Tolerance and Respect for Others Written by Xiaolian, a practitioner in China
(Clearwisdom.net)
Tolerance is having a broad mind, a great capacity to
accommodate everything, a profound wisdom to see through everything and an
ineffable realm of righteous and virtuous enlightenment.
In the eyes of enlightened beings, tolerance is an instinct,
a nature. If there were only one person living in this vast universe, their
existence would be bland. Only together with all other beings, will a life
experience the joy and meaning of its existence.
Although we still have a lot of attachments and human notions
that have not been eliminated in cultivation, this cannot be used as an excuse
to abandon ourselves to them. Dafa requires us to attain the righteous
Enlightenment of selflessness and altruism, so we should be very strict with
ourselves. As for our fellow practitioners, provided they are still cultivating,
we should treat them as "fellow practitioners" no matter whether they
cultivate well or not. We should respect others' opinions, treasure others and
believe in others. This requires us to maintain our "one body" well
together, especially when the environment is so complicated at this time.
The state of tolerance is attained through cultivation. It
doesn't matter if others understand or not, but it is essential that we
ourselves stick to the Fa. What every enlightened being has enlightened to is
different from others, so it is impossible to get them to conform to each other.
For example, in doing something, different people have different approaches.
Thus the universe can be so rich and varied.
The mind of understanding, the heart of tolerance, and the
realm of treasuring others are the direct reflection of our Xinxing (mind
nature). Every cultivator should be responsible to himself and herself. What
will we get if we don't want to tolerate and treasure others? Only if we do
everything with such a tolerant heart and really treasure other people, will our
own existence become meaningful. Only if we tolerate others, will we able to
return to the forever-beautiful and forever-lasting new cosmos.
Posting date: 9/9/2003 |