Click on the below-mentioned, numbered subjects:
- Welcome
- What’s Happening?
- Arrangements
- Be Respectful Towards Teacher and Dafa
- Study the Fa More and Search Inward, as It Isn't Work But Cultivation
- Thoughts Inspired by "Searching Inward" and "Sending Forth Righteous Thoughts"
- Practitioners Must Cultivate Compassion
- Never Forget to Send Forth Righteous Thoughts to Eliminate Evil at Anytime
- 1. Welcome
Welcome to the March 2008 Falun Dafa India Newsletter.
If you haven’t read the reports on the Human Rights Torch Relay in Bangalore and Mumbai cities in India, please visit the following Links in Epoch Times.
http://en.epochtimes.com/news/8-1-31/65086.html
http://en.epochtimes.com/news/8-2-3/65242.html
We in India hope to make as many people aware of what the Torch stands for and its founding premise: The Olympics and crimes against humanity cannot coexist in China
Please visit this site and fill in the Support the Relay Form. http://www.humanrightstorch.org/join.php
Please forward it to as many people possible to create awareness.
In this issue, we have an interesting article by a Greek practitioner who had visited India some time back. There is also a compilation of experience-sharing Articles gleaned from Clearwisdom that always shine through because of their insights and fine quality of sharing. It is important to read the Clearwisdom, Pureinsight and other Dafa sites. We make an effort to select Articles from the Archives which people don’t go back to and are relevant even today. Contributions are welcome from practitioners.
Heshi! Hope, you like the selection of Articles and gain some new insights!
Note: "All the contents in this newsletter - except for quotations and excerpts of writings of the founder Mr. Li Hongzhi - are only ideas and experiences of practitioners and do not represent Falun Dafa in itself."
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- 2. What’s Happening?
The Bangalore practitioners introduced Dafa to Doctors and Surgeons at a Convention of Medical practitioners held in Bangalore. Practitioners also gave truth clarifying material to the doctors regarding organ harvesting. The doctors willingly signed the petition
to stop crimes against humanity in China.
There was a school Principals meet again, this time in New Delhi.
Practitioners had booked a stall and introduced the exercises to the visitors. One of the school Principals from Bangalore who was there to receive an award spoke convincingly about the impact of the exercises and Falun Dafa in his school.
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- 3. Arrangements
My sharing today is titled "Arrangements" and I would like to share my letting go of my
shortcomings through Master's arrangements and my cultivation journey from a return trip
from Greece to Australia. There is a root cause in everything we do and it is so difficult
sometimes to discern that root, whether it is covered by an attachment or shortcoming or if
its coming from a righteous place. Most of my life I have been traveling either with work or
experiencing the world. I wanted to see and experience as much of the world as possible.
Traveling was one of my shortcomings I thought I had eliminated through cultivating. I was
using the excuse of traveling and combining Hongfa. Yes my heart was in the right place
wanting to save sentient beings, but the shortcoming was still hidden and was not totally
eliminated. Of course it was at another level, but still the negative root needed to be weeded
out.
Another of my understandings through this journey of cultivation is that whatever decision
we make whether it be right or wrong, there is always a more righteous one. Even though
the decision may not be the most righteous, Master will still make arrangements for us to
save sentient beings and cultivate ourselves through it all. At the end of the day it's all good
as long as we are upgrading.
From a previous experience sharing conference in Israel, I had stacks of flyers in Arabic. We
don't have many if not any Arabic practitioners and felt an urgency that they needed to be
saved as well.
My first stop after leaving Greece was Morocco and had planned 15 days of pretty much
being on the road. I boarded the train at the airport and my journey started. Before I reached
Casablanca I needed to change trains and I got off at the wrong stop. There was another
train about an hour away and as I was starting to feel frustrated that I made a mistake, I
remembered previous experiences and that everything happens for a reason. Just have
Faith. I bought a tea from the canteen and passed on a flyer. They did not speak English
and I had no knowledge of Arabic or French which are the 2 main languages spoken there.
