Righteous Thoughts and Belief, Doing Without Pursuing Written by A Falun Dafa Practitioner in the United States
(Clearwisdom.net) With the approach of both Jiang visiting the United
States and the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation Forum, Falun Dafa
practitioners are sharing their experiences with each other. Many practitioners
are prepared to go in person to join the peaceful appeal. All of these
activities are for the purpose of clarifying the truth and sending forth
righteous thoughts in proximity (that is to use our gong to eliminate the
evil elements in the other dimensions that control the ordinary people to commit
wrongdoings).
However, recently, there are some practitioners who say that it is exactly 42
months from April 25, 1999 to October 25, 2002, so there's no need for us to
plan about going to the evil head's next stop [after October 25], etc. I think
this way of thinking is not one hundred percent righteous belief, from the
perspective of the Fa. On the contrary it is mixed with the human notion of
pursuing results in this human dimension. There existed secretly and
unconsciously the attachment for time.
Teacher told us in Fa-Lecture at the Conference in Florida, U.S.A. :
"...and when he sends forth righteous thoughts he has to be able to truly
calm his mind and truly produce the effect of righteous thoughts. So this is
something extremely critical, extremely important." My understanding is
that if all Dafa practitioners around the world can truly understand our own
responsibility, and every one of us can bring into play the full power of our
righteous thoughts. We have the ability to eliminate completely the evil forces
that participate in destroying Dafa in the other dimensions. The key point lies
in how we as Dafa practitioners can really "calm down" to bring our
abilities into full play. How does it benefit us to become attached to the
so-called "42 months" arranged by the old forces?
Actually this human attachment is a loophole that will be easily made use of
by the evil forces. I remembered from our European and Germany trips, at the
very beginning, all of us would send forth the righteous thoughts strongly,
intensely and confidently. However whenever we heard some news, many
practitioners (including myself) were involuntarily influenced by our own human
hearts. We could not see the true nature of the issue from the Fa-perspective in
this superficial dimension. As a result, our self-confidence and determination
suffered a disastrous decline, and it gave the evils the chance to come forth
more strongly. This response itself is the result of not understanding clearly
the powerful effect of the righteous thoughts. Also it came from not
understanding clearly the great function that this precious chance of sending
forth the righteous thoughts would play in the whole Fa-rectification process,
and not being clear about the trickiness and stubbornness of the evil forces. We
only wanted to see some results from this dimension. This is actually the lack
of righteous thoughts at the important moment in sending forth the righteous
thoughts. This loophole itself gave the evil the opportunity and space to linger
on in a worsening condition.
I remembered that some young Dafa practitioners saw that the evil forces
created false phenomena to shake Dafa practitioners' confidence. I think if
every Dafa practitioner can clearly realize his or her own responsibilities and
the power of the righteous thoughts. Also if they can keep their minds pure and
clean, calm and at ease in sending forth the righteous thoughts. And if we can
be clear about what we are doing, knowing that sending forth the righteous
thoughts for one more minute will increase our results, there will be more evils
being eliminated, and more sentient beings being saved. No matter how many
illusory phenomena are manifest in this superficial dimension, it cannot move
Dafa practitioner's determination and calmness. Only in this way can we "Do
but pursue not-----Often stay in the Dao," and truly make good use of the
opportunity to send forth the righteous thoughts in proximity. I will quote
Teacher's poem In the Dao to encourage my fellow practitioners:
January 4, 1996
Posting date: 10/23/2002 |