(Clearwisdom.net) Along with the Fa-rectification progressing deeper and deeper, the time that's left for us to save sentient beings is also becoming more and more pressing, and yet there are still so many beings in the vast cosmos waiting for us to save them. During this process, Dafa practitioners have been using all kinds of ways to help the public to learn about the truth, reflecting the wisdom of Dafa practitioners and their future mighty virtue. However, the old forces are also trying all kinds of things to prevent Dafa practitioners from saving these precious lives, and their tactics have also become more and more devious. Many of them are in fact taking advantage of our practitioners' own notions and attachments. Therefore, it has become more difficult to make a breakthrough in Fa-rectification. Recently, many practitioners find that it is quite easy to resolve external issues, and yet, we tend to exhaust ourselves over the divergence of views among ourselves. The following is an analysis on a few common forms of interference:
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Lacking righteous thinking and always thinking about negative effects whenever we come across difficulties
When fellow practitioners put
forward a very good way of clarifying the truth, some practitioners always
first think if such a suggestion would cause any negative effects. On the
surface, such thinking seems to be responsible to the Fa, whereas in fact it
has ignored the power of Dafa practitioners' righteous thoughts. The thoughts
of Dafa practitioners create energy and the thoughts of Dafa practitioners as
a whole will determine something's outcome. Guided by such a way of thinking,
we tend to consider problems that might occur and what we should do if they do
occur. We thus fall into the reasoning of everyday people, weighing the pros
and cons and making sure that nothing could go wrong. This very way of
reasoning originates from human notions, and with such a way of thinking, many
good suggestions have been rejected, which has brought many losses to Dafa. As
Dafa practitioners, having full confidence in ourselves and in the ability of
other practitioners is in fact believing in the mighty power of the Fa,
because Dafa practitioners' abilities come from the Fa. If something is
beneficial to sentient beings, then we should go ahead and do it, and if we
keep righteous thoughts, then the mighty power of the Fa will manifest during
the process. There have been many such instances. During the process of
validating the Fa, many practitioners have had such experiences that when we
did not do something well, when we reflect on them afterwards, we can see that
it was because we did not do it with our hearts. On the other hand, when we
did things with our hearts, then even though we appeared to have many
difficulties, the results were usually surprisingly good. This is the
difference between Dafa practitioners and everyday people, because we have
Master and many Buddhas, Taos and Gods looking after us, and all that they
look at is our hearts. -
Practitioners being attached to the attachments of other fellow practitioners, causing interference to truth clarification
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Improving as a whole is mistakenly understood as unifying our thinking
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Putting excessive emphasis on specific details in the project, causing the whole project to be given up as a result
The old forces can see very clearly each practitioner's attachments. After years of cultivation, many practitioners still have various attachments that they find hard to let go of from time to time. If when a practitioner who still has personal attachments puts forward a suggestion or organizes a large scale Fa promotion activity, many others, instead of thinking about the suggestion from the perspective of the Fa to see if it would be beneficial to Dafa, are obstructed by the attachments this practitioner still has. They judge the suggestion based on this practitioner's attachments. Then, they cannot view the suggestion objectively and tend to become attached to the attachments of others. This is not rational. As for fellow practitioners' attachments, we can talk with them in person based on the Fa principles, and as for their suggestions, we should consider them only from the perspective of the Fa, instead of focusing on other practitioners' attachments and forgetting our mission.
