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Doing Dafa Work with Rationality is Truly Being Responsible for the Fa By a practitioner in China
(Clearwisdom.net) According to reliable sources, personnel from the
Heilongjiang Province Police Department were criticized in a high level
government meeting for their lack of success in persecuting Falun Gong
practitioners. After being scolded by their superiors, these police officials
utilized every means at their disposal to conduct a large-scale arrest of Dafa
practitioners in Harbin City. They also destroyed many sites for producing
truth-clarifying materials.
In this situation, we must clear-headedly realize our deficiencies from the
perspective of Dafa. It's because we had a loophole in cultivation that the evil
was able to take advantage of it. I would like to write down my understandings
and discuss them with fellow practitioners.
Regarding the overall situation, it is not a matter of whether or not one has
an attachment of fear, but rather whether or not one is being responsible for
Dafa. Dafa practitioners shouldn't have an attachment of fear. Not having such
an attachment does not mean to merely to say it from the human perspective, but
instead it means, during cultivation, to truly, soberly and rationally solve any
problem according to Dafa. When some practitioners said that they didn't have an
attachment of fear, they were really free of concern for anything. When you told
them to be careful and think about the overall situation of Dafa work, they
would say that you are afraid. This is an impulsive, irrational statement driven
by emotion and represents the attachment of zealotry. The lesson was profound,
and it is most likely to be taken advantage of. It provides a direct, convenient
loophole for the evil to persecute other practitioners.
Master said: "The desire to show off plus the attachment of zealotry are
most easily exploited by the demonic part of your mind." ("Definitive
Conclusion") We must be rational while doing Dafa work. Dafa disciples
should bring forth lofty ideals while minding minor details and regard the
overall situation of Fa-rectification and other practitioners' safety as most
important at all times. However, some of us often bring forth lofty ideals but
forget to mind minor details. As a result, a big loss has been brought to Dafa
and Dafa practitioners. All of these were caused by failing to understand the Fa
from the perspective of the Fa and not having strict requirements for ourselves.
Master Li further reminds us, "Under any circumstance, in any period,
and no matter how busy you are with your work, you can't stray from your
Fa-study, as this is what fundamentally ensures that you'll continue to improve
and reach Consummation. You can't do Dafa work without studying the Fa, or it
would be an everyday person doing Dafa work. It has to be Dafa disciples who do
Dafa work - this is something required of all of you." (Lecture on the
Fa at the Washington, D.C. International Conference, 2001)
Master also said, "When a cultivator's mind departs from the Fa, the
evil will find its way in." (Fa-Lecture at the Conference in Florida,
USA; December 2001)
We must be diligent and look to the Fa at all times, in order to prevent the
evil from reaching us. Once our righteous thoughts are sent forth, the evil
would be eliminated. If we cannot rationally understand the Fa based on the Fa
and find the deficiencies inside ourselves, the evil will persecute us by taking
advantage of our attachments. By searching inward, all attachments will be
removed, and then all evil would be eliminated.
When doing Dafa work, we must "Validate the Fa with reason, clarify the
truth with wisdom, spread the Fa and offer people salvation with
benevolence." ("Rationality")
Posting date: 2/11/2002 |