The Wonder of Having Every Thought Assimilated to the Fa
(Clearwisdom.net) In the past, I had a hard time understanding
Master's words "Purging evil as if but whisking dust away." ("A
Will that Ebbs Not") I felt that I did not have that capability and
cultivation realm. However several recent incidents made me realize that it's
actually very easy for me to have that kind of capability and cultivation realm.
As long as I have faith in the Fa "from the depth of my mind," that
is, as long as I assimilate myself to the Fa, Dafa will endow me with the
boundless power of the Fa, and I will be all-powerful. In this way, I will be
able to achieve the best impact validating the Fa. Once I went to install a satellite device that receives New Tang Dynasty
Television (NTDTV) signals. On the way, I felt a kind of mental pressure
(burden), which was very heavy. I thought: "I have already installed the
same satellite receiver several times and it was not difficult. It must be that
evil in another dimensions is trying to stop me. This evil being able to
interfere with me indicated that I needed improvement in my understanding of the
Fa and I needed to use the Fa to eradicate it. Looking back at what I had thought about during the prior installations, I
had considered the "installations" as the same activities that
ordinary people do in human society. Through Fa study, I was reminded again: We are bringing a magical instrument
to the sentient beings for their salvation, we are bringing blessings and hopes
to them, and we are cooperating with fellow practitioners at NTDTV in clarifying
the truth. In this dimension, it is a satellite receiver, while in other
dimensions it is a powerful weapon that can eradicate the evil and give off
enormous positive energy! With such a change in my mindset, I immediately felt
that the mental stress was gone. During the subsequent installation, I also felt
very relaxed and the installation went very smoothly. What happened later made me even more clearheaded. One evening, my wife did
not feel well. I told her to recite: "Falun Dafa is good." However,
she reacted negatively, contrary to her previous understanding, saying, "It
does not work at all!" I was puzzled and asked her, "Two days ago you
said it really worked." She said angrily, "I did not say that!"
(Several days ago, she said emotionally, "Reciting 'Dafa is good' really
works.") I initially wanted to argue with her, but I realized that I was moved by her
reaction as I had already become a little irritated. I thus kept my mouth shut
so as not to be misled by demonic interference, become irrational and fall into
its trap. Usually when I think that I cannot control myself well, I adopt this
approach of stepping back. One day passed. I had carefully thought over this issue and found that I
could be easily moved and could not jump out of the emotions that exist between
a husband and wife. Additionally, what was most important was that my
understanding of "Falun Dafa is good" was not very clear. In other
words, I could not understand "Dafa is good" from the depth of my mind
(This is also a common problem that many fellow practitioners have had, that is,
their understanding of "Dafa is good" is only on a superficial level
and it does not originate from the bottom of their hearts.) After I found the root cause of the problem and upgraded my understanding, I
said to my wife the next day, "You were not sincere enough. Reciting 'Dafa
is good' certainly works." My wife, who usually likes arguing, was very
agreeable this time. She nodded her head, "Yes, Yes, Yes, I was not very
sincere." I was surprised at her change of attitude. After regaining my
poise, I came to understand the following: My having understood that layer of
the Fa means that I have assimilated myself to that layer of the Fa, so that Fa
will manifest the power of Dafa; it is that level of the Fa that is restricting
everything. If I had used my human notions to argue with her, no matter how
correct my words had sounded, how many principles I had told her, and how
meaningful my words had been, what I said was still something at the human level
and could not restrain the factors behind her. Furthermore, I could still be
easily moved by her emotions. We should be clear that saving sentient beings is essentially done by Master
Li. Our actions, only by being based on the Fa, can then manifest the power of
the Fa. Otherwise, however varied our actions are in their formality and however
huge our actions are in scale, we cannot save the sentient beings, but could
also inflict much damage on other Dafa disciples. In one region, the Dafa practitioners there are very determined in their
cultivation. They have not surrendered, even under very cruel torture. The
vicious people became frightened even when hearing the name of the region. The
practitioners there are very "unified" in their validating the Fa.
When they decided to post truth clarification materials, the materials were
posted everywhere in the whole city overnight. They have earned the respect of
practitioners from the surrounding regions. However, according to what I and
several other practitioners have observed, the only shortcoming this region's
practitioners have is in their understanding, from the aspect of the Fa, of
saving sentient beings with compassion. This understanding is essential. Here
are several examples about the practitioners in this region: One older Dafa practitioner was tortured to death and his organs were removed
in an autopsy, which had drawn sympathy from many local residents. CCP
government branches all shunned the incident, as they were afraid of being held
responsible. Dafa practitioners held a funeral. On the way to the burial, the
practitioners passed by the CCP government branches that had committed the
crime. The practitioners shouted: "Falun Dafa is good" and played Dafa
music. The evil authorities did not dare to show up. The Minghui website
reported the story. The practitioners in many regions were very encouraged by
this and they became excited. Three months later, the CCP started to arrest Dafa
practitioners on a large scale, and the loss that resulted was huge. Actually the issue is not that the practitioners had done things incorrectly,
but whether the practitioners, while they did it, had realized, from the bottom
of their hearts, that this "formality" was neither for upholding an
ordinary people's sense of righteousness, nor for an accounting of their own
sufferings. This formality should solely be used for waking up sentient beings,
including those who had committed the evil. It should be for their sake that the
practitioners had done it that way. If the practitioners had this understanding
and known this layer of the Fa (which was from the bottom of their hearts), the
evil would have absolutely dared not to arrest the practitioners because the Fa
is restricting everything and the Fa at this higher realm would have already
eliminated these factors "Cultivation is a solemn thing. I want you to cultivate into gods, and
in that process you are able to validate the Fa. That is why I have imparted the
Dafa to you, and why I have given you unprecedented, eternal glory. It is not to
have you simply become a hero among everyday people in counteracting the
persecution. Rather, it is to have you validate the Fa while negating the old
forces' arrangements and opposing the persecution, and to, through this,
progress towards godhood." ("Master's Fa Taught in the International
Teleconference" on January 19, 2004) Once many of the practitioners in that region cooperated with each other and
posted Falun Dafa Association announcements everywhere in the city. The next day
the police drove many vehicles around everywhere to tear down the announcements.
