By Jinxin, a practitioner in China

(Clearwisdom.net)

I recently came into contact with several fellow practitioners who were experiencing various degrees of demonic interference through sleepiness. Whenever such a situation arose, these practitioners sent forth righteous thoughts to eliminate it. However, they forgot to look within themselves to see whether they had any attachment that allowed the interference to exist. This way, the sending forth righteous thoughts would eliminate the evil demon once and for all and they would not need to send forth righteous thoughts many times.

To completely eliminate the demonic interference of sleepiness, we need to see if we have any attachments that provide the opportunities and conditions for its existence. Through experience sharing, we concluded that the attachments to comfort and human sentimentality are the two main areas that foster this evil demon. Symptoms of attachment to comfort are: having the habit of going to sleep early and getting up late; wanting to doze off on a rainy day; and having the feeling of missing something when not getting eight hours of sleep a night, etc. Symptoms of human sentimentality include taking a nap when encountering any obstacle or unhappy event in daily life, hoping to see friends or family in dreams, etc. So, the more we sleep, the more we want to sleep; the more we sleep, the more we become dazed; and the more we sleep, the more it affects the results of studying the Fa, sending forth righteous thoughts, and clarifying the truth. Therefore, we humanly foster the evil demon and allow it to capitalize on the loopholes that are caused by our lack of control. If we do not raise our Xinxing (moral character, heart or mind nature) and strengthen our main consciousness, getting rid of the demonic interference is like fighting a battle on paper only. Let's break through the demonic interference of sleepiness, improve our ability to do the three things Master has told us to do, and welcome the arrival of the day the Fa rectifies the human realm.

Please kindly point out any impropriety.

Posting date: 10/30/2003
Original article date: 10/29/2003
Category: Practitioners' Insights
Translated on 10/25/2003
Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2003/10/21/59205.html

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