Click on the below-mentioned, numbered subjects:

1. Welcome


2. What’s Happening?


3. Sending Forth Righteous Thoughts and Feeling Tired


4. On Strong Righteous Thoughts


5. Looking Inward to Eliminate Attachments, Evil Disappears by Itself


6. Persistence on Practicing and the Phenomena of Practicing in Overseas Practitioners


7. Some Issues Regarding Sending Forth Righteous Thoughts


8. Some Thoughts on Sending Righteous Thoughts

1. Welcome

Welcome to the July 2014 Falun Dafa India Newsletter.

As we start July, the dark memories of 20 July 1999 come back to us. Let us not be despondent but look at how Master has given us the strength in the time of adversities. Master has shown us how to turn crisis into opportunity, by clarifying the truth and exposing the lies. The world has seen for 15 years that the evil has not been able to crush the unflinching spirit of people of a righteous faith.

We should be steadfast in our path and do what Master expects us to do.

It is important for us to keep our righteous thoughts and clarify the truth to the world.

In the context of Sending Forth Righteous Thoughts Master has mentioned many times the importance of sending forth righteous thoughts in his lectures and articles. Master says,

"Let me tell you, all those who remain and that can persecute Dafa and Dafa disciples are due to our students themselves. Students who haven't taken sending forth righteous thoughts seriously: the evil in the dimensions that you are supposed to shoulder and be responsible for has not been eliminated. That's the cause. So you must take sending forth righteous thoughts seriously. No matter whether you think you have the ability or not, you should do it." (from "Fa-Lecture at the Conference in Florida, U.S.A.")

In an effort for practitioners to get a better understanding of Righteous Thoughts, we have selected experience sharing articles on the subject from Pureinsight and Minghui.

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?

For the first time Practitioners from India booked a stall at the Nepal Education & International Book Fair 2014 held at Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal from May 29th to June 5th. Thousands of people from all walks of life, including teachers, students and others came to the Falun Dafa stall. Flyers were given to all the people who came to the stall. Many people purchased the books. Practitioners explained about Falun Dafa cultivation practice. They also told people about the persecution that is going on in China since July 20, 1999. With that, people understood the malicious nature of CCP.

Practitioners who participated at the book fair went every morning to a football ground. Thousands of people came there for morning walk and exercises. Flyers were distributed and a lot of people learnt Falun Dafa exercises.

Overall, it was a good experience and since there was a good response, practitioners plan to do follow up visits. Book Fairs are good avenues for introducing and spreading Falun Dafa in new places.

Practitioners from Bangalore on the request of the Principal of Jyothi School went for two days to have an interactive session with students and answered their questions and corrected the exercise movements.

Practitioners from Bangalore conducted 9 day sessions of introductory presentations, truth clarification and interactive Q & A with students of CMS Jain University which concluded with the screening of FREE CHINA and an interactive session.

Practitioners from Bangalore also organized the screening of FREE CHINA at Christchurch College followed by an interactive Q & A session.

Practitioners from Bangalore registered as Delegates for the Bangalore Shorts Film Festival 2014 and received the ‘Best Documentary’ and ‘Best Original Music’ Awards for FREE CHINA entered in the Festival.

Practitioners from Hyderabad had a Stall at INDO-GLOBAL HEALTHCARE SUMMIT & EXPO 2014. Many doctors from different states of India and doctors from abroad and the public visited our Stall and came to know about Falun Dafa and the truth. Some were aware of the practice before. Many appreciated the work done by our practitioners to spread the universal principles and encouraged us to keep doing the good work. We distributed kit bags with information material and flyers to the participants.

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3. Sending Forth Righteous Thoughts and Feeling Tired

Du Xing from Mainland China

(PureInsight.org) Does it make you feel tired to send forth righteous thoughts (SFRT)? Many fellow practitioners have expressed in articles on the internet that they feel very tired after SFRT. I would like to discuss this issue from my own personal experiences.

In May 2001, when Teacher taught us to SFRT, I was suffering from a serious interference from the evil, as I felt very tired. I not only had a hard time getting up in the morning, but my body also started to become itchy in the evening. I could do nothing but grit my teeth and bear it when my condition continued to worsen. In the beginning when Teacher told us to SFRT, I really felt tired, and I needed to go to sleep after each session of sending forth righteous thoughts. Nevertheless, my physical condition from the evil interference was gradually lessened.

Where does being tired come from? Isn't tiredness itself a life from within the Three Realms? What is it that makes the tiredness control a practitioner? Some fellow practitioners have asked, "Why is it that I feel quite energetic before sending SFRT, but became tired right afterwards?" When we are tired our work cannot be done properly, we become sleepy while studying the Fa, and sometimes we cannot even finish the exercises. Some practitioners who do not take the matter of SFRT seriously are hindered even more.

