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Getting Rid of Attachments to the Olympic Games and Prophecies
By a Falun Dafa practitioner in China
(Clearwisdom.net) In the past several years, all kinds of disasters have
taken place in China. People have been discussing what would happen on that day,
which was predicted through several disasters, what the CCP would encounter
before and after the Olympic Games, etc. People are guessing at the fate of the
CCP, the accuracy of prophecies, as well as whether the Olympic Games will be
successful or not. They are ordinary people, not cultivators. Faced with the
prospect of catastrophes, they naturally had such worries. However, a while ago,
I found that many practitioners had similar thoughts. Some practitioners
wondered whether the Olympic Games of Beijing could be held or not and discussed
what would happen in a certain month according to some prophecies. We are Falun
Dafa practitioners. As cultivators, we should not have attachments to time and
prophecies. We have seen too many lessons from being attached to time and the cosmic
climate, but we have not learned from them. Our minds were moved while on the
path of cultivation and Fa-validation. As long as we have any attachment, the
old forces insist on directing things towards the opposite result, which would
increase the tribulations involved with validating the Fa. Of course, it does
not mean that something would happen to the Olympic Games if we did not have
attachments about it. The Olympic Games are a thing of ordinary society. The
cosmic climate changes and people move accordingly. The human world changes as
the battle between good and evil progresses. What we want to eliminate are those
evil beings that are intent on destroying the Fa-rectification and persecuting
people. We want all beings to know the truth and thus be saved. We do not target
everything that the CCP does or hope that certain things fail. The CCP intends
to damage Fa-rectification, so it has chosen its fate and has no place in the
Three Realms. Dafa practitioners are exposing its true nature as we validate the
Fa and clarify the truth, but our goal is to help everyone clearly recognize it,
get away from it, and thus be saved. We should not seek solutions from the
outside and expect that it will effect any change. All beings are waiting on us.
Should we really be hoping for ordinary people to do something? The prophets in history were cultivators, had supernormal capabilities, or
obtained special powers one way or another. However, what they obtained and
cultivated could not match the Dafa that we cultivate today. Some practitioners
cannot extricate themselves from prophecies and are attached to them. Master
said in Zhuan Falun: "But if you say: 'I'm just interested in studying the scriptures,'
and you always study the scriptures, you will be practicing in that school of
practice, since the scriptures have also integrated the gong and the Fa from
that school of practice. Once you study it, you will be practicing in that
school of practice. It involves this issue. If you study it in depth and
follow that school of practice, you may have assumed that school of practice
instead of ours. " Cultivation is a serious thing. Prophecies have laid a groundwork for today's
grand play of Falun Dafa practitioners' assisting Master in Fa-rectification,
which is used for us to clarify the truth and save all beings. Master said: Some people are always attached to what prophecies have said and why it
didn't happen that way. They've begun to take these as the Fa. Don't forget
that since the start of Fa-rectification, everything has had to be determined
by what the future needs, including what process the Fa-rectification itself
goes through. Prophecies can be used only when they are conducive to saving
sentient beings. There are also people who say, "Something Master said
seems to mean such and such, but why didn't it happen when the time
came?" [People who feel that way are] actually all just speculating.
Isn't an attachment to time an attachment? Only when you cultivate without any
omissions or gaps is it the best cultivation. Dafa disciples are to do what
Dafa disciples are supposed to do, openly and with confidence. When you [are
able to do that] and have no thoughts of being dependent on other people or
things, the evil won't dare to exploit your gaps, and bad things will flee at
the mere sight of you, because you have no omissions that it can
exploit." (Teaching the Fa in San Francisco, 2005) Fa-rectification cultivation requires a mindset of being undisturbed and not
having pursuit, so that we can manifest our righteous thoughts and divine side. |