Understanding Everything From the Standpoint of the Fa Leads to Compassion

By A Practitioner from China

(Clearwisdom.net) In the past few years, my cultivation state when doing activities to clarify the truth to the public at times good and at times bad. Sometimes I could treat everything from the standpoint of validating Falun Dafa. Sometimes I would still treat my fellow practitioners with human notions. When I carefully thought about the reasons for this, I realized that all these things were related to how well I understood the Fa and how good my own cultivation status was. When I studied the Fa well, my state was good; otherwise my state would be poor.

For instance, when I couldn't focus on studying the Fa, I could not manage myself well. Then it became very easy for me to have conflicts with my fellow practitioners and even ordinary people. I could not treat others with compassion, and I could not raise myself from the state of being persecuted to the state of saving all beings. It was very hard for me to get rid of selfishness too. Whenever I studied and understood the Fa well, I would be quite different. Within any conflict, I would not become attached to my point of view, and I would be able to treat others with compassion. When I was clarifying the truth to others, the listeners would be willing to accept what I said. When sharing with other practitioners, I could talk based on the Fa. Now I understand the wonderful meaning of what Master said in Zhuan Falun: "We say that when you take a step back in a conflict, you will find the seas and the skies boundless, and it will certainly be another situation."

I also understood that if a practitioner was not diligent in studying the Fa, then the practitioner would not have real compassion, because the premise behind compassion is truly caring for others. Only when a practitioner reaches this state of selflessness, will the practitioner be able to truly tolerate others. When working with other practitioners for Fa validation, a caring heart will play an important role in the cooperation. The real compassion originates from the Fa. When I was capable of treating all the beings from the point of view of the Fa, my heart would be full of great compassion.

Two things occurred recently that have helped me understand this better. One was that a practitioner criticized me for being too slow on the progress of my project and for excluding others from helping. I felt very uncomfortable upon hearing this. I thought he did not care about the pressure I endured, but was giving me more hardship instead. The other incident occurred at an experience sharing conference recently. A practitioner talked a lot about his understanding of cultivation. Suddenly, I could not tolerate his talking any longer. I thought that he used up most of the time and did not give others a chance to talk. Just at that moment he criticized me, asserting that he felt he was being excluded due to the lack of overall cooperation at the conference.

I suddenly asked myself, "Why do I keep hearing the same complaints?" Then I realized that I should look within. I found that I still had the attachment to fame at the bottom of my heart, I still engaged in conflicts with others, and was even jealous of others. Once I dug out of these human attachments, I suddenly felt myself caring more about others. I recalled what Master said in Teaching the Fa at the 2002 Fa Conference in Philadelphia, "When another God proposes an idea, they aren't eager to reject it, and they aren't eager to express their own ideas and they don't believe that their own ideas are good. Instead, they look at what the end result of the other God's proposed approach will be." Teacher goes on to say, "Also, if there's something lacking in it, they'll unconditionally and quietly supplement it to make things more complete and perfect. That's how they handle things." At that moment I realized the real meaning of looking within ourselves and realized the effect of looking inward.

I also enlightened to the fact that treating fellow practitioners with human concepts and not from view of the Fa, specifically to those fellow practitioners who have fallen down in their cultivation, is the main reason for the lack of cooperation. The only way to reach the status of selflessness is by being diligent in studying the Fa, doing well in the three things required by Master, and staying on the course of the Fa-rectification.

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