Practicing
Cultivation After Retirement
It is a great pity that some
students who attended my lectures and have good inborn quality have stopped
practicing because they are busy with work. If they were average, everyday
people, I would say nothing more and leave them alone. But these people still
have some promise. Human morality is declining a thousand miles a day, and
everyday people are all drifting along with the current. The farther away from
the Dao, the more difficult to return through cultivation. As a matter of fact,
cultivation practice is about cultivating one’s heart and mind. The complex
environment of the workplace, in particular, provides a good opportunity for you
to improve your xinxing. Once retired,
won’t you lose the best environment for practicing cultivation? What will you
cultivate without any troubles? How can you improve yourself? One’s lifetime
is limited. Oftentimes you plan things quite well, but do you know whether you
will have sufficient time left for your cultivation? Cultivation practice is not
child’s play. It is more serious than anything of everyday people—it isn’t
something to take for granted. Once you miss the opportunity, when will you be
able to get a human body again in the sixfold path of reincarnation? Opportunity
knocks but once. Once the illusion that you cannot let go of disappears, you
will realize what you have lost.
Li Hongzhi
October 13, 1995
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