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

Click on the below-mentioned, numbered subjects:

  1. Welcome

  2. What’s Happening?

  3. Removing the Attachment to Validating Ourselves

  4. Defeating "Sleep Demons"

  5. The Difference Between a Human Thought and a Divine One Can Change Everything

  6. Western Practitioner: Get Up When You Stumble; Cherish This Chance

  7. Gaining a Deeper Understanding of Cultivation and Validating the Fa

  8. Group Fa-Study Helped a Practitioner to Pass Sickness Karma Tribulations


1. Welcome

Welcome to the October 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?


Hyderabad practitioners participated in Health walk by LIC staff, distributed the fliers, explained about Falun Dafa.

Practitioners distributed fliers to Govt school children in Lakshi Devi Peta and Bhoopalapalli in Warangal Dist, and to students and the public in Karimnagar Dist and students and teachers in NRI academy in Powerpeta, Eluru, WG Dist and explained about the practice and informed about the persecution of Falun Dafa practitioners in China.

Distributed the fliers and explained about the practice to many cyclists at Hyderabad Bicycle Club.

Practitioners from Hyderabad met Director (IAS) of Dr. Marri Chenna Reddy institute of human resources to train IAS officers and other officials, trainees from around the country. Distributed fliers and explained about our practice. The Director promised to introduce the practice in his institute and make it popular in our country.

Distributed fliers and explained about our practice to students and others in IIIT in Gachebowli, Hyderabad.

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3. Removing the Attachment to Validating Ourselves


(Minghui.org) I'd like to share with fellow practitioners what happened to me recently.

During my cultivation, I felt I had already gotten rid of the attachment to physical and personal interests. A few days ago, one of my mother-in-law's co-workers told me that my parents-in-law had given thousands of yuan to my husband's brother as down-payment on his house. I was very calm when I heard it. I clarified the truth to her and told her as a Falun Dafa practitioner, I wouldn't feel envious or jealous. She was moved and praised me. However, I couldn't stop thinking about it afterwards and I started having bad thoughts towards my parents-in-law. When I got home, I told my husband what I had heard. My husband isn't a practitioner. He thought it wasn't fair for my parents-in-law to do that. Then I told my co-workers what happened and they also said it was unfair, especially when I was being so nice to my parents-in-law. I just couldn't calm down. Still, in front of my parents-in-law, I tried my best not to show my true feelings.

A few days later, my mother-in-law told me that my sister-in-law wanted to visit us, but as she did not have a lot of money, she didn't want her to come this time. But, if she did come, they would give her some money. I now felt that my parents-in-law treated me very unfairly. I started to argue with them about the situation. They were very surprised and my mother-in-law began to cry. When I calmed down and remembered I was a practitioner, I realized I didn't pass the test and I then apologized to comfort them.

When we fail one test, more conflicts will come. My company was re-organized and I needed to work with quite a few new co-workers. One of them began to frequently criticize me. Nobody had treated me like that before, and I became very angry. Because of my anger, other co-workers started to criticize him too, which strengthened my bad impression of him. I got stuck in ordinary people's notions. Soon I had an argument with him and the work atmosphere became very tense. I couldn't calm down when studying the Fa, practicing the exercises, and sending forth righteous thoughts.

Remembering that I am a Dafa practitioner, I realized I had to face all these conflicts, and look inside to find out what went wrong. Teacher said:

"The Fa can break all attachments, the Fa can destroy all evil, the Fa can shatter all lies, and the Fa can strengthen righteous thoughts." ("Drive Out Interference")

I decided I needed to study the Fa with a calm heart.

When studying the Fa, I came to realize that I had never truly gotten rid of the attachment of validating myself. When validating the Fa, I was still attached to myself and tried to change other people based on my own notions in order to get recognized by others. When I couldn't achieve the results that I wanted, I felt angry and unfairly treated. I had such a strong attachment of personal pursuit. What happened to me was not accidental. Everything came about because of my attachment. What appeared to be problems with other people, were reflections of my attachment. The root cause was in me.

