FALUN DAFA - INDIA 
TRUTHFULNESS - COMPASSION - FORBEARANCE 
Newsletter for March 2013

Click on the below-mentioned, numbered subjects:

  1. Welcome

  2. What’s Happening?

  3. Plastic Surgeon in India overwhelmed by Dafa’s healing powers and Master’s Compassion

  4. Explaining Oneself Versus Truly Looking Within

  5. Never Go Easy On One's Own Cultivation

  6. Digging Deep to Discover Why I Was Not Comprehending the Fa When I Was Studying the Fa

  7. Learning to Consider Others First

  8. Cultivation Is Very Serious


1. Welcome

Welcome to the March 2013 Falun Dafa India Newsletter.

In this issue, we have 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?


Practitioners from Delhi and practitioners from other cities participated in the Delhi Book Fair. Several thousand Flyers were distributed and many books were sold. Many people showed keen interest to learn the exercises.

Practitioners from Hyderabad participated in Harithon GO GREEN Run for 5km. Flyers were distributed to many people, including Labour Minister, MLAs, School and Engineering college students and the police. Practitioners demonstrated the exercises. A Practitioner from Iran also participated.

Practitioners participation in the stall in the month long All India Industrial Exhibition, Hyderabad concluded on 17 February. Many visitors to our stall happened to know about the practice from various sources. Enquiries have been pouring in about our practice daily, these days.

Practitioners from Hyderabad met the Commandant of CENTRAL INDUSTRIAL SECURITY FORCE, who is the main person for the security of Rajiv Gandhi International airport in Shamshabad, Hyderabad and clarified the truth. He showed a lot of interest and promised to invite us for introduction to his force in March. Also met Asst. Commandant and explained about Falun Dafa.

Falun Dafa was introduced to the students from 4th class in Sri Aurobindo International school in Hyderabad. The students and teachers are appreciating the practice.

Tv7 health channel shot and telecast a capsule introducing Falun Dafa and the first exercise.

Practitioners from Bangalore had a screening of the Free China film for the media students of St. Joseph’s College and had an interactive Q & A session. The college authorities have evinced interest in further participation in media related activities of Falun Dafa.

Practitioners from Mumbai had a screening of Free China at the Mumbai Press Club’s Film Study Group where ace Film critics and journalists had positive comments to make about the Film.

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3. Plastic Surgeon in India overwhelmed by Dafa’s healing powers and Master’s Compassion

By a practitioner in India

I am a 54 year old man working in the Plastic Surgery Department in a Medical college, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

I was suffering from several chronic illnesses such as Chronic Bronchial Asthma for about 33 years. I was allergic to a wide variety of things like dust, pollen, cotton, various foods, cold winds, etc. From allergy, frequently I was having Throat infection, Breathing problem, Skin problems etc. I was also suffering from Hypertension for about 15 years and pain in both knee joints (possibly from Osteoarthritis due to steroid use in Asthma) during walking, and using the staircase. Some other problems I was having were Testicular pain, Tooth sensitivity, Dandruff etc.

Allergy and Asthma made me incapacitated. Life was really unbearable and going through regular work was nearly impossible. I was dependent on inhalers, frequent antibiotic courses and breathing exercises.

I was searching for a Spiritual Master (Guru) since 2005. Finally, in October 2011, I started my cultivation in Falun Dafa, according to the advice of a friend. Astonishingly, from the very first day, as I started studying Falun Dafa and practicing the exercises, my Bronchial Asthma disappeared like magic and allergic symptoms reduced markedly. I stopped taking inhalers and the breathing exercises I was doing. I got a new lease of life.

Later on, I had different mild and severe reactions, though my Doctor colleagues in the Hospital could not find anything. I studied Dafa and practiced the exercises daily. I also downloaded the 9 day Lectures and listened to them regularly. I also learnt to send Righteous thoughts daily and telling other people about Falun Dafa.

After several months I did not have knee joint problem during walking or going up to top floor in a four-storey building using the staircase. I can walk very fast now without any breathing or Knee problems. Testicular pain vanished. Tooth and Dandruff problems markedly diminished.

