More Compassion Needed Towards Fellow Practitioners

Teacher has repeatedly urged us to save sentient beings with compassion. As such, practitioners have compassion when telling the facts about the persecution of Falun Dafa and trying to persuade people to quit their membership in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). During this process, practitioners have gradually eliminated their attachment to "self."

But I feel that some people do not have enough compassion for their fellow practitioners. When they see another practitioner's attachments, they will reprimand the practitioner in front of others. This way, the bad substance is added to the practitioner being scolded, which further strengthens that substance and has a negative impact, much to the liking of the evil.

Teacher told us long ago that he did not want our cultivation environment to become one where everyone points fingers at one another. He wants us to have an environment where we help each other with kindness, while looking inward at ourselves. As Falun Dafa practitioners, as long as we are still cultivating, we will have shortcomings and make mistakes. Because Teacher has segregated the part of us that has been cultivated, the cultivated side will not appear. What will appear are our shortcomings, because we still have human notions. As long as we have attachments, there will be tribulations. Then a practitioner will search inward for attachments and will thus correct himself. Should a practitioner not find his attachments for some time, we can point them out or quote a part of Teacher's Fa that is relevant to the attachment at hand. We should help the person with kindness and elevate as one body.

I noticed that sometimes when a practitioner was in a bad cultivation state, others became worried and everyone criticized that practitioner, so that she herself also got very
worried. She wanted to correct herself but experienced difficulties. Yet, if another practitioner pointed out the same problem to her, but with compassion, the effect was much better.

A few days ago, we overcame many hurdles and held a small Fa Conference. Although only about nine practitioners attended the conference, we came from three different cities and provinces. We shared our experiences and understandings and each one of us benefited a great deal from it. One of the things we did was to talk about the positive points of the practitioners around us. We shared a lot and all felt that everyone of us had a lot of outstanding merits: One practitioner did very well in persuading people to quit the CCP(Chinese communist party). Whoever she encountered, she was able to persuade that person to quit knowingly and happily. Another practitioner was in charge of printing Dafa materials. No matter how late she worked, she would finish the day's work and then ride her bike to take the materials to practitioners in several villages. One practitioner was able to distribute Dafa materials to several villages no matter how dark or windy or how bumpy the road was. She has been in charge of posting materials in several villages, day in and day out, for the past several years. One practitioner did the three things (study the Fa [the teachings of Falun Dafa], send forth righteous thoughts and clarify the truth about Falun Dafa and about the persecution to the world's people) steadfastly everyday without attachments and was able to awaken several fellow practitioners who had been lost. Another practitioner had strong technical abilities and helped many practitioners to go online. He also collected several million phone numbers and sent them to the Minghui website, thus enabling overseas practitioners to explain the facts by phone. One practitioner had a lot of farm work to do by himself during the busy season but had always helped the families of fellow practitioners that were being persecuted first. As a result, family members of fellow practitioners felt that Dafa practitioners were extraordinarily good people.

Such wonderful fellow practitioners! We are one body and cooperate with each other without many words. Although we have inadequacies and make mistakes, Teacher asks us to study the Fa more, and then we will be able to correct ourselves and eliminate all attachments.

Therefore, we should not complain about fellow practitioners, let alone gossip about other practitioners behind their backs. We should put all our efforts into saving people. Time is so limited now, and we have so many people to save at this critical instant and that is "precious beyond measure." ("Teaching the Fa in the City of Chicago" 2005) If every Dafa practitioner can be more diligent the closer to the end during the Fa-Rectification period, if we can be open and righteous while assisting Teacher in the Fa-Rectification, and if we can all do the three things well, then we will form an unbreakable and all-encompassing one body. We will then accomplish the grand mission of saving sentient beings, and we will return home with Teacher.