The reason is very simple, yet in practice, very often our own human notions interfere with us. What is shown on the surface level is that we do not show any interest in the suggestions put forward by practitioners whom we think still have human notions and prejudices, and we tend to ignore them and be indifferent towards their ideas. We do not think carefully about what they say, or ask someone else who has no interest in the suggestion to take over the responsibility. Because we are Dafa practitioners doing Dafa work, not everyday people doing Dafa work, the amount of attention and care that practitioners show, either those involved or those not directly involved, as well as the state they are in will have a direct bearing on the outcome. If we have an impure heart, then more often than not, we cannot do it as well as we wish. On a more in-depth level, every Dafa practitioner is walking towards his or her Consummation, so when a practitioner puts forward a suggestion or a project, it may very well be that this is what the Fa requires him to do. Even though he still has certain xinxing problems, we should offer our help with compassion instead of rejecting them or pushing them away. The true compassion of practitioners is not the same as keeping on good terms with one another like everyday people; instead, it is shown by our sincerity and kind understanding towards others, the kind tolerance we demonstrate in the face of other practitioners' mistakes, as well as our trust in fellow practitioners that they will be able to cultivate well. This in fact requires us to relinquish everyday people's emotion so that we will not look at things from the angle of everyday people.
The manifestation of this problem is very hard to perceive. When some events occur, there are always some practitioners who do not consider first how to make use of the event to clarify the truth and to save more sentient beings. Instead, they suggest that it's an opportunity for us to improve as a whole and then try to unify our understandings of the event. This is stressing unity on the surface, and not going along the same general direction under the guidance of Fa principles in a variety of ways. Those practitioners' suggestion sounds very reasonable, but in fact it's very dogmatic and unwise. It doesn't accord with the principle of cultivation and has embedded in it many notions formed in the human world.
Dafa practitioners come from different realms and systems. Therefore, their ways of thinking are much different, and their ways of validating Dafa may be different as well. Of course, our goal is the same. Under the same general goal, we have manifested our individual divine power and accomplished so many magnificent deeds by volunteering, cooperating, and coordinating among us. It is indeed the manifestation of the mighty power of the Fa. If we only focused on our own improvement, we would deviate from the foundation and create interference. Reflected on the surface is this mentality: "It doesn't matter whether the work to validate the Fa is done well or not, because improving ourselves from it is the most important." As a matter of fact, if we truly do the work out of an unselfish and pure heart, we will naturally do it well and at the same time, everyone within the body will improve from their own standpoint. There would not be any such situation where everyone has improved from it but the work to validate the Fa has not been done well.
Because our standpoint has shifted, we would always tend to discuss our improvement, individual attachments, and individual opinions. In the end, we find that the truly important work to clarify the truth was not done in time. Then we would tell fellow practitioners not to be attached to the issue itself, and that the most important thing is to give up our attachment to the matter and improve ourselves. Such episodes have happened many times, and we have left many things undone that could have been accomplished, and we have missed many good opportunities that could have been well utilized. We didn't do what we should do, which, from the viewpoint of the Fa, only makes the old forces happy, not Master. Yet we thought we had improved from it. Indeed it is another form of interference from the old forces. It has a bearing on the attachments of some fellow practitioners who tend to go to extremes and become attached to experience sharing.
There is a way of thinking among everyday people, which is to give careful consideration to all the details. This way of thinking has severely obstructed practitioners in that when an incident occurs, too much time is wasted on thinking about details, and those fellow practitioners involved would bring up many specific concerns and doubts, thus further influencing other fellow practitioners. This often led to many good suggestions getting very little positive response, and with our righteous belief shaken. There have been many such instances. As a matter of fact, we are creating trouble for ourselves, and we are using human notions to block our divine wisdom. Master said in a poem, "Tranquil but think not----Mystical wonders will come out." [From "In the Dao", Hong Yin, un-official translation] Sometimes, the divine wisdom that comes out is very simple -- straight into our minds without deep thought. When we get bogged down in too many specific details, we will find difficulties one after another like a net that entangles us. The only way to solve the problem is to let go of all the worries and concerns, to study the Fa with a calm mind, then reconsider the matter anew. What we see then will be true wisdom.
The above points are only a summary from what I have observed in practice. There are more tactics utilized by the old forces that we need to break through with a calm mind. If we cannot distinguish them, the old forces will take advantage of us at any moment without our noticing it. In Fa-rectification, there are criteria to measure every being. If any obstruction to the progress of Fa-rectification is caused due to our own individual problems, the sin and karma generated is also very large.
The above is my personal understanding. Please kindly point out anything improper.
