(Clearwisdom.net) Over the years, practitioners in my area have done well in sending righteous thoughts in close proximity to a prison. They did so whenever time allowed. However, I have always found excuses and missed such opportunities again and again. Yesterday, I finally made up my mind to join the efforts of sending righteous thoughts near the prison to eliminate the evil forces.
I went to a practitioner's home to wait for the bus, as scheduled. The practitioner was running a store from his home and it was quite busy. With people coming in and going out, I felt quite uneasy. I wondered why practitioners would wait for the bus here every week. What if we were monitored? It seemed so unsafe! When I was thinking about this, I noticed a middle-aged man stepping in the store and looking around. He didn't seem to be shopping for anything. I felt more nervous. I told another practitioner right away, "Hey! See that guy? He doesn't look like a shopper, but he is hanging around." The practitioner responded, "Don't worry about it. Don't be disturbed." I still felt very concerned. Then the guy even sat down near the entrance. I felt even more nervous. After I boarded the bus, I found out he was actually a practitioner. It was all an illusion created by my own attachment.
From this incident, I realized that a practitioner's attachment is reflected in his every single thought. Every thought I had in my mind was a human thought. In other words, I failed to cultivate myself on this issue. Although I went to send righteous thoughts, I didn't reach my potential. My mind stayed on a human level and I didn't step out of the limits of my own attachment.
It's very dangerous if a cultivator fails to maintain righteous thoughts, or fails to consider issues from the Fa, as the evil forces would do everything possible to conjure false images to confuse him. For instance, I imagined a "bad guy." The more I thought about it, the more the old forces conjured the false image. The more I thought about it, the more he seemed like "the bad guy." They were all false images conjured by the evil forces to confuse me. When I abandoned my righteous thoughts, the evil forces attempted to confuse me and prevent me from stepping out to validate Dafa.
This reminds me of a veteran practitioner in our area. He has been persecuted by a sickness demon and can't eat meals or sleep. His celestial eye is open. He claimed that sometimes he saw the evil forces throwing filthy things into his meal. So sometimes he believed that the meal was inedible. In fact, Master looks after every practitioner. How could the evil forces be allowed to throw things into a practitioner's meal? The evil forces were attempting to confuse him, to stop him from eating meals, to destroy his physical body, and to shake his will and prevent him from doing the three things.
Before I went to send righteous thoughts, a practitioner encouraged me and told me that it was quite safe to do so in such close proximity and I didn't have to worry a bit. After I went to send righteous thoughts near the prison, I found it is indeed so.
I realized that validating Dafa is similar. When it seems difficult, and is imagined to be difficult, it may not be difficult when I actually try it. The point is one must take the first step, as it's the human attachment that prevents one from taking the first step. Whenever a practitioner takes the first step, he breaks through his attachment. It's the attachment that's blocking the path of a practitioner. Only when a practitioner breaks through his attachment, can he leap forward on the path of cultivation of a righteous Fa.
