(Clearwisdom.net) As our cultivation continues to develop, believing in Master and Falun Dafa is getting more important. This is a point our Fa study group has developed further understanding about. In daily life and during the process of clarifying the truth and rescuing lives, whether we can truly believe in Master and the Fa directly decides the effect of our salvation activities. The old forces made detailed arrangements for every Dafa practitioner's words, deeds and thoughts. Master also made thorough arrangements for us. If we are not walking the paths Master has arranged, we are then inevitably and unconsciously falling into the old force arrangements.
As the Fa-rectification keeps moving forward, our every thought in daily life is becoming a contest between righteousness and evil, and is becoming a test that practitioners must face, and is reflecting a fundamental question whether we truly believe in Master and Dafa. At this critical moment, practitioners must uphold the principles of "Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance." Then can we uphold our righteous thoughts.
Take sleepiness as an example. If we slack off in the slightest, the demon of sleepiness will have the upper hand and make it difficult for us to stay awake when reading the Fa, make us muddle headed when sending forth righteous thoughts, and make us unable to maintain the schedule to send forth righteous thoughts. Fa study and understanding the situation based on the Fa enabled us to develop a clear understanding that sleepiness is actually a result of evil taking advantage of our attachment to the pursuit of comfort; thus, evil beings are interfering with us. We then firmly eliminated the sleep demon. We kept sending forth righteous thoughts until the sleepiness was totally gone. When we read the Fa now or send forth righteous thoughts, we are clear headed and energetic.
With regard to eating, if one didn't let go of his desire for tasty food, the desire would develop into a habit of eating and drinking extravagantly and lead to serious negative results. However, as long as we believe in Master and Dafa, eliminate the evil interferences, and keep our minds on the Fa, we will achieve "Eating, but caring not to taste--The palate's attachments severed." ("Abiding in the Dao" in Hong Yin)
If we maintain an ordinary mentality in the process of our daily work, we will fall into the habit of doing work for the purpose of work, and separating our cultivation and validation of Dafa apart from our daily job. When we believe in Master and Dafa and have the Fa in our minds at all time, we will be able to look at our job and our environment as a convenient opportunity to offer sentient beings salvation. We will naturally keep a compassionate mindset and make each of our words and deeds have an effect on rescuing lives. Even when we are using public transportation or walking down the street, we should leave our compassionate thoughts with those who are passing by and send our wishes for them to understand the truth into their minds.
Regarding the relationship between husband and wife--an ordinary mentality will trap us into ordinary people's desires. This may be true even for a couple who are both practitioners. The couple may even use their legal status as an excuse to hide their attachment. According to the Fa, the attachment of lust must be eliminated; otherwise, not only will the involved person not achieve consummation, he/she may even cause damage to the whole. Even though there is no problem of lust between a husband and wife, there is the problem of desire. This problem must also be resolved and can only be resolved when the Dafa practitioner's thoughts are based on the Fa.
About daily news: some practitioners crave to keep abreast of "the news." Driven by curiosity, desire for knowledge, and other ordinary people's mental habits, some practitioners often use the time that should be used to read the Fa and do the exercises to listen to the news, read newspapers, and watch TV. If they do so in China, they are unknowingly accepting the evil CCP's mind-poisoning. Some even developed the mentality of depending on ordinary people doing something for Dafa. When firmly believing in Master and Dafa, a practitioner follows Master's teachings and looks inside unconditionally; he/she puts reading the Fa in the first place and keeps assimilating into the Fa. He might listen and look at but not care much about ordinary people's news and takes it lightly. If he learns something new in daily life, he makes a judgment about it based on the Fa and uses the news as an additional aid to explain the truth and rescue lives. He does not learn the news for the purpose of satisfying a curiosity and a desire for knowledge, and he does not develop a dependency on ordinary people.
With regard to educating children, we do not behave as we did before--getting upset and easily disheartened when our children had problems. Instead, we regularly look inside for solutions, correct ourselves, and eliminate all evil interference with righteous thoughts. All the problems are then resolved. One time a practitioner's child was not obedient and made his parents quite angry. But when they recalled Master's teaching and looked inside for solutions they found their attachment. Then, their child who had never acknowledged any wrongdoing before went to them on his own initiative and admitted his mistake immediately. The problem was easily resolved.
Now when we hear about some fellow practitioners being arrested, we are not as afraid as we once were. Before, we would stop validating Dafa and think how to protect ourselves. Now we firmly believe in Master and Dafa and firmly place guarding the Fa in the first place. We pay attention to safety and eliminate the evil with righteous thoughts. We do not pause in our Fa-validation work; instead, we do the work better.
Practitioner A uses every possible moment to study the Fa and send forth righteous thoughts a dozen times a day, every day. Never mind that CCP agents followed and monitored her, she still bought a copy machine. She produces flyers and materials whenever she has time and makes use of every opportunity to distribute or post flyers. Because of her strong righteous thoughts, her husband, who works in a key CCP department and who had been opposing her doing Fa validation work, relented and reluctantly consented to her practicing Falun Dafa and doing Fa work. In the process of clarifying the truth, handing out flyers, and sending out mail, when the officials follow and search her, she is able to suppress the evil with her strong righteous thoughts, break through all the barriers, and move forward. Once she went through a strictly guarded gate with righteous thoughts and entered a yard. After she finished distributing flyers, someone discovered her on her way out and asked her, "What are you doing?" She said, "Nothing." She then thought, "I am rescuing lives. Why should I tell him I did nothing." She then said immediately, "I came for very important and urgent business." After that the person did not ask her anything more and stopped following her. She walked safely out of the gate.
Practitioner B is diligent in doing the three things. She uses all her savings for clarifying the truth and recently again helped several people with predestined relationships to start practicing Falun Gong. One fairly young person got cancer. Practitioner B taught the person to sincerely recite, "Falun Dafa is good, 'Truthfulness-Compassion -Tolerance' is good." When the person improved, the person developed greatly increased confidence. Then this practitioner explained the truth about Falun Gong to the person and taught the person to read Dafa books and do the exercises. As a result, the originally fast developing cancer stopped developing further and the tumor shrank. The patient's family also changed their attitude toward Dafa, and some of them have started practicing Falun Gong.
Practitioner C has a busy job but keeps diligently doing the three things. She is now fully utilizing her Dafa-granted talents and rescuing lives in large numbers. For security reasons, we will not reveal details of her Dafa work.
When practitioners come across anything, believing in Master and Dafa should be the number one righteous thought. In order to uphold righteous thoughts, we must persistently learn the Fa and cultivate ourselves.
The above are our experiences. Please point out any mistakes.
