FALUN DAFA India Newsletter for November 2016

FALUN DAFA - INDIA
TRUTHFULNESS - COMPASSION - FORBEARANCE

Newsletter for November 2013

Click on the below-mentioned, numbered subjects:

Welcome

What’s Happening?

Some Thoughts about Sickness Karma”

My experience in Studying Fa and Promoting Fa

Further Understanding of "One's Gong Level is as High as One's Xinxing Level"

Identifying and Ridding the Fundamental Attachments

Inspiration from Re-reading Milarepa's Cultivation Story

Clear away the Obstacles to Rectify all Incorrect Status

1. Welcome: Welcome to the November 2016 Falun Dafa India Newsletter.

Happy Diwali! The Festival of Lights means dispelling darkness which represents ignorance with light which is a metaphor for knowledge. Therefore, lighting a lamp symbolizes the destruction, through knowledge, of all negative forces. Let us through cultivation overcome all negative forces and reach enlightenment.

It is important for us to keep our righteous thoughts and clarify the truth to the world. In the context of Sending Forth Righteous Thoughts Master has mentioned many times the importance of sending forth righteous thoughts in his lectures and articles. Master says,
"Let me tell you, all those who remain and that can persecute Dafa and Dafa disciples are due to our students themselves. Students who haven't taken sending forth righteous thoughts seriously: the evil in the dimensions that you are supposed to shoulder and be responsible for has not been eliminated. That's the cause. So you must take sending forth righteous thoughts seriously. No matter whether you think you have the ability or not, you should do it."
( "Fa-Lecture at the Conference in Florida, U.S.A.")

There is a special request.
Please copy the text below and send the petition to as many people as possible.

Hi,

I saw a Documentary recently titled 'Human Harvest' where they show in China, you can get any organ you want in a week's time. This is because they extract organs from innocent people who practice Falun Gong, a peaceful exercise and meditation practice that is banned in China by the Communist government.

The sad thing is that a lot of affluent Indians travel to China to get a liver, or kidney transplant. They don't realize that somebody is killed, so that they can live!

I just signed this petition. I think this is important, because it affects us all in some way. I would be grateful if you can sign and also forward it to your contacts please.

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(Your Name)

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 have been going for distribution of flyers and exercise demonstration at Rajgiri, Cannaught Place every Sunday.

Practitioners from Delhi have also been going to Nizammuddin and other railway stations to distribute flyers.

Practitioners from Delhi also distributed flyers at Chittaranjan Park.

Practitioners from Delhi distributed large number of flyers at Agroha Dham, and Hissar city Haryana.

Practitioners from Akola went To Amravati to distribute flyers and tell people about the Persecution of Falun Dafa practitioners in China.

Practitioners from Nagpur set up a stall at Deekshabhumi for Dassehra and gave out fliers and demonstrated the exercises.

Practitioners from Nagpur, Pune, Mumbai and Jamshedpur distributed large number of flyers at various pandals, railway stations and other places on the occasion of Durga Puja in Kolkata.

Practitioners from Nagpur went to Dhantoli Garden and Chandrapur and set up a stall on the occasion of Dhamma Day and demonstrated the exercises, taught the exercises and distributed flyers and informed the people about the persecution.

Practitioners from Nagpur had Fa spreading activities at Bizasan Tekdi, Bhadrawati.

Practitioners from Pune, Akola, and Mumbai went to Goa for the BRICS event and did a peaceful demonstration at a public park and clarified the truth to the Press. There were several reports in the local language papers and in leading English newspapers.

Practitioners from Pune distributed flyers in Magarpatta city at a pre-Diwali fun fair and Hadapsar Musical concert.

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3. Some Thoughts about Sickness Karma A Dafa Disciple outside Mainland China

(PureInsight.org) I started practicing Falun Dafa in 1998. The next year was the beginning of the persecution. During this time I experienced serious sickness karma. For an ordinary person, it was like an incurable disease. Did I need to go to the hospital? After two to three months battling between an ordinary human mindset and a cultivator’s mindset, my righteous thoughts came out: Dafa disciples do not have illness. I could not help laughing uproariously when I decided not to go to the hospital. Since then, I haven’t had any sickness karma for more than ten years.

