PureInsight | January 26, 2014
[PureInsight.org] I will write down a story about a fellow practitioner and me to share with you my understandings of “emotion” and “predestined” as enlightened from the Fa.
1. Dispute between Emotion and Predestined Relationships
A fellow male practitioner was my classmate, and our mothers both cultivated. Ten years ago when the persecution just began, our families were very close. However, because we did not handle it well, we later developed emotions for each other. The difference was we did not like each other. He liked me very much, yet the more he liked me, the more I found him annoying. We thus became entangled in this unclear yet inescapable matter for over a year. Our families also became involved. Our mothers (both practitioners) were also dragged into it. In the end, he had to repeat a year of school because he did not get into college. I also only got into a specialist college.
When we sunk too deep into emotions and could not extricate ourselves, another fellow practitioner took me out of town to help me. When I went to see this fellow male practitioner and his mother one last time before I left, just as I waved goodbye, I had a sudden feeling that my predestined relationship with this fellow male practitioner had ended.
After I got out of town, the local practitioners there studied the Fa and shared with me, hoping I could improve myself. However at that time, I had already sunk too deep into tribulations. I wanted just to leave my home and never have to go back to face him again. Just when I became determined to stay far away from his home, the fellow practitioner helping me advised me to rethink it again. When I looked down and went into deep thought, a vivid scene appeared in my mind: standing in front of me to my left stood a skeleton –like God wearing white robes (I now realize it was the Old Forces), and standing in front of me to the right was Master wearing golden robes. Master’s expression was as heavy as water as he looked at me. At that time, I thought flashed across my mind: go with Master or go with the Old Forces, choose yourself! I suddenly became a little more clearheaded. Even if I did not want to or if I had too much grievance, I would go with Master! When I returned home again, my mother told me that the fellow male practitioner had decided not to look for me anymore. The emotional tribulation that lasted for over a year between us was instantly dissolved under Master’s compassionate power!
A few years later, a classmate told me that the male fellow practitioner was going to study abroad. At that time, I had just graduated not long ago, I had no secure job and my lifestyle was not optimal. When I heard this information, I was filled with different emotions. When I thought about him spreading his wings and doing great things while I was living an impoverished lifestyle, the attachments to competition, jealousy and fame and benefits all emerged. Especially when I thought about his previous feelings for me, I could not suppress my emotions and desires from raging and somersaulting within me.
I begged for Master to help me and put in great effort to study the Fa. I struggled to suppress my boiling human thoughts and desires. Suddenly one of Master’s Fa lines appeared in my head:
“You may talk cultivation
But you have to discard the attachments
That you hold deep inside
What’s given up is not oneself
But instead the folly of delusion” (Hong Yin Volume II: Discarding Attachments).
I became more clearheaded and realized that everything I could not let go of was my true self! That night I had a dream. I was next to a pond and became enraptured by the beautiful scene within the pond to the point that I had forgotten how to return. The scene suddenly changed. There was a mirror that reflected many beautiful flowers blooming. I knew that I could not actually take any of the flowers within the mirror, yet I kept reaching for them over and over again…
When I woke up, I laughed at myself for being so foolishly deluded. From then on, I viewed emotions a little more lightly.
2. Wisdom Enlightenment to Emotions and Predestined Relationships
Today, that fellow male practitioner is doing what he should be doing overseas. We have not had any communication in the past ten years. I would think about our past situation occasionally. Aside from the Old Forces using our attachment to persecute us, I always thought there was another reason why it all happened, but I never enlightened to it.
Recently thinking about Master’s words of wisdom about this issue, I suddenly had a little more insight into the words “emotion” and “predestined”: as a cultivator, when my main consciousness is clear, I can sense that outside my body is a very dense matter of “emotion”. When my inner heart is pure, “emotions” have no effect on me. When I slightly move my thoughts and become controlled by notions or thought karma, “emotions” will take effect. The human notions of happiness, anger, sadness and joy then arise.
In my level, I enlightened to the fundamentals of human “emotions” and “predestined relationships”: “emotion” is a God that is formed within the three realms to restrict sentient beings within the three realms and facilitate the existence and flourishing of beings. Beings that descend to this realm (the three realms) are suppressed and controlled by “emotion”. They experience love, hatred, emotions and vengeance through the various grudges formed by “emotion” and “predestined relationships”. If a being wants to ascend, it must breakthrough the control of “emotion”. This is the rule of the universe.
