(Clearwisdom.net) We often hear practitioners say, "The whole body is too dispersed, the whole body is not functioning like it should, the whole body needs to improve," etc. Here I'd like to share with you my understandings.
Master came down with the indestructible Fa which harmonizes everything. So the whole body does exist. Every Dafa disciple is a particle of Dafa and a particle of the whole body of the new firmament. Dafa disciples are assimilating to the Fa, validating the Fa and harmonizing the Fa. Because it is a whole body, during our cultivation process, we need cooperate with each other, harmonize with each other and supplement each other. I once gave the following example: Four other practitioners and I went to Beijing to appeal. On the way we kept reminding each other that "We are one body, and nothing can separate us." When we were in Beijing, the male practitioner's hand trembled a bit with fear. Another practitioner walked over to him and helped to protect him and keep a wicked police officer away. When the male practitioner was taken to a police car, the other three female practitioners and I ran after the police to stay with him. We kept our promise: "We are one body. The evil can't do anything to us." In the end we returned safely. If any of us had had an incorrect thought when we saw the the male practitioner trembling, or, in order to protect ourselves, we hadn't run after him when the evil took him away, then I think the result would have been different. So I think it is a question of whether we ourselves have the sense of one body when we validate the Fa. It is not a question of whether there is a one body or that the one body is not close enough.
When we came down from the cosmos, we might have made vows before Master and we might have told each other that we would look after one another. But when we are lost in the maze in this world, when fellow practitioners have attachments and are not able to get over tribulations, when practitioners experience physical interference, when practitioners enlighten along an evil path, when practitioners are arrested, when practitioners are detained, and when practitioners are tortured to death, do we remember that we are a particle of the one body, a particle of the firmament that Master has re-formed? Do we think of our historic vows? If we look after one another, and think of other practitioners first in doing everything, and regard ourselves and fellow practitioners as particles of a whole body, wouldn't it be impossible for much of the persecution to even happen?
Whenever there is a problem, we say that our whole body doesn't function well. I would like everyone to ask him/herself: Am I a part of the one body? When you gossip about others or reject others, aren't you stepping out of the whole body? When others come across difficulties and need your help, yet you become afraid and instead protect yourself, are you in the one body? When you face conflicts, yet don't look inward, and instead amplify the conflict, aren't you straying from the whole body?
Currently, a lot of practitioners are judging others by whether they have been discovered by police, and consider those who have not been discovered good, and those who have been discovered, bad. They don't use "Zhen-Shan-Ren" as "the Sole Criterion to Discern Good and Bad People" (Zhuan Falun). Because the criterion has been distorted, we are indifferent to other practitioners' tribulations and don't care about practitioners being persecuted. We even forget that we are beings who are here to validate the Fa. Some practitioners still blame fellow practitioners who are detained. If you are trying your best to protect practitioners, will they be arrested? Perhaps we have actually contributed to the practitioner's arrest.
The problems of the whole body are actually the xinxing problems of every practitioner. When we believe that we are one body, then we will think of other practitioners first and will treat other practitioners with compassion. When in conflict, we will surely remember that we are one body, let go of selfishness and prevent partitions between practitioners. The evil is still madly persecuting practitioners. We practitioners should send out a strong righteous thought: we are one body and his things are my things. We should treat one another with compassion and cooperate with one another to validate the Fa, harmonize the Fa, eliminate the evil and save more of the world's people and sentient beings.
This is my limited understanding. Please kindly point out anything inappropriate.
