(Clearwisdom.net)
Master said in "Teaching the Fa at the Meeting with Asia-Pacific Students:"
"There's something you must pay attention to: you are validating the Fa, not validating yourselves. A Dafa disciple's responsibility is to validate the Fa. Validating the Fa is cultivation, and what you remove in the cultivation process is none other than the attachment to self; you can't, instead, go and exacerbate the problem of validating oneself, even if you do it unwittingly. When you're validating the Fa and cultivating, that is a process of removing self, and only when you do that are you really validating yourself. That's because ultimately you have to let go of all your human things, and only after you've let go of all your human attachments can you step out from the throngs of everyday people."
Recently, I have participated in some truth-clarifying projects but am not able to study the Fa as diligently as I did before. In most cases, I felt that I was doing Dafa work like an everyday person. Although I tried to look within myself, it was not enough. My heart was full of the selfishness of "validating myself." Therefore, Dafa work could not be done as purely as Master requires of us. Especially when I had some conflicts with fellow practitioners, I felt quite dismayed, as if I were covered by a layer of substance. My cultivation status was not very good, and I felt that many attachments were coming out. Looking at myself, I felt really frustrated.
Master told us in his article "A Person in Charge is Also a Cultivator:"
"Some have asked me 'Is this because those persons are incapable of doing the work?' I say that's how an ordinary human would put it. The crucial reason is that you, as coordinators and assistant coordinators of the centers, are cultivators who also have attachments that you can't abandon, and you need an environment to get rid of them. But when tensions arise among those in charge, you usually use the excuse of 'not cooperating in the work' or 'working for Dafa' to push it aside, instead of seizing this good opportunity to search within and improve yourself. As you didn't let go of your attachments or improve yourselves, the problem will recur again next time. This will surely interfere with your work for Dafa. Don't you know that the tensions among those in charge are arranged by me for you to improve yourselves? Yet you use your work for Dafa to hide the attachments that you should have improved upon, but haven't."
In the article "'Golden Buddha' with Master's Comment," a fellow practitioner states:
"Through studying the Fa I understood that there is another layer of meaning, that is, in reality Fa-rectification cultivation is not about what we have given up for Dafa, what we are willing to do for Dafa, or how much we have done -- it is about whether or not we can truly recognize the Fa-rectification's enormous inner meanings, and whether or not we know to treasure and humbly accept the future that Master has established for us. Without Master, there is no true Fa-rectification. Without Master's Fa-rectification, none of the old cosmos' sentient beings would have a future, and Fa-rectification is boundlessly merciful while at the same time incomparably sacred and solemn. Fa-rectification cannot be used by any being or human attachment."
Through studying the Fa, I feel Master's boundless benevolence and would like to follow all the arrangements by Master for my cultivation practice amid the Fa-rectification.
Of course, I should also pay attention to another issue, and that is not to indulge in my own problems in the name of "selflessness."
I had always thought: "If other practitioners are already talking care of a Fa-validating project, I do not need to participate any more." Because of this mentality, I overslept and missed an appointment with fellow practitioners, and in the end this led to conflicts. Then, instead of feeling regretful, I even felt pleased with myself for not being "selfish" and for giving my fellow practitioners the chance to build their mighty virtue. I did not realize how truly selfish I was and how attached to comfort and the desire to have a good sleep.