I. Compassion Dissolves Tiredness and Strengthens Energy

The purpose of SFRT is to eliminate the evil, yet the existence of the evil is to destroy the sentient beings and interfere with Fa-rectification. SFRT has bearing on the salvation of sentient beings, doesn't it? At the same time, doesn't it manifest the compassion of the Dafa disciples? Even though it is eliminating the evil from the pure compassionate heart of Dafa disciples, why do we feel tired?

While pondering this, I SFRT with a compassionate heart to save sentient beings. I gradually felt an immeasurable amount of energy and a benevolent force that I had never felt before. It was already swiftly changing everything. I no longer had to endlessly ask for stronger energy, and the breakthrough in enlightening to the Fa made me feel the infinite righteous thoughts naturally. Several times while SFRT, I saw numerous living beings bowing toward me from afar.

To SFRT is the same as being benevolent because the righteous thoughts we send eliminate an immense amount of evil, so as to spare the fate of a myriad of lives from being interfered with, destroyed, or even annihilated. For this, they really are eternally grateful. When I SFRT, sometimes, the tears rolled down my cheeks without knowing whether I was happy or touched.

Gradually, each time I SFRT it becomes a process of collecting more energy, and I feel more energetic afterwards. Furthermore, after each SFRT, I feel that something is not quite finished, and I want to continue, thus I experience the magnificence of righteous cultivation.

II. Our Main Consciousnesses Must be Strong and Distinguish that the Elements of Interference Are Not Ourselves

From another angle, all the elements interfere with us, making us weary and sleepy are at the same time impeding Fa-rectification. SFRT is also at the same time cleaning out those elements, and the old forces have nothing to say against it even by their principles.

"When Dafa disciples send forth righteous thoughts, pure and righteous thoughts, to clean out the evil's persecution, that's allowed—the old Fa-principles include principles like that as well." (From: "Touring North America to Teach the Fa")

It isn't we who feel tired. The tired ones are those beings that haven't yet assimilated, and the ruined evil beings from our own systems. Whenever we SFRT, those evil beings from our own systems know that they are going to be eliminated, so they fight desperately to disrupt our main consciousness. If you cannot distinguish them, the elements of tiredness, aches, worries, and so forth become natural, thus making us fail in SFRT, or do it unwillingly.

"You know, when this evil sees that it's going to be eliminated, it runs totally rampant." (From: "Teaching the Fa at the Fa Conference in Canada, 2001")

For this reason, our main consciousnesses must be strong when SFRT, and we have to clearly distinguish and get rid of elements of interference. Once we firmly oppose the notion that they are ourselves, these evil elements will be eliminated in no time at all. This is because in the dimension of our own systems there exists a pure and righteous part, in other words, the cultivated part which is our true selves. When we no longer accept the evil elements, they lose the foundation of their existence.

Currently, the only way to make us more clear-headed and to distinguish and expose some of the deeply-hidden evil elements is to study the Fa well. Sending forth righteous thoughts, at the same time, is also a course of cultivation, self-purification and sublimation of benti (one's physical body and the bodies in the other dimensions.)

III. All the Evil Elements that Interfere with the Fa-rectification, Including Tiredness, Are Deviations from the Characteristics of the Cosmos

Our tiredness, aches, and pains, all abnormal physical conditions, and all the evil elements that externally, or superficially, persecute Dafa were all produced after we deviated from Zhen-Shan-Ren. When we clear away the unhealthy elements from our own self, it makes each one of our own systems closer to Zhen-Shan-Ren, the characteristics of the universe. We eliminate the evil from the systems that we are responsible for, and at the same time we also make the whole firmament closer to the characteristic of the cosmos. When all lives return to Zhen-Shan-Ren, then Fa-rectification will have ended.

Now, I further understand the words from Teacher,

"Completely eliminating the evil is for Fa-rectification, and not a matter of personal cultivation. In personal cultivation, there is usually no going beyond the limits of Forbearance." (From "Beyond the Limits of Forbearance" in Essentials for Further Advancement II)

The course of becoming a whole body in Fa-rectification is closer to the end of a perfect consummation because there is less evil. The evil elements in each individual system are less, so this makes the individual system of each Dafa particle gradually come close to the final stage of cultivation. In this way, we should be closer to the spirit of the cosmos. How could we be tired after SFRT?

SFRT shouldn't make one tired. The root of being tired is due to the deviated elements from the practitioners who have deviated from the characteristics of the cosmos. I hope that we can all upgrade our level in the Fa, make breakthroughs, and get rid of our deviated notions.