For the last one year, I have not taken any medicine. My appetite increased and body weight also increased. Mentally and physically, both ways I am improving.

I have been telling colleagues, friends and relatives about the amazing effects of Falun Dafa. My family is also convinced seeing me as a healthy person.

Recently, at a gathering I told about Falun Dafa to my colleagues, some of them purchased copies of Zhuan Falun.

Falun Dafa is great and Master is truly compassionate because I have experienced his compassion. In the near future, I hope many people in our region will take up the practice of Falun Dafa under Master's guidance and experience the power of this great cultivation practice.

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4. Explaining Oneself Versus Truly Looking Within

By a Falun Dafa practitioner from Australia

(Minghui.org) Looking within whenever a problem surfaces is the magical tool that Teacher gave cultivators, and this is what distinguishes a cultivator from non-practitioners. Fellow practitioners all understand this Falun Dafa teaching, and also hope that they can look within under any circumstances. In actuality, I discovered that it was difficult for me to truly look within during my daily activities – at work, or in cultivation. Sometimes, I didn't know what to look for, or how to look.

There are numerous reasons for not being able to look within. During my personal cultivation, I discovered that the notion of wanting to explain everything severely blocked me from looking within.

For example, when we attended group Fa study, we recognized phenomena like this during experience sharing. When one practitioner raised his opinion, suggestions, advice or criticism toward another practitioner, the other party couldn't wait to start explaining their position. If one side was not kind enough, they'd argue for a quite awhile.

This happened to me as well. Whenever I encountered problems, conflicts or disagreements, my first reaction was not to look within, but instead, to look really hard for all sorts of reasons and excuses in order to explain my actions. I was distressed by this. Why couldn't I look within? Why couldn't I maintain my xinxing?

Recently, I studied Teacher's Fa,

“You should treat everyone compassionately and look for causes in yourself when encountering any problem.” (“Teaching the Fa at the Fa Conference in Australia”)

The words “look for causes in yourself when encountering any problem” touched me deeply. What I understood from the sentence was there was no room to maneuver if I don't look within. To look within is unconditional. The very first reaction, our first thought at the prime time should be to look within, look within, look within. I must use the Fa to evaluate my heart and thoughts.

When we're not busy looking for reasons or excuses, it's easier to calm down and objectively and rationally examine our words and deeds, and use the Fa to evaluate and search the heart that brought on those words and deeds.

When I evaluate myself with the Fa, I understood that the reason why I couldn't look within was my attachment to explaining myself. There was fear behind the need to explain. Why did I have to explain? I looked further down, and discovered that I was afraid to take responsibility, afraid of being misunderstood by others, that others would see my attachments; afraid that others would think that I didn't cultivate well, that others would hurt my self-esteem, reputation, elation, showing off mentality, etc. That was the reason why I worked so hard to look for so many reasons to explain myself – in order to protect my human heart. Put bluntly, I found my selfish heart, a heart which cared only for me, myself, that would rather hurt others; a deep-seated, worst kind of heart.

I finally realized after many years of cultivation, why there were various sorts of tribulations and interference, why my xinxing was not greatly elevated – it was due to this selfish heart which instigated, agitated and spawned other attachments, such as the mentality of showing off, elation, jealousy, competitiveness, etc. This deep-seated selfish heart is precisely what manipulated me to explain myself instead of truly looking within.

Recently, following a lecture I delivered in English at a rally against the persecution, several western fellow practitioners commended me for my good job. I felt pretty good as well. One fellow practitioner pointed out to me seriously: “When you gave the lecture, you seemed too emotional, not calm and peaceful; you should show the world's people the harmonious and amicable manner of cultivators.” My first reaction was to explain to him that I was lecturing to a western audience and appealing for their support to stop the persecution, so I should use a non-practitioner's tone of voice to encourage them. This fellow practitioner's xinxing was pretty high; he didn't argue, but listened quietly.

I suddenly remembered Teacher's words:

“You should treat everyone compassionately and look for causes in yourself when encountering any problem.” (“Teaching the Fa at the Fa Conference in Australia”)

I realized that when a fellow practitioner raised his concern, then there must be an area for me to pay attention to and improve, otherwise, this wouldn't happen. I shouldn't push it away, and should truly look within.

