(Minghui.org) How can a Falun Dafa practitioner cultivate to a high level of spiritual attainment? Only by doing what Master Li requires, can one make true progress in cultivation. Simply put, practitioners must firmly believe in Master and the Fa, and assimilate to the universal characteristic of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance.
We will encounter all sorts of daily situations and conflicts, which are opportunities to improve our character and remove human attachments.
Handling Conflicts Based on Master’s Fa
Before I practiced Falun Dafa, I had rheumatism, stomach problems, and skin disease. I often felt pain all over my body, including every joint, to the extent that I could not turn over in bed, nor could I wash myself or do laundry using cold water.
Shortly after I became a Falun Dafa practitioner in 1998, the pain I felt was extreme one day. I knew that rheumatism was the cause.
My husband, who usually prepared breakfast every day, asked me to cook breakfast in that morning. I did not want to cook while in so much pain. But I thought that since I was a practitioner, I should be a good person by thinking of others first.
After overcoming the difficulty of getting out of bed, to my surprise, the pain disappeared. After breakfast, I continued to be pain free while riding my bike to work.
Surprisingly, my body did not hurt most of the time at work. I also had no problems riding my bike home.
I also felt pain-free doing housework, with the exception of when I tried to rest in bed. In the evening, I didn’t feel any pain after going to the Fa-study group; however, the pain returned when I got home and went to bed.
Based on Master’s teaching, I knew that I was eliminating karma. In the end, the pain disappeared the next morning.
Severe rheumatism was eradicated from my body and never recurred. From then on, I learned that a practitioner should simply follow Master’s guidance without thinking too much.
Another example happened in 2006 while my son was studying at a university abroad. He told me that he was in great pain after being hit by a car while picking up his girlfriend; we were then disconnected from the call.
I tried to reconnect, but could not reach him. I felt very upset and complained that my son should have been more mature about telling me what happened. I became extremely worried because he lived so far away.
From a practitioner’s perspective, I thought this incident was a test for me to let go of sentimentality. Master said: “Everyone has his or her own fate!” (Lecture Five, Zhuan Falun)
I realized that I could not help my son handle the incident. I had already planned to attend an out-of-town experience-sharing group the next day. So I let go of my anxiety and went to bed with a calm mind.
After I returned home from the experience-sharing meeting, I remembered my son’s accident and felt anxious after many attempts to contact him and his girlfriend. I eventually reminded myself that I should not be attached to sentiment.
A cultivator should take sentiment lightly and eventually let go of it completely. The moment I calmed down, my son contacted me and said, “Were you worried and upset?” I realized that his accident was a test of my sentiment. He told me that the accident was not serious, and that I shouldn’t be worried about him.
From this experience, I learned that a cultivator should follow Master’s Fa in daily life and gradually take fame, profit, and sentiment lightly, and ultimately let go of them completely.
I have been practicing Falun Dafa for more than 20 years and experienced countless minor or major tribulations to help me get rid of my attachments to fame, profit, and sentiment.
I can improve and uplift my character as long as I follow Master’s guidance. I should gradually develop the habit of looking inward unconditionally whenever I encounter issues, regardless of who is at fault.
Receiving Master’s Protection
I was relocated for work in 2006 to a city where I did not know any fellow practitioners. In order to continue attending my Fa study group, I rode the bus back to my old city every day.
However, my house had been rented, so I stayed overnight in a small vegetable cellar, which was only a few square meters. One very hot night, I was soaked in sweat staying in that small space.
At the time for sending righteous thoughts, I hurriedly sat cross-legged and felt a breeze cooling me down all over. After half an hour, I fell asleep without any discomfort.
I woke up the next morning to send forth righteous thoughts at six o’clock and then visited a practitioner nearby. Her husband asked where I stayed the previous night. He said the temperature was so hot that even their dog got dizzy.
He was shocked after I told him about the vegetable cellar. I explained that I did not feel hot. We suddenly realized that Master protected me! I mentioned to the practitioner about the cool breeze blowing the previous night, and both of us shed tears of gratitude.
There have been too many similar stories experienced by practitioners. Master is always by our side. We will never be able to repay Him!
Changing from a Selfish to Selfless Mentality
We are cultivating among ordinary people, so we should change our human notions of selfishness, formed from many lives of reincarnation.
We should earnestly follow Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance at home and in society, and gradually form a natural habit of being selfless by considering others before ourselves.
If we follow Master’s guidance, I believe we will truly achieve a high level of spiritual attainment.
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