(Clearwisdom.net) The Chinese New Year will soon be here. [Editor's note: The Chinese version of this article was published before the New Year]. As we can see from practitioner online exchanges of insights, we realize that the upcoming holiday season is a good opportunity to clarify the truth. Many practitioners are on holiday so they take on coordination responsibilities and then go to surrounding areas to clarify the truth. During the years of truth-clarifying efforts, we have witnessed many Chinese people awakening. People we meet every day at any place might have predestined relationships with us. One seemingly very coincidental thing might have a cause set up in the past. These thoughts make me reflect on the ultimate meaning of predestined relationships.
No matter who we are, whether practitioners or ordinary people, it is predestined relationships that make us feel close to one another. These predestined relationships not only maintain social relationships, but also form bonds that help us to remind each other to care about each other.
For example, for practitioners, if two practitioners spend more time together and get along well, they could unconsciously develop human emotion. This human emotion, qing, makes the originally sacred “yuan fen” no longer pure or good. Therefore, for practitioners, we should convert this saced predestined relationship into motivation to forge ahead and to encourage each other, but not into an excuse for us to indulge in any human emotion.
In fact, many times, we prefer to read experience sharing articles on a specific topic or from a specific person. Why do we prefer reading those certain ones? They may be helpful to our cultivation. However, if we read the article just because of who the author is, we indeed deviate from the Fa! Predestined relationships help us save sentient beings together, but we should not be attached to the predestined relationship itself.
It is the same for predestined relationships with ordinary people. Everything in the human world came here for the Fa, because we reincarnated in order to form predestined relationships! Therefore, nowadays, we should make full use of each “yuan fen” with ordinary people and use the most direct and efficient ways to save them. We should seriously think about this and really do it.
During the Chinese New Year, we usually socialize with practitioners and ordinary people more frequently. Therefore, I wrote this article now to encourage fellow practitioners. This is only some of my experience and only for reference.
