(Minghui.org) Lately, it feels as if iPads have taken over our house. My wife and granddaughter are each glued to their own devices, spending hours browsing the internet, and hunting for bargains on shopping platforms like WeChat and TikTok. Nearly every day, I end up hauling bags of purchases home for them. We have five or six tablets of various sizes in our house—even my 3-year-old granddaughter has a large one. I am beginning to worry about how much technology dominates our lives.

Due to the nature of my work, I enjoy tinkering with electrical appliances. I am quite obsessed with electronic products.

My passion for electronics was sparked in my childhood, growing up in a family deeply rooted in radio technology. I often watched my father tinkering with electronic components during his spare time. He installed both black-and-white and color television sets, and people regularly sought him out to repair their appliances. Immersed in this environment, I naturally gravitated toward a career in the electronics industry. Electronic diagrams that confused others made perfect sense to me, and I could easily create functional devices. This upbringing fostered my fascination with developing specialized skills.

Every special skill brings fame and profit, but it also presents challenges. Some people can let go of their egos and quickly overcome these hurdles, while others become entangled and unable to move forward. Ultimately, success depends on a Falun Dafa practitioner’s ability to cultivate diligently and sincerely.

I have experience overcoming attachment to specific skills. When I recognized my attachment to skills related to electronic products, I concentrated on this modern, distorted notion while sending forth righteous thoughts. My goal was to completely eliminate the associated thought karma, concepts, habits, and everything arranged by the old forces behind it.

It is a gradual process. It requires long-term, high-intensity, and persistent effort to send forth righteous thoughts and see results. Cultivation can’t be rushed. We should be mindful of our impatience.

Modern life is inseparable from electronic products. Devices like cell phones, iPads, and other gadgets have emerged from the complexities of modern thinking. These items can be viewed as tools that, in some ways, entice people—especially practitioners—away from their true selves. However, from the perspective of Fa principles, we recognize the universal law of mutual generation and mutual inhibition. Without demons, it’s impossible to achieve Buddhahood.

Master says,

“There are desires of every possible sort. Take the attachments and feelings people have towards computers, cell phones, and iPods—was there ever anything like that in the past?” (“What a Dafa Disciple Is,” Fa Teaching Given at the 2011 New York Fa Conference, Collected Teachings Given Around the World Volume XI)

We have been given the opportunity to return to our innate origin. It all depends on whether we can cherish it!

This is my personal understanding. Please point out anything inappropriate.