Developing Our Compassion and Looking Within: A Conversation Between Two Practitioners

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The following is an Internet chat conversation between two practitioners. They spoke together on the phone a few days prior, and here their conversation continues.

A: Hello! Sorry, I realised I might have been a bit too strong on Wednesday night, hope you understand what I was trying to say.

B: In what regard?

A: I felt I wasn't completely compassionate.

B: I didn't sense that.

A: That's okay then.

B: So to get back to our last conversation, do you have an environment that invites people to openly discuss conflicts?

A: I improve myself first, eliminate the evils and old forces' arrangements completely; and then talk to practitioners with compassion - although I am not doing well all the time.

B: Did you have to discuss conflicts before?

A: It depends. But there must be something within ourselves as well because it is seen by us. It includes the factors of how we safeguard the Fa and how we are responsible for the Fa, our own xinxing improvement issue, to deny the old forces, etc.

B: Sometimes I find it hard to evaluate if something is not really related to me.

A: Try to stand on a position of the whole Fa rectification, and think from Master's perspective when doing everything; this is something I've learned recently. In this way, you won't be deluded by the superficial things.

B: For instance as a contact person in our area I feel responsible for the group and I tend to discuss problems that I think cause disharmony in the group though they are not directly related to me.

Do you understand what I mean?

Maybe I am creating problems for myself where there are none.

Maybe I think that there is a problem but the people involved do not see it that way

A: I do. By assimilating to greater Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance, you will find things becoming easier.

Okay, let's put it this way. Say, X and Y have a problem; they don't want to talk to each other. What are you going to do then?

B: That is a good example.

Of course when you see X and Y have a conflict, you as Z should reflect it to yourself. But what if you did that, honestly, and cannot find anything?

Maybe I am being too concerned

It's just that I feel a bit disappointed when I see such a situation. From a distance it looks so simple to solve, why don't they do it then?

A: Master says in the Philadelphia lecture,

"With the Fa-rectification, when it proceeds from the most basic point, from the lowest point, and goes all the way up, for all beings, no matter how bad you are or how much you may have sinned in history, I don't hold your past faults against you, and I purify you from the most microcosmic point to the surface of your being, and this even includes any thoughts a being may have. I rectify from the bottom up, all the way through. That would have been the best kind of benevolent solution, and not a single being would have fallen, not a single being would have sinned against Dafa and this Fa-rectification."

But now you see these two persons are in the painful situation and suffering, not able to progress because of the karma and debts they own from each other in the previous lives. Now as a future great enlightened being, should you now help them with compassion? Surely.

B: So what would you do? I experienced such a situation, I tried to bring them together and discuss it, but I couldn't even get them together...

A: Master says in the US Western Fa Conference:

"...But that compassion is a manifestation of the great power of Buddha Fa. Regardless of how bad a person is or how vicious something is, things as strong as iron and steel will all melt away before the mighty power and compassion of Buddha Fa. That's why demons are scared when they see it -- they are really afraid. They will melt away and vanish..."

Now you should know, that you (and me) don't have this immense compassion, and that's why they won't listen to you when you try to help. So to develop this compassion is what you (and me) should do. And we all know how to develop this compassion....

...Getting rid of selfish mentalities, various attachments, egotism, etc. Although, all of these might not seem to directly relate to the example above, but once your xinxing is upgraded, and then your level will be increased, you will gain greater wisdom and compassion naturally. The purer your thoughts are, the more powerful your words will become, because your compassion is greater.

B: I feel a bit ashamed, because you are right.

My compassion has not been developed well enough.

A: We all learn from the Fa and are being rectified by the Fa; we are all the beings that deviated in the old cosmos. It is our most compassionate Master who gave us the Fa to save us - from being destroyed by the old cosmic nature. So once I think of this, I would feel very, very willing to change myself, and assimilate to the most righteous Fa - Zhen Shan Ren, by looking inwardly without condition.

B: I completely agree.

A: So, cultivate genuinely bit-by-bit while doing Dafa work, you'll find the goodness and harmonious realm after your level is upgraded -- something that cannot be described by human language.

B: Thank you.

A: Thank you as well. Bye now.

B: Bye.