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Walk Away from the Shackles of Fear
By a Falun Dafa practitioner in China (Clearwisdom.net) I began to practice Falun Dafa in 1997. I went to
Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong and was arrested by police officers. Since
then, interference from my family, workplace, the community and local police
officers caused me to unknowingly generate an attachment to fear. Teacher told
us in Zhuan Falun, "matter and mind are one thing."
I felt that the matter of my fear continuously accumulated in other dimensions.
Plus, the human notions I had formed in human society presented a barrier,
wrapped me up as if I was inside a shell, controlled me, and made me unable to
think independently. Although I studied the Fa every day, I was not able to
break through the obsession of fear. In November 2005, my child's third eye opened. My child saw that when a
non-practitioner goes to speak, a black ball comes flying over from another
dimension. This ball has words on it, then it blows up to the size of a human
brain and it enters into their brains all at once. Then, everything this person
says is exactly the words on the black ball. I enlightened from this that non-practitioners are firmly controlled by the
old forces. Whenever fear emerges due to interference from others, our own
loopholes in our thoughts and actions are actually the cause. The old forces can
easily control non-practitioners. If you act according to the Fa, you are able
to explode the interference from the old forces. Otherwise, you act as an
ordinary person and you will cause a negative impact toward Dafa. Meanwhile, you
are not on the path arranged by Teacher. Non-practitioners are almost all
walking on the path arranged by the old forces. They are truly unaware. Even
though they talk about things, they do not know what they are talking about. My child saw that when fellow practitioners are sending forth righteous
thoughts, their cultivated divine sides are magnificent and holy. Some have the
appearance of a Buddha; some have the appearance of a Bodhisattva. Different Fa
implements utilize different forms of energy, and thereby eliminate many dark
minions. I believe we should send forth righteous thoughts every hour. Since Teacher
has given us such great capabilities, we should not disappoint Teacher's
expectations in this Fa-rectification period and should uphold the requirements
for Fa-rectification. Since I got this understanding, I began to send forth
righteous thoughts every hour (from 6 a.m. to 12 p.m. midnight). I continued
doing this for about two months. Unexpectedly, I realized that my thinking
became clearer. When I read the Fa, I was able to concentrate and remember it. I
felt that as long as I read, the Fa would fill me up. This feeling was
completely different from my previous feeling when I learned the Fa. Previously,
after I read the Fa, I still felt that my mind was empty and I was not able to
deeply and clearly understand the connotations of the Fa. I thought that it had
to be the result of my continuously sending forth righteous thoughts. So many
bad things, such as human notions and attachments, had been cleared away from my
mind. These were imposed upon me by the old forces, and obstructed my Fa study. Meanwhile, after continuously sending forth righteous thoughts every hour for
two months, I had a clear understanding of the Fa principles for cleaning up
myself and eliminating the dark minions and rotten ghosts in other dimensions.
Teacher told us in "Teaching the Fa at the 2004 Chicago Conference:" "If you took a look in the extreme microcosm at the material formed by
what your mind is attached to, [you'd see that] they are mountains, huge
mountains, made of hard, granite-like rock, and once they are formed there's
simply no way for a human being to move them. When your righteous thoughts are
firm and when you can repel those things, I remove them for you bit by bit;
however much you can do, that's how much I remove for you and diminish for
you." Teacher also said in "Eliminate Your Last Attachment(s)" in
Essentials for Further Advancement II: "All of you are already aware of the principle of mutual-generation
and mutual-inhibition. If you are not afraid, the factor that would make you
afraid will cease to exist." Here, I enlightened that if I ceaselessly exclude things which I am attached
to, especially fear, after Teacher removes them, my thoughts should be in a
state of "nothingness." With no human concepts and notions, the
principle of mutual-generation and mutual-inhibition (a principle in the old
cosmos) will not able to restrict us. The principle of mutual-generation and
mutual-inhibition can only restrict "something." I suddenly
enlightened: if we offer salvation to sentient beings in a state free of
intention, wouldn't this break through the arrangements of the old forces? Isn't
this breaking through "the human logic that you, as an ordinary human, have
formed deep in your bones over thousands of years" ("Cautionary
Advice" from Essential for Further Advancement) and exploding human
concepts and human attachments? With the progress of Fa rectification, we have
already come out of the principle of mutual-generation and mutual-inhibition and
the old forces cannot interfere any longer, otherwise they will be beaten down. As long as we cultivate within the Fa, fundamentally cultivate our hearts,
give up our desires, get rid of attachments, and act according to the Fa at all
times, we can have a life that will cast off all the arrangements of the old
forces, along with human concepts and attachments, and we can have a selfless
life within the new cosmos. Next, I observed every thought of mine as I encountered every different
situation, and realized that I still had fear. I tried my best to exclude it by
thinking: It is not me; as long as I let go of my attachments, the matter will
not exist. In this way, I discovered attachments one after another, dug them out
and separated from them on a fundamental level. It is so important to enlighten
to the Fa principles. Only when I completely understand attachments from the Fa,
am I able to get rid of them under the guidance of the Fa. This is truly
understanding the Fa on the basis of the Fa. In this way, I went through a
painful process, but finally one day, I felt an ease which I had never
experienced before - a kind of detachment, as if I completely changed. I felt as
though I was truly born out of the shell formed by all kinds of human concepts
and attachments, especially fear, which were imposed upon me by the old forces.
At that moment, I only thought of compassion and saving people. All the other
human things had disappeared. I felt that I could truly make my own decisions
and control my thinking and actions. Therefore, I felt independent on the path
of validating the Fa and saving sentient beings. I would certainly keep up with
Teacher's Fa-rectification process, and walk more and more solidly. What my child saw with his third eye made me realize even more that we must
achieve the state of being able to understand the Fa on the basis of the Fa.
When we were doing things, fear emerged and it was difficult for me to calm
down. My child then said to me: "There are 16 dark minions in your
dimension." I was shocked, and immediately sent forth righteous thoughts.
Then my child said, "You eliminated 9 of them" and asked me:
"What thought emerged in you?" I answered: "The attachment of
fear." My child said, "The attachment of fear is like rotten meat in
other dimensions. The dark minions like rotten meat and are attracted by it; you
cannot have fear at any time. Your attachment attracted the dark minions."
The child was pure and said, "Your cultivated side is tall and majestic, is
not moved, and nobody can touch it!" I had tumbled; the whole problem in
front of me was caused by my mind. My child then said, "It is not enough to
only rely on sending forth righteous thoughts, you must truly let go of the
attachment." I pulled myself together and thought about Teacher's Fa. When
I finally got rid of the attachment, my child saw that the dark minions were
broken into pieces. I remembered when Teacher said, "You have fear, It catches you, With
righteous thoughts the evil collapses" (HongYin II). At that moment,
I felt that Teacher is beside us all the time, and I have really become mature
under the protection of Teacher. I will try hard to do the three
things well, and walk well on the path of return. If there is any mistake in my understanding, please point it out with
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