(Minghui.org) Many practitioners have shared their understandings about the ordeals our cultivation practice is facing from different perspectives. I have learned a lot from these articles and would like to share my understanding with fellow practitioners. Besides the factors in other realms, I think the reason for the recent attacks on Master and Falun Dafa is also due to our failure to form one unbreakable body.

Master has discussed this issue multiple times in his teachings. For example, some practitioners have looked down on fellow practitioners, and also didn’t accept or want to collaborate with each other. They have focused on their coordinators’ shortcomings and even sabotaged them. Master has painstakingly warned us, which indicated the level of seriousness of this issue. Given such an attitude, how can we possibly form one body and eliminate the evil effectively?

Master has given us an example,

“If people don’t want to listen whenever you assign something and they just want to do whatever suits their fancy, and each does things his own way, could that ever work? It’s just like when this fist goes out—it’s strong when everyone is clenched together. (Master makes a fist.) But if you’re saying that this one wants to do this, that one wants to do that, and the next one something else (spreading the five fingers apart and pointing to each finger), then that’s weak, and as soon as it goes out, it will be repelled, right? You need to have a plan and organize things, coordinate well, and cooperate with each other.” (“Fa Teaching Given at the 2009 Greater New York International Fa Conference,” Collected Teachings Given Around the World Volume IX)

Such an attitude also exists among practitioners in China. In my opinion, the problem of jealousy is even worse among Chinese practitioners. Although I don’t know about other places, I can give examples of issues that happened in my town.

There are over 40 practitioners in my town. We have done well when it comes to clarifying the facts about Falun Dafa in the past years. Some practitioners visit the market for truth clarification face to face every day, rain or shine. Almost everyone in our surrounding area knows the facts about Dafa. As soon as we hand out a flyer, the recipient knows it’s about Falun Dafa.

However, these fellow practitioners can hardly form one body. A couple of them look down upon each other, are jealous, form and defend a smaller prestigious circle, and reject other fellow practitioners. Despite the holy deed they are doing, they did it with a fighting mentality, intrigue, and pursuit of reputation. Several incidents of exclusion have happened and caused serious damage. The issue has been going on for years.

Some practitioners have kept silent, trying to stay away from these disputes. Some have lied, played tricks, and spread rumors, and so on. Such behavior is unbecoming of ordinary people, much less practitioners, who should hold ourselves to a higher standard of cultivating our speech.

Some practitioners who had done well on a certain thing became complacent. After hearing flattering words for a long time, they experienced demonic interference from their own minds. Some even lost their lives due to this form of persecution.

We are making improvements when it comes to our cultivation, but many stubborn notions and selfishness haven’t been identified. These hidden notions have caused tremendous loss. At least one practitioner has lost his or her life almost every year in the past. Two practitioners died last year. Some were arrested by local authorities. Six were arrested last June and are still detained, despite our truth-clarification and sending forth righteous thoughts.

I can’t help reflecting upon ourselves. Besides individual practitioners’ loopholes in their cultivation, isn't it also an indication of our problem overall? It’s impossible to form an unbreakable body without unselfishly supporting each other.

I don’t mean to blame anyone. I’m reflecting upon myself, because I’m part of it. Looking within, I find myself always looking at others' shortcomings instead of merits. After hearing about a fellow practitioner’s behavior for a long time, I have formed notions about this fellow practitioner. Every time I think of her, the type of person she is would come to my mind. Such a notion has created barriers among us and prevented our energy from working together. How can we rescue our fellow practitioners when facing these issues without concerted efforts?

I ran into a fellow practitioner that I haven’t seen for a while. When I realized that I also have a set notion about this fellow practitioner, I sent forth righteous thoughts to eliminate my notion and immediately felt that my energy became stronger. The notion wasn’t my true self, but some acquired negativity and interference.

Let’s look within, cultivate ourselves well, and eliminate the notions about each other. We have come to this world with a common goal. We should work closely with each other to fight the evil, and treat each other with absolute sincerity. Before the persecution was initiated in 1999, we used to be happier to see a fellow practitioner than to see a family member. Remember the time we first started our cultivation.

As all of us know, Master has extended the time of our cultivation with his tremendous endurance, but no one can personally experience Master’s endurance. The only thing we can do is to seize the time, cultivate ourselves well, form a unbreakable body, disintegrate the evil factors, and offer salvation to sentient beings. When Dafa practitioners in every place can form one body, it’s the time all Dafa practitioners in the world form one body. It’s also the time when the evil will be completely eliminated!

The above is my limited understanding. Please feel free to point out anything inappropriate.