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

Click on the below-mentioned, numbered subjects:

  1. Welcome

  2. What’s Happening?

  3. Avoid Going Astray in Cultivation through Clearly Understanding the Fa

  4. Cultivating Away Human Concepts and Habits

  5. Fundamentally Changing Conventional Thinking

  6. Believing in Master and the Fa with No Doubts and Staying Safe on the Cultivation Path

  7. Conflicts Arise When We Look Outward, Resolutions Occur When We Look Inward

  8. Handling Everything with Righteous Thoughts


1. Welcome

Welcome to the September 2015 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 Bangalore were invited by Jyothi Niwas College to introduce Falun Dafa and teach the exercises. The students and the Professors were very enthusiastic and said they would be interested in follow up sessions. Since there was an event like a College Fest many students learned to make the paper Lotus.

A person from Dignity Foundation invited practitioners from Hyderabad to introduce Falun Dafa and the exercises to senior level Managers in a large Company. Many of the executives were keen to follow up on the exercises and learn more about Falun Dafa.

A practitioner from Sarnath without any leads or contacts decided to go to Sikkim to introduce Falun Dafa. Falun Dafa was introduced in some schools and the practitioner interacted with a cross section of people such as Bar association, a human rights issues lady lawyer, PRO of CM and PA of governor. The practitioner was invited for an interview on a local TV channel. She also gave articles to some local newspapers and one newspaper has published the article in two parts.

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3. Avoid Going Astray in Cultivation through Clearly Understanding the Fa

By a Falun Gong practitioner in Mainland China

(Minghui.org) Once I met over a hundred Dafa practitioners while in detention. I noticed that only a limited number of them clearly understood the Fa principles. This made me very sad. With so many bewildered thoughts, how could they not have stumbled!

  1. Lacking the habit of looking within

There is an elderly Dafa practitioner who is very steadfast in his belief in the Fa. He had overcome many tribulations of life and death. When he was being shocked with multiple electric batons, he still shouted, "Falun Dafa is great!" However, he had been persecuted multiple times and incarcerated for as long as five years. When I asked him what loopholes caused him to be detained here, he did not know. Although I helped him find his gaps, it was, after all, not he himself who had dug out his own attachments through searching within himself.

Some practitioners have a very smooth path of cultivation, and they seldom experience any persecution. They have developed the habit of looking within every day and correcting their shortcomings in a timely manner. If one is not careful about one's minor attachments, the evil will take advantage of this gap in the practitioner's understanding and exacerbate the practitioner's attachments, eventually causing the practitioner to be persecuted. However, some practitioners still do not search within even after they have lost their freedom. Master has said,

"Imprisoned as you are,
don't be sorrowful or sad
Carry on with righteous thoughts and actions,
and the Fa is with you
Calmly reflect on the attachments you have
Remove your human thoughts
and evil will naturally die out"
("Don't Be Sad" in Hong Yin II)

When one has gotten rid of human attachments, the evil will no longer come to interfere. Master told us:

"So, when you meet with ordeals, it is the perfect opportunity for you to improve. If you are able to look inside, that trying situation will become instead an opportunity, something to overcome and a chance to enter a new state. Why haven't you looked at things that way? As soon as you meet with an ordeal, you push it away." ("Fa Teaching at the 2008 New York Conference," May 24, 2008)

Master has always emphasized the importance of looking within, which is essential for a cultivator to have righteous thoughts and actions.

  1. Incorrect understanding of righteous thoughts

I talked to one practitioner who had been seized by the police for the second time. He could have gotten away when the police arrived at his home to get him, but he thought, "I am a Dafa practitioner. How could I be afraid of them?" He was then taken away by the police and given a jail term of two years.

The practitioner's thought was, of course, not wrong from the perspective of the Fa. Master told us:

"Indestructible righteous faith in the cosmos's Truth forms benevolent Dafa disciples' rock-solid, Diamond-Like Bodies, it frightens all evil, and the light of Truth it emanates makes the unrighteous elements in all beings' thoughts disintegrate. However strong the righteous thoughts are, that's how great the power is." ("Also in a Few Words" in Essentials for Further Advancement II)

When the evil comes, whether the practitioner's righteous thoughts are strong and whether they meets the requirement is critically important. Otherwise, these thoughts will not play the role of righteous thoughts. Many practitioners sent righteous thoughts when they were tortured, but they could not feel the effectiveness of their righteous thoughts, so they became confused.

