Using Our Human Skills and Talents to Validate the Fa in This Realm
[PureInsight.org] In my understanding, in order to be able to make good use of our talents and abilities to help validate the Fa, we need to be diligent in doing each of the three things well.
My understanding from reading what Master tells us in Lecture Nine of Zhuan Falun is that the human brain merely processes higher dimensional matter. Our higher dimensional abilities, which reflect in this realm as human skills and talents, only serve to process and reflect a material creation to this realm that has already occurred in a higher realm. Any work, be it a piece of music or an article, already takes material form in a higher realm before it is processed by the material structures here. These structures, which constitute our abilities in higher dimensions, reflect the creation there into this realm as an article or a work of art.
So being able to create a good piece of work, write a good article, or using one’s talents well means being connected to higher dimensional abilities given to us by Dafa.
When we study the Fa, hold the Fa in our minds, and assimilate ourselves to Dafa, all our material bodies in other dimensions are being transformed by Dafa, and the material structures which constitute the skills we need in order to validate the Fa are all being engendered, rectified, and perfected further and further.
When we break down our notions and break through our previous understandings through studying the Fa, we are engendering abilities of even higher realms. Our manifested human talents then become even more powerful. From a higher realm, any personal understanding we might come to form in the process of cultivation is a notion to be broken through by further Fa study.
In Hong Yin, Master tells us:
Seeking the Righteous Fa
Supernatural skills are but petty means,
The Great Fa must be the basis of everything.
April 2, 1994
As long as we assimilate ourselves to Dafa through Fa study and through memorizing and holding the Fa alone in our minds, we are engendering any and every ability that we might need to validate Dafa. Assimilating to Dafa has to be the foundation of everything; the rest will naturally follow.
When we cleanse ourselves and send forth righteous thoughts, in addition to clearing out the factors which interfere with Fa-rectification and the salvation of sentient beings, we are cleansing and rectifying our own dimensional fields and our abilities, including our human skills. Our abilities are rectified and continually perfected by the Fa and come into full play in validating the Fa in this realm.
When we ignore sending forth righteous thoughts, dark stuff from the old cosmos, be it deviated matter, the deviated notions which emerge from such matter, and dark things created by the notions of our human side, accumulate as a layer over the material structures which constitute our abilities. This clogs them and prevents our human side from being able to use our abilities and talents to the fullest to validate the Fa. Thus, being diligent with sending forth righteous thoughts is necessary for us to be able to play a powerful role in validating the Fa with our talents and abilities at this realm as well.
When we help spread the Fa and clarify the Truth, we are creating for ourselves a foundation of mighty virtue which helps us play an even better role in validating the Fa and clarifying the truth. Thus, it is extremely important that we stay diligent in clarifying the truth and in helping spread the Fa no matter what the circumstances. During the times when we are not in a position to coordinate and do things on a large scale, we must keep diligently doing what is possible according to our individual circumstances.
Practitioners in China diligently distribute leaflets and clarify the truth with a variety of mechanisms on a large scale and in a harshly persecutory environment. Why can‘t we continually and diligently do things to spread the Fa and clarify the truth while in such relaxed environments? At the very least we could all take the initiative to keep printing and distributing leaflets to clarify the truth, irrespective of circumstances. If we find ourselves too busy to find time to distribute them by hand, we could distribute with a local newspaper, etc. At the same time, any hindrance to us clarifying the truth should be dissolved by sending forth righteous thoughts. The mighty virtue produced by spreading the Fa and clarifying the truth enables us to make breakthroughs to even higher realms and uncover even higher abilities to do the three things well.
Be it writing an article or creating a piece of music, the measure of whether our creation can play a positive role in validating Dafa and saving sentient beings is whether it adheres to Zhen-Shan-Ren in its nature, form, and substance. When it does, it is like a diamond that shines forth the light of righteousness, removes all wrong notions, and eliminates evil factors from all dimensions. The only way we can achieve this is by assimilating ourselves to Dafa by diligently doing all three things well.
Only by diligently studying the Fa, assimilating to Dafa, and doing all three things well, can we strengthen the abilities and skills which will allow us to play a powerful role in validating the Fa and saving sentient beings in this realm.
Above is just my limited understanding. Please kindly point out anything that you see wrong.
Submitted on July 19, 2010