In other words, when we feel offended, it is because our attachments are stirred up, and brought to the surface. Essentially, it means it is time for us to let go of that attachment. Take me as an example: I thought I had little attachment to physical interests. In fact, I didn't care about small interests. However, I couldn't calm down when we talked about big money. This shows I hadn't completely got rid of the attachment to personal gain and physical belongings. When other people didn't respect me, it showed me the attachment I had to reputation. When I didn't agree with others' criticizing me, it was because I thought I was very capable and superior. It was another attachment.

We are Teacher's disciples. We are lives that were created by the Fa. We are Fa-rectification period Dafa practitioners. Gods admire us. Could there be anything that's more important than our striving forward in the Fa? When this Fa principle became clear to me, and I eliminated my notions and the evil interference, I reached the Fa requirement for me at that level. The old elements were immediately disintegrated and the environment around me became peaceful again.

When my thoughts became righteous, I found the way out of the conflicts. As long as we keep studying the Fa and following the Fa, we will be able to constantly look inside. Then we won't be interfered with. We will be able to walk down the cultivation path well until eventually we attain the righteous enlightenment of selflessness and altruism.

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4. Defeating "Sleep Demons"


(Minghui.org) Recently I have been constantly interfered with by "sleep demons" while I was studying the Fa or doing the exercises. It was very hard to get rid of them. Although I kept sending forth righteous thoughts every day, I always felt sleepy. I had no way to control it, so I gave myself reasons to defend my need for more sleep. I have heard that many practitioners have similar disturbances as well.

One day, I suddenly realized that in places like prisons and labor camps, the evil cruelly persecutes Dafa practitioners' physical bodies in order to wear down their firm belief. Fatigue is one of the most insidious methods of persecution that the old forces have adopted. It is very hard to discern. It directly prevents us from studying the Fa and doing the exercises. When we send forth righteous thoughts toward "sleep demons," just like toward the evil dens, we can eliminate this serious interference.

The following are excerpts from my diary about eliminating the interference of "sleep demons."

At noon on July 20, I kept sending forth righteous thoughts for an hour and a half. I was very sleepy, and I fell asleep right after I finished saying, "Eliminate the interference from sleep demons with righteous thoughts." After a couple of seconds, I suddenly opened my eyes and forced myself awake, and again sent forth righteous thoughts. I fell asleep again. I kept doing this for an hour and a half. I was panting with exhaustion. After an hour and a half, I felt different. I felt pain in my chest. I enlightened that this is to get rid of the root of the attachment to "seeking comfort."

At noon on July 24, I again kept sending forth righteous thoughts for over two hours and it was similar to the first day.

On July 25, in two sessions I sent forth righteous thoughts for about three hours. When the three hours was almost up, I felt my head enlarge. I felt as if something burst out through the skin of my head, and the muscles on the back of my neck became stiff. After that, the skin on my head and the muscles in my face started to become stiff, and my head shook a little bit. Then, my chest swelled, and I felt nauseous but could not vomit. After that, I gradually calmed down. My head was clear again and I did not feel sleepy any more. I enlightened that this was to get rid of the interference and to get rid of my attachments.

When I felt sleepy again, I thought, "Lie down and sleep for a while. It might be just a couple of minutes." But I did not. I eliminated that thought with a strong main consciousness. I insisted on not laying down to sleep.

On July 26, I kept sending forth righteous thoughts for over two hours. However, at night, my attachment to comfort overwhelmed me. I laid down at 9:00 p.m. and fell asleep right away. I woke up at 3:00 a.m.

I felt pain in my lower back when I woke up and realized that it was Master enlightening me that I am too lazy.

Master has endured everything for us. I even could not pass through this little tribulation. I was irritated. What can demons do to me if I sleep less? I could study the "Fa" more, do the exercises more, and do the three things more if I sleep less. This is what demons were trying to hinder.

On July 27, my status was much better. I used to be sleepy every noontime and spent the time sleeping. I felt much better today. I did the first four sets of exercises and studied a paragraph of a Fa lecture. I kept sending forth righteous thoughts to eliminate the sleep demons after I finished studying the Fa. I almost don't feel sleepy when I am sending forth righteous thoughts anymore.

Every day when I send forth the righteous thoughts to eliminate the sleep demons, I position myself on a slope in the shade in order to avoid going to sleep. I opened my eyes to send forth the righteous thoughts. There are many scars that looks like eyes and mouths on the poplar tree in my field of vision. Every day, I stared at those scars while sending forth righteous thoughts. Today, I stared at these scars as usual. After I finished sending forth the righteous thoughts, I suddenly found that the scars that used to look dead, suddenly looked like they were smiling. I didn't believe it in the beginning and thought it might be due to my own mind, so I blinked my eyes very hard and took a look at them again. They are smiling at me and it is indeed different now.

