(Clearwisdom.net) Recently, some practitioners and I came to an understanding that when we encountered things in everyday life, especially things between men and women, some bad feelings or notions are reflected onto our minds and bodies. Thinking that perhaps they have slipped in their cultivation or even feeling that they no longer deserve to be cultivators, some practitioners became regretful or even annoyed and discouraged as a result. Their mindset of giving up on themselves negatively affects their confidence and determination in practicing cultivation, and this mindset is wrong because it inappropriately acknowledges an element that is not part of their real, true selves.
Because people have acquired karma in different lifetimes, these post-natally acquired notions may be reflected onto practitioners' bodies and cause them to have this kind of mental state. Since they now practice cultivation, all of these negative things are set to be eliminated. Therefore, they will try everything to stop a practitioner from cultivating.
At certain levels, cultivators' bodies are open. Each acupuncture point and sweat pore is open, and as a result a practitioner may be able to sense external messages. If we are not vigilant and do not pay attention to what is happening, some messages in the environment, including some parts that fellow practitioners haven't cultivated away, may reflect onto our bodies and dimensional fields, which in turn may bring about interference.
Everything in the Three Realms, especially human beings, is immersed in emotion, which includes love between a man and a woman. This emotion affects every aspect of human beings at every moment, and only a cultivator is able to recognize and eliminate it. However, when the righteous thoughts of a cultivator are not strong enough, he (or she) may also be affected by human emotions and feelings. But that type of feeling is actually nothing but a momentary flash. It is not your real self and neither is it part of your master soul. As long as we truly practice cultivation to actively restrain and eliminate such emotions, they will completely disappear. At the same time, our xinxing level and Fruit Status will be upgraded through this process.
The "ten sins" (spoken of in traditional Chinese culture) are very prevalent in today's society, especially pertaining to sexual interactions between men and women. In other dimensions, these things are filled with evil, rotten demons. These things constantly interfere with cultivators' thoughts and bodies, causing us to have wrong feelings, misunderstandings, bad notions, etc.
When we use Master's Fa to measure right from wrong and once our righteous thoughts are strong, we will truly have the divine might to overcome any obstacle.
The above is my personal understanding. Please kindly point it out if anything is improper.
