(Clearwisdom.net) Shen Yun's European tour is now over and tickets did not sell out. For each of the empty seats, Master had arranged a person to see Shen Yun and obtain salvation. Unfortunately, they did not come because we did not do well. They missed the opportunity for salvation due to the blockage of the old forces. Next year a new audience will come. For those who missed their oppotunity this year, the loss will be hard to recover. It is truly regretful.
Practitioners involved in Shen Yun promotions in Europe are sad about disappointing Master and causing losses in saving sentient beings. Even though we feel that we had tried our best, Shen Yun did gain a foothold in European mainstream society, tickets in the most expensive tier did sell out, and Shen Yun's brand effect has started to develop, yet we are sad about missing a single expected audience member.
Sentient beings came to the three realms because they believed in Master. They believed that the Fa would be able to find them, wake them up, save them in the final havoc, and help them enter the new universe. For this they came, risking everything. Thousands of years of waiting is for a short final moment, and every opportunity will not be repeated. Master has arranged a sentient being for each and every seat at the Shen Yun performances. However, our notions that tickets are too expensive has blocked sentient beings. They were not able to see Shen Yun and missed the opportunity of salvation. We have let them down.
We shared issues that emerged in selling Shen Yun tickets. Our belief in Master and the Fa should be first and unconditional. If we believe only when the teachings fit our notions and do not believe fully when they are in conflict with our notions, our belief is not genuine.
Let's take a look at our notions. Some practitioners think that the ticket prices are too high and worry about the affordability. By thinking this way, we treat our notions with too much importance. Thus, we set a hurdle for Shen Yun's salvation of sentient beings with our notions, which provides an excuse for the old forces to interefere with us and block sentient beings from seeing Shen Yun.
Shen Yun is for saving sentient beings and is not for profit. The price levels are necessary to penetrate the mainstream society and set the cultural trend of the human world. In addition, Shen Yun performances are of very high caliber and have no match. We shouldn't question Master and follow our own notions, as we do not understand the value of Shen Yun due to our standards that we have developed in this human life.
Our notions hurt sentient beings' chances of salvation. Maybe some fellow practitioners are housewives, and they are careful about spending money. They don't understand the mindset of consumers at other levels. They promote Shen Yun with their own purchasing notions. They therefore think the ticket price is too high and worry that sentient beings will not be able to afford it.
Although everyone knows that this notion is unacceptable, we haven't truly purged it. The substance is still there. Deep in our heart, we treat the ticket price as a factor hindering people from seeing Shen Yun. When we promote Shen Yun tickets with this notion, when our introduction of Shen Yun is embedded with such substances, people will be used by the old forces and complain about the price. Isn't this "transformation follows mind-intent?" If Dafa disciples don't treat ShenYun properly, how can we help sentient beings?
Every practitioner knows the hardship and compassion of Master's salvation. He has delayed the end of Fa-rectification again and again for the sake of saving more sentient beings. Why are Shen Yun ticket prices set at these levels? There are a lot of complex factors behind it. Maybe the old forces conveyed to Master that the audiences members have created a lot of karma in their history, and that they belong to the group for elimination. The old forces may believe it unfair that people are allowed to see Shen Yun with paying such a low price, and they're also allowed to have their Buddha nature wake up and gain salvation. In order to balance the debts owed to those they hurt or the crimes they committed against Gods, the old forces try their best to block the salvation of sentient beings. Master determines the price levels to allow sentient beings to be saved, and to balance all complaints of sentient beings in the universe and to benevolently resolve historical karmic relationships. Master's hardship and sacrifice is beyond our imagination.
Master said in "Fa Teaching Given at the NTDTV Meeting:" "As it turns out, Shen Yun already puts on the single best show in the entire world." Shen Yun is world-class. The ticket price is worth every penny. Moreover, we are only talking about the value of Shen Yun in its ordinary form. Shen Yun's impact of salvation is simply invaluable.
There is a principle in the universe of no loss no gain, and that there is a result for every cause. From this perspective, what ordinary people pay for their own salvation is incomparable to the value of the position they gain in the new universe.
Master has arranged everything in other dimensions. He has laid out all salvation mechanisms and arranged the seating for all audience members. All we need to do is to make an effort in this dimension, break through the old forces' blockage, and connect the predestined relationships the sentient beings have with the Fa by way of Shen Yun, and cultivate ourselves well at the same time. As long as we firmly believe everything Master tells us, we will be fine. All Master speaks is the Fa, and all he says is with a purpose. We shouldn't question the power of the Fa and what the Fa has already decided. We trip ourselves up with our human notions. The fact that we haven't done well what Master has decided shows that we haven't elevated as a group on the basis of the Fa principles. We acted with our human attachments, and therefore were unable to break the shell of human notions.
I have no doubt that all fellow practitioners have tried their best. However, we need to distinguish whether the efforts we've made are on the human or divine level. Dafa is supernormal. What we walk is a divine path. Everything is beyond the reasoning of human logic. Presently all projects we do for saving sentient beings and validating the Fa require strong righteous thoughts for us to enact the divine power. When we act with human attachments, all we can do is to make efforts within the scope of human capabilities.
In the end, I would like to make some suggestions to fellow practitioners involved in promoting Shen Yun.
First, communications should be timely and clear. Most of us are not professionals in the area of sales, and we are all volunteers who are not required to meet any prerequisites. Whoever has the time should go ahead and promote Shen Yun. Many don't have professionalism in sales and don't feel confident about the state of the economy. If we can share in a timely way with those who have done well, and feel comfortable raising every question in the back of our mind, we can eliminate impure substances in our fields, work together to break away from notions, clear all gaps and strengthen our righteous thoughts.
Secondly, we shouldn't forget about our individual cultivation when promoting Shen Yun. Master doesn't ask us to perform tasks, as He wants us to accumulate the mighty virtue of enlightened beings by fulfilling tasks on our own. When we have conflicting opinions, we should unconditionally follow the coordinator's decisions. By doing this, we are not compromising anyone's style or approach, but are harmonizing with the Fa. This attitude is very important. We should let go of self and others. We shouldn't entertain the thought that it was his way, not my way, and allow these thoughts to linger. No matter how high our levels are or how good our enlightenment quality is, we have limitations and flaws. When we harmonize the situation upon seeing others' shortcomings, we have already obtained special benefits from the Fa. Master said in Chapter 8 of Zhuan Falun: "One enlightens to however high one can; whoever enlightens obtains."
Thirdly, I hope that fellow practitioners can write down their insights under the guidance of Dafa so that all practitioners can learn from them, save more people and reduce the losses to a minimum.