As for human “predestination”, Gods lay out humans’ paths based on their karma and predestined relationships. In the eyes of the Gods, whether humans love or hate, when the predestined relationship ends, they each must let go. However, people are just too deluded and complain about themselves in the midst of “emotion”. In fact it is all just wishful thinking. Master has explained to us long ago, “But when a person comes to this world, it is karmic arrangements that determine his course of life and what will be gained and lost in it. How could a person’s notions determine each stage of his life? So those so-called ‘beautiful dreams and wishes’ become pursuits that can never be realized, despite painful attachments” (Essentials for Further Advancement II –Towards Consummation).
As for “predestination”, I enlightened to the fact that its origin and meaning are very deep in the Fa-rectification process: in their descent and reincarnation through various levels in the universe, beings formed predestined relationships with other beings from various realms, including compassionate and evil predestined relationships. Perhaps in this process, some beings gathered debt from other beings, including Gods. These kinds of debts could not be repaid by ordinary cultivators in the past, including the enlightened beings Shakyamuni, Jesus and Lao Zi. They were also incapable of disentangling the debts of their disciples. Aside from reaching Nirvana with blood and flesh to balance things out, they could only choose to save one’s subordinate consciousness. Due to the complex predestined relationships within the universe, these enlightened beings had no way to fundamentally solve those problems. Only Master has the capability, only the endless Dafa can do so! So Master is saving sentient beings (saving the main consciousness) from the fundamental level, completely untangling all predestined relationships and debts on all beings! Master said, “Saving a single person is related to an enormous scope of lives in the cosmos. That’s how big the impact is. Then how big is it with 100 million people? As you know, back when Jesus was saving people—he was devoted to saving people—yet why was he crucified? And Jesus was just saving his own people! His people had incurred karmic debts during their reincarnations, and he didn’t have the means to resolve those. Since the beings of the cosmos that Jesus faced were lives of tremendous sizes, countless in number, and beings of great heights, with beings of even greater heights and of simply immeasurable proportions included in the mix—and so large were they that even the average god wouldn’t be able to know their height—and with these, too, numbering countless many, what could he possibly do if they wanted to make him repay people’s debts and wouldn’t let him off? One could never free oneself from that. At the end of his life, Jesus pleaded to Jehovah, ‘May I be spared crucifixion?’ But there was nothing Jehovah could do either. Jesus was left with no choice but to use his own blood, his human life, and endure suffering to pay them back. Only this way could he be freed” (What is a Dafa Disciple).
I was never able to fully enlighten to the reason behind the past situation from ten years ago, but as I matured in cultivation, I developed a completely new understanding: no matter what grudges I had with that fellow practitioner in this or previous lives, we both came for the Fa. We had the divine predestined relationship of Fa. Even though for the past ten years, I have already given up everything and not contacted him that is just the end of our predestined human relationship. We are fundamentally Dafa disciples. What connects us is the divine predestination with Fa. No matter how far apart we are in the human world, and no matter whether or not we will see each other again, in the end we are revolving by Master’s side, collectively being diligent to assist Master in the Fa-rectification process. In the future, we will be in our own heavenly worlds working together to preserve the new universe’s eternal harmony!
Reminiscing upon the cultivation path in the past few years, under Master’s guidance, we formed predestined relationships with different practitioners during different time periods. We encouraged and supported each other, matured in the Fa together and completed the important task Master gave us. We each held up a blue sky in the region for which we were responsible.
I enlightened to the fact that in the extremely long history of our lives, all predestined relationships were for the Fa and to achieve ourselves. We should cherish it and be thankful for all the fellow practitioners and sentient beings that have crossed paths with us, for the divine predestined relationships we have developed from the Fa. We have previously “with the same heart, coming to the world” (Hong Yin Volume I: Fulfilling the Wish). No matter how far apart we will be in the new universe, we will always be with Master, with the Fa!
The above is my personal enlightenment. Please correct anything inadequate. Heshi!
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