However, in October 2015, I experienced a sudden illness tribulation. I had a headache, intense neck convulsions, crooked eyes and only half of my face was working. I couldn’t sleep for about one week because of the pain. At this time, I was then asked for help by a practitioner from a neighboring city on Shen Yun promotions. I said that I couldn’t help out right now. The other practitioner said I would get better when I came out, I then decided to go and help. While I was there, the intense pain kept me awake the whole week. I had to practice, send forth righteous thoughts and listen to Master Li’s lectures in the middle of the night when I could not sleep. I knew I must have a big loophole that the old forces were taking advantage of. I looked inwards and found lots of attachments including resentment, jealousy, lust and party culture etc. I tried to eliminate those by sending forth righteous thoughts, but it had no significant effect. I begged Master, “Master, I don’t know where I did wrong; but I have to promote Shen Yun. Please help put my eyes back to normal!” Amazingly, half of my face went back to normal and I could go out and deliver flyers. So the two months’ Shen Yun promotion was not affected.

After the Shen Yun promotion, I spent more time on Fa study and sending forth righteous thoughts to rectify myself. However, the crooked eyes and mouth came back again. I knew I still had some attachments, but I was not sure what they were. Then I remembered, before I took up cultivation, a fortune teller told me my health would be really bad after I was 60 years old. After taking up cultivation, my fate was changed by Master. However there was still a little shadow deep in my thoughts. I told my family that someone told me I would be sick this year. Since I practiced, it was not that serious. This idea conformed to the old forces’ arrangement. I finally understood why I was undergoing the long time illusion of sickness karma - it was because I wanted it.

One reason I write this is to expose my incorrect thoughts and to eliminate all imposed interference and tribulations from the evil old forces; and to firmly take the path arranged by Master. I also want to remind practitioners to pay attention when sending forth righteous thoughts to clean up our own space and disintegrate the ordeals imposed on us by the evil old forces.

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4. My experience in Studying Fa and Promoting Fa L Niu

(Minghui.org) 1. Fa Study is essential

The Teacher advised us to read Fa more during many Fa conferences. He even wrote a short article to us entitled " Melting into the Fa". Fellow practitioners often talk about how critical it is to study Fa in order to improve oneself. However, the teacher's advice and fellow practitioners' experience had not registered in my mind. I did study Fa everyday but as routine homework without realizing the importance of Fa study.

Because I had not studied Fa diligently and had not improved my understanding of Fa for some period of time, I had been lingering at the same level of cultivation for a long time. Similar kind of xinxing tests happened over and over again, I either passed or failed tests in the same fashion. Attachments became weak sometimes and strong at other times. I often felt manipulated by them. Teacher said:

" Ren includes giving up. Being able to give up is sublimation of one's cultivation."

I was able to forbear in conflicts and guard my xinxing, however, I mistook "giving up" as " abstaining from", and fought bitterly against demonic nature. My attachments did not go away, and my cultivation did not improve.

The dilemma I had in cultivation also found its reflection in practice. I tried very hard to repel various ideas while meditating; I was hardly able to manage it. Such a situation lasted for quite a long time. It was not easy, but my heart ached more: why was I not able to improve myself for such a long time?

Teacher told us that we must cultivate ourselves in the complicated ordinary society in our school, because the Fa is so immense. My environment at the time was not so complex, yet I had great difficulty dealing with it, without improving myself much. If the environment were to get more complicated, what would I do? What was my problem?

The cultivation environment has been becoming so complex and unwieldy as a result of what has been happening in China, since April 25, 1999. My cultivation environment expanded instantly to China with the help of the Internet. What happened and what fellow practitioners were going through over there worried me dearly. Because I had not cultivated myself solidly in the past, I was shocked and thrown off balance when I heard the overwhelming tribulations that our fellow practitioners, over 100 million in numbers, were faced with. I got emotional with sadness and bitterness, I could not settle down to study Fa and to do the practice, spending all day on the Internet. I even became radical. How could it be a practitioner's behavior? Would I still be a practitioner if this kept up?

One day I noticed that my lawn was withering. It was high time to water it. At the same time, a few practitioners inquired: " when will the intensive group Fa study begin?" Suddenly I realized that what I was missing for some time was to study the Fa with a quiet mind! After a few intensive group Fa studies, I benefited a lot and was surprised how my xinxing was improved. What had in the past been tribulations were not tribulations any more. I was able to guard my xinxing more easily and felt relieved and happy afterwards. Many attachments got weaker and weaker and could not manipulate me anymore. I could feel the difference between "abstaining from" in the past and "giving up" now. "Abstaining from" without a deep understanding of Fa was hard; "Giving up" with a good grasp of Fa was easy and natural. I also began to understand that what had occurred in China became our new cultivation environment. I realized how far behind my cultivation was, compared to so many practitioners in China. I came to conclusion that in order to cultivate oneself out of a complicated environment, one must study Fa more and more!

