FALUN DAFA - INDIA 
TRUTHFULNESS - COMPASSION - FORBEARANCE 
Newsletter for February 2013

Click on the below-mentioned, numbered subjects:

  1. Welcome

  2. What’s Happening?

  3. An Analysis of Fear

  4. Some Thoughts on Fa Study

  5. Human Attachments Aren't Always Difficult to Eliminate

  6. Understanding “Only When You Are About to Let Go of Your Reputation, Interests, and Feelings Will You Feel Pain”

  7. My Understanding of the Pursuit of Comfort

  8. To Be Direct, Not Avoiding Trouble and Selflessness


1. Welcome

Welcome to the February 2015 Falun Dafa India Newsletter.

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 Pune, Mumbai and Nagpur participated at the Koregaon Bhima annual event in Pune where they had a stall. Several thousand fliers were distributed and many people were keen to learn the exercises and buy the Books.

Practitioners from Bangalore have been doing follow up on the exercises and Fa study at three schools in the outskirts of Bangalore city.

Practitioners also introduced Falun Dafa at a government affiliated college.

Practitioners also participated in the ‘Bangalore Adda’, a kind of fun fair by demonstrating the exercises and distributing fliers.

Practitioners from Hyderabad met the Superintendent, District Jail, Vijayawada and explained about Falun Dafa. He asked practitioners to get permission from DIG of Prisons, Coastal Region in Rajhamundry to introduce the practice to the inmates.

National Institute of Rural Development (NIRD) Mela for 5 days: Two of their officials saw our presence in Millet Festival last year and recommended us for NIRD Mela. We got a free stall in 2014 and this year too, we got a free stall. There are many Central Govt. offices close to NIRD. There were many visitors to our stall. The wife of DG requested us to again introduce to the ladies in the campus after the Mela, which we agreed. We sold Falun Gong books to local police inspector and others.

For the sixth year we got a free stall at the Annual All India Industrial Exhibition (Numaish), Hyderabad. This goes for 45 days starting from 1st Jan. We are distributing fliers and informing people about the persecution. A girl student from the nearby school informed us that the school has been practicing Falun Dafa exercises since the last 4 years. A police man was happy to see our stall as we had introduced Falun Dafa practice in their police training institute last year and enquired about the books, while others identified us having met us in the recently concluded Hyderabad Book Fair.

Practitioners explained about Falun Dafa to Commercial Tax officer, and his assistant. The officer promised to study Zhuan Falun online. They were happy to know about the good effects of our practice.

Practitioners from Mumbai, Pune, Delhi participated at the Surat Book Fair which concluded on 27 January. Like last year there was a good response and many people wanted to learn the exercises.

Practitioners from Mumbai, Bangalore, Kolkata, Jamshedpur and Delhi participated at the Kolkata Book Fair which started on 28 January and goes on till 8 Feb. This is supposed to be the largest Book Fair in the world and it was fortunate to get a stall to reach out to the large Book loving public. Practitioners demonstrated the exercises which generally draws many visitors to learn the exercises. Many people also purchased the Books.

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3. An Analysis of Fear

By a practitioner in China

(Minghui.org) From my perspective, the persecution itself is not frightening. The thing to be afraid of is the loss of righteous thoughts and dealing with things with a human mindset, which allows the persecution to continue.

The human mind still exists in practitioners prior to our consummation. If not enough effort is placed on cultivation and the human mind is allowed to magnify, this becomes a pretext for the evil forces to persecute us. So how should we treat this? The situation before us is severe persecution. To complete our missions, we must save more sentient beings while cultivating ourselves well. Fear makes for nothing, and we must stand up to the persecution, walk righteous paths, negate and eliminate the persecution, and do better in order to accomplish our mission.

Fear is the biggest obstacle blocking our cultivation and our saving more sentient beings, not the evil in other dimensions or the vile Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the human world. Fear is a notion in our brains, making us feel that emotion as we face things. In fact, this notion of fear originates from the reflection of one's thought karma to one's brain. In other words, the notion of fear is issued from one's thought karma, not from one's true self--the Main Consciousness.

