Gods, It is Time to Awaken (Part I)
(Clearwisdom.net) "Today is Easter, the day of a god's resurrection! This is all I'll
say today. On this special, glorious day, may Dafa disciples' divine sides
also be resurrected!" ("Teaching the Fa on Easter, 2004, at the New York Fa
Conference") When I read this sentence, I was shocked. For a long time, I had not been able to correctly position myself in regard
to being a human or being a cultivator (a future god). From the perspective of
the Fa, all Dafa practitioners have appeared to know for a long time that we
should allow our divine sides to function. However, in reality, we have, at many
times, still taken ourselves as ordinary persons and are trapped in human
notions. Judging from the present situation, we are still far from what Master
has required of the great Dafa disciples in the Fa-rectification period. Here I
want to share my recent understanding on this issue with fellow practitioners.
Please point out anything that is inappropriate. "In a dream, things may be this way one moment and some other way in
another moment. Where do they come from, anyway? It is said in medical science
that this is because one's cerebral cortex has experienced changes. This is a
reaction manifest in this physical form. In fact, it is the result of
receiving messages from another dimension. Therefore, when you dream you feel
muddle-headed. This has nothing to do with you, and you do not need to pay
attention to it." [ Zhuan Falun] One day when I was reciting this paragraph, I suddenly came to understand one
principle: Aren't human beings dreaming while living in the human world? It was
said in the past that human life is like a dream, and this statement is actually
true. Before Master woke us up, we were the same as ordinary people. We were
muddle-headed while busying ourselves in doing things and we had forgotten our
true selves. When Master taught us Dafa, our main consciousnesses started to gradually
wake up. We came to realize that only those things related to our cultivation
are what we should be truly concerned with, because doing these things can
directly change the place we came from and our true bodies, namely, all the
things that a god has. Particularly now, Master has asked us to do the three
things well, so only these three things are real and beyond the dreams. A few manifestations of being in dreams However, in the "dream" of the human world, we are, most of the
time, muddle-headed, and may be this way one moment and some other way at
another moment. This has caused frequent occurrences of the phenomenon that Dafa
practitioners, who possess great divine powers, are repeatedly persecuted and
mistreated by low level dark minions and rotten demons. This is the case not
only for many of the practitioners illegally put in jail, but also for
practitioners who are not arrested. The most obvious manifestation is that when
we read stories of Dafa practitioners' righteous actions and divine powers, we
unknowingly exclude ourselves from having divine powers. We see how well those
practitioners have cultivated themselves and how far we still lag behind. What
we are saying then is that we have not cultivated ourselves very well and we do
not have divine powers. Or we thought that those practitioners' divine powers
were unlocked during their cultivation, and we cannot see anything, nor can we
use our divine powers. These are, in fact, manifestations of being in dreams. I will roughly explain
some common notions as follows: 1. "I do not have divine powers" or "I do not know how to use
divine powers" This is a typical example of "being in dreams and recognizing no divine
powers." I came to understand that when we are clarifying the truth and
sending forth righteous thoughts, both of which Master has asked us to do, we
exhibit our mighty and magnificent divine powers all the time. It is just that
we are in a dream and are not aware of our divine powers. Let's talk about clarifying the truth first. It appears to be the same as
opening the mouth and talking about the principles; but in fact, it is a display
of mighty divine powers. Let's take a simplest example: When a Dafa disciple is
clarifying the truth to an ordinary person, what is really happening in other
dimensions? As the practitioner clarifies the truth, his divine sides, which are
layer upon layer and increasingly enormous, are explaining the magnificent Fa
principles they have enlightened to in their own dimensions, using the various
divine powers to benevolently awaken the numerous beings who are listening, and
eliminating the corrupt beings in all dimensions. It is increasingly more
magnificent as the level arises. However, in the human world, when the
practitioner clarifies the truth to a member of the public, it appears to be
very ordinary. The divine powers that Master has given us are not petty skills. Let us take
"Ding" [the supernormal capability of immobilizing a being, which
Master mentioned in Lecture Seven of Zhuan Falun] as an example. My
understanding is that it is not a supernormal capability of immobilizing a being
in the Three Realms. Behind it are the most supreme divine powers. For example:
one Dafa practitioner went out to distribute flyers and was seen and chased by a
bad person. While the practitioner was running, he remembered the supernormal
capabilities that Master had told him about. He turned around and said,
"Ding!" and that bad person immediately stopped and became immobile.
