Click on the below-mentioned, numbered subjects:
- Welcome
- What’s Happening?
- Insights on Eliminating Secular Thoughts
- When We Are Righteous, Master Will Help Us
- Letting Go of Self
- Passing Character Tests and Trials
- Keep Xinxing in Mind when Interacting with Fellow Practitioners
- Looking Inside When We Encounter Illness Karma
- 1. Welcome
Welcome to the December 2015 Falun Dafa India Newsletter.
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In this issue, we have 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?
Practitioners from Bangalore participated in the Children’s Day celebration on 14 and 15 November at Cubbon Park. Practitioners demonstrated the exercises, taught the exercises and distributed flyers and informed everyone about the Persecution of Falun Dafa practitioners in China.
Practitioners from Bangalore had some time back interacted with the Block Development offer in charge of over 300 schools and he had requested to introduce Falun Dafa in the many schools. Practitioners started with one school this month.
Practitioners from Hyderabad have been going to a vantage point near the PTI office and holding banners and giving out flyers and informing people about the Persecution of Falun Dafa practitioners in China.
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- 3. Insights on Eliminating Secular Thoughts
By a Falun Gong practitioner in Liaoning Province, China
(Minghui.org)
When I studied Essentials for Further Advancement
today, I noticed a passage. Teacher said,
"If these acquired notions become too strong, their role will
reverse by dictating a person's true thinking and behavior. At this point,
that person might still think that they are his own ideas. This is the case
for almost all contemporary people." ("For Whom do You Exist?"
in Essentials for Further Advancement)
Teacher said,
"[...] the entire cultivation process for a practitioner is one of
constantly giving up human attachments." ("Genuinely Guiding People
Toward High Levels" in Zhuan Falun)
It is my humble understanding that Teacher is lecturing on attachments from
different perspectives. Isn't cultivation about eliminating human notions? When
one forms a notion in everyday society, one has formed an attachment.
Looking back at my cultivation for the past decade, I feel the biggest
challenge for me has been to eliminate secular attachments. Every attachment is
difficult to eliminate. Take the competitive mentality as an example. For the
past several decades, I easily entered arguments for the sake of preventing
myself from being harmed, fighting for more benefits and being tough and strong.
Sometimes, I refused to even hear the word "no" when it was said to
me. I was unhappy when I heard different opinions. I was always in the right.
The competitive mentality has seriously compromised my personal cultivation and
improvement. More importantly, it has compromised the effect of my
truth-clarification efforts and preventing me from saving people. When people
have a slightly different opinion, my competitive mentality has the better of
me. Sometimes I would interrupt before they even finish professing their
opinions. In the end, I finally identified my competitive mentality. Teacher
told us that a cultivator must have a great mind of forbearance. If I am easily
excited by different opinions, am I qualified to be a cultivator? So I tried
hard to suppress the competitive mentality. I learned to tolerate different
opinions step by step.
However, this is not an attachment that can be removed in one or two tests.
Sometimes when I heard harsh words, I still was affected by them. My husband
often picked on me or shifted the responsibility of his mistakes to me. Why was
this happening? I searched inward and found that I might have tolerated things
on the surface, but have not removed my competitive mentality completely. My
space-dimension was not pure. I didn't have the forbearance at the level of a
cultivator. This must have been the reason why my husband treated me this way.
Perhaps it has been arranged for my husband to help me eliminate my competitive
mentality. Sometimes it was difficult to forbear. I knew how I should have
responded as a cultivator, but I couldn't help talking back as though it was the
only way to make me feel better.
Why is the competitive mentality so stubbornly planted in me? I searched and
searched inward and found that I had been soaked in the Chinese Communist
Party's (CCP) notion of strife. I believed that lacking the competitive
mentality was a sign of giving up on myself. Now that I am a cultivator, I
realize that this was wrong. Teacher said,
"If you compete and fight like an ordinary person, you are an ordinary
person. If you outdo him, you are even worse than that ordinary person."
