Do Not Get Attached to Abilities in Cultivation

(Minghui.org) As a Falun Dafa practitioner, any attachments we have will make us waste our time in cultivation or could destroy our cultivation completely.

Some veteran practitioners are attached to their skills or supernormal abilities, which have caused many problems in their cultivation and in validating the Fa. Master has endowed us with supernormal abilities to validate the Fa, not to validate ourselves.

Some practitioners around me who have cultivated for over 20 years thought that their understanding of the Fa and cultivation were better than others, and they were attached to how great their actions were when validating the Fa. They liked to trumpet themselves with a very strong attachment of showing off. Other people began to admire them. Later these practitioners developed attachments of zealotry, reputation, and competition.

They also looked down on others. If they heard someone say that the cultivation of other practitioners was better, they wouldn't accept it. They couldn't listen to criticism. In their jealousy, they would exclude other practitioners. In the end, these practitioners formed their own small circle.

These kinds of things happened in our area many times until the key person was arrested, which resulted in others being arrested, too. It has made a huge loss for saving sentient beings and validating the Fa in our area.

Our wisdom and skills given to us by Master are for the purpose of validating the Fa. It is not for us to pursue personal interests or to gain reputation. Without Fa-rectification, we wouldn't be able to know these types of things. In other words, without Master's protection, we wouldn't be able to cultivate.

Master said:

“Those old forces, I can tell you, were the most outstanding beings at each level, and they have been destroyed. Those who were the most capable were destroyed as a result of the arrangement of that final old force.” (Fa-Lecture During the 2003 Lantern Festival at the U.S. West Fa Conference)

So can we be attached to our skills or supernormal abilities? If we don't do things according to what Master asks us to do, what can we do in the Fa-rectification even if we had supernormal abilities?

An article on Minghui.org stated that a former high-level god, who had Srivatsa symbols (卍) all over his body, was involved in the persecution of Dafa disciples and was eliminated by a practitioner who only said the word mie ('perish') three times.

There have been too many lessons in Fa-rectification. As a king or lord, how can we be responsible for sentient beings? Can we be responsible for sentient beings? It's not a simple matter of enjoying the glory of the title; we also have to take on the corresponding responsibility. Then, if you lead other practitioners to follow yourself – can you protect them? If they worship you and ask you for guidance on everything instead of taking the Fa as Master, can you have them reach Consummation? My local area has seen examples of people losing their lives because of this problem.

When I was imprisoned, I couldn't use any of my supernormal abilities. The old forces manipulated the police to severely persecute me. In the end, I came through the tribulations by relying on my faith in Master and the Fa, not any abilities. What I used was righteous thoughts, having no gaps, and having no fear of death in any shape or form.

Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance is the truth of the universe and created by Master. Only Dafa can save the universe and sentient beings. In the Fa-rectification and among Dafa disciples, one's abilities are not worth mentioning. Assimilating to the Fa and listening to Master is fundamental.