(Minghui.org) These days, I have felt that something was not right in my cultivation. I became sleepy and muddle-headed when sending forth righteous thoughts. Some unknown pressure, worry, and fear kept popping up in my head. Several times, when I opened Zhuan Falun, the word “danger” appeared in front of my eyes.
I had a dream last night. I slept on a very dirty pillow. I knew it was filthy, but I still laid my head on it all the time.
The dream was so vivid that I recalled it clearly when doing Falun Dafa exercises this morning.
I asked myself if this was a reminder that I have some dirty stuff in my head.
I started looking within, and then I found it: I had been too attached to Donald Trump's being elected U.S. President. When I got online, I looked for every piece of news about him. Reading about it made me excited. I admired him. I felt happy that many people in his team understood and supported Falun Dafa. I hoped that many of them would take on key roles so that they could help end the Chinese Communist Party's ongoing persecution of Dafa.
I even started thinking that the persecution might end soon. “Will the new Chinese government put us Dafa practitioners in government office? After all, we have both the talent and high moral standards.”
This made me realize that I had a strong attachment to politics and events in the human world. I also had a strong attachment to time.
Right after I found these attachments, I felt that the things that made me muddle-headed were being dissolved. They left my body and floated away. I became clear-headed and had no more fear. My joy returned.
I knew that I had found the right problem. I then had a dream. Someone told me that a propane tank was leaking gas. I tightened the valve with a wrench. The danger was gone. In Chinese, the character for leaking gas is the same as the character for having gaps in cultivation.
Some recent articles on the Minghui website stated that there are other practitioners who also have an attachment to the year 2017.
Why is an attachment to time wrong?
First of all, who decides when Fa-rectification will end? It is Master.
Master will probably make his decision based on how many disciples have reached their destined levels and how many sentient beings have been saved. He might adjust the date based on the need for saving sentient beings.
As Dafa disciples, we can't rely on anything else to determine the progress of Fa-rectification. Believing in Master and believing in Dafa is a basic thing.
The human world changes as Master's Fa-rectification progresses. Master's will is the will of heaven. No one can stop it. Every person will show who they really are in this process, and that in turn determines whether he will be saved or eliminated.
As for human beings, we can tell them about the human world's changes and help them make the right decision to align them with Dafa, but we cannot rely on them to save Dafa.
Similarly, we know that time is tight, and we can only motivate ourselves to hurry up and be more diligent. We cannot fix our minds on some date.
Master told us,
“With gaps, human notions, and attachments, you will not be able to walk well your future path.” (“A Congratulatory Message to the European Fa Conference”)
Being attached to time or changes in human society is dangerous. It is a big gap in our cultivation. If we don't get rid of it, how can we reach consummation?
Category: Improving Oneself
