Eliminate The Evil's Interference with Righteous Thoughts; Keep Straight on the Path of A Dafa Disciple
Presented at the Southeast Asian Falun Dafa Cultivation
Experience Sharing Conference
Our compassionate Teacher said,
"I know that you've all worked so hard. You have to
work and have to study, you have your family life and social activities, and
at the same time you have to take care of your family, do a good job at work,
and you have to study the Fa well and do the exercises well, and what's more,
you have to clarify the truth. It is hard! It's pretty hard both time-wise and
financially. It's hard, so your mighty virtue is displayed; it's hard, and so
it's a good opportunity to establish your mighty virtue. Remarkable! Since you
are cultivators, even though it's hard you should do even better."
("Teaching the Fa at the 2001 Canada Falun Dafa Cultivation Experience
Sharing Conference")
My personal experience is that, although every day I clarify
the truth to the public, spread the Fa, study the Fa and do the practices as
well as complete my assignments at work, I can still manage my time effectively
and do not feel tired. Everything is going smoothly. In the past, I had to spend
a lot of time getting some work done. But now I can accomplish a lot of work
within a short time. So when others ask me, "Where do you rush from?"
Or "Where do you hurry to?" I always correct them, "I'm not in a
hurry." I know all these changes come from my cultivation. They are the
effects of Dafa's power. Dafa has given me all these amazing benefits, which
allow me to establish my own mighty virtue in this historical Fa-rectification
period.
Now, I'd like to talk about my recent experience in
eliminating the interference of fatigue.
No long ago, fatigue was taking every opportunity to
interfere with my cultivation. I could feel that it was around and waiting for
its chances. If I let myself relax slightly, it would immediately attack. Once
before our regional group study, while I was reading Teacher's new articles,
fatigue constantly interfered with me. Before I could finish reading a few
pages, I fell asleep. Subconsciously I asked myself not to yield to fatigue. I
struggled to open my eyes to continue my reading. But before long I would fall
into sleep again. The situation repeated itself several times. Later it seemed
that I heard Teacher's voice during a speech. I suddenly woke up and remembered
that I had a cassette of Teacher's new articles. So I started to listen to the
recording. Immediately I became energized again. Fatigue was eventually driven
away. I finished reading Teacher's new articles and "Essentials for Further
Advancement."
Even today, fatigue still bothers me. Especially when I study
the Fa, it often starts to attack. To solve the problem, I tried every way to
avoid it. But fatigue would redouble its mischief. Sometimes it even spoke to
me, using other's mouth, "Are you well lately? Are you too busy? You don't
look so well; are you too tired?" Although I did not accept all this, I
also did not resist it and oppose it with my strong main consciousness either. I
left out some attachments so that the interference from fatigue became quite
rampant. For several nights, during sleep I had a pain in my back. Sometimes the
pain became so severe that it woke me up and I could not go back to sleep. At
the time I treated the pain as karma elimination and endured it passively.
Later, I found that whenever I clarified the truth and sent forth righteous
thoughts, the pain would vanish. Once I fell asleep the pain would come back
again. It dawned on me that it was the evil forces at work, not my personal
karma-elimination. Next morning when I did the exercises, I sent forth my
righteous thoughts to eliminate them. I felt heat on my back and hands, and the
pain immediately disappeared.
I understand that sending forth the righteous thoughts to
eliminate the evil is an inevitable requirement for Dafa practitioners in the Fa-rectification
cultivation, and we must not forget this. We are very fortunate to be able to
cultivate in the Fa-rectification period. Teacher taught us the verse for
sending forth the righteous thoughts, and endowed us with the ability to
eliminate the evil with our righteous thoughts. Teacher told us, "As for
the interference by evil in other dimensions, we must seriously eradicate it
with righteous thoughts." ("Fa-rectification and
cultivation")
As a Dafa disciple in the Fa-rectification period, we must
study the Fa more diligently and distinguish right from wrong. Teacher said,
"The Fa can reveal all attachments, the Fa can eradicate all evils, the
Fa can expose and dispel all lies, and the Fa can strengthen righteous
thoughts." ("Deter Interference") Now I am doing my best
every day. I send forth righteous thoughts every hour on the hour, whereas
before, I did this only in the morning and evening and also during the group
activities at designated times. Only when I measured myself against the highest
standard all the time and follow a righteous path every step along the way in
this Fa-rectification period, can I fulfill my responsibility as a Dafa disciple
and complete my journey as a Dafa disciple.
The above is my personal experience. Please offer your
compassionate corrections if you find any part objectionable.
Chinese version available at
http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2001/12/15/21419.html
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