It is a great pity that some practitioners 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. The human morality is declining a thousand miles a day, and everyday people are all drifting along with the current. The farther away from the Tao, the more difficult to return through cultivation. As a matter of fact, cultivation practice is about cultivating one's heart. In particular, the complex environment of the workplace provides a good opportunity for you to upgrade your xinxing. Once retired, won’t you lose the best environment for your cultivation practice? What will you cultivate without any conflicts? How can you improve yourself? One’s life 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, and it is more serious than anything of everyday people; it is not something to take for granted. Once you miss the opportunity, when will you be able to get a human body again in the six paths of reincarnation? Opportunity knocks but once. Once the illusion that you cannot relinquish disappears, you will realize what you have lost.
Li Hongzhi
October 13, 1995