("Transformation of Karma" in Zhuan Falun)
In my daily life, I must govern myself according to the standard of a
cultivator and rectify my speech and behavior based on the Fa. After many years
of cultivation, I stopped arguing with people when I hear harsh words or when my
family is spiteful. Sometimes I simply return a smile. Other times, I just don't
talk back. I will search inward and ask myself: "Why is he treating me like
this? Is there any human attachment that I should eliminate? I try to regard
conflicts as good opportunities to upgrade my xinxing. Many years had
passed before I made even a little progress eliminating the competitive
mentality. It goes to show the difficulty of eliminating human attachments. It
is indeed a serious matter.
Every day I prioritize my Fa study, persevere in sending forth righteous
thoughts and keep up clarifying the facts about Falun Gong. While clarifying the
facts and validating the Fa, I strive to eliminate my attachment to selfishness.
In the environment of China, I aim to eliminate my attachment to fear. In
October 2004, I moved to a different place with my husband. I wasn't able to get
in touch with local practitioners in that area, so I didn't do very well in the
truth-clarification work. I couldn't obtain Minghui Weekly either. I was
getting very anxious. So I had nothing to do but to study the Fa at home and
send forth righteous thoughts. I only clarified the facts occasionally. Then I
realized that I was selfish. As a Falun Gong practitioner in the Fa-rectification
period, I must validate the Fa and clarify the facts. I must not make excuses
for slacking off. I started to learn to use my computer at home. Soon I learned
to surf the Internet and visit Minghui.org. Reading fellow practitioners'
articles at Minghui.org, I decided to utilize my capabilities and create
truth-clarification materials in my home. I must not wait or depend on fellow
practitioners. As I explored more, I soon learned to create truth-clarification
materials! I felt better then.
Like many fellow practitioners, I learned what I needed to learn by exploring
technology on my own. I often felt as Teacher is protecting me with compassion.
When I ran into problems while creating truth-clarification materials, I could
feel Teacher hinting me in different ways, and was able to quickly solve
problems.
Because of my husband's work, we moved to a different area. This time we
lived in the factory residence in an industrial district. The factory compound
was our world. I had few opportunities to go out alone. I made less
truth-clarification materials. "Am I going to be trapped here? Am I a Falun
Gong practitioner if I stop clarifying the facts about Falun Gong?" I asked
myself. I began to look for opportunities to clarify the facts. At the factory,
I often got in contact with salespeople from different departments and truck
drivers. I decided that I should clarify the facts face to face and talk them
into quitting the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). However, negative thoughts
surfaced when I wanted to clarify the facts to them. Fear, concerns and thoughts
to protect myself obstructed me from opening my mouth.
Teacher said,
"Dafa disciples are the sole hope of salvation for the beings in each
region and each nation." ("My Thanks to Sentient Beings Who Have
Sent Greetings")
Teacher has bestowed such great hope in us, but I failed Teacher's
expectation. Am I still a disciple? It is my mission to save people. Everyone I
meet is predestined. I have already met them. What am I afraid of? I reinforced
my righteous thoughts and rebelled against my human thoughts when I began to
clarify the facts about Falun Gong to my salespeople, truck drivers, people
seeking job opportunities and recycle collectors. I would chat first and change
the subject. Because of my environment and time, I would tell them to quit the
CCP first. Then I would tell them to remember "Falun Gong is good" and
"Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance is good." I found that most of
these people had never heard the truth about Falun Gong. Many of them thanked me
afterwards. With a good start, I built up my confidence. Gradually my confidence
rose. Fear was replaced with a strong motivation to save people. For the past
year, the majority of the people I have clarified the facts to have quit the CCP.
There are only a few individuals that have not accepted the truth or have not
made a decision. It is no longer a challenge for me to clarify the facts.
As I continue to cultivate, all kinds of attachments continue to surface. I
have many human attachments yet to eliminate. I know I will not be admitted to a
heavenly paradise if I should fail to eliminate all attachments. However, it is
excruciatingly painful to eliminate human thoughts. I must study the Fa more and
truly cultivate to eliminate human thoughts. While doing the three
things, I shall attain the standard for cultivators so that I won't let
Teacher down.
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- 4. When We Are Righteous, Master Will Help Us
By a practitioner in the U.S.
(Minghui.org)
First I would like to thank Master for
saving me and saving all sentient beings in the world.
I am a translator, and my role on Dafa projects is mostly
translating and editing. I have discovered that cultivation is becoming easier
now because I study the Fa a lot and as often as I can.
