A Practitioner in the United States

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I have been practicing Dafa for 2 years and spending every day cultivating and finding things to help the Fa-rectification. Our whole family is also closely following our Master. However, during the last month, I became very tired and exhausted. Not only that, I felt sleepy all the time. My body also felt like it was badly beaten up and it ached everywhere. I thought I was releasing karma.

But the biggest trouble was I could not get up to go to the early morning practice. No matter how early I went to bed or how many naps I took so that I would be up early in the morning, I just could not get up. I also heard lots of chatter in my head that said, "Sleep longer, you are tired, and you are also releasing karma." I believed it, because I felt really sick. I did not complain about feeling sick, thinking I should endure it.

However I badly wanted to go to practice in the morning, I just could not get up. I shut the alarm off many times from 5:00 in the morning until 7:00. I felt it was really absurd even as I was doing it.

One day, a fellow practitioner told me that I was not releasing karma, I was being interfered with by demons. They took advantage of my notion that releasing karma makes me feel very sick and that I should take it easy a little bit until the karma release is done.

At first, I did not believe it. I have been cultivating 2 years and it always felt this way whenever I released karma.

Then another practitioner told me that I was being interfered with by demons and that is why I did not show up regularly at the site anymore. Then it suddenly made sense!

I was surprised.

In the past, if I wanted to get up and go, I was always able to do so, but now, no matter how hard I tried, I could not go; physically and psychologically, I could not fight whatever it was off. I struggled very hard but always ended up losing.

With these hints, I decided to send forth righteous thoughts to eliminate this demonic interference. I sent forth righteous thoughts in the morning, did it after group reading, and before sleeping and also during the day. I did it about 3-5 times a day ranging from 5 to 10 minutes each time.

The next day, when the alarm went off, I sprang up like a spring. There was not any thought of, "I am tired, I can't do it, I will do it later in the day, I will do it when I feel better..." I just got up like magic and went to practice.

Doing things related to Dafa, we went to sleep really late one night, but the next day, again, my husband and I woke up not feeling tired at all. Not only that, I used to feel drowsy even though my mind was alert, but my eyelids would start to feel heavier and heavier and I would sleep like a dog. But since sending forth righteous thoughts 3-4 times a day, I did not have any of those symptoms whatsoever. My body does not feel tired or weak either.

I could not believe that this is happening. How could just simply sending forth righteous be so powerful!

I had this tough xinxing conflict with 2 practitioners for the last few months. Both parties knew that it was a xinxing conflict and that we should be nice to each other, but the moment we laid eyes on each other, this strange feeling of "I can't accept you" overpowered me. I just felt so strange about it and felt bad for the fact that I just could not overcome it. I thought much about why this was happening to us and I was sure that they were also thinking about why we could not get along.

I just thought we had to pay something from past lives and we were not happy meeting each other in this lifetime. Also I thought it was to increase my level of tolerance and kindness in my cultivation. I basically took it that I really needed to improve on these two aspects through this conflict.

But an element in our relationship, was that there was such a weary feeling that we both could not accept and understand. Both parties liked each other as practitioners. But we could not harmoniously be together.

After the group study, I suggested that we send out righteous thoughts, so we did. Afterwards, we both felt very relaxed and opened our heart and started to have a beautiful conversation. I could not believe the change. When that practitioner first walked in to the room that evening, I wanted to smile and welcome them but they looked away showing their feeling of uneasiness upon seeing me. So, it happened again.

But after sending forth righteous thoughts, in an instant, their and my feeling of "I can't accept you" evaporated.

Since that day, we have been happy to see each other. And we have also started to work together to help other practitioners get involved in Fa-rectification as well. This is the mighty power of sending forth righteous thoughts. But of course, the whole time I always thought that I really needed to improve my xinxing through this relationship, but having that thought alone did not help since there was so much demonic interference which took advantage of our competitive mentality.

Now, it seems that demons are desperate and trying to do anything to stop us from cultivating as Dafa particles. I have also been aware of a veteran practitioner not coming to the practice site for one month without any apparent reason. I have never seen him do that. Another practitioner from our group asked me, "How come I could not get up? I switched off my alarm quite a few times... I just can't get up. Why is that?"

So I have been hearing that it is happening with other practitioners.

What are we going to do?

We must send out righteous thought as many times as possible. We can use our righteous minds and the Fa's mighty power to get rid of all these demons' interference. Thank you to the fellow practitioners who wrote many experience-sharing articles posted on the net about the power of sending forth righteous thoughts. From these articles, I learned to send forth righteous thoughts as well.

Posting date: 10/23/2001
Original article date: 9/25/2001
Category: Cultivation Experiences
Chinese version available at http://search.minghui.org/mh/articles/2001/9/25/17026.html

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