(Clearwisdom.net) I deeply believe that Master is at our side, and Master's benevolence shines on each true practitioner.
I am a practitioner from a northern city in Mainland China. I started Dafa cultivation in late 1998. On my cultivation path, I have also stumbled time after time. We are indeed very fortunate to be saved by the fundamental Dafa of the cosmos. Benevolent Master has continued to hint at and direct the right way for me. I understand what Master says,
"In history there was no one who did a matter this great, to bring to mankind true, complete, systematic principles capable of letting people reach heaven." ("Lecture at the Houston Fa Conference")
Yet what Master gives us Dafa practitioners of the Fa-rectification period isn't limited to this! Master's grace is so vast, that it cannot be described with human language. Our responsibilities are also great.
After starting cultivation, my tianmu (Third Eye) was often open. Master often gave me hints. Even when I was temporarily confused, and had thoughts of giving up Dafa, I could still see Falun rotating in the sky. I always wanted to share with fellow practitioners those visions that I saw. Recently I wrote them down to encourage fellow practitioners. If there are any inappropriate points, fellow practitioners please kindly correct me.
To be a good woman, or a good disciple
My elder brother used to be sick, and always stayed at my parents' home to recuperate. One day I dreamed that I had gone back to my parents' home. I saw him covered with a white quilt. On the quilt there were two long worms. One worm followed me after it saw me. I climbed up, it also climbed up; I climbed down, it also climbed down. I could not get away from it. When the situation became extremely urgent, I started shouting out, "Master, come and save me!" When it climbed onto the rooftop to catch me, Master's peaceful yet dignified and powerful voice echoed, "You are not allowed to bully her, she is a good woman." The worm instantly dissolved into liquid, flowed down the roof, and disappeared.
When I woke up, the scenes in the dream were still clearly in front of my eyes. Later I realized that as I had just obtained the Fa back then, I studied the Fa with an attachment to pursuit. Master said I was a good woman, and not a good disciple. But I understood,
"But cultivation doesn't have any conditions attached--if you want to cultivate, then you just cultivate." ( "The First Talk" in Zhuan Falun, 2003 translation version)
I concentrated on cultivation, and at the same time realized that a lot of things are like this. Our thoughts must be righteous, without any pursuits. Just do what Dafa practitioners should do. Do it with a pure heart, and the effect will be the best.
Master is at our side
During one of my early Fa study sessions at home, I suddenly felt very frightened. When I didn't know what to do about it, I heard Dafa exercise music from the recorder. Master's voice was clear and complete, and benevolent and peaceful. Immediately I felt relaxed and comfortable in my whole body. I turned around to find the recorder, but the sound was gone. The recorder was never turned on. Just then I realized that it was Master who was at my side protecting me, a child, who didn't know about true cultivation. Master, be assured, your disciple will become more and more mature, more and more sober, and steadfastly walk the right cultivation way.
Let go of ordinary people's sentiments
Since my human attachments were not given up, I did not handle well my family relationship. My husband divorced me, yet my heart was still trapped in sentiments and could not get out. Just when I was confused, one day my child pointed to my eyes, "Mom, your eyes have this." My 8-year-old child drew it for me. I was shocked to see that it is was a "Wan" sign. My heart suddenly woke up. At the moment I felt Master's omnipresent benevolence, and all attachments disappeared like smoke. Cultivators on the path toward divinity, don't lose yourself.
Master will not give up on you
In 2000, my attachment to pursuit, which wasn't given up, was particularly strong. I was utilized by the old forces, and my body showed severe symptoms of karma elimination. Since my righteous thoughts were not strong enough, I always felt that I did not do well, and could not achieve the state of a divine being. Furthermore, due to my human attachments (afraid of being misunderstood by family), I went to the hospital with my husband. As a result, I had an operation, causing bad effects to Dafa. Sitting on the operating table, I thought that maybe Master would not accept me any more. Immediately I felt the rotation of Falun in my body. Human hearts abound, hurry up and solidly cultivate!
"Study the Fa and gain the Fa,
Focus on how you study and cultivate,
Let each and every thing
be measured against the Fa.
Only then, with that,
is it actually cultivation." ("Solid Cultivation" in Hong Yin, translation version A)
Through studying at the Fa, I came to understand that Dafa practitioners can obtain the Fa, and can have the predestined relationship to cultivate, because it is Master's choice made ages ago. It is also what we vowed millions of years ago. So our not believing in ourselves is the same as not believing in Master, not believing in Dafa. Thus we should believe in ourselves, as we are truly that great. We are the cultivating disciples of the Fa of the cosmos. Then why do we fear ordinary people's misunderstandings? It is because we still have an attachment, the heart of pursuing fame, which must be eliminated.
Master said,
"A god wouldn't pay any heed to what a human being said about him--you can't affect him. He wouldn't in the least try to figure out how what you do relates to him. He pays no attention at all, because you cannot affect him. Gods can control the human mind and lead humans to do certain things, not vice versa. How could human beings possibly affect gods?" ("Teaching the Fa in Canada, 2006")
I realize that as long as our every thought is in accordance with the Fa, assimilating to Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance, then we shine like gold, and we are beneficial to people no matter what we do and where we are.
I have also had many other visions during other times. Sometimes I could see the book Zhuan Falun shining with golden light coming from heaven above. Sometimes when I was barely awake, I saw a little child happily dancing and jumping on my head. I even saw the eyes, full of hope, of beings from the other side of the ocean. Their expressions let me feel the huge responsibilities of a Dafa practitioner. I know that these are all Master's hints to steady me in cultivation practice. It is Master's painstaking effort and the grace of salvation. Only by striving forward and solidly cultivating, and doing the three things well, can we possibly repay Master's grace.
October 11, 2006
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