(Minghui.org) When I see male and female practitioners being careless in interacting with each other, I remind them to pay attention to their behavior. However, most of them do not accept my words but respond with, “We are fellow practitioners, so what's there to worry about? What could happen between us?”
I believe that such practitioners are confused about a very important matter: the relationship between men and women is a very serious issue.
People nowadays don't attend to the details in their behavior and often indulge their demon nature. Human society has deteriorated to such a state. In China, when men and women are in contact with each other, many of them feel free and easy and behave very casually. What happens between them is not clean and upright.
As practitioners, we should pay close attention to this. Male and female practitioners can interact with each other in a dignified and decent way, but shouldn't go beyond those boundaries.
Teacher said,
“he is full of great aspirations while minding minor details” (from “Sage,” Essentials for Further Advancement)
My understanding about “minding minor details” is that it also implies self-respect and respecting others, as well as restraint on human attachments.
Not minding such details might conceal our hard to detect attachments; it might stem from our covering up human attachments and indulging our demon nature; our improper behavior might invite the old forces to create more temptations for us, amplify our attachments and eventually ruin us.
Cultivation is not easy. It is very serious. Please do not take seemingly minor things lightly.
Category: Improving Oneself
