not handle well the relationship between myself and the
whole body of practitioners. I did not have a good understanding of how we can
improve as a whole. The smoothness of doing Dafa work does not necessarily reflect one's maturity
in understanding the principles of the Fa. Sometimes it is human being's
experience and techniques that solve a problem. Even though on the surface I was
able to do some Dafa work smoothly, I knew very well that there was a gap
between my Xinxing and the requirement of the Fa. I did not do well to harmonize
the whole body of practitioners and I lacked true compassion that is able to
melt steel. I failed to completely remove my degenerated notions that conform to the old
forces, so I incurred severe interference while doing Dafa work, making me
unable to cultivate myself in a solid way and play a powerful role in the whole
body. Although sometimes I was able to see my warped notions, I still wasn't
able to get rid of them completely. As a result, once I almost fell into a trap
set up by police when I was making a careless contact with our Dafa
truth-clarification material site. I barely escaped danger that time. As for watching out for the old forces' behind-the-scenes helpers to take
advantage of our gaps, practitioners in charge of our Dafa truth-clarification
material sites have been paying special attention to the safety of the material
sites. In their opinion, to do Dafa work well in such a special situation, one
must study the Fa in earnest to understand better the all-inclusive harmonizing
effect of Dafa. Safe operation of the material locations should be the number
one consideration. No matter how good an individual's idea is, one should weigh
it carefully, balancing it with the overall situation of all the practitioners
as a whole and handling well the relationship between emotion, compassion, and
mercy. Those things which must be done but may cause safety problems to the material
sites can be done in locations away from the sites and in an all-harmonizing
way. Teacher said in Explaining the Fa During the 2003 Lantern Festival at
the U.S. West Fa Conference: "Those rotten ghosts that are intent on disrupting the Fa really
like it when you're in disarray, as the old forces' whole goal is to have
all this end up according to their arrangements. I'll tell you, when all
that you're doing today is in line with what I have taught you to do, then
that's not letting them take advantage of your gaps and not letting them
find excuses to persecute you." It is very important for us to become completely harmonized in Dafa and make
solid advancements in our own cultivation. In short, each of our Dafa practitioners should become mature in the Fa as
soon as possible, cultivate grand tolerance of an enlightened being and great
benevolence that can melt the steel. Let's harmonize ourselves in Dafa.
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