(Minghui.org) Saturday is our group Fa study day. On Saturday morning, December 8, 2012, we did the exercises together. I felt a deep tranquility soon after I started the sitting exercise. Just as Teacher wrote in Zhuan Falun, I experienced
“...leaving only one’s own mind, a little thought that one is practicing here.” (Zhuan Falun)
I experienced a peaceful emptiness.
I then saw the following image: A giant Buddha was sitting in the center of many smaller Buddhas. The smaller Buddhas were sitting around the large Buddha, in vertical, circular layers upon layers. Each circular layer stretched out to the horizon, I could not see the end of each circle of Buddhas. Also, each smaller Buddha had a halo around his head. I was awed by this sacred and magnificent view. As I kept gazing at it, the image started fading. Another image appeared... the giant Buddha's face. A large teardrop was coming out of his left eye. It was akin to a transparent water drop coming down from a leaf after a rainfall, with a slender water thread following it. I tried to follow the teardrop to see where it landed.
The two images made me uneasy. After the sitting exercise, I described the scenes to fellow practitioners. Some practitioners said that the Buddha's tear might be for the loss of sentient beings who will be weeded out during the foretold disaster. Some practitioners voiced other ideas. I still had a heavy feeling in my heart. I couldn't help but say, “I wonder if the god in the tear is a Buddha or a Bodhisattva?”
The time for sending forth righteous thoughts then arrived, and when I sat in the lotus position, the Buddha's face appeared in front of my eyes. I could see clearly his facial features, even his hair. I immediately understood that the Buddha's tear was for those Dafa practitioners who could not return to their positions. Those disciples who could return were all staying near Teacher and were in their own worlds.
After sending righteous thoughts, I explained my understanding to follow practitioners. Out of sorrow, they were in tears. Teacher is so compassionate that he is worrying about the practitioners who have not cultivated well. Of the time Gods gave to us, there is not much left. Teacher does not want to lose a single disciple!
There are large gaps among practitioners, especially among us older practitioners. For instance, some practitioners are still suffering because their children did not get married, or other human sentiments. They have not let go of all kinds of human attachments, which adversely affect their doing well the three things. A few days ago, a practitioner who has practiced Falun Gong for more than ten years called me. She told me that she found a boyfriend (a non-practitioner). I could not say too much over the phone, so I just reminded her to be careful.
Teacher said in “Severing,” in Hong Yin Vol. II:
“Cultivation is not hard,
It’s attachments that are hard to part with.
When will you sever those many attachments?
All know the sea of hardship has no shore.
If your will is not firm,
The hurdles are like mountains.
How will you transcend this mortal life?”
Fellow practitioners, please wake up! Let us find our true selves. The big play is over. Now it is time for us to return to our real homes.
My understanding of the images is that Teacher is telling me not to drop out. After I enlightened to the meaning of the images, I began telling the practitioners I met about my understanding. However, I had not been at peace since the visions. Those two images keep appearing in my head. I thus felt that I must share the stories with more practitioners. I only started feeling relieved today after I finished writing this article. I realized that Teacher was asking me to write it to remind fellow practitioners to let go of human thinking, do well the three things, and return with Teacher to reach consummation.