Master said,

"When you are persecuted in any way you can use righteous thoughts to turn the tables on the bad people and stop the persecution. And this includes those who assault the students with punches and kicks: strong righteous thoughts can make the person's punches and kicks land on himself, or make the wicked policemen and the bad people lash out against each other, and they can transfer all the pain and injuries over to the wicked person or policeman who assaults you. But the premise is that you have strong righteous thoughts, no fear, and no human attachments, apprehension, or hatred; only when you're in that state will it be effective, and it will take effect as soon as your thoughts emerge. While sending righteous thoughts, don't panic or be afraid, and as long as that wicked person keeps being violent, keep sending righteous thoughts." ("Stop the Evil Acts with Righteous Thoughts," February 15, 2004)

I came to understand the cause of failure of these righteous thoughts when one is being tortured by the evil: One has too many human notions, which is far from Master's requirements on sending forth righteous thoughts. This is because one has not cultivated himself solidly. A Dafa practitioner's powerful righteous thoughts, which can cleave a mountain, come from one's incomparably strong faith in Master and Dafa and from one's clear understandings of the Fa principles.

For example, when the authorities forced a practitioner to stand for a long duration, he just stood all day long enduring the pain, as if he were resisting the evil. He was, in fact, resisting the persecution while enduring the persecution. So one can imagine the effectiveness of these righteous thoughts. We should not even have the thought of standing there; we just do not stand, we just want freedom, and we just want to get out. Some practitioners were satisfied when they had the freedom to read the Fa and practice the exercises where they were being detained. They also believed that they had done pretty well. Master has taught us the Fa of the cosmos. Who is qualified to not let us study the Fa? Wherever we study the Fa, it should not be in a place where we have no freedom. Only Master can decide how we walk our paths and only Master's words count. How could the evil be qualified to arrange our path of cultivation?

  1. Lack of the understanding of personal cultivation and Fa-rectification period cultivation

Some practitioners worked very hard doing forced labor in places of detention. There were even some who said, "We have plenty of energy." They even criticized those practitioners who resisted the physical persecution and refused to do any forced labor. They claimed that we needed to be good people. Some practitioners even said, "You do not work hard, so other practitioners have to do the work for you." There were even practitioners who did whatever the authorities told them to do. A Dafa practitioner should not cooperate with the evil and follow its demands, orders, or instructions under any circumstances. We are the Fa-rectification period Dafa disciples.

It is a disgrace that the greatest beings of the cosmos are being persecuted. This is due to the degeneration of the cosmos, and this is a monstrous crime that the old forces have committed. We need to rectify everything that is not righteous, as we are Fa-rectification Dafa disciples.

"A Dafa disciple who fails to achieve the effect of safeguarding and upholding Dafa has no way of reaching Consummation, because your cultivation is different from that of the past and the future. Therein lies the magnificence of a Dafa disciple." ("Fa-Rectification Period Dafa Disciples" in Essentials for Further Advancement II)

  1. Having an unclear understanding of the relationship between sickness karma and the persecution

Quite a number of practitioners took medication when they were persecuted, and they even experienced serious health issues. Some mistakenly thought that they were experiencing the elimination of sickness karma and did not realize that this very thought of theirs had become an excuse for the evil to further persecute them in the form of sickness karma, as they themselves had taken it as "sickness karma" rather than a form of persecution. Isn't this the same as your asking for it? In this way, the evil not only persecutes you physically and mentally, it also persecutes you financially.

One practitioner was very weak during the persecution, so he took medicine and got injections. Once he suffered so much from heart pain that he suddenly fell to the floor. Later, I exchanged views with him on this issue. He said, "Now I don't know what to do. I sent righteous thoughts and I also resorted to benevolent solutions, but nothing worked." He was very disheartened. I asked him what he had meant by benevolent solutions. He answered, "I would rather give up my heart or replace it with another one in order to save the being that caused me pain."

