(Minghui.org) I am a teenage Falun Dafa practitioner who grew up in a Dafa disciple environment. I am 17 years old this year. I’ve had a desire to drive since I was a kid. I got my learners license and started to drive at the age of 15.
As I drove more and more, my ego became more and more inflated, and my parents (fellow practitioners) tried to talk to me about it many times, but I ignored them. I didn’t realize my irritability and selfishness at the time. It made me not listen to my parents’ advice, and I even felt very irritated. Hidden attachments caused me to fail every road test. I always pushed the responsibility outward, saying how bad the examination environment was and how difficult the examiner was, but I never really looked inward for my attachments and bad habits.
I remember that my father always said that I was very arrogant and reckless with my driving, but every time I shirked what he said by saying that because of my good skills “I am a master of the art and bold.” I would even say that my father and I were one and the same, and so my father’s driving state was my state, and I was crazy because he is crazy. I thought that the state of people’s parents determines the state of their children, so I used these external things to exonerate myself. I never thought that we are cultivators and so therefore we can’t use ordinary people’s principles to escape the difficulties we encounter on the path of eliminating our attachments.
Because I didn’t realize this at that time, I kept going my own way. Facing praise from fellow practitioners, I felt complacent, and facing accusations from fellow practitioners, I pretended to be listening very seriously, but in fact I did not take it to heart at all. Master had given me hints many times in my dreams, but I still didn’t realize it.
Finally, one night while trying to back the car into the garage, I accidentally stepped on the gas pedal. My parents had tried to stop me three times, but I still didn’t take it seriously. Bang! The rear of the car slammed into the pillars that supported the house. The pillar bent slightly, and the rear of the car was in tatters. But fortunately, under the protection of Master, the lights at the rear of the car were fine. At that time, I was angry. My parents began to scold me, so I didn’t hold back and quarreled with them. I tried to shirk responsibility and argued with them. It was only afterward that I suddenly woke up and began to reflect.
Everything happens for a reason. Problems often occur suddenly to test people’s hearts. If you treat issues according to the standards of a cultivator, you will improve your mind. On the other hand, more tribulations will test you until you get rid of that attachment. Without this contradiction and lesson, I may never have discovered the notions of ordinary people that I am deeply attached to.
It’s a good thing that a lesson happened, because it made me realize the attachments that I need to get rid of, and it lets me know how to deal with such an incident in the future, and how to treat it with the standards of a cultivator. I would like to thank Master for His care and guidance.
The above are all my personal experiences and feelings. If anything is incorrect, please be merciful and correct me.
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