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My Understanding about Sharing among Fellow Practitioners
By a practitioner in China
(Clearwisdom.net) I understand that practitioners should only share their
understandings after one has elevated based on the Fa's principles, as only this
kind of sharing can play a positive role. Just like Fa conference papers,
practitioners' articles should be reviewed first by other practitioners.
Articles published on the Minghui and Clearwisdom websites are reviewed by
editors before they are published. Without the editing process, the experience
sharing might contain too many personal factors. Elements that are not positive
can interfere with other practitioners. Nowadays when sharing, practitioners
sometimes become trapped within the constraints of who is right and who is
wrong. The real issue is that we should look inward so that we can meet the
requirements and standards of the Fa at different levels. Some practitioners tend to add at the end of their writings, "Please
point out anything that I did not say right," which implies that they want
fellow practitioners to point out their shortcomings, but this leaves it up to
external factors. Cultivation is about changing oneself and looking within, and
it will only work if one eliminates one's attachments. If one does not
understand something from the Fa's perspective, even after someone points it
out, the changes may be superficial. As practitioners during the Fa-rectification period, I believe that we should
focus on how to best clarify the truth and save more sentient
beings. A practitioner's sharing only represents his or her personal
understanding at his or her level. Everyone is at a different level and in a
different cultivation state. It is impossible for everyone to come to the same
understandings every time he or she shares. We should not focus only on the personal cultivation states of practitioners.
Since we are one body, when we see another's shortcoming, we should help
strengthen fellow practitioners with righteous thoughts or send forth righteous
thoughts more frequently. We should not judge fellow practitioners with our own notions and based on
what we can see. The environment and state of a practitioner are not something
that other practitioners are able to judge. We should all focus on saving
sentient beings. As practitioners elevate while validating Falun Dafa, the one
body also elevates at the same time. We should cultivate our speech, because over-expressing one's opinion could
be a sign of validating oneself. If our understanding of the Fa is not clear, we
could interfere with other practitioners. |