It was a bit like the Chinese practitioners that speak no English but still hand out flyers. As I
was waiting, a Korean man arrived and looked at the badge on my bag which read "SOS
Urgent call to rescue Falun Gong practitioners in China". I saw him reading it. That was my
opportunity and said hello, introduced myself and started talking. He was a dentist working
and living in Morocco for many years. I asked him if he knew of Falun Gong and said he
knew a little but not a lot and did not understand why it is being persecuted. I clarified the
truth and also gave him a Korean flyer as I always carried flyers in many languages due to
working with many foreigners and due to travel.
Back on the train I realised how it was all arranged and that whatever my choices, there will
always be constant arrangements. Before I reached Casablanca, 2 black French speaking
students sat next to me. I gave them 2 French flyers and they smiled and thanked me. The
journey had just begun. Many people I came across would receive a flyer whether it was on
the street, in a shop, in a train or bus station, on transport, or in a hotel. How wonderful.
Clarifying the truth and simultaneously cultivating, having faith and knowing that I will be
guided, letting go of fear or the unknown, taking things lightly, experiencing hardship and
tribulations in many ways and forms, whether it was lack of comfort, the dirty environment or
the poverty surrounding me. I was ripped off by many men on my journey but with tolerance
and always remembering "Zhen-Shan-Ren" just tried to take it all lightly and I still gave them
a flyer and the opportunity to be saved. Many children would run up to me and take flyers
passing them on to their families.
After I clarified the truth to a guide I met on one of the trips to the desert, he requested a
flyer in every language I had available to pass onto tourists he would come across. The
Arabic flyers at this point were running low and I was concerned that I didn't have enough
for the rest of the journey, so I divided the flyers up so that a certain amount would be
available to each city or village I visited. It was miraculous. One flyer would reach many. For
example I would give a flyer to a shopkeeper and by the time I had bought a bus ticket for
my next destination, I looked back and saw that the people from the other stores were
reading it as well. One flyer would reach 3 to 6 or even more people. The arrangement was
amazing. I felt tears well up in my eyes. It happened many times through the journey.
Teachers’ compassion was immense. The truth clarification from one flyer was miraculously
multiplied by many times. The limited amount of flyers was reaching a vast amount of
people.
While I was staying in a hotel by the desert, I met a well known English journalist who had
been sent there accidentally she said and was supposed to be staying somewhere else.
Through her I also met a camera man from the BBC and his wife and was able to clarify the
truth to them as well. A local guide wanted me to show him the first exercise and give him
information. The next day I was going to camel trek through the desert and sleep in a
Bedouin camp overnight and have lunch in a village basically in the middle of nowhere. As I
tried to get on the camel I was thrown into the air and before I knew it I was on the ground
hearing my body go crack, crack, crack. My first thought was its all good and I'm fine. Just
get up. The pain was intense and I couldn't walk or stretch my legs as it seemed like the
muscle had been pulled in my inner thigh area. I said I was ok and got on the camel and
started the trek. I kept on thinking why did this happen? Was it just dissolving karma or was
there more to it? I also remembered that when we do good and save sentient beings and
cultivate well we will go through some suffering, it's just part of the process but there was
more to it I was sure. Was it to let go of my attachments to being a tourist and an adventurer?
But I'm still doing Hongfa were the thoughts trying to creep in. Deep down I knew the truth of
the matter. It was a process.
The last few trips to the Middle East was with a non practitioner friend of many many years
and who is very supportive of Dafa, perhaps a future practitioner so it was easy to still hand
out flyers and clarify the truth and just following the course of nature based on her travel
adventures and wants. But this time I was on my own it was different. I couldn't hide behind
that excuse. After the long painful trek to the camp I noticed other tourists coming to the
same tent for a group dinner. There was an English couple, 2 American girls and their
Moroccan taxi driver. After dinner we started talking and I clarified the truth. They knew
nothing about Dafa. The Moroccan Taxi driver took a flyer and showed a lot of interest. The
next morning, the English couple asked me to show them the first exercise as they said they
had seen me showing the exercise to the guide back at the hotel and wanted to get the feel
of it. Once that was done and more explained to them we exchanged emails and I was off
again on the next trek to a village. In the village, the Bedouin families of course spoke no
Arabic, just their dialect. I had no flyer but still gave one to the father and he looked at it for a
while and the guide said a few words to him. He looked at me and said very good in his
dialect with his thumb up. Deep down he knew. On the way back I was pondering on how all
these people in 3rd world countries with no television or electricity or hot water living in
houses made of mud and rock, no form of media or newspapers were going to find out
about the Fa? Then I recalled Master saying something along the lines, as I understood it,
that all the good people will be saved for the future so they will attain the Fa. On the bus on
my way to Marakesh the bus inspector sat in the back next to me and I gave him a flyer and
with great difficulty communicating and with hand signs, I found out that he and the other
inspector were the owners of the bus. They invited me to stay at their house for the night. I
accepted and when at their apartment finally there were another 3 or 4 people living there
too. They offered me hashish to smoke with them as it is a common thing to smoke in
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Morocco and wine to drink, I thanked them and declined and gave them all flyers and
explained as much as I could about the Fa and the persecution. Joseph one of the owners
of the bus said to me " in our culture we have to be hospitable when we come across a
stranger as they may be a messenger from God in disguise". That night once again I
realised the huge importance of every Dafa disciples mission and that everyone is waiting
on us.
