Let's Not Ignore Our Families while Clarifying the Truth By a Falun Dafa Practitioner from Outside of China (Clearwisdom.Net) Recently, I told some Falun Dafa practitioners' relatives
the facts about the persecution. Some of them were in China, and some were
outside of China. These practitioners are very diligent, but their family
members still verbally attack Teacher, Dafa and Dafa practitioners. During my
conversations with them, I just talked to them about things related to their
personal interests or I sent them my greetings, and they were very touched. I
truly feel that we haven't done well enough and our families have been ignored,
which has caused them to have misunderstandings towards Dafa.
We are worried that our families may not be saved during the period of the
Fa's rectification of the human world, and so we are anxious to have them accept
that Falun Dafa is good. However, haste will solve nothing. We should let them
feel we are truly families. Through cultivation we have become magnanimous,
open-minded, and more concerned about others. When they accept us, naturally
they also accept our choices. Harmonizing the Fa on the level of everyday
society is the responsibility of Fa-rectification period Dafa disciples.
Over the three years of persecution, what Chinese Falun Dafa practitioners'
families have borne is huge. They have had to face the tribulations that their
family members have suffered as well as direct persecution from the evil. They
are not Dafa practitioners, thus they have to tolerate hardships that they
cannot understand. Their material losses have been huge. Overseas Falun Dafa
practitioners' families have also given a lot. Participating in Fa-rectification
often requires putting in a lot of time and money. Of course, all this is
reasonable to practitioners. However, as people who do not cultivate, they have
not only tolerated loneliness, but have also paid a high price financially. They
have also faced other people's misunderstandings. Because we practitioners are
gradually giving up fame, profit and sentimentality, if we cannot handle this
well, it's very easy to cause misunderstandings. They may think we are ignoring
their feelings and this will damage their opinion of Dafa. Because they are not
practitioners, we should understand that the pressure they have been under
during the persecution is relatively more intense than what we have borne.
Clarifying the truth is not teaching the Fa. The higher levels we reach in
Falun Dafa cultivation should be expressed more and more through our
broadmindedness, character, open-mindedness, and other attributes like this.
Being not attached to emotions does not mean being cold and numb to our
families. Greetings or phone calls are both ways to show our concern to our
families. If we truly understand them, no matter whether it is a big or small
thing, they will feel the warmth of our compassion, not coldness.
If we cannot even be compassionate to our families during the process of
saving sentient beings, how can we be compassionate to other people? Our
relatives should be the people who have the biggest predestined relationships
with Falun Dafa, so the first beings that we should save should be them. If all
of our families speak up for Dafa, then the effects of clarifying the truth of
the persecution to the people of the world should be better.
During cultivation, sometimes we have fewer and fewer thoughts in common with
everyday people, and even enter a state of silence with them. This should be
only a transition period during cultivation. I remember several years ago, I
once called my daughter but had nothing to say to her. I immediately realized I
should not be like this, because she knew I was a Falun Dafa practitioner and
this would cause her to misunderstand Dafa. After this thought came out, my
feelings changed. We started talking and laughing as we did before.
Having cultivated until today, I feel clearer and clearer that the difference
between a human and a divine being is in just one thought. As long as we are
able to stand from the point of being responsible to the Fa, our divine side
will do the work, and we will be able to do better in the Fa-rectification.
Posting date: 1/15/2003 |