Click on the below-mentioned, numbered subjects:
- Welcome
- What’s Happening?
- Human Notions Behind Explaining Oneself
- When the Fa-rectification Ends, Will You Have Many Regrets?—Thoughts After Watching the Shen Yun Program, “The Buddha's Teachings Spread Far and Wide”
- Change Human Notions, Temper Myself Within the Fa
- Some Thoughts about the Word "Bound"
- A Few Words Regarding: My "Self" and My True Self
- Looking Inward Is the Only Means to Resolve Problems
- 1. Welcome
Welcome to the July 2010 Falun Dafa India Newsletter.
As we start July, the dark memories of 20 July 1999 come back to us.
Let us not be despondent but look at how Master has given us strength in
times of adversities.
Let us remind ourselves of what Master taught us at the "Fa Teaching at the 2009 Greater New York International Fa Conference":
"Rather, to quietly cultivate in bleak loneliness, unable to see hope, is the hardest of all. Doing any form of cultivation entails undergoing a trial such as this and a path with such features. Only if one can persevere and continually forge ahead does it amount to true diligence. It's easy to talk about, but putting it into action is tremendously difficult. That is why it's said that always cultivating as if you were just starting will surely result in achieving your ultimate rank."
"The most precious thing is to manage to continually progress while in this grueling setting, under pressure, and unable to see hope. That is the most precious, and greatest, thing."
This issue has a compilation of experience-sharing Articles gleaned from Clearwisdom that always shine through because of their insights and fine quality of sharing. It is important to read the Clearwisdom, Pureinsight and other Dafa sites. We make an effort to select Articles from the Archives which people don’t go back to and are relevant even today. Contributions are welcome from practitioners.
Heshi! Hope, you like the selection of Articles and gain some new insights!
Note: "All the contents in this newsletter - except for quotations and excerpts of writings of the founder Mr. Li Hongzhi - are only ideas and experiences of practitioners and do not represent Falun Dafa in itself."
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- 2. What’s Happening?
The Bangalore practitioners were invited by Principals of some new schools to introduce Falun Dafa to their staff and students.
A Media House also invited practitioners to introduce Dafa to their staff.
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- 3. Human Notions Behind Explaining Oneself
Shuo Chen
(PureInsight.org)
During a recent group discussion, Practitioner A talked about some of his experiences overcoming xinxing tests. A few days ago, he had a long discussion with the local coordinator. During the discussion, the coordinator mentioned me, along with several other practitioners, saying that I interfered with an experience-sharing conference last year.
Hearing these words, I was undisturbed, since it was an opportunity for me to look within and improve my xinxing. In response to Practitioner A, I said, “Right now it is the Fa-rectification period and that Dafa have higher requirements for us. No matter what others say about us—even if it was not true, we should be undisturbed. There is no need to defend ourselves by giving explanations.” With those words, I saw several practitioners in the room agree with me by nodding. I felt very good, thinking my xinxing had improved and I had met the requirements of the Fa. At that time, Practitioner B, another coordinator, arrived. I thought that since she did not know the details of what we were discussing, I needed to give her an explanation to avoid misunderstandings. So I briefly said, “The Fa conference last year was scheduled at 1 pm. I did not receive notice until 12:30pm, saying that the location would be in use by some other practitioners several days later, and I was asked to hold the Fa conference somewhere else. However, many practitioners already arrived and it was difficult to find an alternative venue somewhere else. I had no choice but to hold the Fa conference as originally planned.”
Surprisingly, Practitioner C’s face turned reddish upon hearing my words, “What was that? We talked about looking within unconditionally and not giving explanations about one’s actions when encountering specific situations. Didn’t you just explain your actions?”
I was embarrassed, as if someone had slapped me in the face: yes, wasn’t this giving an explanation? I said that I remained undisturbed, but I didn’t act that way. What kind of human notions caused me to explain myself?”
