Discussing The Attachment for Ease and Comfort

Talking About The Attachment for Ease and Comfort

The desire for ease and comfort is manifested at every moment in practitioners’ daily lives, but cannot easily be observed. So we are most easily influenced by it, and thus fall behind with our cultivation practice. Only maintaining a clear mind can we see it clearly and then relinquish it.

I have enlightened from the Fa that our bodies in this dimension are only tools for us to utilize. We use them to achieve our goals. In other words, we use the tools (human bodies) to return to our original true selves, and to cultivate our true bodies (the Buddha bodies). Therefore, we must use them to bear hardships, eliminate karma, and to dispose of attachments. Master Li said, “an everyday person’s postnatally formed body is just a vessel.” (“Teaching the Fa at the 2002 Fa Conference in Philadelphia, U.S.A.”) If you don’t utilize it completely, other things (human concepts) will take advantage of it. Thus, those concepts will achieve their goal, which is the pursuit of ease, comfort, and enjoyment. However, you will thus fail in your own goal. Aren’t you really “foolish”? Therefore, a person’s main consciousness must be clear. One must definitely know one’s aim. Only through continuously studying the Fa can one be clearheaded.

For example, if you sit in your car, can you say that the car is also part of you? You only use it to go to your destination. If you are not clearheaded enough to drive it, then, other people in your car will take control of it and drive to the destination they want to go. Then, haven’t you bought the car in vain? That is, if your main consciousness is not determined and clearheaded, you let other lives (human concepts) take control of your body. Then, haven’t you come to this world in vain? Therefore, I have enlightened that all the concepts that make you indulge in ease and comfort in the human world are not you, because they are created in the human world. They want to exploit the human bodies to satisfy their desires. If you are going to elevate, you have to eliminate them. As a result, they hold onto you unyieldingly and confuse you, that is, they numb your main consciousness. Thus, I have enlightened that actually, the process of falling in levels for a life is that of greediness and coveting enjoyment and comfort. That is also the process of becoming overly comfortable. However, the process of the elevation of a life is that of giving up and sacrificing. That is the process of becoming an immortal life.

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