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- Welcome
- What’s Happening?
- Have more compassion with new practitioners
- Sharing on What Righteous Thoughts Are -- Some Thoughts after Studying Teacher's New Article
- May Every Practitioner Cherish This Never-Before-Seen Opportunity to Practice Falun Dafa
- In a Few Words: There Is No Anger in the Dignity of an Enlightened Being
- Three Insights
- Falun Gong is The Best Way to Build Up Positive Energy
- 1. Welcome
Welcome to the November 2009 Falun Dafa India Newsletter.
This issue has 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.
We have in this issue an experience sharing article by a practitioner from Iran who lived for a couple of years as a student in Pune.
Her sharing is always insightful and can benefit other 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 participated in a “Science and Spirituality” Fair.
Truth Clarification material were extensively distributed and the Spiritual Masters voluntarily signed the petition.
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- 3. Have more compassion with new practitioners
By an Iranian Dafa practitioner
I remember when I started practicing
Falun Dafa some years ago I had so many stupid questions that right
now when I look back seems like utter nonsense. My behavior and thoughts
were very far from Dafa’s requirements. Going by human attachments
I used to compare Dafa with other Qigong methods which now when I think
I feel embarrassed. But we tend to forget about the past and have high
expectations from new practitioners.
I always liked to teach exercises
to new practitioners and encourage them to be steadfast practitioners,
but sometimes I failed and others did better than me. When I looked
inwards, I found some attachments that should be removed.
First, I considered myself
superior to them which came from my selfishness. I assumed as a veteran
practitioner my understanding of the Fa is very high, and new practitioners
should listen to me. I expected them to share with me about every thing.
Indeed, I considered my low understanding to be very high, which itself
was a critical test one should get rid of. Otherwise, we are dropping
down in our levels. As Master says in Zhuan Falun: “You
cannot take your own understanding and spread it as if it’s Falun
Dafa, or else what you are teaching isn’t Falun Dafa, and what you
are doing is about the same as damaging our Falun Dafa. When you say
things based on your own ideas, or based on your own thinking, that
is not the Law, and it cannot save people, and it won’t achieve any
effect. That is why nobody is able to teach this Law”. But I considered
my understanding very right and forced it on them.
Second, I had low compassion
and forbearance with new practitioners. Whenever they weren’t serious
in their practice and had difficulty to get up early, or when they asked
some unconventional questions I got angry and irritated. Anger comes
from lack of forbearance and compassion. I forgot my own initial situation.
At first, getting up early was also hard for me and sometimes because
of my gaps and attachments I had some problems which by continually
cultivating I could overcome.
Third, I forgot that everything
is done by Master and his Fashen or Law bodies. I got upset because
I couldn’t control other lives; I didn’t know about anyone’s future
and their karmic relationships. I considered myself very important.
I followed their practice with attachment of worrying. So I criticized
them in my mind; why they were losing their opportunities, or why they
are not so serious in cultivation, why they are not volunteering to
do Dafa work ? When I looked within, I found I have all these problems
which I saw in others. I too wasn’t as serious as I should be, and
sometimes wasted my time. I found I was very far from the high standards
of the Fa. But instead of correcting myself, I always looked at others
and made excuses of helping them. It all pointed to my selfishness.
I thought others needed to remove their attachments more than me. Actually
finding others attachments is easier than our own.
Fourth, I wanted to save face.
As a veteran practitioner I was always afraid they would think I do
not know The Fa well, so instead of sharing my problems, I tried to
correct others. I wanted them to look up to me as a better practitioner
who knows more and can tell them what they should do. So like a school-teacher
I would always ask them: What have you been up to? What is your problem?
Actually, I wanted to give them some advice. Sometimes, due to lack
of forbearance I did not listen to them patiently, I interrupted them
while they were talking, to say they should do this or point out their
faults.
Fifth, I compared them with
each other and judged them according to my personal understanding. All
of us know the only criteria which show what is good or bad is “truthfulness,
forbearance, compassion”, but I compared them in their practices,
their work related to Dafa, and their levels of attachments… little
realizing it was wrong. Only Master knows about our situation. I was
blind to this truth that all of us have countless attachments, yet Master
is saving us all the same.
