(Clearwisdom.net) When a practitioner is persecuted, the old forces take advantage of the practitioner still clinging to attachments, but we shouldn't acknowledge the actions of the old forces. Even if a practitioner has attachments, he or she can be rectified by the Fa. Only Teacher--not the old forces--takes care of practitioners.
Conflicts or a disconnect among practitioners are often caused by each practitioner having his or her own attachments. When a conflict happens, practitioners usually use human principles to argue who is right or wrong. This is mistaking a practitioner's attachment for his true self, and blaming the problem on the other practitioner. Attachments are post-natal substances that are attached to human bodies. They are similar to dirt on a body. You can take a bath and clean the dust from your body. The accumulated dirt is on your body, but the dirt is not you. However, attachments can be used by an external evil force to persecute fellow practitioners.
The strength of our whole body is not solid because we are caught up in fellow practitioners' attachments and can't break away from this. We misunderstand and blame each other. The evil takes advantage of this and creates gaps among us which prevent us from forming a whole body.
We shouldn't fall into the old forces' trap by blaming each other for problems. It's time to break away from this superficial human shell. I, too, have just broken away from this state and have come to understand this. I wrote this article to remind practitioners to break away from fellow practitioners' attachments. Thinking that he is right or she is wrong is nothing but a human attachment. Upon hearing of other practitioners being persecuted, calmly notice how your own mind is affected and which attachment is stirred up. Look for it comprehensively and eliminate it when you find it. We should turn bad things into good things by helping form one whole body, then demonstrate the powerful might of Gods to save our fellow practitioners. Let's elevate together and save more sentient beings.