Teacher said:

"Because one is lost among everyday people, one will often develop in one's mind thoughts for fame, benefits, lust, anger, etc. Gradually, these thoughts become the powerful thought karma."

"Thought karma can directly interfere with one's mind."

And

"Some people do not have a very strong Main Consciousness and will comply with the thought karma to commit wrongdoing. Such people will be ruined and drop in levels. Most people, however, can remove and resist it with very strong thoughts from themselves (a strong Main Consciousness)." (from Zhuan Falun) (official translation)

We should act according to what Teacher said to remove and resist thoughts of fear by using our very strong Main Consciousness. After we eliminate all the thoughts of fear in our brains, we will not be afraid of anything and just do what Teacher requires us to. Then, we will be able to save more sentient beings and cultivate ourselves well.

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4. Some Thoughts on Fa Study


(Minghui.org) For quite a long period of time, I treated Fa study as a task and could not truly take the Fa into my heart. Group Fa study was more like a formality to me and my mind always drifted away while listening to other practitioners reading the Fa. When the Fa study had finished, I did not feel that I had learned anything from it. I became anxious. A few days ago, an older practitioner who is not quite literate studied the Fa with us. I found that I have many attachments that I had not even realized were present before. That practitioner read a lot. Honestly speaking, it was hard for her to read and she basically uttered one character after another with obvious difficulty. However, I did not know why I really put everything in my heart while listening to her. Although other practitioners read quite fluently, I did not feel as comfortable as listening to that older practitioner. Why was that?

That practitioner devoted her whole heart towards reading the Fa and she had met the requirement of respecting Master and the Fa. After I let go of my human mentalities and concentrated on reading for two paragraphs, I immediately felt energized and did not feel sleepy anymore. Later, I continued to look inward and found that I had the attachment to feeling concerned about the time while studying the Fa and felt restless. I always wanted to accomplish the task within a planned time frame. I had the show-off mentality, as I considered myself well-educated. I studied the Fa well, I read well, and I wanted to validate myself. I treated Dafa as only theories of everyday people. I thought, "I have learned it well" and I regarded myself as "better" than others. I was also attached to working in regular society and when I studied the Fa, my mind was not clear as I constantly thought about petty things in everyday life and all kinds of thoughts came and went in my head. It was hard for me to become tranquil. After I gave up those mentalities and studied the Fa in the state of "Join the Mind and Body Together," I started to feel the wonder of Fa study.

In addition, some practitioners are very attached to "saving face." They think that they cannot read well and are always afraid of reading the words wrong. They just pay attention to reading fluently but fail to absorb what they are reading, due to their nervousness. In fact, this is also a manifestation of egotism. During cultivation, we need to become selfless, just as Master told us in Zhuan Falun,

"When one chants the Buddha's name, one must do it single-mindedly with nothing else in mind until other portions of the brain become numb and one becomes unaware of anything, with one thought replacing thousands of others, or until each word of "Buddha Amitabha" shows up before one's eyes."

I hope my experiences can be of help to fellow practitioners who have the same problem.

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5. Human Attachments Aren't Always Difficult to Eliminate

By a practitioner in Langfang City, Hebei Province

(Minghui.org) I believe we have all felt this way before: What people say or do hurts us because of our human attachments. When our human attachments surface, we want to eliminate them but find it difficult to do so. In fact, they may not always be difficult to eliminate.

I know a practitioner named Amy. She worked on producing Falun Gong truth-clarification materials for a while but then she gave it up all together. She just went on with her own life. A fellow practitioner contacted me for help. She said, "Amy decided that she cannot do it any more. We should ask her to return the computer so we can give it to another practitioner. After all, the computer was paid for by fellow practitioners and does not belong to Amy."

