PureInsight | December 17, 2007
[PureInsight.org] My
understanding from Teacher's Lecture on the attachment of zealotry is
that Falun Dafa practitioners should not behave in irrational ways and
be eccentric or go to extremes. Such behavior can be damaging for the
Fa. I would like to talk about some aspects of the attachment of
zealotry I came to realize in my cultivation.
For example, from time to time I read in experience sharings about
practitioners who, after learning Falun Dafa, stopped meeting with
their friends or stopped playing an instrument because they considered
it to be an attachment. This kind of behavior seems to be present in
new practitioners who don't have a deep understanding in the Fa. If I
stop meeting with my friends, don't I lose an opportunity to clarify
the truth to them or to people I meet through them? If I am talented in
writing and I stop writing because I consider it an attachment, doesn't
this mean that I do not do my job well as Teacher requires us to do?
I remember a time when, a few months after I had learned Falun Dafa, I
was invited to the house of a friend whom I hadn't seen for a long
time. I went there full of intention. I was thinking, "I will talk to
him about Falun Dafa" and that was the only thing I had in mind. I
didn't even care to hear about how my friend was doing. How
disrespectful! So after some time I told him that I wanted to talk to
him about something important, meaning Falun Dafa. He immediately
developed resistance. The sister of this friend of mine mentioned her
cousin from Australia who, "OK, is a nice person but every time she
meets with them she talks about her religion and tries to convert
them." I have also experienced such a case, when a person approached me
and wanted to be friends with me just because he had the intention to
convert me. After I said I wasn't interested he
disappeared.
Falun Dafa practitioners should clarify the truth about Falun Dafa with
compassion and wisdom. If I approach people full of intention and the
attachment of zealotry, won't I have a negative effect? My truth
clarification now comes naturally in the flow of a discussion and, I
want to believe, without intention. We can save a person when we
clarify the truth to him/ her with compassion without having to talk to
him /her about Falun Dafa full of zealotry.
Another thing is the importance of realizing that we cultivate in our
lives. We do not separate from our lives to practice cultivation. This
is also something connected to the attachment of zealotry. After I had
practiced cultivation for some time, I developed the fear that I am
full of attachments and I wanted to give up everything I used to do. As
a result I became disconnected from my life and I put a big burden on
myself that was damaging for my cultivation. Teacher says that we
should cherish our human lives. If we disconnect ourselves from our
lives and if we lose the settings where we can practice cultivation,
how then are we supposed to cultivate? Being in the Fa and practicing
actual cultivation every moment according to the Fa does not mean that
doing Falun Dafa projects becomes our whole life. In fact we have to
find the right balance between doing things for Dafa and maintaining a
normal life in society.
These are a few thoughts I came to realize in my cultivation and I wanted to share.
