How have you been doing for the past year or so? As a disciple, I feel immeasurably fortunate being able to receive the salvation from our great Teacher personally. I feel incomparably rejoiced being able to participate in this Fa-rectification cultivation together with courageous fellow practitioners to step forward to validate Dafa. Only by doing this, we can say that we are not letting ourselves down and worthy of being called Dafa disciples. Teacher said, "One's gong level is as high as one's xinxing (mind-heart nature) level. You will understand the principles of that level when you ascend to that realm." "Every test or every tribulation is related to the matter of either progression or regression in cultivation." In the face of great tribulations, often times we can expose many of our hard-to-discover attachments, concerns of life and death, interests in money and fame, etc. However great the tribulations are, however many attachments will be revealed. Isn't the purpose of our cultivation to eliminate these attachments? Those fellow practitioners who have stepped forward have an experience in common, that is, during the process of validating Dafa, they have abandoned many attachments and have enlightened to many principles of the Fa. All fellow practitioners who have stepped forward were under tremendous pressures and risks, and they all had to go through those life and death tests one after another. However, for those practitioners who have "cultivated firmly" at home, have you been through any of these kinds of test? When you are facing the real test, would you really be able to give up everything without wavering? Teacher said, "Every attachment for you to remove in your cultivation practice is a wall, standing there and blocking your path of cultivation practice. If you are unable to be determined about the Fa itself, you cannot practice cultivation." At present, all kinds of fear are like walls blocking the path of our cultivation. They are hardships but also are opportunities. In order to truly practice cultivation, one must fearlessly step out of human mentality, face those concealed attachments and overcome them. Any excuse or reason will not be able to deceive Teacher or those Gods in the heavens. Covering up those hidden attachments will eventually only hold up oneself because there is no shortcut in cultivation practice. Teacher said, "You cannot always rely on me to bring you up to a higher level while you, yourself do not move. Only after the Fa is explicitly stated do you make a move. If it is not taught clearly, you do not move, or move backward. I cannot recognize such behavior as cultivation practice. At the crucial moment when I ask you to break away from humans, you do not follow me. Each opportunity will not occur again. Cultivation practice is a serious matter. The distance has become greater and greater. It is extremely dangerous to add anything human to cultivation practice. In fact, it is also fine to just be a good person. But you must be clear that you choose your own path." "As a Dafa disciple, a particle of the Great Fa of the cosmos, you should do that. When people damage the Fa of course, no one can damage the Fa. How could the Fa of the cosmos be damaged by humans? No one is able to damage it But when someone comes to attack the Fa, what should you, a disciple, a particle of Dafa, do? Shouldn't you let the truth be known and make people aware of the facts? This is from your own perspective. You are a particle of Dafa, so you should play this role." "through this we've fully seen the position of every student's xinxing." Fellow practitioners, let us not let our Teacher feel sadly disappointed or make ourselves bitterly regretful. Let us together step forward to "Validate the Fa with reason, clarify the truth with wisdom, spread the Fa and offer people salvation with benevolence -- this is establishing the mighty virtue of an enlightened being." I try to use this opportunity to share some of my personal experience and understanding during the Fa-rectification cultivation. Please excuse me for anything that may not be appropriate. A practitioner in Mainland China November 12, 2000

Category: Journeys of Cultivation