In “Fa Teaching Given in Manhattan,” Master said, “Some people are always stressing that they’re right, but even if you are right, even if you’re not wrong, so what? Have you improved on the basis of the Fa? The very act of using human thinking to stress who’s right and who’s wrong is in itself wrong. That’s because you are then using the logic of ordinary people to evaluate yourself, and using that logic to make demands on others. As gods see it, for a cultivator to be right or wrong in the human world is not important in the least, whereas eliminating the attachments that come from human thinking is important, and it is precisely your managing to eliminate those attachments rooted in your human thinking as you cultivate that counts as important. (Applause) If you can manage to handle things calmly no matter how wronged you may feel, if you can remain unmoved and not try to come up with some kind of excuse for yourself, then with many things you won’t even need to argue. That’s because on your path of cultivation there is nothing that is by chance. So, when you get into a heated exchange and it stirs things up in you, or you get into a conflict over something that concerns your vital interests, perhaps the factors behind it were put there by Master. Maybe you only get upset when it’s a case of someone saying something that really provokes you or hits a sore spot. And maybe the person really did treat you wrongfully. But, those words weren’t necessarily said by that person. Perhaps they were said by me.”
Thinking about these words from Master, I suddenly had new understandings. Was I able to do well when other practitioners misunderstood me? Was I able to remain undisturbed? Was I using human notions to judge others and require things of others? Didn’t the fact that I felt the need to explain myself to Practitioner B mean I was moved? Wasn’t my explanation to validate myself? Wasn’t there an attachment in me that was not willing to let others to criticize me (in other words, an attachment of fame)? All these are related to selfishness. Although I did not explain myself to the head coordinator, I still had human notions—they were just temporarily suppressed and then surfaced later when there was an opportunity. Wasn’t this a good opportunity to remove them?
In fact, since that Fa conference, I had heard some negative comments. I was unhappy but I soon suppressed the feeling since I thought it was a good opportunity for me to look within and improve. Since then, I have been looking within for what attachments I had, but I had failed to find this one even after 10 months had passed. The reason was that in 2006 I was persecuted when this attachment was severe. Upon discovering it, I soon left the evil den with Master’s help. Since then, I thought the attachment was gone and no longer counted it when looking within. Now it seems I was wrong and an attachment may need to be eliminated several times before it is completely eradicated. We cannot just rest on our laurels, since our attachments will continue to be uncovered until Fa-rectification is over.
After realizing this, I shared these understandings with fellow practitioners and exposed my attachments. Then I felt a large amount of degenerate substance that had accumulated in my dimension for a long time had disappeared. I felt things were clearer and my body expanded. I knew Master was using Practitioner C’s words to remind me to look within and helping me remove this substance. Thank you, Master.
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- 4. When the Fa-rectification Ends, Will You Have Many Regrets?—Thoughts After Watching the Shen Yun Program, “The Buddha's Teachings Spread Far and Wide”
A Dafa practitioner
(PureInsight.org)
After watching the last act of Shen Yun’s 2010 program, “The Buddha's Teachings Spread Far and Wide,” I had a thought of regret. One of Shen Yun’s numbers from previous years, “The Monkey King Triumphs,” was still clear in my mind. I thought at that time: “I should cultivate as diligently as the Monkey King, who killed demons and solidly passed every obstacle on his cultivation path.” However, one year has gone by and the Tang Monk and his disciples have already returned home with the sutras. Time has gone by so fast; one year was like a brief moment! I feel there are so many things I haven't done, so many human mindsets I still need to cultivate away, so many people with predestined relationships that need to be told the truth... The Fa’s rectification of the human world is fast approaching and I still have so many things that need to be accomplished. Yes, Tang Monk and his disciples went through difficult years of untold hardships on their arduous journey and suffered from years of vicissitudes. As they set foot on their native land after a long absence, they looked far to the Grand Palace with magnificent buildings and tall walls; they had not betrayed the high expectations of their people and triumphantly returned and passed the exalted Buddha Dharma to the Eastern Territory. It was to be celebrated by all people. This outcome didn’t come from waiting; instead, it was obtained through an arduous journey. This program symbolizes a profound message!
The beautiful main theme of music from this piece can touch one's heart and soul. Different musical instruments played different themes, orderly, peacefully, and echoed in resonance with both single melody and ensemble. Actors’ dances accompanied by clanging drums showed the gracefulness of the flourishing age of the Tang Dynasty! Shortly afterward, the palace maids rose to dance, waving their long sleeves, showing a picture of harmony and festivity. When the palace doors slowly opened, the Tang Emperor heard the news that the Journey to the West had returned; when Tang Monk presented the scrolls of sutras to the Emperor, and when the palace maids changed the flowers in their hands to colorful ribbons, waving in celebration, a thought came to my mind: “Fa-rectification is coming to an end!” I shed tears involuntarily. While shedding tears of sadness, I was thinking that all these years, whether I had cultivated my mind and clarified the truth, I feel my realm has indeed improved step by step. If this is really the end of the Fa-rectification, do I qualify to be a part of it? How much will I regret? How am I doing in studying the Fa and cultivating my mind? How many friends and relatives haven't I clarified the truth to? How many obvious human notions haven't I gotten rid of? What opportunities do I have to make up for the losses?
