PureInsight | June 14, 2004
[PureInsight.org] This weekend, I participated in a parade. I have participated in several parades since starting practicing Falun Dafa, and although I don't really like parades in an ordinary sense, I realize, with each one that I am involved with, the greater significance of these seemingly ordinary things we do.
This time, as I stood on the trailer, doing the exercises for the spectators, I realized that in the not-so-distant future, those people standing out there watching us are going to look back at the Buddhas, Daos, and Gods that they "saw" this weekend. In the future, when terrible things are happening, when people are suffering all around the world, when events are unfolding that will leave the world in amazement, these people might very well be taking comfort in the memory of when they saw me standing on top of a little, tiny trailer, in a small-town parade, demonstrating to them the vehicle by which I cultivated into a god. They will remember the warmth and sincerity of my smile, the righteous feelings that emanated from my knowing that I was doing the most righteous thing in the world that day, and they will know that so many Buddhas, Daos, and Gods, loved them so much and did so much to save them.
When I looked out at them, I told myself to forget that my feet hurt, that my hair kept getting in my mouth when I smiled, or that my jaws were aching from all the smiling I was doing. My compassion almost overwhelmed me several times, and I had to work hard not to break down and cry.
In the past year, it has become increasingly difficult for me to deal with the knowledge of the problems that the world will face when the Fa rectifies the human world. I have often felt overwhelming sadness when realizing what it will truly be like for them. That night, after the parade, I was again overwhelmed with all of those thoughts. Then I realized that those feelings are just human notions — even though they may seem quite compassionate. People really do need to go through what the future will bring — when people see karmic retribution, Gods consummating, and the three realms being rectified, they will actually have a chance to be able to assimilate to the new future. People need to see how bad things are, so that they can be good again. They need to see what happens when they are not good. And, they need to see the magnificence and righteousness of Gods—things they don't even truly believe in anymore. This is truly the most compassionate thing!
Master has said so many times that Dafa disciples are magnificent, and I am just starting to realize what that really means. In my current understanding of this situation, I believe that we have, as Fa-rectification Dafa disciples, agreed to stay on here — [possibly even] past the point of reaching the standard for our own consummation — in order to save as many lives as possible. To stay in this world for even a moment longer than absolutely necessary — what does this signify? Doesn't this truly signify the greatest compassion and benevolence that any being could ever hope to achieve? When we actually do leave this place behind, looking back, maybe we will see how truly magnificent we are.