I set aside time to study the Fa in the morning and at night
before I go to bed, even if it's just a few paragraphs. If I do not, I will have
dreams while I sleep. If I do follow this plan, though, I find myself reciting
all through the night the part of the Fa that I studied that night.
I once had a very strong attachment of fear towards almost
everything. However, after becoming a cultivator of Falun Dafa, gradually I have
found myself to be very strong. My fear has diminished a lot, even though the
attachment of fear is still there.
After studying the Fa, at night I review my words and actions
of that day, looking inward for anything that I have said or done wrong. After a
while it has become natural. I find that every incident in my daily life is a
reflection of me, and it is a mirror for me to check and examine myself in
cultivation. The result is that I am becoming kinder, looking at things
from a broader perspective, and less likely to react to things impetuously.
Master has helped me many times. When I am stuck, Master is
always there to pick me up. Due to my attachment, I faced some financial
problems. It has been three years now. However, as Master said in Zhuan Falun,
"What ordinary people say is good isn't necessarily
good, and what ordinary people say is bad isn't necessarily bad."
I now have a job that is not too demanding, which
means less money, but I have a lot of time to do Dafa work. If I had not taken
this path, I would not have done a lot of things for Dafa projects. Because I
work on many projects, I need to buy computers and software licenses for them.
Sometimes the software licenses are as much as $900.
This year I had some tax return money, and I wanted to fix a
plumbing problem that had persisted for two years. Every time I washed clothes,
the water from the washing machine overflowed into the kitchen sink. Recently,
the water almost overflowed the sink, so I feared that it would run all over the
floor. I set aside about $2,000 to get this fixed. However, I recently took on a
new Dafa project. For this project, we established a guideline that each of us
had to buy our own computers and software licenses independently. I had to buy
two computers and some software licenses, each costing about $800. I mulled over
how to deal with the plumbing problem and still buy supplies for this new
project. After thinking about it, I decided not to fix the plumbing problem for
now, and buy the new computers and software licenses instead. That weekend I
started to do the laundry. After the first washing, as usual I went into the
garage to empty about four gallons of water. However, to my surprise, there was
very little water, just about a cup worth. Tears ran down my cheeks. Master is
always with me; it's just that I cannot see him. At times I feel sad when I hear
about other practitioners getting to see Master. Now I do not feel sad anymore,
because Master is always next to me.
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- 5. Letting Go of Self
By a practitioner in China
(Minghui.org)
Many practitioners realize that they need to let go of self, but they don't understand how to achieve this. I will offer my own limited understandings on this very broad and deep cultivation issue.
When we have strong attachments of yearning and pursuit, we are constantly thinking, "I must get this! How can I obtain it?" However, if we let go of our attachments, pursuits, and desires, our hearts will be much more relaxed, and our lives much simpler. Thus, I won't be overjoyed when I get what belongs to me, or too worried and sorrowful when I lose what does not belong to me. In cultivation practice, all material things should come and go naturally and without pursuit or regret.
When we judge and observe the world with intense human notions, we actually fall into a very narrow way of thinking. It's as if we view the sky from the bottom of a well. When we let go of ourselves, only then can we understand that what we see is really not even worthy of mentioning. We will then be able to truly respect all life and face everything with a calm and gentle nature. As an enlightened being, we should not be moved by things around us in the human world.
When we have hatred, wickedness, and discontent in our hearts, wherever we go, these things will be found all around us. Sometimes we complain in tears, "I am so good to him, yet he still scolds me" or "I've done so much, but have gained so little." If a practitioner doesn't have a calm and peaceful heart, he will have many complaints about his life. Actually, its not that others make trouble for us, but that we have karma to pay back. The situation is not merely that we have gained too little, but rather that we are pursuing too much.
When we only look at the shortcomings and faults of others we fail to see their talents and positive sides. When we consider things from the perspective of the Fa, we realize that everyday people don't have the Fa or practice cultivation. We should also be aware that fellow practitioners are also human and may make mistakes during their cultivation. An enlightened being has the ability to be tolerant and forgive anything.
When we fill our hearts with the attachment of competing, we may find ourselves having disputes and conflicts, and fighting with others. During those times, our words may be sharp and cause others pain. If we are unkind to others, they will naturally treat us likewise. A practitioner may continue with the everyday person's struggle of who is "right or wrong" and argue and vie for supremacy, but when the attachment of competing is abandoned, we realize that the things in everyday society are not worth fighting for. When we have a higher understanding of universal principles, the battles of everyday people seem quite pitiful.