The two slowly opening palace gates were like the gates of a heavenly palace. We came to the earth ages ago, the beings of our world watched us descend to the earth. They will also be watching us return to our own world step by step. I remember a fellow practitioner whose celestial eye had opened once said: “The great heavenly gate had opened. How many people had gone and how many had returned?” Our minds have been covered with dust for so long that we have become too selfish and for too long have nurtured our human mindset. How much have we washed clean in Dafa cultivation? When the Fa-rectification ends and we cannot achieve the standard for Consummation, it will be a great despair to the sentient beings who had placed great hopes in us. It will be a huge tribulation for them. And how will we be dealing with it ourselves? What will it imply? It will mean eternal regret. I know every Dafa disciple does not belong only to themselves; instead, we belong to the sentient beings of our own worlds of the new universe. Our missions and duties do not allow us to have the slightest regret in our cultivation. Even having the slightest regret will mean the costs are huge. We will never have another opportunity to make up for it.
A few days ago, while I was doing a Dafa project, I felt a little confused on my condition. I asked Teacher to enlighten me on my current state. I then had a dream that I was in my hometown and the rain had just stopped. When I raised my head, I suddenly saw two big clouds joining together on the horizon; they weren’t the color of the clouds in the human world. They disappeared and then dark clouds came rolling in quickly. The paper-thin tiles on the roof were easily broken with a light poke. I realized: “It is a manifestation of the Fa-rectification process making a breakthrough to the human world.” When I woke up, I felt that the time of the Fa’s rectification of the human world is imminent. I thought that everyone should be enlightened to the meaning of “The Buddha's Teachings Spread Far and Wide.”
Teacher uses this dance form to enlighten us, to let us ponder more deeply, and let us cultivate diligently. We need to be more diligent to catch up with the Fa-rectification process. We need to look inward and study the Fa more, truly reach the state of selflessness and altruism of the new universe. In other words, we shouldn’t leave the slightest regret in our personal cultivation. We should pass on the truth about Dafa to sentient beings without leaving the slightest regret. Then, when the Fa-rectification Period ends, we can all celebrate the great Consummation of the whole universe.
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- 5. Change Human Notions, Temper Myself Within the Fa
Dafa Practitioner from China, now living in Canada
(PureInsight.org)
Experience sharing from the 2009 Canada Fa Conference
Greetings respectful Master, greetings fellow practitioners!
I am a veteran practitioner who obtained the Fa in 1996. On May 19, 1998, I went to appeal at the Beijing TV station. I also experienced the events of April 25th and July 20th. There were times when I was confused. I was arrested when I displayed a banner on Tiananmen Square in 2000 and I went on a hunger strike. To avoid being taken to a brain-washing class, I became homeless for six months. In April 2003, I immigrated to Canada. For the past 10 years, I have walked my cultivation path, validating the Fa under Master’s guidance despite ups and downs. However, because I didn’t really study the Fa diligently, I was still unsettled by many human notions.
Master has told us in Lunyu:
The Buddha Fa is most profound; among all the theories in the world, it is the most intricate and extraordinary science. In order to explore this domain, humankind must fundamentally change its conventional thinking. Otherwise, the truth of the universe will forever remain a mystery to humankind, and everyday people will forever crawl within the boundary delimited by their own ignorance. (Zhuan Falun)
I memorized this paragraph, but didn’t really understand the meaning concealed in its words.
I am impatient and speak bluntly, so I volunteer to do anything that does not involve supervising people. I was a teacher when I was young. I’d rather teach classes than be a supervisor. I continued to hold on to this notion while cultivating. In 1998, I was asked to be an assistant and establish a new practice site to spread the Fa. When I couldn’t evade it, I agreed to take on the role temporarily. Later, several practitioners competed to become the assistant, which gave me the opportunity to resign. I didn’t mind taking care of the banners, cleaning the site, bringing the tape recorder, coming early and leaving late, but I just didn't want to be an assistant.
