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The Power of a Letter to Encourage Diligence
By a Chinese practitioner from Europe
(Clearwisdom.net) Today, my husband translated for a fellow Chinese disciple, the contents a
letter a western practitioner wrote to that disciple. The goal of this letter
was to encourage this Chinese disciple to really be diligent in Dafa
cultivation. After hearing the content of this letter, this fellow disciple was
moved to the point that his voice started to quiver. After this fellow
practitioner left, my husband said to me, "My translation was not very good
(since his Chinese was not very good), however, after that fellow disciple heard
it, he was still very moved." This situation made me think very hard about what I had just witnessed. The
Chinese disciple mentioned above had been very sluggish in his cultivation
recently. Many fellow Chinese disciples, including myself, had already
approached him to speak with him about it. But the end result of these efforts
was not all that great, and many of us felt he was about to give up his
cultivation. Personally, I felt that we'd already tried our best and that choosing which
road to follow was his own affair. However, this mentality was actually one of
selfishness. I and others had been thinking to ourselves that "I've already
done what Master asked us to do, what happens now has nothing to do with
me." However, I never would have thought that a letter would really make him have
the thought of diligence. Actually, that letter was written by a western
practitioner who spent many hours on it some months ago. This western
practitioner asked us to find time to translate it to that Chinese practitioner.
However, for many different reasons the Chinese practitioner could not come
until now. It was the arrangement by Master that allowed him to listen to the
contents of this letter today. It really awoke the part of him that understood. Thinking about it really makes me feel ashamed. Master thinks of methods to
let every disciple catch up. How can we let them fall? Thinking back on it now,
every time I talked to him, inside I had already had some negative thoughts
about him. I was not at all thinking 100% for his well-being, and thus this
stopped me from showing him the power of a compassionate field. I also noted
that I had allowed my competitive mentality to distract me from this purpose;
there was always the thought of wanting to persuade others. This further
weakened the purity of the energy field of our conversation. Looking at this western practitioner who wrote the letter, he is really
solidly grounded in cultivation. Every day he fully makes use of all his time
with his work and Fa rectification matters, and yet he finds the time to
diligently study the Fa, practice the exercises and send righteous thoughts
everyday. His sleeps only a few hours a day. When he encounters something, he
never acts on impulse and always considers others first. Towards fellow
disciples, he always maintains a forgiving and forbearing heart, always looking
inward when in difficulty. This is to say, if you really want to achieve the goal of encouraging
diligence, it does not at all depend on how precise your language is, or on
whether your argument can win. The most fundamental necessity is a compassionate
heart, and a peaceful and calm mind; this is the key. Therefore, this is the reason why so many of us talked to the Chinese
practitioner face to face and yet it wasn't as powerful as the letter this
western disciple wrote. These are my personal understandings. Since my level is limited, please point
out anything inappropriate. July 14, 2005 |