In a Few Words: The Attachment of Fearing Trouble

By Wei Shumin

(Clearwisdom.net) Master said in "Teaching the Fa at the 2006 Canada Fa Conference,"

"......If you categorically regard all of them as interference and try to resolve the troubles just for the sake of resolving them, then you won't be able to resolve them, because they come about for the sake of your improvement." ("Teaching the Fa at the 2006 Canada Fa Conference")

Reflecting on what happened to me recently, I find that I have a very strong attachment to "fearing trouble."

In cultivation practice, when conflicts occur, I always try to avoid them using human methods. When trouble first appears, I can recognize it as a way to improve, but I don't have the motivation to do so. When it becomes bigger, and the test is harder to pass, I look deeper into myself, being more diligent than before, but it doesn't last long. For a long time, I did not know where the problem lay, only that I have many human attachments, especially to comfort and the fear of enduring hardship. During conflicts, I can hardly realize that I should be reacting according to the criteria of a Fa-rectification disciple. When I eventually do, the conflict has become more difficult.

Now I realize that my human attachment to "fearing trouble" has been interfering for quite some time. I often thought of how to solve the external problem instead of reflecting internally from the perspective of the Fa. If the conflict became bigger, I looked deeper, but if there were no serious consequences, I stopped. If there was, I tried to solve them.

When I started to face this attachment, when I began to change my mentality, a lot of things changed around me. I no longer regarded what happens to me as trouble that I try to avoid. I know everything that happens has something to do with the three things that we should do well.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2006/6/11/129978.html

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