(Clearwisdom.net) Recently, when I reinstalled the operating system on my computer, I could no longer access many websites as before. When I tried to access an overseas computer technology website, it directed me to a Chinese Communist Party website. I also noticed that the mouse would not function properly. As I continued to install other software from a computer disc that I trusted, the computer problems got worse, and I started to worry.
Then I remembered that when I was in the process of learning about computer technology from overseas websites, I had developed an attachment. I immediately studied the Fa and became enlightened when I read the section "Consecration" in Lecture Five. I realized that a Buddha statue, if it went through proper consecration, can protect practitioners who truly believe in Buddha. However, without proper consecration, a Buddha statue can evolve into a bad thing for people to worship. As I was learning about various programs of computer technology, I became attached to them and relied completely on them to protect my computer. I forgot that it was Teacher who protects us in the practice, and without Teacher's protection, the evil could destroy us immediately. What really takes effect are the elements and lives in other dimensions, and not ordinary things and people in this dimension. Of course, it is not wrong to use ordinary tools to take safety measures, but it is what we fundamentally believe that matters.
At work I went on-line for two years, using only an anti Internet blockade software, without installing any anti-virus or firewall on my computer and never had a single problem. Later, when the company scanned my computer with an anti-virus software, they found over 100 viruses and spyware. I remembered my attitude back then was very righteous and therefore never needed any technical support from overseas computer websites.
As my attachment developed, I became aware of many different types of software that I had never seen before on the websites I regularly browsed, and decided to learn how to install them. I wanted to be able to solve technical problems and protect my computer by myself.
After I found my attachment through Fa study, I immediately sent forth righteous thoughts. The next day my mouse worked properly again, but the rest of my computer still did not. I calmed down to think and eventually figured out how to fix the problems.
