PureInsight | March 4, 2002
When I just started cultivation practice, the practitioner who had introduced Dafa to me often told me to be strict with myself. At that time, I felt very pressured and was afraid to hear this.
Last night during meditation, this sentence spontaneously came to my mind, "I will be strict with myself in the future!" I realized that by holding myself strictly to the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance, I would be reinforcing my righteous thoughts even when I was not actively sending forth righteous thoughts. Therefore, this would leave no room for the evil, and I could avoid inadvertently supporting the evil. Personal attachments, bad thoughts, and intentions are also evils. If one is not strict with oneself, and does not resolutely eradicate the evil, the evil will hide in one's dimensional field. The evil can also escape to the other universe of the same level to harm others and interfere with the Fa-rectification.
I have practiced for only four months. I believe that we new cultivators should double our efforts. Because we have just started from the level of everyday people, we still have many attachments and bad thoughts to remove. Our state is not comparable to the pureness of some veteran practitioners. If we do not speed up, we may not only be unable to catch up with the process of Fa-rectification, but we may also play negative roles. Therefore, whenever I have some ideas that a cultivator should not have, including all sorts of attachments, an unstable mind, doubts, the attachment of fear and bad intentions, I immediately treat them as evils and firmly eradicate them. I think this has been effective for me. I am moving closer to the Fa.
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