Be Compassionate to Fellow Practitioners

[PureInsight.org] Today while sending forth righteous thoughts, a phrase suddenly appeared in my mind, “Be compassionate to fellow practitioners.” After sending forth righteous thoughts, I was touched. I belong to the “disappointing” practitioners. However, benevolent Master still never gave me up. When I made a firm decision, I could immediately see Dafa’s power from myself. It truly validated Master’s great compassion and Dafa’s omnipotence! Here I would like to share with fellow practitioners some pieces that I have put together:

1. Unconditionally Cooperate with Fellow Practitioners

After 1999, I had been away from Dafa for six years. I was called back by fellow practitioner A in 2010. After I came back to Dafa, I read all of Master’s lectures after 1999 once. I was eager to gain back my loss, but I still had a feeling of loss. I was blocked by human attachments. Coincidentally, fellow practitioner A needed me for some help. I made a rule for myself: cooperate unconditionally. One time, fellow practitioner A asked me to buy a type of paper. Because I was inexperienced, I bought the wrong type. I had to carry around one box of paper. Luckily, even though it was heavy, I was able to handle it. After she saw that it was wrong when I got to her house, her bad temper came up, and she kept blaming me. I did not speak and told her with a smile, “I can go exchange it and bring it back.” She was still angry and kept blaming me. My heart did not move. I thought I had to cultivate compassion and look inward at the same time. I knew it was my fault that I did not ask more since I wasn’t familiar with the size of paper. I thought no matter what, I did not have a reason to speak one word because my failure to ask resulted in buying the wrong type of paper and affected the importance of saving sentient beings. I kept “compassion” and held on to “not being moved.” My heart was calm and peaceful. She saw that I did not speak but was still smiling. She asked me, “You’re still happy? Aren’t you mad at me?” I thought, “Ok, then I’ll stop being happy.” Even though I thought that, I still kept a smile on my face. Suddenly she said, “You don’t show anything under pressure!” I still did not speak. She stopped talking. I could see that she was reflecting on herself. I knew I did the right thing. Later, she became clearheaded and apologized to me. I knew that the power of compassion is great. If one holds on to compassion, one will have the power of compassion. In the energy field of compassion, everything that is unrighteous will be corrected. After that she said, “I’m impressed by you.” I knew that Dafa is what’s actually impressive. Without Dafa, the tiny me could not have done this at all.

2. Unconditionally Look Inside

After I came back to Dafa, I read Master’s lectures and fellow practitioners’ articles, so I roughly knew the principle of “unconditionally looking inside.” How is it actually displayed? How is it achieved? How is it expressed? I did not know the answers and did not think too much either.

Once, fellow practitioner A invited me to eat oranges. Since she is single, it was always just us together. We were sitting on the couch when she started telling me about her conflicts with her mother before she cultivated Dafa. As a practitioner, I should’ve understood her more and discussed with her according to the Fa. I did not hold my xinxing very well at that time. As I listened, I had negative feelings towards her. It targeted my notions, so I said, “No matter what, she’s your mother! Cultivators should be more open-minded, tolerant and compassionate towards everything in the past! Why are you still like this?!” She responded, “Actually I don’t care that much.” I responded, “Do not care? Why are you stilling talking about it then?” Even though my voice wasn’t loud, it might have touched her negative side. She slapped my left cheek with the back of her right hand. My face was very painful. Right away, it was as if a big stone had lodged in my heart. I tried my best to control the pain and said to her quietly, “I have done eating. I’ll go wash my hands.” Then I got up and walked toward the bathroom. The instant my back was turned toward her, tears began falling from my eyes.