The fellow practitioner walked away from the danger. Think about it carefully -
this "Ding" is really unusual. So from this perspective, almost every day Dafa practitioners use great
divine powers given by Master to assist Master in rectifying the Fa in all
dimensions, clarifying the truth, and saving people. It is just that some
practitioners are still in the mystery of dreams in the human world and cannot
clearly see what is happening. So when they say, "I do not have divine
powers," it really makes the heavenly gods laugh. 2. "I am nothing and it is all done by Master" Saying it this way is no doubt correct. However, sometimes many practitioners
partially understand these words. They use similar words to negate their own
supernormal capabilities, which shows that they probably have not enlightened to
a higher level of understanding. All living beings in the universe, no matter how high their levels are, are
created by the Fa. All their wisdom and capabilities are given by Master. This
is absolutely true. However, under this precondition, any god is also almighty
to all the sentient beings below his realm. Then, we may understand it this way:
In front of Master and Dafa, we are nothing, but in front of the living beings
we try to save, and the evil beings that damage the Fa, we are almighty and have
divine powers. In fact, Master also hopes that we can act this way. How could a member of the public understand the significance of divine
powers? For a living being who has assimilated to the Fa, he automatically
possesses the wisdom and capabilities at his level. Take a simple example: When
a bacterium nearby sees a human taking up a bowl of water and drinking it up,
the bacterium would be shocked that the human is so capable, to the extent that
he even has the power of picking up a "sea" and the capacity to drink
up the "sea." But to a human, this is not a capability at all and
every human being can do it, and it is nothing important. Similarly, a god
appears to be super capable to all the beings below his level. But to the god
himself, his powers are just as usual as eating and drinking, and there is
nothing supernormal about them. It is true that all our capabilities and wisdom come from Master. We should
better use these divine powers in eliminating the evil beings and saving people.
"If your divine powers truly manifest in a magnificent way as you clarify
the facts, save beings, and defy the persecution, then all the Dafa disciples
and I will praise you." ["Teaching the Fa at the 2004 Western U.S. Fa
Conference"] For a Dafa practitioner, to think that he has no divine powers, or to show
off that he has supernormal capabilities, both indicate that his "main
consciousness" is not rational and that he cannot control himself. 3. "So-and-so has good inborn quality and they are very capable, but I
am not" This shows that the understanding of Fa-rectification has not improved to a
higher level. It is similar to the question of how to break through inborn
quality raised at this year's Western U.S. Fa Conference. In fact, Master has expounded on this issue very clearly in Zhuan Falun, "Inborn quality determines one's enlightenment quality, but this is
not absolute. Some people do not have very good inborn quality, but their
home environment is very good; many family members practice cultivation.
Some of them are also religious believers and believe very much in the
matter of cultivation practice. In this environment, one can be made to
believe in it, and this enables enlightenment quality to improve. So it is
not absolute. Some people have very good inborn quality, but due to their
being educated with that tiny bit of knowledge from our practical society,
and especially because of the absolute methods in ideological education a
few years ago, they have been made very narrow-minded and will not believe
anything beyond their knowledge. This can seriously affect their
enlightenment quality." If we talk about "inborn quality", wouldn't the supreme gods in the
old cosmos and the factors in extremely microscopic levels that keep the cosmos
existent have incredibly good "inborn quality"? Yet in the Fa-rectification,
many of these beings have very poor enlightenment quality, as they try hard to
interfere with and manipulate the Fa-rectification. On the other hand, in the eyes of these beings, many Dafa disciples'
"inborn quality" is not so good, and they even look down upon them.
