My disciples of genuine cultivation, what I have taught you is the Fa for cultivation of Buddha and Tao. Nonetheless, you pour out your grievances to me over the loss of your worldly interests, rather than feeling upset for being unable to abandon everyday people’s attachments. Is this cultivation? Whether you can abandon the everyday person’s mindset is a fatal test on your way to becoming a truly extraordinary being. Every disciple of genuine cultivation must pass it, for it is the dividing line between a practitioner and an everyday person.

As a matter of fact, when you panic over infringements upon your reputation, self-interests, and feelings among everyday people, it already indicates that you cannot relinquish everyday people’s attachments. You must remember this: Cultivation itself is not painful—the key lies in your inability to release everyday people’s attachments. Only when you are about to let go of your reputation, interests, and feelings will you feel pain.

You fell here from a holy, pure, and incomparably splendid world because you had developed attachments at that level. After falling into a world that is, in comparison, most filthy, instead of cultivating yourself to go back in a hurry, you do not let go of those filthy things that you cling to in this filthy world, and you are even quite panicked over a little bit of loss. Do you know that in order to save you the Buddha once begged for food among everyday people? Today, I once again make the door wide open and teach this Dafa to save you. I have never felt bitter for the numerous hardships I have suffered. Then what do you have that still cannot be relinquished? Can you bring to a heaven the things in your heart that you cannot give up?