(Clearwisdom.net) In a dream I had last night, a person who was standing on the rooftop of a tall building was about to jump. I do not recall where I was standing, except it felt like I was watching him from a distance. No one tried to stop the person from jumping. A while later, he did jump. It seemed that there were some people on the ground with a stretcher who tried to reach the jumper and rescue him. But too many people crowded the streets, and the ones carrying the stretcher were hampered. I watched the scene unfold without compassion, and commented: "This is truly something. Apparently only two people are needed to bring the stretcher over. But so many people were around hampering the process." I said these words without a trace of of benevolence in my mind. When I woke up, I realized that the situation involving the person on the roof was similar to the cultivation state of a fellow practitioner, and the way I treated this practitioner was with the same ambivalence I expressed in the dream.
The fellow practitioner has been in a difficult tribulation for almost five months, and has been unable to upgrade himself. When he first started to have difficulties, I would listen to him and look inward with him. I took the opportunity to look within myself too. As time went on, I gradually lost patience, feeling that the fellow practitioner did not study the Fa well enough. I also thought it was useless sending forth righteous thoughts for him. He has been left on his own for a long time.
I began to cultivate thanks to this fellow practitioner, who spent a great amount of effort guiding me into Dafa. Now he is faced with tribulations from the old forces. Although he did not do well with some of his tests in the past, I should not have left him to face these difficulties alone. Practitioners are one body. When a practitioner loses the chance to cultivate, he will not be saved and neither will the countless sentient beings that correspond to him in the cosmos. After thinking about this, I realized many of my attachments: being selfish, cold, afraid of failing, seeking comfort, attachment to fear, being picky, etc. With so many attachments, I have much work to do as a practitioner.
There is no distinction between true cultivators about who is worthy of consummation. Practitioners are one body. Only when we regard ourselves as one body, think and act righteously, and completely reject and destroy the old forces' arrangements, can we progress together. We can then help Teacher rectify the Fa, save sentient beings, and fulfill our prehistoric vows.