When I got to the bathroom, I turned on the tap to wash my hands. She said loudly to me, “Are you crying?” At this time, I became clearheaded. I thought about Fa principles while washing hands. Exactly! As Dafa disciples our attitudes toward ordinary people should be compassionate. Our attitudes toward practitioners should be even more so! I will be compassionate toward her! As my thought of “I will be compassionate toward her” came out, all of a sudden, my burning cheek stopped hurting. I understood what Master said, “So, regardless of the setting or circumstances in which you run into problems, you must maintain a compassionate and merciful heart in handling everything. If you cannot love your enemy, then you cannot reach Consummation” (Teaching the Fa at the Fa Conference in Australia). I thought that if we must maintain a “caring” heart towards our “enemies” in ordinary society (of course, cultivators do not have enemies), I should be more compassionate toward fellow practitioners! No matter how fellow practitioners are, they wouldn’t be placed in the category of “enemies”. When they succeed in cultivation, they become great enlightened beings and great Buddhas, Daos and Gods! We are interacting with the enlightened beings and Gods of the future! I could not let her see my tears. I washed my face. Later, after I walked out of the bathroom, I acted as if nothing had happened.

I walked toward the couch she was sitting on with a smile. She felt bad. She immediately started explaining her mistake of hitting me. To express her sincerity, she let me hit her. I said, “Is it really good if we start fighting?” She said, “That’s true.” We were talking peacefully as usual. While discussing, I started to look inside. I found that when fellow practitioner A was telling me her story, I had a thought of looking down upon her, “You have cultivated for so long, yet you are still like this? You came back to Dafa before I did, yet you are not much better than I am.” I caught it and realized that those were not my true thoughts! My loophole was exploited when I could not distinguish the true me from the fake me, which led to that slap. Any thoughts that do not follow the Fa are old notions, attachments and human notions and should be caught and eliminated at once.

I also thought about fellow practitioners in jails who are persecuted severely. That must have also been caused by certain unrighteous thoughts. Of course, even if fellow practitioners have loopholes, the old forces should not persecute them, and everything they have arranged is wrong! However, their loopholes were taken advantage of, and they were persecuted. Therefore, cultivators are required to pay attention to every thought during cultivation, compare them to the Fa and cultivate away the parts that do not follow the Fa in order to assimilate with the Fa. This will continue until we reach the “imperishable and adamantine” Gods and Buddhas. At that time, the old forces are nothing. When the correct attitude came out, my burning cheek suddenly stopped hurting. I truly felt that looking inside is key to cultivation! At this time a thought came to my mind: “Unconditionally look inside! Unconditionally look inside no matter when or where!” It further clarified Master’s words regarding “looking inward”. I kept saying quietly, “Unconditionally, unconditionally, unconditionally...” I meticulously comprehended what “unconditional” is. I felt that no matter in what location, what situation or what time, no matter if we are right or wrong, there is only one principle – look inside! I truly appreciated fellow practitioner A from the bottom of my heart! I realized how difficult it was for Master to save sentient beings! Meanwhile, I thought of the phenomenon of fellow cultivators in the same family who have conflicts and even fight. They are all Master’s disciples. How does Master resolve the guilt of being uncompassionate towards each other? Is there also some form of endurance? Just to change the notion of self! There are countless sentient beings. How much does Master think and worry? I explained to fellow practitioner A the entire process that she was not aware of with an attitude of responsibility for her. She felt very sorry.

I wrote the above short experience also out of inspiration and enlightenment after reading Master’s lectures. Since Fa-rectification has reached the end of the end, I think fellow practitioners should be more compassion towards each other. I know that my cultivation achievement is limited. These are not worth mentioning compared to practitioners who cultivate well. The magnificent Master still compassionately cares for me, even though I had been “lost” for six years and even committed a big crime. The appreciation in my heart cannot be expressed in words. At the same time, I have also thought about how I contacted certain practitioners who needed to improve in the past. How many such practitioners are there around the globe? I wrote this in order to validate the extraordinariness and power of the Fa! Master does not want to leave behind any disciple. I only hope that this will be inspirational for fellow practitioners who are still not confident enough toward cultivation. If there is anything inappropriate, I hope fellow practitioners can kindly point it out! Bow to Master! Thank you fellow practitioners! Heshi!

Translated from: http://www.zhengjian.org/node/126418