To Those Practitioners Who Are Still Being Disturbed by Sentimentality

At the final stage of Fa-rectification, there are still practitioners who are disturbed by sentimentality. I would like to write down my own cultivation experience. Fellow practitioners are welcome to comment on it.

One day soon after I obtained the Fa, I sat next to my bed and studied the Fa. I saw with my Celestial Eye that young kids were jumping around the pillows. Another day, I lay down on the sofa and fell asleep after studying the Fa in the morning. In the dream, there were young kids playing beside the sofa. Some of them came towards me to pull my hand until it hurt– they wanted to wake me up to continue Fa-study. I had no idea where those kids were from. In another dream, I saw a group of kids crying loudly because I did not give up my attachment. After waking up, I thought they must be the sentient beings in my paradise. If I cannot give up the attachment so as to succeed in my cultivation, they will cry because they lose hope. One day when I was sending forth righteous thoughts, a thought came to my mind — I asked the sentient beings of my paradise to eliminate the evil with me. In my Celestial Eye, I saw the innocent and pure kids running forward so earnestly that they got out of breath. Another time when I sent forth righteous thoughts, I saw all the sentient beings in my paradise were waiting for my return.

In the bookZhuan Falun, it reads “Because a human body has yin and yang, it can develop through cultivation practice a variety of supernormal abilities and living beings like the Immortal Infant, Cultivated Infants, fashen, etc. Because of the existence of yin and yang, one can develop through cultivation many living beings, which can grow in dantian regardless of whether one’s body is male or female— it is the same. This theory really makes sense.”

I understand that the sentient beings in my paradise are all my own children, and I have to be responsible for them. In real life, I have a son and a daughter. They have grown up, and possess outstanding educational backgrounds and jobs. I cherish them very much. Ever since they were young kids, I have been thinking I would sacrifice everything, including my life, for them if they should get hurt one day. Similarly, I can give up everything in the human world, including my life, for the sentient beings in my paradise. In human words, this may be called the sublimation of maternal love.

In the process of cultivation, I saw my daughter was a female westerner in the past, my younger sister was a Nepalese woman, my husband was not a human in the past, and my mother used to be a white-haired man in one of her previous lives. Just as is described in Zhuan Falun, “In the course of samsara, you have had mothers who were human and non-human, and there are too many of them to be numbered. It is also countless how many sons and daughters you have had throughout your different lifetimes. Who is your mother? Who is your son or daughter? No one knows it after one passes away. You must still pay for what you owe others. Human beings live in delusion and just cannot give up these things.”

In the cosmos, people become husband and wife, parents, children, friends, etc., so as to convert and end the relationship of karma. These interpersonal relationships do not exist for humans’ attachment of sentimentality. Sentimentality is a low-level matter made to enable humans to live in the ordinary world. The reason why a lot of people can’t cultivate, and continue to reincarnate in the human world is that they are trapped and tied up by sentimentality. As practitioners, why do we still adhere to the cause and effect of karma associated with just a lifetime, and miss the unprecedented, unrepeatable opportunity of assimilating to Dafa?

Fellow practitioners, let us strive forward together at the final stage of Fa-rectification cultivation! Let us give up all of our human attachments!

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