So I always need to remind
myself that all of us are practitioners of Falun Dafa regardless of
years of cultivating or what we have done for various Dafa activities.
We mustn’t forget we should look inward to find out our problems and
continue our cultivation. It is better to remind each other to thank
Master who is constantly saving us with his boundless compassion..
Eternally grateful to you Master.
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- 4. Sharing on What Righteous Thoughts Are -- Some Thoughts after Studying Teacher's New Article
By a practitioner in China
(Clearwisdom.net) Recently Master has said, "In Fa-Rectification
Your Thoughts Have To Be Righteous, Not Human." What, then, are
righteous thoughts? I'd like to share my personal understanding.
The practitioner who wrote the article
"Cultivators Should Not Form Attachments to the Fourth Plenary
Meeting" mentioned the phenomenon that "the number of people
that have understood the truth and received salvation was too small,
despite the fact that we have distributed so many flyers, VCD's and
other materials in the past few years."
Master says in "In Fa-Rectification
Your Thoughts Have to be Righteous, Not Human,"
"What's happening is that the cosmos
is going through Fa-rectification. [What is taking place in] the human
world is merely how low-level beings act when gigantic cosmic bodies
are being impacted by the Fa-rectification. What could human beings
possibly do to gods? If there were no outside factors, would humans
dare to do anything to gods? How human society unfolds is nothing but
the outcome of high-level beings controlling things."
Many sentient beings have not yet received
salvation. The crux of the matter, I believe, is that the evil factors
behind them haven't been eliminated, so our truth-clarifying materials
didn't have or lacked the power of the Fa. To be more specific, although
we were busy doing things, we neglected the essential tasks of studying
the Fa and sending forth righteous thoughts. This restricted our truth-clarifying
materials to their superficial words and forms and didn't have the effect
of eliminating evil and saving sentient beings. Falun Dafa practitioners
are assisting Teacher to rectify the Fa in the human world. The only
difference between ordinary people and us is that we study the Fa and
send forth righteous thoughts. We have to do those two things well,
otherwise aren't we doing ordinary people's jobs? Can sentient beings
then be saved?
What's the difference between humans
and Gods? Humans use their four limbs to do things, while Gods use supernormal
abilities to do things. Even though practitioners are in this human
flesh body, our thoughts and actions are not of ordinary people. When
we are assisting Teacher to rectify the Fa in the human world, we should
let our divine part shine forth. We should let our divine powers work
and use our supernormal abilities and righteous thoughts to do things.
The power of divine powers, supernormal abilities, and righteous thought
come from studying the Fa, so studying the Fa well and strengthening
sending forth righteous thoughts before clarifying the truth is truly
saving sentient beings with righteous thoughts.
As we can't use our godly sides to do
large-scale divine things, we need to adopt human means to harmonize
the human world. In other words, we need to do things with our four
limbs. But sometimes we forget that the key is studying the Fa and sending
forth righteous thoughts, and we were then merely doing things with
our four limbs.
This issue exists among practitioners.
After Teacher published the new article, some practitioners were eager
to do more and do larger-scale things, but they didn't keep up with
studying the Fa and sending forth righteous thoughts. They also did
not afford Fa-study the proper degree of importance, and even when they
were studying the Fa, their minds were still on doing things and were
full of ideas of validating Dafa. They couldn't calm their minds, maintain
a tranquil mind, and focus deep down inside. When they sent forth righteous
thoughts, their power couldn't focus, and as a result the evil in other
dimensions didn't get completely eliminated. Truth-clarifying materials
didn't manifest the power of the Fa to sentient beings, and it turned
out to be a waste of manpower and resources.
"However high a person's character
is, that's how high his gong is." (Zhuan Falun) When we
study the Fa and send forth righteous thoughts well, that's when our
righteous thoughts become powerful, and we naturally can do great things
and do a lot of great things for sentient beings. That is a state from
the Fa.
