Eliminate Your Last Attachment (s)
Dafa and Dafa students have experienced the most evil, most
malicious, destructive trial—something never seen before in history. Dafa and
its students, who have truly been performing as the most magnificent cultivators
of a righteous cultivation way, have come through the trial. In the human world,
all individuals, organizations, and groups do things in human society in order
to achieve something in this world. Dafa disciples, however, are getting rid of
all ordinary human attachments—including the attachment to their human lives—in
order to reach the realms of higher beings. This is why we’ve been able to
come through the most evil, most malicious, and most indecent persecution in
human history. This is what those evil wretches could not have expected.
Since you are qualified, true cultivators who have met the
standard, you cannot be threatened by loss of money or material interests; and
those are things that a cultivator needs to let go of, anyway. What’s more,
these cultivators can even let go of life and death: how could they fear the
threat of death? Although several wretched people are still doing evil, those
most evil beings who are at high levels of the cosmic body have already been
completely eliminated in the process of the Fa’s rectification of the cosmos.
The evil ones who are at the most superficial level, that of humankind, will
soon have to pay for all of their sins as they are completely eliminated during
the Fa’s rectification of the human world.
In Mainland China these days, some secret agents who claim
that they are Dafa students have been making their way into labor camps and
other places where students are being held, for the purpose of doing harm. They
deceive students by claiming that they [the secret agents] have already reached
Consummation, and by using other means. They tell the students that the students
have already reached Consummation and no longer need to practice, that the
students should conform to everyday people as much as possible, that the
students should turn in their books, and so on. With this nonsense, they have
deceived some students who, in the midst of tribulations, don’t want to stay
in the human world and want to reach Consummation as soon as possible. In the
Fa, I have told you to conform to everyday people as much as possible while
cultivating. I have never said that you should conform to everyday people [in
and of itself]. If you are no different from an everyday person, are you still a
cultivator? Dafa disciples—future Buddhas, Daos, and Gods—how can you let
those evil, ridiculous buffoons take advantage of any gaps?
It is in fact time to let go of your last attachments. As
cultivators, you already know that you should, and in your actions you have, let
go of all worldly attachments (including the attachment to the human body) and
have made it through the process of letting go of life and death. Then is being
attached to reaching Consummation an attachment? Isn’t it also an attachment
born of human desire? Would a Buddha be attached to reaching Consummation? As a
matter of fact, those cultivators who are truly approaching Consummation don’t
have this attachment. In teaching the Fa, I have talked about the principle
whereby a school student who does his schoolwork well will naturally be admitted
to college, whereas a school student who is attached to being admitted to
college but who doesn’t do his schoolwork well won’t be admitted. It isn’t
wrong for a cultivator to wish to reach Consummation, but your mind should be on
the Fa. While continually cultivating you will unwittingly meet the standard for
Consummation. Those Dafa students who are unable to endure the suffering are
especially likely to have thoughts of leaving the human world and reaching
Consummation soon. This allows the evil to take advantage of their gaps. You
have already made it through the most difficult time. So as for your last
attachment, you must be sure to let go of it. I know all of the suffering of my
disciples. The truth is, I treasure you more than you treasure yourselves! All
evil in the cosmos is being eliminated at an unprecedented speed.
Over the past year, students’ own karma, inadequate
understanding of the Fa, inability to let go of attachments amidst tribulations,
inability to deal with things using righteous thoughts amidst painful trials,
and so on, are the main reasons behind evil’s escalation of the persecution,
and are the true fundamental excuses that the evil has used to damage the Fa.
Nonetheless, however much a cultivator puts forth in cultivation, that much he
will gain when he reaches Consummation. Do you still remember how one time when
I was teaching the Fa, a student asked whether a cultivator could cultivate to
an Attainment Status4 higher than where his life had originally come
into being? If a cultivator can let go of the thought of life and death under
any circumstance, evil is sure to be afraid of him. If every student is able to
do this, evil will of itself no longer exist. All of you are already aware of
the principle of mutual-generation and mutual-inhibition. If you are not
afraid, the factor that would make you afraid will cease to exist. This is not
to be self-imposed, but is achieved by truly and calmly letting go of it.
Whenever I see you suffering, Master feels even more troubled than you; whenever
you do not take a step well, it really pains my heart. Everything that the evil
has done has actually targeted the attachments and fears that you have not let
go of. You are future Enlightened Beings who are becoming Buddhas, Daos, and
Gods, and you are not concerned with the losses and gains of this world. So you
should be able to let go of everything. If you weren’t attached right now to
reaching Consummation, the evil would not have been able to take advantage of
this last gap.
When those wretches posing as Dafa students try to make you
falter, they usually tell you that they are students themselves, that they have
reached Consummation, and other nonsense. It’s remarkable that you are able to
let go of life and death, but you shouldn’t develop an attachment to reaching
Consummation. That would be an omission! It is also exactly the gap that the
evil takes advantage of. Since they are saying that they have already reached
Consummation, ask them to fly up in the sky to show everyone, or ask them to
recite a paragraph of Zhuan Falun as a test. One who has reached
Consummation is a Buddha, Dao, or God with boundless radiance, and he will have
the magnificent image of a God, having all of the Buddha Fa’s divine powers—he
will no longer have a human appearance. How could those petty buffoons who go to
labor camps and act mysterious deceive Dafa disciples? Although they have found
several dozen deceivers—dregs of humanity—to put on this disgraceful act,
just by having your heart unaffected you will be able to handle all situations.
At present, the evil in the cosmic body has already been
completely eliminated, and the Fa has finished rectifying the Three Realms. Only
the most surface level of matter’s shell is still being broken through. This
is happening at a rapid speed, and is approaching the wretches in the human
world and those vicious murderers who have beaten to death or injured Dafa
disciples (future Buddhas, Daos, and Gods).
Eliminate your last attachment(s). Everything you have
accomplished through cultivation practice has already established your
infinitely wonderful, and sacred, future Attainment Status. Take every step
well, and don’t tarnish what you have already attained. Let the part of you
that has been fully cultivated glow with an even purer brilliance.
Li Hongzhi
August 12, 2000
4. This term is also sometimes translated as "Fruit
Status."
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