After I arrived in Toronto, this notion became even stronger and I couldn’t break through the boundaries the old force had arranged for me. I held on firmly to human principles, which created a tremendous obstacle to my cultivation. Yet, I was unaware of it. Master told us in “To All Students at the Nordic Fa Conference:”
So in clarifying the truth, don't wait, don't rely on others, and don't just hope for changes in external factors. Every one of us is creating history for the future, that's why everyone is not only participating in group activities, but also taking the initiative to look for things to do. As long as something is good for Dafa, you should take the initiative to do it, take the initiative to work on it. (Essentials for Further Advancement II)
I should also take the initiative to do something. There is one thing that really moved my heart: when I saw fellow practitioners going through a test of sickness karma and when I saw that some even passed away, I felt that they needed a practitioner to care about them. We should not wait until their tribulation grows so huge that they cannot pass it, and then we go there to visit and ask if they have searched inward. Rather, we should have timely sharing whenever we see problems with a practitioner; then very likely that tribulation can be avoided. I saw these problems and felt truly worried, but I took no action because I had no clue how to help.
At the time, Master saw my heart, so he used other practitioner’s words to give me a hint. “You are a veteran practitioner and came to Toronto so long ago. You should do something for the group. You should organize the elderly practitioners to form a study group. Don’t wait until a fellow practitioner has already been persecuted to the point of death to offer help. Then, it would be too late.”
Group Fa study is the form of cultivation that Master has taught us. I should do this, as I have the conditions to do so. All the tenants in the house where I live are practitioners, and the two practitioners living upstairs packed everything into their bedrooms to empty the living room. I didn’t have children to take care of, so I had extra time. Transportation to where I live is very convenient and many practitioners know the location. Once I decided to proceed, my human notions reappeared, like the fear of not being able to do well, or what others might say, or if no one would participate, and so on. Bad thoughts coursed through my mind, but my main consciousness remained strong. I knew that this was interference from my old notions, so I sent forth righteous thoughts to eliminate it, to break though the old force’s arrangement, and to walk the path that was arranged by Master.
I talked to a few practitioners about forming a group study for elderly practitioners. They encouraged and supported me. The first Sunday after the mid-autumn Shen Yun performance, we began our group study. Ten practitioners joined. Because we are all veteran practitioners, everyone had gone through a solid personal cultivation process. We studied the Fa and shared experiences for three hours. Not one of us chatted. Fellow practitioners not only have the heart to strive forward and cultivate themselves well, but also to kindly point out others’ shortcomings and form a true field for cultivation.
Elderly practitioners were asked to get together and send forth righteous thoughts around the New Year, just before the Shen Yun performance. Despite the bitterly cold winter, practitioners had to come from far away daily. Some practitioners needed to transfer to other buses to get there and these practitioners were all over 70 years old. I really felt it was difficult to ask for their help. The coordinator criticized me and said this is human thinking. I think it is indeed important to get together to send forth righteous thoughts, so I told the other practitioners this. To my surprise, nobody objected, and almost everyone came daily, even during heavy snow. Around 19 people came one day. We arranged tight schedules, sent forth righteous thoughts every half hour, and then studied the Fa or did the exercises in between. We didn’t even have time to drink water. Practitioners all felt the field was very good.
Then I was tested again. A practitioner said about me, “Because you saw a few practitioners pass away, you hurriedly formed a study group and wanted to be a coordinator. What ability do you have? Your husband could not pass the sickness karma test well and went to the hospital, yet you want to manage others.” After listening, my mind was calm and my heart was unmoved, but I still felt uncomfortable deep down.
Master said in “Teaching the Fa at the Conference in Singapore:” “That’s why I tell you that whenever any problems occur or whenever you feel uneasy inside, you should look inside yourself for causes. I can guarantee that the problem lies within you.”
So why was this practitioner criticizing me when all other practitioners were encouraging and supportive? I knew I wasn’t good enough and yet why pour this cold water on me when I had finally gathered enough courage to take this step?