I told him that this was his problem. "You let your heart, rather than yourself, make the decision. This is what the evil wishes for, as it took this chance to persecute you. A benevolent solution is not resolved this way! How could your sending righteous thoughts still work after you had acknowledged the evil's persecution? You have not fundamentally disintegrated the evil, not to mention that you always want to get out of here by way of having sickness! You are not clear on the Fa." He understood the issue after listening to my words.

  1. Without studying the Fa diligently, there is no Fa in our minds

After I contacted a large number of practitioners who had been persecuted, I found that many of them could not recite the Fa from memory. Some did not read the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party. Some even used the Party's jargon whenever they spoke. They were not happy when others pointed out their shortcomings. Many of us have already cultivated for over ten years, but many still cannot recite even one sentence of the Fa from memory. In fact, Master asked us to learn to recite the Fa by heart a long time ago. When the Fa Conference in Changchun City was held, many practitioners recited the Fa from memory. After one practitioner recited one paragraph, another practitioner recited the next. If one word was recited incorrectly, the practitioner would start over and recite the whole paragraph again. They were really admirable for having cultivated themselves so diligently--they were as mighty lions!

"Why do I tell you to study, read, and memorize Zhuan Falun? To guide your cultivation!" ("What is Cultivation Practice?" in Essentials for Further Advancement)

We stumbled many times, but we did not know the cause or why we had stumbled. This is all because we have not put the Fa in our minds and we have not solidly cultivated ourselves well.
Please point out anything that is incorrect in my understanding.

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4. Cultivating Away Human Concepts and Habits

By a practitioner in China

(Minghui.org) I discovered that many practitioners are experiencing different degrees of hardship and interference. After it was eliminated and cleared out it appeared again. That is also the state I am in.

I previously felt that I was doing well with Fa study and sending righteous thoughts. When I sent righteous thoughts eight times per day without easing off, the interference was then not severe. If I missed one time, I quickly made up for it by extending the time of clearing myself, and all was fine. But one time when I was sending righteous thoughts at midnight before going to sleep, I suddenly remembered the time when I had just obtained the Fa. My insomnia disappeared, and so did my illnesses. I slept soundly until day broke and felt like my body was light and free of illness. I slept so comfortably. I thought about this and then slept until 5:00 a.m., making me late for my exercises.

I didn't expect that from this day forward a hardship would emerge that I wasn't able to control - I always wanted to sleep, and would no longer wait until the 10:00 p.m. sending righteous thoughts, but rather went to sleep after sending righteous thoughts at 9:00 p.m. At midnight I sent righteous thoughts but by the end my palm would slump without my noticing it. In the morning I couldn't get up in time. My alarm clock sounded at 3:30 a.m., and I would look at my watch, close my eyes and go back to sleep. This state persisted for nine days, and the more I slept the harder it became. I encountered interference when sending righteous thoughts and studying the Fa. My face also lost color. I knew that I couldn't go on like this. One time in the afternoon I napped for an hour, whereas before I would always lie down for ten or twenty minutes without sleeping. When I awoke I was very tired, dizzy and light-headed, sleepier than if I had not slept. I thought I should study the Fa, but when I lifted the book I became tired, my vision became blurry, and I was unable to keep my eyes open. I suddenly discovered that there was a hand placed on my head, and it was interference from the old forces. I immediately sent righteous thoughts to clear out all the evil factors that were obstructing me from studying the Fa and doing the exercises. That one thought cleared out all of the rotten factors, and I felt a kind of substance rushing out of my body. I picked up the book and the black characters on white paper were clear and bright, my eyes were not heavy, and I felt very good. I thanked Teacher for his protection. Teacher's generosity simply cannot be repaid.

A few days passed and then I again started to feel tired. It wasn't as strong as the previous time but I wasn't able to concentrate while studying the Fa. I cleared it out but it returned, and I couldn't clear it out completely. Through studying "Stirred by Reflection" and "Be More Diligent" I enlightened that our cultivation is nearing the point where consummation and Fa-Rectification are moving in sync. This is the twilight period, and opportunities to cultivate away human concepts and habits are put right in front of us. How can we cling to human concepts and still become gods? When thought karma is cleared out, we only need to have a slight thought and it is produced again. If we don't completely clear it out, a single thought can give it more energy.

