(Clearwisdom.net) Recently I heard that a practitioner had asked the question in his sharing, “How shall we board the Fa boat in 2012?” While the previous part of his sharing was on how to do well, he then asked the above-mentioned question. Another practitioner and I talked about this and he told me that some practitioners indeed have such thoughts. I was quite shocked.
Japan was struck by its strongest earthquake in at least a century. The TV showed scenes of the ensuing tsunami engulfing everything in its path; countless people died before they had a chance to escape. I asked myself, “Dafa disciples are the only hope sentient beings have to be saved. What have I done to save them?” Some Dafa practitioners' minds always fluctuate whenever they encounter something and they always think of themselves first. Isn't this one of the reasons that we are encountering obstacles in saving people?
In my understanding, if there is destruction in the old cosmos, it is the old forces' arrangement of formation-stasis-degeneration-destruction of the old cosmos. Master expounded on this in “The Blessings From Dafa,”
“Master has spread Dafa for ten years. Even in the human world, predestinations have been greatly changed. The comet catastrophe predestined in history is no more, the third world war has been averted, and the peril in 1999 from the cycle of formation-stasis-degeneration-destruction of Heaven and Earth will never recur. The Fa-rectification of the human world is on the verge of arriving.”
Dafa strives to save more sentient beings, the lives that will enter the future. Fa-rectification is taking place here. The level of human beings will likely exist forever; therefore, there should not be any sayings like “the end of the world.”
We should carefully ponder the various current disasters taking place. In some places disasters are a result of people's huge karma, but if a disaster takes place where Shen Yun will perform to save people, such a large-scale natural or man-made disaster does not leave any warning for human beings. When the big tsunami hit in South Asia in 2004, hundreds of thousands of people were gone at once. Wasn't this done by old forces to prevent those lives from being saved? We should definitely not be attached to any prophecies in the human world or everyday people's movies. These things can offer everyday people food for thought; or they can be saved by Dafa in the face of life-and-death catastrophes. Some disasters may have occurred because the old forces saw that Dafa disciples were attached to time, prophecies, or Consummation, and therefore arranged obstacles to block us from saving sentient beings.
We should also think it over from the perspective of cultivation, we should look within and see if we need to improve ourselves in some respect.
I remember reading an ancient cultivation story, “Three Dead Tree Branches.” A cultivator in the past was close to completing his cultivation. He saw a criminal at the gallows and thought, “This man deserves it.” Because of this one incorrect thought, he couldn't complete his cultivation. His master gave him three dead tree branches and had him place them under his body while he slept. He could only complete his cultivation when the dead branches sprouted.
We should look within, and check if we have cultivated ourselves to have genuine compassion and genuine selflessness.
Before the conclusion of Fa-rectification, compassionate Master still gives chances to those who have committed crimes against Dafa due to their ignorance, let alone those who haven't learned about the truth. These beings who placed infinite hope in Fa-rectification came to the human world and are anxiously waiting for Dafa to save them. Sentient beings have been waiting for millions of years. Once they lose this chance, it will be lost forever. Cultivators are saddened upon seeing such a large-scale loss of lives due to earthquakes and tsunamis. If we are truly compassionate and wish to be responsible for people's futures, we should definitely not be attached to prophecies or disasters. Instead, we should cultivate ourselves well, save more people, and put our hearts into saving people, leaving no loopholes for the evil factors to take advantage of, and thus leaving no regrets in our own cultivation.