Some practitioners became very excited, "The evil is overpowering us."
The practitioners indeed had the righteous thoughts to carry out this task and
they had cooperated very well, which was hardly the case in many of the other
regions. However, as Dafa practitioners' understanding of the Fa should be in a
constantly rising state, the practitioners' state in that region, if evaluated
according to the principles of higher realms, was not right. Let's think about what the true purpose of our posting those announcements
was. Was it to make the evil busy in tearing down the announcements and then
continue their wrongdoings? Of course, it was not. We wanted to save them and
not let them continue their evil path, so as to let them avoid the terrible
outcome that will come to them in the near future. Our doing that way reflects
our being responsible for their lives' eternity. It absolutely did not mean that
we were fighting with them. How many practitioners had the mentality of
"venting" their hostility when they posted the announcements? Because there was no Fa strengthening the practitioners, the evil was able to
manipulate the bad people to do things. This is a problem that practitioners who
are just busy for the sake of doing things need to think about. For every matter, if we can filter it and see if we have understood it
according to the Fa and if we understood the specific thing from the depths of
our minds, we can then completely change our original state and become genuine
Dafa disciples. Master said, "If every one of you can understand the Fa from the depths of your
mind, that will truly be the manifestation of the Fa whose power knows no
boundary--the reappearance of the mighty Buddha Fa in the human world!"
("Cautionary Advice" in Essentials for Further Advancement) For those practitioners who are accustomed to their previous understandings
and cultivation states, if they want to change their states, based on my
understanding, they need to pay attention to three aspects: First, they need to
grasp the relationship between understanding the Fa and "doing" the
work; they need to clearly understand that it is the Fa that actually does the
work. Some practitioners have said, "What you have said is too theoretical. It
does not work if we do not do the work." There were some practitioners who
were attached to just doing things, saying, "I feel it too bothersome and
complicated to follow what you have said. It is nice to be simple." These
practitioners are just busy doing things for the sake of doing things and they
have not paid enough attention to upgrading themselves in their understanding of
the Fa. This means that they still fundamentally think that it is they, rather
than Dafa, who will actually accomplish the work; they have incorrectly inverted
the relationship and they have put the cart before the horse. Indeed, we must do the work, and it also takes time to understand the Fa
principles, but the key is to clearly recognize which is fundamental. The
correct relationship, based on my understanding, is that it is Master, and Dafa,
that actually do the work, while our doing must be founded on our assimilation
to the Fa. When we have assimilated ourselves to the Fa, the Fa will, of course,
strengthen us and we will have the power of the Fa and be able to validate the
Fa. Therefore, what the fellow practitioners meant by this being
"theoretical" actually refers to the profoundness and broadness of the
Fa. This is exactly the understanding that we Dafa practitioners need to have. Of course, it is not wrong for us to be at different levels and have
different realms during certain cultivation stages. However, to truly assimilate
ourselves to the Fa, we need to have clear understandings of the Fa principles. Second, we need to dare to give up our attachments to ego and our human
notions. As the Fa is right there before us, the key is if we can let go of the
attachments and human notions that are blocking our vision. After we let them
go, we will then see all the brightness and glory of Dafa. Actually, that
so-called ego is a false one. What is the use of getting attached to it? Third, we need to rectify ourselves bit by bit and form a mechanism. We are
already accustomed to our previous understandings. Once we want to change them,
even when we have already had new understandings, we may not be able to change
them immediately. We need to gradually form a new mechanism, just like the
transformation of qi to gong. I hope every practitioner, when doing anything, can think about or try to
understand whether he or she has truly understood the issue from the depth of
his or her mind. When giving out a flyer, having a conversation with others, or
participating in a Fa activity, one needs to check if one has based oneself
correctly or not. In this way, Dafa's mighty power will manifest. More strictly
speaking, on every issue and every day, if we have gained new understandings of
the Fa, we are then in the most correct state. If this is the case, the
mechanism will get stronger and stronger and it will manifest a greater power of
the Fa. Overall, only by understanding things from the Fa can one get strengthened by
the Fa and manifest the Fa's power. Only by doing this way can one genuinely
validate the Fa. November 13, 2006
2. Change the mindset of "doing things just for the sake of doing
things"
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