Properly Deal with the Relationship between Fa-Rectification and Personal Cultivation
By a Practitioner from China
(Clearwisdom.net) There is a general understanding in our local area, and
that is when disagreements happen among practitioners, we have to look at the
things from the basis of Fa rectification; we should not simply attach to the
idea of "looking inside." The conflicts should not affect Dafa work and we
reject all the arrangements by the old forces. With emphasis on this understanding, when encountering disagreements and
problems, many practitioners put aside their personal conflicts and problems,
gave priority to the Fa and finished the Dafa work first. However, even though
practitioners have accomplished their Dafa projects, they did not let go of
their attachments. The conflicts and differences were still present and problems
were not resolved completely. Sometimes, when problems showed up on the surface
on a very big scale, some practitioners stubbornly defended their own ideas and
procedures and did not let go of their notions about their fellow practitioners.
They basically have not treated themselves as practitioners by facing the
problem or communicating with the other party so as to solve the problem. The
reasons behind this are that practitioners have neglected their personal
cultivation whilst they were doing Dafa work; they have not truly understood,
from the principles of the Fa, the relationship between Fa-rectification
cultivation and personal cultivation. Thus, the conflicts lingered for a long
time and went unresolved. Even though Dafa work has been accomplished, it was
not done to the standard of Fa-rectification Dafa practitioners' requirements
and points of view. This is no different than if everyday people did Dafa work.
The result would not be good and so the state of the whole body would not be
good. To expose the evil, clarify the truth, save sentient beings, and assist
Teacher during Fa rectification is the role of Dafa practitioners today. However
solid our personal cultivation is will be an important factor if practitioners
are to do their role well. If practitioners cannot achieve the standards of
cultivators, how could they possibly save sentient beings? To cultivate our
inner selves and look within when encountering conflicts are the basic criteria
of Dafa cultivators and we should be able to do this at all times. Dafa principles will not change under any circumstance; Dafa is the standard
to measure everything. Dafa will not be affected or changed by time, place,
situations or people and every one of us is within it. If we do not deal
properly with the relationship between Dafa work and personal cultivation, we
will be just like everyday people doing the Dafa work. To properly deal with the relationship between personal cultivation and Dafa
work is extremely important. Dafa is linked from top to bottom in harmony and
unbreakable. There is no exception and we have to be very clear about this.
Chinese version available at
http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2004/3/11/69653.html
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