My Understanding and Experience in Sending Forth Righteous Thoughts
(Clearwisdom.net) In the past, I did not pay too much attention to sending
forth righteous thoughts. I had been illegally arrested and detained at a labor
camp since July 20th of 1999. One day while I was at the labor camp,
a common criminal who was assigned to watch me handed me a copy of the verses
for sending forth righteous thoughts and told me that I should recite them
frequently. I did not know how to send forth righteous thoughts. Whenever I had
any free time, I would quietly recite the verses. At that time, I often saw
myself eliminating the evil in my dreams. After being released from the labor camp, I saw how many intensive great Fa-rectification
deeds that Dafa practitioners who were not detained had been doing and felt that
I had much to do before I could catch up with the progress of Fa-rectification.
At that time, I did not study the Fa carefully with a calm mind and did not
realize how important sending forth righteous thoughts was, and treated it as
doing a job. At that time, my limited understanding was: how much Dafa work one
does determines whether he has caught up with the progress of Fa-rectification
or not. Therefore, I hastily began to participate in activities to clarify the
truth outside of my home. Because of my inadequate understanding of the Fa, my
thoughts had been deviated from the Fa, and the evil was able to take advantage
of the loopholes in my mind. As a result, I was re-arrested and detained at a
detention center only a dozen days after I was released from the labor camp. After I was locked up inside of the detention center, I began to calm my mind
and carefully thought of Teacher's "Fa-Lecture at the Conference in Florida,
U.S.A" that I had read a day earlier. In that lecture, Teacher said, "Let me tell you, all those who remain and that can persecute Dafa and
Dafa practitioners 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. What you eliminate from your own mind are ones which have
an effect within the expanse of your own body; at the same time, you need to
eliminate the external ones, which are directly related to the dimensions
you're in. If you don't eliminate them, then they not only persecute you and
restrain you, but also persecute other students, other Dafa practitioners."
Precisely because I had not paid enough attention to sending forth righteous
thoughts over a long period of time, the evil was able to take advantage of the
gap in my mind, and caused damage to Dafa and Dafa practitioners. After
recognizing my own problem, I began to calm my mind and treat the matter of
sending forth righteous thoughts seriously every day. When I first began to send forth righteous thoughts, I felt cold all over my
body and could not help from shivering. I felt that this was evil trying to
prevent me from sending forth righteous thoughts, so I told myself that I had to
persist. When sending forth righteous thoughts, I tried my absolute best to send
forth all my gong, supernormal abilities and Falun. But the gong
and supernormal abilities that I sent forth felt very light to me and did not
seem to be very effective. What was my problem? What did I need to do so I could
send forth the purest righteous thoughts possible? In "Teaching the Fa at the 2001 Canada Fa Conference," Teacher told us, "Why
do you have an ability like this? It's only because you are a great cultivator.
So when you send forth that thought it couldn't have been sent by anyone but a
great cultivator." In "Send Forth Righteous Thoughts at Set Times," Clearwisdom
editors stated, "While sending forth the righteous thoughts, imagine that you
are like a god, as tall as heaven and incomparably noble, with an enormous
body." We are Fa-rectification practitioners, divine beings cultivated from the
Fa-rectification of the cosmos, and guardians of the future cosmos. We will be
responsible for all the righteous elements in the cosmos. Throughout the
cultivation process of the last several years, we have always used "Zhen-Shan-Ren,"
the fundamental great law of the cosmos, to guide our action and continuously
rectified our xinxing and our own lives. At this moment, we are fulfilling our pre-historical vow of "assisting the
Teacher in the human world." We are using our most righteous lives, purest
hearts and most determined righteous thoughts to uphold Dafa and eliminate all
the evil that is trying to damage Dafa, encompassing all of it and leaving out
none. When I realized this, I began to understand what I was doing and what I
should do. After that, when sending forth righteous thoughts, I felt my
righteous thoughts had become determined and pure. As I used my Buddha-Fa supernormal abilities to eliminate the evil
determinedly and use "Zhen-Shan-Ren," the most fundamental great laws of the
cosmos, to cleanse my own field, I experienced strong vibrations inside of my
body. Gradually I saw that my own body had undergone great changes as well. My
skin appeared whiter and felt very smooth. I felt as if every single pore in my
body was open. In addition, when sending forth righteous thoughts, I no longer
felt cold. I began to feel warm instead. After these changes took place in my
body, I was able to leave the detention center in an upright and dignified
manner. Why did my body undergo changes after sending forth righteous thoughts? That
is because "the human body corresponds to external dimensions, and they all have
such forms of existence" (from chapter 2 of Zhuan Falun). There could be
a spatial gap in between each layer of our bodies and every single small
universe. If we do not carefully cleanse everything inside of our own
dimensional fields, we are very likely to provide hiding places for the evil,
even to the point of affecting the speed of Fa-rectification. When I felt cold
during sending forth righteous thoughts, it indicated that there were negative
materials or beings in my own fields and corresponding external dimensions. So
we must give importance to sending forth righteous thoughts. After truly understanding the importance and necessity of sending forth
righteous thoughts from the point view of the Fa, I no longer treat sending
forth righteous thoughts as a chore that I have to do every day. Instead, I
treat sending forth righteous thoughts seriously each time. When I send forth
righteous thoughts now, my supernormal abilities no longer feel light. Instead,
I feel that they are very strong and powerful. Using righteous thoughts to eliminate the evil takes places in other
dimensions in a form that we cannot see. The form that is displayed in this
dimension is exposing evil and clarifying the truth to the people of the world.
Let us be responsible for all the righteous elements inside of the cosmos,
exercise benevolence, send forth our most determined and purest righteous
thoughts, eliminate the evil and offer salvation to the people of the world. The above are my personal understandings. I ask my fellow practitioners to
point out things that are inappropriate.
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