(Clearwisdom.net) I visit the Minghui website (Chinese version of Clearwisdom.net) often to read practitioners' articles, which helps me see my shortcomings and where I fall short compared to fellow practitioners. Especially when I have been stuck in a certain state, reading a cultivation experience sharing article by a fellow practitioner can help me identify my problem immediately. The feeling that touches my heart, transforms into boundless motivation for further advancement in my cultivation.
My understanding was that Minghui website editors' work (or their cultivation environment) was similar to that of ordinary people's editorial departments. Although their purpose is fundamentally different from that of everyday people, they don't have the harsh cultivation environment as do the practitioners in China. Although the evil has attempted to sabotage the Minghui website, the editors are based overseas and out of reach of the Chinese government. After studying this specific piece of Fa teaching, I came to realize the difficulties facing Minghui editors. After reading the Fa, I was in tears and touched by the greatness of the Fa manifested in the selfless contribution by fellow practitioners working for Minghui. Only people who cultivate in Dafa can demonstrate selflessness like this. The fellow practitioners working overseas for Minghui are doing Dafa work, and keeping a very low profile in order to be considerate of the safety of practitioners in China, and for the safety of the website. Compared with fellow practitioners, I realized that the little things that I have done in validating the Fa were truly not worth mentioning. Why do I still have the attachment of showing off?
I have another understanding. In the past, I have followed the teaching that we should clarify the truth and save sentient beings, but did not have a deep understanding of the teaching. I have been passive, merely doing what I am told to do. I often think about this situation, and have asked myself why I am so passive, but don't have an answer or a clear mind about it. Today after studying this Fa teaching, I came to understand that it is also an issue of denying the old forces' arrangements. I realized that clarifying the truth and saving more sentient beings is in fact denying one of the old forces' arrangements. Teacher said,
"...with the result being that at every level the arrangement was that but one out of ten people on the earth would remain." ("Fa Teaching Given at the Fa Conference Marking the Tenth Anniversary of the Minghui Website's Founding")
Based on this Fa, we deny the old forces' arrangements if we can broaden the scope of sentient beings that we save and follow the teaching,
"It's not that I want to keep some specific amount. Rather, we should save as many as possible, and at a minimum half should be able to remain; or ideally, it could be seventy or eighty percent." ("Fa Teaching Given at the Fa Conference Marking the Tenth Anniversary of the Minghui Website's Founding")
Due to my limited cultivation level, please kindly point out any shortcomings.
September 19, 2009
