(Minghui.org) I encounter things every day that I don’t know how to handle, and I work on them bit by bit and guide myself using the principles of Falun Dafa.
Before looking inward for shortcomings, I would often be in a sad mood. After looking inward and understanding something, I would feel Master’s grand compassion. It is the process of Master’s painstaking efforts to save us.
Starting to Think for the Whole
During recent events, I gradually learned to think of the entire group instead of just from the perspective of one practitioner.
Under Master’s arrangement, some projects I was involved in were mainly done as individuals. As long as one is brave enough to break through his fear, he can go out and do whatever needs to be done, such as distributing brochures about Falun Dafa. Master does not stop us and let us experience an unforgettable magnificence.
However, I have recently seen that some projects won’t have good results by simply relying on a single person, even if one bravely moves forward. In some efforts and situations, everything must be arranged because it involves one's family, a good environment with fellow practitioners, and so on. This finally gave me a perspective of considering the entire group.
As a child, I was spoiled by my family. I was born with an arrogant personality, and my heart was not broad enough. While doing things, my thinking focused on myself. I didn’t come to understand the psychology of others, and I didn’t understand the concept of an overall consciousness. I thus developed a reputation for having poor emotional intelligence.
Coming to Understand the Layers of Issues
In cultivation, Master helped me open up my thinking and perspective, layer by layer. For example, I realize there are many layers of things that I need to straighten out.
The first layer is internal. We must distinguish inner attachments and remove them. Often this process is complicated enough.
The second layer is the one closest to oneself, s family environment, one’s relationships with others, and the thoughts of family members and fellow practitioners.
The third layer is among fellow practitioners. Every practitioner has his own system, his own way of thinking, his own righteousness, and his own areas that have not yet been fully assimilated to the Fa. There is a lot of understanding and tolerance needed for us to look at each issue positively.
There is another layer, the external environment. For example, some people are controlled by evil factors. These people also came for the Fa, but they were deceived by the old forces into playing the role of persecuting Dafa practitioners. Among them may be agents and personnel employed by the Chinese regime who have participated in the persecution to varying degrees.
Using Compassion and Tolerance to Think of the Entire Body
Dafa disciples treat people with great compassion, clarifying the truth to help free them from the control of the evil communist specter, helping to eliminate the communist specter with righteous thoughts, and trying to save them. To save them, we must tolerate them while giving them a chance to have good thoughts, and at the same time try to keep them from committing crimes against Dafa and practitioners.
All this requires not only tolerance and compassion but also righteous thoughts.
As these ideas opened up layer by layer, I suddenly realized that the lives in a Buddha's world are surrounded by the compassion and tolerance of the Buddha. The larger the Buddha's world, the more beings it includes.
In the process of Dafa disciples’ inward cultivation, the deeper the compassion is in the heart, the more beings can be tolerated and saved, the greater the future achievement will be in the new universe, and the larger the world will be. I feel that I can finally consider everything from the perspective of the entirety.
In the entire group, even if fellow practitioners have inadequacies, it is not entirely a problem. It is important to learn to consider the feelings of others, to consider the overall situation, and to work together with everyone to improve. The entire group is then one whole, and we can complete our work.
When encountering difficulty and interference, such as facing people who seem to be controlled by the evil, if you can think of it, try to save that precious and salvageable life. Compassion can dissolve the evil and disintegrate the distracting factors.
Conversely, if you ignore it, fight hard, or just think about doing your own thing without thinking about how to consider the true future of their lives, it is a manifestation of lack of compassion. In this state, one likely has little energy behind their efforts to validate Dafa.
Consideration for the whole, compassion, the energy of Dafa practitioners, and the effect of saving people are all linked together.
Being able to consider things from the perspective of the whole is also a manifestation of learning to consider others and being more compassionate.
Category: Improving Oneself
