(Minghui.org) The Fa-rectification will come to an end some day, and when that happens, how well we have done in cultivation will be revealed. Master has described many times the spectacular scenes of practitioners consummating. As such, some practitioners have developed an attachment to when consummation will occur.
We may have imagined and pursued consummation with human notions when we first began cultivation. But practitioners who have gone through the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) 20-year persecution should calm down and think rationally about it.
Still, some practitioners would search for the word “consummation” or similar words in Master’s lectures and Hong Yin for many months. Some tried to seek an answer from ancient prophecies and have been expecting consummation to happen since 2012. Others put hope into ordinary people to disintegrate the CCP and clear Falun Dafa’s name. They pursue dreams with human notions and can’t calm their minds. These practitioners have forgotten Master’s teachings.
Master said,
“You can only reach Consummation after you have abandoned all of your attachments and none of them remain.” (“Cultivation Practice is Not Political”, Essentials for Further Advancement)
Consummation may be like taking a college entrance exam. The announcement of the exam result is just like the day when cultivation is completed. However, the cultivation result is not achieved on that specific day, but through the many day-to-day efforts in eliminating attachments and constantly improving oneself. Failing tests or not eliminating human attachments will make one unable to cultivate further and improve, thus having no further chance to reach consummation.
Everyone has their own cultivation path toward consummation. What one experiences on the path is arranged by Master according to one’s xinxing. It is our hearts that we should pay attention to the most. Whenever a human notion arises, we should be aware of it and eliminate it immediately.
In fact, it is selfish to cultivate only for the sake of consummation. Cultivation is the process of giving up selfishness, personal interests, and the attachment to consummation, so that one can finally reach the standard of “selflessness and altruism”. The meaning of consummation is the process of giving up selfishness in daily life and reaching the standard of each level.
Master said,
“Actually, what a Tathagata means by “emptiness” is being free from every ordinary human attachment. Non-omission is the true essence of emptiness.” (“What is Emptiness?” Essentials for Further Advancement).
When one reaches the realm of non-omission, one’s mind is empty and clear without any attachments. Naturally there will be no concepts of consummation or completion in one’s mind, as it only wastes one’s energy.
Since Master is the only one who can control the cultivation stage, the old forces and practitioners who hold supernormal powers are not able to know it. There are only three things that we should do. As long as cultivation is not over, we should do what needs to be done step by step. Even on the final day of cultivation, we should not be overly excited.
Master has said that excitement or fear can make a practitioner fall. We only need to wait patiently for Master’s decision. Whether we succeed in cultivation or not, and what level we reach in cultivation are the result of our cultivation efforts. There will be no more opportunity to cultivate again. So, before Fa-rectification ends, we should treasure this precious time and not waste it on our dreams that are full of attachments.
In Master’s article “A Dialogue with Time,” it tells us that time is a god. How should we understand time? In terms of the stages of time, we usually classify it as the past, the present and the future. Which stage should we be in? It should be the present. It is an attachment to think of things that have already passed or things that have not come up yet.
In terms of the different time units such as the hour, minute or second, we should be in sync with the second. What we do is done second by second. When a practitioner is troubled by the past or is anxious about the future, he is wasting time and not doing what he’s supposed to do.
Master said,
“I also want to tell you that your nature in the past was actually based on egotism and selfishness. From now on, whatever you do, you should consider others first, so as to attain the righteous Enlightenment of selflessness and altruism. So from now on, whatever you do or whatever you say, you must consider others—or even future generations—along with Dafa’s eternal stability.” (“Non-Omission in Buddha-Nature”,Essentials for Further Advancement)
For a long time, many practitioners haven't met this standard. Master has repeatedly delayed when Fa-rectification would end to wait for sentient beings who may still be saved and those practitioners who can catch up. Master wants to save more people.Isn’t it against Master’s arrangement or creating an obstacle when we are attached to when the persecution will end? Let us calm down, do well, and closely follow Master’s Fa-rectification process to eliminate the CCP and manifest Dafa’s glory.
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