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Treat Fellow Practitioners Having Tribulations With Righteous Thoughts
By a Dafa practitioner from China
(Clearwisdom.net) In our region, when fellow practitioners were having tribulations, some
practitioners failed to help them positively. Instead, they just talked about
their shortcomings in cultivation and tried to find out their problems with them
privately. They even blamed and resented them, saying that these practitioners
had brought losses to the Fa-rectification in their region. This mentality and
behavior is actually a manifestation of our attachment to human emotions. When fellow practitioners are persecuted, it could be that they had some
shortcomings in their cultivation. However, practitioners in touch with them
should look inward themselves to see why these matters have happened around
them, why they failed to prevent these matters from happening, and why they
failed to exchange sincerely with them about the problems that they saw. It is
not noble behavior even for everyday people to comment privately on the
shortcomings of fellow practitioners when they are suffering from the
persecution. The old forces, upon seeing these, might say: "You see they
also agree that the persecuted Falun Gong students have human attachments and
are blaming them. So we have done it right." Isn't this equivalent to
acknowledging the persecution by the old forces? Consequently, we have virtually
brought trouble to fellow practitioners although we superficially said that we
wanted to help them. I received some enlightenment on this issue from Teacher's Fa and would like
to share it here. When we think that a certain fellow practitioner has an attachment, it might
not be the case. Instead, it might be a result of our human mind and human
conceptions. The problems with fellow practitioners might not exist at all or,
if they do exist, might not be so serious originally, but our attachment might
aggravate the problems. If we always send out thoughts like this to fellow
practitioners, the resultant substances of attachment can aggravate their
tribulations and simultaneously undermine the force of our righteous thoughts to
save them. When it comes to our mind to blame fellow practitioners, we should
immediately realize that it is because of the old forces, who are trying to
separate us, prevent us from exchanging, and destroy our energy field as a whole
body. We should eliminate this thinking with righteous thoughts and remove the
separation between us created by the evil. This is exactly what we should do to
genuinely help and treat our fellow practitioners as Dafa practitioners. On the other hand, all of our fellow practitioners are improving and changing
in their cultivation every day, so we should not view them with the fixed
standard that we used previously. We are not computers whose memory remains
unchanged forever. If we always view fellow practitioners today with the old
conceptions and frameworks from the past, then isn't it that our brain has
become like computer memory? We should treat all practitioners today objectively
and from a point of view that is free from the influence of any past conception.
In this way, we shall improve together and accomplish our historic mission to
save sentient beings.
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