After reading a sharing about suing Pan Xinchun and Joel Chipkar's court case, I thought about how important it is to be one body, what it means to be one body, and how eliminating our attachments is what's key to the improvement of the whole body. During my cultivation I would often sense a feeling of jealousy in my heart when I saw western practitioners in the "spotlight" which stemmed from my attachment to fame and self-interest and the notion that perhaps I was somehow inferior if I were not famous enough.
This jealousy and feeling of inferiority caused me to hold myself back in doing Fa-rectification things. I was like the person Master describes in Zhuan Falun.
"Nowadays, it is difficult to be a model worker. "You're a model worker. You can do it. You should come to work early in the morning and go home late at night. You can do all this work since you're good at it. We aren't good enough." People will be sarcastic and cynical, and so it is not easy even to be a good person."
I would start to look for inadequacies and find faults in those practitioners that were "famous" and would think, "What has he got that I haven't got." Master says (Zhuan Falun Lecture 7),
"This jealousy is somehow related to the absolute egalitarianism that was once practiced: After all, if the sky falls, everyone should die together; everyone should have an equal share if there is something good; everyone should have an equal wage increase, regardless of the percentage of the raise. This mentality appears to be fair, with everyone being treated equally. In actuality, how can people be the same? The jobs they do are different, and so is the extent to which they carry out their responsibilities."
I now realize that by my actions I was actually disconnecting myself from the main body and lessening the strength of the main body, which was totally selfish and may have unintentionally caused unnecessary interference.
I have come to realize that as individuals we are particles of Dafa and that together we make up the body of Dafa. Just like the human body, all the organs like the heart, the liver, the kidneys, the brain, and the lungs, etc., all perform specific functions which work in harmony with each other to maintain the body. The heart doesn't become jealous of the brain, and the liver doesn't feel jealous of the kidneys, but each does his specific jobs which were arranged. Master also says, though, that the qi from the heart may move to the intestines, so my understanding is that sometimes our roles and jobs can change. Sometimes we may be put into key positions and sometimes we may not, but either way it is to help us improve as a whole.
Another thing I have realized is that we shouldn't feel that our "jobs" or functions are not good enough because each is necessary to maintain the harmony of the whole body; just like in the human body, even the intestines have their needed purpose. We also should not feel complacent or feel that our jobs are so grand because even the brain needs to be supported by the lungs with oxygen and the blood's circulation from the heart. When one part is not doing well in the body, the other parts are affected, which in this dimension is considered an illness. Just like the body of Dafa disciples, if one part of the body is not doing well it will affect the other parts inadvertently; in my understanding this due to our attachments, human notions and selfishness.
Only with the support of Dafa disciples working together in harmony and supporting each other is there strength. Master says in "Explaining the Fa During the 2003 Lantern Festival,"
"You're all clarifying the truth, sending righteous thoughts, and studying the Fa, so the specifics of the things you're doing are different but the division of roles is orderly, together there's a form, and separated there are particles."
My understanding is that each disciple of Dafa is like an energy channel or aperture in the body and by improving ourselves individually and working together we form the indestructible adamantine body and the indestructible, never degenerating cosmos of the future. Master says in Zhuan Falun (Lecture 8)
"So what's the goal of opening the heavenly circuit? Opening the heavenly circuit is not itself the purpose of the practice. Even if your heavenly circuit is opened, I would say that it is still nothing. If one's cultivation continues further, through the method of the heavenly circuit one aims at opening hundreds of energy channels via one energy channel, and one can thereby open all the body's energy channels. We have already started to do this. With further practice, one will find in the rotation of the great heavenly circuit that the energy channels will become very wide like a finger and quite broad inside. Because the energy has also become very powerful, after the energy current forms, it will become very wide and bright. This is still nothing. When will the practice be good enough? Hundreds of one's energy channels must gradually become wider, with energy getting stronger and brighter. In the end, thousands of energy channels will join together and turn one's body into one without any energy channels or acupuncture points; they will join together to make one whole body. This is the ultimate purpose of opening energy channels. Its goal is to have the human body completely transformed by the high-energy matter."
While writing this article I have improved a lot and many attachments were exposed. I hope we can all improve ourselves even more and strengthen the main body. In sharing this article I feel as though I am performing a function assigned to me at this time. I encourage others to share and to do what we are supposed to do according to Master's arrangements.
This is my current understanding; please point out anything inappropriate.
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