On this night my spirit was in excellent condition. I could concentrate on Fa study and sleep for only four hours at night.

On July 28, I got up at 2:30 a.m., practiced the exercises, and studied the Fa.

I used to think that when I felt sleepy, I could resist the need to sleep if I went out to take a walk. Today I enlightened that I could not solve this problem from the root with this method because "sleep" is brought out by the attachment of "seeking comfort." I could eliminate the interference only by striving forward in the Fa with very strong righteous thoughts.

The above is about my experience of defeating "sleep demons." I wanted to share this with fellow practitioners in order for us to strive forward further. Fellow practitioners, please point out anything incorrect with compassion.

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5. The Difference Between a Human Thought and a Divine One Can Change Everything

By a Falun Dafa practitioner in Wuhan City, Hubei Province

(Minghui.org) I was fortunate enough to have begun walking the path of Falun Gong in March 1997. Teacher said in Lecture Four of Zhuan Falun:

"We have said that good or evil comes from a person's spontaneous thoughts, and the thoughts at that moment can bring about different consequences."

I have had some miraculous experiences in my practice, and I would like to share one or two.

One thing happened after I had been practicing for just over a month. While I was cooking at home, I accidentally hit my left hand on the stove's exhaust fan. The propeller was spinning very fast. The sound it made when it struck my hand was so loud that my son ran out of his room to see what had happened in the kitchen. The pain was terrible, but I held my left hand and repeated to myself, "Eliminating karma, eliminating karma, eliminating karma." In no time at all, the severe pain completely disappeared and my hand was perfectly fine. It wasn't swollen, there was no redness or pain, and certainly no bone was fractured. The same could not be said for the exhaust fan. That fast moving metal propeller now had a huge crack in it, while my little hand was perfectly fine. If my thought had been, "I am gone, I must have fractured something, I'll have to go to the hospital right away," then I might really have had an injury.

On a night during the summer of 2005, my family and I went shopping at the supermarket. When we were crossing the road, a passenger vehicle passed right in front of us at very high speed and ran over my foot. I still remember the heavy pressure from the rubber tire on my feet to this day. The driver also realized that he had hit someone. The young driver stopped the car and ran back to us and asked, "How are you? Let's go to the hospital." I was clear in my mind: I am a practitioner, and I will be fine, so I ignored my family's opposition and waved to him, "I'm fine, I'm fine, you may go." That driver was so grateful. I endured the pain and walked towards supermarket. My family kept saying, "Don't be stubborn. If there is something wrong, we'll go to find the driver immediately." But I strongly believed, "I'll certainly be fine." After returning home from shopping, I looked carefully at my foot. The stocking on my right foot was totally ruined, but the skin on my foot wasn't even broken. There was only a little mild pain. When I woke up in the next morning, I found the big toe on my right foot had turned blue, but it was back to normal in several days. If my spontaneous thought had been, "My foot has been crushed," then possibly my foot would have been crushed. However, I followed Teacher's guidance, truly treated myself as a genuine practitioner, believed in Teacher and Dafa, and behaved according to a practitioner's standards, and Teacher protected me.

Before I began practicing, I never had any problems with my teeth. However in mid-August of 2008, I suddenly got toothache. I sent forth righteous thoughts, but it did not have any obvious result. The pain annoyed me and made me bad-tempered. It got so bad I couldn't even drink water, whether it was cold, lukewarm, or hot. If I drank something, my teeth would give me terrible pain. Eating was simply out of the question. After I finished sending forth righteous thoughts at noon, I was full of tears due to the pain. All kinds of thoughts arose: "Where have not I done well? How could I allow the old forces to take advantage of me? I should beg Teacher to help me. What should I do about the pain? Go see a doctor? The doctor who made artificial teeth for my mom recently is very good." The thought to seek medical help just emerged. Then it seemed like I heard Teacher's voice saying, "How can a god be treated by everyday people?" In several seconds, the three sore teeth moved strangely, as if they were being pulled up by someone. My toothache immediately stopped! Merciful Teacher helped me eliminate this tribulation.