A lot of times when we didn't study the
Fa and send forth righteous thoughts well, and were merely doing things,
people would say we were holding some activities. We'd feel physically
tired all day long. Sometimes the street committee and the police would
check on what we were doing and find fault with us. Of course that's
the old forces' arrangements, but from another perspective, the police
are supposed to discipline ordinary people and their behaviors. What
does it mean when they want to discipline Dafa disciples? Isn't that
a warning that we have human thoughts mixed in our actions of validating
Dafa?
Teacher is leading us to walk out of
being human, to surpass humanness, and to eventually walk on the path
to Godhood. Dafa disciples are fulfilling our mission of assisting Teacher
to rectify the Fa and save sentient beings. Let our Dafa disciples'
divine sides be truly resurrected.
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- 5. May Every Practitioner Cherish This Never-Before-Seen Opportunity to Practice Falun Dafa
By a practitioner in China
(Clearwisdom.net) Practitioners have human notions on their path
of cultivation. Some practitioners are diligent in overcoming their
tribulations quickly and solidly, while others struggle to pass a test,
making it even more difficult to overcome the next one. Some practitioners
lack courage to get up after they have fallen. The latter two types
of practitioners are being irresponsible towards themselves, towards
sentient beings and even worse, they are disappointing Teacher's compassionate
salvation.
I began practicing Falun Dafa in March
of 1998. When the persecution first began in July 1999, I stumbled several
times in cultivation because of holding onto human notions. Through
the help of fellow practitioners, I finally made up my mind last spring
to truly practice Falun Dafa. At first, I was afraid I could not catch
up with the other practitioners. However, by continuously studying the
Fa (1), I gradually felt that I was back in the Fa again. I know that
Teacher once again scooped me up out of "Hell," and I barely
escaped from falling back down the same deviant path of my past.
Just when I was determined to get back
to the practice of Dafa, Practitioner C, who used to encourage me when
I had stopped practicing, was shaken by the attachment to wealth and
became muddle-headed. He only thought about how to get rich and slowed
down in Fa study. He rarely shared his experiences with other practitioners
and was reluctant to read articles from the Minghui website (The Chinese
version of Clearwisdom).
A few days ago, I delivered the Minghui
Weekly and one of Teacher's lectures, "Teaching the Fa at the 2004
Washington DC Fa Conference" to Practitioner C. After he read the
Minghui Weekly, he overreacted and said, "Ah, then we should just
learn the Fa at home, why go out to post banners and posters and deliver
flyers?! Isn't this participating in politics? I don't want to practice
anymore." I quickly sent forth righteous thoughts to clean out
the evil factors behind him. However, I wasn't very calm at that time.
Gradually my friend calmed down, but he still wanted to stop practicing.
I was afraid that I would make the situation worse by saying too much
(which I later realized was the attachment of fear and of not firmly
believing in the Fa), so I didn't say much. Before I left, I left him
Teacher's lecture and took the Minghui Weekly back. I thought that that
was the end of his practice. I didn't think Teacher would still guide
him.
A few days later, I ran into Practitioner
C. He told me that after I left, he felt terrible like he just finished
a battle and then fell asleep. In his dream, he was operating a tractor
and was going up a hill. I was behind the tractor, saying, "Move
forward, move forward." He answered, "It's fine, I am switching
to reverse gear." Then all of a sudden we both fell into a deep
ditch. He woke up after that. He told me he realized it was Teacher
trying to enlighten him and said, "I probably would not practice
anymore if I hadn't had this dream. Now I have to continue practicing."
While he shared this experience, we both had tears in our eyes. Our
magnificent and compassionate Teacher did not leave behind any practitioner!
Through this incident, I enlightened
to the understanding that our compassionate Teacher does not want to
leave any practitioner behind, even those who are not doing well. Teacher
is still guiding them and giving them hints with compassion and providing
them with constant opportunities to improve. I encourage practitioners
who are doing well in their cultivation to help out those who have a
lot of attachments and who are not diligent. As the Fa-rectification
progresses into the final stage, all practitioners are Teacher's students
and we form one body. At the same time that we clarify the truth to
people, we can't forget about those practitioners who fall behind.
