(Clearwisdom.net) If cultivators do not see issues from the perspective of the Fa or are controlled by human attachments, then, it's easy for them to be manipulated by those attachments and not make progress. At the same time, the factors of the old forces will also strengthen and magnify these attachments, turning them into a long, difficult tribulations.
As cultivators, if we can truly cultivate at every moment and treat everything with righteous thoughts, no attachments can affect us, and no illusions can confuse us. If our minds are righteous and we meet the xinxing standards of a Dafa disciple, all attachments will dissipate, and all tests can be passed without problems. Of course we have to cultivate to a certain realm to truly be able to do this.
Looking back on my cultivation path, sometimes I was repeatedly affected by my attachments. When my righteous thoughts were strong, I could understand everything. When my attachments were strong, sometimes I followed them. I repeated some of the tests many times and lamented the lack of progress in my cultivation.
Looking inward, the main reasons for my failures had been: 1) not treating Fa study with a calm heart as top priority, 2) not positioning correctly the relationship between work, cultivation, and the three things, and 3) not fully eliminating the attachments to doing things, to lust, to leisure, to profit, and to fear. When controlled by these attachments, my mind was not firm and I followed them. This also meant that I did not meet the xinxing standards of a Dafa practitioner.
Because of this, I created a lot of difficulties for my own cultivation.
As Dafa disciples, we do not recognize the tribulations arranged by the old forces. We need to eliminate these tribulations with righteous thoughts and clear away the interference with Dafa disciples' efforts to validate the Fa and save sentient beings. However, to truly break through these tribulations, people at different xinxing levels also experience different levels of difficulties.
I realized that we must truly cultivate every minute and make strides diligently. We must have fundamental faith in Dafa and have strong righteous thoughts. Our every thought and every action must meet the requirements of Dafa. We must truly treat ourselves as cultivators and rectify ourselves, so that every thought of ours is clearly on the Fa. As a result, our actions also meet Dafa's requirements and we can harmonize with the Fa. Only with such determination in daily life can we use righteous thoughts to eliminate the tribulations and interference. We can validate the Fa and save sentient beings using a cultivator's righteous thoughts.
We are currently in Fa-rectification cultivation. Any speech or behavior of a Dafa disciple that does not meet the Fa can push a being, who could otherwise be saved, into hell. If we have long-term conflicts with ordinary people or our surrounding environment, then we have acted like ordinary people and not Dafa disciples. When this occurs, we are not saving people, but are destroying people and interfering with the Fa-rectification. This is not an issue of personal or gradual cultivation. This is about whether we can be responsible to sentient beings and to Dafa.
Through confusion and tribulations, we have a better understanding of the mission and responsibilities of Dafa disciples. We are also deeply aware that Dafa disciples are here now to do the three things well.
As Fa-rectification period Dafa disciples, all of the attachments we manifest today are a matter of Fa-rectification period cultivation. This issue is serious. We cannot use the excuse of gradual cultivation to hide the fact that we still want to harbor those attachments. We must treat the issue seriously. If we had cultivated solidly during personal cultivation, we would not be in a state of fluctuation between being diligent and being interfered with. Actually, many practitioners who were genuine cultivators all along have done the three things diligently and well. No attachment can interfere with them. No factors of the old forces can touch them. That's because they are completely on the Fa and meet the xinxing requirement of Dafa disciples.
Master has borne and done so much for us! If we do not cultivate well, we would be letting down Master and ourselves. We must truly cherish the limited time and cultivate ourselves well. Our true thoughts should dominate, not our attachments. We cannot use the excuse of gradually eliminating our attachments to slow down our progress. If we already know the problem but refuse to cultivate it away, then that's a major omission. Master has already pushed Fa-rectification period Dafa disciples to their highest positions. In cultivation, our xinxing determines our external constraints. As Dafa disciples, we need to use the xinxing standard of Dafa disciples to truly cultivate ourselves and make strides in cultivation. We must continue to improve our xinxing and do well in the three things, so that we can step out of humanness and walk towards godhood.