I started a new job recently. When I went to the lab on my own for the first time, there was an engineer yelling at me in anger. I was puzzled, not knowing what was going on. Later I found out that some of our wafer boxes were stacked near his equipment. He asked for my manager's phone number rudely and piled up the boxes around me. I was surrounded in a short while and could not move. I felt like I was a newcomer and had not touched the boxes, so why was he so angry with me? Might he have mistaken me for someone else? I wanted to explain myself to him, but he was too busy with shouting and yelling and I did not have a chance to say a single word to him. I gave up. I looked at him with a smile, as if he was an actor. I then felt sorry for him being so temperamental for such a trivial thing. He must have been hurt deeply without being able to let go of tiny losses. Later I realized that I lost the chance to cultivate myself in two aspects: First, as a practitioner, one should rectify the environment. I should have apologized to him and helped him move the boxes to where they belonged. Secondly, although I can take material loss lightly, I am very stubborn and get temperamental when defending my ideas, and he was reflecting my demonic nature! It was not coincidental that a few days ago I saw two colleagues debating against each other emotionally over a technical issue to defend their own ideas. It was pointing out to me that I need to give up my own egoism.

Teacher advised us to soberly cultivate ourselves in the midst of this complicated environment. Recent change in cultivation environment is a key to self-improvement. The cultivation environment changed for me a few times a day. It was in China, either through the Internet or in my dreams; It was in the society, promoting Fa; It was at my work place; It was at home; Lastly, even if you locked yourself up in a room all by yourself, you would be surrounded by ideas and thought karma. I was able to improve myself steadily as a result of taking full advantage of various cultivation environments.

M wife, a fellow practitioner, has helped me a lot at home. She studies Fa more diligently than I. I feel guilty if I don't keep up with her. We carpool to work everyday, she drops me off at work in the morning and picks me up in the evening. I have a heavy workload. I regularly get off work late- 7pm, 8pm or on occasion even 9pm. She can go home at 6pm, however, she always waits for me patiently. She keeps me humble in this respect. One cold morning after practice, we went home. The ceramic floor was icy cold and our slippers were far away from the door. I rushed to my slippers without bringing her slippers to her. She asked: "where are my slippers?" I immediately realized how selfish I was.

Studying Fa more has helped my exercise practice, as well. My mind can become quiet in sitting meditation first, and then I can enter the state of tranquility frequently, although for a short period of time. Later on, my mind can become quieter for standing exercises more easily, and occasionally I can feel the state of tranquility. There were undesirable ideas coming up, but they were more like falling leaves, which would land on the ground and disappear. I tried to become quiet even when I was not practicing and it was much easier than before.

One morning after practice, I suddenly heard birds chirping loudly, and it did not disturb my practice at all. I didn't even hear it during my practice. Why did it bother me when my colleagues were talking about stocks? There is an old saying: Birds live for food, men live for wealth. The birds might be talking about where they could find food and how they could get it. It is such a close resemblance between men and birds: they are all after that little bit of material gain, competing with each other. The next time I heard people talking about stocks, I was reminded of noisy birds. My mind got a lot quieter.

2. Promoting Fa requires cultivating the heart more

The tribulations that our fellow practitioners in China are encountering are the magnificent manifestation of the great law. In order to be qualified to cultivate in this great law, the practitioners have to overcome the enormous tribulations. It is because the Xinxing of the fellow practitioners in China has reached a high level and their tests are so big that they can accumulate their mighty virtue, increase their levels and harmonize the Dafa. In the mean time, the practitioners also promote the Dafa to the whole world. The whole world has heard of Falun Dafa now. As a practitioner out of China, I think we need do the follow-up work and introduce Dafa to pre-destined people.

Quite a few fellow practitioners had started earlier to introduce Dafa to the pre-destined people through workshops. The workshops are done in libraries, bookstores and community centers, etc. I think the workshops are a good way to promote Dafa. There are no specifications for the people who attend the workshops, and no conditions. Anyone can come and go of his own will. In fact, all kinds of people attend the workshops, including scientists, engineers, retired people, and homeless people, among others. Everybody has an equal opportunity in front of the law of the universe. The Dafa offers salvation to the pre-destined people. The workshops can be one way to introduce Dafa to the public in this special period. The fellow practitioners have prepared a set of slides for the workshops. I read through them and thought I could do it too. I held a workshop in a nearby library. There were more than twenty people who came to the workshop, and five or six people attended the following 9-session seminar, but strangely enough, nobody went through the 9-session seminar. Two westerners never showed up after they attended one group practice. What is wrong after all?