The result of looking within was, I realized that as a Falun Dafa practitioners, when we talk with compassion and peace according to the xinxing standard of a practitioner, it carries the power of Fa. Additionally, it moves, awakens and saves the world's people and eliminates evil. During the second lecture that afternoon, I adjusted my mentality and tone of voice. Later, I was full of gratitude toward my fellow practitioner. I was grateful that he wasn't afraid of upsetting me by frankly pointing out the issue, and I appreciated his kind heart of being responsible to the Fa and a fellow practitioner. I was also happy that I was able to break through the attachment of explaining myself; I wasn't blocked by the attachments of vanity and fighting mentality and was able to look within.

While writing this experience sharing article, my wife (a non-practitioner) who always criticizes, blames and interferes with me, suddenly said something totally unexpected: “You look peaceful and harmonious. Now it seems like you're truly cultivating.” I was surprised, then realized that lately whenever she was upset with me, I no longer explained with excuses; I only looked within, searching for the reason within.

This is my personal experience, please kindly point out any shortcomings.

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5. Never Go Easy On One's Own Cultivation

By a practitioner from Mainland China

(Minghui.org) As Dafa practitioners in the Fa-Rectification period, we all know that we have to do well the Three Things Master expects of us. However, I always thought, “As long as I do these three things well—distribute flyers, persuade others to withdraw from the Party, etc.—I will be able to return home with Master at the end of the Fa-Rectification period.” Recently, I searched inside and realized that I was nevertheless very far from meeting Master's requirements. For instance, I always felt like I was more or less diligent since I've been doing many activities to validate the Fa. However, after seeing a video of myself doing the exercises, I immediately felt ashamed.

My wife, who is also a practitioner, and I would always doze off or our hands would droop when we did the exercises and sent righteous thoughts. In Zhuan Falun, Master told us: “However, you should not fall asleep or lose consciousness, otherwise good things might be practiced by someone else.” (Lecture Eight) I was always very anxious, because I couldn't see what I looked like. But I could see clearly how my wife fell asleep and her hands fell down. I would shout at her, but sometimes, soon after I shouted at her, I dozed off myself. Wasn't this cultivating for nothing?

One day I readied my cell phone and said that if we saw each other sleeping, we would record it and show the video to each other. Sometimes, my wife would fall asleep and her head would tilt to the extent that it was horizontal, and her palm was facing down. When I called to her and she opened her eyes, she would immediately lift up her head and palm. As for me, I felt that I only lost consciousness for a few seconds. However, when we saw each other's videos, we were shocked. We could see exactly how we looked when we fell asleep. When doing the fifth exercise, our palms would fall down, when sending righteous thoughts my palm moved like fanning a fan. Both of us were stunned.

In the early days of the persecution, the old forces wanted to kill me, and I couldn't sleep for over a year. I was tortured to the brink of death. Back then, whenever I saw someone fall asleep, I would be very envious. I once thought, “How blissful I would be if I could sleep like that one day!” If the evil forces were trying to use that thought to control me, now, when I have returned to normal sleep routines and am steadfastly cultivating Dafa, I would not acknowledge it at all. We often say that we want to cause Master less worry and less trouble. In that state of cultivation, no matter how much Dafa work I did, I wouldn't be able to return home with Master. Master could only be anxious for us! Today, nearing the end of Fa-rectification, we should be more motivated, study the Fa more and study the Fa well, and send righteous thoughts to eliminate all evil factors in our field, so as to walk the path that Master has arranged for us.

I sat down and studied the Fa quietly for three days. I studied it clearly with my Primordial Spirit. Master said,

“You fall asleep while studying the Fa, you fall asleep while reading the book, you also fall asleep while doing the exercises. You haven’t even broken through the beginning stage yet. It’s about willpower!” (Teaching the Fa at the Assistants' Fa Conference in Changchun)

“Your path is, and I think you've all seen this now, actually very narrow. If you deviate just a little bit you won't measure up to the standard of a Dafa disciple.” (“Teaching and Explaining the Fa at the Metropolitan New York Fa Conference”)

In light of Master's teachings, I was utterly ashamed of myself!

