(Minghui.org) I thought for a long time that the local cultivation environment among Falun Dafa practitioners was not good. I felt it should be an environment where everyone looked within to improve themselves. But after several years, the environment had not changed. I lost hope for our group and developed a negative attitude towards them, thinking that they were following a path arranged by the old forces.
I was struck one day by this passage from “A Dialogue with Time”:
“Divine Being: These problems have already become very serious. It would be good if they could manage to search within themselves for the things that they have been able to find in others.
Master: It’s time for them to become clear headed so that their environment can turn into one for true cultivation practice, and thus they will be able to become real gods.” (“A Dialogue with Time,” Essentials for Further Advancement)
I realized after thinking about it that I had not actually done what Master asks of Dafa practitioners. After thinking about it and looking within I realized that it was not my external environment that was negative. It was my own view of the other practitioners, which made it seem that way. When I took a careful, honest look inside for what I saw in others, and considered the other practitioners’ sincere hearts to cultivate, my negative thoughts and resentment disappeared immediately.
I had been stuck in a quagmire of my own creation for several years. Once I saw that my negativity was caused by an attachment, I let it go and my cultivation environment instantly improved.
Category: Improving Oneself