In Marakesh I bumped into the American girls with the Taxi driver from the desert. He said to
me that he had visited the Falun Dafa website already and had showed his wife. We
organised to go to Essouira on the Atlantic coast together for the day before they left for the
States and I left for my next destination, India. In Essouira the girls went out and the taxi
driver stayed back and said he would have an early night but asked me if I would teach him
the exercises. When the time came to do so, he was falling asleep and I did not want to
push it and asked him respectfully if he was still in the mood. Of course he said, if you don't
teach me now, when will I ever get the chance again. I felt tears well up again.
Using the internet cafes was another great way of introducing Dafa and clarifying the truth
as they would always be full of locals using them. As soon as I would finish looking at my
emails before leaving I would give each person on a computer a flyer. In that way it gave
them the opportunity to visit the website there and then.
On my way to India I thought things should be a lot easier, little did I know Morocco was just
a stepping stone in preparing me for the next bombardment of tribulations and tests. The
first couple of nights I stayed with a practitioner in Delhi before I embarked on my journey
through Northern India. Those first days were so tough for me, I had never experienced or
seen such poverty, chaos, filth and people were literally starving and sleeping on the streets.
I did not want to be there. My human side just wanted to leave and get back to civilized
Australia. The thought of another 20 days in India was overwhelming. It was all too much.
Giving out flyers to people was not that easy in Delhi or Agra; the response was not the
same as Morocco or other places I had visited on previous trips. In Sri Lanka a couple of
years before that, thousands of flyers would disappear within a half an hour, people would
run from across the street to grab a flyer. Here it was different. Was it the Karma of this
country? Was it me? What was I doing wrong? Weren't my thoughts righteous enough?
Even though of course people would take flyers and I was able to clarify the truth to some
Muslim university students, it wasn't enough. When I mentioned this to the practitioner I was
staying with he said to me "but you have come as a tourist for a holiday, you are not here for
Hongfa! I was moved. I reacted slightly and tolerated it, of course I did not agree with him
and really had to look within. There is a reason I was hearing this. I looked within and
realised that I had to let go completely of show off mentality, the notions of validating self
instead of the Fa by having thoughts like " see, this is what I've done for Dafa, I’ve given so
many flyers here and so many flyers there or I did this and that, and the desires and human
notions of traveling and seeing the world. My heart was always in a good place but it was
hard to see the hidden rubbish buried further within. At that moment I said to myself solidly
once again, accept this environment, accept this situation and the suffering around me, and
ask myself why am I really here?
And so my journey began. I took lots of posters and flyers and made my way to Rajasthan.
Everything magically changed; the response was very different this time around. On the
train I sat and talked to a man and by the end of our conversation said to me that I was very
convincing and that he would definitely be finding out more about the practice. Every city I
went to I asked shop keepers to put up posters. I walked the streets handing out flyers and
putting up posters. One poster would go up and immediately many would gather around to
read. Many would ask me if someone would come and teach them. One little boy said this is
really good and it's free, my parents follow a Guru but I will show this to them and maybe we
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can all start to practise.