It was my own problem. I didn't pay enough attention to the workshop. I treated such a sacred thing as an ordinary lecture, and I didn't prepare in advance. I thought I could spontaneously do it well. As a result, when I did the presentation, my mind was blank, and I had to read word for word on the slides. The presentation was not from my heart, how could it be compelling? Could it touch people's hearts? I feel it was because my introduction was not appropriate that the two westerns didn't come any more after the group practice. It was because my anger with the persecution of Falun Gong in China that some people pretended to come to learn Falun Gong in order to get their green cards. Isn't my attitude to Dafa a fundamental problem? Am I not an ordinary person when I have the temperament of an ordinary person? The people we are facing are pre-destined people. Shouldn't we always treat them with benevolence and a pure heart? Can we impede them from attaining Dafa because of our resentment? We may make pre-destined people lose their opportunity if we don't untie our hearts. I untied my heart through studying Dafa. This is the cultivation environment for the fellow practitioners in China. The immense benevolence and forbearance shown by our fellow practitioners is a mirror for myself. Aren't they on the path to producing high level Gong through the tribulations they endure? I feel the volume of my heart is enlarging.

With a purer heart to promote Dafa, I was able to introduce Dafa to the audience more naturally and more sincerely in the following workshops. The audience became more active too. Once, a person said to me, "You are a good teacher." At first I thought it was a compliment. Later on I broke out in a cold sweat. "Am I interpreting Dafa? Isn't this the disruption of Dafa? The teacher told us that the best way to promote Dafa was group practice, experience sharing conference, mouth-to-mouth, heart-to-heart, and through the availability of books in the bookstores. Can I continue doing this?" I calmed down and read the book; three thoughts came to my mind:

* First, during the workshop, I was the only person who talked. I did not pay attention to the audience's background and their feelings. I talked, as I liked. Could the audience accept it?

* Second, the formality of the workshop itself doesn't present a problem. It is one way to promote Dafa by the word of mouth, though it is not one-on-one. It is more like experience sharing. I was not considerate of others.

* Third, I did not tell the audience clearly right at the beginning that I would talk about my own experience, my own understanding. They should cultivate and practice by themselves in order to understand the principles. I am not, and cannot talk about the principles.

Teacher told us to consider others first, so as to attain the righteous enlightenment of selflessness and altruism. The only purpose of promoting Dafa is for the sake of others. Therefore, when we promote Dafa, it should be a true mutual exchange, which comes from our benevolence and kindness from the bottom of our hearts. It should not be a monologue regardless of the audience. Thereafter, in the following workshops, I asked the audience to introduce themselves first so that I understood what they expected from the workshops. Then I would talk more about what they were interested during the presentation. The workshops became the place for sharing and exchanging experience and thoughts.

However, there were always some omissions.

* Omission One; I asked the audience to introduce themselves, but I forgot to introduce myself. With the reminder from the audience, I introduced myself, but I still forgot to ask the fellow practitioners who helped with the workshop to introduce themselves. They were also participants at the workshop. They also had things to say to the audience. For later workshops, everybody at the workshop introduced himself/herself. It made a more cordial and friendly atmosphere. The people were freer to express their own thoughts and share with others.

* Omission Two; we were able to consider the audience at the workshop, but we didn't consider the staff in the libraries. When we came to a library, we seemed to become the administrators of the library. We distributed the flyers and placed the sign without consulting the staff in the library. Although the staff tolerated us, they were not happy about it. We didn't realize our own problem. We thought it was a test because it was difficult to promote Dafa. Later when we came to another library, the staff told us to our face that it was not appropriate to distribute flyers and place the signs wherever we wanted. I then realized that we didn't consider the staff. We used Dafa work as an excuse, and didn't look inside ourselves. Therefore, we couldn't find such an obvious problem. During the later workshops, we consulted the staff first how to post the notice, how to distribute the flyers and where to put the sign. We felt that "The Buddha's light illuminates everywhere and rectifies all abnormalities".

