(Clearwisdom.net) Some practitioners living in the same area may have accumulated some negative feelings about one another due to conflicts arising when doing Dafa work together these past few years. Some of them have let go of those feelings upon watching Teacher's video Fa-Teaching Given to the Australian Practitioners, but others are still attached to their feelings. The accumulated negative feelings have interfered with the collaboration of Dafa practitioners in doing Dafa work and practitioners' own cultivation and self-improvement.
While outsiders can see the situation clearly, insiders may get lost in it. There are various types of conflicts, and each person involved feels that he or she is right and that the other people are wrong. No matter what opinions one has, those opinions are usually not in line with the Fa, but with one's own attachments. Conflicts may emerge in the process of validating the Fa or saving sentient beings. However, the attachments lie in the deeply-rooted human attachments of fame, personal benefits, sentimentality, selfishness, jealousy, competition, and in trying to change others, instead of improving oneself, etc. Some of the practitioners haven't realized this: the attachments you don't want to get rid of are huge obstacles in your cultivation path. You should let go of them and walk the path lightly. If practitioners involved in conflicts are able to use the Fa to judge everything, they will not be "Foolishly absorbed in the play's unfolding." ("The Big Stage," Hong Yin II)
In this final stage of saving people, conflicts between Dafa practitioners are not a matter of self-improvement. Rather, they are a sword that hurts both oneself and others. Why is that so? Dafa practitioners represent the image of Dafa in the human world. If we don't do well and harm the image of Dafa, those who have positive impressions of Dafa may be affected and change their minds about going into Dafa. The fighting among practitioners also wastes our time and energy on sorting out who is right or wrong; sometimes, practitioners divide into several groups based on different opinions. This large-scale loophole has brought damage to Dafa and practitioners: some were persecuted to death, others were arrested and sent to forced labor camps, including those sentenced to years of imprisonment.
As Dafa practitioners, we are all aware that Dafa has its standard and there is a yardstick to measure our xinxing level. Cultivation is a serious matter. When we are absorbed in conflicts, we forget about forbearance and compassion. Thus, our xinxing level and gong level will decline, accordingly. "One's gong level is as high as one's xinxing level, and this is an absolute truth." (Zhuan Falun) Teacher told us that divine beings are all watching what Dafa practitioners are doing. Practitioners who have unlocked abilities can also see that the divine beings are recording what Dafa practitioners think and do.
Teacher has great expectations of us and we should be strict with ourselves. We should be serious about our cultivation and truly cultivate our hearts. In this last stage of the Fa-rectification period, we should get rid of the negative feelings about fellow practitioners and elevate above the human conflicts to the level of enlightened beings. We need to walk the final path well and we cannot bring the conflicts with us to heaven. Our xinxing level decides how high we will achieve and whether we can succeed in cultivation. Be warned! "Cultivation is your own affair, and nobody else can do it for you." ("Determination," Essentials for Further Advancement)
Lastly, I would like to talk about the accumulated negative feelings from a different angle. Once, I enlightened to the previous lives of a fellow practitioner, who was a Japanese soldier invading China in one of his lives. I mentioned this in our chatting and said, "Look how nasty and brutal you were. You must have killed many people at that time." He replied, "No wonder people always hurt me, even though I have been sincerely nice and kind to them." In multiple periods of reincarnation, we have either owed or helped others enormously, which results in bad or good relationships with others in this lifetime. Everything happens for a reason to a practitioner--only we don't know the cause. What we know is that Teacher has resolved all of these things with compassion for us.
Fellow practitioners, please treasure Teacher's mercy and salvation and fulfill Dafa disciples' responsibilities in the Fa-rectification period. Hopefully, we will all end the negative feelings about our fellow practitioners today and start a new and light cultivation state of non-omission tomorrow, do the three things well, and become a qualified divine being in the new universe.