Previously I would return home, tired from work, and want to lie down to rest a little. But I reconsidered lying down because I knew that the longer I lay there, the more tired I would become, and the harder it would be to recover. I grit my teeth and studied the Fa or did the exercises, and after an hour or so my whole body felt relaxed and rejuvenated, and I didn't fall behind on any housework. This great Dafa, which created all life and contains the greatness of the whole universe, was given to us by Teacher. We absolutely can't let Teacher down. Starting today we must be diligent, cultivate away the human heart and walk towards godhood.

With guidance from Teacher's Fa, I started to discipline myself. I didn't sleep in the middle of the day, and in the morning I made no excuses for remaining in bed. When I awoke I got up immediately and did the exercises. I sent righteous thoughts more, and added an extra two times in the morning and afternoon. I went out for an extra two hours encouraging people to do the three withdrawals and clarifying the truth, and in the evening I sent righteous thoughts at 7:00 p.m., 8:00 p.m., 9:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. After sending righteous thoughts I transcribed the Fa until the next session. Sometimes I started getting tired after 8:00 p.m., so I memorized Teacher's poems, Hong Yin, and immediately I found I was no longer tired. When tired I had trouble memorizing, so I focused more and eventually overcame the tiredness. I cultivated away the habit of lying down when I didn't have other things to do. We're cultivators, and should happily meditate and do the exercises. We shouldn't lie down. I discovered that when I awoke before the alarm sounded, I didn't feel tired, regardless of whether it was 1:30 a.m. or 2:30 a.m. But as soon as I thought to myself, "I can sleep a little longer," I then became very sleepy when the alarm sounded, so tired that I could hardly get myself out of bed. If I think, "I can sleep a little longer," this thought adds energy to thought karma. So when I ran into this situation again I didn't sleep, but rather transcribed the Fa until the alarm rang for me to do the exercises. This situation came about many times. I think that thought karma is produced by our intent, and our thoughts make it stronger, so we should do our utmost not to think. I gritted my teeth and persisted this way for seven or eight days, and found that it became easier. I was able to get up. It is truly the case that a strong will has to be cultivated.

I now feel that the time I spend sleeping is just right. We are cultivators, not everyday people, and if we sleep more, we will meet with more hardship, contrary to our expectations. Especially now in the afternoons, I don't feel sleepy and don't want to sleep. It is very comfortable not to sleep. Once I sleep, regardless if it is half an hour or an hour, I feel like I can't fully wake up, and I remain dizzy and tired. My appearance also becomes tired-looking and I feel like I have skipped doing the exercises. One afternoon after sending righteous thoughts I couldn't think of anything to do, so I thought I could take a short rest. I intended to lie down for five or ten minutes, but when I awoke I discovered I had slept for 20 minutes. I could hear several demons saying, "Why did she awaken so quickly? We tried so hard..." Then the sound faded as they moved away. I think it is no use to take 20 minute naps, it leaves me tired and uncomfortable. In the past few days I have developed this habit. I think it is not right for us to exercise less. It is fine to sleep for three or four hours, and it is not right to sleep more. Of course, this is only my own state at this point in time.

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5. Fundamentally Changing Conventional Thinking

By a practitioner in China

(Minghui.org) For a long time I was not very strict with myself. I thought that studying the principles of the Fa, sending forth righteous thoughts, doing the exercises and distributing truth-clarifying materials would satisfy doing the three things. I did not consider what is expected of an enlightened being in the new universe and did not use Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance as the required standard. After reading some articles on Minghui I began to realize that I was one of the people spoken about in the book, Zhuan Falun,

"people will forever crawl within the boundary delimited by their own ignorance."

I have cultivated for over ten years. Why is it that I still follow conventional ways?

Through further study of Dafa principles and looking within myself, I noticed that I was just following the required format. It was my ordinary self trying to learn and not my real self. Although years had gone by, I did not really understand the principles. Master hinted to us many times in Zhuan Falun,

"a person's inability to always treat himself as a practitioner. "

"this person still behaves as usual"

We must let go of ordinary ways and change from personal cultivation to Fa-rectification cultivation. We must let go of our normal ways, because as Master said in Zhuan Falun,

"From an everyday person's level, perspective, and frame of mind, one cannot understand real things."

