Eliminate Your Last Attachment(s)

Dafa and Dafa students have experienced the most evil, most vicious, destructive trial—something unprecedented in history. Dafa and its students, who have truly been performing as the greatest practitioners of a righteous cultivation way, have passed through this. In the human world, all individuals, organizations, and groups do things in human society in order to achieve something in this world. Dafa disciples, however, are eliminating all ordinary human attachments—including the attachment to their human lives—in order to reach the realms of higher beings. This is why we’ve been able to pass through the most evil, most vicious, and most indecent persecution in human history. This is what those wicked, vile people could not have expected.

Since you are qualified, genuine cultivators who have met the standard, you cannot be pressured by way of money or material interests—those are things that a cultivator needs to let go of anyway. Besides, these cultivators can even let go of life and death: How could they fear the threat of death? Although several vile persons are still doing evil, those most wicked beings who are at high levels of the cosmic body have already been eliminated in the process of the Fa’s rectification of the cosmos. The wicked ones who are at the most superficial level, that of humankind, will soon have to pay for all of their sins as they themselves are being completely eliminated during the Fa’s rectification of the human world.

In Mainland China these days, some special agents who claim that they are practitioners have been making their way into labor camps and other places where practitioners are being held, for the purpose of doing harm. They deceive practitioners by claiming that they [the special agents] have already reached Consummation, and by using other means. They tell the practitioners that the practitioners have already reached Consummation and no longer need to practice, that the practitioners should conform to everyday people as much as possible, that the practitioners should turn in their books, and so on. With these lies, they have deceived some practitioners who, in the midst of tribulations, don’t want to stay in the human world and want to reach Consummation as soon as possible. In the Fa, I have told you to practice cultivation while conforming to everyday people as much as possible. I have never said that you should conform to everyday people as much as possible [in and of itself]. If you are no different from an everyday person, are you still a cultivator? Dafa disciples—future Buddhas, Daos, and Gods—how can you let those wicked, ridiculous buffoons capitalize on any weak spots?

It is in fact time to let go of your last attachments. As cultivators, you already know that you should, and in your actions you have, let go of all worldly attachments (including the attachment to the human body) and have made it through the process of letting go of life and death. Then is being attached to reaching Consummation an attachment? Isn’t it also an attachment born of human desire? Would a Buddha be attached to reaching Consummation? As a matter of fact, those cultivators who are truly approaching Consummation don’t have this attachment. In teaching the Fa, I have talked about the principle whereby a student who does his schoolwork well will naturally be admitted to college, whereas a student who is attached to being admitted to college but who doesn’t do his schoolwork well won’t be admitted. It isn’t wrong for a cultivator to wish to reach Consummation, but your mind should be on the Fa. Through continual cultivation practice you will unwittingly meet the standard for Consummation. Those students who are unable to endure the suffering are especially likely to have thoughts of leaving the human world and reaching Consummation soon. This allows the evil to take advantage of their weaknesses. You have already made it through the most difficult time. When it comes to your last attachment, you must be sure to let go of it. I know all of the suffering of my disciples. The truth is, I treasure you more than you treasure yourselves! All evil in the cosmos is being eliminated at an unprecedented speed.

Over the past year, practitioners’ own karma, inadequate understanding of the Fa, inability to discard attachments amidst tribulations, inability to deal with things using righteous thoughts amidst painful trials, and so on, are the main reasons behind evil’s escalation of the persecution, and are the true fundamental excuses that the evil has used to attack the Fa. Nonetheless, however much a cultivator puts forth in cultivation practice, that much he will obtain when he reaches Consummation. Do you still remember how one time when I was teaching the Fa, a student asked whether a cultivator could cultivate to an Attainment Status (or "Fruit Status"—trans.) higher than where his life had originally come into being? If a cultivator can let go of the thought of life and death under any circumstances, evil is bound to be afraid of him. If every practitioner is able to do this, evil will of itself no longer exist. All of you are already aware of the principle of mutual-generation and mutual-inhibition. If you are not afraid, the factor that would make you afraid will become non-existent. This is not to be self-imposed, but is achieved by calmly and truly letting go of it. Whenever I see you suffer hardships, Master feels even more upset than you; whenever you do not take a step well, it really pains my heart. Everything that the evil has done has actually targeted the attachments and fears that you have not let go of. You are future enlightened beings who are becoming Buddhas, Daos, and Gods, and you are not concerned with the losses and gains of this world. So you should be able to let go of everything. If you weren’t attached right now to reaching Consummation, the evil would not have been able to take advantage of this last weak spot.

When those vile people posing as students try to make you falter, they usually tell you that they’re students themselves, that they have reached Consummation, and other lies. It’s remarkable that you are able to let go of life and death, but you should not develop an attachment to reaching Consummation. That would be an omission! It is also a weak spot that the evil can take advantage of. Since they are saying that they have already reached Consummation, ask them to fly up in the sky to show everyone, or ask them to recite a paragraph of Zhuan Falun as a test. Upon having reached Consummation, one will be a Buddha, Dao, or God with boundless radiance, and will assume the magnificent appearance of a god, having all of the Buddha Fa’s divine powers—one will no longer have a human appearance. How can those petty buffoons who go to labor camps and act mysterious deceive Dafa disciples? Although they have found several dozen deceivers—dregs of humanity—to put on this disgraceful act, just by having your heart unaffected you will be able to handle all situations.

At present, the evil in the cosmic body has already been completely eliminated, and the Fa has finished rectifying the Three Realms. Only the most surface level of matter’s shell is still being broken through. This is happening at a rapid speed, and is approaching the vile people in the human world and those vicious murderers who have beaten to death or injured Dafa disciples (future Buddhas, Daos, and Gods).

Eliminate your last attachment(s). Everything you have accomplished through cultivation practice has already established your infinitely wonderful, and sacred, future Attainment Status. Take every step well, and don’t tarnish what you have already attained. Let the part of you that has been fully cultivated glow with an even purer brilliance.

Li Hongzhi
August 12, 2000

 

(Note:  This translation version is subject to further improvement.  Latest update:  March 17, 2001)