Get Rid of Hard-to-Detect Pursuits

(Minghui.org) As we elevate in cultivation, we become more sensitive and aware of our human notions and attachments. Sometimes as soon as they emerge, we can detect and get rid of them. But some are hard to recognize. Because we are not aware of them, they can cause us trouble.

One day a practitioner was coughing and had all of the typical symptoms of a cold. I asked him, “What's going on?” He said, “I got this way after I pursued something.” I asked, “How so?” He said: “I went to pick up some things yesterday. The seller said, 'It's very easy to catch a cold in this type of weather.' I agreed with him, 'Yes. It is very easy.' Not long after I said that, I started sneezing and had a runny nose.”

As we were talking, the practitioner realized that a cold was the result of karma and had nothing to do with the weather. After he denied the symptoms with righteous thoughts, they disappeared.

I often hear practitioners who are businessmen say: “I don't care how much money I make from my business. I am a cultivator. I don't pursue money. The purpose of my being here is to clarify the truth and save people.” That sounds very noble, but when we look closer, we find a hidden pursuit.

Saying that a business is not for making money goes against the principles of the human world, and this thinking will leave a gap for the old forces to take advantage of. The old forces will then try to keep you from making money, or they will make you lose money.

Many of the businesses owned by practitioners are not doing well. Perhaps the owners need to rectify some of their notions. Dafa disciples are blessed. If we have a righteous mind, human principles shouldn't restrain us.

Some practitioners say: “According to the industry standard, my store will lose money in the first year, break even the next year, and start to make money in the third year.”

Some practitioners know that this is only human thinking and try to deny it. However, they cannot completely negate it and so somewhat passively accept it. This is especially the case when their businesses aren't doing well. They use this standard as a reference. The old forces can see the hidden pursuit very clearly. As a result, they interfere and make the practitioners' businesses do even worse.

Dafa disciples certainly should treat saving people as the top priority. However, making money isn't equivalent to having an attachment to money. Money is useful in maintaining a stable life and validating Dafa. We shouldn't give the old forces an opportunity to persecute us financially.

Having a lot of money is fine. The more money we have, the more money we can spend on Dafa projects.

Once, a practitioner made a careless comment when seeing others with sickness karma: “I rarely burn off karma.” He spent the next several days in discomfort. One of the reasons for the discomfort was that he hadn't cultivated his speech. The deeper reason was that he hadn't changed his notions. He had evaluated the cultivation state of others from the standpoint of his human attachments.

When practitioners talk among one another, such remarks are often heard: “Look at you! You don't seem to age at all. You still look so young.” Then the other party responds modestly: “No way. I am getting old. Look at me. I have gray hair and am losing my vision.”

I personally think that practitioners should cultivate away such ordinary human modesty. Such responses can easily invite aging, causing one to age prematurely.

In other dimensions, everything is alive. If you acknowledge and reinforce that you are “old,” this can actually make you old, increase your wrinkles and gray hair, and deteriorate your vision.

Our cultivation school cultivates both mind and body. We need to clean out the demon of aging, sickness, and death from our field. When our cells are replaced by high-energy substances through our cultivation, we should look younger and better.

I carry my cell phone in my top pocket. A practitioner told me: “Cell phones emit radiation. It is not good for your heart.” I asked, “How do you know?” He said: “I used to carry my cell phone in my top pocket, too. After a while, I experienced discomfort in my chest.”

Master said,

“There are many Dafa disciples involved in doing scientific research. During experiments involving bacteria, when their hands accidentally got close to where bacteria were, it was discovered that the bacteria all died.” (“Teaching the Fa at the Fa Conference in Australia”)

If we put a cell phone there, can the cell phone kill bacteria? Of course not. In addition, our hands and bodies carry high-energy matter. Everything we touch shines. Our bodies are continuously assimilating to Dafa. The radiation of a cell phone cannot affect us.

However, once a practitioner thinks that it will cause an illness, the illness will come. The practitioner will then experience discomfort in his chest.

Master said: “I have said that matter and mind are one thing.” (“Teaching the Fa at the Fa Conference in Australia”)

Once we acknowledge a principle at a certain level, it will manifest at that level. The evil's persecution is pervasive. Every understanding of ours that is unrighteous may invite trouble.

For example, some practitioners have made comments about other practitioners who wrote the so-called guarantee statements after being tortured. They said, “If that were me, I wouldn't have written the statement even if I was beaten to death.” There have also been comments made when someone went to the hospital: “If it were me, I wouldn't have gone to the hospital no matter how painful it was.”

These types of comments are also a form of pursuit. They are very dangerous and may bring the so-called “tests” from the evil.