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My Understanding after Reading Master's Article, "Realms"
By Falun Dafa practitioner Wen Xin from China
(Clearwisdom.net) Master said in the article, "Realms," "A wicked person is born of jealousy. Out of selfishness and anger he
complains about unfairness towards himself. A benevolent person always
has a heart of compassion. With no discontentment or hatred, he takes hardship
as joy. An enlightened person has no attachments at all. He quietly
observes the people of the world deluded by illusions." (Essentials
for Further Advancement) Master has often told us disciples to look inward unconditionally, especially
when we encounter conflicts or whenever we feel we are being treated unfairly.
Though I tried to follow Master's words in the past, I did not truly understand
the Fa in my heart and often felt unbalanced and a sense of
unfairness in my cultivation and when doing the three things. After
I could remember Zhuan Falun by heart for the first time, I
felt my understanding of the Fa improved dramatically. At this time I read
Master's article, "Realms" again, and I understood the reason why I
could not do well in the past. We are cultivators, Dafa practitioners. Master told us that a benevolent
person always has a heart of compassion. Every practitioner should be a person
with a heart of compassion all the time. We must consider the other's situation
with great tolerance, treating others nicely even if they did something wrong or
treated us unfairly. No matter how much pain we suffer, we must look inward
unconditionally. The purpose of looking inward unconditionally is to check to
see if we still have a heart of compassion, a heart of benevolence. If we don't
have such a heart when facing conflicts, feeling unbalanced, feeling unfairly
treated, or we are unhappy, we drop down to a lower realm at this point. Finding
our own shortcomings is the way to cultivate; we can only improve when we know
we are not perfect. This is why Master keeps telling us to look inward and
cultivate ourselves. As Dafa disciples during the Fa-rectification period, it is very important
for us to look inward. The conflicts among practitioners, ineffective
coordination on Fa validation projects, impatience during truth
clarification, and attachment to ease in ordinary life, these are all
results of not looking inward effectively. We have often said that all Dafa
practitioners must form a whole body and improve together to achieve an
indestructible status. This is impossible to achieve if we don't cultivate
ourselves. This is the Fa that will "pacify the external by cultivating the
internal" as Master has told us. Now that I have understood the Fa better, I believe I can do better because I
truly understand why we must look inward constantly. I have noticed that I have
changed a lot recently; this is the natural result of studying the Fa well and
cultivating more diligently. This is my personal understanding. Please kindly point out any mistakes.
Thank you. March 20, 2006
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