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4. On Strong Righteous Thoughts

A Dafa Disciple

(PureInsight.org) Many fellow practitioners have shared their strong righteous thoughts stories. I’d like to share some of mine here.

Letting Go of One’s Life and Death

In the summer of 2007, a few purple bruises suddenly appeared on my thighs. When my sister heard the news, she was very worried and forced me to go to the hospital for an examination. My sister told me, “Look, our Aunt had died of septicemia. Before she passed away, she got similar symptoms like what you are having right now, and in less than 3 months after showing those symptoms, she died.” I said to myself, “I am a Falun Dafa practitioner, I am protected by Master and I don’t accept any other arrangements.” After my sister received my physical examination report from the hospital, she was even more frightened. One doctor told her that I was running short of blood cells in my body and I could develop septicemia at any moment. I kept a very calm heart when I heard the news. I recalled Master’s words:

“If you can let go of life and death, you’re a God.” (Teaching the Fa in New York City”, March 23, 1997)

I said to myself deep in my heart, “Septicemia? So what? I’ve already let go of life and death, I am a God!”

My family was very frightened to learn of the hospital report. They tried to force me to go for treatment. I simply refused. My husband begged me and said, “Please go to the hospital just for the sake of this family, for the sake of me and the kids.” I told my husband, “Have you ever heard of any cancer patients being cured in the hospital? If I go to the hospital for the so-called treatments, not only won’t I be cured, our family will definitely be bankrupted from medical bills. I am a Falun Dafa practitioner. I have my standards and I will apply those standards to myself. Don’t worry about me. There is nothing to worry about. I am pretty sure I am fine, our family can only get better and better.” My husband didn’t listen to me. He still forced me to take medicine. I then pretended to take the pills but hid them in my pockets whenever I had the chance.

Although I didn’t’ take medication, my physical body didn’t seem to recover. I also had nightmares as I slept. The evil forces were threatening in my dreams, “Look, this is cancer.” I would tell them as I dreamt, “Don’t ever think of taking me under your control. I am protected by my Master!” When I woke up from such a dream, I would tell myself, “No matter how my life may end, while I am still alive, I want to save more sentient beings.” So I continued to pass out truth clarification materials.

My thighs started to swell as much as twice the usual size. The purple bruises seemed to get darker; however, I didn’t pay any attention. No matter how high those staircases might be, I would still climb them to distribute truth materials. Whenever the thought of septicemia popped up into my mind, I would immediately clean it out. I had never hesitated from this strong righteous thought deep in my heart: “I am a God, I’ve already let go of life and death!”

Later, all those septicemia symptoms disappeared. When my husband saw the re-examination report from the hospital, he said, “Look, you still have to believe in science, how can doing exercises cure you?” I then took out all those pills that I had hidden from him and said: “Look, these are the pills you gave me before. I didn’t take a single one of them.” My husband was very surprised, “So you really believe in Falun Dafa that much? You are not afraid of death at all?” I replied, “Yes, of course. This is the evidence of my letting go of life and death.”

Escaping Police Harassment

My whole family now believes in Falun Dafa even more. They support my cultivation in Falun Dafa very much. Once I was going out with five other fellow practitioners to distribute truth materials in a nearby county. While we were on our way, we suddenly ran into a police check-point along the road. A police vehicle was parked right in the middle of the road. It was obvious that the police were trying to block us. The road was very narrow. It was very hard to try to swerve around the police car. The driver of our car said, “Well, it seems a little bit tough to get through now.” Right at that moment, two policemen were already approaching our car from both sides. They were apparently getting ready to open the car doors once we stopped. The three fellow practitioners sitting in the back seat started to panic. The car was full of truth materials. I was sitting in the front seat. There were two bundles of “The Nine Commentaries on the CCP” on the floor. I said without thinking, “Let’s send forth righteous thoughts, we can escape from them!” The driver closed the door windows immediately and held tight on the wheel, and we drove off.

The police car followed us immediately, and we all started to send forth our strong righteous thoughts. We absolutely didn’t allow the persecution of us by the evil forces. We wanted to clear out any interference in saving the sentient beings. There was a crowded market right in front of us. We drove through the market. People automatically made way for us and they would gather once more behind us. Even though the police car had a loud siren, nobody seemed to pay attention to it and the police car simply couldn’t move ahead. We thus escaped from the possible police harassment.

Later, we discussed this incident. Some fellow practitioners told me that they were encouraged by my words to send forth righteous thoughts to escape from the police at the scene. My heart became heavy. I said, “I felt that my words were from the very depth of my heart at that time, that’s why they were so powerful.”

