(Clearwisdom.net) Qiaoxi District Court in Shijiazhuang City held a session in an attempt to sentence practitioners on February 17, 2009. In order to rescue fellow practitioners, practitioner A and I left work to go there to send forth righteous thoughts. After we rode our bicycles around the court, we found a place in the south section of the court. We prepared to send forth righteous thoughts in the direction of the court.
I observed the environment around me: There was a small building behind me that had an open space and a grove on both sides and also a row of bungalow on the left. I believed there were people living in the bungalow and said, "These are residential homes so we must stand here silently and do not move to avoid people seeing us (they will feel strange)." Practitioner A looked at me and said firmly, "They cannot see us." Then she did not speak anymore. I also thought that it was right and we did not let them see us. As expected, only one person looked at us casually and other people who passed by us did not look at all.
We began to stand there to send forth righteous thoughts with a calm mind. The day was very cold, with a bone chilling wind. We stood there silently and did not move, so I gradually felt cold. I stamped my feet gently and a lot of thoughts surged. I thought: When would the session finish? Immediately, I thought that this was not right and I should not have such thoughts interfering and should concentrate on sending forth righteous thoughts. Therefore, I began to concentrate on sending forth righteous thoughts. After a while, I felt cold again. I walked several paces and tried to alleviate the chilling cold feeling. I turned right and found an old woman sitting not far away from us. I told practitioner A, "There is an old woman, maybe she is a fellow practitioner." Practitioner A acknowledged but she did not even glance at me. I resumed sending righteous thoughts at once. After a while, the woman that I assumed was a fellow practitioner came to me and said one word. I replied briefly, but practitioner A did not look at us at all and it seemed to her that nothing happened. Three hours later I felt colder and colder and felt pain in my feet. I stomped my feet and tightened my hat. However, practitioner A had not moved during the past three hours and only changed her gestures once in a while. She didn't even wear a hat. I thought that she was so perfect. The chilling wind came upon us once again and I could not help but shiver. I said, "It is really cold." Practitioner A did not open her eyes and said, "It is not cold!" I suddenly understood and said, "You are right and it is not cold!" Immediately, I did not feel cold.
The session had ended. We left and did not have time to share. Two days later we met again. I asked her, "Didn't you feel cold that day?" She replied, "Rather than feeling cold, I felt hot. A warm current circulated my whole body and I was so hot that I could not wear the hat, so finally I took it off." We were in the same environment and wore the same clothes and did the same thing, but we had such different reactions.
Compared with practitioner A, I realized my deficiencies: Firstly, I did not put forth enough effort to rescue fellow practitioners, so I was interfered with while sending forth righteous thoughts and often could not concentrate. Secondly, I had a strong attachment of seeking comfort. Before I left, in order to avoid the cold, I tried to find warm pants, but did not find any. Thirdly, I had strong human thoughts and lacked divine thoughts. I regarded myself as an ordinary person and assumed that the weather would affect me.
Master told us,
"At the crucial moment when I ask you to break away from humanness, you do not follow me. Each opportunity will not occur again. Cultivation practice is a serious matter. The distance has become greater and greater. It is extremely dangerous to add anything human to cultivation practice." ("Digging Out the Roots" from Essentials for Further Advancement)
"So before the Fa-rectification is over you should seize the time that's left and solidly do well in every single thing that a Dafa disciple should do. That's how you should proceed on this path toward the future and toward what's the most magnificent; you can't miss any single opportunity, or go awry with any step." ("Teaching the Fa at the Conference in Vancouver, Canada, in 2003")
I hope fellow practitioners can draw from my lessons and walk well the path that's ahead of us and put forth maximum effort to do well each thing in validating Dafa.
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