Human life is short, and people across the world are all trying to become happy, with varying degrees of success, with everything ending in death at the end. For a large portion of them, their best guess is that they are supposed to make life a happy one for themselves. It’s called being attached to the world and it is normal and ordinary. Through their pursuits they hope to achieve a goal and then that goal will be the thing that brings lasting contentment. But if you practice Falun Dafa, you should know that being happy and telling people that you are because of the practice is not a passable standard for you. Either you are a beginner practitioner eager to tell people how much your life has improved in awareness or you have failed to understand the requirements of Falun Dafa when you make statements that you are happier because of practicing Falun Dafa. The point of practicing Falun Dafa is to enable you to improve your xinxing while you undergo hardships and conflicts in life, which every person on Earth faces anyway. Do conflicts make you happy? Of course not. The resulting elevation in the practice should, but that isn’t the same as what I read in articles on Minghui or in the unauthorized website LearnFalunDafa.com which promotes the practice for ordinary happiness.

When there are articles on Minghui talking about how the person has found happiness through practicing Falun Dafa, this is nonsense as far as the teachings are concerned. It isn’t stated anywhere that happiness is an objective. You should be happy about obtaining Falun Dafa– absolutely. But that is different from talking about how much happier and content you are. Strictly speaking, if you are happy while practicing Falun Dafa in the emotional sense of happiness, with you being pleased about the world and people around you, you are completely failing in cultivation practice and will be regretful at the end, because it means you are a full-time self-deceiver. You self-deceived that you haven’t failed a lot of cultivation tests. For you average practitioners out there, most often it took the form of you not admitting that you fought the other person during conflicts instead of enduring them and you weren’t willing to find fault in yourself as to how you might have caused it on your end. Cultivation tests are hard, they are unexpected, and they don’t bring emotional happiness or peace of mind like ordinary humans seek. You are supposed to realize that the happiness that people seek is short-lived. If you want better, you have to conduct yourself better and better in the face of ordeals. Any given day is more stressful for most people than they are aware of or admit. Falun Dafa isn’t disseminated to make you a happy person but rather to help you elevate your understanding of the teachings and thereby become enlightened to principles beyond what ordinary people can reach while they are pursuing happiness.