I also hope that practitioners who are
not doing so well in cultivation will take hold of this never-before
opportunity to practice and cherish what they have waited for thousands
of years. For themselves, sentient beings, Fa-rectification, and the
grace of Teacher's compassionate salvation, try to be diligent and catch
up with the progress of Fa-rectification!
In the end, let's review part of "Teaching
the Fa at the 2004 Chicago Conference," and progress solidly together:
"... I want to save each person.
As long as someone has learned the Fa, I want to save him, I don't want
to abandon those people. (Applause) When you Dafa disciples develop
even stronger righteous thoughts among you that will be what's most
magnificent. Starting from each person, let's truly make our environment
a very righteous one, and then all the unrighteous factors will dissolve,
and all the students who haven't conducted themselves well will see
where they fall short, and it will make them do better."
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- 6. In a Few Words: There Is No Anger in the Dignity of an Enlightened Being
By Jing Xin
(Clearwisdom.net) Some fellow practitioners around me often felt
quietly angry with their family for their unrighteous words and behavior,
and had been enduring it silently. One day, the practitioners couldn't
endure any more and broke out with anger. They justified their action,
thinking that Falun Dafa practitioners should not only have compassion,
but also dignity.
Anger and hatred are nothing but evidence
that we haven't broken free of emotion, much less is it the dignity
of enlightened beings.
"Once you start hating
him, aren't you getting angry? Then you've failed to live up to Endurance.
We strive to be True, Good, and Endure. And what's more, your Goodness
is nowhere to be found. So you shouldn't act like him, and you really
shouldn't be angry at him... You love something, you hate something--everything
in society comes completely from emotion. If you don't sever emotion,
you won't be able to cultivate. But if you do break out of emotion,
nobody can affect you, and ordinary attachments won't be able to sway
you. What replaces it is compassion, which is more noble." (Zhuan
Falun, 2003 Translation Edition)
In an article published on the Clearwisdom
website, a policeman who beat people fiercely was interrogating an elderly
Dafa practitioner who went to peacefully appeal in Beijing. The policeman,
who had become so accustomed to beating people, was about to beat up
the old lady. But the compassionate and dignified manner of this old
lady made him check himself subconsciously. His fierce and brutal manner
disappeared. He even forgot to curse. We can see that the dignity of
a practitioner, who truly cultivates herself, co-exists with compassion,
as shown through this elderly practitioner. It gives expression to a
more magnificent strength, which makes all that is evil and unrighteous
shudder.
If you emphasize your "dignity"
while divorcing yourself from compassion, you will lose your temper,
glare at somebody, or speak sternly. Your "dignity" won't
be the dignity of an enlightened being. It is nothing more than an exposure
of everyday people's demon nature. It doesn't show any strength either,
but instead could be very destructive. Once it starts to work, it could
be magnified and utilized by the evil, and it could seriously hinder
and damage our personal cultivation and truth-clarification work.
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- 7. Three Insights
By a Falun Dafa practitioner in China
1. It is Very Harmful to Regard Oneself
as Infallible
As a Falun Dafa practitioner, it is arrogance
and complacency, the attitude of regarding oneself as infallible, and
the unwillingness to correct one's mistakes, rather than clumsiness,
that is the most serious problem.
The attachment to regarding oneself as
infallible manifests in many ways. Some people center everything around
themselves and take everything that does not conform to their notions
as interference; some don't listen to any advice or acknowledge their
mistakes at all, let alone strive hard to correct themselves; still
others carry strong jealousy and do not allow any one to surpass them.
This is an extremely dangerous mentality. Those who have the problem
to a slight degree appear to be cultivating and practicing, but in fact
are not truly cultivating. In more serious cases, they grow giddy with
success and easily go down demonic paths as a result of "transformation
according to one's thoughts." The root cause for this is selfishness.
