Righteous Thoughts or Human Notions?

(Clearwisdom.net) Recently, an evil incident happened in Changchun City. Over thirty practitioners were arrested when they attended a Fa Conference. Later on, many other practitioners were harassed by local police officers. Some were forced to flee their homes and become homeless to avoid arrest, and some were arrested by the police. In regard to this incident, I would like to share with fellow practitioners the following.

As a Dafa disciple, no matter what we encounter we should always look inside and examine how we think, and weigh every thought with the requirement of Dafa.

When hearing about this incident, I was shocked. It is my understanding that nowadays a lot of evil factors have already been eliminated. If only a few of those wicked, rotten demons are left, I could not understand why this huge arrest had happened. I thought that these practitioners must have big loopholes in their xinxing. Afterwards, many other thoughts came to my mind: one practitioner did not stay within the Fa and had attachments of wanting to do everything to validate himself, and another practitioner pursued glorious achievements and had the attachment to fame. Yet another practitioner did not cultivate well and did not truly treat the Fa as the guide for cultivation. All of my thoughts were complaints and criticism. Knowing that practitioners who had contacted the arrested practitioners had also been arrested, I was worried, anxious and could not calm myself down. I blamed the arrested practitioners who had caused other practitioners' arrests for not guarding their xinxing and revealing other practitioners' information to the evildoers. I had looked externally and even felt that I was in the right.

After sharing with fellow practitioners, we realized that we should send the information of this incident to the Minghui/Clearwisdom website as soon as possible, and that we needed to look inside and learn our lesson; the whole body needs to improve. However, because I looked outside and considered the matter in and of itself, my xinxing did not improve through the process of writing the article. Therefore, I was not able to find the fundamental problems and wanted to give up on writing it several times. Finally, I calmed my mind and looked within. I then realized that I had not cultivated myself during this incident and always looked for others' problems. My heart was moved at the very beginning, and lacked the forbearance and benevolence that a cultivator should have.

I came to understand that if our hearts are not affected when we encounter things, we can restrain the evil; otherwise, the evil will find an excuse to persecute us. Master told us that sentimentality is a demon. I came to understand that complaining, accusation, worrying and being anxious are all human notions and sentimentality that will not contribute anything positive to this incident. When we blame fellow practitioners, aren't we acknowledging the evil's persecution of those practitioners? Isn't this the same as siding with the evil? Aren't we fostering the demons? Only if we have righteous thoughts, compassion and benevolence can we eliminate the evil and help fellow practitioners. However, human notions can never play a positive role.

Of course, this is not to say that we cannot point out the shortcomings of fellow practitioners. The most important thing is that we point them out with a cultivator's benevolence and not criticism based on human notions. Depending on whether we have righteous thoughts or human notions, we either help practitioners to correct their shortcomings through Fa study and cultivation or acknowledge the so-called tests arranged by the old forces. No matter what we encounter, if we can measure every thought according to Dafa, look inside and cultivate ourselves, then the evil will have no place to hide. Through solid cultivation, we can make use of this persecution of Dafa and Dafa disciples to eliminate the evil, clarify the facts, and save sentient beings. We should walk well this last stage of cultivation with the righteous thoughts of a god.

May 13, 2007

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2007/5/15/154819.html

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