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Walk in the Fa and Do the Three Things Well: What is Fundamental to Breaking Through the Arrangements of the Old Forces
By Shanguo
(Clearwisdom.net) The things that happened to other practitioners and me
over the past few years shared common features; this made my think about
them deeply. It was not that I did not understand, but I always felt that my
understanding was not deep enough and did not transcend the superficial. Put
another way, it is a state that we fall into of tiredly thinking about and
resolving each problem at a particular moment. Recently, through studying the
Fa and cultivating my xinxing, some of my human
attachments that were ignored in the past have been eliminated, and my
understanding of such issues is clearer. I'd like to share my understanding
here. What are these phenomena we encounter? For example, when encountering
problems, some practitioners cannot identify what their problems are. Moreover,
they cannot improve their understanding of the Fa principles. They remain
puzzled for quite a period of time, and then the tribulation diminishes and
disappears naturally. Some practitioners remain despondent and within a certain frame of mind.
Though aware that they are not cultivating diligently, they lack the will to
break through. Yet, they are not totally away from doing the three
things, they are simply not diligent. After a period of time they suddenly
feel that they no longer think in the same way as before, and they become
diligent again. This is not because they have cultivated diligently and made a
breakthrough. Their poor status seems to have improved because of torment. For
example, some practitioners' tribulations, which may appear as sickness karma,
are sometimes violent and sometimes mild. They are in the tribulation for a long
time; however, at a certain point in time it suddenly disappears without any
explainable reason. Another example is when practitioners are illegally detained
for a very long time, and then released when the term is due. Some practitioners are attached to qing, human desire and ego.
Then they are provided with the conditions that promoted their attachment to
"qing" (for the family or between man and woman). They lost their way
and walked their path under the control of their attachment towards their ruin,
as if controlled by inertia. Today they attend sham lectures, tomorrow they
indulge in fantasy. There are some individuals in various areas who claim they
are extraordinary, defame Master and deny Dafa. To practitioners who truly
cultivate, such people and such behavior are totally irrational and even
associated with evil. Actually, isn't it because they have walked the path
arranged by the old forces and have been totally controlled by the evil? If one
does not let go of any attachment, especially those attachments that one should
eliminate as soon as one starts to cultivate, the old forces will regard him or
her as not qualified to be a Fa-rectification period Dafa practitioner. The old
forces will then arrange for him or her to do all sorts of bad things and even
commit crimes against Dafa. The old forces will make this person a puppet under
their control, and with the willingness to comply with the old forces, this
person will step with his or her own feet into the ruin arranged by the old
forces. There are all sorts of such phenomena. The above-mentioned are just a small
portion and are only what all can see. Through studying Master's lectures again
and again and with my cultivation experience in the past several years, I've
seen that the old forces have made their arrangements in such detail that their
arrangements are almost everywhere. I have a deep feeling about this. But I have
also seen that when we Dafa practitioners, including myself, talked about
identifying or breaking through the arrangements of the old forces, we used to
do so from or within those arrangements. Therefore we often did not break
through them at all. If we are unable to truly distinguish them and do not have
time to carefully distinguish them, how can we talk about making fundamental
breakthroughs? Further, we are not supposed to cultivate within the interference
and persecution by the old forces, nor should we live for the purpose of
distinguishing and breaking through the arrangements of the old forces. If we
intentionally regard things as easy or simple, or as complicated, it won't be
objective; nor can we truly achieve the effect of breaking through the
arrangements of the old forces. The most important things that we Fa-rectification practitioners should do
are the three things required by Master, and we need to mature in this
cultivation process and save sentient beings. This is most important, and Master
has made it very clear in the lectures. However, the old forces continue to
interfere, and there are so many hostile arrangements that are still in effect
that interfere with both the individual practitioner and the effect of saving
sentient beings by all practitioners as one body. Then how should we face the
arrangements of the old forces, break away from them, and thoroughly make
breakthroughs? After these years of tribulations and witnessing the cases of
many other practitioners, I recently and finally enlightened to this from the Fa
principles: Focusing on doing the three things well is the great path, and is
the simplest and easiest way to break through the arrangements of the old
forces. Put another way, the best way is also the simplest and easiest way.
"Doing the three things well" is not only a cultivation requirement of
Master for Fa-rectification period Dafa practitioners, but also the most
powerful key bestowed by Master for us to thoroughly break through the
arrangements of the old forces. We should not pay a lot of attention to and try
to think a lot about methods to deal with each of the arrangements of the old
forces in order to do the three things requested by Master. Otherwise, to a
certain degree, we would have already fallen into the tribulation arranged by
the old forces. If every day we can truly do well the three things required by Master
attentively, steadily, and firmly, then that will be the main manifestation of
strong righteous thoughts. If we keep doing this over a long period of time,
then when we look back to review we will find that all the arrangements of the
old forces were in vain. This is because if we truly cultivate diligently by
continuing to do the three things well, this process itself transcends the
arrangements of the old forces. Only on the great Fa-rectification cultivation
path of doing the three things well can we unconsciously eliminate the countless
arrangements of the old forces and dissolve them. Then, with indestructible
righteous thoughts, we can complete our difficult mission of saving sentient
beings well during this last stage of precious Fa-rectification cultivation. March 4, 2006 |