This was a challenge to me. I was very attached to my good image and found it difficult to put anyone in an embarrassing situation. It would be impossible for me to tell Amy to return the computer if she did not want to produce the materials any longer. In fact, I wouldn't even dream of saying things like this to her. Fellow practitioners prompted me a few times but I wasn't able to make myself do it. After a while, Amy's cultivation state deteriorated. I thought, "I must not allow Amy to go on like this. I must be responsible to the Fa, to fellow practitioners and to sentient beings!" After I enlightened to this, I forewent all the sentimentality and I called on Amy for the computer.

I learned a hard lesson about the problems surrounding truth-clarification material sites. Two years ago, I learned that the police had information about two fellow practitioners working on producing truth-clarification materials but I couldn't bring myself to ask them to move. It turned out that the police ransacked their homes and arrested them both. One of them was sentenced to five years in prison and the other succumbed to the torture during custody and renounced Falun Gong. That was the most painful period of my cultivation practice. I blamed and hated myself. I cried until my tears ran dry. I asked myself, "Why didn't you ask them to move? If you had asked them to move, they wouldn't have been arrested." I had no idea what stopped me from asking them to move, but I swore to identify the root cause. I was unable to identify the root cause then because I had not transcended my cultivation level at that time; however, I was determined to identify the root cause. It was not until a year later that I realized the root cause was that I didn't have any sense of responsibility. I lacked the sense of responsibility for fellow practitioners.

From this painful experience and from the many other cases of fellow practitioners suffering from cruel torture and losing their lives, I finally realized that we must have a sense of responsibility to the Fa, to fellow practitioners and to sentient beings at all times. By doing so, we will be able to walk steadily on our cultivation path, do the three things well and save sentient beings.

I have learned a lot about myself in this regard. Perhaps there are many fellow practitioners out there that share the same attachment as I do. Sometimes I feel like giving up on a person who is not receptive to the truth about Falun Gong. But when I think, "I must save you, otherwise you will be ruined," the man suddenly accepts the truth and is saved. When I feel people hurting my feelings and I think I must not cause any damage to the Fa, then suddenly everything turns out to be fine. Sometimes I feel like calling a fellow practitioner on the telephone for the convenience of communication, but I dismiss the idea because I remember I must not bring her any trouble and I must be responsible to fellow practitioners.

I bring up these examples to illustrate one thing: No matter how complicated things may appear or how difficult we may think it is for us to eliminate our human attachments, we should remember to be responsible to the Fa, to fellow practitioners and to sentient beings. Then we will find all these human attachments suddenly disappearing and things becoming very simple.

Teacher said,

"Some people also know that it is not good, but they just cannot quit. In fact, let me tell you that they do not have correct thoughts to guide themselves, and it will not be easy for them to quit that way." ("The Issue of Eating Meat" in Lecture Seven of Zhuan Falun)

I find it difficult to eliminate human attachments because I don't have correct thoughts to guide myself. In other words, I am stuck at the present level of cultivation. Of course, that would make it difficult to eliminate my human attachments.

Human attachments can only manipulate people of low levels. When we have the correct thoughts of being responsible to the Fa, to fellow practitioners and to sentient beings, we are placing ourselves on a high level. Naturally those low-level human attachments will disappear. Compassion, rationality and wisdom will replace those low-level human attachments.

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6. Understanding “Only When You Are About to Let Go of Your Reputation, Interests, and Feelings Will You Feel Pain”

A Dafa Disciple from Mainland China

(PureInsight.org) In “True Cultivation” from Essentials for Further Advancement Master said,
“Cultivation itself is not painful—the key lies in your inability to let go of ordinary human attachments. Only when you are about to let go of your reputation, interests, and feelings will you feel pain.” After I encountered a mental hardship for my cultivation, my virtue was elevated. Then I understood what Master talked about in this Fa.

One day June 2014, my son who was working in another city gave me a phone call and said, “Mom, my wife had a checkup in the hospital, and she is pregnant with twins.” I asked, “What do you need us to do for you?” My son replied, “Nothing. I just wanted to tell you that.”

