Udumbara Flowers at My Home

[PureInsight.org] One night last week, I had a very vivid dream. In the dream I clearly heard Master’s voice. Master was speaking very loudly from the room where I had put Master’s image and other Dafa materials. Master said, “A chance in million years, see the change instantly.” Master repeated this phrase twice.

I got up immediately and walked to the room where Master’s voice was coming from. I noticed that I was still neatly dressed. After I got to the room, I knew very well that Master was just standing beside the “little bee” audio player that I had been using to play Master’s lectures. Master’s voice came from the “little bee”, but I feel I had not done a good job myself, so I didn’t dare open my eyes to see Master directly.

I heard Master telling me that even though I listened to the “little bee” player every day, I didn’t pay any attention to the Fa. I immediately knelt down on my knees, and Master stopped criticizing me right away. After a while, I woke up from my dream. When I woke up from this dream, I found that I was wearing the same clothes that I had put on in the dream. It was around mid-night then. I got up and sat on the bed to reflect on the dream. I asked myself, “What’s going on? I thought I had already woken up early and gone to the other room to see Master. Why am I still in bed?”

At first, I couldn’t understand what Master meant when he said, “See the change instantly.” Later I realized that Master was giving me a hint that I was not cultivating very well. There was something for me to see very soon to motivate me to cultivate more diligently.

Yes, a chance in million years. We have already walked on the path for so long. If I can’t cultivate as diligently as I used to, there will be a real danger that I will end up with nothing accomplished in my cultivation at all. I will be a joke. I will not have lived up to the great expectations of Master, and I will miss this single chance in a million years.

I had planted some vegetables in my yard for some time. The next morning after I had that dream, I found that under one leaf of a sweet melon plant, there were 16 Udumbara flowers. I was completely convinced that Master had visited my home.

I took planting vegetables in my backyard as a profession. Every time I worked in the garden, I would turn on the “little bee” audio player to play Master’s lecture sessions. All the plants in the garden were listening to Master’s Fa. However, I was not paying any attention to Master’s Fa at all. Even though I also heard the lectures, I didn’t take in anything. Playing Master’s audio lectures while working in my back yard had almost become a hobby for me.

I have now come to understand the seriousness of playing Master’s audio lectures. When the “little bee” is playing Master’s lectures, it is just the same as Master Li teaching the Fa. As a disciple of Falun Dafa, how could I treat the “little bee” so casually? Moreover, when Master is teaching the Fa, how can I not pay any attention to the Fa? It is an act of disrespect to the Fa, and it is definitely not a trivial matter.

Falun Dafa is a single chance in million years. After we learn of it, we really should treasure it dearly and cultivate in it diligently. We should never slack off and embarrass ourselves. We should not let Master down. I sometimes feel that I can no longer cultivate diligently. I think this is not a matter of my own cultivation issue; instead, it is a matter of my intelligence. The “three things” will determine our future, yet I am not doing my best to perform the “three things” well. I have actually become a fool.

A fellow practitioner had given me a potted lily plant two years ago. There was one Udumbara flower on one leaf of this lily plant. This flower had blossomed for over one year when I got the lily plant. Now, this same Udumbara flower is still blossoming and has been for more than three years now. I have changed the pot and the soil mixture, and I also water this lily very often, yet the Udumbara flower doesn’t seem to have been disturbed at all; it’s still in there, fulfilling its mission.

I remember the first time when I saw an Udumbara flower, I had my doubts about such a flower. The flower was tiny and not as magnificent as I had expected. I couldn’t see its holiness. I had trouble understanding why such a flower was a sign of great peace and fortune. Even though I was smiling and uttering praises, deep in my heart, I didn’t believe the claim from Buddhist scriptures that such a flower only blossomed once every 3000 years, that such a flower was a sign of the arrival of the Lord of Dharma.

Later, a fellow practitioner criticized me for my disbelief in Udumbara flowers, but I didn’t listen and tried to hide myself. I fooled myself into thinking that such a flower would only show up in other people’s houses and that I would never see such a flower at my home.

When I first saw so many Udumbara flowers at my home, I was very excited. Now, I have become much calmer. Deep in my heart, I have developed sincere gratitude and ultimate respect towards Master. Those Udumbara flowers have made me reflect upon myself. They have made me cherish Falun Dafa.

Thank you, Master. You have really taken pains to guide me so that I won’t get lost in this world. Thank you so much!

Translated from: http://www.zhengjian.org/node/133965