PureInsight | May 8, 2014
[PureInsight.org] When I was young, I always heard elderly people say, “If your left eye flickers, you will have good fortune. If your right eye flickers, you will have disaster.” This adage has been deeply ingrained in me. Every time my left eye flickered, I would have a very good day, and I would be in a good mood. Every time my right eye flickered, I would have lots of unfortunate events. After experiencing this multiple times, I began to believe this saying.
After I began cultivation, I did not realize that this was an ordinary notion. I have been illegally arrested multiple times. One time right before I was arrested, my right eye flickered a lot. I sensed that something bad would happen, so I sent forth lots of righteous thoughts. The minute before I was arrested, my right eye flickered three times. Once I was released from jail, I still did not realize my holes in cultivation and treated that saying as the truth.
An event a few days ago made me realize that this was an ordinary notion and gave me the impetus to change it. A fellow practitioner’s daughter was about to get married, so he asked fellow practitioners to take this opportunity to help his wife change her misunderstandings toward Dafa. Because he had been persecuted multiple times, his wife’s attitude towards Dafa changed from supportive to not supportive. She had a misunderstanding towards Dafa. A few days before going to the fellow practitioner’s house, my right eye was flickering. I thought to myself, “Is it unsafe to go to that practitioner’s house? His name is on the provincial and municipal lists.” The night before going, I had a dream that I was arrested. The evil asked me a few questions, but I suddenly realized that the questions were weird, so I did not respond. It turned out that they thought my understanding had improved, so instead of being sentenced, they sent me to a labor camp. When I woke up, I still felt that it was unsafe to go to the fellow practitioner’s house.
The next morning, I told my wife (a fellow practitioner) about my right eye flickering and about the dream. She said, “Do not be bound by human notions. My right eye was also once flickering, and I also had some suspicions. However, I then thought that I needed to overcome this notion, and as a result, I managed to convince someone to quit the CCP. We are cultivators. We should not let human notions stand in the way.” I then went to that practitioner’s house. On the way, I suddenly understood. In “On Buddha Law” from Zhuan Falun, Master mentioned that there were three types of notions that must be changed: ordinary people’s notions, the longstanding way of thinking, and the rigid way of thinking. Wasn’t my notion of flickering eyes one of these types of notions? How could I bring it into cultivation? I started sending forth righteous thoughts to eliminate these notions. After discussing with my fellow practitioner’s wife, I felt that a shell surrounding me had been dissolved and my mind was clear.
I thought of two excerpts from Master’s Fa, “So for the beings of the old cosmos, and this includes all the elements of beings, when it comes to the Fa-rectification and what I choose, all beings' harmonizing and completing things according to my choices and contributing their best ideas and approaches--not to change what I want, but to harmonize and complete things according to what I've said--is the best thought a being in the cosmos could have” (Explaining the Fa During the 2003 Lantern Festival at the U.S. West Fa Conference). “Don't worry about what's going to transpire in the future, it's enough if you know inside what you should do, carrying the Fa in your mind, doing whatever needs to be done, and doing whatever you wish to do, as long as Dafa needs it” (Teaching the Fa at the Fa Conference at the U.S. Capital). As the beings created by Dafa, we must use Dafa to guide us. How can we be manipulated by human notions? We should have Fa in our hearts and do what Master wants. We should do whatever Dafa needs. If we do them with notions, it is easy to go astray. That would be the same as walking on a path arranged by the old forces, a path to destruction.
From this lesson, I learned how frightening it can be to be led completely by human notions. As a Fa-rectification period Dafa disciple, I should be willing to face my human notions, always use Dafa to guide me and always have Fa in my heart. Only then can I do the three things well, completely negate the old forces and save more sentient beings.
The above was my own understanding at my level. Please point out anything that is not in accordance with the Fa.
Translated from: http://www.zhengjian.org/node/128388
