(Clearwisdom.net) Recently, several fellow practitioners in our area have been interfered with by demons of lust, which in turn seriously interfered with Fa-validation work in our area.
Before 1999, a fellow practitioner's (A) wife passed away. After July 20, 1999, A had been illegally sent to a forced-labor-camp because he persistently practiced Falun Gong. During his time in the forced-labor-camp, he was steadfast in his belief in Master and Falun Dafa, and he firmly resisted the persecution with righteous thoughts. His righteous beliefs and deeds awed the evil. After he was released he was devoted to the powerful current of Fa-rectification. He took on a lot of Dafa-validation work. During this period, practitioner A was seriously interfered with by the demon of lust. At the beginning he had intimate feelings toward a female practitioner (B), who is more than ten years younger than he. Practitioner B graciously refused him. She also kindly pointed out his attachment. But practitioner A did not look inside himself in order to improve. Instead he got acquainted with female practitioner C, who was divorced. The two of them fell in love at first sight and became trapped in their affections. Later, because of her son's strong opposition, they were not able to get married. Practitioner C was seriously disturbed by this and was trapped in an undesirable state. However, practitioner A still did not look within, and instead got acquainted with another female practitioner (D), who was also divorced. Without going through legal registration they held a ceremony and became husband and wife. Soon, because someone reported him to the police, practitioner A was forced to leave home to avoid further persecution. This interfered with the normal operation of Fa-validation work.
Another practitioner (E), was also a steadfast practitioner. He left a forced labor camp with dignity, and took on very important work at a local truth-clarifying materials center. His wife had passed away several years ago, and he desired to get married again. He frequently dated practitioner F, who was divorced, and wanted to quickly marry her. At almost the same time that practitioner A was reported, he was also reported to the policed by a person who was "transformed" by the evil. Practitioner E was arrested and taken to a detention center.
Another young female practitioner, with a pure and innocent mind, had worked diligently to validate Dafa. With self-initiative, she took on the work of delivering truth-clarifying materials. After she married, she became trapped in her affection, which finally resulted her giving up her cultivation in Falun Gong.
Master mentioned in Zhuan Falun (Lecture 6, "Your Mind Must be Right"):
"I have told ...... that in ancient times, the royal court was once plagued by Da Ji. ......"
Master also said,
"So I urge those students who are still being irrational: come to your senses and be responsible to your own lives. Your own attachments have led wicked beings from outside to command, interfere with, and control you, making you so irrational." ("Teaching the Fa at the 2004 International Fa Conference in New York")
Our true original selves are pure and kind. The sexual desire and lust are not our true selves and we should eliminate them with righteous thoughts.
Our fellow practitioners were not intimidated by life and death, and they went through all kinds of tribulations. But it was really painful to see that they were seriously interfered with by the demon of lust when the Fa-rectification is so near completion. Master said,
"To walk this path well and progress to its end--nothing is more extraordinary. I say that because during the journey you will have hardships, tests of every sort, unforeseen ordeals, and you will have unexpected interference from all kinds of attachments and emotion. The interference will come from family, society, good friends, and even fellow cultivators. And along with this there is interference from changes in the state of human society and from human notions that were formed in society. All of those things can drag you back to being like an ordinary person." ("Teaching the Fa at the Western U.S. International Fa Conference")
Fellow practitioners, if we cannot find our attachments in time, and if we cannot eliminate these attachments during cultivation, we will lose that for which we have waited thousands and thousands of years. This is very dangerous. It appeared, superficially, that these fellow practitioners were reported by those people who had been "transformed" by the evil, but the real reason was that their attachments, which they could not discard, were used by the evil in other dimensions.
"Therefore, as to the many attachments that come from sentimentality, we should take them lightly and eventually abandon them. Desires, lust, and things of these sorts are all human attachments, and all of them should be given up." (Lecture 6, "Demonic Interference in Cultivation," Zhuan Falun).
May 18, 2005
