(Clearwisdom.net)
Teacher said,
"In the course of your cultivation, each one of you should understand correctly the relationship between your personal cultivation and Fa-rectification. How should you view the tribulations and trials that you experience? I can tell you that if a person doesn't have that much karma, he absolutely won't have tribulations that severe. You should clearheadedly distinguish personal cultivation from evil's persecution of the Fa."
"I can tell you that the suffering and tribulations endured by our Dafa disciples are not only aimed at their personal cultivation -- there are also factors related to high-level beings' testing Dafa using the fact that the students have karma, using "improving them" as an excuse, and using degenerate beings at low levels to carry out the persecution. In fact, all of these have harmed the Fa-rectification."
("Teaching the Fa at the Western U.S. Fa Conference" from Guiding the Voyage)
An article written by a fellow practitioner stated that a police officer came to his house one day to make an arrest. The practitioner then quickly focused his mind on eliminating all evil that came to persecute him. This did not deter the officer. Instead, the officer broke in through a window and tried to enter the house that way. Then, the practitioner re-focused his righteous thoughts again, this time on eliminating all evil the persecuted Dafa. That had an effect. The officer quickly left the scene.
A couple went out to distribute Falun Dafa truth clarification materials. That day, the result was surprisingly fruitful. The people around them did not pay attention to them at all, and they quickly finished distributing their fliers without interference. On their way home, the husband seemed puzzled by the results. The wife said to him, "Do you know how I focused my righteous thoughts today? I did not put my mind on eliminating the evil that interfered with our work as before. Instead, I concentrated on eliminating every evil element that interfered with Fa-rectification."
In another incident: The leader of a group of persecutors was about to take a Falun Dafa practitioner to a brainwashing class. Seeing a demon standing beside the leader, the practitioner said to the demon, "You dare to persecute Dafa?" The group's leader replied, "No." He then left and did not return again.
Fellow practitioners, please break through the boundaries of personal cultivation.
Post Script -
The process of writing this article is also a process of Fa validation, which is also a process through which I upgrade myself. While writing this short article, I have been focusing on the experiences of various practitioners, putting their stories as the top priority. While sending forth righteous thoughts at 6:00 p.m., a thought flashed across my mind: I was putting practitioners' thoughts before the Fa! Quickly, I swapped the paragraphs around, putting Teacher's words first. It may seem minor but the consequence is big. Otherwise, we would be learning from man, not from the Fa. This may be a reason why the Fa has been getting less and less conspicuous in my mind recently, something that has also shown in my behavior.