PureInsight | August 29, 2014
[PureInsight.org] The other day, I got up in the morning. After I finished sending forth righteous thoughts, I picked up my smartphone to read the Fa. I then noticed that all the lectures and audio documents were gone. I had run into a similar situation before. One night, I felt so tired reading the Fa, I simply turned off my phone and went to bed. I had planned to finish the remaining sections the next morning. When I woke up the next day, all the Dafa documents had disappeared from my phone. I thought I might have accidentally touched certain keys and deleted those documents the night before because I was very tired, so I decided to download those documents from my computer again. Well, this problem happened again, and this time, I lost even more than before. I asked myself what was going. I figured I would just go ahead and download them from my computer again.
After I turned on my computer, it simply couldn’t connect to the internet. The browser showed an error message that had a “769” code. I then had to call the internet provider and was told that the “769” error code meant something was wrong with the computer but that the internet connection was ok. I was told that my computer should be fixed. I went ahead and called some computer maintenance person. The computer person asked me whether the internet serviceman had examined my computer. I said no, and then the computer person asked why the internet serviceman was so sure that the computer had a problem. He then assured me that my computer was ok and that it must be the internet connection that was the issue. He asked me to contact the internet serviceman again to get the connection fixed. He also told me that he was in the city called Shuihua and would return at night. I had to call the internet serviceman and was again told that my computer had a problem. The serviceman said that I should go ahead and ask another computer repairperson to fix my computer, and so on.
I sensed something serious was going on, so I put down the phone and started to seek inwards. I came to realize that my computer was ok and that the internet connection must also be ok. It must be me myself that was having some kind of issue. When my phone or my computer broke before, I could easily get them fixed quickly. I also tried to seek inwards then, but I didn’t try very hard. Now, this time, I must try harder to look inside myself.
I stopped reading the Fa the night before because I was too tired, and then the next morning, those Dafa books and documents were gone from my phone. Obviously, I was attached to comfort. I was also not paying great respect to the Fa. Why didn’t the repairmen come around and get the problem fixed quickly this time? Why did those repairmen blame each other? I figured it was due to my own tendency to complain. When I noticed those few fellow practitioners who just wanted to cure their illnesses, I felt very irritated. I would complain about such practitioners. I simply didn’t want to seek inwards. I now realized that my tendency to complain was out of my attachment to competition and jealousy. I thought that I was better than those practitioners, and I was trying to show off my cultivation status. I was also seeking fame. When I started to look deep into my heart, I also began to sense my attachment to lust, self-interest, showing off, zealotry, vanity, greed, eating, selfishness, worldly comforts, fear of loneliness and even certain negative thoughts, etc. Wow, I still had so many attachments inside me! I was already in a dangerous zone, yet I had not become aware of such danger around me. I had always felt that I was doing some grandiose thing.
Once I found those attachments, I began to send forth righteous thoughts to clear them off. After that, I tried to turn on my computer to see whether my computer could connect to the internet. My computer still failed to connect. I got the same error with the “769” code. So, what did “769” mean? I realized it was giving me a hint. The pronunciation of “7” in Chinese has a very similar sound as the Chinese character which means “clear off”, “6” sounds like a Chinese character which means “leaking” while “9” sounds like a Chinese character which means “forever”. So “769” meant that I needed to clear off my leaks so that I could remain forever. Nothing was accidental. The computer repairman told me that he was in the city of Shuihua, which sounded like “change with your heart” in Chinese, so the accumulation of my attachments had made my heart change, and thus things around me started to change as well. Wow, I had to get rid of my attachments now. Only after I had eliminated all my attachments could I stand forever! In the poem “Cultivating in a Maze”, Master Li says, “Cultivate until not one attachment is left.” I had so many attachments. How dangerous it was! Master had been so merciful, and he never gave up on me even though I was not living up to his expectations. I realized that once I found my attachments, everything would start to change. I felt my heart was relieved of a burden. I felt I was liberated then. I turned on my computer, and everything began to work properly. My computer was able to connect to the internet without any issue.
I then called one fellow practitioner to tell her what had just happened to me. The fellow practitioner told me that once she was not able to connect to the internet, she got a “561” error code and also figured it was a hint to her that she had some attachments. Once she understood that, everything worked fine, and her computer could connect to the internet again.
Nothing in our daily lives is accidental; everything is related to our cultivation. We really need to be vigilant. We really need to pay attention to every single thought of ours!
Translated from: http://www.zhengjian.org/node/133603