True principles cannot be shown to an ordinary person. Hence, by conducting oneself as an ordinary person one cannot understand the true principles. This is a major block to our progress.

After applying Dafa principles to analyze "this person still behaves as usual," I understood that I had been conducting myself as an ordinary person in my lifestyle, in thinking and in dealing with daily problems.

Human notions form the central core of a false self. This was a major block to my advancement and I had wasted a lot of time trying to cultivate this way. For example, when I was studying the Dafa principles, I was looking for benefits from reading the Fa. Obviously, no truth can be revealed to me. When I was sending forth righteous thoughts, many other thoughts were mixed in with them. They did not have much power. This is the reason why Teacher asked us to clear our minds before sending forth righteous thoughts. Similarly, Teacher asked us to keep "Body and Spirit Together" and apply "Action Following Mechanism" while doing the exercises. This is possible only with a quiet mind. Also, when we try to explain the facts about Dafa to people, our false self (a collection of human notions) has no ability to demonstrate the power of compassion needed to dissolve the evil spirits in other dimensions. This is why the action by a false self to save sentient beings is not effective.

After I applied Dafa principles to analyze my false self, I found him to be someone who likes to argue and look outward for solutions to problems. To eliminate him I need to be serious in studying Dafa principles and increasing the power of sending forth righteous thoughts. Gradually, I see the difference between my real and false self. At this point when I look at fellow practitioners, ordinary people, or an event, I remain calm and unaffected by appearance. It is this state of mind that allows righteous thoughts and rational thinking to take place.

After this change, I usually feel my body full of energy. My real self and main consciousness become dominant. Before I study Dafa principles I send forth righteous thoughts, leading to my body being surrounded by energy. My real self and bodies in other dimensions are studying the principles together. I seem to understand the meaning of "the Fa cultivates practitioners."

When I send forth righteous thoughts, my main consciousness is very focused, my palm is erect, and very strong gong goes out to eliminate the evil. When I perform the exercises, my body is surrounded by energy. It is natural that my body and spirit are together and my movements follow the mechanisms. The secret of having mechanisms moving the cultivator becomes clear.

The above is the understanding I acquired in my cultivation. Please point out anything that is improper.

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6. Believing in Master and the Fa with No Doubts and Staying Safe on the Cultivation Path


(Minghui.org) During cultivation, there is a lot of interference from tribulations and the evil. As Dafa practitioners, we have Master to protect us from danger. However, any loophole in our cultivation and xinxing will incur danger, which may ruin our cultivation.

I would like to share some of my cultivation experiences with fellow practitioners, especially new practitioners.

When I had just started to cultivate, I found it difficult to do the sitting mediation in the double lotus position. My endurance was poor, and I had many attachments. My celestial eyes and ears were open, but at a very low level. Sometimes I could see or hear some things, which manifested themselves naturally and unintentionally.

Once, when I was about to go to sleep after doing the exercises, I felt I was in a trance. When I started to lean towards the bed, I heard someone shout, "Hurry up! You are a heavenly being now!"

I was shocked and wondered, "Is that true? Could I have become a heavenly being so quickly? Is it that easy to complete cultivation?"

I suddenly realized the voice was not Master's and became vigilant. Just as my head was about to touch the pillow, a hand roughly grabbed a piece of stuff from my head. It was the size of a goose egg in the hand, but the size of a bowl compared to my head. It stretched a foot long and was as sticky as gum. I struggled not to let go of the hand for more than ten seconds. Finally, the hand loosened and let go of the stuff that looked like gum. The gum-like stuff sprang back into my head like a rubber band, and my head returned to its normal shape. I was very tired.

Later, I enlightened that it was a demon or a low-level rotten being that wanted to grab my Primordial Spirit from me. At my cultivation level, I hadn't figured it out until today. However, it is now crystal clear that, without denying the evil forces' arrangement, without believing in Master, and being steadfast in the Fa, we cannot complete cultivation. If we look for cultivation completion in this way, we cannot cultivate and will end up giving up our lives to another dimension. Being a Dafa disciple during the Fa-rectification period is a great honor. If we lose this great opportunity of being Dafa disciples, which we have been waiting millions of years for, we will never have a second chance.

