(Clearwisdom.net) The regime's authorities in my local area have recently been persecuting practitioners severely in brainwashing centers. On November 14, 2011, our local coordinator suggested that we send forth righteous thoughts together every day for three hours. I was at a practitioner’s home with some other practitioners when we received the notice. One practitioner commented, “Fa rectification has reached this point. Do we still need to do this? What could the brainwashing center possibly accomplish? How can we be affected by this?” At the time, I thought what he said made sense.
I continued pondering this matter after I returned home. Master told us long ago that we should completely negate everything arranged by the old forces. The so-called “transformation” and “tests” are arranged by the old forces. Master does not acknowledge them, so why should we? Following the coordinator's suggestion, practitioners in my local area have been sending forth righteous thoughts from 8 to 10 p.m. every night for a long time. However, the evil seemed more and more rampant. What loopholes did we have that were being taken advantage of by the evil? After wondering about it for a while, I began to calm down and study the Fa.
Master said in “What is a Dafa Disciple,”
“Currently there are still some students who fall terribly short in terms of cooperating together. And not just short—it even goes so far as to sabotage one another. I will tell you, regardless of what your thinking is, anytime you serve to sabotage a Dafa disciple’s project or something that Dafa disciples should do, you are acting as a demon.”
I immediately understood that it was our poor cooperation that was being taken advantage of by the evil. Master taught us many times about the Fa principle that Dafa disciples should cooperate well with each other. It was because we keep falling short on this matter that Master again pointed it out to correct us, so that we can walk well on our remaining path. Through studying the Fa, I enlightened to the importance of Dafa disciples cooperating together.
Master said,
“For quite some time now there have been some regions, or some people, where the Fa-study has not kept pace; where human means are often adopted; where when the collaboration isn’t going well people even get negative, and do things on their own, or people even approach things in the cunning manner that ordinary people might employ. In such scenarios it becomes a case of ordinary people doing the things of Dafa, which shouldn’t be.” (“Dafa Disciples Must Study the Fa”)
I was in such a state for quite a long time. When practitioners notified me to do something or invited me to participate in some projects to save sentient beings, I always refused with one excuse or another. Actually my deeds had fallen short of the Fa's requirements. That’s also the reason why at the beginning, I agreed with the practitioner’s comments.
Master said in “Teaching the Fa at the 2002 Fa Conference in Philadelphia, U.S.A.”
“Actually, did you know that those Great Enlightened Beings have a lot of things in the heavens that they too need to coordinate and discuss with each other?”
“When another God proposes an idea, they aren't eager to reject it, and they aren't eager to express their own ideas and they don't believe that their own ideas are good. Instead, they look at what the end result of the other God's proposed approach will be.”
I realized that cooperating well with others is a basic standard for a god and is something that an Enlightened Being should have. I could feel how compassionate Master is, pointing out our cultivation shortcomings to help us improve. Upon enlightening to this, I shared my understanding with local practitioners and encouraged everyone to cooperate and send forth righteous thoughts together.
The first day, I sent forth righteous thoughts for three hours with an 84-year-old practitioner and a male practitioner. Although my legs hurt, I could feel that Master was helping us and that the energy field was very strong. The elderly practitioner also participated to the end. The third night when we were sending righteous thoughts, it started to rain heavily and didn’t stop until the following afternoon. The next morning, it was sunny. Master also gave me a hint in a dream: the weeds infesting the garden had all been pulled out. I realized that a lot of evil factors had been eliminated by practitioners’ righteous thoughts and that the so-called “transformation center” was finished.
Through cooperating and sending forth righteous thoughts together this time, my own cultivation environment improved, and I broke down barriers that I had with other practitioners. My attachment of putting up my guard against others was also removed. I not only improved through cooperation, but I also harmonized what Master wants. The wonderfulness of this state is really beyond words.
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