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A Discussion About Cultivation While Teaching and Learning Computer Technologies
By a practitioner in China
(Clearwisdom.net) An encounter between fellow practitioners the other day
made me think of the need for practitioners to teach and learn basic PC know-how
from one another. Due to some problems with my home PC, a fellow practitioner
who is a computer expert traveled a few hundred miles to help me out. For
various reasons, he had to rush in and out within one day. New issues arose
after he fixed my original problem. When I asked him some questions, this
practitioner just briefly said, "It is very simple." This situation
made me realize that it might be easy for the one with the knowledge but very
difficult for the one without it. Usually a technical practitioner will turn down a request for help from local
practitioners perhaps due to security concerns. As to what I mentioned above, I would like to discuss my personal
realization: among fellow practitioners we need to have a mutual understanding.
We should understand that the technical practitioners have taken on a lot of
responsibility and have been working very hard. They have to solve many
breakdown problems at various material production sites as well as answer user
questions and teach practitioners who are beginning users how to use computers.
They have contributed so much to the blossoming new sites and to the normal
operation of materials sites. Too many frequent repairs and too frequent
questions may make the technical practitioners get tired or become impatient. On
the other hand, teaching computer technologies to fellow practitioners is a
process of self-cultivation practice for the technical practitioners. It is not
to solve users' problems in the ordinary world but something to elevate one's
Xinxing and a process to improve ones understanding of the Fa. Meanwhile, when one meets any trouble while using a computer, one should
remain cool and deal with it as a practitioner should. Yes, when a computer
system encounters various troubles, the user may become very anxious for the day
lost or the time lost in saving sentient beings. But should getting anxious when
things do not go smoothly be a practitioner's state of mind? Only if one is
cool-headed will one be able to do things well and bring into play a
practitioner's wisdom. That is point one. Practitioners who do not have PC knowledge are new users so they are not
familiar with computer terminology. When technical practitioners briefly mention
what seems to be a simple thing, it is equivalent to saying nothing at all. Thus
in teaching, the technical practitioners need to be sympathetic to the learning
practitioners' difficulty in picking up the knowledge. This way, all may
accomplish the complementing effects of practicing cultivation and doing work.
This is point two. Point three is as follows. There are too many things in a PC for the novice
practitioner to use. This situation needs the empathy and understanding of the
technical practitioners. In the meantime, those new users should not deal with
the temporary difficulty with an ordinary person's viewpoint. Cultivation
practice is supernormal. As long as one studies the Fa well and tries to do
things with heart, it will go smoothly. In short, we will get nowhere if we try
to solve our lack of technical knowledge and computer system problems with
ordinary methods. When encountering computer troubles, many practitioners will immediately take
it to be a deficiency in their cultivation practice. As soon as the attachment
is let go, the computer trouble disappears by itself. In some cases, sending
forth righteous thoughts to eliminate interference is effective too. With a pure
heart, some young practitioners are able to break through the CCP's Internet
blockade with simple technology. Young practitioners are skillfully using
various ways of clarifying Falun Gong truth and saving sentient beings through
the Internet. Based on their solid cultivation practice, some senior
practitioners with not much computer background are also able to quickly learn
how to get onto the Internet and to use computer systems in making truth
materials. There have been many supernormal cases that fellow practitioners did
not write out for sharing due to safety concerns. But from Fa
principles we may comprehend that, with righteous thoughts and pure hearts, a
practitioner's supernormal abilities can manifest in many ways. As Dafa practitioners, we are not doing ordinary people's technical work.
What we are doing in getting rid of computer troubles, solving a problem,
teaching a fellow practitioner to be a user, or establishing a new truth
materials site. It is all for disintegrating evil on our path of validating the
Fa. To do it well and not to let it become an everyday person's task, both the
teaching and the learning practitioners must study more Fa. We should constantly elevate ourselves within the Fa and keep sending forth
righteous thoughts frequently so as to reduce or eliminate computer system
troubles and to learn computer technologies well and with supernormal speed (for
our purpose of saving other people). |