* Omission Three; every time when we came to a new place for the workshop, the staff in the library told me that the person who made the reservation should come. I made an apology and refilled a form, but I didn't pay attention to it. I thought it was a test. It would be fine if I passed it. Afterwards I realized that the staff might feel uncomfortable about it. The names didn't match. They didn't know who I was, and might have the need to verify my identity. Did we consider them? The teacher said, "brings forth lofty ideals while minding minor details". When one person always considers others, he must be bringing forth lofty ideals while minding minor details. This is achieved by true cultivation.

Promoting Dafa requires me to cultivate, and pushes me to cultivate. Only by cultivating myself and improving myself continuously, can I promote Dafa better.

The above are some of my experiences. Please inform me if you find anything inappropriate.

Thank you.

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5. Further Understanding of "One's Gong Level is as High as One's Xinxing Level" Written by a Falun Dafa practitioner in China

(Minghui.org) In the past, whether it was riding in a taxi or talking with people I just met, I was able to to them and persuade them to quit the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its affiliated organizations without any fear. Some agreed to quit and some didn't, and the outcome could never move me. I was able to maintain a calm mind upon seeing bad things of everyday people and society. Also, after I watched TV, I would not remember what I had just watched. It was as if nothing could move me or affect me.

However, now I tend to be afraid to clarify the facts to strangers and persuade them to quit the Party and its affiliated organizations. Moreover, when it comes to acquaintances and those to whom I have clarified the facts before, I am not sure how to start anymore. I cannot refrain from showing my distaste toward everyday people's bad behavior, and cannot forget what I see on TV.

I underwent a tribulation recently, which helped me to discover some of my hidden attachments. Although I was aware of these attachments, I had not been determined enough to remove them. This time, with Master's help, I made a determined effort and removed some attachments, and understood some issues.

Master said in Zhuan Falun:

"Once you upgrade your xinxing, your body will undergo a great change. Upon xinxing improvement, the matter in your body is guaranteed to transform. What kind of changes will take place? You will give up those bad things that you are attached to."
"One's gong level is as high as one's xinxing level, and this is an absolute truth."
"Therefore, only by emphasizing xinxing cultivation can your gong increase and your level be upgraded."

Once my thoughts became righteous and my xinxing was improved, many issues that I couldn't understand before became clear to me all of a sudden. I realized Dafa had opened my wisdom and allowed me to understand these issues. I also came to understand that, because I had reached a certain level of xinxing, I was able to be in that good state of mind. However, since I had indulged my attachments, slacked off and started to cling to my attachment to ease and comfort, my level dropped and I thus developed a fearful mentality and dared not clarify the facts. Because my thoughts were not righteous and my main consciousness was not strong, I was easily affected by outside influences and my state of mind became unstable and, consequently, I found doing the three things difficult.

Once my state of mind became righteous, I felt I could go out and clarify the facts again. Every thought of mine was about truth-clarification, even in my dreams. In one dream, I was clarifying the facts to a classmate who did not want to listen to me because she had misunderstandings about Falun Gong, which was based on the misconduct of one of her acquaintances. In addition, she was also influenced by the slandering campaign of the CCP. What I said to her in the dream was so well organized, and she started to consider my words. I woke up and wondered why I could do so well in the dream. Now I understood it.

Master said,

"Therefore, it is said that cultivation depends on one's own efforts, while transforming gong is done by one's master. You can only have such a wish and think about it like that, but it is the master who actually does these things." (Zhuan Falun)

I indeed have understood Master's words this time. If one's attachments or human thoughts are not removed, then xinxing does not improve. Without righteous thoughts, no matter how much one tries to remove the mentality of fear and maintain a calm mind or raise one's level, it is self-defeating. On the contrary, as soon as one's xinxing has been raised, one is in that realm already; therefore, everything is determined by one's xinxing. Master has been stressing the importance of studying the Fa more to raise our xinxing, as well as looking inside, because this is the only effective way. There is only this way, and there are no shortcuts.

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6. Identifying and Ridding the Fundamental Attachments An Overseas Dafa Disciple

(PureInsight.org) Before 2015 Christmas, I overcame a tribulation of Life and Death.

1. To find my fundamental attachment

One day, I suddenly felt back pain and chest ache. My heart almost stopped. When my heart started to get painful, I knew it was not karma elimination but the arrangement by the old forces. Immediately, I refused to accept it in my mind and memorized Fa in Fa-Lecture During the 2003 Lantern Festival at the U.S. West Fa Conference,

“ ‘I'm Li Hongzhi's disciple, I don't want other arrangements or acknowledge them’--then they won't dare to do that. So it can all be resolved. When you can really do that, not just saying it but putting it into action, Master will definitely stand up for you. ”

Soon after, I didn’t feel that pain but very tired and wanted to go to bed. Then I realized only two kinds of people went to bed during the daytime: one was exhausted people; the other was sick people. Which one did I belong to?

