(Clearwisdom.net) Over the last ten years, a portion of veteran practitioners have continuously struggled to get rid of sickness karma and sexual desire. Some veteran practitioners have also repeatedly written guarantee statements for the evil and then repeatedly written solemn declarations to resume cultivation. They have been struggling in their cultivation. I want to share my understandings on some relevant issues with these fellow practitioners.
At the recent conference in Washington, D.C., Master said,
"... the number of lives to be saved before the final moment arrives has not reached the amount it should; and that there is still a portion of Dafa disciples that hasn't kept up." ("Be More Diligent")
1. Sickness Karma
Master has said that he pushed veteran practitioners to their highest positions before the persecution began. In my understanding, as long as you continue to steadfastly cultivate, completing individual cultivation is basically not an issue. The issue is whether you are able to save enough sentient beings.
Ten years have passed by, and some veteran practitioners still have not understood how precious the Fa is. They hold onto all kinds of notions, human sentiments, and attachments that they are unwilling to let go of. They can't distinguish between their true nature and the deviated notions that they acquired after birth. They clarify the truth in the same way that everyday people do good deeds. At the same time, they repeatedly suffer from sickness karma.
In my understanding, the fundamental reason for not being able to overcome sickness karma is that these practitioners haven't cultivated themselves well for a long period of time, and so the old forces don't think that they deserve to be Fa-rectification period Dafa disciples and utilize evil beings to attach to their bodies in order to destroy them. If these practitioners truly believe in Master and the Fa, then they should thoroughly understand the nature of this issue and realize that it is interference from other dimensions. They should resolutely send forth righteous thoughts to get rid of these evil beings, and at the same time, recognize their human attachments and completely let go of them. In other words, medicine will not be effective in treating sickness karma, because sickness karma is not an everyday person's illness. Everyday people's medicine cannot handle the old forces and raise people's level.
Only by truly regarding oneself as a cultivator, meeting the requirements of cultivation, comparing oneself against the principles of the Fa, strengthening one's main consciousness, truly using righteous thoughts to handle issues, steadfastly sending forth righteous thoughts and looking within while cultivating can one overcome the interference.
2. Lust
Sexual desire is normal for everyday people. While at that level, people have these attachments and are manipulated by them and the demons of lust. Once we elevate above this level and truly raise our xinxing, low-level beings will not be able to reach us, and we will naturally get rid of them.
While cultivating on the small paths in the past, people had to first get rid of sexual desire. Removing lust was the starting point of becoming a cultivator.
If sexual desire occurs repeatedly in the course of cultivation, as long as we raise our xinxing, we will be able to overcome it, and then we will no longer be interfered with at this low-level state of everyday people. Otherwise, it is just like trying to dry our clothes while being immersed in a pool of water--it's just not possible. Let's say that while experiencing sexual desire today, you let go of some of it. However, perhaps tomorrow you will experience more of it. Therefore, while other practitioners are seizing the time to save people, you are spinning your wheels at this level. Then haven't you already fallen behind? Haven't you fallen behind in saving that portion of people that you are responsible for?
(To be continued)
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