(Clearwisdom.net) There is a very serious phenomenon in our area that has to do with applying a certain paragraph of Teacher's Fa,or something one has come to understand in the Fa, mechanically and indiscriminately to other practitioners and then expecting them to behave accordingly. This has already created severe divisions among practitioners, affecting all our efforts to validate the Fa and save sentient beings. For instance, when someone talked about a specific issue in our local area during a sharing, someone else immediately interrupted and said, "Don't pour black substances over fellow practitioners. Even if we have loopholes, the old forces have no right to persecute practitioners," "If you put it that way, you are actualizing it," "You need to look inward," or "You should look at fellow practitioners' good side," and so on.
As a result, fellow practitioners have not dared to exchange opinions or say anything on various occasions, even when someone saw some serious inadequacies in our whole body, for fear of being labeled "incapable of looking inward" or "incapable of looking at others' good sides." Not having the courage to speak out is also a manifestation of selfishness.
In fact, this kind of thinking did not exist at first. It came into existence when many practitioners started participating in and nurturing this unrighteous thinking. As soon as certain practitioners encounter this, they immediately use their negative human side to resist and reject other practitioners whose opinions are different from their own. This kind of selfishness, which originated in the old cosmos, and this way of thinking, which has been inherited from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) culture, has interfered with many practitioners and their ability to cooperate. What Teacher has taught us is to, "take the middle way" and to "harmonize." It is wrong to take extreme measures.
In "Lecture at the Fa-Conference in Canada (Toronto, May 23, 1999)" Teacher explained the Fa in response to a practitioner's question:
"Question: Someone who did pretty well in cultivation once said the following: 'Having intention is also part of being without intention.' I felt a little perplexed.
Master: Isn't this interference? Don't think about it if it isn't something from the Fa that I have said. Even if it's said by a disciple who cultivates in Dafa, it may be something he came to understand at his different states and at different realms. It may be right or wrong. Don't worry about it, and do as I have taught. Focus your mind on the Fa and don't be attached to what others say."
Accordingly, it doesn't matter what practitioners have enlightened to. Don't treat it like an absolute Fa taught by Teacher. This is because what Teacher teaches is the Fa, whereas what we talk about is not the Fa. Meanwhile, we should also safeguard the Fa well starting with ourselves, and we should not bring in anything that is not Teacher's Fa. We should strictly take the Fa as our teacher, cultivate ourselves well, and walk righteously the path of Dafa.
Fellow practitioners, please kindly correct me if there is anything improper.
