Cultivating to Eliminate the Attachment of Selfishness

By a practitioner from China

(Clearwisdom.net) Cultivation has helped me to discover my attachment of selfishness. Sometimes I can't see the deeply hidden selfish thinking that I have developed in this lifetime. Without searching in-depth I don't feel its existence. I am writing about two small events that helped me discover many of my old-world selfish elements. My goal is to remind fellow practitioners to be constantly on the alert. We should let go of all of our selfish elements.

One day during a business trip, the company car's driver lit a cigarette right after we set off. Being a Dafa practitioner, I knew that my environment was very pure, and therefore he should not smoke in my presence. Upon thinking this I sent forth righteous thoughts, to stop him from smoking. It did not work, and I wondered why. I searched inside myself. I realized that I was doing it because I didn't like cigarette smoke, not because I wanted him to have good health. When I realized this I felt uneasy, as I knew that since I was a practitioner, I should always think of other people first. At that moment he stopped smoking.

When I first worked with the Internet, before submitting things to other practitioners, or to the Minghui website, I would often not check or hastily check my own writing, "because I was busy." However, the fellow practitioner I submitted the documents to never complained to me. He quietly corrected my mistakes and then sent my work back to me. Only several articles later did I realize how selfish I was. As a matter of fact, the fellow practitioner was also busy. Yet I was only thinking about myself, so I didn't check my work before sending it to him. I had added some extra tasks to his already heavy load. Realizing this, I had even more regret, and was deeply grateful of the fellow practitioner's merciful broad-mindedness.

I hope that all fellow practitioners will study the Fa well, constantly raise their xinxing, think of others first, and eliminate our selfishness.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2008/2/25/173073.html

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