The Attachment to Time

By a Falun Dafa Practitioner from China

(Clearwisdom.net) In the past several years, in spite of the vicious persecution of practitioners, we have followed Teacher in Fa rectification and saving sentient beings. However, some practitioners' attachment to the times when the persecution ends and when we reach consummation, as well as them hoping that some ordinary person, organization or some political gathering could help to end the persecution, caused damage to Fa rectification and the practitioners' own improvement. The attachment has also been used by the evil to interfere and disrupt Fa rectification. The lesson is heavy and painful. Of course, some practitioners don't want to strive forward in their practice and don't care about time. They find all kinds of excuses for themselves for not clarifying the truth and following the Fa rectification process. This is a different situation, cause by different attachments and human notions, and it needs to be discussed in another article. This article talks about practitioners who have an attachment to the ending times.

With the speedy progress of Fa rectification, we feel more and more the urgency to save sentient beings.

What Teacher said is not meant to be a schedule for us to follow and get attached to, nor is it intended for us to form an attachment to time. It was Teacher's encouragement. We should do better what we are supposed to do, keep up our righteous thoughts and actions, and go along with changes in the cosmic climate.

When we clarify the truth, we can quote the passage from Teacher's "New Year's Greetings" mentioned above, but like a practitioner said in an experience sharing article, we don't need to repeatedly emphasize it. Practitioners in different areas have read various prophecies, which told us similar things. These prophecies described what will happen to the human society, especially China. It also stated clearly when these would happen. If we want to use these prophecies to warn people when clarifying truth to them, we need to be careful. We should not mention specific times when predicted events will happen. This way, if the event does not happen at the time stated in the prophecies (I think it will definitely happen at a later time,) people wouldn't be left with the wrong impression of us.

Actually, no matter whether the prophecies happen as predicted or not, their predicted events are, to some degree, in line with the changes that will be brought by the Fa rectification's great force. Therefore, we should not have attachment to time when specific event happens. We are not attached to the prophecies. We are also not afraid if the prophecies do happen as predicted.
Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/3/30/98405.html

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