(Clearwisdom.net) Recently I have had a problem having sufficient righteous thoughts while clarifying the truth. More specifically, my mindset has been driven by how I feel about the security risk when I am doing something. For example, I would feel safe and at ease if there appeared to be no security risk. However, if I didn't feel safe, I would get worried and only be able to calm down after a period of time when I had made sure there was no interference. Although I realized that this was the attachment of fear and tried to remove this attachment, still I hadn't sufficiently upgraded my understanding of the Fa principles.
It is very dangerous and wrong for the feeling of safety and peace to come from the human mind rather than from the Fa principles. Only if we measure the state of doing things with Fa requirements and look at things with righteous thoughts is is right to feel secure and peaceful.
I didn't really realize how serious this problem was for a long time. Recently, through studying the Fa diligently, I suddenly found such unrighteous thoughts. I was frightened and thankful for Master's reminder.
In the past, I didn't see clearly this human attachment. Rather than saving people uprightly, I was always subconsciously worried that someone would see me and report me for clarifying the truth. Unconsciously I regarded this sacred action as something to be done surreptitiously. This is such an unrighteous thought. How could I do this? How could I get Master's and gods' help? There is nothing accidental. It must be coming from my cunning and cleverness as a human being. Several times I was terrified when I was almost involved when my fellow practitioners were persecuted. I have done many things to save people, but I didn't do it according to the Fa principles. As Master said,
“After doing a whole slew of things, you might find, if you look back upon them, that all of it was done with a human mindset. When it is a human being doing human things, and things are not being done with righteous thoughts, there won’t be any Dafa-disciple mighty virtue in those things. In other words, as gods see it, that’s just fooling around—not mighty virtue, or cultivation—even though you did do it. Then wouldn’t you say it was done in vain?” (“Dafa Disciples Must Study the Fa”)
One manifestation of my attachment was that when I read Minghui articles about our fellow practitioners managing to escape after being arrested, I would somehow doubt they did it due to righteous thoughts. I would guess that some old practitioners were released because the evil forces didn't want to cause trouble or the evil forces were careless. This was doubting the effectiveness of righteous thoughts. In essence, it was the manifestation of lack of confidence in Master and the Fa. As Master said,
“Do you realize something? My Dafa disciples, your righteous thoughts do have an effect. And the combined effect of each of you together is powerful beyond compare. The reason you can’t achieve such an effect is that your faith is lacking, and your righteous thoughts aren’t strong enough.” (“What is a Dafa Disciple”).
Digging deeply, I found that I didn't have enough confidence and righteous thoughts.
This attachment also prevented me from coordinating with other fellow practitioners unconditionally. It even made me concerned about the danger brought by fellow practitioners. This is the important reason that I couldn't unconditionally assimilate to the whole body, and it created obstacles for other fellow practitioners. This is exactly the manifestation of “Those people are among Dafa disciples but not in the Fa ...” (“Teaching the Fa at the Meeting with Asia-Pacific Students.” )
Now I have come to the understanding that, no matter how we clarify the truth or coordinate with fellow practitioners, as long as we don't have the attachment of fear or worries as human beings before and after we do things -- without any selfishness, just having the desire to save the sentient beings and assist Master in the Fa rectification -- then we will have a sense of peace and ease. This comes from the upgraded understanding of Fa principles and the righteous thoughts that the evil and demons cannot touch. We are also protected by Master and the Fa.
How can we obtain powerful righteous thoughts? I understand that it can be obtained by studying the Fa diligently and cultivating ourselves.
By studying the Fa diligently, we can upgrade our understanding of the Fa principles, hold our firm beliefs in the Fa, prompt ourselves to discover our shortcomings, and then remove them quickly.
By cultivating ourselves, we can remove attachments such as fear and doubt. Our true-selves will be revealed from time to time, and the belief in Master and the Fa will be strengthened. When doing things, we will have the thought of saving sentient beings, helping others, and assisting Master in Fa rectification, and therefore we will have powerful righteous thoughts.
When we have strong belief in the Fa and Master, the manifestation of this is that when we do things, we will feel how profound and extraordinary the Fa is and feel we can do things very easily and that the power could split a mountain when we send righteous thoughts. From the bottom of our hearts, we will be more determined in believing in Master and the Fa and therefore have stronger righteous thoughts. We will then obtain the true and lasting peace and feeling of safety.
Of course, righteous thoughts are not generated by force and should not be taken for granted. You cannot just think your level is high and your righteous thoughts are powerful which is a manifestation of the attachment of showing-off. Those people with such a attachment do not pay attention to security and safety, but self-claim their levels are high and show off. This is totally different from the state of the righteous thoughts.
The above is my understanding at my level. I welcome fellow practitioners pointing out to me anything improper.
