Looking Inward and Letting Nature Take Its Course

1. Looking Inward

On December 13th, we went to the industrial district for a day of clarifying the truth about Falun Dafa. On our way to the industrial district, I drove very slowly in the very left lane because of a heavy traffic jam. A young man rode a motorcycle in the middle of the four lanes with the left turn signal on; and his motorcycle was very close to my car. Unexpectedly he made a right turn violently. All of a sudden, a sound was heard, and the practitioners and myself in the car noticed that something must have gone wrong. The young man and the motorcycle had fallen down to the ground. By the time I had opened my car door, he already picked up his motorcycle. I asked, “ Are you alright?!” He flapped his sleeves, tapped the loose rear-view mirror, and re-adjusted it accordingly. He then said to me casually, “It’s OK”; then, he left like a blustering wind. Afterward I found that there was just a 2 – 3 cm long scratch on the body of my car.

Teacher Li [The founder of Falun Gong] said in Zhuan Falun [The main text of Falun Gong] that real cultivation is to cultivate our inner self, look inward, and that there’s no such thing as looking outward. After this event, I realised that I didn’t really achieve to look inward because I intentionally asked him, “Are you alright?!” But I murmured in my mind that it’s better nothing serious happened or its’ all because you who didn’t obey the traffic rules. It was obvious that I look outward at that time. I then looked inward and realised that there existed something for my part for further improvement – why couldn’t I have concentrated more on driving? It requires a lot of focus to cultivate and study Falun Dafa. Whatever tasks we do for Dafa, we need to do them wholeheartedly. We need to be more focused on everything we do from this day onwards.

2. Letting Nature Take Its Course

At the exercise site, there’s a young and capable practitioner with a masters degree, who works for a high-tech company and started to practise Falun Dafa 8 months ago. It was remarkable that he completed the fifth exercise with single-leg crossing the first day after the nine-day workshop at the exercise site. Recently he shared his experience at work, “I deeply felt that I melted into the principles of Falun Gong without noticing after I started to study the Fa [Law and principles of Falun Gong]; I now think of others before myself relatively, and put my personal interests and concern much more lightly. I’ve expected myself to act as a Falun Dafa practitioner, to take my work more seriously in my area than other people, and put side the interest of personal concerned as well as losses and gains. During the past eight months, I faced honestly and with perfect harmony the tribulations which I was given by the chief manager and which would have been hard to handle if I didn’t cultivate. At the same time, I think of myself as a Falun Dafa practitioner, and I shall not take them into account, neither shall I get angry or emotionally moved. I shall just do my best to be tolerant and have good intentions toward others. It may be the justice existing in people’s hearts that all of my subordinates and my supervisors support me and I got good results out of my misfortune - not only did I keep the job but I was also promoted with a highly-adjusted salary. And this is a real reason why I could not get away from my work. No loss, no gain!”

I remember a quote in Zhuan Falun, “Buddhism believes in the principle of karmic retribution. One’s life is arranged according to one’s karma. No matter how capable you are, if you do not have de, perhaps you will have nothing in this life.” He also said, “We therefore believe in following the course of nature. Sometimes, you think that something should be yours, and others also tell you that it is yours. Actually, it is not. You may believe that it is yours, but in the end it is not yours. Through this, it can be seen whether you can give it up. If you cannot let it go, it is an attachment. This method must be used to get rid of your attachment to self-interest. This is the issue.”

I realised that Falun Dafa practitioners should not only clearly remember what our Teacher said at all times in Zhuan Falun, “Cultivation depends on one’s own efforts, while transforming gong is done by one’s master. You can only have such a wish and think about it like that, but it is the master who actually does these things” but also practise real cultivation, “Act without a wish for return”. Then, what is reflected in the society is each person’s well-done job in his/her responsible area.

This is my own opinion and understanding. Please kindly point out any errors.

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