(Clearwisdom.net) The cultivation environment in China is relatively relaxed now, compared with before, providing an opportunity for the old cosmos' laws and secular matters to creep up on Dafa practitioners and pull them down. We must be alert to these invisible enemies that seduce us to seek a life of comfort and cultivate less diligently.
I have been busy recently and have often felt like taking a rest. I was sleepy right after 7 pm last night and excused myself for a 30 minute nap before I started on an urgent project to rescue fellow practitioners. It was past 11pm when I woke up. Instead of looking inwards for the reason, I went back to sleep again until after 5am this morning. I had a dream in the night.
I saw a black house in the dream. Every room inside was dark. In the middle of each room was a Dafa practitioner standing on a round bag called negative pressure. The negative pressure bags quietly and continuously sucked the practitioners' blood. I was confused with the scene and asked them why they wanted to stand on the bags. They all said that it made them feel comfortable. I wanted to try it myself, “How comfortable is it?” Instantly, I clearly saw myself sleeping and some needles connecting with tubes inserted into my back. I then got out of the house and walked along the center of a river. The river was very dirty and many rats could be seen standing with their eyes open. There was also black sand and mud. It was so dirty that I didn't want to put my feet in. I immediately woke up and sent forth righteous thoughts to disintegrate the arrangement made by the old forces, to dissolve my own dirty selfish notions, and to eliminate my fear of hardship and my seeking comfort, laziness and other human notions and attachments.
I was enlightened that Dafa practitioners have an urgent need to eliminate the attachment to self before their own paradise becomes dark like the black house. We shouldn't consider only ourselves. Although some fellow practitioners obtained Dafa, they did not completely conquer their ordinary human notions to safeguard Dafa. Nor did they eliminate filthy, selfish mindsets that use Dafa as a shield, allowing them to take and not to pay back. This filthy mindset is like the rats who were waiting with their eyes open (in Chinese, the word for “rat” sounds the same as the word for “consume”). The mentality of seeking ease and comfort consumed lots of time. Not being diligent is like the negative pressure bags. It becomes the biggest invisible killer to the practitioners and sentient beings. When I see fellow practitioners' shortcomings, I normally don't tell them. I'm afraid that my words might be too straightforward for them – I didn't want to put my feet in. It is actually human notions and selfishness that should be cultivated away.
Master said,
“I also want to tell you that your nature in the past was actually based on egotism and selfishness. From now on, whatever you do, you should consider others first, so as to attain the righteous Enlightenment of selflessness and altruism. So from now on, whatever you do or whatever you say, you must consider others—or even future generations—along with Dafa’s eternal stability.” (“Non-Omission in Buddha-Nature” from Essentials for Further Advancement)
I was enlightened to the fact that: To become a great enlightened being, one must think and act to safeguard Dafa, be unselfish, put others before oneself, help fellow practitioners and save sentient beings. All selfish notions and attachments should be removed to become a great enlightened being. They are filthy things that we need to eliminate and give up completely. Such filthy mindsets do not exist in the new cosmos. Can we return to our origins with them? Absolutely not. Let's give them up completely.
Fa-rectification disciples shoulder the historic mission of safeguarding Dafa and helping Master with Fa-rectification. Every Dafa disciple should become pure and unselfish and let the attachment to self go. We should not only eliminate the evil beings and elements existing outside, but also remove the human notions and habits formed over thousands of years to break through this human shell. Only in this way, we can better cooperate with each other and do things well.
Recently, through Fa study, I have continuously searched inwards to find the shortcomings which have blocked my improvement and eradicate them completely.
Master also said,
“To the great enlightened people, living as a human being is not the purpose, and one’s life is not meant for being human—it is meant for you to return to your origin. Human beings suffer a lot. The enlightened people think that the more one suffers, the better, as one should speed up repaying one’s debts. This is what they think.” (Zhuan Falun 2000 version)
What's wrong with me? How come I regard baking in the sun, running around and opening my mouth as suffering? How come I have so many human thoughts? Think about it, tens and thousands of years of waiting is for today! Why are we grasping everything in this secular world and not wanting to let it go? We should know that everything in this world is just transitory. Everything in this world will not be eternal, including lives. Why don't we let them all go? Why do we let it block our paths of helping Master rectify the Fa? I feel shameful for taking advantage of Master's compassionate and painstaking salvation. From now on, I'll grasp every chance to study the Fa more, cultivate myself better and save more sentient beings.