I Will Definitely Get out Soon

Last year, a couple of other fellow practitioners and I were illegally kidnapped by police. I didn’t develop any fear at all and remained calm. The evil forces took us to a detention center. When I was asked for my name, I told them that I am a Dafa disciple.

I continued to practice the exercises, recite the Fa, send forth righteous thoughts and sing Dafa songs in the detention center. I would clarify the truth to the inmates. One inmate said to me, “Hey, look, you seem to be very relaxed in here as if you were at your own home.” I replied: “I’ve always been like that no matter where I am.” Some other inmates then said: “Well, just wait until you’ve stayed here for half a year or so, you won’t behave like that by then.” I replied, “How can they lock me up here for more than half a year? I will definitely get out soon, one month at the most.” Those inmates all laughed: “Don’t be so confident. One month? Look, no Falun Gong practitioner will leave here in less than half a year. For people like you, you will either end up being sentenced to prison or being detained forever.” I said: “No, I won’t be subjected to such a thing!”

In the room where I was detained, there were two fellow practitioners. One of them said to me, “Hey, the police officer that’s guarding us seems to be a good person, you may want to talk to her to use her phone and call your family. Ask your family to do something to get you out soon.” I said, “We are all practitioners, how can we rely on ordinary people? I won’t be locked in here for too long, I will definitely get out soon.” The same fellow practitioner then continued, “Yes, I used to think like that when I first got in here as well. I had thought that nothing would happen to me, but look, it’s almost one year for me now. I am still being locked in here.” The other fellow practitioner jumped in, “Don’t think like that, you are not following the principles of the Fa, I think she’s got very strong righteous thoughts.”

I was very clear in my mind. Ever since I mentioned that I won’t be locked up for long, I kept this strong thought in my mind all the time. I told myself, “Once I’ve done my truth clarification work inside this detention center, I need to get out and continue my Dafa work. I shouldn’t waste my life in here.” My mind remained detached from any other concerns or notions, and I felt my righteous thoughts were very powerful. Whenever I sat down to practice the sitting meditation at night, I would immediately go into a deep trance. I’ve enlightened from my experiences these years: The righteous thoughts from the very depth of one’s heart are very powerful, one should never try to use one’s human notions to deal with things; as soon as one’s human notions start to take over oneself, demons would follow.

Indeed, in just a month I was released from the detention center. The fellow practitioner that had asked me to talk to the police officer for help exclaimed to me before I left, “Now I know what righteous thoughts are!” Yes, Dafa practitioners should indeed never try to resort to one’s human notions. As soon as one’s thoughts are righteous, everything will be in its proper state.

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5. Looking Inward to Eliminate Attachments, Evil Disappears by Itself

Qinglian, a Dafa Disciple in China

(PureInsight.org) Recently, many fellow practitioners have been arrested one after another by the evil in a neighboring area. When one practitioner heard this news, he alerted everyone to Send Forth Righteous Thoughts (SFRT) for the kidnapped fellow practitioners. Several names were provided; then after a few days, again another couple of names were given. Some of them had been arrested and released more than once. We heard that some of them were reported to the evil when they were clarifying the truth, while others were arrested because they didn’t pay attention to safety while using the telephone. As a result, some fellow practitioners were so nervous about using the telephone that they stopped using it for all communication. I think it’s right to SFRT collectively as one body to eliminate and disintegrate thoroughly all evil that would attempt to destroy Dafa and Dafa Disciples, and at the same time to reinforce the righteous thoughts of fellow practitioners because Master has told us that Dafa disciples are one body. Master said, “The next person's things are your things, and your things are his things” (“Teaching the Fa at the Washington, D.C. Fa Conference”).

However, while we SFRT, I think everyone should calm down and look inward carefully to eliminate attachments. We should pay more attention to true cultivation and our character. It’s not too late to mend the pen after the sheep are lost. Master taught us in Zhuan Falun: “People with supernatural abilities see black Qi there, and they consider it pathogenic Qi. What doctors of Chinese medicine see is the energy channels blocked there, that Qi and blood are blocked, that the energy channels are congested. What doctors of Western medicine see is the symptoms of an ulcer, tumor, bone spur, inflammation, or whatnot—these are the forms it takes here in this dimension. After you remove that thing you’ll find that there’s nothing in the body over here. You’ll see that the slipped disc or bone spur is immediately healed after you remove that thing and wipe out that field. You can take another X-ray and there won’t even be a trace of the bone spur. The root cause was that thing which was at work.” Master does not accept this persecution. The old forces insist on targeting our various human notions. That is to say, when a problem arises it’s not just due to the superficial reason of not paying attention to telephone safety, which is only a manifestation. Of course we should also pay attention to apparent safety. It’s also because we have loopholes collectively or individually, which the evil exploit. One of the persecuted fellow practitioners was illegally arrested after he clarified the truth to other people and was then reported. According to other practitioners, this fellow practitioner was chronically busy with housework, couldn’t keep up with studying the Fa, and fell asleep while Sending Forth Righteous Thoughts. As this persisted, his dimension couldn’t be cleaned. Along with other unknown reasons, he eventually ran into trouble.

