(Clearwisdom.net) One day when we were doing experience sharing over the Internet, not long after the sharing started, the website had a problem. I immediately called for help. During the period of about 10 minutes that it took to contact people, many strange things happened. While waiting for things to be restored to normal, each practitioner who participated had a different reaction. We had to wait quite a while before we could continue our experience sharing. I thought that this situation was not accidental.
After I exchanged experiences with the other practitioners, I reflected on what had happened and realized that everyone had some negative thoughts about the experience sharing conference and some did not even want to participate. Our negative thoughts affected the energy field. This experience should remind us to look inside ourselves.
In private conversations later, I learned that some practitioners had negative thoughts about the experience sharing. The reasons were varied. One practitioner did not like another practitioner. Others did not like or did not understand the topic of discussion. Others were too busy with other Fa-rectification projects and did not want to take time for experience sharing. Others felt that the group sharing atmosphere was awkward. Everyone held attachments and did not want to participate in the experience sharing.
We all ignored the fact that this is the cultivation path our Master arranged for us and this was an opportunity to make progress in cultivation. Master answered a practitioner's question during "Teaching the Fa at the 1999 Western U.S. Fa Conference":
"....it's because you're all in the midst of cultivation and all have your attachments and things you can't let go of. Perhaps you're right or perhaps you're not right. Your being wrong might cause you to see another person's being right as being wrong; your being right might also cause you to see another person's being wrong as being right."
I have seen all these situations. Master said that it is not coincidental to see contradictions, and witnessing conflicts is an indication that we have our own attachments to address. When we truly calm down and study the Fa, we find that we affect each other! When one practitioner sends out a negative message, it will affect everyone, including me. We are one body. If we feel that the field is not good and we are part of the field, how could we say that it has nothing to do with ourselves? A good experience sharing environment needs all the practitioners who participate to make the effort and not depend on one person to maintain a good field, because we are all a part of it.
Sometimes I think that I don't want to participate in experience sharing exchanges. However, for the sake of the whole body, when the group has an experience exchange conference, if we all don't participate and exchange ideas, it will have a bad effect on future Fa-rectification activities. At the time, I thought I had let go of my self and was considering things from the viewpoint of the whole body. I did not realize that my mood actually caused loopholes! Because I did not see things from the Fa's point of view, I could not truly lift myself up and let myself participate in the sharing with my purest heart. In similar experience sharing conferences, if all practitioners carry righteous thoughts in their hearts, whether they participate or not, I believe that it will have a positive effect.
From another perspective, the old forces may take advantage of our uncomfortable hearts and we won't even realize it. The evil is afraid of being exposed. Fa-rectification period cultivation is very serious. We cannot let our minds deviate even a bit. Otherwise, not only will we not cultivate ourselves well, but we will also negatively affect our divine mission to save sentient beings. If those sentient beings having a predestined relationship with Dafa are not saved in time, we will be ashamed before Master and ashamed before ourselves. How then can we be qualified Fa-rectification period Dafa practitioners? The Fa-rectification situation is so important. Not only do we have Fa-rectification projects to do, but we also cannot fall behind in personal cultivation because it is not only for our own consummation that we cultivate, but also for the sentient beings that have placed great hope in us.
June 27, 2005