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How Deeply Do We Believe in Master?
By a Falun Dafa practitioner from Henan Province
(Clearwisdom.net) Due to our human notions and limited cultivation
levels, we usually have doubts about things that do not agree with our concepts
and are deemed incredible. Therefore, we often use our human heart to judge Dafa
arbitrarily and have biased thoughts, for example, "Is it right?"
"Is it possible?" etc. When Master's new articles are published,
because we do not follow the Fa-rectification process closely, we also deviate
from the main direction of Fa-rectification due to our human notions. In fact, cultivation is an issue of enlightenment, or, as it is said in the
West, it is an issue of "faith." Whether the practitioners deeply
believe in Master and the Fa has direct impact on their righteous thoughts.
Master said, "What's critical is whether you can be steadfast and whether you can
finish your cultivation." ("Teaching the Fa at the Conference in
Switzerland") However, many practitioners were intimidated by the current situation and
thus didn't walk forward, and some even gave up cultivation because they did not
understand a word Master said. Since the rampant persecution started in 1999, many practitioners have given
up believing in the Fa for various reasons, which showed that they didn't have
righteous and solid belief in Dafa. Master gave us such an example: "In the past, there was a cultivator of the Dao walking on the street
while drinking. He suddenly saw someone. This person was just who he'd been
looking for -- someone who was able to cultivate the Dao. So he wanted to save
this person and take him as his disciple. He asked this person, 'Do you want
to follow me to cultivate the Dao?' This person's enlightenment quality and
inborn quality were very good, and he said, 'I do.' 'Do you dare to follow
me?' He replied, 'Yes, I do!' 'Do you dare to follow me wherever I go?' 'Yes.'
'Okay. Now follow me!' Saying that, he put his palm-sized wine gourd on the
ground, opened the lid, and jumped into the gourd. This person saw that his
master had jumped in, so he imitated his master and jumped into the gourd as
well. The bystanders all leaned over and looked inside the gourd. 'Wow!' There
was a vast world inside the gourd -- really vast."
( U.S. West Fa Conference, 1999, provisional translation subject to further
improvement) Practitioners can make it to today with solid faith in most of the Fa.
However, because we do not believe in some of the Fa firmly, the evil takes
advantage of our loopholes and leads us on detours in our cultivation journey of
the Fa-rectification. For example, Master told us not to cooperate with any evil arrangement and
also to eliminate the evil with righteous thoughts and validate the Fa. Thus the
evil does not dare to persecute us. However, when facing the evil, we may be
deceived by the evil's strong appearance: we may even fear it. As a result, we
sometimes don't want to have a "conflict" with the evil, we dare not
even clarify the truth, and we become passive in the face of the
persecution. But doing so can result in more severe persecution. In fact, the
goal of clarifying the truth is to save sentient beings. So whoever he is, at
the very least, he is a sentient being. To rescue those sentient beings who have
been deceived, we must clarify the truth but not "fight" with others. Moreover, do the practitioners that exhibit sickness karma, especially big
sickness karma, truly treat themselves as cultivators and pay no attention to
any "sickness" whatsoever? Do they completely let go of everything,
behave like an upstanding and noble Dafa disciple who has no resentment or
attachments, and leave it to Master to arrange whether they stay or leave? Do
the practitioners diagnosed with incurable diseases still feel unsure and thus
go to the hospital? Do they feel that it's better to take some medicine? Doesn't
it show that they don't have righteous and solid belief in Dafa? We are disciples that Master personally and mercifully has saved. Let alone
an ordinary hospital, not even a god of the cosmos would dare to interfere with
our cultivation. Then besides Master, whom can we believe in? Not having solid
belief in the Fa will result in a bigger tribulation. In addition, Master told us that doing the five exercises is the best way to
get rid of fatigue. However, many of us, including me, usually ignore doing the
five exercises. In the case of feeling tired, the ordinary method would be to
sleep more instead of doing the exercises. According to experience sharing from
fellow practitioners who regularly do the five exercises, they usually sleep
three or four hours a day and they still do well in Dafa validating work. Do we
truly believe that doing the exercises can greatly change our body? We have seen many things: the start of the persecution on July 20, 1999; the
staged "Tiananmen Square Immolation;" the publication of the Nine
Commentaries on the Communist Party; and the exposure of secret
concentration camps in China. In the face of these events, many practitioners
gave up cultivation due to human notions. They even accepted false enlightenment
and "demonic interference from one's own mind," and thought that they
had cultivated higher than others. In fact, Master has already told us about
these things. However, how much do we believe in and understand them? On our future cultivation journey, there still remains an issue of whether we
fundamentally believe in the Fa or not. For Dafa disciples, each step we take is
crucial. Even until the last day of Fa-rectification, there is still an issue of
testing whether we can be fundamentally resolute in the Fa. Therefore, we have
to make our thoughts righteous, deeply believe in Master and the Fa at all
times, and take every step to validate Dafa well. |