(Clearwisdom.net) Some practitioners still feel confused or find it difficult to "step forward" to clarify the truth to people. It's hard for them to regard truth-clarifying as an important matter in their daily cultivation. It's even harder for them to clarify the truth to colleagues, neighbors and strangers. However, it's actually not that hard if you know how. "Stepping forward" does not mean that one has to go out on the street everyday to tell strangers about Dafa. Instead, it means to "step out" from the confinement of human attachments and truly keep one's mind on Fa-rectification cultivation.
When a Dafa practitioner keeps his mind on saving sentient beings, opportunities often come unexpectedly. People even come to ask you questions or raise issues that easily lead to clarifying the truth. There is no rigid rule on how much you should talk or what you should say. Instead, you just talk to as many people as you can and do your best to be considerate of them. Skills come from practice. Every time you talk to people, you accumulate experience, lessons and material for the next time. It also provides a good opportunity for you to improve your cultivation, temper your will, and expand your wisdom.
Dafa cultivation is different from any other cultivation way or discipline in history. Cultivation improves one's character. If a conflict doesn't stir you up, then it doesn't count, especially in Fa-rectification cultivation. In the process of clarifying the truth to people who don't understand the truth, are misled by the evil party and refuse to listen to the truth, we not only provide life buoys to them, we give ourselves the opportunity to climb the heavenly ladder to elevate ourselves.
The requirements of Dafa cultivation are completely different from those of any cultivation ways of the past. A cultivator must follow the requirements of the specific discipline he cultivates. He cannot successfully cultivate unless he does so. Now that we are cultivating Falun Dafa, we surely cannot cultivate based upon our assumptions and understandings about cultivation ways in the past. We must follow the requirements of Dafa cultivation. Teacher has repeatedly told us to let go of human attachments and to clarify the truth to people, i.e., to do the three things well. These are the requirements of Fa-rectification cultivation.
Fa-rectification cultivation requires every practitioner to do every one of the three things well, that is, to study the Fa and cultivate one's character, to send righteous thoughts, and to clarify the truth. These are very high requirements. However, it doesn't mean that they are too high to attain.
I believe that those practitioners who find it hard to step forward are capable of doing it if they truly want to cultivate. Here is why. You have decided to cultivate Dafa, and Teacher has made it very clear that clarifying the truth is an essential path to doing so. We should let go of our human attachments and our attachments to past cultivation disciplines, and do what Teacher has told us to do. Learning while doing is most effective. Cultivation and returning to our true selves are most important, and one of the most important things we are supposed to do in Dafa cultivation is to clarify the truth. Then, as Dafa practitioners, how can we not regard clarifying the truth as an essential part of our daily lives? As long as we go ahead and talk to people, we will naturally expand our audience. The more we talk to others, the better skills we will have. The more we talk to others, the richer and more valuable we will feel about our lives.
If a person always tries to figure out how to swim while standing on the shore and doesn't get into the water to practice swimming, he will never learn how to swim and never experience the freedom and joy of swimming. He can never swim to the beautiful "shore on the other side." Fa-rectification cultivation has not ended yet. Everyone still has the opportunity. Opportunity knocks but once, so let us seize the time to step forward to clarify truth to people!