Discovering Fellow Practitioners' Radiance Illuminates Our Hearts of Tolerance By an Australian Practitioner (Clearwisdom.net) When I am not attached to my own opinions and obstructed by my own
personal concepts I can see a lot of strength, tolerance and compassion radiating from fellow
practitioners around me. The practitioner who came all the way from Sydney was also very happy. At the very beginning she
thought that everyone had gone to the Fa conference and she wondered who would continue the vigil in
front of the embassy. Those who stood fast in front of the Chinese Embassy for a long period of time
should take this rare opportunity to go to the Fa conference. She began to discuss the matter with
her husband. Her husband only replied in one sentence, "We cannot leave this place (Chinese
embassy) unmanned." She went there without any "mental struggle" and everything was
very natural. Maybe it was because her Xinxing had reached that height and upon arriving she
clarified the truth without attachment, so the result was very good. Upon seeing this admirable fellow practitioner I felt happy, yet my heart was calm. Though it
looked like a very ordinary, very common thing, it was in fact very sacred. Actually, it's easy to do something heroic and many people can do so, because there is support
for doing "heroic" things. However, it's not quite so easy to persist in doing something
silently and perhaps go unnoticed. At my side, several practitioners who are making truth-clarification material all work
voluntarily through the dead of night to the next morning. They will usually only have a few hours'
sleep, and only eat a couple of steamed buns or some cold rice. They have never felt that it is too
difficult; on the contrary, they take joy in the tasks before them and feel privileged to be the
ones to carry them out. Practitioners from other places have discovered the good qualities of our local practitioners
while our local practitioners have also admired the qualities they see in practitioners from other
places. If our local practitioners could also see and appreciate each other's radiance like the
practitioners from other places do, then it will also boost their own strength as a group. As a
result the energy field will be even more compassionate and kind. I still remember Teacher's
father-like tone: Be merciful! To have a bit more compassion, means to have more purity, more righteous thoughts and more Buddha
light that suppresses the evil, eliminates strife and saves sentient beings. Posting date: 12/2/2002 |