Eliminating Attachments through True Cultivation

There are only a few practitioners in my local area. Among them, the true and diligent cultivators are even fewer. Most local practitioners are very involved with everyday life. In short, we have not formed one body in our cultivation, and I this concerns me.

I believe that even if I recited the Fa at home by myself every day and sent forth righteous thoughts every hour on the hour, this still will not be enough.

So, I went to another practitioner's home to study the Fa with her. She was quite happy, and together we read Zhuan Falun twice. My fellow practitioner became more diligent.

The two of us then went to a third practitioner's house to study the Fa. She is a senior citizen and was being interfered with by the old forces, having difficulties walking. She was taking medicine and injections daily because her family members wanted her to. After we studied the Fa at her house for a while, she improved her understanding and threw away the medicine. She also discontinued the injections. She had been having difficulty studying the Fa and was not able to finish reading even one lecture in several days, let alone do the exercises every day. Now she is doing quite well with 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) and has learned to look inward, cultivate xinxing (heart and mind nature), and eliminate many of her attachments. Her righteous thoughts are also strengthening day by day.

Some other practitioners were also not very diligent, so I sought them out and brought them to the senior practitioner's home to study the Fa with us. Some would come for a few times and then never show up again; some would come every two or three days. I delivered the weekly newspaper and Teacher's new lectures to another practitioner every so often. She confided in me that she had never read Zhuan Falun, let alone other Dafa material. For a while, we went to this practitioner's home to study the Fa. Later, she would not let us go to her house anymore. She said it was almost October1st (National Day), and that the police had threatened her family. Another practitioner, after studying the Fa for a while, was not able to discipline herself and became lax in her cultivation. Indeed, she almost gave up doing the three things.

When I saw these things I felt very bad. I thought, "I painstakingly dragged you to come to study the Fa. You were only diligent in cultivation for a little while; then you became lax again." In order to form a good local cultivation environment so everyone could mature in cultivation and do the three things well, I had given up my chance to go to town where the living conditions are much better. Now it seemed that I should leave after all. With such thoughts in mind, I went into town to look for accommodations.

When I found a house, I suddenly felt very depressed and sad. The landlord said I could pay the money and move in immediately. I said I had to discuss it with my family. On the way home, tears kept rolling down my cheeks. I thought about the practitioners in my area had not formed one body in cultivation. There are still so many sentient beings to be saved, I cannot leave them! I decided right then that no matter how hard and tiring, I would not go live in town. Instead, I would stay with the practitioners in my local area and try to save them. This was where I gained the Fa, and there were still many people with predestined relationships that needed to be saved.

When I got back and shared my thoughts with fellow practitioners, they said that I was too attached to the results. They were actually right! I started to look inward and found so many human notions and attachments! For example, the attachments to complaining, unevenness in the heart, the heart of worrying, not accepting criticism, and jealousy. I was also not being considerate of others; instead, I was always using my standards to judge people, etc. How could we form one body with a heart like mine?

I realized that I needed to let go of these bad things. We are all looked after by Teacher and by the Fa. Everyone has their own path of cultivation as long as they are cultivating within the Fa. Why should I be worried? Ah! These are all human notions.

Fa rectification has come to today, and we all need to become mature. We should no longer consider things using everyday people's thoughts. We should quickly form one cultivation body, complete our pre-historic vows, and return home with Teacher.