(Minghui.org) Many practitioners I know cultivate diligently and spend a lot of effort fulfilling their responsibilities. But I have observed a widespread problem, that is, their cultivation environment at home is not very satisfactory.
Some practitioners who have cultivated for 20 years still need to conceal their involvement with Falun Dafa around family members.
I can see their frustrations, and I want to share my thoughts on this.
To a cultivating practitioner, the tests from family are something everyone needs to go through. I am no exception.
I learned Dafa while in prison in 2015 and returned to mainstream society in 2018.
The first thing I wanted to do after finding such a wonderful practice was to tell my family members. The first one I told was my sister, since she believed in Buddha law and holds a position of authority in our large extended family. With her influence, essentially, no one expressed any objections. My daughter was the only exception. She was attending school out-of-town.
I had mentioned Dafa to her a couple of times indirectly, but she was heavily influenced by the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) slanderous propaganda. It was just too difficult for me to continue to talk with her about the matter. Three years passed since I'd initially approached her.
This year, my daughter came home for the New Year holiday. I thought that the window for my being able to broach the issue was coming to an end. But since she is my daughter, I had to try to save her.
A few days before she came home, I began to continuously send forth righteous thoughts to eliminate the bad elements influencing her.
My family members all cautioned me against talking to her about Dafa. They thought it was impossible for her to accept it.
I knelt before Master’s picture and prayed: “She is a child of a Dafa disciple. Although she has been influenced by CCP culture, she is a life that came here for the Fa. The power of Dafa can do anything.”
I begged Master to help save her. My daughter came home a few days later.
I felt sorry for her being so heavily influenced by the CCP and was determined to save her. I continued to send forth righteous thoughts and prayed to Master.
I then seized an opportunity to talk to her, and, surprisingly, she quit the CCP without much resistance.
I could not describe my happiness and wanted to cry. I kept thanking Master.
My daughter gradually began to read Dafa books after that, and I finally stopped worrying about her. I was deeply inspired by this incident.
Why did something everyone had thought was impossible become possible?
It's possible they were predicting things based on old concepts.
Every person who attains salvation, however, is saved by Master. As a Dafa disciple, one just needs to go ahead and reach out to others if one wants to save them; Master will arrange everything.
It would be unrighteous to pick and choose people to save based on preconceived notions. Only Master has the final say on whether or not someone is salvageable.
Master has said clearly:
“Saving people is just that, saving people, and to pick and choose would not be merciful.” (“Fa Teaching at the 2009 Greater New York International Fa Conference”, Collected Fa Teachings, Vol. IX)
Master sees a person's eternal life as a whole, whereas we only see a short span of it. So we are often confused by illusions. If we cannot use our innate nature to validate Dafa, the old forces will utilize our ordinary human side to keep interfering with us. Particularly when it comes to our closest family members.
So, in my personal opinion, one should not limit oneself.
Teacher said:
“I say that nothing is “natural,” nor is there any such thing as “coincidence”—everything has its cause.” (“Teaching the Fa at the Conference in Europe”)
Furthermore, Dafa disciples’ families are not formed arbitrarily. Some family members came here to learn Dafa and some may be here to help us elevate our xinxing. Either way, everyone deserves the opportunity to be saved.
If we can cultivate ourselves well, the old forces will have no loopholes to exploit us.
Once the bad factors behind our family members are eliminated, their state can change in a single thought, and our cultivation environment will become harmonious!
In a nutshell, one needs to cultivate oneself well.
Category: Improving Oneself
