(Clearwisdom.net) I recently watched Master Li's new lecture video, Falun Dafa--Teaching the Fa to Australian Falun Dafa Practitioners, in which Master raised two issues: 1) distrust and lack of cooperation among practitioners and 2) validating the self.
I thought I did not have such issues. I am alone in my area without contact with fellow practitioners. The issue of cooperation does not exist for me. I was also unaware of any problem of validating myself.
Soon I encountered issues at work. I was unhappy about it and complained to the physician colleague sitting across from me. Looking inward, I realized something: I was transferred to the outpatient department this year and promoted as a leader. I wanted to prove my capabilities through my work performance. I recognized this as an attachment of self-validation. On the surface, I was protecting the hospital's interests when I actually hid my desires for self-validation--my need for recognition and validating myself. My attachments to fame and personal benefits caused troubles at work.
Though I do not have a cultivation environment that requires working with fellow practitioners, Master will not leave a single practitioner behind. He will arrange an environment for us to eliminate attachments in our work and everyday life.
I also remember recognizing and eliminating my problems in cooperation and coordination in my work environment. I was then working in the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department where daily cooperation and coordination is a must. Competing for recognition and personal benefit, many people do not cooperate and coordinate with each other. After studying the Fa, I carefully cultivated myself and cooperated well with my colleagues. All we were doing was helping the patients. I did not care whether I was the head surgeon or the assistant.
Ordinary people live for renown and personal benefits. I am a cultivator who must eliminate attachments to these things. I am willing to be an assistant, as long as it is good for the patients. Under the guidance of the Fa, I let go of my unsettled feelings and abandoned opportunities for gaining recognition and personal benefits and let others have them. I remember Master's words:
"It's not like Gods see that your idea worked and then they raise your level. Instead, they only raise your level when they see that your understanding of it has improved." "But true improvements come from letting go, not from gaining." ("Teaching the Fa at the 2002 Fa Conference in Philadelphia, U.S.A.")
Master clearly pointed out this issue five years ago, yet cooperation and coordination are still severe issues among practitioners. We must all look inward to see if this happens because we did not study the Fa well. We should not use "doing Dafa work" as an excuse to ignore Fa study. We should not let Master worry about us after so many years of cultivation.
There is another issue I would like to raise to the Australian fellow practitioner who came from Northeastern China. How could you be so careless and casual when talking to Master? We must show our proper respect to our Master. Though Master would not care, the old forces may get hold of such an omission. I hope our fellow practitioners don't take it lightly! Don't destroy yourself for this! Master exhausted Himself for practitioners; how could we not deeply respect Him in our hearts?
Every issue we encounter is an issue concerning us all. We should not automatically exclude ourselves. Though Master's lecture addresses the Australian practitioners, it covered many issues common to all of us.
I read an experience-sharing article on the Minghui website entitled "Finding My Attachments in the Process of Making Falun Dafa--Teaching the Fa to Australian Falun Dafa Practitioners DVDs." The author found his human notions and attachments to doing work, showing off, achieving results and especially validating himself in the process of making Master's lecture DVDs. As practitioners, we need to calm down and look inward to see if we have the attachments Master pointed out. We must not lose any opportunity Master provides for us to eliminate our attachments.
Dear fellow practitioners: our opportunities to validate Dafa are becoming fewer and fewer, yet we still have lots of human notions and attachments that cause difficulties for Fa-validation. This seems to happen mainly because we have not studied the Fa well. Most of the issues Master raised in Falun Dafa--Teaching the Fa to Australian Falun Dafa Practitioners were covered in his previous lectures, yet many practitioners did not do well. I believe this is due to insufficient and shallow Fa study and superficial cultivation. Our own issues impact Fa-validation and have slowed the Fa rectification process.
