PureInsight | October 15, 2001
Truly leaving attachments behind is so different from not being able to let go of one’s attachments.
With attachments truly left behind, you feel relaxed, calm, pure and clean, clear, reasonable, kind and benevolent.
If you can not let go of your attachments, you feel tight, suppressed, tired, uncomfortable, depressed, frustrated, painfully expecting, resentful and tentative. It is very easy for you to have the attachment of zealotry, the mentality of showing off and other bad factors that will lead you to the evil path.
With attachments truly left behind, you feel such amazement that you are not part of any attachment.
With attachments truly left behind, you feel so relieved.
With attachments truly left behind, you feel so relaxed and you do things at will.
With attachment truly left behind, you feel steady, mature, lightened, and clear.
With attachments truly left behind, you feel so much more…. I found that it was really burdensome expressing my feelings with too many words. I think it is better to express my feelings without using words. Now I really understand the true meaning of the big hand gestures used by the great enlightenment beings.
With attachments truly left behind, everything in the human world is not important to you anymore. Everything in the human world seems so limited to you.
With attachments truly left behind, you are able to see the truth that so many people are restrained within the boundary delimited by humaness. They are unable to break through the invisible and shapeless constraints. You feel so sad that so many people have fallen into the sea of the bitterness and they will stay there forever without even knowing the truth.
With attachments truly left behind, you are so happy.
With attachments truly left behind, you feel that you are like a god, as tall as heaven. You feel the extraordinary responsibility and mission.
With attachments truly left behind, you feel such fearlessness and greatness.
Only with the attachments truly left behind, will the lightened boats sail swiftly. You will really know how great our Master is. You will realize how much our Master takes care of and protects his disciples. You will realize the incomparable benevolence that our Master offers to all beings in the cosmos. You will understand what Fa is. You will understand the compassionate heart of our Master. You will know how great our Master is. There is no language in the world that can express the greatness and benevolence of our Master. You will really understand the true meaning of the sentence “Look at the world with compassion, only then awaken from illusions.” (from “Achieving Consummation and Completing Gong” in Hongyin)
If you don’t want to eliminate attachments or if you relinquish them unwillingly, tentatively, or partially, you will feel bitterness, tired, suppressed, nervous, hesitant, unable to endure tribulations, collapsed, depressed, resentful and expectant. All of these will lead you to the evil path. You will be running in the opposite direction from our cultivation. You will be further and further away from your real home. This is exactly what one line in Master Li’s poem “Who Dares to Give up an Everyday Person’s Heart” in the book of Hongyin described. “Hate the blue sky if lost in tribulations.” You will not really understand the Fa. You will not really understand our Master. All of these are not the real enlightenment. Even though you said that you understand the Fa, you understand it using the everyday person’s heart or the speculating mind. Actually you “enlightened” along the evil path, and you will behave abnormally and unevenly. You will become more and more depressed, more and more controlled by the old evil forces. More and more evil demons will be grown in the other dimension. Eventually, you will be completely deformed and led to the evil path. You will damage the Fa, harm yourself, and you will destroy the true self.
This is my own understanding. I would really appreciate it if you kindly correct me on this.
Translated from:
http://www.zhengjian.org/zj/articles/2001/9/30/11891.html