These kinds of experiences happen to help solidify our faith in Dafa. Every time I experience something, it reaffirms my faith in Teacher and Dafa and encourages me to do even better in validating Dafa.

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6. Western Practitioner: Get Up When You Stumble; Cherish This Chance


(Minghui.org) I began cultivation in the summer of 2000. Almost as soon as I began, I formed some notions about myself as a cultivator that have challenged me throughout my cultivation. I would like to share my understanding of this, and also want to talk about the good fortune I have to work with one of our media projects.

I used to look back regretfully on my past years of cultivation, lamenting that I did not do well enough.

Feeling despondent, I would then struggle to do the things I needed to do. I would try to escape my guilty feelings by indulging in attachments rather than doing what I knew I should do. I would even isolate myself from practitioners, ignoring emails and phone calls and not going to group study when I had the chance.

I was consumed by thoughts of myself and my own cultivation. Overcome by this selfishness, I could not display a practitioner's compassion. I missed opportunities that will never come again.

Now it seems so pitiable and laughable that I would let these notions control me so completely. Instead of doing the things I wanted to do, I regretted not doing them in the past. It makes no sense.

I realized that Master must have been talking about me when he said,

"When I taught the Fa last time I brought up how some students have made mistakes that they shouldn't have. Actually, as long as you're steadfast in studying the Fa and study it well, you correct yourself, and you conduct yourself well again, then you're still a Dafa disciple. Just do well next time, that's all, and don't dwell on it as if it were so grave. If in your mind you take it to be so grave it'll create another situation where you feel pressured by regret and worry, and then you will sink into the attachment and you won't be able to break out of it. The whole cultivation process of a Dafa disciple is a process of removing human attachments. No matter what it is you've experienced, as soon as you realize the problem just correct it immediately; if you fall, just get up and continue to do what a Dafa disciple should do. ("Teaching the Fa at the Conference in Vancouver, Canada," in 2003)

It is so true. Our notions can be easily set aside with a simple change of thought.

When I put aside thoughts of myself and only think of others, it is like a bright road opens before me, and the suffocating weight of my shame dissolves like a morning's mist before the bright sun. Thinking of others makes me feel inspired to go forward and do whatever I can in the time that remains. Thinking of others leaves no room for regrets, replacing remorse with hope and tranquility.

I have been honored to play my role in Fa-rectification, even if I haven't done as well as I could have. It seems to me that my path is laid out before me like an airplane runway, with bright lights telling me where I need to go. Thinking of the great tasks Master has entrusted to me, I can't help but cry with gratitude at the precious opportunities I have had.

When the English newspaper established by practitioners began, I was given clear hints to work on it. As I followed these hints, I had a wish to work wholeheartedly on the paper, whatever it took. I was not concerned with money or position and would be happy to suffer any hardship if it meant I could follow this sacred path. I think that, because of this wish, I have been given so many chances to play my role.

Among the precious opportunities I have had has been covering Shen Yun shows all across Canada. At first, I must admit, I thought Shen Yun reporting was such a hardship. You must work tirelessly into the early morning to finish the reports, and there is a lot of pressure to find the best people to interview.

But what was once a hardship is now a joy. As a reporter I have gotten to ask hundreds and hundreds of people what they thought of the show. Standing there, listening to their glowing praise, seeing the light in their eyes that shows hope and understanding, I have been constantly reminded of the power of Shen Yun.

Another opportunity I had was to cover the Winter Olympics in Vancouver last year with thousands of reporters from around the world.

During the Olympics, I made friends with reporters from one of the most prestigious newspapers in the United States. One day when I was covering a hockey game, I started telling one of these reporters that I really admired his paper because of articles it had published about the persecution of Falun Gong many years ago. The articles won a Pulitzer prize and had a huge impact on people's understanding of Falun Gong and the persecution. I was completely surprised when he told me he was the one that wrote them. After that, we talked a lot about China and Falun Gong and the difficulties he experienced getting back into China after he wrote those articles.

This had a big impact on me. This person's articles were very influential and were a massive blow to the evil forces trying to repress Falun Gong back in those days. Talking to him reminded me of how important the work we do is and how influential the media can be. It also reminded me of the kinds of opportunities we have when we conform to everyday society and play our roles well. This is an issue I have thought about often in my role as the Parliament Hill reporter in our nation's capital, Ottawa.

