(Clearwisdom.net) I am a Falun Dafa practitioner and live in the countryside. I really admire that those practitioners who live in town have the opportunity to study the Fa, share cultivation experiences, clarify the truth and save sentient beings together. Practitioners in our village are different. Some are busy making money; some are busy planting crops and vegetables, and others are busy doing other things. Many practitioners are immersed in everyday affairs and pursue personal gain. I, too, gradually fell into this state without being aware of it. Of course, some practitioners are doing well in their cultivation and in saving sentient beings.
Last year I planted some vegetables in my field, which covers about 3 mu (1 mu = 0.164819 acres). I studied the Fa and practiced the exercises every day. I participated in sending forth righteous thoughts at set global times almost every day. Sometimes, I sent forth righteous thoughts nine times a day. I also did not stop clarifying the truth. During the day when I sold vegetables, I successfully helped 14 people to quit the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its affiliated organizations. Nine of them were people I had hired to help me. I clarified the truth to them while we were eating. The other five included a man and his four employees who bought my vegetables. I was very happy that day, because I had been able to help those people. In those days, I always had the Fa on my mind and based on Dafa, Teacher gave me tremendous wisdom. As a Dafa disciple in the Fa-rectification period, I walked on a righteous path of cultivation. My gross profit that year amounted to more than 17,000 yuan, which was more than I had expected. Ordinary people were surprised and some said: “Let's practice Falun Gong. Look how wonderful the vegetables that Falun Gong practitioners plant are!” I also showed the wonder of Dafa in this way.
However, I've found that it's very difficult to always stay in the Fa while living in ordinary human society. Without my noticing it, my mind got contaminated in this big dye vat of everyday society. As my family's financial situation was very good, this year I decided to plant vegetables in a field covering 6 mu. I thought that I would harvest more this year than last year, especially onions. Since the day I started planting onions I developed human attachments, thinking: “I will try my best to have a better harvest this year, so I will put more effort into it and take good care of it. I will apply more water and fertilizer to the field. I will try to do better than anyone else.” Human desires surfaced immediately, and thus I was completely involved in the field work. I slacked off studying the Fa and practicing the exercises. As a result, I delayed completing my mission of saving sentient beings. In the end, the onions planted by others were good, but my onions were not. I was busy and frustrated, and jealousy, a competitive mentality, being upset, attachment to personal gain and various other human attachments and desires surfaced. I couldn't study the Fa or practice the exercises in a calm state, nor could I keep my palm erect while sending forth righteous thoughts. I slacked off in saving sentient beings. I earned less than ten thousand yuan for the entire year.
Some local practitioners had similar experiences. Some haven't been able to step forward to clarify the truth, and others haven't read or gotten the Minghui Weekly and Teacher's new lectures. Some gave up their cultivation. A few got up early in the morning to go to work and earn money, but could not do so to practice the exercises. Actually, practitioners who sell vegetables in town also leave their homes early in the morning and return home late in the evening. They rarely do the three things. They have forgotten their historic vows, as well as the great wishes and expectations of countless sentient beings. How will we be able to face the Final Judgment? Time waits for no one, and we must not miss this predestined opportunity for which we have waited tens of millions of years.
I would like to take this opportunity to express my great thanks to fellow practitioners who often produce and deliver materials. You've worked really hard. I hope that you can help practitioners around you. I also hope that you could write more relevant articles and wake up fellow practitioners in your vicinity.
Teacher said:
“Snap out of it! If even this, the most wicked ordeal ever, can't wake you up, then when the Fa rectifies the human world you will only be able to watch--watch with shock and regret, with angst and lamentable despair for having done so poorly--the magnificent sight of the Consummation of those Dafa disciples who truly cultivated. It's a case of reaping what you sow. I don't want to leave behind even one single Dafa disciple, but you have got to improve yourselves through real Fa-study and cultivation! With validating the Fa, you should save the world's people and do well the three things Dafa disciples are supposed to do. Be diligent! Cast aside your human attachments. Godhood isn't far away.” ("In Fa-Rectification Your Thoughts Have to be Righteous, Not Human")