A few days later, my son called me again and said, “My mother-in-law who is single has been staying in my house for two weeks. She has now left because she was offered a high salary and got hired by a governmental department. I am busy with work, and I do not know how to cook or do house cleaning. The doctor said that women need to pay more attention to their diet during pregnancy in order to ensure the normal development of the fetus, which I cannot do. Now dad's work is coming to an end, and you have been retired for several years. You stay at home and have nothing to do. I need you both come over as soon as possible, and your room is ready for you.”

After listening, I was very conflicted. I had been practicing diligently for over ten years, and my husband supports Dafa. He willingly took care of all chores to support me in studying the Fa and doing the exercises and the three things well. The ordinary people in our neighborhood understood the truth and Dafa. Since they recognized Dafa, I had a good cultivation environment. There was a Fa-study group at my house. If I left, would this good cultivation environment that was difficult to build be gone? The Fa-study group would no longer exist, which would bring some unnecessary losses to fellow practitioners. I thought about this. Was it easy to create another good cultivation environment in a big city? I had to spend a long time in order to find an intimate fellow practitioner, and Dafa information resources would also be cut off. If I said I did not want to go, my son certainly would not understand. This interference came suddenly, and I had to face it. How could I go through it? Since I hesitated, I did not declare anything over the phone.

My son did not hear my stand, so he called and talked to his father. His father immediately made a decision to set a timeline to go. On the day before we left, my husband said, "Let’s go to our son’s place tomorrow morning." Suddenly, my heart churned. Actually, I did not say anything to my son over the phone because I wanted to postpone it for a while. I wanted to find a good solution that did not affect my cultivation but could resolve my son’s difficult situation. In fact, it is impossible to hold onto Buddhahood with one hand and humanness with the other hand. However, my husband who was an ordinary person made the decision suddenly. I knew it could not be changed. Why did he decide so quickly? Why he did not respect or listen to me, a cultivator, before he decided? What was in his mind? He did not answer all my questions. At that time I did not say anything, but I blamed them in my heart. “Why don’t you understand a practitioner's heart? You have supported my practice for so many years, but when you encounter something that will interfere with my practice in the future, why don’t you think about it for my sake? What you did was like the evil party’s surprise attack. I painfully cried most of the night.

After we went there, my husband said to me, “Since our son needs help, we as elderly people should come here.” I think my husband did not make the wrong choice because he was an ordinary person who used an ordinary person’s standard. Master said,

“You’re a practitioner, so if you want to break out of all that you have to use this standard to evaluate things—you can’t use ordinary people’s standards. So in terms of the environment, there’s this type of interference” (Zhuan Falun: A Calm Mind).
When I thought of that, all my grievance, sadness, and complaining disappeared.

I thought that I would at least have to try for a while in this situation. I always used a cultivator’s standard to judge myself. I would do the housework so my daughter-in-law would feel satisfied. In fact, all practitioners are aware that we need to do the three things. We must save a lot of time to save more people. We usually eat as simply as possible, and sometimes we eat only one or two meals during busy days. However, my daughter-in-law was an ordinary person and was pregnant, so I would have to be dedicated to satisfy her needs.

My husband and I left our residence at 2 pm everyday, which was the hottest time of the day. We walked fifteen minutes to the bus station. We got off the bus earlier to go to the supermarket to buy some high quality fresh vegetables. Then we walked another fifteen minutes to our son’s home. We spent an hour and a half one way. Once I got there, I started doing the housework, cleaning the over one-hundred-square-meter home and cooking.

Once the food was ready, I asked my daughter-in-law to come eat. After I called her a few times, she came over slowly and ate a little bit at the beginning. Then she did not eat much and said, “I’m full.” The following few days once the food was ready, my daughter-in-law would not eat and said, “I’m not hungry.” After I called her a few times, she did not come over to eat. She kept saying, “Not hungry.” I asked her, “You don’t eat. Don’t you feel really hungry?” My daughter-in-law was not angry and said slowly, “I don’t know!”

