(Clearwisdom.net) We often say that we must trust Master and trust Dafa, but what is the criterion for judging whether our trust is genuine? When I was reading Zhuan Falun recently I had a deeper understanding of the following sentence:

"In the past, after climbing into a cave with the help of a rope, a practitioner would cut off the rope to practice in the cave. If this person could not succeed in cultivation, he would die inside it." ("Lecture Eight" from Zhuan Falun)

Those practitioners dared to cut off the rope because they trusted their masters and their ways of cultivation and had no doubt that they would succeed in cultivation.

Master has already imparted the Dafa of the universe to us, to enable us to return to our true selves. We must cut off the rope that ties us to the human world. Only in this way will our cultivation be successful.

In fact, when we slack off and have strong human thoughts and attachments, aren't we grabbing the rope and not letting go? The universe is disintegrating and rebuilding. There is no second way for us. The only way is to follow Master home. However, to what extent have we trusted Master and Dafa during the course of cultivation?

We always say we must deny the old force's arrangements, but in daily cultivation, our righteous thoughts are not as strong as they should be. For instance, when fellow practitioners go out to distribute truth-clarifying materials and return a bit later than expected we feel nervous and even become afraid. Master asked us to become divine. Why can't we be divine? Can we become divine if we hold on to human notions? Aren't we grabbing the rope and not letting go? Are we unwilling to let go of the rope? We have to cut off the rope if we want to trust Master and Dafa. There is absolutely no other way for us to return to our true selves. We have to thoroughly cut off our connection to human notions in order to eliminate our attachments.