The Proper Belief in Master -- Thoughts in Reading the Article "My Understanding of 'Benevolent Resolution'"
By a practitioner in Toronto, Canada
(Clearwisdom.net) A short while ago Clearwisdom.net published an article entitled "My
Understanding of 'Benevolent Resolution'," in which the author talked about how
he resolved his relationship with lives to whom he was indebted by paying them
back nicely. The article described the author's experience that the author had while
sending forth righteous thoughts, in resolving issues with lives whom he had
wronged before. The article brought up some controversies among practitioners.
Here I want to discuss a few problems that this article raises regarding our
proper belief in Master and in the Fa. First I want to discuss how a practitioner should treat what he sees with his
Third Eye. Master pointed out long ago, "It doesn't matter whether your Third Eye is open, whether you've seen
something, or whether some abilities come out, you can't talk about our
Falun Dafa based on what you've seen. The few little things you see at your
level are really way off, and it's far from the true meaning of the Law
we're teaching." (Zhuan Falun) "Of late, some assistance centers have asked those whose Third Eye (tianmu)
are said to be open to examine students' cultivation. Everything those
people have seen is in fact false and illusory." "It was wrong for him to examine Dafa disciples in the first place. The
person in charge who asked him to examine students also didn't follow my
words." (Essentials for Further Advancement). As a matter of fact, no matter what a practitioner sees with his Third Eye,
he should use it to encourage himself to work harder in cultivation. The author
of the article "My Understanding of 'Benevolent Resolution'" absolutely acted
correctly in his looking inward by inferring what a fellow practitioner saw. But
if he thus became attached to what one sees with his Third Eye, and even uses it
to discuss some situations in the Fa-rectification, or uses it as a guideline
for certain behaviors, then he has deviated from Master's teachings. In reality, this has exposed a problem regarding one's proper belief in
Master and the Fa. We need to ask: If a practitioner's problems can be
completely resolved through what is seen with one's Third Eye, why does Master
not simply inspire him or even let him see it directly? It probably was true
that the author of the article resolved his problems with his enemy nicely in
the end, and his looking inward and giving up the attachment was one of the main
reasons that he was able to do so. But the true process and its inner contents
may not be what he thought. As a mater of fact, a practitioner is unable to do
anything without Master controlling things in an all-balancing and encompassing
way. Some practitioners generated questions regarding sending forth righteous
thoughts. To put it simply, if the evil we are eliminating can still be saved,
then eliminating them would not be benevolent. Why then would Master ask us to
send forth righteous thoughts? The Fa that Master taught has immeasurable wisdom
and content. Much of it may not be clearly understood now, or ever, by
practitioners. Unconditionally believing in what Master says, and always putting
the Fa above one's own understanding is the true guarantee for salvation of
sentient beings.
Chinese version available at
http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2004/1/31/66205.html
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