The tourist locations I visited, whether it was a palace or museum, everybody who worked
there from security, waiters, policemen, reception staff would receive a flyer. It was
wonderful. I felt like the root deep down had changed. My purpose of traveling felt even
purer. At one tourist location I met 2 women that worked at Victoria University. One was a
teacher and the other worked in administration. I really wanted to clarify the truth but just
wasn't sure how. They left and I was disappointed with myself. I met them again at another
tourist location in another city and again I had a block and could not find myself to tell them.
I thought I had missed out on the opportunity and felt very concerned. In another city I
bumped into them again in a palace museum. I thought Master is giving me this opportunity,
will I break through this or not? So I told them that I practice Falun Dafa. They both knew
about it but one reacted and said "but I don't understand why it is being persecuted, there
must be something wrong?" That was why I had to clarify the truth. There was interference
there and it had to be cleared. After that I never saw them again.
At a train station I met an English man and again I didn't know how to bring Falun Dafa into
the conversation. Even though our meeting was brief, I thought well I have faith and
hopefully if I am meant to see him, I shall again. In another city I bumped into him once
again with his daughters and he invited me into a shop for a sweet. His wife arrived a few
minutes later and I was able to tell them about Dafa and the persecution. He said he had
been to India 7 times seeking for a spiritual practise and said that this could be it. She used
to practice yoga and said she liked what Dafa was about, so I gave them flyers and off I
went. Tears welled up once again.
The last 6 days of my journey I had organized with a local practitioner to travel North to Kulu
and Manali up in the Himalayan plains to Hongfa together. It was great that I would be
traveling with someone who spoke Hindi. When we arrived in Manali, after giving out flyers
to some shops we decided to go to see the local school. We walked in and spoke to the
principle about Dafa and the next thing we knew she was gathering all 600 hundred
students so that we could show them the exercises and introduce the practise. It was
incredible. She gave us the schools address and asked if we would send the school a copy
of Falun Gong and Zhuan Falun.
After that experience we decided to hire a driver and travel south, on the way stopping at
every school we would come across. One Buddhist monastery we visited had information on
the persecution of the Tibetans on the outside wall. The monk we saw could not speak
English but knew about Master Li and the persecution of Falun Gong. He allowed us to put
truth clarification materials on the wall as well and told many other monks about it who came
to have a look. Most of the schools we visited would let us teach the exercises and introduce
the Fa.
At some point we stopped for tea after the long drive and the first person we met there was
a principle of a school. He told us who to go and see. Basically one thing led to the next. It
was magical.
At the next school the high school was going on a field trip day so the principal sent us next
door to the primary school. After we finished showing the exercises the principal said that
what we were doing was wonderful and she hoped we would return another time to teach
the older students as well. A teacher who liked what we did, said to us if we wanted to speak
to some other teachers. Sure we said. She took us to a school where 40 teachers each
representing a different school gather once a month. We walked in, introduced ourselves
and introduced Dafa as a higher science. I spoke in English and told them my experiences
and the other practitioner explained the water molecule experiment. I then showed them the
exercises and they all took a poster to put up in their schools. They also were very happy
that we would send to them books for each school.
My last 2 days before I left India, I was supposed to go on an elephant trek in the jungle
reserve. It was very testing as it was that final root. My human side did not want to let go
and really wanted to do it. Do I spend this amount of money I had for this expensive
experience or do I give the money for books to be sent to all the schools we just visited. The
answer was clear. I spent the last 2 days in a cheap hotel room. I studied, did my exercises
and gave the money to the local practitioners. I did what I was meant to. No loss no gain. I
sacrificed my attachment for a greater good. I thanked Master sincerely.
Another interesting experience I had was that many practitioners did their exercises
incorrectly. I thought this only happened in Australia and some other countries where a lot of
the veteran practitioners especially Chinese would be doing their exercises wrongly. In India,
whoever I corrected would thank me sincerely and practitioners would ask me if they were
doing their exercises correctly and to pin point anything out. Also on a superficial/surface
level it was interesting to see the difference between the areas where Hindi and Muslims
lived and the areas where Buddhists lived. The contrast was huge. The Hindi and Muslim
areas were chaotic, dirty, and polluted. The Buddhist areas on the other hand were peaceful,
very green, very clean and all the monks smiled peacefully.