Master has said: “The old forces don't dare to oppose our clarifying the truth or saving sentient beings. What's key is to not let them take advantage of the gaps in your state of mind when you do things” (“Teaching the Fa at the 2002 Fa Conference in Boston”). We all know from the Fa that clarifying the truth and saving sentient beings is the greatest and most solemn act and must not be the reason for any persecution. That is to say, clarifying the truth is not equal to being persecuted; they have no necessary relationship. However, if we can’t meet character requirements or hold onto attachments for too long, then the old forces, dark minions, and rotten demons will make trouble when we do such things. Therefore, we must do better and walk righteously, paying attention to every single thought and idea. Otherwise, there will always be this kind of persecution or that kind of interference.

An elderly fellow practitioner told me that she had prepared her coffin after she came back from her vacation the year before last. This is an ordinary person’s notion that hasn’t been let go of. We all know from the Fa that Falun Dafa cultivates both mind and body. Your life can be prolonged as you cultivate. Some older practitioners with less education are not very clear about this point. They had more or less prepared for their death because they still treat themselves as ordinary people. Ordinary people definitely have birth, aging, sickness, and death, but because you have the pursuit of death, wouldn’t the old forces use that to persecute you? This is one of the reasons why some practitioners have lost their lives due to sickness karma. Last year, that elderly fellow practitioner went back on vacation again. Before she left, we talked with her and hoped that she would not leave the cultivation environment, but she said there were some things that needed to be done at home. One month after she arrived home, she had symptoms of cerebral apoplexy, and her relatives sent her to hospital. This is in fact just another form of persecution.

Master told Dafa Disciples in “Don’t Be Sad,” Hong Yin II: “Calmly reflect on the attachments you have, Remove your human thoughts, and evil will naturally die out.” We should study more Fa and send forth more righteous thoughts. Also we should face our own cultivation state, steadily cultivate ourselves, and make ourselves more righteous. True cultivation is not just something you say or show fellow practitioners and others. Rather you should truly change yourself from the inside, solidify your Righteous Thoughts, and eliminate all kinds of human notions and attachments. We should look inward at all times, judge everything by the Fa, and eliminate all loopholes. Only then can we totally deny the arrangements of the old forces and lessen the losses.

If there is anything inappropriate, please point it out compassionately.

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6. Persistence on Practicing and the Phenomena of Practicing in Overseas Practitioners

A Great Khingan Mountain Dafa disciple who lives overseas

(PureInsight.org) Observing the all year round formed habit of unwillingness to practice, I made up my mind recently and promised Master that I will insist on practicing every day. Provided that I have time to sleep, I will have time to practice.

I know myself, there is only this way left that can make me fully break through the laziness of unwilling to practice. In order to achieve honesty and avoid deceiving Master, I really managed to practice every day from then on.

In the first place, it is not hard to insist practicing. What is difficult is making that promise, the promise to Master. Once the promise was spoken or clearly written, half the battle is won.

It is not until now that I know that I should not just overcome the laziness of unwilling to practice, but to encourage myself to make up my mind, to have the courage to make a right decision, to have the guts to write the decision and to have the courage to believe. Since it is a promise to Master, the promise will undoubtedly turn into facts.

As a disciple, make a promise to Master earnestly, it is for sure you can make it. What I feared was that I cannot make it and commit the crime of deceiving Master. As a result I dared not make any promise all these years. Actually if I really believed in Master, believed that Master had plenty of means to help me realize this righteous thought, I should have murmured to Master a few years ago and pleaded for Master’s discipline and I would have stridden over this threshold far earlier and benefited from practicing much earlier.

I write this as an experience now to share with my fellow practitioners, hoping those who have attachments like I once had can make the decision as early as possible. When we make up our mind, Master will definitely help us.

Since I delivered my promise, I got the effect instantly.

1. The ache on my body disappeared, really “light from top to toe”

To be honest, I rarely felt this way in more than 10 years’ of cultivation. I once wondered: why I cannot feel light at all? Since the day I made up my mind to practice every day, I felt my body is lighter than any time in the past. This status of lightness appeared only one week after I persisted in practicing for a week.

