PureInsight | November 26, 2001
I just recently started writing articles for PureInsight. Actually, gathering enough courage to do this was a big psychological breakthrough for me. For a long time I had thought, “Are my articles and views righteous? I wouldn’t want to mislead others.” I believe some other practitioners may feel the same way I felt. Later on, in a discussion with fellow practitioners, I realized the importance and necessity of writing articles for PureInsight. I then broke through my psychological obstacle.
When writing articles for PureInsight I have two distinct understandings. First, if my thought at a certain level about some issue genuinely plays a role in assisting Teacher in rectifying the Fa, then it’s actually a bomb targeted at the evil. After this thought is written and published on the Dafa website, more practitioners can read it and think about it. Also practitioners are then possibly guided toward some new thoughts, insights, elevations, and improvements. As a result, for the process of Fa rectification, additional bombs will be produced with a power far exceeding one individual’s force. Secondly, writing articles for PureInsight is a process of organizing, reconsidering, and uplifting. I sometimes shared my understanding with fellow practitioners, but felt it was very hard to clearly express my thoughts in depth. The process of writing is also a process of self-organization, of clarifying my thoughts and views, as well as sometimes being able to enlighten further from these thoughts and views. I realize that writing righteous articles is not only a very important part of the Fa rectification, but also a special form of personal cultivation.
Nevertheless, I found some problems within myself when writing these articles. The first one was my pursuit of elegant and extravagant language for the articles. Phrases such as “righteous thought”, “righteous belief”, “righteous enlightenment”, and the like were used a lot. But when I actually read what I wrote carefully, I realized there was no real meaning behind those words. I was only writing PureInsight articles for the sake of writing articles for PureInsight. At times, when trying to convey an idea, I would write a long paragraph when, in reality, I could convey the same meaning in just a few sentences. So most of the sentences I wrote were, in fact, useless. In truth, this was a manifestation of a mixture of my attachments, such as the mentality of pursuing literary style, fame, and showing off, to name a few. The second problem was lack of consideration when choosing words and sentences in my article. I even made up definitions for some words or sentences which I didn’t understand completely, or at least not deeply. This is an irresponsible and frivolous attitude towards Dafa and other people. To be honest, it is pursuing superficial elegance in language because of my attachment to thinking that I must always be right. Speaking more severely, this is a kind of undermining of Dafa as well as cultivating from inside, although not by intention. So I believe we should have a responsible, careful, and serious attitude toward writing PureInsight articles. It’s not to be responsible just for an individual, but to be responsible for Dafa, other people, and the beings of the future.
Translated from:
http://www.PureInsight.org/zj/articles/2001/11/6/12346.html