When we have strong attachments to time, our hearts are fearful and we do everything possible to treasure time. We go to great lengths to "save time" and "get things done," which indicates a strong attachment to self improvement and consummation. We try to get everything done, but family or others may still complain about us. Why does this occur after we try so hard? The reason could be that we didn't abandon our attachment to time. When we stop such thoughts as, "I need to read" and "I want to improve," we are letting go of selfishness. Only by putting down selfishness can we consider others first. When we regard ourselves as practitioners we have the calmness of enlightened beings, and regardless of what we do, we do it well with a stable and earnest mind.
A fearful heart leads us to dread the loss of benefits, happiness, and comforts, and everything we have becomes a burden to our moving forward in cultivation. When we are fearful, we become timid, lose courage and strength, and lack righteous thoughts. Practitioners regard completing their mission as a sacred responsibility, and will naturally put down fear to protect lives and save people. Really, how important are our small comforts and benefits compared to the life or death of the universe and all living things?
When we think we possess the truth, we may be arrogant, lecture people, and despise and look down on others. When we say "he is too stupid," "his inborn quality is not good," and "he is nothing," we are regarding ourselves as better than others. This is already a strong manifestation of the attachment of superiority and is harmful to ourselves and others. One who appears to be smart superficially may not necessarily be of a high level. Likewise, one who seems rather dull may not be of a low level. Thinking oneself infallible is not a good thing, as this may invite demonic interference. Therefore, practitioners should not be arrogant or complacent and should avoid letting success go to their heads. It is better to be modest and respectful of all lives.
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- 6. Passing Character Tests and Trials
(Minghui.org)
I have cultivated for some time now, and would like to share my understanding about passing character () tests and trials.
I have read many experience sharing articles written by fellow practitioners. In the past, I thought that cultivation was not at all easy. After passing one trial, another test follows, and one may fail the next one. It's not easy. Master told us to search within, and like many fellow practitioners, every time I ran into problems, I searched within for my attachments. Although I found the attachments, and knew that eliminating them was necessary for my improvement, I found it difficult and stressful to restrain myself while doing so.
Recently I passed a test and gained a new understanding of this issue.
One of my family members suddenly made some unpleasant comments one day. I knew that it was an opportunity for me to improve, so I thought, "All the bad attachments have to do with karma. It's the bad things that are painful. Ok then, just let it hurt." I then no longer felt the discomfort. Instead, I felt comfortable - as if the karma was being removed little by little, and the virtue was being progressively transformed. The more I transcended the pain in my mind, the more comfortable I felt - the karma was being reduced, and I could clearly recognize it. My willpower became stronger and stronger. I came to understand more deeply something Master says in , "Let joy be found in hardship."
Sometimes, when I practiced the exercises, I couldn't bear the pain and wanted to give up. However, what Master taught about martial arts qigong enlightened me to a new understanding of the exercises. I realized that when I am not able to endure during an exercise, it's probably because I lack willpower. So I must persevere, and exercise my willpower. With this new understanding, I found that I was able to endure longer and longer, and the pain no longer bothered me. I found "comfort" in it, although different from the physical comfort we normally talk about.
If there is anything inappropriate in my understanding, please correct me.
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- 7. Keep Xinxing in Mind when Interacting with Fellow Practitioners
By a practitioner in China
(Minghui.org)
During a sharing among practitioners at our study group today, Practitioner A brought up an issue, that we should not use our human heart to meddle with our fellow practitioners' "personal business," because this is due to a lack of cultivating our . I have the same feelings with regards to this.
I had been deeply tangled up in fellow practitioners' conflicts, and I finally got out of it only after much difficulty. Of course, as we are all fellow practitioners, we should help each other out and improve together. What kind of problems is it appropriate for us to help other practitioners with? For instance, forming a study group with practitioners and sharing our cultivation experiences based on the helps us to do better and remember the Fa when we encounter problems. When practitioners cannot break through hardships caused by the evil, we can help them to send righteous thoughts. Also, we should help rescue fellow practitioners when they are being persecuted. When practitioners have temporary difficulties, such as financial and employment problems, if we have the means, we can supply the help they need. There is no problem with helping fellow practitioners in these ways.