We spent time cooking a whole table of high quality meat and vegetables for her to eat. We kept waiting for her to eat, but she did not eat. My heart was distressed and anxious. I was distressed because she did not eat and satisfy the normal development of the twin babies. I was anxious about missing the last bus. We had been waiting for her to eat until almost 7:45 pm, which was when the public transportation would stop their services. We did not want to miss the last bus, and we could not wait anymore. By the time we got home, and it was almost nine o’clock. The next day at three o’clock we went there only to see that the whole table of food was still there. My daughter-in-law did not eat a bite. Because the weather was hot, the food turned bad. I was distressed to throw away the dishes that my husband and I had not even tasted.

It was fine to skip one or two meals if you did not have an appetite, but she did the same thing every day, which made me wonder. We served you so well and silently put forth the effort but did not ask for respect or gratitude in return. At least you should understand our elderly hearts, right? In fact it was not the case, as Master said,

“When he treats them, he drives out a lot of bad things, but maybe at the time it’s not obvious how much he’s healed them. So they’re not happy, they don’t even thank him, and they might even call him names and say he cheated them! It’s exactly in grappling with these problems, it’s in this environment, that the mind is tempered” (Zhuan Falun: Reverse Cultivation and Gong Borrowing).

My daughter-in-law did not say anything, did not eat and seemed to have a problem. I understood that my daughter-in-law did accept my care. Suddenly, I was in a situation where I could not be angry with her or express anything in front of her. This was an environment for me to cultivate to give up the dignity as a mother-in-law. I felt a kind of indescribable suffering.

Master said,

“You should remember that your righteous thoughts can change ordinary people and that you are not to be directed by them” (Teaching the Fa in San Francisco, 2005). Therefore, every day I insisted on studying the Fa and sending forth righteous thoughts no matter how late I returned home. I was trying to change my current cultivation environment.

Two weeks later my daughter-in-law told me, “My mother will come here today.” I said, “Good! Does my son know?” She said, “I have not told him yet.” I asked my daughter-in-law, “What time will she come? Who will pick her up?” She said, “I will do it!” I said, “No! I will call my son and ask him to pick her up.” I told my son, “Your mother-in-law will come over today. No matter how busy you are, you must not forget to go to the bus station to pick her up.”

With the in-law’s sudden arrival, I did not know if my daughter-in-law called her to come over, or maybe her mother loved her daughter, or she gave up her high pay job, or she was not hired by that department, or she considered future plans for her daughter and grandchildren. I did not ask why, and I could not ask. It was not my business. At that time I only knew that my task was to provide and satisfy my daughter-in-law’s diets during her pregnancy to ensure that she was healthy and her twin babies were developed normally until her due day. This was a good time for the in-law to come to her daughter’s place. This met normal people’s life standards. However, I did not understand how the in-law knew I could not do a good job taking care of her daughter, so I had to leave after two weeks. Was this a test for me? I tried to look inward as a cultivator to see if I had hurt my daughter-in-law before, but I did not find anything. Then I thought that she was an ordinary person. She usually did not talk or do things openly. It was like a hide and seek. I could not figure out what was in her heart, and I felt the pain of letting go of this mentally suffering.

I could not think too much. My husband and I had to go to the kitchen to prepare meals for the in-law. When my son took his mother-in-law home, I saw my daughter-in-law very excited to see her mother. I was not jealous at all, only happy. Her arrival meant I could restore the original cultivation environment. When dinner was ready, the in-law only had to ask her daughter, “Come over to eat!” for my daughter-in-law to come over and eat. She ate in a good mood. The enormous relationship difference between mother and daughter and mother-in-law and daughter-in-law allowed me to deeply understand the Fa principle. As ordinary people, my daughter-in-law wanted to be taken care of by her biological mother, while having a good and comfortable life materialistically and mentally. Therefore, I told the in-law freely at the table, “It’s good you are here. We are here with the goal of taking care of your daughter and the babies. If you can finish it, we can go home.” The in-law said, “My coming here does not mean I’m kicking you out. You can stay a few more days.” I said, “I don’t want to stay a few more days. I want to buy tickets today, and we can go in the evening.” After that, I went to the train station to buy tickets for that evening.

