(Minghui.org) A few days ago while chopping vegetables, I cut myself and bled a lot. “It’s ok,” I immediately thought. As I turned the water on to rinse off the blood, I thought, “Will it be infected?” I quickly negated the thought, “I am a practitioner and I am not restrained by everyday people’s principles.” I continued to rinse my hand, thinking, “The bleeding will stop after the platelet blood clotting process in the body takes effect.” I quickly negated it again, “That thought is of an everyday person's principle of healing. Cultivation has nothing to do with platelets.”
After a while the bleeding stopped and I continued to work. “Maybe I should not wash my hair today and wait until my finger gets better tomorrow.” I also negated this thought quickly, with the understanding, “A practitioner should do what he needs to do.” The dishwater, detergent, and shampoo got on my hand, but I stopped thinking like an everyday person. The wound healed in a couple of days. None of these thoughts came from an everyday person’s, “I’ll give it a try” attitude. Every thought came from firm belief in Teacher's Fa and from following the Fa principles. This was a small incident. We can look at similar situations presented below, and see how practitioners should handle things with righteous thoughts.
A senior practitioner of Falun Dafa fell and broke her leg. The injury lasted a year and did not heal. Teacher said in Zhuan Falun,
“Being a practitioner is supernormal, so as a supernormal person, you must conduct yourself with supernormal principles instead of measuring yourself with those of everyday people.”
This practitioner did not measure herself with supernormal principles (righteous thoughts).
“We have said that good or evil comes from a person’s spontaneous thought, and the thought at that moment can bring about different consequences.” (Zhuan Falun)
At the moment she was injured, had she thought “It’s nothing” she might have been just fine. A second senior practitioner twisted her leg one day during a truth clarifying activity. She heard two cracking sounds coming from her leg bone. She thought, “It’s nothing, why bother” and continued to distribute her fliers and clarify the facts of the persecution. When she got home, her leg was fine.
Let’s talk about the first practitioner again. The evil exploited her thoughts in this incident. She thought, “Maybe I should endure this injury because I have a lot of karma.” In this way, she asked for it. We all have reincarnated life after life and accumulated more and more karma. Everyone has a lot of karma. If Teacher did not help us eliminate our karma, we would not be able to endure it on our own. We would have died many times. Of course we know that Teacher eliminated our karma because we are true practitioners, we have important missions, and we have to save the sentient beings. When I talked with this practitioner, she realized that she suffered persecution because of her incorrect thoughts. She began to negate it. Some time passed, but her leg still did not heal.
I remembered an article talking about a Falun Dafa Culture Exhibit in Changchun City before July 20, 1999. Practitioners from all over the country rushed to see it. A woman on crutches walked in and a host at the exhibition stopped her and asked, “Are you a Falun Dafa practitioner? How come you are still on crutches if you practice Falun Dafa?” At that moment the woman was awakened. She set aside her crutches and marched into the exhibition. At that moment, she believed in Teacher and the Fa one hundred percent.
“Cultivation is up to you, gong is up to the master”
“We stress holistic improvement and holistic upgrade. If xinxing is upgraded, everything else will follow up.” (Zhuan Falun).
The woman was enlightened to that level and hence Teacher did everything to help her.
The second practitioner discussed above previously was terrified by the pain she experienced. If we dug deeper, wouldn’t we think that she was perhaps afraid of dying? Teacher can do anything for a true practitioner who believes in Teacher and the Fa. Teacher told a story about when he lectured in Guangzhou. A practitioner was unsure about his health and went to a hospital. After examination he was found to have cancer. He then decided that there was nothing he could do but keep practicing. His cancer soon went away. This happened because he let go of the attachment to life and death. There are many stories from experience sharing articles that are posted on the Falun Dafa website. One practitioner wrote about his insistence to meditate with his legs double crossed even with a fracture in his leg. A few days later the fracture was healed. Another practitioner with severe burns and infection of his skin bore the pain and insisted on doing all five exercises and meditation with legs double crossed. A week later the skin healed without any external help. All of these examples show how powerful righteous thoughts can be!
Recently, the second practitioner spoken of previously joined a group study session. With the cultivation sharing and the strong energy present during study, her health improved. I believe in the near future , with adequate righteous thoughts, she will be able to do the three things well. I hope that practitioners who do not have sufficient righteous thoughts will quickly break their human notions and gain righteous thoughts through Fa studying and true cultivation. We should not disappoint Teacher and walk well the path arranged for us.
Category: Improving Oneself
