My Understanding of "Conforming to Ordinary Human Society to the Maximum Extent"
By a practitioner from Mainland China
(Clearwisdom.net) 1. Conforming to Ordinary Human Society is not Conforming to the Deviated
Moral Standards of Contemporary People Some people say, "Doesn't conforming to human society mean that you have
to have a job and a family? Acting 'against the government,' getting thrown into
prison, having your boss, colleagues and family negatively impacted by the
Chinese Communist Party's implication policies, isn't that not conforming to the
ordinary human society?" Those people who say this simply use a deviated
logic: No matter how evil the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is, no matter how
the Party violates the Constitution and people's freedom of belief, no matter
how cruelly they tyrannize, the people of the country should absolutely obey and
just let them exploit. The moral standards today are a thousand miles away from the normal standards
that people had in ancient times. In the past, people treated those who laid
down their lives for a just cause as heroes. Nowadays people say,
"Whosoever understands the times is a great man," and call those who
sell their conscience for self interest smart men. As a cultivator, first we have to be a good person with high moral values, a
person with integrity, one who conducts themselves in a dignified manner, one
who other people respect. Such a person is not a coward who is frightened at the
slightest hint of a disturbance, or one who drags out an ignoble existence. When
conforming to human society, we conform to the standards of good people, not bad
ones. 2. Conforming to Ordinary Human Society is not Receding Unconditionally
Without a Moral Bottom-line During cultivation, we treat all tribulations and difficulties as good
opportunities to let go of attachments and improve xinxing.
However, due to some practitioners' misunderstanding of the Fa, the
evil has always been able to take advantage of our loopholes and persecute us
relentlessly. The situation existed even before July 20, 1999 (when the
persecution officially began). Master purposefully wrote an article entitled
"Expounding on the Fa" for us. After the persecution began, a lot of
practitioners did not understand the Fa well. They did not know what to do and
endured the persecution passively. Master again wrote several scriptures for us,
including "Beyond the Limits of Forbearance," and "Dafa
Disciples' Righteous Thoughts are Powerful," bestowing on Dafa disciples
the divine power to eliminate the evil. However there were practitioners who did not have strong righteous thoughts
in the face of problems. Instead of doing things according to Dafa, they were
affected by a human mindset and did things according to human desires. Their
reason was, "We have to let other people understand, right?" They even
thought they did well. They were thus being taken advantage of by the evil and
experienced adversities at work and at home which interfered with their
cultivation. Letting go of attachments is not letting go of our jobs or our lives, it is
not indulging people's bad thoughts and bad deeds, even less is it authorizing
the evil to persecute us at will. Dafa applies to all levels from high to low,
and even in the human world there exists justice. Maintaining the form of Dafa
in the human world is also to maintain the manifestation of the Fa in the human
world. Our every behavior now will create the normal way of living for the
future human beings. In a word, how can a high-minded, good person manifest a
poor image of being bullied and helpless? 3. Conforming to Ordinary Human Society is Not Being Limited to Ordinary
Human Notions It's very normal for an ordinary person to have an attachment to fear under
great pressure, and to try to flee. This is like the Chinese saying, "Where
there is life, there is hope." There are also people who would struggle
with life and show their will with death. This is like another Chinese saying,
"Nobody can avoid death, let me leave loyalty to shine in history." However, as a cultivator, we evaluate things according to the Fa principles
above the ordinary human society. He can see through the myth in this dimension
and see the ultimate truth, which is: everything is restricted by the universal
Dafa and everything happens for a reason. The manifestations of everything in
the human world all have microscopic factors in other dimensions. If the factors
in other dimensions are cleared awat, what could the evildoers do in this human
world? How could the evil be able to commit such colossal crimes of damaging
Dafa if we cultivators did not have human attachments for them to take advantage
of? If each cultivator does not have fear in the face of persecution, and
instead we treat everything with strong righteous thoughts and use our divine
powers to eliminate the evil, where can the evil flee to? How can the
persecution continue? How to act and how to cultivate is an individual choice. Wake up! Each
opportunity for us to make a choice will not be presented twice. Our choices
will determine our future positions. The above is my personal understanding at my present level. Fellow
practitioners, please point out anything that does not comply with the Fa. July 14, 2008
Chinese version available at
http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2008/7/15/182077.html
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