For a practitioner, one should practice instead of going to bed if one felt tired. Going to the bed meant I accepted the arrangement by the old forces that I was sick. I endured the pain to meditate by sending righteous thought and looking inward. I found lots of attachments. Then I begged Master to remove my attachment as soon as I found one. In the meanwhile, I reminded myself, the persecution on my body shouldn’t influence the three things - Fa study, sending forth righteous thoughts, and truth clarification. Doing the housework and taking care of granddaughter should be the norm. The old forces would impose persecution on my easy mind. Although my back pain made me not able to stand straight up; my uncomfortable heart made my legs shakes when I held the baby, I never talked to my family members about my problem and thought, “Ignore them!” However, my back was still painful every day. I kept sending forth righteous thoughts and found many attachments including fear, resentment, jealousy, showing off, impatient, lazy, party culture etc. I asked myself why there was still pain on my back after I found so many attachments? It seemed like I haven’t found the right one. What was it? One day, I read a practitioner’s sharing on Minghui website. The words "fundamental attachments" impressed me so much. It seemed like my fundamental attachment wasn’t myself as I thought before. I should find my own fundamental attachment this time. Master said in “Towards Consummation” from Essentials for Further Advancement II,

“Some people think that Dafa is in keeping with their own understanding of science; some people think that it agrees with their own code of conduct; some people think that it speaks to their own dissatisfaction with politics; some people think that Dafa can salvage humankind’s degenerate morals; some people think that Dafa can cure their illnesses; some people think that Dafa and Master are righteous, and so on and so forth. It isn’t wrong for human beings in this world to yearn with these attachments for beautiful dreams and wishes. But a cultivator definitely shouldn’t be that way. You may start on the path of Dafa with those thoughts, yet over the course of cultivation you need to regard yourself as a cultivator. During the course of cultivation, however, through reading the books, studying the Fa, and diligently making progress, you should clearly recognize what your thoughts were when you first came to Dafa. After cultivating for a period of time, are your thoughts still the same? Are you continuing on the path because of those human attachments? If so, you cannot be counted as my disciple. It means that you haven’t gotten rid of your fundamental attachments and that you are unable to understand the Fa from the Fa. ”

So why did I start practice Dafa? I recalled some moments before my practice. In my twenties, I went to see fortune-tellers often about my career and salary because of the pursuit of fame. After practice, I knew most fortune-tellers had Spirit Possession. One day I had a nightmare during nap time. I was taken to the underworld and a voice said, “Her lifespan should be 18 years. How could she be brought here so late?” I was scared and told my sister after waking up. My sister said our neighbor aunt Zhao was able to extend lifespan for people; we may get help from her. Aunt Zhao claimed to be possessed by safflower python and lots of people came to get help. Then I did burn paper and lit incense as she told me. When I was 33 years old, I did again. I got help from her often and could see some low level spiritual beings. I always felt death was not far from me since I always felt scared.

In 1998, I was attracted by book Zhuan Falun’s profound connotation and finished reading it in one night. I realized human can become a Buddha. Those people I found previously were possessed by the low level spiritual beings. I was so lucky to get this book and know the truth. Then I practiced Dafa firmly.

I found my fundamental attachment was to fear of death after careful Fa study and looking back. When I confirmed with myself about my fundamental attachment, my body pain disappeared immediately. I knew I was right. I experienced trouble for not paying attention to cultivation details. My cultivation was to take advantage of Dafa’s protection. Was it real cultivation? I always felt my three things were done ok. Now I could say I did three things as a human because I didn’t find my fundamental attachments. It was also the problem of trusting Master and trusting Dafa. It would be horrible if I couldn’t find and eliminate it.

2. To clean up the fundamental attachment - selfishness

In Be Clearheaded from The Essentials of Diligent Progress VOL. III, Master said,

"If you, as a student [of Dafa], do not follow Master’s requirements, it is definitely no simple thing. The old forces have arranged for all Dafa disciples a set of their things, so if a Dafa disciple doesn’t follow Master’s requirements, he must be following the old forces’ arrangements."

Through it, I realized the old forces had arranged the following:

I was born in an environment which increased my attachment.

I was the youngest one at home so I didn’t have much house work but enjoyed life with better food and more fun. As long as I insisted, I could get whatever I wanted.

