(Minghui.org) Earlier this year, the Minghui Editorial Board published three notices: “Shen Yun Videos Are Strictly Prohibited from Being Taken Outside China,” “Shen Yun Performing Arts to Stop Providing DVDs to China this Year” and “Notice to Stop Distributing All Mainland China-only Editions of Shen Yun DVDs.”
Upon reading these notices, I understood that cultivation practice is a very serious matter. However, some fellow practitioners couldn't let go of their egos and even took advantage of Master's compassion.
Dafa disciples descended to the human world to assist Master in saving sentient being during the Fa-rectification period. How do we assist Master? It is as simple as doing what Master tells us to do. In one word, it is to be “obedient.”
But we still see practitioners who don't follow Master's words. I believe it is because they are still too attached to self. They think and act based on their own notions and desires, not based on what Master wants.
Selfishness is the fundamental factor of the old universe. When our lives were created in the old universe, we had selfishness inside us. This manifests in our cultivation practice when we often focus on our own desires and wants.
Master told us many years ago to destroy any tapes and audio recordings of Fa lectures that we had made while he was still in China. Many practitioners did, but some still found various excuses to keep the audiotapes, CDs and videotapes.
When the persecution started in 1999, the evil forces utilized those materials and caused a lot of losses to Dafa, practitioners and non-practitioners.
Master is very compassionate and has postponed the end of the Fa-rectification to provide us with more time to purify ourselves and mature into divine beings of the new universe.
What we need to do at this time is to think of what Master wants and what the Fa-rectification needs. We must study the Fa with a pure heart to understand what Master and the Fa-rectification process require.
Master has repeatedly stated the irreplaceable status of the Minghui website during the Fa-rectification period. But some practitioners don't take the Minghui website seriously.
They often use excuses like, “The Minghui Editorial Board is not Master himself so the opinions from the board are not Fa,” or “Articles published on the Minghui website are practitioners' personal opinions or understandings.”
In my view, such practitioners hold these attitudes because the articles don't conform to their own human notions and emotions.
When I first read the article “Shen Yun Performing Arts to Stop Providing DVDs to China this Year” a notion popped up, “If the 2016 Shen Yun performance is broadcast again, I will record it so I can watch it in the future.”
I immediately recognized that this thought didn't conform to the Fa and suppressed it.
When “Notice to Stop Distributing All Mainland China-only Editions of Shen Yun DVDs” was published, my first thought was that I would watch the DVDs one more time before I destroyed them. I again caught the human notion and denied it.
I deleted all the digital files and DVDs and expelled the “unwillingness.”
Looking inward for the source of these reactions, I found that they were rooted in “self.” Instead of unconditionally letting go of self and my attachments, I was trying to discount what Master wanted.
Cultivation practice is very serious. It is the process of cultivating a human being into a divine being. You can't pass tests by covering up human notions.
Fellow practitioners, let's continue the journey of validating the Fa by maintaining righteous thoughts, looking inward and letting go “self.”