However, selfishness, arrogance and complacency are the very attachments
that we have to eradicate as Falun Dafa practitioners.
How do we get rid of these attachments?
The first thing to do, in my opinion, is to be honest and modest, and
to correct any mistake as soon as we recognize it. In life, it is not
hard to learn and acquire one type of skill, but it's extremely precious
to be consistently modest. The process of cultivation is to assimilate
to the Fa (1) in every aspect of our lives and to get rid of our attachments.
The fact that we have attachments or loopholes is not the worst problem.
It is very bad, though, to regard oneself as infallible and to defend
one's attachments with various excuses.
2. Let Go of the Attachment for Quick
Success
There is a saying among everyday people,
"more haste, less speed." Some fellow practitioners always
try to achieve quick results. They end up with little achievement instead.
When a good practitioner or an enlightened being is faced with a difficult
situation, I believe that they calmly and peacefully analyze their situations
and handle them well with the wisdom they have learned from the Dafa
principles. They will calmly and unhurriedly work out what they are
supposed to do and accomplish their missions.
One day I took two children to play a
shooting game. The younger sister was hasty. She quickly used up all
of her bullets without hitting the target. In contrast, the older brother
was solidly seated, slowly picking up the gun, patiently aiming at the
target, and resolutely pulling the trigger. With every step so concentrated
and serious, he achieved a very good score. The business owner walked
over to me and said, "This boy is really exceptional. At such a
young age, he is so calm. With such a style, he will certainly do everything
well." The boy received not only the prize, but also a gift from
the owner. He then shared his gifts with his younger sister. On the
way home, I was thinking: to calm themselves, ancient people would do
breathing exercises even before writing. As practitioners, we must walk
with even firmer steps to elevate ourselves. Otherwise, we will end
up shooting for quick results but achieving nothing, just like the little
sister.
When we are anxious to get quick results,
we are demonstrating our attachment. It is disrespectful to the teachings
of Falun Dafa and irresponsible to ourselves to take cultivation as
something with which to increase personal gain and reputation through
quick efforts and quick results without any suffering or sacrifice.
Cultivation is a serious and rigorous process. Only when we are consistent
in our hearts and our actions, and are striving hard, can we really
elevate ourselves. It cannot be achieved easily or quickly without a
great deal of effort.
3. Truly Understanding Benevolence
I used to easily lose my temper before
I started to practice Falun Gong. To help me get rid of this twisted
notion, Master alerted me many times in my dreams, gave me hints when
I was lost in day-to-day living, and guided me when I was studying the
Fa.
One morning, I dreamt that I tripped
and fell down a flight of stairs. After I woke up, I didn't even think
about this dream and went straight to work. That day, my colleague was
trying to shirk a certain work responsibility, so I explained to him
patiently that this was his job and that he needed to complete it quickly.
To make sure I made my point clear, I repeated a few more times until
he finally responded angrily, "Shut up and get out of here."
Unconvinced, I tried to argue with him. In the end, he kicked me out.
I felt wronged. I started to think of his problems and believed that
I had tried to help him without any return. As soon as I returned to
my desk and started to read the Fa, the words "Truly Cultivate"
first appeared, followed by "Minding Your Speech." It's obvious
that Master was telling me that I hadn't done well in these two areas.
Later I learned from Master's teachings
that everything has a cause and effect. The reason my colleague was
rude to me was because I hurt him using negative comments. Although
we were good friends, karma has to be returned. Whatever I owed him
I have to return to him, because cultivation involves no human sentimentality.
It's my karma that caused him to yell at me. He was actually helping
me to dissolve the karma and to elevate myself. In fact, Master hinted
to me in advance that I would fall down if I didn't cultivate well.
But I didn't pay any attention. Despite my terrible mistakes, Master
was still helping me out without giving up on me. Every conflict is
an opportunity for me to elevate to a higher level. Without giving up
or suffering, how would I elevate my level? We must take every conflict
as an opportunity to quickly improve ourselves in cultivation practice.