When my son took us to the train station, he could not go with us to the elevator. My son looked at us when the elevator was rising up, while I looked down at him. At that moment, we, mother and son, were separating, and my tears were coming down. Master said,

“If you don’t sever emotions, you won’t be able to cultivate. But if you do break out of emotion, nobody can affect you, and ordinary attachments won’t be able to sway you. What replaces it is compassion, which is more noble” (Zhuan Falun: Improving Character).
When this Fa appeared in my mind, I woke up as if from a dream. I knew I had to give up emotion, and I had to break through it. However, when I truly had to give up emotion, I felt that it was indescribable suffering.

After a long two weeks of mental suffering through a cultivation test, I gained a little more understanding of this Fa:

“Only when you are about to let go of your reputation, interests, and feelings will you feel pain” (Essentials for Further Advancement: True Cultivation).
When your reputation is not understood, respected, or hurt, and you need to let it go, that’s when you feel pain. When ordinary people cannot talk to you openly, you need to guess so much that it was painful. Also, not being able to show your feelings in front of other people is also painful. When you truly give up the attachment to your son’s love, but there was nobody to understand you, and you could not explain or talk about it and had to hide it in the depth of your soul, that’s when you feel pain.

This is my own understanding. Please correct me if there is anything inappropriate!

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7. My Understanding of the Pursuit of Comfort

By a practitioner from Qingdao City

(Minghui.org) I started practicing Falun Gong in 2007. Since I have practiced for only a relatively short period of time, I still have many attachments. My pursuit of comfort, in particular, surfaces once in a while, causing interference.

During the initial period after I started the practice, my pursuit of comfort was very strong. I was not diligent in studying the Fa or in practicing the exercises and was often interfered with by sleepiness. I would only practice the first four exercises and skip the fifth, using excuses such as "it's too late" or "I am too tired." I would go to bed instead. Sending forth righteous thoughts is part of a war between the righteous and the evil. Although I realize the significance of sending righteous thoughts, I still have only done so casually due to my pursuit of comfort.

While studying the Fa and practicing the exercises, I have continued to share my experiences with fellow practitioners. Reading articles on the Minghui/Clearwisdom website, I learn a lot from others. I came to realize my pursuit of comfort and began eliminating this attachment during my cultivation process. The bad habits I had formed in the past such as laziness, indulging in material objects, and being unwilling to bear hardships need to be eliminated because I am a practitioner. I should reject them continuously with righteous thoughts.

In our daily lives, we face different pressures from work and other areas of life. Sometimes I feel very tired. However, I enlightened that it is crucial to position my thoughts correctly in such circumstances. Master said:

"We have said that good or evil comes from a person's spontaneous thought, and the thought at that moment can bring about different consequences. With her old age, if she were an everyday person, how could she not be injured? Yet her skin was not even scratched. Good or evil comes from that instant thought. If she were lying down there claiming, 'Ugh, I feel terrible. Something is wrong here and there.' Then, her bones might really have been fractured, and she would be paralyzed." (Zhuan Falun")

Such consequences from one spontaneous thought have clear manifestations in me when I hold onto the pursuit of comfort.

During the initial period of practicing Falun Gong, when I had thoughts such as "I am busy," "I am tired from work," "I am depressed," or "I am under pressure," trouble would come and find me. I would have to work extra hours or handle other business related issues, therefore wasting time. When I got home, I would indeed be exhausted and want to skip dinner and go straight to bed. As I progressed in cultivation, I started rectifying my thoughts and eliminating the bad thoughts. I made my great responsibilities as a practitioner clear to myself and made up my mind to do well in the three things that Master requires us to do. Conditions improved. My business related work in ordinary society decreased, and thus I had enough energy for studying the Fa and doing Dafa work. When I distributed truth clarification materials, I would not feel tired no matter how far I walked or how many stairs I climbed. But sometimes I still could not control my thoughts, which oscillated back and forth.

