(Clearwisdom.net) I used to enjoy reading news online after breaking through the Internet blockade. However, when doing so, I subconsciously began to be attached to changes happening in the human world. When I understood that these were not things that a practitioner should follow, I reduced the number of times I browsed the web, yet I could not refrain from doing so altogether. I felt like someone who wanted to quit smoking but had trouble doing it. I found that I have not enlightened on this issue through the Fa seriously enough.
Recently, I read a paragraph in “Fa Teaching at the 2009 Greater New York International Fa Conference”:
“Disciple: Is the current economic crisis caused by the significant decline of mankind's morality, and especially that of those in power?
Master: Let's not worry about the condition of the world economy. Who holds power or what happens somewhere on some day has nothing to do with our cultivation. We focus on saving people, period. The normal arrangements for human society are most definitely based on people's allotted blessings and amount of karma.”
I understood that I should not be attached to the situation in the human world. As Teacher said: "We focus on saving people, period." So I should only think about saving people. After that, I became disinterested in worldly affairs, so I didn't want to surf the web any more.
After I calmed my mind, I thought: Out of my own interest or feelings of loneliness, or something else, I am reading those news stories. Isn't this a human attachment? When seeing something, one's heart is moved. Isn't our heart moved by human affairs? As a result, we have fallen to the level of human beings. Only when practitioners have the Fa on their mind, can they understand the Fa from the Fa, and only when their state of mind is rather pure, can they do the three things well. When we pay attention to human affairs, we are indulging ourselves; this is also a type of interference that we create for ourselves. As a result, we might go down a deviant path.
Many practitioners cause harm to themselves when they do not behave properly on this point. Therefore, fellow practitioners, please remind each other: we should not indulge ourselves in pursuing human affairs. Teacher asks us to save people, and we should do that wholeheartedly and not be attached to our habits. First, we should not seek it. When we want to seek it, we should look within and not be moved by the situation in the human world. We should only think about saving people, saving more people and doing the "three things" well. We should not give up any opportunity to cultivate ourselves. Only when we think from the standpoint of saving sentient beings, can we truly walk the path that Teacher has arranged for us.