My study life gradually strengthened my attachment.

I was a good kid, good student with excellent results from elementary school to university. Since I always got the first place in the examination, I could always hear compliment and see teacher’s satisfaction. These subtly strengthened the attachment to self. In the meanwhile, the party culture infiltrated my mind layer by layer.

3. Working experience was to prove myself

After working at several places, I eventually got the general manager position at a large national joint-stock company. At that time, I was the man of my world without considering other people no matter at home or at work. The self-attachment was getting stronger and stronger.

The old force strengthened my fear. I had to get help from low level spiritual beings which obeyed the principles of the old cosmos in the ordinary world. They paralyzed my main consciousness and re-arranged my life. I knew the fake self was composed of bad thoughts, karma and bad ideas. I had to eliminate them completely to clean up my fundamental attachments.

Then I sent forth righteous thoughts as long as I had time every day to separate the true self and the fake one. I also cultivated myself solidly by digging my attachments in my mind. Every day, I had to recall the whole day experience to find attachments. Plus I increased Fa study to clean myself. Doing three things made me integrate into the whole because the whole was so powerful.

Finally, let me end with Fa in Teaching the Fa at the Meeting with Asia-Pacific Students, “

"Disciple: I feel that the old forces arranged for us some critical junctures and want to keep us down, but as long as we pass those tests and overcome those ordeals we will be able to let go of our fundamental attachments and thereby do better.

Teacher: Yes, if you weren't attached to anything the old forces would have no excuse and could do nothing to you.”

Thanks Master! Thank you fellow practitioners!

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7. Inspiration from Re-reading Milarepa's Cultivation Story By a Falun Dafa practitioner from China

(Minghui.org) On August 11, the Minghui website (Chinese version of Clearwisdom) published the eBook Milarepa's Cultivation Story. I recently read it again for the third time.

In 1996 I read this book for the first time. I was in tears from the beginning to the end. Seeing Milarepa's firm determination in pursuing the Buddha Fa, strictly adhering to and carrying out his Master's words without any hesitation, placing his full trust in his master to resolutely "abandon all human attachments," enduring all kinds of hardship in cultivation, the magnificence of achieving consummation, all left me stunned and shocked. After reading the book, I had a different perspective and rational understanding of "cultivation" and "a human cultivating to become a God." With Milarepa's Buddhist practice like this, I myself as a Dafa disciple should treasure that I am able to obtain Dafa in this human body. Becoming a Dafa practitioner is a very rare opportunity that one cannot find in ten thousand years; therefore, we cannot slack off in cultivation. We must place our faith in Dafa, to practice cultivation. Then one can be "spiritually and physically reborn."

I remembered the old times when we studied the Fa, practiced the exercises and spread Dafa daily. When we encountered conflicts we looked inward and examined ourselves to improve our xinxing (which also helped to lay a solid foundation for cultivation practice during the Fa-rectification period). I could feel the progression of human attachments being eliminated one by one and the original true nature ascending little by little in cultivation. I still remember, during experience sharing with fellow practitioners, that I described my cultivation experience as: "Apart from when I'm sleeping, I have the feeling that I'm in the state of purification all the time. Genuinely practicing cultivation is really good."

The second time I read Milarepa's Cultivation Story was in early July 1999. A few days after the April 25 appeal, several people came to the exercise site. We knew they were plainclothes officers, coming to collect information and materials. We treated them with a peaceful attitude. We taught them the exercises when they wanted to learn them, we introduced Falun Gong to them when they wanted to know. I know this was safeguarding Dafa. Those days we all felt that the situation of practicing cultivation was getting more severe. Actually, how could an atheistic party allow so many people to practice the Buddha Fa? I am aware that a big test awaits the cultivator. I said to myself that I must do well, be firm, and be able to confront challenges.

Today, after re-reading Milarepa's Cultivation Story, and looking back at my cultivation experience during the personal cultivation period, and my cultivation process during the Fa-rectification period, I would like to share two points that I have enlightened to. One point is "firmness in practicing cultivation." Regardless of any obstacles or tribulations, we must "Steadfastly cultivate Dafa, the will unflinching" ("True Nature Revealed" from Essentials for Further Advancement II ). We must practice Dafa until we reach consummation, with our wills unmoved. Another point is "do exactly what Master says," without any conditions, without the slightest doubt. We must absolutely trust in Master and the Fa, without compromise. We must study the Fa more, study the Fa well, then carry out what Master requires.