I tried to search inside and finally I found it: It was my vanity. I could say my ability was poor, but when others point it out, I don’t want to listen. Isn’t this vanity? The other practitioner wasn’t wrong. My husband went to the hospital and had an operation. He didn’t pass the sickness karma test well, that is true. Since all of what the practitioner said were facts, then why didn’t I want to listen? Didn’t I just want to hear good words? Master said:
When others say things about you that aren’t pleasant to hear, why do you become unhappy? When you become unhappy, aren’t you in your heart refusing to accept the chance to cultivate and improve? Aren’t you simply seeking the same kind of happiness that everyday people do? Then aren’t you an everyday person?! At that moment you should think, ‘Why am I unhappy? When others criticize me, I become unhappy—aren’t I pursuing something?’ But while wanting everyone to be nice to you and to live a pleasant life among ordinary people, how are you going to improve? Without letting go of any human things, how can you improve and elevate? For exactly that reason you cannot improve and elevate. You have to truly let go of these things—attachments that humans cannot let go of. (“Teaching the Fa at the Fa Conference in Australia”)
When I seriously tried to understand this lecture, my heart suddenly brightened. Wasn’t I pursuing human things? I wanted to hear good words. Actually, my strong notions and my mentality of not wanting to do this or that all were rooted in this. Once I found the root, I needed to dig it out and eliminate it, so that I could quickly improve. I am trying my best to do this.
I’d like to thank the fellow practitioner who gave me this opportunity to improve. Fa rectification is progressing so fast. I need to follow its progress closely and try my best to be a qualified disciple.
Please kindly point out any inappropriateness in my sharing.
Thank you Master! Thank you fellow practitioners!
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- 6. Some Thoughts about the Word "Bound"
By Ping Xin, a Falun Dafa practitioner from Mainland China
(Clearwisdom.net)
From July 20, 1999 to 2005, the word, "bang jia" ("bind" and "lift", meaning "kidnap"), was rarely used in articles exposing practitioners' persecution experiences. However, recently, this word has been frequently used in articles exposing the persecution of Falun Dafa practitioners. Actually, I have seen in other dimensions that the hands of the practitioners who have been taken to prisons, labor camps, and brainwashing classes were nearly all bound.
Looking from other dimensions, since the publication of Teacher's, "Thoroughly Dissolve the Evil," when Falun Dafa practitioners send forth powerful righteous thought together toward prisons, labor camps, and brainwashing centers, the Falun Dafa practitioners detained there realize the beauty of cultivation and the beauty of Falun Dafa more and more, and all the evil guards in other dimensions incessantly kneel before Falun Dafa practitioners. Therefore, it is very important that Falun Dafa practitioners send forth righteous thought to places where the evil concentrates, and strengthen the practitioners detained there. Before that, we must study the Fa with a peaceful mind, cultivate ourselves, and look inside. Nearly all of us have recognized that the persecution is not just a situation of humans persecuting humans.
For a period of time in 2004, some of the practitioners around me were persecuted. During that time, I felt that I was always slow in doing work for Falun Dafa. For a while, I could not find the reason. One day when I was sending forth righteous thoughts I saw that my hands in other dimensions were bound with a metal chain as thick as the rope used to secure a boat. I suddenly understood why I was slow when doing Falun Dafa work.
From the next day on, I set aside any work that was not urgent. After finishing working at the truth-clarification materials production site, I didn't go anywhere but home, so that I could study the Fa quietly. I sent forth righteous thoughts every hour. Every day, I could clearly see that the chain that bound my hands became thinner and thinner. On the ninth day, the chain on my hands became as thin as a rubber band and it could be even stretched. At that time, my body in another dimension cried out loudly, "Break!" The chain broke. Since then, I have been free.
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- 7. A Few Words Regarding: My "Self" and My True Self
By a practitioner from China
(Clearwisdom.net)
Teacher has taught us,
"Beings who don't have rational, upright thoughts and clear heads are the ones divine beings look down on most." (Teaching the Fa at the 2004 Western U.S. Fa Conference)
Because in the past I was attached to my "self," I have been paying special attention to this aspect in my cultivation. I have realized in my Fa study that I should not be attached to my selfishness, but that I should find my true self.
I knew I was not cultivating well--I had a lot of bad thoughts and had many attachments that were not yet completely eliminated. Most of the time I could recognize my bad thoughts, reject them, not submit to them, and eliminate them with righteous thoughts. However, sometimes my mind would drift away with them without even realizing I was doing it. Sometimes I tried to resist them, thinking that they were not mine. But then I thought, "Aren't these bad thoughts created somewhere in my mind? If they are not from my mind, then whose thoughts are they?" It felt like I was fooling myself. I then realized that Teacher was trying to make me aware of the fact that they were truly not my own thoughts and were instead from my false "self." They were human notions, thought karma, external interference, and thoughts arranged by the old forces. My true self came from higher level dimensions and was created by the universal principles of "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance", and thus compliant with the standards of that level. All the human notions I developed in this human world are bad and do not belong to my true self. My true self is made of microscopic particles and my current self is covered in thick layers of matter from this human world, including bad human notions and thoughts. In my cultivation I should get rid of them layer by layer. Only by doing that can my true self emerge. Attachments to fame and reputation, interest and money, anger, fear, zealotry, and jealousy are not parts of my true self. But in addition to merely denying them, I should do my best to eliminate them vigorously.