But under certain circumstances, we should not get involved with other practitioners' issues. There is a practitioner ("Practitioner B") close to me, who, because of heavy human attachments, often encounters problems. Some of those problems were caused by being treated unfairly by others, and others were caused by financial strain. She likes to vent her sorrow to me, to let out her anger. Since I have a very easygoing personality, I would not refuse her, and at the same time, I believed listening to fellow practitioners' hardship is a kind of compassion. After practitioner B encountered problems, besides comforting her, I also always pointed out her shortcomings.
However, I later realized that this is not right. Practitioner B would vent to me every time she had problems. All she talked about were the wrongs of the other parties; some of whom were other practitioners, and some were ordinary people. Practitioner B looked for me, only cared that I listened to her, and she did not take to heart anything I pointed out. As time went by, she often told me how some practitioners were not nice to her, and some others did not treat her fairly. After listening to a lot of such complaints, I discovered that I too had become entangled in similar conflicts, and my heart too was filled with rage and dissatisfaction. My brain became chaotic, and I felt that I was not able to clearly see the Fa when I studied the Fa. I then immediately became alert, and according to Teacher's plan, I became acquainted with the practitioners that Practitioner B had complained about. I discovered those practitioners were not like what Practitioner B had described. I started to think this problem through calmly. I realized it was because I wanted to help my fellow practitioners, but I did not help them according to the Fa, and this eventually got me into trouble.
Later, through Fa study, I gradually understood how to interact with other practitioners. It is actually very simple. During group interactions among practitioners, a practitioner would talk about the problem he has encountered. If he had the intention of elevating his level, or really cannot find what he had done wrong, then we might listen to his problem and help look for the possible cause, and help our fellow practitioner to elevate his understanding of the Fa. This form of interaction allows us to elevate ourselves as a whole. If a practitioner just wants other practitioners to comfort her, to show her sympathy, and to look for a "safe haven" among practitioners, to relieve anger, or look for a soulmate among practitioners who might have similar viewpoints, under those circumstances, we should not get involved in other practitioners' "personal business." Getting involved in these kinds of personal affairs is actually no different from helping ordinary people feel good. It would only make us sink down into the specifics of those problems and make it difficult for us get out. At the same time, our own cultivation and doing the well would also be interfered with.
After realizing all of this, I separated myself from Practitioner B and had no contact with her for about two months. During that time, she called me and invited me over, but I refused to meet with her. A couple of days ago, I needed to ask Practitioner B for help with something. After I entered her home, she was very happy to see me, and again started to talk about things that had happened at work and home. As the conversation went on, her topics again drifted to how she felt that others didn't treat her fairly. I soon excused myself and left. The next day, I interacted with Practitioner B again, and she suddenly said, "You see, yesterday, I still mentioned that other people were not nice to me. It must have been my own imperfections that caused others to criticize me. In addition, I complained about them. Isn't all of this due to my human attachments? It was clearly my fault, and I regret it very much." I was very happy after hearing this, because Practitioner B had never before admitted to doing anything wrong. I was very happy to see my fellow practitioner's level elevate.
At the same time, I recognized a problem. Because I continued to listen to Practitioner B's endless complaining, this made her unable to see her own problems. It was because her safe harbor was gone, and she had no other choice but to face her own problems, that she then elevated her level through Master's guidance. Actually, maintaining appropriate interactions among practitioners is not only being responsible to oneself, but at the same time, it is being responsible to our fellow practitioners.
I recognized that when interacting with practitioners, we have to keep firm on two points to avoid becoming sidetracked. One, during group study and sharing, do not get involved with irrelevant matters. Two, try not to get involved with anything that's not related to doing the three things. Then, we can basically prevent the forming of small groups among practitioners, or becoming what Master has described as "brothers, best buddies." If we follow these fundamental guidelines as we interact with each other, we will naturally not pay attention to irrelevant things. For instance, having a meal at a practitioners' home, using practitioners' time for chatting, taking advantage of fellow practitioners, or asking practitioners to do match-making for their children, etc. -- these are ordinary people's affairs that should naturally be avoided.