Above are my thoughts after re-reading, Milarepa's Cultivation Story. At present, Fa-rectification is moving forward rapidly. We must recognize that cultivation is serious, and realize the urgency of saving sentient beings, and the enormous responsibility of Dafa disciples. Let us treasure the remaining time that is left for us, genuinely practice cultivation, discard human notions, assist Master in the Fa-rectification, and do better in saving sentient beings.

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8. Clear away the Obstacles to Rectify all Incorrect Status Tong Zhen

(PureInsight.org) I feel more pressured after learning "Fa Teaching at the 2016 New York Fa Conference". Fa-rectification comes to the final step and my cultivation is still not quite there. It is hard to make up for anything not done well before. Then I require myself to do everything well as a Dafa disciple’s standard in Fa-rectification period in every minute. However, the more time I want to grab, the lower efficient I am. I couldn’t do anything as the time goes by.

Master mentioned several times that the time was pushing fast. But no matter how fast it is, I still have twenty four hours every day. However, I always feel time is not enough that I couldn’t learn enough Fa; couldn’t do enough for Fa-rectification and almost couldn’t finish my job. Studying “Teaching the Fa at the Conference in Switzerland” again, Master said,

“Everything in the universe has thought and life. Could you say they aren’t gods? The time in any dimension strictly delimits the changes that occur in all substances of that dimension. Could you say time isn’t a god? It knows the thoughts of all lives within the range of its control. If it wants to speak, it can speak; if it wants to assume a human form, it can do that. Wouldn’t you say it’s a god? Human beings think that time is just a concept. The sun rises and sets, people mark off some points and put some numbers on a clock—and that’s supposed to be time. That, along with the rising and setting of the sun, is how time is expressed in the society of ordinary people. But I can tell you, even the rising and setting of the sun and Earth’s orbiting around the sun are delimited and arranged—without deviation—by this dimension’s time.”

Time is God. In the human world, we have twenty four hours every day. Different cultivation status leads in different time efficiency. Disciples in good cultivation could do three things well every day with half the effort because time in different layer is god. They can cooperate with Dafa disciples in better efficiency. Then they would go back to the new universe with Dafa disciples who reach Consummation. Otherwise, the god in charge of time in Dafa disciple dimension couldn’t assimilate Fa because Dafa disciples waste time. That is why we cannot understand the additional meaning of Fa-rectification.

In this universe, this includes even all the matter that permeates the whole universe, they’re all living entities, they all have thinking, and they’re all forms that the Law of the universe exists at different levels. If they don’t let you rise to a higher level, maybe you want to go higher, but you just can’t go up, they just won’t let you come up. All elements untouched by Fa-rectification interfered Dafa disciples. We should rectify all abnormal conditions using everything given by Master and Fa.

The lives in the old cosmos are in destruction period. Our Dafa disciples will walk into a new universe. I suddenly realize: low efficiency was because of the obstacles from the old cosmos which was not rectified by Fa. The un-rectified lives from the old cosmos treated all lives like that, not just only Dafa disciples. For example, if we have a correct attitude in Fa study, all lives around us would be rectified because the main part is positive; otherwise if we don’t have correct attitude in Fa study, not only we couldn’t cultivate ourselves well, but all lives around us will be interfered with and resulting in rejecting. Master said in Dafa Disciples Must Study the Fa - Fa Teaching Given at the 2011 Washington DC Metro Area Fa Conference,

“Whatever one’s thoughts align with will dominate the person. In other words, when beings of different planes notice that you want something, or are attached to something, and that it precisely aligns with them, they take effect and even direct you. When a person is not rational, or is venting anger, negative elements are taking effect. Everything is alive, and those things include evilness, desires, and hatred, among others. So in such situations they naturally take effect.”

The universe is so complicated. All substances and forms of matter in the universe have spirits including the god in charge of time. Plus the mutated stuffs put into our mind and body by the old force are all lives. We will be interfered by all these things during Fa study, or doing the work of Fa-rectification. They could make us sleepy, tied, irritable or physically uncomfortable, etc. As long as we know how serious the cultivation and Fa-rectification are deep in our mind; our main consciousness could repel them and eliminate them. Whether Dafa disciples can overcome all interference depends on how strong of our main consciousness is.

Fa-rectification and self-rectification are inseparable. Today, Master extends every day in human world with a huge suffering. We must be clear at Fa and shouldn’t waste any time. Maybe there is no tomorrow and let’s start from now.

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