2. Become more energetic, less sleep needed

Mainly after more than 4 hours of sleep, I would wake up naturally. This made me understand that it is not that I did not have time to practice, but that I had more time after practicing. Through practicing, I felt

“Wisdom is Enhanced and Powers Strengthened, The Heart is Harmonized and Body Lightened” (The Great Way of Spiritual Perfection),

I became more energetic, less sleepy and more efficient in doing things.

Having persisted for two weeks, I dreamt that I brought back a big luggage. I know it contained my ditched functions.

3. Miraculous state in practicing

In the meditation after I insisted for 2 or 3 days, I could not feel my body, it became so light and free that it was very comfortable. After I finished practicing, for the first time I yearned for the second day to come so that I can practice again. In the past after the practicing I always felt a sense of relief, “finally it ended”, as if I was finishing a task for someone else. But that time when practicing Master made me feel the wonderfulness of practicing, enhancing the faith that I can insist practicing every day.

4. Being able to strictly guard my character as a result of insisting on practicing

In meditation recently, I experienced the ache that has been absent for many years. I realized that I had gone to higher level again. I told myself in happiness that I should not do things that are not in accordance with the Fa, or else the karma would be reduced in meditation, how painful it was! Sometimes when the pain was hard to bear I remembered the wrong doings in the day time, so I hurried up to apologize to Master and promised not to be made a precedent.

5. Miracles happened in Fa study

There was a lamp in the dining room of my home, which would turn off automatically three minutes after nobody was moving around. During the process of Fa study and writing this article, it never turned off. Yesterday when I studied the Fa with some fellow practitioners, it turned off when it was my turn to read. It did not turn on again and it was fairly dark in the room but I found luminescence coming from the background of every character in the paragraph I was reading, and every character could be seen clearly. After I finished reading and turned my head to see the book again, the light disappeared and the whole page was blurred again. After that the lamp turned on again and never turned off until dawn.

The benefit of insisting on practicing is huge. The change of one’s innate body, the reinforcement of one’s divine power, the evolution of energy and many other things we are not aware of. Will it work if we do not insist on practicing? Cultivation is not cultivation if you don’t practice. In a practice that cultivates both your nature and longevity, if you don’t practice, how can you cultivate longevity? Of course, there is exception for special circumstances since Master is there to help us evolve, for example those fellow practitioners who were being persecuted in jails. Actually one of the forms they adopted to oppose the persecution is to insist on practicing in the black jail without any compromise.

By the way I would like to mention the situation of practicing among overseas fellow practitioners. Among the practitioners I saw, some of them did not practice attentively and even practiced in an evil way unknowingly. Some of them slept when practicing and did not feel any pain when doing meditation. One of the big traits is sleeping whilst meditating. Another one is that they do not know they are sleeping or they do not admit they are sleeping. One of the fellow practitioners admitted, only after watching the video I recorded for him that he was not in a general sleep but had given up his main consciousness completely and fallen in a deep sleep. And there was even someone who fell asleep while standing doing the second exercise. With his hands drooped and a very ugly expression on his face, it was the subordinate consciousness fully taking advantage of the body.

Some of them did not follow the practice music. When Master said glide up, he was gliding down; when Master said “conjoin the hands” he has “Pressed the Hands Together in Front of the Chest”. Who knows what was on his mind, or did he just blurred in his mind while doing the movements. His hands follow habitual movements and some of the movements were seriously deformed. I helped them to rectify the movements many times and 80% of them would make the same mistake the next time when practicing, without even remembering. One of the fellow practitioners drove the Law Wheel for five times in the third exercise, despite the requirement of driving four times, and based on his faulty calculation method, he insisted that he drove four times. There were many kinds of manifestation of distorted movements, which made me dumbfounded and felt unimaginable. Every time I saw I would help to rectify, but this kind of person kept on practicing in a daze, how pitiful! And there was one practitioner who talked with a family member while practicing. The family member was a fellow practitioner too but never came to the group practice with us but always busy doing other things.

Overseas fellow practitioners should treat their own practice seriously.

Since I made the promise to Master, I improved and gained in every aspect, be it body, character or Fa study. Actually when one makes up one’s mind to break through the problem which has been stuck for many years, it would be an improvement and gain one has made.

The above are opinion and action in my limited level. If some parts are not proper, may I ask fellow practitioners to please forgive and correct.

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7. Some Issues Regarding Sending Forth Righteous Thoughts

By a Dafa practitioner in China

(Minghui.org) Among the practitioners I have met, I have noticed that there are some problems in sending forth righteous thoughts. Here I would like to share my understanding with fellow practitioners.

1. Not Paying Enough Attention to Sending Forth Righteous Thoughts

Due to a limited understanding from the Fa-perspective regarding sending forth righteous thoughts, some practitioners only do it four times a day at 6AM, 6PM, 12AM, 12PM [Beijing time], as if it is unnecessary or impossible to send forth righteous thoughts at any other times. It is really a pity. Why are some practitioners among us not doing well in sending forth righteous thoughts? Some practitioners find that one of the reasons is that they do not study the Fa sufficiently.

