(Minghui.org) When two fellow practitioners and I recently delivered some Falun Gong materials to another practitioner's home, we noticed that a family member of theirs, who was also a practitioner, had lost a significant amount of weight and we became concerned. He had been continuously thinking about a woman who had been calling him frequently over the past few days, and had become infatuated with her. He had lost his appetite and could not sleep well. He was also not focused on studying the Fa or doing the exercises. Realizing this, we offered him some suggestions to help improve his cultivation. However, our suggestions did not work. In retrospect, I realize that we all gave him advice as if that was his own problem, and that only he needed to change and improve.
After more thoughtful discussions, we came to a different understanding of what may be wrong. Master told us to look inward no matter what issues we encounter. Was it possible that the practitioner's troubles were related to the cultivation fields around the rest of us? Was it possible that there was the attachment of lust in our cultivation fields as well? If a practitioner's dimensional field was really righteous they would not be shown any impure events, because their pure and powerful thoughts would be enough to eliminate this interference. Master said, “... real Buddhas are guardians of the cosmos and are responsible for all righteous elements in the cosmos” (“Teaching the Fa at the Western U.S. Fa Conference”).
As we had come to learn about this practitioner's situation, we should take the opportunity to further cleanse our own dimensional fields by eliminating impure things and unrighteous thoughts. Therefore, we decided to send forth righteous thoughts together to eliminate any interference, keeping in mind that the attachment of lust was not an arrangement by Master and is aimed to ruin a practitioner's future. After sending forth righteous thoughts, the troubled practitioner was feeling much better and was able to eat a little. However, he and his family still need to continue sending forth righteous thought to assist in his full recovery.
From this experience, I understood a higher level of compassion. Finger pointing and analyzing a fellow practitioner's problems are actually the old cosmos' values of selfishness and egotism. The old forces want to eliminate sentient beings that they think are degenerate. However, in the eyes of higher beings, they have degenerated as well and also need to be eliminated. Master is leading us away from the limitations of the old cosmos and we are cultivating to become beings who are selfless and considerate of others. When we notice other practitioners' shortcomings, we should look inward to get rid of similar negative matter in our own dimensional fields, to help the practitioners who are interfered with to improve their understanding of the Fa, and to send forth righteous thoughts together for them to improve. This way we can improve rapidly as one body.
My current understanding of compassion is that it is a sincere understanding of another being's pain and suffering, and a consideration that their pain and suffering is also mine. Working for others is ultimately working for oneself because all lives are particles of the universe. Only when the universe's law is flawless and everlasting, can the lives in the universe be flawless and everlasting.
Master said:
Massive, powerful figures,
they gathered for the Great Current
Assuming different social statuses,
and different occupations
Dafa disciples are one body
Following Master in Fa-rectification,
working against sinister tides
(“Following Master” in Hong Yin III)
I have seen fellow practitioners, including myself, often blame others. This results in a lack of communication and understanding of one another, and the inability to work together when doing the three things that practitioners are supposed to do. I am grateful to Master for having guided me to enlighten and elevate from a state of being totally self-centered. I believe that Master's grand Fa-rectification is cleansing and sifting all unrighteous factors and leading sentient beings to a bright future.
