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Eliminate complacency and show-off mentality
Attachments to complacency and showing-off should be eliminated in Dafa cultivation. Yet, I had not previously realized how seriously I had problems these attachments until two recent incidents. It's time to get rid of them.
First incident: On the eve of December 25, 2009, my article for 6th Internet Experience Sharing Conference of China was being published, and I was very excited. I had also started to print copies of Minghui Weekly, when the printer began having paper jamming problems all of a sudden. I realized very quickly, however, that the true problem was my attachment to complacency. So, in my mind I said to the machine, "It's my fault for having an impure heart, making our field unclean, causing you to get hurt, I must correct myself." I took out the jammed paper, restarted the machine, and everything functioned normally again. Doing sacred things, Dafa practitioners must have a pure mind, otherwise problems will occur.
Second incident: One day when leaving the home of fellow practitioner A, to go to the home of practitioner B, I blurted out, "Fellow practitioner B enjoys my visiting her, because each time before I leave she always asks me to come back frequently. When I got to fellow practitioner B's she was just on the phone, so I told her to keep on talking and I could wait in the living room. Something like forty minutes slipped by, but she was still talking enthusiastically on the phone--I began wondering if she had forgotten about me? Thinking about what I had said at fellow practitioner A's home, I began examining my subconscious thoughts. How well was I really studying the Fa, and how high was my understanding really? Wasn't fellow practitioner B's abnormal behavior to eliminate my show-off mentality? I gave thanks in my heart for Teacher's hint and fellow practitioner's help, enabling me to recognize my human notion and to decisively get rid of it.
Teacher had already said, "The desire to show off plus the attachment of zealotry are most easily exploited by the demonic part of your mind." (Essentials for Further Advancement)
Cultivation of Speech
By a practitioner Li Qing in China
One day I had a feeling that a fellow practitioner seemed to not be telling me the truth. I wanted to find an opportunity to talk to her about this. As I was having lots of thoughts about this, I opened up Zhuan Falun where the lecture of "Show-Off Mentality" appeared right in front of my eyes, making me examine myself immediately. I was shocked to find that I still hadn't eliminated the attachments of showing-off and jealousy after all these years of cultivation. Although I tried very hard recently to control them, why were they still with me? And how should I go about getting rid of them completely?
Taking another look at my show-off mentality, I found that it appeared whenever I spoke. Whenever I saw fellow practitioners doing things differently than me, I liked to express my opinion, thinking that my way was always better than theirs--subconsciously, I would show off unknowingly.
As a matter of fact, the path for each Dafa practitioner is unique; how could I require others to be the same as me, whereas others' inborn quality, ability of understanding, conditions, and their surroundings were different. When I felt I didn't hear the truth, that feeling came from human notions and thought karma, and basically it wasn't from the true self, which is good-natured. It deviated from the Fa--fellow practitioners should cooperate with one another and there shouldn't be any suspicion amongst us. I should not worry about who's not telling the truth, and my suspicions don't really mean anything. Even if there might be problems with some fellow practitioners, there ought to be a reason behind it. I should have an understanding with an enlarged capacity, and be selfless to better cooperate with the whole body. For mutual upgrading of our Xinxing, we should share our experiences, rather than point fingers or apply pressure to other practitioners.
Showing off is a poor state of mind. When I got rid of this attachment, my mind felt suddenly brighter.
February 2, 2010