Master has mentioned many times the importance of sending forth righteous thoughts in his lectures and articles. Master says,

"Let me tell you, all those who remain and that can persecute Dafa and Dafa disciples are due to our students themselves. Students who haven't taken sending forth righteous thoughts seriously: the evil in the dimensions that you are supposed to shoulder and be responsible for has not been eliminated. That's the cause. So you must take sending forth righteous thoughts seriously. No matter whether you think you have the ability or not, you should do it." (from "Fa-Lecture at the Conference in Florida, U.S.A.")

In the article "Righteous Thoughts," Master says,

"Dafa disciples are now sentient beings' only, sole hope for salvation. So, in order to do Fa-rectification more effectively, while you clarify the facts you have to take sending righteous thoughts very seriously, and in a timely manner purge the evil and your own problems so that you won't be taken advantage of by the evil."

As Dafa disciples, if our minds are filled with Fa and if we can melt into the Fa, our true nature will know what to do. We will follow Master's instructions and experience the effects of sending forth righteous thoughts, and thus take it more seriously.

Another reason might be that those practitioners do not communicate often with other practitioners. Those who are in an isolated situation should communicate more with other practitioners. At the same time, other practitioners should actively contact them and help create a better environment for their cultivation. More communication will help them see the differences and their own shortcomings so as to help them keep up with the Fa-rectification.

Still another reason is that they haven't completely rejected the arrangements of the old forces or realized the evil nature of the persecution. That's why there are all sorts of interference when we send forth righteous thoughts. When that happens, we should reject it and expel it rather than submit to it and be restrained by it.

"Of course, each one of our Dafa disciples says that we don't recognize the old forces' arrangements, but that's not something you just say--you have to follow the requirements of Dafa and the Fa-rectification. I absolutely will not acknowledge any of those things you arranged in the past, old forces. I don't even acknowledge you. When your righteous thoughts are very strong you can purge it and you can reject their arrangements." (from "Teaching the Fa at the 2002 Fa Conference in Philadelphia, U.S.A.")

Accordingly, when we can really break away from the old forces while sending forth righteous thoughts are we really cultivating and are rejecting their arrangements.

2. Limited by the Concept of Three 5-Minute

In "Teaching the Fa at the 2001 Canada Fa Conference," Master says,

"...our students can quiet their minds for five minutes, sitting with their hands in Jieyin and thinking about eliminating the bad thoughts, karma, bad notions, and external interference in their minds. As you're like this, think that they die, and then they will be eliminated. Five minutes will do. When we get together for group practice, think about eliminating the evil in the Three Realms, while holding one hand vertically (li-zhang) in front of the chest, and just think with True Thoughts for five minutes--this should do it."

Some practitioners and I enlightened to the fact that we can extend the period of time while eliminating bad things from our minds according to our specific situations. We shouldn't be limited by the 5-minute concept. When Master said, "Five minutes will do," he didn't mean that you can only do it for 5 minutes. The same holds true when eliminating the exterior evil. We can do it for a longer period of time. If we take it as a task and keep peering at our watches while sending forth righteous thoughts and rigidly following a time period of 5 minutes, we are being superficial and focusing on the formality. Some practitioners change their hand gestures or stop sending forth righteous thoughts when the 5 minutes is up even if they have barely entered the state of sending forth righteous thoughts, and forgetting all about the point of sending forth righteous thoughts. We should correct that now.

We think that it's better to hold hands up at integral points. We can also send forth righteous thoughts at other times and extend the period of eliminating the evil; don't necessarily be bound by the idea of doing it for only 5 minutes.

3. Not Concentrating When Sending Forth Righteous Thoughts and Letting Miscellaneous Thoughts Disturb Us

This might be a very common phenomenon. Of course, it is not an issue of methodology; it's related to our levels of cultivation, how many attachments we have eliminated, the state of our progress, and how seriously we take sending forth righteous thoughts. We ought to follow Master's instructions:

"You should focus your attention and your effort, your mind has to be absolutely clear and rational, the force of your thoughts needs to be focused and strong," ("Righteous Thoughts").

We should ignore anything that comes into our minds and eliminate it right away, as it is severe interference, and further eliminate the evil factors that are manipulating us behind the scene. The miscellaneous thoughts that we have could be something we are attached to in everyday life, which should be taken lightly. At the same time, we can eliminate all the arrangements by the old forces in the Fa-rectification and all the evil beings that are being used in their arrangements to damage Dafa. Apart from the Fa-rectification verse, there is only one word "Mie" in our minds that fills every part of the cosmos. Then, all the jumping thoughts and interferences will be swept away.

