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Reminding Practitioners to Mind Your Speech
(Clearwisdom.net) Teacher told us in Zhuan Falun that
because of the difference between cultivation disciplines, cultivating speech
for Falun Dafa practitioners is different from other specialized cultivation
ways. However, minding what we as practitioners say, is still important. "When we open our mouths to speak we should speak in line with a
practitioner's character," "What we hold ourselves to are the
requirements for a practitioner's character, and it'll be fine as long as you
handle well what you should and shouldn't say." But I notice that some practitioners, including myself, often forget about
minding our speech. This is a loophole in our cultivation. If we don't pay
attention to this on a large scale, it may damage our Fa-validation efforts. Several days ago, a practitioner said to my mother, "October 1st is
coming. The police are looking for those homeless practitioners. They are going
to look for you soon." My mother and I heard this and we thought that we
should negate the persecution of practitioners who are homeless, and that we
should also negate what this practitioner said to us. After hearing what this practitioner said, I sent righteous thoughts at once
to negate these words. I saw my mother in a very deep dimension and in mid-air,
hung the words that practitioner had said, exactly as we had heard it. The way
that sentence seemed to exist was similar to an order that is input into a
computer, waiting to be executed. It was not exactly like that, but it gave a
feeling that the sentence would be carried out sooner or later. I was shocked. I only knew from studying the Fa that what we
practitioners say carries energy. Since I talk a lot in daily life, after a
while, I stopped paying much attention to minding my speech anymore. I didn't
realize that what we say is actually recorded somewhere, and stays somewhere in
a form of material existence. I sent forth strong righteous thoughts to clear
away that sentence. Strong energy went out from my body and the sentence in that
other dimension broke up immediately. Later, I reflected on my own cultivation of speech. I knew that I didn't do
well in minding my words, especially with regard to family issues. I wanted to
correct myself but didn't succeed. I wanted to clean up my own dimensions. Using
my Celestial Eye, I saw, in my own dimensions, so many sentences, one after
another, that they covered a big mountain! I was very anxious. None of these
sentences were in accordance with the Fa. How could I cultivate like this! I
wanted to clean them out, but there were so many of them that I almost lost my
confidence. At this moment a single thought appeared, "All of what I have
said in the past, if it is not up to the standard of the Fa, let it all be
cleaned up and do not let it have any effect." As soon as I had this
thought, all those words were gone! This was much easier than when I sent
righteous thoughts to clean up the sentence said by that other practitioner, and
it was much cleaner. Of course what I saw was only at a low level. Afterward, I remembered many times when meeting with fellow practitioners,
especially since the persecution started, how so many times what we talk about
is based on human considerations. We use our life experiences and everyday
people's logic to comment, criticize, or even make decisions. In this way many
things are possibly negatively affected. In order to mind our speech, the first very basic step is actually minding
our thoughts. If our thoughts are righteous, we would not say anything which
should not be said by practitioners. I saw what I saw today, and it made me
realize the seriousness of the Fa our Teacher taught us. But I only believed it
when I saw it, I did not take it seriously when I didn't see it; isn't my
enlightenment poor? I realized now that every sentence Teacher said is Fa. We
should "let each and everything be measured against the Fa. Only then, with
that, is it actually cultivation." (Hong Yin) I would also like to wish Teacher a happy Mid-Autumn Festival. The above are my personal thoughts, please point out anything improper. |