(Minghui.org) A practitioner in my home town called me yesterday and told me she was stuck in a situation and felt helpless. Since I couldn’t share my understanding of the Fa principles with her on the phone I decided to submit this to Minghui.org to share with others. Please kindly point out anything inappropriate.
This practitioner gave up cultivation after July 20, 1999 when the persecution started. She resumed practicing two years years before the COVID pandemic but hasn’t kept up with Fa study. She is a warm-hearted person and gets along with everyone, regardless of their age, not to mention her family and relatives. She cares about everyone.
Other practitioners are concerned about her as she seems to spend all her time on social events. They encouraged her to spend more time on Fa study instead of getting overly involved in every day people’s activities. They encouraged her to do more of what a Dafa practitioner should do.
After attending group Fa study she let go of many attachments. However, just as she was beginning to get back on track, two friends began coming to her place every evening and they stayed for a couple of hours. Sometimes they came during the day as well.
A year later, she moved to a house three kilometers away (just under 2 miles). Even though the two friends do not visit her as often, they call her and sometimes come for dinner. She and her husband entertain them. Even though she sometimes feels uncomfortable, she does not want to hurt their feelings.
My understanding is that this is a form of interference from other dimensions who manipulate everyday people to interfere with her Fa study. If a practitioner cannot study the Fa with a calm mind, how can we do well what is required of us as Dafa practitioners? Studying the Fa well is the fundamental guarantee for us to return to our true home with Master.
Master has given us the Fa tool of always looking inward. When issues occur, we should reflect on ourselves to check if any of our attachments have been taken advantage of by the old forces. This reminds me of a paragraph in Zhuan Falun.
Master said:
“There is a principle in our universe that normally other people cannot interfere with whatever one pursues and wants for oneself. The animal takes advantage of this loophole. “If he wants something, I’ll give it to him. It isn’t wrong for me to help him, is it?” (Lecture Three, Zhuan Falun)
These friends come to your home to eat, drink, and have fun together. Everyone is happy and they seem to care about you like family, and you feel pretty good about it. Later, it began to interfere with your cultivation. When you didn’t feel well, they urged you to go to a hospital, or call your family to pressure them to take you for medical treatment. To everyday people, this might seem like a good thing. However, we are Falun Dafa practitioners so we have quite different goals and aspirations.
From my personal understanding, they are trying to drag you down so that you can not cultivate, even though they may not know what they were doing because they were being manipulated by entities in other dimensions.
As Dafa practitioners, we should not give them the opportunity to engage in frivolous chats. This way, we can do better in our own cultivation of speech, and at the same time also avoid giving everyday people the chance to create bad karma.
Once an everyday person has learned the truth, we should not give them opportunities to waste our precious time to cultivate, especially in this last phase of Fa-rectification. This is the precious time Master gave us to save more people, including ourselves, so we must cherish it immensely, make the most of it, and do what practitioners should do.
We should also remember that everyone around us has a great affinity with us, and we must treat them kindly. We should send forth righteous thoughts with the power Master bestowed on us.
It doesn’t matter if the person is in close proximity or not. We can clear out the evil beings behind them by sending forth righteous thoughts any time or place. Master has told us that in special circumstances, we do not need to hold up our palm when we send forth righteous thoughts.
As I was writing this sharing, I thought: Why did I hear about these things? I should also look within myself. For years, I seldom chatted with everyday people, or watched TV or browsed online on my cell phone. But I’ve recently begun chatting with former classmates, coworkers, relatives on the phone, and each time I talk for nearly an hour, and the number of times I call also increased. Is it because I have too many human sentiments? Am I curious, eager to get involved, or show off? I realized I also have an attachment to lust, and I enjoy chatting with them. I think that I’m conforming to everyday people’s society.
The fact is that they all know the truth about Falun Dafa and quit the Chinese Communist Party organizations, so I should not spend too much time chatting with them.
These days, I feel that a day passes by quickly without me having done enough. It pains me deeply to have wasted such precious time! Aren’t I the same as the practitioner who called me?
I’ve become clear-headed now. The fellow practitioner was a mirror for me – Master used her situation to help me see my own attachments, so that I can let go of them.
I gradually saw my own attachments as I wrote this sharing, and it felt like Master was pushing me forward. I hope fellow practitioners also pick up a pen and write down your own cultivation experiences so that we can improve together!
Thank you, Master! Thank you, fellow practitioners!