There was another incident. Not long after I started to practice, a woman and a man appeared in my dream. They were in their late 20s. The man was good looking and very polite. The woman was beautiful. They asked me, "Since you practice cultivation, we will teach you something. Is that OK?" I said to myself, "Good things are beneficial for cultivation." I didn't say "yes" to them, but I didn't reject their offer, either. So they taught me some movements. I followed them. I asked them who they were. To my shock, the man was a willow fairy, and the woman was a snake fairy. I was so shocked and scared that I woke up. I shouted loudly for Master's help to drive away them. I shouted for a long time.

From my personal cultivation experiences, I have learned that we must study the Fa more and more. Otherwise, the evil forces will take advantage of our loopholes. I want to thank Master for taking care of us all the time. Heshi!

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7. Conflicts Arise When We Look Outward, Resolutions Occur When We Look Inward

By a practitioner from Henan Province

(Minghui.org) Recently, our sewer was plugged twice. The first time, I paid 30 yuan to have it fixed. A few days later, in the morning, I found that it was plugged again when I flushed the toilet. My husband was upset and started to complain. His behavior disturbed me. Because I'm a cultivator, I should not be the same as him, so I didn't say anything and continued trying to flush. However, it didn't work.

After lunch, he found that it was still plugged, and started to shout. I couldn't restrain myself anymore and started to argue with him. I said angrily to him, "A simple phone call to the maintenance man would resolve this. It is not necessary to take it so seriously and shout. Instead of trying to solve the problem, you are complaining. Now it is plugged. What can you do?" Then I added, "What do you want me to do?" He became really irritated with me, yelled at me, slammed the door and left.

Sitting there in a daze, I was so angry with him. Many of his shortcomings came to my mind and I got more and more angry. Many thoughts surfaced, like I would have divorced him if I wasn't a cultivator. Thinking of cultivation, I realized that I should study the Fa.

I washed my hands and opened Zhuan Falun. A sentence immediately showed up in front of my eyes:

"The enlightenment that we actually refer to is a matter of whether in the course of cultivation practice one can enlighten to and accept the Fa taught by the master or the Tao taught by the Taoist master, whether one can treat oneself as a practitioner upon encountering tribulations, and whether one can adhere to the Fa while practicing cultivation." (Zhuan Falun)

I'm a cultivator and I cultivate according to Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. By arguing with my husband, I didn't do well with respect to compassion, let alone forbearance. I was partially responsible for the sewer problem. Since he was angry with me, wasn't this for me to raise my xinxing? Instead, I argued and fought with him. Wasn't I the same as him?

When I truly looked inward, I found that all the problems originated from me, and I felt very regretful. I continued to study the Fa, and the more I read, the more I found that every sentence of the Fa is true. Master said.

"Cultivation practice itself is not difficult, and neither is upgrading one's level itself difficult. It is because they cannot give up the human mind that they call it difficult." (Zhuan Falun)

Isn't Master talking about me? I'm a cultivator, but I couldn't give up my human notions. When it was the time to truly elevate my level, my human notions were dominant. As a cultivator, I argued with an everyday person. Where should my level be? I must give up my human notions and be a true cultivator.

As I let go of this, I soon felt clear and enlightened. This relief and being at ease is so wonderful. After studying the Fa, I was thinking that, as soon as my husband comes back, I will apologize and tell him that it was my fault.

Surprisingly, when I went to flush the toilet, after over seven hours of being plugged, the sewer was suddenly unclogged. Even more surprisingly, the faucet in the kitchen, which had been leaking for days, stopped leaking.

Looking at my husband's angry face when he returned, I said, "Don't be angry, it was my fault. I'm sorry." At that moment, he looked out of place because I had never sincerely apologized to him like this. He smiled, and then gladly assisted me.

Reflecting on this story, although a simple one, the gap in my cultivation state was exposed. I didn't validate the Fa well at home. It's not surprising that after cultivating for so many years, my husband never listened to the truth nor agreed to withdraw from the Chinese Communist Party or its affiliated organizations. It was because I didn't cultivate well. I must do well as required by Master. I will validate the Fa at home as well as in every other environment, and do the three things well.