In addition, Master has asked us to be able to endure the toughest hardships of all, be they physical or psychological. Practitioners are clear about this. However, can we truly achieve it when we face real-life situations?

In the experience sharing articles published on the Minghui website, many practitioners have mentioned that they were "busy" with work or other things, and thus they did not study the Fa or practice the exercises for a prolonged period. Should we look inside to see if we have hidden our pursuit of comfort? Master arranges our path of cultivation such that we need to cultivate in ordinary society and requires us to maximally conform to the ordinary society. However, many practitioners use it as an excuse to conceal their various attachments. It should not be this way. It is also disrespectful to Master and Dafa.

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8. To Be Direct, Not Avoiding Trouble and Selflessness

Falun Dafa Disciple from China

(PureInsight.org) A family member of mine who is also a practitioner opened a store next to my store. At that time, she was very busy with things at home. Whenever she had to leave the store, she would keep the door open and ask me to take care of it.

One time, a customer came to buy something right after this practitioner left. The door was locked, so I called the fellow practitioner. She said to me, “I’m busy at home, so I can’t come right now.” When the guest at her house left, she came back to the store. I asked, “Can you make another key and give it to someone trustworthy in your store?” She replied, “Sure, I will make one. I will just give it to you because you think about others. You cultivate well.” Actually, what I was thinking at that time was: if you make another key for me, I won’t have to find you when the door is locked. However, the words changed when they came out of my mouth. I was shocked when the fellow practitioner said that I cultivate well. There was something not right within myself, so I said what I thought to the fellow practitioner. She asked, "Why are you so complicated? You’re always indirect. If you hadn’t told me, I would have thought you’re cultivating well. You revealed it when you said it. You’re still at the human level.”

When I told a young practitioner about this, she laughed and said, “How come I don’t think this way? If it were me, I would just say it directly.” I realized she was right. Being direct is clean and simple. It shortens the process and is less tiring. Through this, I saw how deeply and strongly my selfishness hid behind “natural habits”. Behind the words was an effort to avoid trouble and protect myself. What the words meant was: You decide to whom to give the key. If you give it to me, then that’s your choice. I did not ask for it. In case anything of yours is lost, it doesn’t affect me.

At work nowadays in China, besides being brainwashed by politics, telling the truth is not beneficial if you want to survive the battle for fame and personal gains. You have to learn to lie as if you are telling the truth. Whoever performs “Fakeness-Evil-Fighting” the best will be at the top and gain the most. At least you should know the basics like talking indirectly. Otherwise, even if you worked hard, you wouldn’t be rewarded.

I put a lot of effort into these bad behaviors after I started cultivation. I realized that being brainwashed by the CCP formed a pattern of thinking in my mind. I would easily fall into this way of thinking when I talked. I wanted to ask questions and answer other people’s questions like this. For example, when I do not agree with something, I would not tell the other person directly. I would go instead ask, “What are other people’s opinions?” When someone is judging another person and asks for my opinion, I would respond, “What is your opinion?” This way, not only could I grasp what was on other people’s minds, but I could also be placed in an active position. After cultivation, even though I have been determined to eliminate these things, it seemed like it could never be completely cleaned out. There seemed to be a root.

I wrote this experience for two reasons. The first is to expose my bad attachment and eliminate it. The second is to suggest to fellow practitioners from mainland China who went overseas: shouldn’t we eliminate the common problems that are formed under the environment of the CCP as soon as possible? The CCP is nearly completely eliminated, so how much longer will we have to stay here? Don’t let fellow practitioners in other countries be confused by our actions. Don’t let Master worry for us anymore.

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