I was now coming back to Australia, what an amazing experience. As soon as I arrived I felt
that now I was finally on holidays. What a different environment. And yet as I sighed in the
back of my mind, I just knew that this was another chapter and level of cultivation. One of
battling comfort, complacency, and laziness.
Thank you Master and thank you all.
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- 4. Be Respectful Towards Teacher and Dafa
(Clearwisdom.net)
Many who have struggled and succeeded in this modern world have developed an arrogant degree of self-confidence. They have come to believe that they are the masters of their own destiny; they fall easy prey to atheism and become disrespectful of other things. Many capable practitioners were like this before they began practicing Dafa, and even after cultivating in Dafa, some still have not let go of this attachment.
I remember once at a conference, a practitioner asked Teacher how we could avoid transforming our feelings towards Teacher into some idolizing and worshipping rituals like that of some religions.
Of course we should avoid going to extremes and should conform to everyday people's ways when we cultivate and spread Dafa. However, at the conference, my understanding was: human beings should worship Gods, and disciples should do whatever Teacher says. We cannot make judgments based on our old mentality; just like the old forces wanting to influence the Fa rectification, this is absolutely not allowed. If we cannot realize from the Fa the essential necessity to completely trust Teacher, then it is not true trust, and it is not true cultivation.
No words can express our gratitude to our Teacher, and our respect is extremely pure and devout.
During group Fa study, some practitioners out of habit sit with both their legs sticking up. When we study the Fa, we are actually face to face with the Gods and Teacher. As practitioners, we must have a certain respect. In fact, there are Gods three feet above our heads; Teacher's law bodies are also taking care of us at all times, so we should maintain this respectfulness in our daily lives.
With this respectfulness, our hearts will naturally become magnanimous. Human beings are insignificant, and what we have learned in our daily lives is very shallow. A true cultivator is very humble. If we have such a broad mind, what cannot be easily discussed among our practitioners, and what will make us refuse to give ground?
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- 5. Study the Fa More and Search Inward, as It Isn't Work But Cultivation
By Dafa practitioner from China
(Clearwisdom.net) Dafa practitioners have a lot of work to do every day in validating Dafa, clarifying the truth, exposing the evil and offering salvation to countless beings that are deceived by the evil. Sometimes practitioners don't even have time to eat or sleep. In these circumstances, practitioners may subconsciously overlook studying the Fa and practicing the exercises. Many practitioners often feel tired after a busy day, and only study the Fa reluctantly at bed-time as though finishing an assignment. Though we understand that Teacher wants us to study the Fa no matter how busy we are, in actuality we fail to follow through and mistakenly regard the speed with which we complete Dafa work and the amount of Dafa work we can accomplish as cultivation. We have not put studying the Fa as the number one priority and have not regarded doing Dafa work as a process to genuinely cultivate and improve ourselves.
The specific consequences of this mentality are that work cannot be carried out smoothly, and when fellow practitioners have different opinions, they cannot genuinely search inward, but invariably look at each other's shortcomings. We would rather talk about practitioners behind their backs rather than point out their shortcomings to them with kindness. This is irresponsible. Some practitioners try to avoid contact with each other in order not to have conflicts, rather than viewing conflicts as the best chance to improve their own xinxing (moral character). This type of behavior has brought big losses to Dafa work.
A few days ago, because we were overanxious to expose the evil's lies, a copy of truth-clarifying material was sent for printing without being proofread. When we were about to distribute it, one responsible practitioner discovered many typos in the literature. The most serious mistake involved two typos in a quotation of Master Li's Fa-teachings. We had to destroy all the materials because of this. We had failed to be responsible to Dafa and to ourselves. This painful lesson suddenly awakened us and made us realize that not only must practitioners validate and safeguard Dafa during truth-clarifying activities, but also in all other environments as well. We now have a deeper understanding of what Master Li told us in his "Lecture on the Fa at the Washington, D.C. International Conference:"
"Under any circumstance, in any period, and no matter how busy you are with your work, you can't stray from your Fa-study, as this is what fundamentally ensures that you'll continue to improve and reach Consummation. You can't do Dafa work without studying the Fa, or it would be an everyday person doing Dafa work. It has to be Dafa disciples who do Dafa work--this is something required of all of you."
