(Minghui.org) Alice (Pseudonym) provided technical support to local practitioners. For the past 20 years, she always tried her best to go and provide timely support whenever she received a request, no matter how much hardship she had to endure, be it stormy or biting cold winds. She tried her best to not delay practitioners making informational materials about Falun Dafa to raise awareness, and she unselfishly contributed her time and energy without complaint or regret. Sometimes she had to run around various areas for several days in a row to repair or maintain machines. It was really hard and tiring. She lost time to study the Fa and do the exercises and was anxious about that too. But who could do this work in her place and leave her some time to study the Fa and do the exercises?
Over the past two years, some practitioners began to ostracize Alice and refused her help to maintain their machines, saying that they would just buy a new one instead of fixing the broken machine. A message spread among practitioners last year that Alice was reported to the police and subjected to surveillance. Cameras were installed in front of and behind her home, and her neighbor across from her was also monitoring her. Some practitioners even pretended to not see her and turned their heads away when they came across her. Some practitioners told her frankly, “Don’t go out, stay at home. Practitioners are afraid of seeing you.” Some practitioners made comments that she often went out. Why can’t a practitioner come out? In some Fa study groups, sometimes after studying the Fa, instead of sharing about what they had enlightened to on the Fa or looking within regarding their human attachments, practitioners discussed other practitioners as the main subject. Even bystanders questioned whether they were behaving like practitioners.
Facing this blame and these cold shoulders, Alice’s heart for cultivation fell to a low point and she lost confidence in her cultivation. She began to live like an ordinary person. She spent a long time watching TV programs every evening. She began to feel unwell, walk with no strength, developed difficulty in breathing, and lost taste.
Practitioners are one body. It is our responsibility to help when we see a practitioner’s shortcomings in cultivation. That shows our unselfishness and is what every practitioner should do. Practitioners in some areas wouldn’t even give up on those who had arrived at deviant understandings and tried every means to help pull them back on track. Practitioners in our area did not help as such.
Master said,
“I have not only taught you Dafa, but have also left you my demeanor. While working, your tone of voice, your kindheartedness, and your reasoning can change a person’s heart, whereas commands never could! If others are not convinced deep down inside but only superficially comply, they will still conduct themselves according to their own will when no one is around to see them.
“Any work in Dafa is intended for people to obtain the Fa and for disciples to improve themselves. Anything other than these two points is meaningless.” (“Clearheadedness,” Essentials for Further Advancement)
If we are truly for the good of another practitioner and want to offer help, we should spend more time reading the Fa with the practitioner and share experiences based on the Fa. A practitioner can correct herself based on the Fa if she has made a mistake. If we talk to this practitioner with an unfriendly attitude and use inappropriate words, the result would be the opposite of our intentions. If this practitioner is hurt so badly by a sentence that another practitioner spoke to her and decides to stop cultivating and leave Dafa, what would be the consequences?
Didn’t Master tell us to look within when we come across issues? Did all of us look within? There are yet some practitioners who don’t cultivate their speech. They discuss other practitioners behind their backs, as often and easily as having a daily meal. They kept throwing negative thoughts into the dimensional field of the practitioner they were discussing, which caused great pressure on the discussed practitioner. She felt like she was being tied up by something. When manifested in this dimension, the discussed practitioner felt depressed, had low spirits to study the Fa and practice the exercises, and liked slacking off.
The purpose of writing this article is to kindly remind practitioners. I have no intention to blame anybody. I hope we can be kind when we help practitioners and avoid harsh words that can push practitioners away.
This is my personal understanding. Please point out if you see anything that is not in line with the Fa.
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