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Prudently Accomplish the Mission of Saving Sentient Beings
By a practitioner from Tianjin, China
(Clearwisdom.net) Master clearly told us in "Fa Teaching at the 2007
New York Fa Conference": "Right now, one important thing that needs to be attended to is the
matter of how to save more sentient beings, and it is something Dafa disciples
are to accomplish during their current process of achieving Consummation. This
is Dafa disciples' mission, a duty that cannot be shirked, something that they
must do and must complete." I realize that as Dafa practitioners, our responsibilities have become
bigger. In terms of how to prudently do the three things well and
accomplish our mission of saving sentient beings, every practitioner must be
clear-minded. I understand that as long as we study the Fa well,
rectify each of our thoughts by measuring them against Fa principles, maintain
righteous thoughts and a firm belief, and eliminate all of our attachments
without omission, we will be able to steadily walk to the end, satisfactorily
accomplish our missions, and return home with Master. Here is a small story about something that happened to me recently. I would
like to use it as a reference to talk about how we can rectify each of our
thoughts and measure them against Fa principles. One day, toward the end of April, I had with me 100 Falun Gong
truth-clarifying CDs, and was about to hand them out by bicycle.
Before I set off, a thought suddenly came to me, "Take some cash, just in
case the bicycle breaks down and needs to be repaired." As soon as this
thought appeared I felt something was wrong. I was setting off with an impure
and doubtful thought of "just in case." As I did not firmly negate
this thought and rectify it with Fa principles, after I finished handing out the
CDs at a place in Hexi District and was about to leave, three sections of the
bicycle chain broke, and I had to get it repaired at a nearby maintenance
center. That was when I enlightened to it: Though I had realized that the "just
in case" thought was not based on the Fa and was impure, and I had the
thought negating this thought, the impure thought was still mixed when I negated
it, thus making it an omission. As a result, I was taken advantage of by the
evil, causing losses. Getting the bicycle repaired made me miss the time when
practitioners globally send forth righteous thoughts together, and my handing
out of materials was also interfered with. Through this incident, I enlightened
that when an unrighteous thought comes up, one needs to catch it straight away
and eliminate it with righteous thoughts. Only when such thoughts no longer
exist in one's mind can the negating be counted as thorough. Master has taught
us in Zhuan Falun, "matter and mind are one and the
same," and, "a good or bad outcome comes from one thought." Only
by doing things with a pure heart and mind can we be doing things with our
divine side. Only this way will divine phenomena appear and will we be able to
do better in saving sentient beings. During this incident, I made an unexpected discovery. While I was waiting for
my bicycle to be repaired, I put two CDs into nearby bicycle baskets. Soon two
students who seemed to be of high school age came to take their bicycles. One of
them picked up the CD, took a look, did not say anything, put it back into the
basket, and happily said to his friend when leaving, "I've finally got a
CD!" I understand that this is Master's hint for us: Sentient beings have
started to look for the truth, and we should "Lose no time and save them,
hurry up and tell them!" (Hong Yin Volume II) May 11, 2007
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