(Clearwisdom.net) Sharing experiences with others, I often heard about practitioners who donated lots of money to make truth clarification materials, and others who distributed many truth clarification materials over the course of a one year, etc. In other words, I got the impression I was being told that, "These practitioners are great, and we should all learn from them." I would like to share my opinion about this.

If these practitioners treat donating money as a condition for consummation, treat distributing material as the payoff for their good health, then they have made a big mistake. Can money buy the status of a Buddha? It definitely can not. No matter how many materials have been given out, how many things we did for Dafa, these are all done for ourselves. Not a single one was done for others. We do things for Dafa, how can we bargain with Dafa? What a bad thought! How selfish! In order to save sentient beings, Master paid a lot. Compared to him we are insignificant. If we can not do well, how can we be qualified to be Master's disciples?

I didn't do well in the past. I treated doing things for Dafa as cultivation and attached importance to how much money was donated to the material center. This is a fundamental mistake. We are the particles of Dafa, doing things for Dafa is the same as doing things for ourselves. It's just like eating food and drinking water. Whatever we do for Dafa, we all have to make sure our fundamental or initial thoughts are correct. As long as we choose our cultivation way, we have no other choice. We must keep righteous thoughts and do righteous deeds. Do the three things well, and everything will come along by itself.