Lately my cultivation practice dipped
to a low level again. I was sleepy all day long; I was unable to concentrate
when reading the Fa; and I could not calm down and my attachments kept
surfacing when sending forth righteous thoughts. I was frustrated and
even desperate. While my fellow practitioners were advancing in cultivation,
I couldn't take responsibility as a practitioner or live up to Master's
expectations. I shared my confusion with my fellow practitioners. They
told me to keep going without thinking too much. They said I was cultivating
pretty well. I was really encouraged. That very night, I dreamed that
Master asked me to carefully study the new articles he gave me. I was
puzzled when I woke up: where are the new articles? A few days later,
a fellow practitioner brought to me many articles. I eagerly read all
of them and began my journey anew.
Still, I didn't do well in terms of clarifying
the facts. I asked Master to instruct me clearly. One night in a dream,
without saying a single word, Master gave me a pen. I was suddenly enlightened
to the understanding that despite the different paths in cultivation,
everyone can walk his own path well by recognizing his abilities and
making good use of his strengths. With good writing skills, why can't
I use my pen to save sentient being by helping them establish their
righteous thoughts? Since then, when I have written down my thoughts,
they have flown out like a spring and my articles have been spoken of
highly. I have to attribute all of these achievements to Master's teachings.
I am often enlightened to the fact that
it is selflessness that makes heaven and earth perpetual, and it is
the fact that they are completely unselfish that makes enlightened beings
eternal. What Master teaches us is the magnificent Buddha Law. Master
gives us his trust, his protection, and suffers for us. Master's giving
is boundless and is focused on saving us without seeking any return.
Having studied the Fa so much and cultivated for so long, how much have
we done for sentient beings? While we are complaining about the lack
of results from our efforts, or sighing over the treacherous human world,
we must think twice: how well do we understand the grand benevolence
Master has taught us? Have we followed Master's requirements in terms
of righteous thoughts and righteous actions? Have we utilized the wisdom
Master granted us? Are we willing to "take hardship as joy"
as Master taught us? Have we gotten rid of the attachments that Master
taught us to let go of?
We must cultivate ourselves solidly,
rather than superficially. Perhaps our achievements are not magnificent
but we must still look inside ourselves without any hesitation and try
hard to do well what we are supposed to do. Forgiving the mistakes of
sentient beings, taking the hardships of all sentient beings as our
own, and helping them out without seeking any return, let us warm up
every heart with the sunshine of the Fa.
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- 8. Falun Gong is The Best Way to Build Up Positive Energy
Glenda Audrey McNiece Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
My name is Glenda McNiece. I am a Natural
Therapist working on the Sunshine Coast in Southeast Queensland, Australia,
which is about 100 kilometers north of the city of Brisbane.
I was introduced to Falun Gong almost
a year ago, hearing of a class practising it in the suburb of New Farm,
in Brisbane. My partner Gerard began going to classes to learn Falun
Gong after he was told a group of people were doing the exercises there.
After a couple of months, I decided to
begin practise myself, putting aside my Yoga exercise of some 15 years.
Gerard had been teaching Qi Gong for nearly 6 years and learning an
internal martial arts form.
Twenty-two years ago I was involved in
a motor-bike accident which left me with a broken collarbone and back
injuries including bruising around the vertebrae and a mal-aligned pelvis.
From this, I suffered severe neck and sciatic pain. Over the years,
I have managed, to a certain degree, to overcome these injuries by practising
Yoga, meditation and visualization techniques. Though my mobility improved,
I still suffered some neck, shoulder and sciatic pain.
I also had numbness and pain in my left
foot due to a breakage ten years ago, as well as an ongoing intermittent
pain in the abdominal region from menstrual and intestinal spasming.
When I first started practising Falun
Gong almost a year ago I felt immediate relief from the neck and shoulder
tension, as if a great weight had been lifted from me! As I continued
I found my overall strength greatly improved, especially through the
arms and legs.