(There are practitioners who have obtained the Fa even though they might not
have come from very high levels. Yet the Dafa disciples have very good
enlightenment quality, they just listen to Master and follow Master; and no
matter how they are persecuted, they are steadfast with righteous belief. About
their position in the future cosmos, Master has said, "their beings will
switch positions with those highest beings that persecuted them!" ["Teaching
and Explaining the Fa at the Metropolitan New York Fa Conference"] This is a period of time for repositioning, which is unprecedented and will
not happen in the future. "The great Fa is boundless. Cultivating it
depends entirely on your heart." [Zhuan Falun]. This sentence really
reveals all the heavenly secrets. Isn't the so-called "inborn quality"
an ingrained factor in the old cosmos? Why do we want to be attached to them in
the Fa-rectification? Thinking whether one has good or poor inborn quality is a symptom of staying
in the dream of the old cosmos without awakening, which has severely affected
the manifestation of Dafa's divine power. 4. "We should conform to the state of everyday people." Although there is nothing wrong with the above statement under many
circumstances, however, it has become an excuse to not use one's divine power. "For a practitioner, one's mind-intent dictates supernormal abilities to
do things. For an everyday person, one's mind-intent directs the four limbs and
the sensory organs to work." [Zhuan Falun] For thousands of years, we have
formed deeply ingrained habits of using our thoughts to direct our limbs and
sensory organs to deal with things we come across, whereas a god does not have
such notions at all, and his divine powers come in at the same moment as his
thoughts and everything is accomplished instantly. Of course, we have not reached complete enlightenment. In ordinary people's
society, we still use our thoughts to direct our limbs and sensory organs to do
things. But this is only an illusion in this dimension. Actually whenever we
truly accomplish something in our Fa-rectification work, with no exception, it
is the true manifestation of Dafa's divine power rectifying the Fa in other
dimensions. Everything existing in the human world is actually a reflection of
other dimensions. Changes can occur in this dimension only after there have been
changes in other dimensions. How can human beings use their limbs and sensory
organs to change things in other dimensions? 5. Take degenerate notions as garbage and continue cultivating Fellow practitioners in this kind of state often say: "I cultivate very
poorly and I have too many attachments." A God views the attachments manifested in this dimension in a different way
from humans. A God would treat those attachments as a pile of garbage in his
room, or a pile of bad apples, "keep the good ones, and remove the bad
ones," [Zhuan Falun], he would never view them as part of himself.
Especially for a Dafa disciple in the Fa-rectification period, he would treat
these attachments as sentient beings that need to be saved or as bad beings
unable to be saved. Save the savable ones and remove the unsalvageable ones, why
do we need to be attached to them? However, for practitioners who are stuck in personal cultivation, it is not
like that. Under many circumstances, he will treat the garbage as part of
himself. "I keep cultivating and cultivating, why am I still not good? Why
am I still so dirty? Why do I still have such big tests?" Because he always regards garbage as himself, although he struggles very hard
in the numerous tests placed by the evil, he still thinks that he is
"cultivating." Without strong minds, the tests will be as high as
mountains. [Hong Yin (II) unofficial translation]If one cannot strengthen
his divine thoughts and cannot firmly focus on saving sentient beings, the tests
will be truly like high mountains touching the clouds in the sky. No matter how
many mountains he has climbed and how tired he is, he is still a person immersed
in his dreams and cannot ascend from an ordinary person's level, let alone
manifest his profound divine powers. The above reasoning can often be heard among practitioners. While they sound
modest, in reality the meaning behind the words is nothing more than "I am
not capable. I have no divine power, only certain practitioners or practitioners
who cultivate well have divine power." All of these are signs of lacking
enlightenment or lacking belief in Master and Dafa. The next part of this article is the Fa-rectification experience of one
practitioner I know. It looks like nothing special, however it is a true display
of profound divine power. (to be continued)
Chinese version available at
http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2004/5/5/73897.html
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