(Clearwisdom.net) Older practitioners: You were seriously ill and had to be taken care of by your family members before, but now you have fully recovered from your illnesses and you are able to complete all of your household chores. If this describes your situation, has it ever occurred to you that a healthy body is for the sake of practicing cultivation rather than living an everyday people’s life? Has it ever occurred to you that you should tell your family: "I am healthy now because I am practicing cultivation? We should all be grateful to Teacher now that I don’t need anyone to take care of me. Also, you should not leave all the family chores to me, as my healthy body is to assist Teacher in Fa-rectification, and I intend to save more people by doing the three things well as Teacher requires."
Cultivation of speech: Influenced by human notion, one tends to talk and act with intention, or with a show-off mentality. Then, when you know something, or receive various materials from fellow practitioners, will you tell other fellow practitioners that so and so said this or so and so made these materials?
Financially pinched fellow practitioners: Is it that you always think that suffering should be treated as joy, and that one will flourish only after having suffered the hardship of all hardships. Do you think that hardship and bitterness in life is to temper the mind, and that money and wealth should be taken lightly? Rejecting the old force arrangements must start from every thought. Conversely, if all fellow practitioners are well-to-do, the evil’s financial persecution will fail easily, won’t it?
Married fellow practitioners: Does the custom that wife follows the husband blindly exist between you two? When a third practitioner points out one party’s shortcomings, will the other party treat it from the perspective of the Fa or blindly defend the spouse? When the couple has a conflict, will they both look for their own inadequacies?
On sensitive dates: We should thoroughly reject the old force persecution in our minds, eliminating every last trace of it. As regards to the so-called sensitive dates, isn’t that something concocted by the evil? Why should Gods acknowledge them? Do you still have their shadows in your minds? Hurry to clean them out.
Truth-clarification: Do you do the three things well every day? Are you only handing out fliers, but not explaining the truth, or vice versa? Saving people is an urgent matter, and distribution of truth-clarification materials and face-to-face explanations need to be done. If possible, practitioners should do both in remote and outlying areas.
Practitioners, who miss their dead, loved ones: Being together in this life stems from predestined relationships. Now you are a Dafa disciple: this is the opportunity you have been waiting for for hundreds of millions of years. When you reach consummation through cultivation, the sentient beings related to you will all go to good places. When you are trapped in emotion, the first thing you should consider is, "How am I going to succeed in cultivation?"
Practitioners who love their families and fight for happiness: If you want your family to have a comfortable life and be admired by your neighbors, that’s not wrong before you obtained the Fa. But now you are Dafa disciples and you have responsibility not just for your family members. Numerous beings are watching you, placing their expectations and hopes on you. Think about how you are going to shoulder this heavy historical task.
Slacking off: Do you do all three things every day? As time passes, are you thinking, now that I have done my part by handing out flyers and doing many other things, I should go back to my routine and do things in a more natural way. If I meet people with predestined relationships, I will talk to them; otherwise, I won’t do it?
Security: As the Fa-rectification progresses, are you feeling, "It’s not easy to have gone this far, so I’ll make sure nothing goes awry on the road ahead and try to be steady on the rest of the journey." Thus, you spend most of your time studying the Fa and sending righteous thoughts, and slack off in distributing truth-clarification materials and explaining the facts to the public. We should be clear that the real security for a cultivator comes from melting into the Fa. It is important to constantly maintain a righteous mind without adding in any human thoughts. Safety comes from doing things by following Master’s words. When we look for safety, we are actually falling down.
The way to face practitioners who point out my shortcomings or who hold different opinions: When a fellow practitioner points out my shortcomings for the first time, I am happy to accept it and even encourage him to do more. When he does it the second time, I can still accept it readily. When he does it the third time, I accept it, but feel annoyed. When he does it the fourth time, I start to resist it in my heart, although I accept it in words. And when he does it the fifth time, I start to alienate him and slowly avoid him.
Bias with regard to truth-clarification materials: You may think the following thoughts: "This material is better than others, or the one that exposes the persecution may cause fear among everyday people; a single-sheet material is lighter; there are only a few words on that one that uses adhesives, so it is not worth doing, I’ll just distribute booklets." Has it ever occurred to you that every single word in our truth-clarification materials is shining like gold and extremely powerful? Every single word is dissolving the evil and saving all beings because it is the Fa that is saving people.
True faith: Master requires that we look inside and cultivate ourselves when we encounter problems, because many things are caused by the attachments that Dafa disciples still have. When problems really occur, are we able to examine ourselves instead of blaming others? When we all do well in our cultivation, will the evil still exist? Will the persecution continue?
"……if every one of us cultivates inward, if every one of us examines his own character for causes, if when we don’t do well we look inside ourselves for the cause, and we try to do better next time, and if we think about other people first any time we do something, then the world will change for the better, morals will go back up, people’s civility will improve, and crime will go down. Maybe we won’t even need policemen."(Zhuan Falun)
The above are some issues fellow practitioners often come across. They are discussed here so that more practitioners will pay attention to them and learn lessons from them. Fellow practitioners are welcome to point out any inappropriate places.