Gerard was asked to present Falun Gong
to the people on the Sunshine Coast, so after nearly a year of practice
and learning Falun Dafa, Gerard and I decided to begin, as we wanted
to share Falun Gong with others.
When time permits, both Gerard and I
travel the 100 kilometer distance down to Brisbane to join our fellow
friends and practitioners in New Farm Park. One morning when I was unable
to attend, I was practising at home at the same time as the group in
Brisbane. In the final cross-legged tranquil, with my inner vision,
I began to see the whole group down in New Farm Park seated in a circle.
I noticed Gerard leaning against a timber post for support. On his return,
I asked Gerard whether he had been supporting his back against something
during the final meditation. He replied he had, as it was difficult
for him to maintain the double cross-legged position at first, and keep
his balance while seated in meditation.
This gave me a wonderful feeling of connection
with the group. In attempting to follow the Xinxing indicated in the
China Falun Gong and Zhuan Falun, the hardest thing for me to come to
terms with is to let go the attachment to my imagination and clairvoyant
vision, as it has always helped me tremendously in the past. When I
used to meditate, I used a visualization of nature to create a powerful
state, then drifted on to receive visions and dreams of all sorts of
content. It was very meaningful for me. I found, after a while, I would
then come to a very peaceful state in my meditation.
Now, I don't have my familiar places
to go to, or the deities I used to call on in order to bring peace,
and I am finding I'm challenged more than I've ever been on my spiritual
journey.
At times, while practising the tranquil
meditation, I have seen deities whirling around together in my mind's
eye, and I feel very confused and dizzy after this. Although I've never
held dogmatically to being a Christian, I have been given the notion
that Christ is the only savior. Because of my many years of practising
yoga, the Indian deities are presenting themselves to me as never before.
When I was younger, I used to always say, if anyone asked me, that my
religion was love, and God was love. Now, even though I don't want to,
I find myself seeking a name, even though my understanding of God has
somewhat deepened.
As an alternative health practitioner,
I practised hands-on healing for many years, thinking it was a good
thing to do.
What had helped me, I wanted to share
with others. Although I was often witness to many miracles during that
time, I found I was frequently taking home the symptoms of my clients'
illnesses, and struggling to let go of other people 's thoughts and
feelings. Through this painful experience, I eventually learned I was
not only interfering with other people's karma, I was taking in their
karma as well. From there, I made up my mind to focus on the tools of
my profession, rather than use my own energy for healing.
Master Li' s teachings of cultivation
have deepened that understanding for me even further. I was once working
on a stall in a Natural Health Exhibition opposite a stand where people
were practising the healing energy. From my perspective or third-eye-sight,
the people who are giving the energy had more polluted energy field
than people receiving it. Individuals I've known who have worked intensively
as clairvoyants without any other focus often became seriously ill or
died prematurely because of this. I myself have had to overcome periods
of very low energy for this very reason.
Whilst practising the fifth exercise
meditation, I have seen Master Li and I always feel more peaceful when
this occurs.
Physically, I have noticed that the Falun
Gong has greatly improved the balance and co-ordination between the
left and right sides of my body. It has had a regulating effect on my
menstrual cycle, eradicating cramps and breast soreness. My intestinal
spasms are diminishing. The circulation in my left foot has been restored,
as there is not the degree of pain after having walked any distance,
as there used to be.
A great amount of heat is generated in
my body whilst doing the exercises, and the physical sensations of energy
circulation are very strong whilst practicing.
Beginning the day with Falun Gong has
been wonderful for me. I have often woken in the morning worrying with
one concern or another on my mind. After completing the exercise, I
am always able to feel more positive.
I am extremely grateful that Falun Gong
has been presented to us by Master Li.
In the accelerated pace of modern living
our bodies and energy fields are constantly subjected to bombardment,
not only from negative things like junk food, tobacco, alcohol and drugs.
Unseen forces like power lines, mobile phones, television, radiation
and microwaves all have life diminishing effects.
From my perspective experience, the practice
of Falun Gong profoundly counteracts these destructive forces by clearing
and building up the energy of the whole person.
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