(Clearwisdom.net) Listening to "Ease and Comfort Is Worse than Poisonous Wine," the 13th episode of the traditional culture program on Minghui radio, caused me to deeply reflect.
An ordinary person pursues ease and comfort to relax and to become physically comfortable. However, for a practitioner, pursuing ease and comfort has the effect of relaxing one's cultivation. It allows one's attachments to grow, leaves the door open for interference and thus allows evil thoughts to also grow, and allows the desires attached to self that we have not eliminated to also grow. I see some fellow practitioners around me who have been idling along in their cultivation, having stayed at the same level for a dozen years and still not able to come out with a firm mind to fulfill their pledges. In my opinion, they can only be counted as "Dafa students" in name only and they only participate in the daily group Fa study. They rarely do the three things, and some even do none of them. When they have free time, they do not study the Fa and do not do the three things that a practitioner should do. They spend their time on their own things--sleeping, watching TV, or doing things they like to do to kill time. My words may be harsh, but as a fellow practitioner I have to speak up. At this point, each day is destined for Dafa practitioners to validate Dafa. Master said,
"......we can wait for you during the process in between. However, the true, great, final moment cannot be delayed." ("Fa Teaching Given at the 2010 New York Fa Conference")
Fellow practitioners, cultivation and Fa-rectification are extremely serious. Just a little bit of easing up on ourselves may result in a total waste of all of one's previous efforts. As an example, if a student does not complete his homework in time and does not study well, he will not get a good grade. If a farmer does not apply fertilizer to his land, does not water his land, does not remove weeds, and does not want to do anything, then his land will not be fertile and he will have no harvest. Master has taught us over and over again and encouraged us to be diligent over and over again. How can some of us still slack off? Some fellow practitioners even say, "I have nothing to do and have no pressure." It is not that you have nothing to do, it is that you have not regarded yourself as a practitioner. There are so many lives waiting for us to save them and there are so many lives being deceived by the lies. Why don't you come out quickly to tell people the facts, instead of using all kinds of excuses to cover up your fear and your attachment to ease and comfort? You say that you have grandchildren to take care of. I can tell you that there are practitioners I know who have talked about the truth face-to-face, handed out fliers, and gone in and out of police stations many times to save the police officers, taking their grandchildren with them. Their righteous thoughts and actions have really startled the evil and woken up the world's people. Another person may say that he is working and has no time. No company works their employees 24 hours a day, and compassionate Master has already made the arrangements for you to have time to validate Dafa--you just need to do your part. You can post fliers and banners and make phone calls. There are many ways to validate the Fa, and everyone walks his own path according to his own situation.
I hope that our fellow practitioners who have not come out yet can let go of their attachment to ease and comfort. It may be difficult to start. However, when you truly come out, you will find that the path is broad. Please do not let our attachments to ease and comfort cause us to miss the opportunity that we have awaited for thousands and thousands of years. It is time for our fellow practitioners to wake up! Please forgive me, I am somewhat anxious today, and some of my words may sound harsh.
