The Danger of Laziness and Desiring Comfort

(Minghui.org) Recently, my printer would not work, so I took it to a maintenance shop. The owner performed a lot of checks but was not able to find any problems. Nevertheless, my printer still did not work. I then used my computer to log in to the Internet, and that also took a long time. I am relatively young, but I felt fatigued. In addition, whenever I climbed to the second floor, I was out of breath. My sending forth righteous thoughts could not achieve good effects, and I also could not concentrate when studying the Fa. Master sent me a hint to help me realize that what affected my cultivation were laziness and the attachment of seeking a comfortable life.

My house was responsible for supplying truth-clarification materials, and I was the local coordinator. I was very busy every day clarifying the truth. My laziness and the attachment of seeking a comfortable life were growing bigger and bigger without my awareness.

These attachments were hiding within my dignified project of saving people, and they also hid in my cultivation. It was like a slow-acting poison, which could not be easily noticed. It made me lazy and slowed my pace; it also prevented the truth-clarification project from moving forward. I developed a feeling of waiting and depending on others. However, I did not recognize any of these things.

My laziness and the attachment of seeking a comfortable life destroyed my will to cultivate forward diligently and tried to drag me down.

I recalled that when I had obtained the Fa, my child was still small. Every day, I needed to go to his kindergarten four times to pick him up and drop him off. I also needed to provide a change of clothes for him and to cook three meals a day. After dinner, I would put my child on my back and go to the practice site to study the Fa and practice the exercise. Even strong winds and rain could not deter me. When I arrived home, it would be after 10 p.m. After my child was asleep, I would very diligently continue to study the Fa. Every day at 4 a.m, I would join a group of practitioners to practice the standing exercises. At that time, I could manage to finish practicing all five exercises every day.

Seventeen years have passed, and my child has grown up and no longer requires me to worry about him and to care for him. He also can help me with doing some house chores, printing Dafa materials and other things. My family’s financial situation has also become better, and I do not need to work the whole day like before.

Recently, I got busy printing truth-clarification materials and doing other things. I could not even finish reading one lecture of Zhuan Falun a day; sometimes I was only able to read one or two pages. I used to practice five sets of exercises daily, but now I only practiced four sets of exercises each day, which gradually reduced to three, two and then just one set. The time I spent on sending forth righteous thoughts was also reduced. I was busy clarifying the truth, but I deviated from the right cultivation state. I treated doing things as cultivation. During the busy time, I neglected to cultivate myself and let the laziness and the attachment of seeking a comfortable life grow.

Master sent hints to enlighten me. I suddenly realized this as if I woke up from a dream. I was very surprised and thought: How could I have allowed myself to become like this? I felt ashamed. I looked within and found the existence of dangerous phenomena in my cultivation. I also found many human attachments.

Master said:

“Only if one can persevere and continually forge ahead does it amount to true diligence. It’s easy to talk about, but putting it into action is tremendously difficult. That is why it’s said that always cultivating as if you were just starting will surely result in achieving your ultimate rank.” (“Fa Teaching at the 2009 Greater New York International Fa Conference.”)

“Right now, the evil in other dimensions has been badly decimated, and its ability to control people has waned. So, for Dafa disciples, things overall have become ever more relaxed and comfortable. But as things get more comfortable, the pressure lessens; and when the pressure is lessened, it’s apt to lead to a desire for comfort, to wanting a little more ease, to relaxing a little bit, and to seeking some relief. But the reality is, each Dafa disciple’s life has been tightly wed to, like links in a chain, his cultivation. So when you relax yourself, it amounts to relaxing in your cultivation.” (“Fa Teaching at the 2009 Greater New York International Fa Conference.”)

I tried to instill Master’s words in my mind very sincerely. I realized the danger of my laziness and the attachment of seeking a comfortable life. I decided to strongly remove all kinds of attachments and rectify myself in the Fa. I shall walk fast on the path of cultivating to godhood. I shall cultivate myself well while doing the three things to save more sentient beings.