Studying the Fa Well is the Essential Requirement for Taking the Right Path
By a Falun Dafa practitioner from Northeast China
(From The Second Mainland China Internet Experience Sharing Conference) (Clearwisdom.net) I started practicing Dafa eight years ago. Under
Teacher's benevolent protection, I persevered through tribulations and
persecution. With more in-depth Fa study, I came to truly understand the great
mission of saving sentient beings that Falun Dafa disciples carry. After July 20 1999, I went to Beijing to validate the Fa several times. In
2000, I was illegally detained and sentenced to three years imprisonment. When
reading Teacher's article "Rationality," I came to realize that being
willingly detained at a forced labor camp is the same as agreeing to be taken
away by the evil. When I enlightened to this, the labor camp unconditionally
released me. During these past few years as I distributed truth-clarification materials or
clarified the truth face-to-face, I often faced danger. However,
each time Teacher helped me and rescued me. My understanding is that as long as
we believe in Teacher and Dafa on our cultivation path, we can brave through
anything no matter how difficult it appears to be. 2. Selfishness and denying the old forces Teacher published his comments in the article "Expose the Evil Happening
Locally to the Local People" on November 17, 2003. http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2003/11/17/42315.html Teacher asked us to expose the vicious people and the inhumane persecution in
our own areas. However, I had a strong attachment of fear at that time. I
quivered at the thought of exposing the evil. With more Fa study, I came to
realize that I had the following issues. First, I took the attachment of fear as
myself while in fact it was the evil in other dimensions that was afraid to be
exposed. Secondly, I didn't understand what Teacher said from the Fa. Therefore
I made judgments based on everyday people's notions that exposing the evils
would make the persecution even worse. Thirdly, I wasn't aware that exposing the
evil saves sentient beings. When I looked inside, I became clear on the Fa principles. Soon I got rid of
the elements that caused my attachment of fear. The part of me that obtained the
Fa started to take control. I publicized all the persecution that I suffered in
the previous few years without missing anything. The evil elements that
interfered with my validating the Fa completely disintegrated. I came to realize
that we cannot just say we deny the old forces. We should do what Teacher tells
us to do. When we do that, we are truly denying the old forces and we are truly
walking down the cultivation path arranged by Teacher. The evil persecution was
forced on us by the old forces. Teacher told us, "And you shouldn't acknowledge them either. Do things well in an
upright and dignified way, negate them, and strengthen your righteous thoughts
some. 'I'm Li Hongzhi's disciple, I don't want other arrangements or
acknowledge them'" ("Explaining the Fa During the 2003 Lantern
Festival at the U.S. West Fa Conference") 3. A sense of being one body For several years I had been busy clarifying the truth. One day, a fellow
practitioner said something that suddenly made me remember what Teacher said
about improving as one body. There were still so many fellow practitioners that
hadn't stepped forward. If I could distribute one hundred truth-clarifying
handouts, then we could have distributed one thousand handouts if we had ten
practitioners doing this. Being one body is powerful. We Dafa practitioners are
all particles of the Fa. Yet, we are one body. Therefore, it will affect the
whole body if one of the particles has problems. Hasn't Teacher been waiting for
us to improve as one body? I started to visit fellow practitioners to share
understandings on the Fa. I finally came out of my personal cultivation state
and began carrying out my mission of saving sentient beings. 4. Only by continuously correcting ourselves can we take the right
cultivation path Since the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party was
published, we had more things to do along our cultivation path. Besides helping
people know the truth of the Fa, we need to lead them to read the Nine
Commentaries so they can see through the evil characteristics of the Chinese
Communist Party and quit the party and its organizations. This is to help save
people as well. After Fa-study and reading the Nine Commentaries myself,
I came to know that we are here to save the world's people. Therefore, I tried
my best to keep a pure heart, a heart to save people, when I clarified the truth
to them. I'm not separated from other people, whether they are my relatives, my
friends, or strangers. They are all my family. They are all waiting earnestly
for Dafa practitioners to save them! Don't forget: "Dafa disciples are now sentient beings' only, sole hope for
salvation." ("Righteous Thoughts") During the process of clarifying the truth, I gradually got rid of my
selfishness. The old cosmos is selfish while the new one requires we consider
others first. Fa-rectification Dafa disciples should continuously rectify
ourselves to reach the standard of the new cosmos. I read Teacher's latest
articles. I feel that as the Fa-rectification progresses, the Fa's requirements
on practitioners are higher and higher. Therefore we need to study the Fa well
and continuously correct ourselves. We need to be righteous in everything that
we do. We need to accumulate our mighty virtue. Being "......full of great
aspirations while minding minor details," we can save more people.
("Sage" from Essentials for Further Advancement) On our final
path to godhood, we must walk it righteously so as not to let down Teacher and
the sentient beings that have high expectations of us. The above are my personal understandings. Please correct me if I said
anything inappropriate.
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