Therefore, we have to be Dafa disciples in the first place in order to do Dafa work well; otherwise, we are just everyday people doing Dafa work, and losses will be impossible to avoid. Now, we have made the adjustment to study the Fa first and then do Dafa work.
At this great moment of impending Fa- rectification in the human world, all Dafa practitioners should cherish the precious opportunities created by our revered Master through his tremendous suffering, use our purest thoughts for the most sacred Dafa work, offer salvation to more innocent beings, and cultivate to become solid great enlightened beings.
Fellow practitioners, please compassionately point out anything in my understanding that is inappropriate.
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- 6. Thoughts Inspired by "Searching Inward" and "Sending Forth Righteous Thoughts"
(Clearwisdom.net)
Recently, I felt overwhelmed by a bunch of problems that kept cropping up. My legs started to hurt, my bicycle was broken, and my mother suddenly became sick. I used "being busy with truth clarifying work" as an excuse and tried to deal with these problems in a superficial manner. I thought to myself, "The pain in my legs is caused by my karma, so I need to endure it to pay back the karma. If it had been evil interference, I would have sent forth righteous thoughts to eliminate it." I then took the bicycle to the repair shop and asked my older sister to accompany our mother to see the doctor.
Several days passed, and the pain in my legs did not lessen a bit. I suddenly thought about how Master Li told us to search inward when encountering problems. I thought to myself, "It must be that I have my own problems. But what on earth are they?" I thought for a while, but something else came up so I stopped thinking about it.
Late at night, I gnashed my teeth and managed to bring one of my legs over the other to do the sitting meditation. I felt so much pain in my right leg that it felt as hard as a rock. As I reached a tranquil state, I suddenly realized that I was still carrying around the attachments of laziness, dependence on others and the pursuit of comfort in my truth clarifying work. In addition, these attachments were exerting a great deal of influence on me. I was very surprised. I realized that I had searched inward again and again, but I always let the matter drop before discovering the real cause of my problems. I then asked myself, "Is what I am doing really cultivation? Is this truly assisting the Teacher to rectify the Fa?" A feeling of shame and self-blame beyond description arose in my heart.
When I sent forth righteous thoughts right after that, it felt so tranquil and magical. The next day, everything returned to normal.
This experience strengthened my confidence in "searching inward" and continuing to "send forth righteous thoughts." At the same time, I also found the root cause of why I tend to do things with a great deal of fanfare at the start and quickly wind down to almost nothing toward the end. In the past, when encountering conflicts or problems, the first thing that came to my mind was "eliminate the evil, eliminate the evil." I did tell myself to search inward. However, I often only searched for a moment or two, and I would not be able to find the root cause and eliminate it. It was mainly because I did not treat it seriously enough.
"Searching inward" is an important element in Fa-rectification cultivation. "Sending righteous thoughts" is eliminating the evil, and eliminating the evil is doing Fa-rectification work. The two are interconnected, and neither can be neglected.
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- 7. Practitioners Must Cultivate Compassion
Written by a Falun Dafa practitioner
(Clearwisdom.net) Recently I discovered that I had a long-term and very serious problem: I was not compassionate. A practitioner who is not compassionate can understand quite a few Fa-principles. I myself was just like this. A practitioner like this probably understands what compassionate actions are on very important issues, and can also give up his own attachments. In this way, he can have wisdom at a certain level, but still, he does not have a compassionate heart.
The lack of compassion with which I am familiar manifests when a practitioner does not know how to care for others, and does not cherish the lives of beings from within his heart. Righteous Fa-enlightened beings are like a deep well of compassion, nurturing all lives, encompassing and caring for all lives. However, those who understand Fa-principles but are not compassionate are not like this. They are nothing more than wise men.
Some such persons do not feel their above-mentioned shortcomings, but may feel that they have not completely gotten rid of their attachments, and that it is easy for those attachments to recur once in a while. Others may feel that they do not have the real motivation for cultivation. Actually these lives continue in cultivation for themselves, as they hope with selfish hearts to gain benefits after improving their realms. But they do not have compassion in their inner hearts. Their goals are supposedly to improve their realms and be responsible for the lives of beings, but these goals exist in name only.
