(Clearwisdom.net) When talking about family members, everyone will think about their own family members, such as their wife, husband, parents, sons, and daughters, etc. It is quite alright for ordinary people to think this way, because ordinary people only think about themselves. To a certain extent, if a practitioner has such an understanding, it means he or she is selfish.
It is just like what Teacher said, "The next person's things are your things, and your things are his things." ("Teaching the Fa at the Washington, D.C. Fa Conference," July 22, 2002) Especially those practitioners who are suffering evil persecution: they all have wives, husbands, parents, sons and daughters, so how do we view these issues? Shouldn't we help to take care of them? If they have some confusion about Dafa, shouldn't we clarify the truth to them well?
If we practitioners ignore this, evil will take advantage of us and then we will encounter more tribulations. Moreover, if practitioners' family members do not know the truth of Dafa, we should break through the difficulty and treat our family members as sentient beings. We should hold ourselves to Dafa's standards. We should have patience and not a human mentality and sentiments. Only when we let go of human sentiments will we have compassion, and with compassion we will be able to save people. From this standpoint, if every practitioner's family knows the truth of Dafa, people will see that. The evil will be eliminated very quickly.
January 18, 2009