As a Parliament Hill reporter, I spend my day mingling with Members of Parliament and top reporters that you recognize on television. I sit overlooking the House of Commons, and I'd guess that just about every MP knows my face, even if they don't know my name.

There are so many opportunities here that I can't even begin to list them, but I don't do nearly well enough to catch them all. Doing this job has started to show me just how powerful the newspaper has become.

We have known for some time now in Canada that our English newspaper is well-read by many people in government. Our articles have come up during Parliamentary debates, and we have been contacted directly by the Prime Minister's Office on more than one occasion. But lately that influence has grown even greater and has really made me think about the impact practitioners have and how everything in the human world revolves around the needs of Fa-rectification.

Some people may call these coincidences, but I don't believe that is so. Several times, I am not even sure how many, very soon after we have written an article about a specific issue, the government has taken action to address it. Most recently it happened when we wrote about the problems of organized crime, and the government then introduced a bill to address it. Before that, we wrote about the unruly behavior of some debates in Parliament and then an MP introduced a motion to stop it. This kind of thing seems to happen more and more frequently.

Knowing that my opportunities with our media projects are so vast, and that practitioners and our work to validate the Fa are the focal point of the universe, how can I lament the mistakes I made in the past? For a practitioner, none of the things that make everyday people happy can bring us real joy. What is entertainment for them is poison for us; it buries our true thoughts under a mirage of sentimentality that pervades human society.

Worrying about my own cultivation state is nothing more than selfishness and a waste of time. If I had only one wish, I would hope to validate the Fa with every moment that remains, putting the needs of sentient beings and Fa-rectification before any thought of myself and truly showing myself worthy of everything Master has given me.

Thank you, Master. Thank you, everyone.

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7. Gaining a Deeper Understanding of Cultivation and Validating the Fa

By a practitioner in China

(Minghui.org) In my cultivation over the past 15 years, I've gained more appreciation for the miraculous nature and the profound meaning of Dafa with time. I would like to share some of my experiences of cultivating in the Fa-rectification period with fellow practitioners.

1. Validating the Goodness and the Glory of Dafa

Exposing the staged Tiananmen Square self-immolation incident and the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners, as well as distributing the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party, help people to see the true nature of the CCP. However, these actions do not convey the grander truth about Dafa.

Teacher said:

"So in other words, the intention before wasn't to eliminate that malevolent CCP even though it had done every conceivable evil deed, created that wicked Party culture, and murdered countless people and other lives." ("Teaching the Fa at the 2005 Manhattan International Fa Conference")

In my understanding, it is not enough for us to merely clarify the truth about the persecution. We should also demonstrate the goodness and validate the greatness of Dafa, showing people that Dafa is a higher science. We can do this by cultivating well, performing well in our daily life, and using our work environment to showcase the beauty and the majesty of Dafa through music, painting, media, education, and so on. Teacher has arranged a cultivation path for each of us, so each practitioner should use their specific professional medium to save more people.

When the persecution had just begun in 1999, I was a low-level clerk and felt a tremendous pressure while explaining the facts about Falun Gong to the people at my workplace. By conducting myself strictly according to the high standard of the Fa and gradually improving, I was later able to get a job as a manager at another company. I found it easier to clarify the truth to my colleagues and clients from a management position. Some of them even started to practice Falun Gong due to my positive influence.

Through the process of clarifying the truth, I noticed that people were more receptive to hearing the facts when I used personal examples to demonstrate the goodness of Dafa.