For a few days now, after sending righteous thoughts at midnight, I have asked Master quietly in my heart to help me wake up in time to do the exercises the following morning and to strengthen me. The following morning, even before the alarm rings, I am already awake. Unlike in the past when I was falling asleep, my legs don't hurt at all when doing the fifth exercise and an hour passes very quickly. Master is saving our Primordial Spirit. If you fall asleep, then no one can help you. Over the past few days, my wife and I have kept our eyes open at first and supervised each other. The pain started coming back again as soon as we began practicing with our Primordial Spirits. We believe that, with Master's strengthening and our studying the Fa well, we will definitely be able to cultivate ourselves well, save more beings, and return to Consummation with Master.

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6. Digging Deep to Discover Why I Was Not Comprehending the Fa When I Was Studying the Fa

By a Dafa practitioner in Beijing

(Minghui.org) I have been cultivating for more than ten years and have been studying the Fa all that time. However, I always felt that I wasn't comprehending the Fa after I'd read it. Therefore, I improved little to none in all respects. And I felt like I wasn't much different from everyday people. What was happening here? This made me very upset.

I used to think that I didn't know how to cultivate myself and wondered what real cultivation was. While this was true, it's in the past. Over the past year, I have known how precious the Fa is, how time is running out, and that I need to be more diligent. I have also been striving to eliminate my attachments and human notions. But why was the process so long and painful? I was greatly touched after reading many fellow practitioners' cultivation experiences on the Minghui/Clearwisdom website about how one needs to study the Fa well in order to cultivate well and do the three things well. I read Master's articles intently and truly realized the importance of studying the Fa well.

Later, each time before I studied the Fa, I tried to clean up the evil factors, dark minions, and rotten demons in my dimensional field that could interfere with my studying the Fa. Then I concentrated on studying the Fa. After a while, I found that I was doing better in studying the Fa, and occasionally I would enlighten to new things from the Fa. I felt that I had finally learned how to study the Fa. But gradually I again felt that I was improving too slowly and that my enlightenment from the Fa was really superficial. I kept thinking about this.

Although I made a little improvement, I still did not truly know how to study the Fa. Wondering what the reason was, I kept thinking about it and suddenly found the root of the matter. I realized that when I studied the Fa, my mind was always busy thinking about many interesting things of everyday society. I often recalled some memories over and over, imagined, pondered, edited, and processed them. Those messy thoughts followed me quietly and secretly like ghosts.

No matter when I studied the Fa, did the exercises, or sent forth righteous thoughts, they'd emerge, and oftentimes I didn't even notice. When I found them, I knew that I had to eliminate them to truly learn the Fa by heart. Why did they still appear? I realized that I had not sent out, from the bottom of my heart, strong righteous thoughts to eliminate them all at once. I corrected my thoughts after this realization. Those things weakened gradually, but they were still in existence and interfering with me. It was not until a few days ago, when I was reading a seemingly irrelevant part of the Fa, that I realized the profound principle behind the words. Dafa disciples have experienced thousands of years of glories and hardships just to obtain the Fa today, and everyday people had waited thousands of years to be saved by Dafa disciples. Haven't the attachments, notions, and messy thoughts in Dafa disciples' minds been formed and deposited over those thousands of years? How can they not be stubborn and hard to eliminate? Isn't the purpose of their existence to prevent Dafa disciples from clarifying the facts and saving sentient beings? How can they be willing to be eliminated?

After finding the root of the problem, I suddenly enlightened and knew what to do. I had to send out the powerful righteous thought from deep in my mind to completely disintegrate and eliminate the evil spirits, rotten demons, and evil factors that interfered with my Fa study and prevented me from comprehending the Fa. In just a few days, the thinking and pondering about everyday things in my mind became weak; I felt those thoughts were boring and meaningless.

During the past couple of days, I could obviously feel that I have removed those substances in my mind with only a little scar remaining. In a second thought, I suddenly realized it is not I who eliminated them; it's Master who helped remove them after my xinxing improved. Now I am more steadfast in cultivation and assisting Master in Fa-rectification.

