My Understanding of Why "No Matter What It Is, You Should Just Do It" Is the Purest Thought By a practitioner in China
(Clearwisdom.net) Lately, one of the most frequently discussed topics during
experience sharing has been how to send forth the purest and most powerful
righteous thoughts. I believe we should never forget one sentence that Teacher
told us, "One's gong level is as high as one's xinxing level." Teacher
told us the story about a practitioner who fell to the ground after being hit by
an automobile, and was not hurt at all because her xinxing was at the
right level. "We have said that good or evil comes from a person's spontaneous
thought, and the thought at that moment can bring about different
consequences. With her old age, if she were an everyday person, how could
she not be injured? Yet her skin was not even scratched. Good or evil comes
from that instant thought. If she were lying down there claiming, 'Ugh, I
feel terrible. Something is wrong here and there.' Then, her bones might
really have been fractured, and she would be paralyzed. No matter how much
money she was paid, how could she be comfortable being hospitalized for the
rest of her life?" ("Upgrading Xinxing," Lecture 4 of Zhuan Falun)
We can see from this story how crucial a person's spontaneous thoughts can
be. Many different consequences can result from different thoughts. Wasn't the
outcome of this incident determined by her thought? Nevertheless, this was
merely the effect of her spontaneous thought during personal cultivation. What
about cultivation during Fa-rectification? The consequences will be enormous,
based on whether our spontaneous thoughts are pure, and to what degree we can
purify our thoughts.
Teacher told us in "Touring North America to Teach the Fa,"
"When Dafa disciples send forth righteous thoughts, pure and righteous
thoughts, to clean out the evil's persecution of them, that's allowed--the
old Fa-principles include principles like that as well. This is the same
idea as approaching cultivation with righteous thoughts, or as saving
sentient beings with righteous thoughts."
Teacher also told us in "Teaching the Fa at the 2001
Canada Fa Conference,"
"...when we eliminate evil you should keep in mind that if you have the
intention of showing off, have ordinary human fears, or have impure
thoughts, you won't be able to achieve the goal. Why do you have an ability
like this? It's only because you are a great cultivator. So when you send
forth that thought it couldn't have been sent by anyone but a great
cultivator."
When I wrote the article "Purifying Our Righteous Thoughts,
Part I,Part
II" my understanding of sending forth righteous thoughts was
that it was to "safeguard the Fa of the universe," and that this was something
that Dafa disciples were supposed to do. Sometime later, the concept of, "we are
supposed to do so" or "we should just do it" displayed its enormous inner
meaning to me.
I suddenly realized that this single spontaneous thought of "should just do
it" is extremely simple and unadorned, yet it is the genuine cultivation state
during the Fa-rectification where there is no desire or pursuit. It is truly
great, truly brilliant and magnificent, genuinely firm and indomitable, and it
thoroughly represents the state of a Dafa disciple. This is a manifestation of
our true nature through Fa cultivation: totally selfless, immaculately pure
without any loopholes to exploit or any weaknesses to take advantage of. This
manifests the realm of our total devotion to sentient beings.
If we always hold the thought that as Dafa disciples we "should just do it"
with respect to any task that we initiate, ignore all lingering thoughts, seek
nothing in return-- simply "should just do it--" then we are accomplishing it
with the power of the Fa, and we are assisting Teacher to rectify the Fa with
the purest effort of all. This thought, "supposed to," originates from the Fa,
and it possesses all the power of the Fa due to its purity and selflessness.
This thought also reflects the infinite and boundless meaning and the mechanism
of saving sentient beings with compassion and safeguarding the Fa of the
universe.
When I read Teacher's lectures again, I discovered that Teacher has
repeatedly unveiled to us that our single spontaneous thought when handling any
task is " we are supposed to do so or we should do it."
"Our students are truly remarkable. A while ago, you all did a lot of
things that you were supposed to do for Fa-rectification. In this recent
period of time, many of you have been doing a lot of work to clarify the
truth to the world's people. As a Dafa disciple, a particle of this Great Fa
of the cosmos, you should do that. When people damage the Fa... of course,
no one can damage the Fa--how could the Fa of the cosmos be damaged by human
beings? No one is able to damage it... But when someone comes to persecute
the Fa, what should you, a disciple, a particle of Dafa, do? Shouldn't you
let the truth be known and make people aware of the facts? This is looking
at it in terms of you. You are a particle of Dafa, so you should play this
role." ("Teaching the Fa at the Western U.S. Fa
Conference")
"In the past, in whatever we were doing you would think, "How can I study
the Fa well? How should I work for Dafa? How can I improve myself? How can I
do better?" You always felt that you were learning Dafa, rather than that
you were a part of Dafa. After this year I find that you've completely
changed. You no longer think as you used to. No matter what you do for Dafa
and no matter what it is you're doing, you are placing yourselves in Dafa
instead of thinking about "I want to do something for Dafa" or "I want to
improve myself in this way or that way" as you did before. No matter what
you do, you aren't thinking that you're doing something for Dafa, about how
you should do things for Dafa, or "how can I do things well for this Fa."
Instead, you are placing yourselves in Dafa. Like a particle of Dafa, [you
feel that] no matter what it is, you should just do it. Even though you
aren't conscious of it or expressing it clearly in words, that is in fact
how your actions already are. This is the biggest change I see in you after
this year. In other words, you are completely in the Fa already." ("Teaching
the Fa at the Great Lakes Fa Conference in North America")
"In the face of life and death, students have had the courage to step
forward--step forward as they lose everything possible--and do everything
that's magnificent, what a Dafa disciple should do." ("Teaching the Fa at
the Great Lakes Fa Conference in North America")
"You should just do well over here with what you're supposed to do. This
is why you obtained the Fa outside of China." ("Teaching the Fa at the Great
Lakes Fa Conference in North America")
"Our students are remarkable--truly remarkable! You've tried your best to
do what you're supposed to do." ("Teaching the Fa at the Great Lakes Fa
Conference in North America")
"So, as Dafa disciples, you have been bestowed with a great, historic
mission. This is different, then, from strictly personal cultivation. You
need to safeguard the Fa, you need to validate the Fa, and when the Fa is
persecuted you expose the evil and do better embodying Dafa--this is what
you should do. And you have in fact done this really well-- Master sees this
very clearly." ("Teaching the Fa at the 2001 Canada Fa Conference")
"Every Dafa disciple who's been able to keep up with Dafa's progress has
done what he should do." ("Teaching the Fa at the
Washington, D.C. International Fa Conference")
"As for how much longer this tribulation will last, I don't think you
should think about these things much. And don't think about whether you can
reach Consummation, either, because any desire you have can become an
attachment and can be used by the evil. As soon as that kind of thought
emerges, the evil might conjure a false image for you, and this will then
cause interference. ... Get rid of any attachment you have, and don't think
about anything. Just do everything a Dafa disciple should do, and everything
will be covered." ("Teaching the Fa at the Washington, D.C. International Fa
Conference")
As long as we cultivate in the human world, we have both the side in us that
has cultivated well, as well as the side that has not cultivated well. Human
sentimentality may surface from time to time from the side that has not
cultivated well, interferring with our righteous thoughts. Once we understand
rationally the meaning of "No matter what it is, you should just do it," this
will be very significant in getting rid of the interference and reinforcing our
righteous faith.
This is my personal understanding. Please kindly point out any deficiencies.
Posting date: 6/25/2002 |