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We Cannot Forget What Is Essential for Us By a practitioner from China
(Clearwisdom.net) Ever since I studied the lecture "Teaching the
Fa in the City of Los Angeles," the part at the end of it "I hope
everyone will do better and better at the end. Be sure not to become lax. You
must not slack off, and you must not become apathetic." always comes up in
my mind. I often remind myself that I must walk the last portion of my path
well. I had thought that my cultivation status was pretty good until I watched
the flash video story named "Selfishness" made by practitioners
overseas. The video shocked me and made me aware of my existing problems. The main story of the flash video was: When a special human being was
initially born into this world, he felt very cold and hungry and he was
miserable. Gods were benevolent to him and endowed him with special abilities
and skills. At the same time, gods told him to use these abilities and skills to
bring happiness to other human beings. In the beginning, this special human
being carried out gods' will out of awe and gratitude. He did a lot of good
things for others, who in turn repaid him gratitude and praise. Gradually, the
special human being started to consider himself important and extraordinary. He
started to develop the attachment of arrogance and forgot that all he obtained
came from the gods. Furthermore, he thought he was even more important than
gods. His life became easier and more comfortable. In the end, his abilities
became weaker and weaker and his situation grew worse and worse. Eventually he
awakened to the truth and repented of his mistakes. After reading this story, I was touched. Comparing myself to that special
human being, I found I had become more and more arrogant and deviated from the
Fa. A lot of things were illusionary and grew from my own attachments. I
realized my cultivation was in danger. Through introspection, although I have
been doing the Three Things, I have been doing them for the sake of
doing them. In another sense, I have been doing them for myself, because I know,
"If I don't do them, I won't be able to reach the end of the path."
Therefore, I did them out of selfishness. After realizing my problem, I started to become level-headed. I tried to
focus my true self in my Fa study, sending forth righteous thoughts, and truth
clarification. I measured myself with the Fa. Little by little I became steady
with a clear mind. I knew how to deny the arrangements of the old forces. As a Dafa disciple in the Fa-rectification period, we have on our shoulders
the mission and responsibility to save sentient beings. Only when we do the
Three Things well and steadily, can we cultivate ourselves well and complete the
path of a Fa-rectification period Dafa disciple and return to our original
places. While doing all these things, we should always remember to put Dafa
first and do things well. This is what is really essential for us. Posting date: 7/23/2008 |