Having simple interactions with fellow practitioners is also an important part of being on the right track. I sincerely hope that my fellow practitioners and I can improve together.
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- 8. Looking Inside When We Encounter Illness Karma
(Minghui.org)
I am a young practitioner. I have not previously experienced disease karma, so I don't have many thoughts about it.
Recently the skin on my fingers has become fragile, dry, and cracked, and they bleed, swell, and itch. In a word, uncomfortable. I have thus begun to look inside to understand the attachments which led to this illness karma. I first identified my competitive mentality and pursuit of comfort, but my fingers showed no signs of recovery. I continued looking inside and found that I didn't make the best use of my time to save sentient beings. I started doing better in this, but my fingers still didn't show any improvement. I sent forth righteous thoughts to eliminate karma, but it didn't seem to help. I was quite confused and wondered, "What on earth is my problem?"
I mentioned this to another practitioner. He said, "Don't be moved." I was somewhat enlightened after hearing these words. It seemed that I took it too seriously, worrying about my fingers consciously and unconsciously every day. I hoped to recover as soon as possible. This was also an attachment!
Teacher said,
"For a long time now some students just haven't gotten rid of their fundamental attachments! And as things have piled up, at the end they aren't able to overcome them and their tribulations get big. When problems occur, instead of searching for problems in their xinxing, fundamentally improving themselves, or truly letting go of the matter and coming through in an open and dignified manner by another route, they focus on the thing at hand--'Goodness... why is it that I still can't overcome this thing? I've done better today, so it should have improved a little. Tomorrow I'll do even better and it should improve some more.' He can never let go of that thing. On the surface it appears that he's letting it go--'Look, I'm doing well now.' You're doing well now but you are doing well now for its sake. You aren't doing that for the purpose of doing what a true Dafa disciple should do! "
("Teaching and Explaining the Fa at the Metropolitan New York Fa Conference")
Teacher also said,
"Of course, as you go about cultivating, you--who are cultivators--are sure to meet with tests, for you need to elevate. When someone doesn't handle things well, troubles will constantly arise. But those who do handle things well will constantly meet with tests as they cultivate. If you categorically regard all of them as interference and try to resolve the troubles just for the sake of resolving them, then you won't be able to resolve them, because they come about for the sake of your improvement. " ("Teaching the Fa in Canada, 2006")
It seemed that I was cultivating and looking inside during that period of time, but I was actually trying to resolve the troubles just for the sake of resolving them. This is pursuit! It is not a cultivator's state. I also found that such a state manifested not only in treating illness karma but also in other tests.
I often contemplate the purpose of passing tests, hoping that the tests will disappear immediately. This has become an attachment, but I have not been aware of it. Actually, behind this hides another attachment, which is the reluctance to see what I don't want to see and the unwillingness to suffer any pain, hoping that everything goes smoothly. I've read some articles by practitioners on the Minghui website (Chinese version of Clearwisdom.net), in which practitioners stated that things evolved positively as soon as they identified their attachments. My personal understanding is that, on some occasions, things do turn out better as soon as our righteous thoughts emerge, but it's not absolute, because the depth of each practitioner's attachments is different, as is how they go about removing their attachments.
In my opinion, we shouldn't take these tests seriously. It's very important and necessary to look inside, but we shouldn't regard it as the omnipotent key and expect the disease karma to disappear immediately. If things don't improve, doubt and negative thoughts may surface, especially when dealing with serious disease tribulations. Some practitioners look inside, but still don't overcome the "disease," and sending forth righteous thoughts also doesn't help. They develop ideas about taking medicines and going to the hospital, and some have even doubted Dafa. Some practitioners have been dragged away by disease karma, and I think this is part of the reason. I believe that whenever we are in trouble, we should make great efforts to do the well while looking inside, and we will overcome them sooner or later. We shouldn't focus on the trouble itself nor develop attachments. It's not a big deal even if we suffer the pain. We should just do whatever we should do.
This morning, Teacher's words in came to mind:
"As a practitioner, if you assimilate yourself to this characteristic you are one that has attained the Tao--it's just such a simple principle."
Actually, as cultivators, our goal is to assimilate to the characteristic of the universe. During the process, all things we encounter are just superficial phenomena. They are nothing. The key is that our attachments are exposed and removed in the process and we finally assimilate to Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance.
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