(Clearwisdom.net) It is not only a xinxing (moral character) issue but also a reflection of one's cultivation level whether one is able to stay calm inside ones' heart when one is in tribulation, when one's personal interests are infringed, or when one sees one's relatives and good friends amidst suffering. Therefore, "staying calm inside" is the condensation of a cultivator's cultivation as well as the result of the cultivator's righteous mind and righteous actions. It is something an ordinary person can never achieve.
To be able to stay calm inside during Fa-rectification cultivation practice, one must primarily take oneself truly as a cultivator, always follow what Master and Dafa have required, and keep studying the Fa and cultivating one's xinxing. Only then can one be able to achieve the state of
"Steadfastly cultivate Dafa, the will unflinching." ("True Nature Revealed," Essentials for Further Advancement II)
"When a tribulation arrives, if you, a disciple, can truly maintain an unshakable calm or be determined to meet different requirements at different levels, this should be sufficient for you to pass the test." ("Expounding on the Fa," Essentials for Further Advancement)
For example, in the midst of the vicious persecution, if a Dafa practitioner can truly let go of life and death, and strengthen his righteous thoughts, the evil would not be able to do a thing. During the Sixteenth People's Congress, there was a Dafa practitioner whom the "610 Office" specifically wanted to put into a brainwashing class. The department responsible for his work cooperated with the evil. They went to his home several days in row to try to convince him to enter the brainwashing "class" voluntarily.
The practitioner determinedly negated all the old forces' arrangements. He told them the facts about the persecution he had undergone. He stayed calm inside, had no other thoughts, resisted the evil, and his heart was as firm as diamond. In the end, the evil simply had no way to make him give in, and had to leave the issue unsettled.
There was another practitioner. The police went his home to ask him to write the "repentance statement."* Afraid of getting arrested, he left home and hid himself in different places. In the end, the evil would call wherever he went. He had no time to study the Fa and his effort of validating Dafa was affected.
Being able to truly stay calm inside is a reflection of a practitioner's cultivation level. Therefore, one has to cultivate one's own heart, cultivate one's inner self, and take efforts in cultivating the heart.
"I'm going to tell you that no matter what kind of conflicts arise, or what kind of situations emerge, it's bound to be that we have gaps in ourselves. That's for sure. If there weren't a gap nobody could exploit it." ("Teaching and Explaining the Fa at the Metropolitan New York Fa Conference")
There is a female Dafa practitioner who is very diligent in her cultivation. She often goes out to distribute Dafa truth-clarification materials. Once when she was giving out the materials in a neighborhood, she failed to pay attention to the surroundings. She was followed by a bad person and thus taken to the police station. She was not scared at all and stayed calm and confident.
She first tried to find the loopholes she had. She found that she had a strong ordinary people's mentality. That is to say, she always emphasized the quantity she gave out, and failed to give enough consideration from the perspective of saving people and resisting the persecution, which enabled the evil to exploit her loophole. Thereafter, she negated the old forces' arrangements. She eliminated the evil by sending forth righteous thoughts and she asked Master to help her. She walked out of the police station in a dignified manner.
It is very important for Dafa practitioners to have righteous hearts, and only then can Dafa practitioners rectify anything that is not righteous.
"As I've said, everything that happens today in the ordinary society is the result of Dafa disciples' thoughts. Even though the old forces do exist, if you don't have those thoughts they can't do anything. When your righteous thoughts are strong enough the old forces can't do a thing." ("Teaching the Fa at the 2002 Fa Conference in Philadelphia, U.S.A.")
Along the path of the Fa-rectification, we must walk our own way well, let go of ordinary people's mentalities, truly give up the various attachments and desires that we have, hold up our xinxing well, not let the evil take advantage our loopholes, and cultivate ourselves into true, pure, and unselfish beings with the righteous Fa and righteous Enlightenment.
* The "repentance statement:" in this statement the practitioner is forced to admit remorse for practicing Falun Gong, promise to give up Falun Gong, and never again associate with other practitioners or go to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong.