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7. Learning to Consider Others First

By a practitioner in Jilin Province, China

(Minghui.org) Recently, I had frequent thoughts about certain fellow Falun Dafa practitioners. I would always think of what they did wrong and how they needed to improve. I was very worried about them. I felt that I had to help them, so I spent several days meeting and talking with these practitioners. I was so busy doing this that I could not study the Fa well. It felt like there was a thick barrier in my brain. My eyes could see the words and my mouth read the words, but I did not really study the Fa or understand the Fa principles.

I knew something was wrong, so I sent forth righteous thoughts a few times, but this situation did not get better. I was still busy with those kinds of things all day long. I was studying the Fa as if it was a task. As time went by, the feeling that there was a barrier in my mind got stronger and stronger.

Around that time, Master taught us,

“Whichever kind of life form your thinking aligns with, that life form will immediately have an effect on you.”

“But in fact, it was precisely your attachments that resulted in those things having an effect on you, and that led to their strengthening your attachments. ”

(“Dafa Disciples Must Study the Fa - Fa Teaching Given at the 2011 Washington DC Metro Area Fa Conference”)

It is true! How could I obtain the Fa with so many attachments? How could these attachments not interfere? How could I send forth any righteous thoughts in such a state?

When I looked inward, I found many attachments. I discovered that I always blamed others when I came across any problems. I would ask, “Why was she/he like that?” However, I didn’t think about what I did. It's already become natural for me to blame others and complain about them. I did not consider others first. I did not behave in accordance with the principle of “ looking inward”. Looking inward became merely empty talk and I became self-centered. l wanted to hear pleasing things and seek comfort for myself.

I asked myself why I only saw others’ shortcomings. Why didn’t I see their strengths? The shortcomings I saw are to help me improve myself. They are mirrors of myself and I didn’t cherish the opportunities for improving myself.

I spent three days looking within. I put Fa study as my daily priority. While studying the Fa, I double-crossed my legs and concentrated. I eliminated external interference and bad thoughts and studied the Fa with all my heart. The barrier disappeared very soon and I felt my true self begin studying the Fa.

I studied Master’s “Dafa Disciples Must Study the Fa” again and again. I required myself to behave in accordance with the Fa and measure every single thought with the Fa.

A few days ago, we invited a fellow practitioner who does technical work to repair our local printers. He was busy repairing them for several days, but some printers stopped working again. He decided to train us so that we could solve the printer problems by ourselves in the future. In order to save time, we obtained a broken printer needing repair and invited a few other practitioners to join the training with us.

The practitioner who provided the location got very upset when she saw so many people had come to the training. She yelled, “What are you doing here? You said you just needed a place to repair machines—why are all those people here? They have to leave now.” I said, “They came here from far away, and can only go back home later tonight at the earliest.”

I thought, “She is so selfish and does not consider others. Her printer was repaired so she does not care about others”. While I was complaining, it occurred to me that I should look inward. Then I realized I was not thinking about this fellow practitioner at all. She was stressed and beyond her limit of tolerance. In addition, I realized that I had not behaved respectfully toward her because I had not informed her of my plans in advance. I calmed down right away and the problem was resolved in the end.

In addition, I typed this sharing article by myself this time. It was my first time typing. Previously, I would ask fellow practitioners to type it for me. Actually, I asked this practitioner who had been so upset to type this article for me. She has a busy job and she stays up late at night. I never thought of this when I asked her to type for me. I always ask her to type for me whenever I want to submit an article. I would then go home relaxed and go to bed right away, but she had to stay up late to finish other things. I felt ashamed now and apologetic to other practitioners. So this time, I told myself that I had to finish the article by myself so that fellow practitioners could have more time to study the Fa.

I learned to let go of my attachments and consider others first. Although it is just a beginning, I will continue to be diligent until it becomes a habit for me.

