PureInsight | October 8, 2001
Dafa never leaves the body,
Heart contains Zhen-Shan-Ren;
A great Arhat in the world,
Spirits and ghosts fear the most.
(Master Li)
I want to talk a little about my under standing of “mighty virtue.” I think the first two lines in Teacher’s “Mighty Virtue,” “Dafa never leaves the body, Heart contains Zhen Shan-Ren” talk about virtue. The next two lines, “A great Arhat in the world, gods and ghosts fear the most,” talks about “mighty power,” in combination, ARE mighty virtue.
“Mighty virtue” consists of “mighty power and virtue.” These two are one body. There is mighty power within virtue and there is virtue within mighty power. Mighty power without virtue is tyranny, not “mighty power.” Real virtue has no strength without mighty power. Virtue is the foundation of mighty power, and mighty power is the manifestation of virtue. In other words, “(they) fear (you) the most” not just because you are “a great Arhat in the world,” but also because you are an Arhat whose “Dafa never leaves the body; Heart contains Zhen-Shan-Ren,” who is a god in Dafa. That’s why you have the mighty power that “gods and ghosts fear the most.” When the mighty power shows, the most direct result is others “fear,” in plain words, (they) fear you, but fear you not in a common sense of the word. It’s fear mixed with admiration, which can also be called awe. They simply regard you with awe.
When we are safeguarding and validating Dafa and exhibiting Dafa’s mighty virtue, more times than not we show more of “virtue”, which is what we usually call “great compassion and great tolerance.” However, (we) don’t very fully exhibit Dafa’s “great power.” The evil cannot see the power because your “power” is not showing. That’s the reason they dare to mistreat Dafa practitioners. In fact, when we are enduring persecution that is not supposed to be endured by us, that’s humiliation to Dafa. Because you are a Dafa particle, and represent Dafa in the human world, the persecution of you by the evil is the persecution of Dafa. How can Dafa be persecuted by these extremely low and dirty, evil things? Don’t even let them touch a slight bit, anything; that is profane to the sacred Dafa. They “are not worthy of playing any role in Fa-rectification” at all. (Teacher’s article “The Effect of Righteous Thought”) No matter how highly placed a god is, not to mention these extremely low-level filthy things, he/she is not worthy to test Dafa and it’s a sin to do so. They only have one option, which is to be rectified by Dafa practitioners’ purest, boundless power endowed them by Dafa, and they are not worthy to touch even a hair of a Dafa practitioner. Teacher does not acknowledge this persecution, which has not been arranged by Teacher and will therefore be eliminated by Teacher. We are Teacher’s disciples. We walk on paths arranged by Teacher. Therefore, the evil arrangements made by all other old forces should be removed by the root, and they absolutely shouldn’t be allowed to exist for even a little bit, even one second longer. Our compassion is used to save all beings. It’s absolutely not permissible that it be used by the old forces to persecute us, further persecute Dafa and hamper Teacher’s Fa rectification. As for the beings with kind hearts and righteous thoughts, we manifest Dafa’s “virtue” to save them. For those completely wretched evil beings, we manifest Dafa’s “power” to eliminate them, “to clear away the damage these beings have deliberately done to the Fa-rectification” (Teacher’s article “The Effect of Righteous Thought”). “Power” includes infinite solemnity and boundless power, encompassing countless meanings. That is why “power” is intimidating. When you have the infinite solemnity and boundless power endowed by Dafa and are helping Teacher to rectify Fa and eliminate all evil, the evil will only be afraid of running too slow at the first sight of you and thus be eradicated. How would it even dare to persecute you?
When you really manifest Dafa’s mighty virtue before Dafa’s “power,” the evil will only run away to escape, or be eradicated during Fa rectification. How would it dare to touch you? There is a saying, “being mighty without being angry” - not to mention that we are Teacher’s Fa-rectification disciples and Fa-protection gods. We should try to be even more majestic and awe-inspiring! Actually, sending out righteous thoughts to “ eliminate all evil and save all beings” is our godly side’s power of manifesting Dafa’s mighty virtue in other dimensions.
Dafa’s power and virtue should be shown simultaneously. Virtue touches all beings with kind thoughts; power eradicates all evil, absent of righteous thoughts. Dafa’s virtue combines all kind and righteous thoughts. Dafa’s power eradicates all evil. When we really and completely manifest Dafa’s mighty virtue and remove all barriers, all will be extraordinarily smooth. Because in front of Dafa’s mighty virtue, all kind and righteous thoughts will melt and combine, all evil will be eliminated instantly, and then all will be fetterless and in perfect harmony. We didn’t do this yet because we haven’t completely assimilated Dafa’s mighty virtue. This is also “omission.” We are Fa rectification disciples. We are particles of Dafa, and Dafa makes up all that we have. Dafa is solemn and sacred. Dafa is great and stately. Dafa’s virtue benefits all beings. Dafa’s benevolence is boundless! All that we have comes from Dafa. Dafa gives us all that is purest, therefore we are solemn, we are sacred, we are compassionate, we are stately, we have infinite power, we are indestructible, and we are also able to break through all encumbrances. We are so insignificant in Dafa, but we are also so magnificent because we are Dafa particles. In our magnificent power that overcomes all, in our great benevolence that pities all beings, Dafa exhibits its mighty virtue through us.
Let us exhibit Dafa’s mighty virtue by our sincerity in clarifying the truth! Let us exhibit Dafa’s mighty virtue through our smiles when saving people! Let us exhibit Dafa’s mighty virtue through our calmness when facing life and death! Let us exhibit Dafa’s mighty virtue through our momentum when facing the old forces and stamp the evil under our feet! Let us exhibit Dafa’s mighty virtue through our upright posture when walking, sitting and sleeping! Let us exhibit Dafa’s mighty virtue through our pure compassion, in our talk and behavior! Let us exhibit Dafa’s mighty virtue through our indestructible righteous thoughts! Let us exhibit Dafa’s immeasurable benevolence to all beings through our solemn elimination of all evils!
A short poem ends this article:
The power penetrates through countless levels of the cosmos
Virtue benefits all beings without a trace
The master has one dignified body that combines Buddha, Tao and God
Turning the Law Wheel, rectify the Fa and create miracles in the world
Above is only a little shallow understanding of mine. Fellow practitioners, please benevolently point out anything that is incorrect.
September 11, 2001
Translated from:
http://www.zhengjian.org/zj/articles/2001/9/11/11717.html
