(Clearwisdom.net) After I watched Teacher's lecture, Teaching Fa to Australian Falun Dafa Practitioners, I could not calm down for a long time. Although Teacher's speech was given to Australian practitioners, I looked inward according to Teacher's lecture and I found I still had a lot of attachments and human notions. I found that I was far behind in saving sentient beings compared to my fellow practitioners. Our behavior will directly influence our saving sentient beings.

Teacher mentioned a few times during the lecture about our appearance and behavior in front of other people, and the conflicts between us practitioners. If we do not behave well and give sentient beings a bad impression, it not only discredits Dafa, but also causes the sentient beings to not be saved. This is a very serious problem.

I can still recall that when I had just acquired the Fa, I was very grateful to Teacher and to Dafa. I told my wife about Falun Dafa and persuaded her at my utmost to cultivate together with me. At that time, there were only a few people in our area who had acquired the Fa. So, sometimes I was busy going out to spread Dafa and did not have time to take care of my family. Because I had a hot temper, I even sometimes beat my wife. I did not harmonize my family relationships well. My wife resented me. She did not feel the beauty of Dafa from me. In other words, my wife had a bad impression of me, which gave her a bad impression of Dafa. It became hard and it was hard to persuade my wife to cultivate the Fa. My wife even asked me to make a choice between Teacher and her. Sometimes, I recorded Teacher's lecture video for my fellow practitioners and I went back home very late. She slapped my face.

Later, after I studied the Fa, looked inward, and improved my xinxing, my wife gradually changed. She said my personality had changed for the better. Since then, my wife also started to cultivate the Fa. Now, my family has been cultivating in Dafa for nearly ten years under Teacher's compassion and protection. Amidst the setbacks and tribulations, we became mature, rational and clear. We also established a family-based materials site. On weekend, all three of my family members go out to pass out truth-clarifying materials together, to save sentient beings.

After Teacher's lecture video Teaching Fa to Australian Falun Dafa Practitioners was published, my whole family sat together and watched Teacher's lecture. After studying Teacher's lecture and sharing our cultivation experiences, we truly realized that Dafa practitioners' appearance and behavior is very important when saving sentient beings. It matters not in which kind of environment we are, we should realize that we are Falun Dafa practitioners who walk the path to divinity. We should keep calm and kind and have practitioners' righteous thoughts. We should have the appropriate status of a practitioner who is improving himself. We should look inward when things happen, instead of criticizing others and forcing others to do things. After conflicts happen between practitioners, we should realize our shortcomings, get rid of our attachments, and treat the things correctly. Then, the negative impact will be minimized, since we are practitioners and we can understand each other (Certainly, Teacher told us that if we look inward when things happen, the environment will become better). But, for people who do not cultivate the Fa, especially for those who are around us, like our parents, husbands, wives, children, relatives, colleagues, schoolmates, neighbors, or anyone we meet occasionally... if we do not pay attention and give them a bad impression, we discredit Dafa and create a barrier for them to be saved. So, are we saving sentient beings or destroying them? On the other hand, it is not that since we are afraid that we might give people a bad impression that we are not going to save them. We should study the Fa well and save sentient beings based on Teacher's requirements. We will not destroy the sentient beings if we do it with a clear and rational mind and with wisdom. It looks like right now our behavior is not just about whether we behave good or bad, personally. The sentient beings will see Teacher and Dafa though our behavior. If we do not behave well, sentient beings will think Dafa is not good!

We really should look inward, seriously. We should not express ourselves endlessly with the attachment of right or wrong. We should truly realize that if we do not behave well, we actually discredit Dafa. We should realize that if we do not behave ourselves well in front of sentient beings, we will push them to hell and cause them to not be saved. In order to protect our so-called "dignity" and "fame", we just let our bad behavior and demon nature be expressed. We did not remember to be responsible to Dafa and to be ashamed of not able to save sentient beings, but just thought of how uncomfortable we were and how to express that feeling. It is really dangerous. We Dafa disciples should always give the impression of righteousness, kindness, compassion and mercy to anyone and in any environment. This is also to validate the Fa and safeguard the Fa.

If we do not study the Fa well and don't do things as Teacher and Dafa requests, if we cannot meet the most basic requirements for personal cultivation, how can we save sentient beings more effectively and better? If we cannot give sentient beings the impression of mercy, compassion and righteousness, how can we let sentient beings acknowledge Dafa and Dafa disciples and save them? In Teacher's lecture, Teacher understands that during our cultivation we could have irrational behavior in certain environments when the factors of improving our xinxing take effect, and we could even have everyday people's behavior during the painful process of getting rid of the attachment. But we should not look outward with our attachments. We should not forget that we are practitioners and Dafa disciples. At that moment, we should think of how to do things well with righteous thoughts, which is the right status and behavior of practitioners. Did we forget the Fa principle of "have a Buddha in one's heart?" When Teacher gave his lecture, we were clear. But immediately after that, we were not clear anymore. If our main consciousness does not dominate us, we will be lost. When we lose our righteous thoughts, anything can interfere with us. When we have strong righteous thoughts, nothing can interfere with us any more.

The gods and sentient beings are all watching how Dafa disciples behave. If the gods see the practitioner behave well, they will raise the practitioners' level. When the sentient beings see Dafa disciples behave well, they will acknowledge Dafa and will then be saved. Teacher taught us the Fa principles. Since Teacher pointed out Dafa disciples' shortcomings, we should behave well in front of fellow practitioners, the world's people, and the sentient beings, based on Teacher's Fa principles. We should give all beings the impression of compassion, mercy, and righteousness. If so, even if a being cannot be saved, it will not be our fault since it is decided based on his attitude to the Fa-Rectification and due to Dafa's standards for beings' existence. We save sentient beings on the basis of validating the Fa and safeguarding the Fa. Dafa disciples must remind ourselves to give a good impression to others at all times. This is the display of safeguarding the Fa and Dafa disciples' required quality and status.

The above is just my personal understanding, after watching Teacher's lecture, Teaching Fa to Australian Falun Dafa Practitioners. Please kindly point out anything inappropriate.