2. Understanding the Fa and the Process of 'Choice' on a Deeper Level

Teacher said:

"You know what? Just on the one issue of cultivation alone it's so complex at the cosmos's lower levels. But it becomes simple at higher levels, where there's no longer any concept of cultivation but only the concept of karma elimination. At levels higher up, all troubles are to pave the way for ascending to Heaven. And at even higher levels, concepts like eliminating karma, enduring hardships, and cultivation no longer exist, and it's just a choice! This is the principle at high levels of the cosmos: you think someone is good enough, so you choose him-- that's the principle. "Cultivation? We didn't arrange cultivation for him. What's cultivation? We just want to cleanse it, cleanse it step by step, all the way up. Cleanse it--it's as simple as that!" Yet when manifested at different levels, it becomes paving the way, having troubles, enduring hardships, eliminating karma, cultivating, and so on, cultivating one way, practicing another way." ("Fa-Lecture During the 2003 Lantern Festival at the U.S. West Fa Conference")

I lacked a deeper understanding of cultivation in the past. For example, I found it hard to understand the reasons behind publishing the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party, or showcasing the Divine Land Marching Band and Shen Yun Performing Arts. I thought: "We just need to study the Fa and cultivate our xinxing. Why are there these things that seem to be irrelevant to our cultivation?"

Later on, I realized that my problem was due to my limited understanding of the Fa. Dafa encompasses everything and leaves nothing out. Everything has its origin in and is derived from Dafa. So as long as some form is beneficial to spread Dafa, we should make use of it. For example, we use the Internet to break the CCP's information blockade in order to widely distribute the facts about Falun Gong, while Shen Yun Performing Arts uses Chinese classical dance as a form to save people.

Teacher said:

"But there are more people who aren't so clear on this, and you have this short-term thinking, namely, "When Fa-rectification requires something, we'll do it. When it's over with, we're done." But that's not how things work. When Dafa disciples do something, it is never solely for that one thing. With whatever you do, you need to consider the present as well as the future, and you need to consider the task itself as well as anything related to it. Right now this cultural format is being used to save people and validate the Fa, but won't this format be left to the future? Won't it be given to the people of the future to follow?" ("Fa Teaching at the 2009 Greater New York International Fa Conference")

Our chosen professions are also part of our cultivation, but I often found myself treating my work as inconsequential and temporary. Through continued Fa study, I realized that when we choose a certain profession, a certain culture, a certain tool, we are walking a path of cultivation that will be used as a reference for the people of the future. At the same time, we are also saving beings in a broader sense and in a wider form.

3. Eliminating an Incorrect Notion Completely Changes Everything

In the process of my cultivation, I have come to realize the importance of eliminating all incorrect notions.

Teacher said:

"Whether it be working on advertising for The Epoch Times, operations and management, or seeking financial support, in each and every regard there exists the question of whether you are able to handle things with righteous thoughts. Of course, at the same time the overall situation also involves old-force factors that are steering certain things. But isn't that a case of their exploiting your gaps? If you can all handle things correctly, there will be no exploiting of gaps. Sometimes you may feel that the evil is not being wiped out fully, and you wonder how come it is surfacing again. Well, if you could achieve Consummation after just cultivating for one day, and become a Buddha on the spot, it wouldn't amount to cultivation. It really is hard to clean out those notions and bad things that you have formed while leading your daily life, and you need to change those habitual things that have formed. You have already formed a way of thinking such as that, and so you have to look into your manner of thinking and correct things there if you want to avoid more problems. You might be wondering, "But haven't I already cleaned those things out?" Indeed, when you send righteous thoughts the field does become bright and clear. However, the moment you get up, what's in your head is in fact human thinking, and when you think about something or do something, you quickly lapse and go back to where you started from, and that thing [you cleared out] is there again. And further yet, if your mind and thoughts aren't even steady when you send righteous thoughts, you will be clearing out and eradicating bad things over here while at the same time producing them over there." ("Fa Teaching Given at the Epoch Times Meeting")

We should not only pay attention to how many fliers we distribute or how many activities we participate in, but also think about how many human notions we have gotten rid of, how many beings we have truly saved, and whether our methods are effective or need improvement.

Teacher said:

"Gods at very high levels have a Trinity. At different levels there are different concepts and understandings of the Trinity. At very high levels where there are physical forms, Trinity is the composition of True Body, True Spirit, and Thought--that's the Trinity. That's how it is at very high levels. At even higher levels it's no longer the case, though--there, thought and body are one, there's no distinction." ("Teaching the Fa at the Conference in Vancouver, Canada, in 2003")

From studying Teacher's lectures, I came to understand that we should judge our each and every thought by the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, which is crucial in order to change our environment and eliminate wrongful notions that were established over thousands of years of reincarnation in the human world.

