PureInsight | December 10, 2001
Every being has a field surrounding it. That field is within that being’s control. When other beings enter this field, they have to conform to the nature of this field. When they enter another being’s field, they intensify and enlarge that field.
Based on the view that a being has its own field under its own control, beings that control people include space, time, fatigue, imagination, sleep, pain, laziness and anger. They all have their own field. If we do not enter their field, we will be out of their control. If we do not have these notions, we break free of their control. For example, if we are afraid, we are controlled by “fear.” Then it arranges our life according to its rules. Meanwhile, our own fear nurtures the field of “fear.” When we remove the notion of fear from our heart, we are out its control.
Another example is “anger.” When someone gets angry, he is controlled by it. “Anger” then manipulates this person to do something unreasonable. The person will have regrets afterwards, but at that moment he did not control himself. Instead, he was strongly controlled by “anger.” If we want to become free of anger, we must remove the notion of it from our mind. If there is no anger in our mind, how could it take control? Just like a truck filled with iron passing through a magnetic field. If we get rid of the iron in the truck, the magnetic field no longer attracts it.
Every being that controls humans has its own nature. For instance, anger and hatred can manipulate people to beat and kill others. Anger has to be accessed for someone to wish to beat others. Otherwise, he could not raise his hand. It is because the being called “kindness” does not have the idea of beating people. I remember an article from the Internet about a senior practitioner’s glancing at a vicious policeman. The policeman, who was poised to beat someone, dropped his hands. The Dafa practitioner’s compassionate field dissolved the evil power behind the policeman. He could no longer beat anyone when he was released from the evil being’s control. Great benevolent compassion [Shan] is a manifestation of the nature of the universe. It can dissolve anything, including attachments, because it is more microscopic and more powerful than what it is dissolving.
In a field of kindness, one becomes peaceful, kind and friendly, and always considerate of others. This will make one feel warm and grateful. This is the nature of “kindness.” “Affection for kinfolk” is different. It contains the element of consideration of others, but also contains the element of selfishness. It tends to be good to those close to it, but not to outside people. Hence, it is not very good. The realm of great benevolent compassion is enormous and unselfish. It has the power to let people fully embrace others without any selfishness.
When a person does or says something, he is always in a particular state at that period of time. He will then reflect the nature of all the beings in his field in whatever he says or does. For example, when a person says something in a compassionate state, others will feel warm and happy and be attracted to him or her. When a person says something with the purpose of persuading others, they will sense pressure and something uncomfortable. So they become very defensive. When a person says something with the heart of showing off, others will sense the selfishness and dislike it.
The same words, spoken on different occasions have different effects. What really matters is not how beautiful the words are, but the elements behind them. In other words, what matters is the realm from which the person is speaking. Master wrote Zhuan Falun using spoken language, which expresses the inner meaning of the entire universe. Sometimes, even if someone speaks excitedly about these principles, we do not feel anything. A single, simple phrase “ listen to ‘Master’” by a fellow practitioner can truly touch our heart. I try to adjust my state when writing to express myself with compassion and peace from the bottom of my heart. I even attempt to use the unselfish origin of my life to do something. I have not done so yet, but I will keep trying.
Some of those beings that control humans also have their own time fields. The pace of time is different when people are in different states. When people are in the field of anxiety, time is very slow. In the field of happiness, time passes quite quickly. Ages ago, degenerate principles in the human world were not very strong. In other words, their fields were not large. Since people gradually gave them more attention, thus intensifying their density and enlarging their volume. When the energy of a wrong principle increases, it controls the beings that believe it. Today, these base principles have already done a lot of harm to mankind. They include atheism, evolution, “an arm can never beat a leg”, “a wise man knows how to protect himself”, “the good die young”, “a good person is more likely to be bullied”, “a nice horse is likely to be chosen to ride” and so on. When we correct these corrupted notions of everyday people and even ourselves, we are cleansing them and ourselves. Otherwise, the field that these generate is a barrier during Fa-rectification.
If we want to get out of the control of low-level beings, we need to do stay out of their fields. We need to remove the effects of those beings and break through the restraints of their notions to clear out their concepts. The body is composed of cells, whose thoughts are almost the same as our thoughts. When our cells break through the restrictions of those thoughts, our body will be completely free. We will enter a new realm. Of course, from an even higher perspective, thought is also a being. It has a field and controls us. So we need to break the restraint of thought.
Once freed from the restraint of the low-level material field, Dafa practitioners are truly free, and supernormal capabilities can be used freely. In the article “What Are Supernormal Abilities” Master said, “The fundamental reason is that—from the highest level of the cosmos to the lowest level of the cosmos—the lower it gets, the higher the proportion of matter beings and everything in their particular realms have, the larger the particles' grains are, and the more heavily weighted beings are—the lower it gets, the more the beings' innate abilities (supernormal abilities) are restrained by matter itself, and the more heavy this restraint, the less effective the abilities are.” The more material fields one can break through, the higher one’s level, the more powerful are one’s capabilities. When sending forth righteous thoughts, if we are filled with the fields of those low-level notions such as doubt, fear, “I’ll give it a try”, show-off mentality, zealotry and hatred, how can our thought be powerful? Only pure, righteous thoughts are truly powerful. When a practitioner has broken through all the restraints from the effects of low-level thoughts, the control of all different concepts, time, space and so on, what is left? It is our original True Self, which is everywhere, with no beginning and no end. The origin that created all space, time and matter, are Ourselves. We are the origin of our own realms, the water that never moves. When my heart reaches that realm I sense the greatness of It. Everything is under my control. All beings that used to control me are gone. Only their effects remain within myself. I penetrate everything, so they are all under my control. Eliminating demons is also eliminating some things in myself. In that realm, everything becomes quite simple.
Dafa created everything in the universe. Only by assimilating to Dafa can we truly find ourselves. Dafa brings us to the realm of true freedom without limit.
We were enlightened to these concepts during Fa study and wish to share them with others.
Translated from:
http://www.zhengjian.org/zj/articles/2001/11/29/12664.html
