PureInsight | January 17, 2002
I have benefited greatly from reading the articles published on Dafa's websites. It made me feel that all Dafa particles are one body. I believe that all Dafa particles can benefit immensely from the entire body.
I usually read the articles published on Dafa's websites late at night when it is quiet. After reading and understanding all practitioners' stories with a calm mind, I can feel the joy generated by this heart-to-heart sharing of experiences. Reading these experiences has become the happiest few moments of my everyday life. I clearly feel that although I have never known or met these practitioners, we have a lot in common as we cultivate the same magnificent Fa. I often have this experience: sometimes when enlightening to a certain principle, its meaning is not very clear in my head and I do not pay too much attention to it. However, its meaning suddenly becomes quite clear when I read about similar experiences in other practitioner's articles. I say to myself, "Yes!!! It contains same experience and understanding I had." Sometimes it is very difficult to let go of attachments. At times when I get depressed and become very disappointed with myself, I read other practitioners' articles discussing similar experiences and the process of how they eliminate the attachments. This encourages me a great deal and I tell myself that I will succeed in eliminating these attachments too. Sometimes after practitioners expose their attachments and analyze them deeply in their experience sharing articles, it appears that my attachments have become weaker as well, and these attachments no longer control me as strongly as they did before.
I feel that when a practitioner published his or her righteous insight or righteous enlightenment on the PureInsight website, the insight would be held by more practitioners, thus instilling righteous factors into the whole body of Dafa particles. When a practitioner exposes his or her deviated notions or attachments on the Dafa website, the true nature of such deviations will be recognized even more clearly by other practitioners as their own attachment. Hence it won't have the power to control practitioners as intensely as before. Thus I think it does not matter whether you feel you have cultivated well or not, nor does it matter which level you are at, as long as you are a Dafa disciple who cultivates genuinely, your experience is a treasure that could benefit many other practitioners. Since you are someone walking on the path of cultivation, you will leave behind sturdy footprints.
Many articles published on Dafa's websites shake my whole being. Recently, the postings that moved my heart most deeply have been an article entitled 'Overcoming Humiliation by Low-Level Beings" published on the Pureinsight website and a short poem written by practitioners published on Minghui website. In the article 'Overcoming Humiliation by Low-Level Beings," it mentioned that we are in fact being humiliated by the low-level beings if we can not let go of all kinds of human attachments. I have thought of this point long and hard recently. What causes me the greatest agony is when I had conflicts with others or when I was treated unfairly by others. My heart feels all sorts of pain and the suffering is in extreme. Indeed aren't those attachments I could not let go of mistreating me? I understood this point a long time ago. But it did not become clear to me until after I read this article by a fellow practitioner. I recognized the fundamental reason for my being in the tribulation for a long time.
The other article, which touched my heart deeply, is a short poem named 'Let Go of Attachments':
'A long, long time ago, we came down to earth
The only reason is for obtaining the Fa in this life
What a ridiculous show that we have been putting on in this mortal world
Let us hurry to let go of our attachments and follow our Master back to our origins'
When I read 'What a ridiculous show that we have been putting on in this mortal world', a part of me suddenly felt awakened. Recently I had become overly concerned about my future, my job, my housing problem and so on. I also had the desire and attachment of enjoying an easy and comfortable life. Now I feel that it is really too ridiculous to be attached to material comforts as they are as transient as a fleeting cloud. At that moment, I felt that my somewhat muddled heart had been cleansed yet again. Suddenly, I felt that nothing in this material world is worth yearning for. I ask for nothing except Dafa. Thus, I again rectified my heart, which had begun yearning for things in this world.
Translated from:
http://www.zhengjian.org/zj/articles/2001/12/9/12820.html