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8. Cultivation Is Very Serious

By a Dafa practitioner in China

(Minghui.org) Greetings, fellow practitioners. Recently, a number of practitioners in our region were taken advantage of by the old forces and were illegally arrested. I was very sad, but not because of human sentiments. After cultivating for so many years, and coming to the final stage of Fa-rectification, I hoped that fellow practitioners would no longer be taken advantage of by the old forces. As fellow practitioners we should accept others' suggestions and provide suggestions in good faith. Here I would like to talk about the seriousness of cultivation, in order to share with fellow practitioners my understanding.

We have the greatest Master of the cosmos and we all study the same Fa. Each of us should stop and ask ourselves: how much have we believed in Master's words and how much have we done? How much have we truly understood? Is our state of mind towards Master and Dafa still the same as in the beginning with a strong perceptual understanding? Or are we becoming more and more rational and truly cultivating our xinxing? Are more and more Fa principles being revealed to us? Is everything becoming clearer and clearer?

The closer our opportunity to cultivate comes to the end, the more serious our cultivation should become. Some practitioners are still working hard on their careers, are buying houses for investment, are comparing salaries, are envious of others' wealth, and are thinking about politics, love, their children's future, nutrition, living comfortably, etc. These endless things that we worry about are all human attachments. It's not that we can't think about these things. However, isn't this why it's so difficult to cultivate in everyday society? We have to conform to everyday society on the surface while inwardly truly breaking away from the attachments of the human world.

If we spend too much effort on these everyday people's matters, then they become obstacles in our cultivation and cause trouble. They provide a breeding ground for human notions and amplify our attachments while we are not aware of it. Perhaps there are people who have been reading Dafa books for a long time, years, even decades, while still pursuing everyday people's things. Then, they have chosen to be an everyday person. It doesn't matter if you are reading Dafa books every day, if you don't want to give up human attachments, you have chosen to be an everyday person. If you choose to be an everyday person, then you will suffer the consequences of being an everyday person: birth, aging, sickness and death. Everyday people are here to pay back karma and reincarnate after death. If you came here with a mission but did not fulfill your vow, the consequences are very serious. Why do the old forces dare to persecute practitioners? It's because they are taking advantage of these loopholes and vulnerabilities.

There are standards for practitioners and Master said it's okay to give up our human attachments slowly. But eventually we have to completely let go of these attachments. We need to think about what attachments we had before cultivation and how many we have let go of. How much have we given up? Have we honestly thought about it? We can't deceive anyone. That would be like trying to steal a bell while covering one's ears. Everything is clear to heaven and earth. If we don't want to give up human attachments, then we are just everyday people. To truly become cultivators, we have to break through our attachments and give up those human attachments and desires that are blocking us. Whatever notions in your mind that try to make you benefit are all demons.

Some practitioners have heavy human attachments, such as to fame, profit and emotion. They also have strong attachments to comfort. In fact, they are stuck and are still everyday people but they do not realize it.

Master said:

“Our path is narrow. If you go off course ever so slightly, there will be problems. I don’t want to see you experiencing problems, nor do I want anyone to be sliding downward in their cultivation. Even less do I want to see you slack off in your cultivation because circumstances are changing for the better. All of this was brought about by you, and there are still many things that lie ahead—and that will be the case all the way until the day you reach Consummation. You have already passed through the hardest part. What is left won’t be so trying. You just need to do even better with it. The more hopeless things may seem, it’s possible hope will appear right before your eyes. Especially during those times when you are feeling so bored, perhaps you are in fact establishing your mighty virtue. I hope that you can really manage to cooperate well, have strong enough righteous thoughts, look within when you run into things, and be enthusiastic like you were when you first took up cultivation. Don’t be like ordinary people, whose fleeting enthusiasm fades after a few minutes and then disappears altogether.” (“What is a Dafa Disciple”)

“A human being wants to ascend to a realm that high, and become an Arhat, a Bodhisattva, a Buddha, a Dao, or a God; if a human being with a body full of karma is to become a God, wouldn’t you say it’s a serious matter? Shouldn’t you view these matters strictly with a high standard and hold yourself to righteous thinking?” (“Teaching the Fa in New York City”, Lectures in the United States)

Let us study the Fa well, wake up, and cultivate ourselves according to the Fa.

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