(Minghui.org) I am from Guadalajara, Spain, and I became a Dafa practitioner eight years ago.
Recently the assistants of my city's practice site had to make a long trip and would be away for a few months. They asked me to take over the practice site and organize the study group. At that moment I felt tremendous pressure and complained about them being selfish and irresponsible. My cultivation state was not very stable and I wasn't very diligent. I didn't feel I could take on such a responsibility.
I began to ponder how I would do it, how I would find the time to do it, and how I could communicate with other practitioners if I couldn't do it... I was really overwhelmed. I asked Master for help and knew that the first thing I had to do was to behave like a true cultivator and be diligent.
I began to study the Fa intensively. I did not skip any of the scheduled time for sending forth righteous thoughts, and I did the exercises every day. This helped me look inside more easily, I gradually realized my lack of responsibility towards the group and how selfish I had been. I had simply attended the group practice without worrying about anything else. After I came to this realization, other practitioners began to take on more responsibilities at the practice site, as well as at the Fa study meetings. We worked together, and we all felt that we had improved as a whole body.
I also joined another Dafa project, but I encountered the same problem: the most active member of the project quit and moved onto something else. I knew that Master was encouraging me to speed up my cultivation and that was an opportunity for me to improve and do things better. Looking inward, I realized I hadn't been proactive in the past even though I thought I was collaborating and participating. I became more proactive only when I was tasked with shouldering more responsibility.
Master said,
“But if you can stay on the Fa all the way through, and not let up in your personal cultivation at any point, you will find that everything you do is truly befitting a cultivator. That is simply essential if a Dafa disciple is to complete his mission”(“Fa Teaching Given at the 2015 New York Fa Conference”).
Since I started practicing, Master opened my third eye. At first I was shocked to see certain scenes, and little by little I knew how to do it better. I can see the real battles that are fought between good and evil when we send forth righteous thoughts, how we eliminate all those demons, and how powerful we are. When we diligently cultivate ourselves and abandon our most fundamental attachments that strength is really powerful.
Category: Improving Oneself
