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A Single Thought Can Show One to Be a Divine Being or a Human Being
By a Dafa practitioner in Mainland China
(Clearwisdom.net) "What's meant by "not proper thoughts"? It's when somebody
always has a hard time thinking of himself as a practitioner" (Zhuan
Falun) I understand this to mean that it is wrong for one to "always [have] a
hard time thinking of himself as a practitioner," so one should always
think of oneself as a practitioner. One should think of oneself as a
practitioner at every moment, in every place, and in every situation! Master
said in Zhuan Falun, "When we talk about real enlightening it has to do with whether we
can, while we're cultivating, come to understand that we're cultivators when
we run into difficulty; with whether we can understand and accept the Law that
the master teaches, or the Dao that a Daoist master teaches; and with whether
we can, in the process of cultivating, do things in line with that Law." Dafa practitioners are all familiar with these words. Although it is not easy
to truly follow these words, it can become easy once one's mentality changes.
Differences in one's thoughts show the difference between a divine being and a
human being. I'll relate three senior fellow practitioners' experiences just for reference
in your own cultivation. Once a senior practitioner became muddle-headed because of high blood
pressure and was brought to the hospital by his children. He persisted in
studying the Fa in the hospital but was forced to stay there for one
month. The second time this happened, he could not even leave his bed because of
severe rectal bleeding. Afraid of losing his human body, he agreed to stay in
the hospital. He did not pass the test, so it recurred for a third time. This
time the symptoms were abdominal pain and vomiting blood. He reflected on the
lessons learned during the previous two episodes. For several days, he persisted
in studying the Fa and sending forth righteous thoughts, and he did not go to
the hospital. I happened to study the Fa with him at that time. We studied the
passage in which Master said in Zhuan Falun, "You're a cultivator, so if you always consider yourself an ordinary
person and always think these things are health problems, then how are you
going to cultivate? When calamity strikes during your cultivation, if you
still consider yourself an ordinary person, I'd say your character dropped to
the level of ordinary people at that time. Or at least with this one thing
you've dropped to the level of ordinary people." I said, "We have not paid much attention to these words that we often
read. Master has compassionately advised us many times that our character drops
to the level of ordinary people when we think these things are health
problems." The man said, "It is an issue of the extent to which one
believes in Master and Fa!" Then this practitioner went to the toilet
again. But he came back immediately and said, "My abdominal pain is gone,
and I'm not vomiting blood any longer." I saw his back straighten up, too.
It works if you truly believe it. Yet another person, who works as a manager, said that he did not come to Dafa
cultivation for the sake of healing illness, because he did not have any
illness. He decided to cultivate simply because he thought Dafa was great. But
when his abdomen ached dramatically, and he burped and vomited as well, his
family could not cope. When he was so weak that he could barely talk, his family
brought him to the hospital against his will. When his symptoms recurred several
days later, he refused to go to the hospital no matter what his family and
friends said. I visited him when I heard this. Together we analyzed the
situation: if it was karma elimination arranged by Master, it would not have
affected his work or his doing the three things, so it must be
interference from the evil. But even if it is interference from the evil, one
has to look at oneself and ask, "Why is it interfering with me?" He
looked inside and sent forth righteous thoughts with me to eliminate the evil
that interfered with him. In time his body gradually returned to normal. Later
on when the symptoms recurred, he calmly studied the Fa. When he had studied to
a certain paragraph, he felt that he was a human being in cultivation, i.e., a
divine being, with whom nothing could interfere. No more than a minute after
having this thought, he completely recovered. He shuddered with emotion,
"The difference in one thought can determine if someone is a divine being
or a human being!" Another example concerns my wife and me. We cultivate together. Several days
ago she had a stomachache and vomited. She was in so much pain that she kept
rolling around in the bed. She searched inside and said, "I ate a green
onion today and I did not cultivate very well, either." I said, "Yes,
cultivating is serious. It is cultivating for Buddhahood!" I asked her to
look for her problem in her xinxing as I sent forth righteous
thought with her and read her the book. Her symptoms would still come and go. Although
our children know that we have never fallen sick or taken any medicine for ten
years, when they saw her turning over and over all night, they insisted that she
go to the hospital. She kept her faith and refused to go. Afterwards, she
kneeled down in the bed and begged Master again and again. I said, "Still
you are not looking inside hard enough. Your determination to better yourself is
not strong enough!" I again read her fellow practitioners' experience
sharing articles. She enlightened, "I am a Dafa practitioner walking on the
way to Godhood. The righteous thought that I send out is powerful and can
definitely conquer all tribulations!" Immediately after this she completely
recovered. When our children rushed to our house after hearing about her
situation, their mother seemed as if nothing had happened to her. Our children
felt that Dafa was really supernormal! Master said In "Teaching the Fa at the 2002 Fa Conference in
Philadelphia, U.S.A.": "You are Gods, and you are the future rulers of different cosmoses, so
who would you count on? All the beings are counting on you! That's truly how
it is." Faith in Dafa and thinking of oneself as a God make one a God. Always
thinking of oneself as having health problems makes one an ordinary person. June 20, 2005 |