PureInsight | December 10, 2001
This morning as I was doing the exercises, I listened to Teacher’s instructions for Exercise #3: “Jinghua Benti (Purify the body), Fakai Dingdi (The Fa unlocks the top and bottom energy passages), Xinci Yimeng (The heart is benevolent and the will is strong), Tongtian Chedi (Reach the zenith of heaven and the nadir of earth).” I experienced the power of “the heart is benevolent and the will is strong,” and I really felt that I had reached “the zenith of heaven and the nadir of earth.”
I realized that I should always maintain a heart of benevolence, and at the same time, I should work diligently. I have often not had enough compassion toward fellow practitioners when I thought the state of my cultivation was quite good. When I've seen the shortcomings of other practitioners, I haven’t been able to tell them with kindness from the heart, but with the energy of ill feelings; this has caused them to feel pressure. This approach has neither solved the problem of our work nor helped them to make progress.
I was only in the state of “the heart is benevolent” when I was not very diligent with my own cultivation. Actually, it is not genuine benevolence. Instead, it is simply tolerating unrighteousness while my own state of cultivation is not good. Most of the time, it was because I did not do well and felt guilty, so I was afraid of exposing unrighteousness by asking fellow practitioners to help me remove it altogether.
We also should follow the guidelines of “the heart is benevolent and the will is strong” towards ordinary people. We should maintain a heart of benevolence and consider the guidelines when doing anything, so as to break ordinary people's human notions with wisdom. At the same time, we should not accommodate their distorted notions. I don’t think that we should accept ordinary people’s deviated notions in order to leave them with a good impression of Dafa. If we do, then what they truly agreed with was not Dafa, but their own deviated notions.
Translated from:
http://www.zhengjian.org/zj/articles/2001/11/17/12525.html
