Reviewing "Digging Out the Roots"

By a Falun Gong practitioner in China

(Clearwisdom.net) Teacher said,

"At the crucial moment when I ask you to break away from humanness, you do not follow me. Each opportunity will not occur again. Cultivation practice is a serious matter. The distance has become greater and greater. It is extremely dangerous to add anything human to cultivation practice."

("Digging Out the Roots" in Essentials for Further Advancement)

Teacher said, "Each opportunity will not occur again." But he keeps giving us less diligent disciples new opportunities to break away from humanness in order to save us. Unfortunately, we kept wasting these opportunities, so the distance between diligent disciples and us less diligent ones "has become greater and greater." Although Teacher keeps reminding us that time is especially pressing, we less diligent disciples feel that time crawls because we are reluctant to break away from humanness. Driven by our human attachments and by our lack of compassion, we even wish the Fa-rectification would enter the human realm immediately.

Now I realize I have an extremely filthy and selfish heart. I only care about my completion of cultivation practice, and do not care about the world's people. Even by the standards of a non-cultivator, I am terribly selfish.

Teacher said,

"So what kind of being deserves to be a Disciple of Dafa? [...] those who only want to gain from Dafa but don't want to give for Dafa?"

("My Version of a 'Stick Wake-up'")

Isn't it obvious that I am one of the disciples that Teacher reproached in this article?

Teacher said,

"Compassion comes from a person's cultivation, and it's not something that's acted out; it comes from deep inside, and it's not something done to show others." (From "Teaching the Fa at the 2003 Washington DC Fa Conference")

Only when we are cultivating our compassion will we truly have a peaceful mind impervious to any human thought.

Teacher said,

"As long as the Fa-rectification hasn't entered the human world you still have a chance." ("Teaching the Fa at the 2003 Atlanta Fa Conference")

Meanwhile, we still have a chance to offer the world's people Teacher's salvation. Someday the Fa-rectification will enter the human realm. Between now and the advent of the Fa-rectification in the human realm, any of our worldly or selfish attachments will interfere with or even undermine the Fa-rectification. If we should allow ourselves to interfere with or undermine the Fa-rectification, we will create a terrible sin beyond imagination and we will have no chance of reaching Consummation.

We less diligent practitioners must not gamble with our own lives any longer. Teacher does not want to leave any practitioner behind because Teacher is compassionate. But Teacher also said,

"The Fa is merciful to all beings, but at the same time it's solemn and dignified. And the Fa has standards, before sentient beings it's unchanging and unbreakable, and it's not something that can be influenced casually. I can be merciful to sentient beings, but, when a being has really violated something to that extent, the Fa is there to judge him, and any further mercy would be excessive, it would be the same as destroying itself, so beings like that are marked for elimination." ("Fa-Lecture During the 2003 Lantern Festival at the U.S. West Fa Conference")

We must grasp the limited amount of time available to us to strive forward in our cultivation practice. We must save ourselves while offering Teacher's salvation to the world's people in order to live up to the magnificent title of Falun Gong practitioners in the Fa-rectification period.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2005/3/4/96589.html

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