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Reflections on the Name "Zhuan Falun" and the Importance of Reading it Repeatedly from Beginning to End By a practitioner in Germany Recently a new student at our exercise site could not understand why we read Zhuan
Falun from beginning to end over and over again instead of just selecting
some different parts of the book every time as Christians often do with the
Bible. Of course, I knew that Teacher emphasized the importance of reading Zhuan
Falun without missing any of its content and that we improve our level and
realize new things every time we read through it. But later I thought about it
again and suddenly realized more deeply why it would not be so good to select
different sections to read, even if at the end one would have finished the book
without missing anything. The way we read Zhuan Falun, it is like a never-ending stream. If we
finish the book and start to read it again, it actually has no beginning and no
end, and every time we go through it we improve ourselves. It is like circling
upward in a spiral form. Then I thought about the name "Zhuan Falun,"
which means, "Turning the Law Wheel," and suddenly realized more
clearly why the book is called "Zhuan Falun." When we read the book
from beginning to end over and over again it is like a revolving Falun that
turns without beginning or end. Like the Falun in our dan tian the book
can, in this way, evolve us automatically and help us to make progress in our
cultivation. But when we select certain passages, we take them out of context
and the effect of this law wheel is no longer as powerful. Finally I remembered
that Master said every word in Zhuan Falun is like a Falun. Therefore, it
makes sense to think of the whole book as a big Falun as well, which turns
endlessly and helps us move upward to higher levels until we reach consummation. This realization helped me to further recognize the preciousness of Zhuan
Falun and the importance of reading it repeatedly as a part of our
cultivation in Dafa. I hope that this will have an inspiring effect on others,
too, which is why I wrote it down. If there are any mistakes in my realizations, please benevolently point them
out to me. Posting date: 8/18/2002 |