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"Clarify the truth thoroughly, eliminate the evil with righteous thoughts, save all beings, and safeguard the Fa with determination" (Dafa is Indestructible) A Japanese Practitioner's Cultivation Story (1) By a Dafa practitioner in Taiwan
(Clearwisdom.net) My husband is a Dafa practitioner from Japan. In 1993
when we were getting married, he told me that in one of his reincarnations he
was a Buddhist monk in the Tang Dynasty, who met me in Japan and we cultivated
together the whole life as teacher and student and as friends. I, however, have
no memory of this. He started his cultivation in Dafa one year after I attained
the Fa. Here I'd like to share his understanding and stories in cultivation.
Treasure the Predestined Relationship of Dafa Cultivation
I attained the Fa after reading reports in Taiwan about the "April
25" peaceful appeal in 1999. After I attained the Fa, he started to tell me
that in history many people have instinctively realized that the human world was
not their real home, but they could not find a genuine Master to guide them, and
eventually could not attain the Tao. Seeing the great changes in me shortly
after I started cultivation, he was shaken by the mighty virtue of Dafa and
Teacher, and respected Dafa and Teacher wholeheartedly. After seeing the Falun
emblem, he realized this was the shiny golden round thing he had been seeing
from his childhood to middle school. Nonetheless, he didn't start to study the
Fa or learn the exercises; instead, he told me to make diligent advancement in
cultivation. I often told him the principles of Dafa and shared with him my
understanding of the Fa and my cultivation experiences. Although he didn't come
into the door of Dafa cultivation, he and I were learning and cultivating
together under guidance of the Dafa principles.
About one year after I started cultivation, he started to read the book. One
day he told me emotionally with tears in his eyes "Do you think that I
don't want to obtain this Fa? But you don't know that once a person opens the
book and reads Teacher's Fa, Teacher starts to endure for him. It is my own
karma, how can I let Teacher endure for me? In history, cultivators had to pay
back every bit of their karma by themselves. The reason why cultivators make
progress so fast in Dafa is because Teacher Li endures for you. But I should pay
back my own karma." I was rendered speechless upon hearing this from him,
someone who was not yet a Dafa practitioner. I gained a better understanding on
how to seriously treat my cultivation and cherish the predestined relationship
of cultivating in Dafa. In addition, this allowed me to understand more why the
old forces feel it unfair about Dafa disciples' cultivation and create all sorts
of obstacles. Later my husband started to study the Fa because he broke through
his initial thinking and realized that Teacher saving people is to let people
obtain the Fa and return to their original true selves. I encouraged him to be a
genuine Dafa disciple, he replied, however, that whether someone is a genuine
disciple or not can only be determined by Teacher. He (my husband) does not
acknowledge those students who casually claim themselves Dafa disciples; he
thinks many only speak grandly.
High Level Beings Commit Crimes of Persecuting Dafa
He became more conscious during cultivation and realized that at the
beginning he decided to come down here because he had found that things were not
right in the level where he stayed in the universe. Other beings at the same
level, however, did not believe this and many didn't come down. Several months
ago these beings came to find him since they found that their living environment
had been changed. They felt in danger, and asked him what had really happened.
He explained to them Teacher's Fa rectification and told them to definitely
believe it and not do anything unfavorable towards Dafa. He also urged them to
spread the Fa to other beings and do it as soon as possible.
Shortly afterwards, when we were watching Teacher's Fa lecture videos, he
told me that a large number of high level beings were standing behind him
listening to the Fa with us. After finishing watching the video, we wanted to
take a rest, but those beings didn't want to leave, and told him that they
wanted to listen more. He said he had to go to work the next day and he could
not stay up the whole night listening to the Fa. The following days he told me
that more and more high level beings stood behind him, countless, they formed a
boundless stretch, listening to the Fa. While listening some looked very
pain-stricken and struggled, as if they sensed that they had done something
wrong; some looked stupefied yet very desperate; some were listening calmly.
Within a week, he surprisingly told me that many beings standing behind him had
turned into stone statues, which looked no different from death; those who
committed crimes against Dafa have positioned themselves and received their
retribution.
Send Forth Righteous Thoughts to Eliminate the Evil
Even before he started the cultivation, he often told me experiences of
eliminating demons. He said most of the demons just come to court death, who
"died after seeing the light." He could eliminate three to four
hundred per day. He would tell me the detailed numbers. I asked why he counted
the number; he said most demons came in a long line, as if waiting in line to
die. They carried a number board in their hands, so he knew clearly how many he
eliminated each day. Sometimes however, a big demon came and he had to fight. He
believes that in a certain dimension in the universe, eliminating demons was his
duty, since he did it naturally and instinctively. When I told him about
Teacher's new article that disciples sending forth righteous thoughts can assist
Teacher to eliminate the evil, his personal understanding and experience was
that, we shouldn't have any impure thoughts or fear while doing it; there is no
need to think how to eliminate or how to be effective, just focus on eliminating
the evil and recite Teacher's phrases, that will be incomparably powerful. As
for the most vicious chieftain (chief demon), that being has died long ago and
there's nothing worth saying.
Posting date: 8/5/2001
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