(Minghui.org) I sent righteous thoughts at noon before going out to distribute information about Falun Dafa. However, various thoughts began to appear in my mind: I wondered which routes were the safest, how to avoid surveillance cameras, and so on. I suddenly became alarmed and asked myself: “What am I thinking? I am doing the most sacred thing in the universe!” Where did these thoughts come from? I realized that they came from fear, resulting from self-protection, and the wish to avoid being reported, arrested, imprisoned, and tortured. When I looked for the root cause of these thoughts, I discovered selfishness—a selfish wish to protect myself.
Master said:
“The reason that lives can deviate from the Fa and lives can drop down from high levels is that they develop selfishness.” (Teachings at the Conference in the Western U.S.)
In the past, I failed to distinguish whether my thoughts were selfish or not. Now I know that “selfishness” is the reason the lives of the old universe deviated from the Fa! We can only assimilate to the Fa by getting rid of selfishness. We should follow Master’s teaching,
“…you should consider others first, so as to attain the righteous Enlightenment of selflessness and altruism.” (“Non-Omission in Buddha-Nature”, Essentials for Further Advancement)
After so many years of cultivation, I just realized that achieving “selflessness and altruism” is very serious. It’s the standard of the new universe at different levels!
Where there is “self,” there is “selfishness.” Master is rectifying the cosmos. Each of us is only a speck of dust in the boundless cosmic universe. If it weren’t for Master’s benevolent thought to rectify the corrupt universe, we would have vanished long ago, with no more “self” to be concerned about.
Vast celestial bodies and various levels have different standards for life at their respective realms. In the process of returning to our origin, we should take responsibility to remove our “selfishness,” which is a part of the old cosmic bodies to be corrected. We won’t have the mentality of fear when we fundamentally do things for others, and we will gradually achieve selflessness to become completely for others.
We should keep one thought in mind: Do what Master wants us to accomplish, and save as many people as possible! Let go of all other desires, because even a very trivial thought may be “selfishness” in different realms, and needs to be removed in cultivation!
The process of letting go of fear is also the process of elevating oneself from the selfish, old universe. Let’s assimilate to the Fa and reach the selfless standards of the new universe!
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