(Minghui.org) Master has given me many hints that helped me break through my human notions, overcome sickness karma and eliminate attachments.
Righteous Thoughts are Important
More than 10 practitioners in our county were arrested in November 2018 and then imprisoned. I was so fearful that I became depressed and had symptoms of diabetes. I could not sleep. I stayed home and dared not go to work.
I knew that this was persecution by the old forces, and that it would definitely pass. I recited “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good” in my heart, and I recited the verses for sending forth righteous thoughts. I couldn’t calm down enough to read the Fa, practice the exercises, or send righteous thoughts.
Seeing my situation, my wife suggested we go on vacation. I called my boss and told him we were about to go on vacation and I said I planned to resign from my position when I returned.
During our vacation, my fear and stress subsided, and my health improved. I realized that if I resigned because of illness, it could cause my coworkers to misunderstand or look down on Falun Dafa. It may affect Master saving people, and give the old forces an excuse to persecute me. Perhaps it was my thought of “benefiting others” that complied with the Fa, so Master helped me by disintegrating the evil factors in other dimensions.
I was able to relax and read the Fa. I slept well, practiced the exercises, and sent righteous thoughts as usual after I returned home. My boss kept me in my position as the department director.
A hint from Master helped me completely eliminate my fear. When I was practicing the second exercise, Falun Standing Stance, I had the thought: “You are not controlled by low-level principles.” I understood that Master was telling me to put down my fear. My righteous thoughts were strengthened and I felt the fear in my environment disintegrate. I felt relieved.
A practitioner helped me find the original quote from Master’s Fa teachings. Master said,
“What’s important for cultivators is righteous thoughts. When you have strong righteous thoughts, you are able to withstand anything and do anything. That’s because you are a cultivator: someone who is on a divine path and who is not controlled by the factors of ordinary people or low-level principles. (Applause)” (Teachings at the Conference in Los Angeles)
A Good Thing
I once quarreled with my wife. I could not sleep that night, and kept thinking about what happened. Just before midnight I heard a door bell chime. “Who would come at such a late hour?” I got up and looked out the door. I saw a woman and a child enter the apartment across the corridor, which had been vacant for more than two years.
I understood that it was a hint. In Chinese, the character for woman and the character for child together form a new character that means “good.” I stopped feeling stressed and went to sleep.
The following day, I apologized to my wife. I realized that a cultivator should not have any conflicts with ordinary people. She was no longer angry.
Identifying My Attachment to Jealousy
I helped my son select universities after he finished his college entrance exams. I was stressed because there were so many options and endless pros and cons. I knew my state was incorrect.
I looked within and noticed that I was attached to fame, gain, and emotion, but I was not able to calm down.
When our Fa-study group read the teaching about “Jealousy” in Zhuan Falun I realized that my stress came from jealousy. I felt a negative substance removed and I relaxed.
Master said,
“Haven’t I said that with one person practicing, the whole family benefits?” (Teachings at the Conference in Australia)
Master made the most appropriate arrangement for my son after I let go of my attachments.
Eliminating Human Notions
A practitioner once told me that he came to an understanding that attachments were like leaves that grew on the trunk of human notions. One must eliminate human notions in order to eliminate our attachments.
I continued along with his thought and asked what was the root of human notions? “I am human” – the answer appeared in my mind. I realized that an ordinary person regards himself as a human being from birth to death, and cannot escape the human shell. All notions come from the thought: “I am human.”
However, Master told us that we were divine beings. Master said,
“You are divine beings, and you are the future rulers of different cosmoses, so who would you count on?” (“Fa Teaching Given at the 2002 Conference in Philadelphia, U.S.A.,” Collected Teachings Given Around the World Volume II)
As Dafa disciples in the Fa-rectification period, in the transition to the Fa-rectification of the human world, we must quickly discard the concept: “I am human,” and replace it with the thought: “I am a divine being.”
Using Our Abilities
Master mentioned that we can use our supernatural abilities to assist him in saving people.
My wife watched videos on her smartphone while I meditated and it distracted me. I thought that there were evil factors that destroy human morality and hinder the salvation of the world in many of those videos. I sent righteous thoughts to eliminate whatever controlled my wife and made her watch them. In three to five minutes, she put down her phone and went to sleep.
I accompanied my mother when she was hospitalized. I got up at 4 a.m. to do the exercises. But there were two people chatting loudly in the corridor, and they prevented me from entering into tranquility. I thought, “I can’t let them interfere with my ability to do the exercises or other people’s sleep, let them go back to their rooms.” After a while, the corridor was silent.
I send righteous thoughts to disintegrate all the evil factors that may be interfering with a computer before I go to repair one for other practitioners. Sometimes I can repair it quickly. Sometimes the practitioner tells me that I don’t need to come because the computer fixed itself.
I deeply feel that Master is always by our side.
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