(Clearwisdom.net) Some things that have happened around me recently made me think a lot. I worked with a fellow practitioner in the same workplace. One day his voice suddenly became hoarse and he started to cough. At night during our Fa study group experience sharing session, his voice became hoarse again as soon as he started to complain that the practitioners who worked in the media area did not cooperate well.
According to one of the Fa principles, a practitioner can only solve a problem by looking within. The fellow practitioner kept coughing, and it lasted quite some time. Seeing this I said to him, "Do you still have any attachments that you have not pinpointed? Hurry up and find them." His cough did not abate and continued until one day it became even more severe. I realized right then and there the seriousness of the situation. Why was I presented with this practitioner's dilemma? I started to look within. I was quite busy that day and did not take the time to think calmly. But seeing that this veteran practitioner had even experienced this sickness symptom for so long, I complained in my mind.
In the afternoon that day he coughed less. I sensed a change. At night after work when I studied the Fa with several fellow practitioners, I mentioned what happened at the work place during the day with this practitioner. I suggested that from now on we all look within regarding this practitioner's cough.
The sharing started in a harmonious environment. Everyone offered their own understanding. During this one hour of sharing the practitioner did not cough at all. After that his cough vanished. Though this is a minute, ordinary experience, I have learned much from it.
This experience gave me a new understanding of "looking within." In the past when I encountered problems or was in conflict, I never related to myself what Master said in "Teaching the Fa at the Washington, D.C. Fa Conference": "The next person's things are your things, and your things are his things." When I saw fellow practitioners in tribulations I failed to realize that it was also my issue. I have come to understand that only when we truly regard others' issues as our own and look within will the problem be solved.