4. Hand Gestures Change While Sending Forth Righteous Thoughts

Some practitioners do not hold their hands upright when sending forth righteous thoughts. Or they hold their palms upright at the beginning, but let them fall to the side after a while. With the lotus-palm gesture, they keep their hands open for a while, but gradually let the hands close and are deceived by the illusion that they are still holding their hands upright and are not even aware of the change. For some practitioners, such a problem has lasted for a long time. I think it is also a kind of interference that fellow practitioners have to pay attention to. We need to eliminate the evil factors that cause the changing of the hand gesture, and to also look within to find the problems in ourselves. We think that it's critical to not let go of the main consciousness. We ought to keep our spirits alert. We are doing such a divine mission of eliminating the evil and saving sentient beings. How can we not keep our spirits alert?

"That's why when a person lets his main consciousness go he'll turn irrational...it's not just those concepts that can interfere with him, but any external messages. (from "Teaching the Fa at the 2002 Fa Conference in Philadelphia, U.S.A.")

Then the evil will take advantage of the loopholes. Under such circumstances, instead of eliminating the evil, it is interfering with us. Therefore, we have to maintain a clear mind while we are sending forth righteous thoughts and keep a strong main consciousness. Sending forth righteous thought is having the mind intent dictate super-normal abilities to do things. If we don't have a clear mind, or are not being rational, the supernormal abilities will not fully demonstrate their power.

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8. Some Thoughts on Sending Righteous Thoughts

By a Dafa practitioner from Sichuan Province, China

(Minghui.org) Today I read Master’s article “Righteous Thoughts” again. Master said,

“At present, there are still some students who haven't really grasped the essentials of sending righteous thoughts. Some students are in the exact same state as when they do the meditation--even when they're just doing the meditation, some students are in a half-asleep state, are in a state in which their minds aren't alert enough, or are in a state in which they're severely interfered with by stray thoughts--so they can't achieve a very good effect. There are also some students who, when they send righteous thoughts, specifically target in their minds one or a few evil elements, and that prevents the gong and the divine powers they send out from having the maximum effect. Of course, if the circumstances are special and you target one evil being or a few evil beings as you send forth righteous thoughts, either by yourself or together, then that's something you should do, and the concentrated power is tremendous. But when you normally send righteous thoughts together on a daily basis you should chase down the evil on a larger scale. You shouldn't target one or a few evil beings each day, each time.

This is how to do it:
(1) You should focus your attention and your effort, your mind has to be absolutely clear and rational, the force of your thoughts needs to be focused and strong, with an air of supremacy and of destroying all evil in the cosmos.
(2) The disciples who for the time being aren't able to see other dimensions can focus powerful thoughts in saying the word Mie after they finish saying the formula(s). The Mie word needs to be so strong that it's as large as the cosmic body, encompassing everything and leaving out nothing in any dimension.
(3) Those disciples who can see the evil beings in other dimensions can handle things according to the situations they are aware of. Their righteous thoughts need to be strong, and they should fully use their wisdom. One righteous thought itself subdues a hundred evil things.
(4) Closing your eyes and not closing your eyes both have the same effect when you send righteous thoughts. If you keep your eyes open you need to reach a state where you don't take note of anything you see in the dimension of everyday people.” (“Righteous Thoughts” 2002)

As to how Dafa practitioners should strengthen the word “Mie” to make it is powerful and as big as the cosmos while sending righteous thoughts, I could not understand this in depth before. It is difficult to imagine with human thinking how big the cosmos is. Thus in the past, regardless of how I thought about “Mie”, I had been using human thinking. Regardless of how big I imagined the word “Mie” to be, I was still using human thinking, in a small scope of the universe. I often felt that it was not that big.

Today, I changed my thinking. I no longer thought of how big it was. Instead I thought of how small the evil is and that it is within the boundary of my body. Even if it was big, it could not be bigger than my body. This is because when it manifests in the human world, it is only as big as a pen point. Even if it is small, it would not be smaller than a practitioner's most microscopic particles. This is because the most microscopic particles of a Dafa practitioner’s body have assimilated and have been rectified by Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. In this way, it was much easier to clean them up. Later, when I sent righteous thoughts, I thought that I was very tall and the evil was very small and pathetic. When I calm down and steady myself, I should be able to freeze them. If I can control myself, I will be able to control them. This made eradicating them much easier.

This is my personal understanding: It is our own notions that are blocking our true selves, and thus we are not able to fully use our greatest powers.

This is my understanding, please point out anything inappropriate.

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