With Our Minds on the Fa, Rectify Our Every Single Thought
Written by a Dafa practitioner in Zibo, China
(Clearwisdom.net) An article in Vol. 231 of "Minghui Weekly"
talks about a practitioner who claimed, out of his attachment to showing-off,
that he would not get influenza and could even eliminate the flu virus for other
people. As a result, the dark minions and rotten ghosts exploited his gap and
brought him a large quantity of the virus. He developed symptoms of severe
influenza. Fortunately the practitioner realized it in time, and was able to
pull through the tribulation with the help of Master, and negated the
arrangement of the old forces. It reminds me of a story I read before: There was a young girl about 18 or 19
years old. Her family was poor, and her mother was ill, so she prayed to an
image of Buddha that she wished to marry a good man so that her parents could be
taken care of. No sooner did she have the thought that it came to the notice of
a demon. The demon transformed into a young man to lure her during the day, and
appeared in her room at night. The young girl secretly held a sharp knife and
pretended to be sleeping, so the young man dared not get close. The demon then
put a lot of treasure on the table and left. The girl was not moved and didn't
even take a look. When it was about daybreak, the young man suddenly entered the
room again and said "I secretly observed you all night and you didn't pick
up any of the treasure or even take a look. When a person is not affected by
material interest, demon and ghost cannot do anything to her. I have
underestimated you." Then the demon left with a deep sigh. The girl was not harmed by the demon because she was not greedy for money nor
attached to lust. Dafa disciples in the Fa-rectification period should have our
minds on the Fa at every moment, and with righteous thoughts and
conduct, demons would have no gaps to exploit nor any means to persecute us. I
have a deep appreciation of this issue. I was arrested twice, and quite frankly,
because I didn't maintain righteous thoughts and actions and treated a lot of
the bad thoughts that came up as my own, I was exploited by the evil demons and
rotten ghosts as a result. The lesson is indelible in my mind. Teacher taught us: "In the macrocosm and in the microcosm, all beings are closely
watching all these things on the earth. They know Dafa disciples' every single
action and every single thought. Everything that Dafa disciples do is clearly
displayed before the eyes of higher beings. So be sure to do well and win
their admiration." (Teaching the Fa at the 2002 Fa Conference in Boston) As the saying goes, "A whisper in the human dimension is heard as
thunder in heaven," and "When a thought arises, heaven and earth all
know about it." However, many people believe that others won't know our
thoughts. To have our every thought on the Fa and constantly maintain righteous
thoughts and actions, the most effective way is to study, memorize and recite
the Fa more. Only if we judge everything by the Fa, unceasingly rectify and
purify ourselves, and truly and diligently cultivate ourselves, will we be
worthy of Teacher's benevolent salvation and the incomparably glorious title of
"Fa-rectification Dafa disciples."
Chinese version available at
http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2006/8/16/135687.html
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