These persons have a rectified brilliance that is only superficial. They keep talking about the Fa-principles in words while in their hearts they do not have compassion. Master Li has pointed out, "Those who are attached to their reputations practice an evil way, full of intention. Once they gain renown in this world, they are bound to say good but mean evil, thereby misleading the public and undermining the Fa"("Cultivators' Avoidances," Essentials for Further Advances).
Persons who lack compassion have a very serious problem cultivating Dafa, as this shows that the foundation of their lives has degenerated greatly. Even when dealing with issues of righteousness and wickedness, their minds are unmoved and they do not want to change themselves fundamentally. But for all beings who are willing to give up whatever they had before, everything will be rectified.
I will thoroughly re-mold myself, and become a being that is worthy of salvation by the righteous Fa.
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- 8. Never Forget to Send Forth Righteous Thoughts to Eliminate Evil at Anytime
By Wu Xin (a Dafa practitioner from Mainland China)
I send forth righteous thoughts to eliminate evil on the hour every hour sharp even though I cannot see anything. Here I would like to share some of my recent experiences in my cultivation.
Over a period of time, different illness symptoms appeared in several places on my body. At first I thought that was because of my karma, so I endured it silently. Then one day, while going to a store, I developed very painful stomach cramps. Thinking that it was not right, I recited from memory "Lunyu" (from Zhuan Falun) while bearing the pain. I repeated "Lunyu" and then the pain disappeared. This went on for three days, each time with the pain disappearing after I recited "Lunyu." Since I didn't look at the issue from the standpoint of the Fa and forgot that I am a Dafa practitioner in the Fa-rectification period, my suffering continued violently and took various forms. One evening, just as I picked up Zhuan Falun, I got a toothache. The pain spread to my ear and then to my face. Then I thought, this shouldn't be happening because of karma. Master Li would not arrange a toothache while I am going to study the Fa. The pain lasted for several days until I became more clearheaded.
Master Li said: "Old age, illness, and death are also forms of demons..." (Zhuan Falun). In the article "Dafa is Indestructible," Master Li pointed out: "Why are Dafa disciples ruthlessly tortured by the evil? It's because they persist in their righteous faith in Dafa, and because they are particles of Dafa.", "... and they have taken advantage of the un-removed notions that are at Dafa disciples' human surface, and Dafa disciples' karma, to make their righteous thoughts falter", "A Dafa disciple completely opposes everything arranged by the evil old forces. Clarify the truth thoroughly, eliminate the evil with righteous thoughts, save all beings, and safeguard the Fa with determination..."
At this moment I realized clearly that I could no longer accept passively the Old Forces persecuting me. I am a Fa-rectification Dafa practitioner. Whatever I do should rectify everything including my body, the mini-universe. We can keep pace with our Master's Fa-Rectification process. I started eliminating the evil by sending forth righteous thoughts while raising my hand in front of my chest. The first three minutes, the toothache worsened, but then it weakened, then it disappeared altogether after a few more minutes.
The lesson I learned from the above experience was that a Dafa practitioner is not going through personal cultivation alone in the Fa-rectification period. Whatever is encountered is related to both the Fa-rectification and personal cultivation. So one should be clear that "Assisting Master in Fa-rectification" is our historical mission, and we cannot use the common sense of ordinary people to take care of anything that happens to us. One should do what a Fa-rectification Dafa practitioner should do.
Sending forth righteous thoughts daily on the hour cannot just be done mechanically, and we must be true, diligent practitioners at all times. In his "Fa-Lecture at the Conference in Florida, U.S.A." Master taught us "...so each student has to truly, clearly realize what his responsibility is, and when he sends forth righteous thoughts he has to be able to truly calm his mind and truly produce the effect of righteous thoughts. So this is something extremely critical, extremely important..."
We practitioners should understand the purpose and significance of sending forth righteous thoughts from the standpoint of the Fa.
I realized that the many opportunities to "enlighten to the Tao" given to me by our Master are not just denying the arrangements by the Old Forces in the case of physical "illness" symptoms. It is that every Dafa practitioner should completely deny the arrangements by the Old Forces in all cases or difficulties in this Fa-rectification cultivation process. When using righteous thoughts to eliminate the evil, the evil will have no loop-holes to exploit.
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