I have come to the enlightenment that whenever I don't conduct myself well in daily cultivation, it is due to my false self being dominant and my true self not being in control. I can conduct myself well when my true self is dominant and I can align myself to the "Fa" taught by Teacher. Let's think about it. When you do not study the Fa diligently, is it your true self? When you do not get up early to do the exercises, is it your true self? When you do not get up on time at night to send forth righteous thoughts, is it your true self? When you are unwilling to clarify the truth, is it your true self? And so on. It must not be your true self. Therefore, we should always be clear-minded and distinguish between our false and true selves. Only by doing this can we walk each step on the path arranged by Teacher leading to our original home.
Please kindly point out anything inappropriate.
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- 8. Looking Inward Is the Only Means to Resolve Problems
By a practitioner in Heilongjiang Province
(Clearwisdom.net)
When I study Master's lectures, I am most impressed by
a principle that Master has often talked about and has stressed again and
again--cultivation is about looking inward. In other words, I think, not looking
inward means not cultivating.
However, many practitioners tend to look outward and search for external
causes when they run into problems. They even get angry, just as Master points
out in the "Fa:
"Yet when we run into problems, we often look outwards--'Why are you
treating me like that?'--and feel that we've been treated unfairly, instead of
examining ourselves. That's the greatest and most fatal obstacle for all living
beings." ("Teaching the Fa at the Conference in Singapore")
For instance, some practitioners went to the hospital to seek temporary
comfort. Instead, they suffered from long-term discomfort. Isn't cultivation
about eliminating karma and enduring hardship? If we don't measure things
against the Fa, we are restricted by human laws. We will not be able to regard
problems as tests of our faith in Master and Fa or as tests of our firmness in
the Fa. If we don't hold ourselves to the standard of the Fa, the evil will take
advantage of our gaps and even Master cannot help us under such circumstances.
So we will suffer ordeals until someday we understand the Fa.
Some practitioners complain about their family situations, such as their
family members creating problems in their cultivation and not allowing them to
do this or that, or even destroying Dafa books. They didn't look inward to see
whether they have behaved as cultivators, whether they have created positive
images for Dafa practitioners in their environment, or whether they have truly
been validating Dafa. When we do not cultivate ourselves well, our gaps may be
taken advantage of by the old evil forces. We may get arrested, causing our
family members to suffer mentally and physically, and thus they may become more
fearful. Have we thought about our family members as sentient beings to be
saved? Although the CCP is evil, Master told us:
"if you don't have those thoughts they can't do anything."
("Teaching the Fa at the 2002 Fa Conference in Philadelphia, U.S.A.")
Why can't we look inward to search for our fundamental attachments and stand
up from where we fall?
I think the only way to solve these problems and overcome these ordeals is to
study the Fa more. We should study the Fa with our hearts and recite the Fa, so
that we can truly assimilate to Dafa and transcend the selfishness of the old
cosmos. We should break away from human notions, hold ourselves to the standard
of selflessness and altruism, always consider others first, and consider issues
from others' points of view. I realize the process of searching inside is a
process of enduring, a process of eliminating karma, a process of cultivating,
and a process of improving ourselves. Isn't cultivation about enduring hardship?
Getting rid of all human notions is the hardest process.
Finally, I would like to suggest that every practitioner recite this quote
from Master's "Teaching the Fa at the Conference in Europe:"
"Whenever you encounter problems you should each look inward to search
for the cause within, regardless of whether you're to blame or not. Remember
my words: Regardless of whether the problem is your fault or not, you should
look inside yourself, and you will find a problem. If the matter has
absolutely nothing to do with you or doesn't involve any of the attachments
you should break, then that thing would rarely happen to you. If you didn't
have an attachment the problem wouldn't have come about. I have to be
responsible for your cultivation. Any problem that happens to you, around you,
or among you is most likely related to you, and there is something for you to
get rid of. No matter whether it's your fault or not, when my Law Bodies are
having you remove your attachment, they don't care whether it's your fault or
another person's."
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