Reason, Wisdom and Fear

(Clearwisdom.net)

Master Li tells us, "Validate the Fa with reason, clarify the truth with wisdom, spread the Fa and offer people salvation with benevolence-this is establishing the mighty virtue of an enlightened being." (Rationality). What are the "reason" and "wisdom" that Master Li refers to? Do they have any relationship with the attachment of fear?

Early this April, after I was fined and then released from a detention center, I had relatively more fear than usual for a period of time; as long as almost one month. I passively waited at home and didn't go out to clarify the truth until I was given the material. I felt hypocritical and sad during this period. Though I studied the Fa and practiced the exercises at home everyday, I felt like a child who had done something wrong. I realized that I held a passive attitude toward the Fa-rectification and had let down Master Li and Dafa because I was clear about all these in my understanding of the Fa principle of Dafa.

Master Li talks about validating Dafa, exposing the evil and clarifying the truth in almost every article from "Towards Consummation" in July 2000, to Lecture on the Fa at the Washington, D.C. International Conference. I was very aware that I should step forward from humanness to validate Dafa and clarify the truth, but due to the attachment of fear, I lost that period of time that Master Li extended for us. During that time, Master Li kept giving me hints to urge me to cultivate diligently.

One day, a fellow practitioner sent me some VCDs and a few days later, some other practitioners gave me other materials. I enlightened that those who Master Li keeps waiting for are people like me who cannot actively and with self-initiative step forward from humanness to validate Dafa and clarify the truth. With the help of reminders from my wife (also a Dafa practitioner), I joined the mighty current of Fa-rectification to validate Dafa and clarify the truth. Without materials, we would write our own. Our materials became more numerous, including all kinds of banners and flags. Unless there was something special to do, we would go out to validate Dafa and clarify the truth every day. I cultivate myself in such an environment and I can feel that I have less and less of an attachment of fear. Sometimes I even become fearless and my state of mind also is becoming more and more calm. Oftentimes, when we post Dafa materials, some other people stand behind us reading them while we are posting. Sometimes we also clarify the truth to them with compassion and righteous thoughts.

I talked to several fellow practitioners about my experiences and they had different responses. Some felt worried for me and thought I should be more rational and wise. During several conversations with a fellow practitioner, he reminded me, "Master Li says, 'There was a person who was walking on the street with my book in his hand, yelling, 'I have Teacher Li's protection, so I'm not afraid of being hit by a car.' (Zhuan Falun, Page 119)." I knew he purposefully wanted to warn me not to be careless. I was also aware that such a reminder was very sincere and important to listen to. Every time when we talked, he always kindly and concernedly told me, "You need to be more careful, more careful. There is nothing wrong with being careful!" I could understand how this practitioner felt; nevertheless, I also comprehended the other side of the issue. For example, there is one article on Clearwisdom, which says that when one practitioner put up posters about the truth of Dafa, a policeman found him and said, "I've got you now." This practitioner asked him, "Do you know what I am posting now?" The policeman answered "No." "Let me show you," said the practitioner. When they came to the poster, the practitioner read the poster to the policeman once and then asked him if he understood now; the policeman answered no. Then the practitioner read to him for the second time and asked if he understood now. The policeman answered no. This practitioner said, "Then you stand here and read it slowly; I am leaving now." The policeman was frozen there looking blankly.

I believe this is the power of wisdom and righteous thoughts that are developed in cultivation and that cannot be achieved through "being careful." Of course, I don't want to suggest we do things in blind and extreme ways. Master Li has written an article particularly for us called "Take the Middle Way" and its implication is extraordinarily deep. We need to "be careful" before we reach that realm in our cultivation, but for Fa-rectification disciples, it is far from enough to stay in this human level of "being careful."

"In dealing with relevant, important matters, if a life can really assess things without any preconceived notions, then this person is truly able to take charge of himself. This clear-headedness is wisdom, and it is different from what average people call 'intelligence.'"

(Essentials For Further Advances, For Whom do You Exist?) "Had you truly been able to discard those fundamental human attachments in your cultivation, these last tribulations wouldn't have been so vicious." (Towards Consummation)

"If a cultivator can let go of the thought of life and death under any circumstances, evil is bound to be afraid of him. If every practitioner is able to do this, evil will of itself no longer exist. All of you are already aware of the principle of mutual-generation and mutual-inhibition. If you are not afraid, the factor that would make you afraid will become non-existent. This is not to be self-imposed, but is achieved by calmly and truly letting go of it." (Eliminate Your Last Attachment(s))

Master Li tells us the issue of eliminating our attachment of fear in many Fa lectures; this attachment of fear or deeply hidden fear will really bring troubles to our cultivation if we fail to remove it. I saw some fellow practitioners with fear experience interference one after another though they were not arrested. It is hard for one to recognize such interference, and he may think things should be that way or just look at the superficial forms of those things and forget to uncover his own attachments. You may become more careful in the human sense, but become careless in other regards. Yet objects' manifestations in this world are complicated, unstable and vary a great deal. Those high level beings from other dimensions who have deviated from the Fa-rectification can directly and clearly see all of our attachments and weaknesses. Therefore, tribulations and interference often arrive when we don't notice them or under circumstances beyond our imagination. We cannot avoid the tribulation or break through the arrangements of evil forces by just being careful in an ordinary way.

I then realized that the only solution to these problems is to strengthen our righteous thoughts in cultivation and keep sending forth righteous thoughts in order to eliminate interference and all attachments of fear and other fundamental human attachments without any reservations. Only during the process of completely opposing everything arranged by the evil old forces and eradicating the evil can we avoid or lessen tribulations.

As a great Dafa cultivator, when you don't have any fear or attachment, even if you run into evil things, they will try to keep far away from you. They are aware that if they do not flee, they will be eliminated by your rock-solid determination towards Dafa and great compassion as well as your field of righteous thoughts.

The above are just some of my recent personal understandings. I hope that fellow practitioners can kindly point anything out to me that is inappropriate.