(Clearwisdom.net) Many practitioners realized their heavy attachments to the Beijing Olympic Games after the article "Fellow Practitioners, Let Us Give Up Our Human Mindsets" was published. Some said, "I've already told my family that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) won't be successful in holding the Olympics." Some said, "I almost cried when I saw the opening ceremony begin." Some even blamed Buddha. These problems are fairly widespread. The article from the Minghui/Clearwisdom editors points out, "We should truly learn from this lesson. As cultivators we must look at things with righteous thoughts, not human mindsets."
How were these attachments formed? What righteous thoughts should we have regarding these problems? I would like share my understanding.
As practitioners, especially those inside China, we have weathered nine years of persecution. We have lived in a wicked environment with brutal torture and violence that could erupt at any moment. Practitioners are under immense pressure and hope that the CCP will be eliminated as soon as possible. As a result, we failed to look at the problem from the perspective of the Fa, and the evil took advantage of the loophole. Some practitioners could not eliminate their attachment of fear. Whenever some event occurred, they stayed home to protect themselves.
I realize that we should not be attached to the elimination of the CCP. In the Fa, Teacher told us that the CCP exists solely for the sake of of Falun Gong. As Fa-rectification practitioners, when we all meet the requirements of Fa rectification and express the practitioners' realm through our actions, then we are declaring to the CCP that we don't need them any longer. Wouldn't this eliminate the CCP? As practitioners, we are the people who should validate the Fa. How can we expect Teacher and good divine beings to eliminate the CCP? We must study the Fa, look inward, and improve ourselves. This kind of lesson should not be repeated, and should be a step on our final road to Consummation. We should use our own energy to reverse the course of events, and turn this into an opportunity for practitioners' cultivation, validating the Fa, saving sentient beings, and harmonizing with what Teacher requires us to do.
Along similar lines, some practitioners have heavy attachments to prophesy and predictions. They like to circulate such things, like Internet articles predicting certain events. They do not accept admonishments from others and even recite verses from these articles. I would like to take this opportunity to share my understanding with those practitioners who are still distributing and circulating such things. Do you know the source of these articles? Shouldn't you follow Master's teachings and read the Minghui website for its position on major issues? Are you able to assume responsibility for the adverse effects of passing these articles around? I do not intend to accuse anyone, but I'm worried about the practitioners who deviate from the Fa. A few days ago, many articles posted on some websites were talking about predictions and fortune telling, but those websites are for non-practitioners. We should not pay close attention to them. There are complex sources for those websites, and evil forces take every opportunity to spread their message. Their objective is to create confusion and disruption among practitioners. From the individual cultivation perspective, people who ignored other practitioners' admonishments and circulated the articles were validating themselves, not the Fa. Our selfish attachments were taken advantage of to create interference in the cultivation community. We should take a serious view of this matter.
I also want to share my understanding about the rescue of fellow practitioners. Because we are at different levels and have various understandings of the Fa, it is normal to have different ideas about various issues. However, we should ensure that all of our actions are based on the Fa.
Sometimes we agree with what fellow practitioners have done, and other times we cannot agree with them. When we disagree with some ideas, even though we seem to talk about something based on the Fa, we might not meet the requirements of the Fa. This may be an old force arrangement. Therefore, we should pay attention to our every thought. If we feel uneasy in our hearts, we should immediately look inward, distinguish between our false and true selves, and eliminate negative factors. At the same time, we should use our righteous thoughts to support fellow practitioners. Some practitioners say that we only need to send righteous thoughts and distribute the truth-clarification materials to rescue practitioners who are locked up, but I don't think this is enough. If we considered all practitioners inside China as arrested, and all those outside China as rescuing them, then would they only send righteous thoughts and distribute some materials? In addition to righteous thoughts and passing out flyers, wouldn't they try nearly everything imaginable to help. We are not only rescuing fellow practitioners, but gradually meeting the requirements of the Fa and saving sentient beings. As a part of that process, we are walking our own path to validate the Fa. We should understand that our actions are not only for our fellow practitioners and sentient beings, but for ourselves, as well.
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