(Clearwisdom.net)
A short while ago Clearwisdom.net published an article entitled "My Understanding of 'Benevolent Resolution'," in which the author talked about how he resolved his relationship with lives to whom he was indebted by paying them back nicely.
The article described the author's experience that the author had while sending forth righteous thoughts, in resolving issues with lives whom he had wronged before. The article brought up some controversies among practitioners. Here I want to discuss a few problems that this article raises regarding our proper belief in Master and in the Fa.
First I want to discuss how a practitioner should treat what he sees with his Third Eye. Master pointed out long ago,
"It doesn't matter whether your Third Eye is open, whether you've seen something, or whether some abilities come out, you can't talk about our Falun Dafa based on what you've seen. The few little things you see at your level are really way off, and it's far from the true meaning of the Law we're teaching." (Zhuan Falun)
"Of late, some assistance centers have asked those whose Third Eye (tianmu) are said to be open to examine students' cultivation. Everything those people have seen is in fact false and illusory."
"It was wrong for him to examine Dafa disciples in the first place. The person in charge who asked him to examine students also didn't follow my words." (Essentials for Further Advancement).
As a matter of fact, no matter what a practitioner sees with his Third Eye, he should use it to encourage himself to work harder in cultivation. The author of the article "My Understanding of 'Benevolent Resolution'" absolutely acted correctly in his looking inward by inferring what a fellow practitioner saw. But if he thus became attached to what one sees with his Third Eye, and even uses it to discuss some situations in the Fa-rectification, or uses it as a guideline for certain behaviors, then he has deviated from Master's teachings.
In reality, this has exposed a problem regarding one's proper belief in Master and the Fa. We need to ask: If a practitioner's problems can be completely resolved through what is seen with one's Third Eye, why does Master not simply inspire him or even let him see it directly? It probably was true that the author of the article resolved his problems with his enemy nicely in the end, and his looking inward and giving up the attachment was one of the main reasons that he was able to do so. But the true process and its inner contents may not be what he thought. As a mater of fact, a practitioner is unable to do anything without Master controlling things in an all-balancing and encompassing way. Some practitioners generated questions regarding sending forth righteous thoughts. To put it simply, if the evil we are eliminating can still be saved, then eliminating them would not be benevolent. Why then would Master ask us to send forth righteous thoughts? The Fa that Master taught has immeasurable wisdom and content. Much of it may not be clearly understood now, or ever, by practitioners. Unconditionally believing in what Master says, and always putting the Fa above one's own understanding is the true guarantee for salvation of sentient beings.