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On Balancing Our Relationships With Others in Society
By a Dafa practitioner in China
(Clearwisdom.net) After the annual United Nations Human Rights
Conference this year, I read some fellow practitioners' articles. They stressed
their understanding of "putting down the attachment to results." I think there is more to this matter than just putting down the attachment to
results. I think it is also a matter regarding how practitioners balance
relationships with others. In the past, practitioners would send righteous thoughts to influence
situations. We then thought those things would develop in terms of our thoughts.
When practitioners clarified the truth to some people in society, we just
thought they should support us, however, the results have often been
disappointing. In "Teaching the Fa at the 2004 Western U.S. Fa Conference",
a practitioner asked and Teacher answered the following: "Question: Through its mechanisms, Dafa ensures that the beings in the
future won't develop attachments or selfishness even after they go through a
very long period of time in the cosmos, and thus the cosmos will be perfect
and harmonized and will never perish. Teacher: No, that's not how it is, it's not the right understanding,
and that's not the idea. Dafa is perfect and harmonized, and the fundamental
nature of the cosmos is selfless. When a being cultivates and reaches that
realm, that's how he'll become, too. The Fa has provided for all beings'
existence, the Fa has created for all beings the mechanisms of the cosmos and
the rich variety in the cosmos, and the Fa has created all beings, all the
myriad things, heaven-and-earths, human beings, and divine beings. But how the
beings conduct themselves is to a certain degree their own choice." We are very attached to other people, and by having notions of what
particular outcomes we would like to achieve, we position our choice as an
immovable force. This is undoubtedly a strong attachment. Even if we mean well
for others, we still cannot have such an attachment. If many of practitioners
think this way and are very attached, the evil will just take advantage of such
strong attachments. The evil will persecute all beings that we are attached to
with the excuse of removing our attachments. It is Dafa practitioners'
attachments that cause such things to happen in the human world and do not
benefit the Fa-rectification process. If we hope that all beings have a
wonderful future, we should strive to assimilate to Dafa even more. We should
put down the attachments to other beings, emit our rays of righteous light,
dissipate the evil and awaken them out of the slumber of confusion and into the
light of truth. My fellow practitioners, think about it: we should merely send righteous
thoughts to eliminate the evil that is attempting to harm the Fa-rectification
and poison sentient beings. We should merely clarify the truth to people and
create more chances and conditions for beings to be saved. We should let them
choose survival or elimination for themselves. Let them choose their own
futures. All lives are in Teacher's hands. No one is able to threaten the
cosmos. I can see that we did not balance relationships with others well at the Human
Rights Conference. We also struggled with the same issue during the lawsuit for
bringing Jiang to justice. We didn't balance these things well when we sent
righteous thoughts and clarified the truth. In many regards we acted very much
like people in ordinary society. I hope each of our fellow practitioners can calmly reflect on the Human
Rights Conference and the lawsuit against Jiang and other attempts to clarify
the truth. We should look within to see how many attachments we still have and
balance our relationships with more wisdom. Let's provide more opportunities for people to be saved. At the same time, we
should allow people to make their own choices. |