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8. Group Fa-Study Helped a Practitioner to Pass Sickness Karma Tribulations

By a Falun Dafa practitioner from Hebei Province

(Minghui.org) Each different thought brings different consequences. This is also one difference between gods and humans. I knew a practitioner who had a very severe sickness karma tribulation. He did not treat this with righteous thoughts and he did not understand it based on the Fa principles. Instead, he had human notions.

The doctor told him that surgery needed to be done as soon as possible because he already could not eat. When he planned to have the surgery done, the doctor told him again that his sickness was already in the last stage and he could not live long even if he had the surgery. Just when he couldn't decide whether to do the surgery or not, the practitioners close to him visited him. They studied the Fa with him and shared their cultivation experiences. A practitioner said to him frankly, "It is an illusion. It is not sickness." His wife said, "Even an everyday person who said 'Falun Dafa is good' sincerely was rewarded with good. Not to mention you, a person who has obtained the Fa." A practitioner who truly cultivates the Fa is supernormal. In addition, Teacher already considered us as gods a long time ago. How can humans cure gods? Also, gods will not get sick.

The practitioners sent forth righteous thoughts together for him to eliminate all the evil factors in his other dimensions and all the old forces' interference and persecution of him in other dimensions. He gradually firmed his righteous thoughts and his divine side woke up. He decided to leave the hospital and return to the path of cultivating the Fa.

The practitioners kindly helped him, studied the Fa with him, and sent forth righteous thoughts to eliminate all the interference behind him and all the persecution of him. Believing in Teacher and believing in the Fa, he started to eat liquid food and his state was better.

During Fa-study, he sincerely looked inward. He was a businessman. His business was good at that time and it was easy for him to earn money. He paid attention to the money too much. He wanted to pay the loan off for his son and then buy a better house for himself.

Teacher taught us,

"My coming here to the ordinary world is just like staying at a hotel. I'm only going to stay here a few days and then leave in a hurry. Some people just dread leaving this place, and they've forgotten their own homes." (The Ninth Talk, Zhuan Falun)

He realized that because he had been so busy with his business, he had not studied the Fa well during the past few years and he basically did not practice the exercises. He thought sending truth-clarifying materials, passing out flyers, and clarifying the truth were all parts of cultivation. Teacher repeatedly told us to improve our xinxing diligently. He taught us in "Fa Teaching at the 2008 New York Conference:""

"As I said, even if you quarreled over validating the Fa and saving sentient beings, or you heard some unpleasant comments, those were all for your improvement, because your improvement comes first. Without your improvement, nothing can be achieved, and that includes saving sentient beings. If you fail to improve and achieve Consummation, where will the sentient beings that you save go? Who will take them? Why not look at things that way?"

After studying the Fa, his mind was clear and he cried. He realized that he had not cultivated diligently over the past few years. He just did a little bit for Dafa but in the state of an everyday person. He was just a good person among everyday people. But he did not truly cultivate himself. He also understood that if practitioners did not study the Fa and advance diligently, did not cultivate their xinxing, and just did things with human notions, the evil would take advantage of this and use this as excuse to persecute the practitioners.

As Dafa practitioners, no matter what we encounter, we should look at it as a good chance to eliminate karma, get rid of attachments, improve our xinxing, and dissolve the evil. We need to use the Fa to measure everything and look at problems with righteous thoughts. We should firmly believe in Teacher and cultivate the Fa. We should walk the way that Teacher arranged for us, which is the most righteous and the best way.

After the group Fa-study and experience sharing, every practitioner improved his or her xinxing and understanding of Fa principles. We also realized that it was not a coincidence that a severe sickness karma tribulation happened near us. It told us that we all have some attachments to get rid of. Our lives were given by Teacher and were made by Dafa. This was a warning to all of us. The practitioners all looked inward and found their own attachments, such as human notions, laziness, and attachment to comfort. After we found out what our problems were, we cultivated diligently and did the three things well.

Our Fa-study group has consistently studied the Fa together, shared experiences, and sent forth righteous thoughts together every day. Over the past year, the practitioner who had the sickness karma tribulations got to where he could eat normally and his state is also good. It demonstrated the benefit of group Fa-study. It let the everyday people feel the magnificence of Dafa and they accepted Dafa. It also reminded us that, as long as we study the Fa well and cultivate diligently, we can change anything unrighteous. This is the mighty power of the Fa.

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