Although this story is about just some of my limited enlightenment, it was critical for me. From now on, I will truly look inward and cultivate myself.

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8. Handling Everything with Righteous Thoughts

By a practitioner in Chaoyang, Liaoning Province

(Minghui.org) I have recently had trouble letting go of some attachments, especially when it came to my relationship with other practitioners. I became very upset when some people whom I treated very well in the past suddenly said bad words about me. I failed to look at the issue with righteous thoughts, and now write this article to expose this attachment of mine.

When Master's teaching, "Be More Diligent," was published, our local coordinator organized a group Fa study to share our understandings on the article. An elderly practitioner brought her husband with her. He began his cultivation after suffering a stroke, not long ago. When I first saw the couple, I was very happy and thought he surely would benefit from our group Fa study. However, I soon became disappointed, and started to find faults in him. Her husband's voice was weak and his pronunciation was not clear, making it very difficult for others to understand him; he was extremely slow at reading; he coughed all the time and kept having to wipe his nose; he was not hygienic and was a bit smelly; he needed two people to help him get up and down the stairs. I talked to another practitioner, who suggested that we should all be tolerant. The second day two practitioners didn't show up, claiming they were busy with their families. Then more practitioners stopped coming to the group Fa study a few days later.

This was not just an issue of cultivating tolerance, but rather a matter of interference. So I went to talk to the elderly practitioner. I said, "How about you help your husband study the Fa at home? Since he can't keep pace with the group, I'm not sure how much he'd learn. If he stays at home instead and reads the Fa by himself, he wouldn't miss anything. What do you think of coming to the group Fa study just by yourself?" She agreed. A few days later, however, this practitioner told people, be it practitioners or non-practitioners, that I drove her husband out of the Fa study group.

When I initially heard this, I was unhappy but didn't take it to heart. But when more people told me what she said, I became very upset. I couldn't believe that she treated me this way, given that I was so nice to her in the past.

She once gave up cultivation when she was held in Masanjia Forced Labor Camp, and destroyed all her Dafa books when she was released. When she decided to return to Dafa, she did very well in talking to people about the persecution, and had helped many withdraw from the Chinese Communist Party. But she had difficulty obtaining Dafa books. When a practitioner refused to give her any Dafa books, I went out of my way to find a set of books for her.

When I remembered the favor that I did for her in the past, I couldn't help but complain to another practitioner, "She is already in her 60s. How could she not know who really treats her well and who doesn't? Nobody wanted to give her Dafa books, but I got a set for her. How can she now spread rumors about me like this?" The practitioner replied, "Well, it was indeed you that drove her husband away from our Fa study group." I was speechless and realized that I wasn't looking at the matter from the perspective of the Fa.

When I decided to forgive and forget what had occurred with this practitioner, another practitioner suddenly told me, "You women just can't forgive and forget." I thought I had already removed my attachment, but apparently I failed to dig out the root cause of the problem. So Master arranged for this practitioner to remind me to look for the root cause of my attachments.

I realized that this attachment has surfaced before. There was a practitioner who had trouble getting rid of her attachment to lust and desire. Many practitioners didn't want to have anything to do with her, and some directly told others not to talk to her. This practitioner thought that she was treated wrongfully, and came to complain to me. I comforted her and told her that as Master never gave up on her, neither should we. I often teamed up with her when we went out to clarify the truth. But one time when I met her, she became very angry and started shouting at me because I had covered the truth clarification materials up in paper, as though I was trying to conceal what we were doing. I soon realized that it was interference from the old forces, and so I began to send forth righteous thoughts. After a while she came to me and apologized. I told her that if both of us knew to look within, the old forces wouldn't be able to separate us. But when I returned home I felt very angry toward that practitioner, thinking, "When other practitioners didn't even want to talk to you, I went out of my way to accept you."

The words "You women just can't forgive and forget" really woke me up. I realized my real attachments were in fact jealousy, showing off and competitiveness.

Whatever occurs between practitioners has its karmic reasons behind it. If we are interfered with, it must be that we still have human notions that are taken advantage of by the old forces. We should disintegrate such attachments and cultivate ourselves well to reach consummation.

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