(Clearwisdom.net) A practitioner who seldom came to Fa study showed up at a recent group study. He told us, "Practitioner A has gone out of the city to run some errands. He was responsible for downloading Minghui Weekly from the internet. I do not know how to download, thus I would like to request you all to help."
Later I reminded this practitioner that he should pay attention to cultivation of speech. As he accidentally told us what practitioner A was responsible for, it was not good for practitioner A's safety. However he disagreed, "We should have trust amongst practitioners." During our conversation, he revealed that he was involved in the typesetting of the book Zhuan Falun. Once again, he "accidentally" told us the things he was responsible for.
With respect to this, I expressed my viewpoint that there was no need for him to let us know these things. But he said, "I do not tell just anyone, I only tell people that I trust."
This kind of understanding is perhaps shared by a handful of practitioners, and I feet that this is a result of not understanding the Fa clearly:
1. We should be mindful of safety and practice cultivation of speech
Master said,
"Cultivators, you know, need to think about others no matter what it is they are doing, and even more so should they think about Dafa. So don't be upset when somebody doesn't disclose something to you. Some projects can't be discussed in big meetings, they can't be known to everyone."
"So with some things we can't have a lot of people involved. As Dafa students you have to be understanding of every student." ("Teaching the Fa at the 2004 International Fa Conference in New York")
2. Safety issues should not be based on what we feel
Master had stressed the importance of safety many times, thus the issue of safety is a requirement of the Fa. We can only follow the requirements of the Fa. We cannot say that today we feel very safe, and thus not pay attention to safety issues, then tomorrow we feel not so safe and then we start paying attention. Or that "I feel that this person has cultivated well," "The person is very strong-willed, even if he gets into trouble, he will not disclose what he knows about me..." We cannot use such superficial feelings to judge whether we disclose things or not. We should see things from the standpoint of the Fa and use the Fa as the standard. Things that should not be said, should not said to anyone, at any time.
March 8, 2006
