Removing Emotional Attachments to Fellow Practitioners

(Minghui.org) A Falun Dafa practitioner in my village passed away a year ago. I thought about her from time to time, which brought me to tears. I missed her. I felt sorry for her and used to overly depend on her. I would go to her to discuss my problems, help write my experience-sharing articles, and revise articles, among other things. The old forces were using my emotions to drag me down. I should have seen through the problem clearly to remove this attachment, but I didn’t get very far.

This practitioner also helped other practitioners in our village, even after she moved to the city a few years ago. We continued to rely on her, and she let us know when Master Li’s new lectures were published and notified us of other important information in a timely manner. She also contributed to our truth-clarification efforts and supported us in our lawsuit against former Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Jiang Zemin.

When the China Fahui on Minghui.org called for experience-sharing articles, practitioners in our village either did not know what to write or paid little attention to the request. This practitioner earnestly advised us on the importance of writing papers and helped us submit them. More than 10 of us submitted papers every time. She revised our papers over and over again until they were more readable. I was moved by her selfless heart.

After she passed away, practitioners in our Fa-study group decided to submit experience-sharing papers for the 20th Fahui on Minghui.org. We needed to remove our dependence on her, become mature, and walk our own paths of cultivation. The old forces don’t want us to form one-body and want to drag us down. With righteous thoughts, practitioners in our group agreed to write our sharing papers ourselves. We believed that the process of writing our cultivation sharing would diminish the evil factors.

This practitioner helped us a lot by revising our papers in the past. I would only modify a few sentences and then pass the difficult parts that I didn’t understand well on to her. She would even put incomplete sentences together so that they flowed well. Her selfless heart made me feel ashamed of myself.

I have now become the main person to revise practitioners’ sharing articles. I once received papers from two practitioners at the same time. One of them wrote nice sentences in good handwriting but forgot a title. After adding a title, I felt the paper was still short of something and found it lacked her cultivation journey.

My head hurt while trying to edit the paper. I looked inward to review my current state. I was under a lot of pressure and was embarrassed to modify the paper, considering this practitioner was older and cultivated better than me. It was difficult for me to make suggestions because my ideas might not be right. After getting halfway through the editing, I was very stressed and couldn’t calm down.

I missed working with the newly deceased practitioner, whom I’d relied on heavily. Without her support, I had difficulty making decisions.

I switched gears to review the other paper. I could understand the words, but the sentences were confusing. It lacked experiences on cultivating character and saving people, and there were too many connecting parts and vague expressions. I wanted to ask the author to rewrite her paper, but I was concerned that bringing the issues up to her was a reflection of my impatience and fear of hardship due to my selfishness.

Nevertheless, I visited the author of the second paper to discuss these two papers and asked her to talk with the other practitioner. I let her know that I might be wrong but suggested they write down their experiences of offering salvation to people by clarifying the facts, as well as their several miraculous experiences. She agreed. I went on to say that I was not very good at editing papers, but we are one body, so I had to work hard to meet Master’s requirements.

My worries came from my human attachments, and I sent forth righteous thoughts to disintegrate these in my dimensional field. The practitioner came back to me, saying that she was incapable of writing articles and that’s why she described things in just a few sentences. She later rewrote her article carefully, and everything went smoothly. My mind felt bright and full of joy as never before.

During the first few days when the call for experience-sharing articles began, I sat in front of the computer, remembering the deceased practitioner and burst into tears. I then recalled Master’s teaching,

“Human beings live for emotion. That is, humans are immersed in emotion and it is hard for them to break away. A person cannot cultivate and make progress without freeing himself from emotion.” (Teachings at the First Conference in North America)

I don’t want anything that Master doesn’t want or acknowledge. I must diligently revise the papers for all practitioners that come to me and submit a satisfactory article worthy of Master’s approval. The process of editing articles is also a process of cultivating oneself. I realized the responsibility to do my best, so I could reduce the burden for the next editor to refine the paper.

By modifying papers over the past few days, I managed to remove many attachments, including dependence on other practitioners and the fear of humiliation or embarrassment. My emotion for the deceased practitioner gradually faded away, and I finally broke free from the predicament where the old forces used my emotions to drag me down. Additionally, I cultivated righteous thoughts to cooperate with other practitioners and harmonize as one body.

Another recent experience assured me that Master is by our side at all times to help disciples with sufficient righteous thoughts. On the evening of August 26, when our Fa study group was sending righteous thoughts, my right knee began to hurt while I was holding my palm upright. I tried to ignore the pain, but it became so bad that I almost could not bear it after eight minutes had passed. I wanted to take my legs down to relieve the pain, but then I thought: “No! My movement will affect everyone. Now is a critical moment in the battle between good and evil. Master, please help me to send righteous thoughts and eradicate the evil interference.”

The pain in my knee lessened immediately, with only a little left. I was able to send righteous thoughts for 15 minutes.

Please kindly help me by pointing out any shortcomings.