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Who Does the Meal Belong to?
(Clearwisdom.net) One day, an angry Brahmin rushed into Kalandaka
Venuvana [a residence where Buddha Shakyamuni and his disciples lived] berating
others. He was furious that all his kinsmen had converted and became monks under
the Buddha. The Buddha listened to his unreasonable attack quietly. When the man calmed
down a little, the Buddha said to him,"Brahmin, your house occasionally has
visitors, doesn't it?" "Of course, Gautama. Is there any need to ask this question?" "Then, Brahmin, do you feed your visitors occasionally?" "Guatama, yes, that's for sure." "Brahmin, if the visitor does not take it, who will the meal belong
to?" "If he does not eat it, the meal belongs to me again." The Buddha looked at him with mercy for a while, and then said,
"Brahmin, you said many malicious things in front of me today. But I won't
take them. So your unreasonable attack belongs to you. Brahmin, if I talk back
when I am being scolded, it is just like the host and the visitor having a meal
together. Therefore, I do not take the meal." From this story, I realized a key issue in ending the persecution of Falun
Dafa. The evil's interference to Fa-rectification and the persecution of Dafa
disciples belong to the evil and the persecutors. Master said, "Whatever human beings do, they're doing it to themselves. Persecuting
Dafa disciples is in fact the persecutors persecuting themselves. That is
something determined by the nature of the cosmos." ("Teaching the Fa
at the 2004 Western U.S. Fa Conference") As practitioners, the phrase "Xian Shi Xian Bao" ("Immediate
Retribution in this Lifetime") in Fa-rectification means we do not accept
the persecution, and thoroughly negate the persecution! If we truly understand this Fa and act according to the Fa, the
evil will meet its end immediately. September 15, 2007
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