By A Falun Dafa practitioner from Jilin, China

(Clearwisdom.net) During my cultivation and validating the Fa, I have truly experienced the enormous effects of Dafa disciples' righteous thoughts. Only when we view everything with righteous thoughts, can we rise above the tribulations. And during truth-clarification, only when we truly bring our righteous thoughts into play can we get even better results with less unnecessary effort, thus achieving better results of saving sentient beings. Otherwise, when thoughts are not righteous, they may bring interference to the Fa-rectification.

Last year when I got back from the labor camp, my family members were against Falun Dafa. They used all sorts of ways to hinder me from studying the Fa and practicing the exercises. As I was unable to treat the situation with righteous thoughts at the time, the problem lingered for a long time. I was afraid that my family might see me studying the Fa, and I feared to meet with my fellow practitioners. In the meantime, I complained about my relatives. In this difficult environment, I still kept studying Fa, and there was gradually not as much interference; however, their attitude towards Dafa had still not changed.

Once when I was sending forth righteous thoughts, my father kept the radio turned on. I then sent forth righteous thoughts to eliminate the interference. While eliminating the interference I suddenly found that I had antipathy, even hatred, towards my father. With the factor of sentimentality mixed into them, the righteous thoughts were not pure and compassionate. Then, I adjusted my mindset and eliminated the evil factors in other dimensions. Once the righteous thoughts came, my father turned off the radio.

In the section of "Consecration" of Zhuan Falun, it was talked about that the human thoughts "is in the form of a complete human brain." "A practitioner's energy, on the other hand, can be preserved much longer." Then didn't those worrying and unrighteous thoughts equate to me, myself, creating the evil things that interfered with me?

After that I changed my mentality and treated my family members with enormous compassion and tolerance. I really considered from their standpoints their feelings and the suffering they endured for me. Upon the change in me, they then changed, never again interfering with my Fa-study nor preventing me from going to a fellow practitioner's home. If we simply treat all these things with righteous thoughts, and mind our every thought and mentality, our own environment will definitely be rectified.

Due to the shortcoming in my character, I met great difficulty in clarifying the truth to people, and when it came to my family members I found it even harder. Although my parents would no longer intervene any more, their attitude towards Dafa had not changed much. Teacher said in "Explaining the Fa During the 2003 Lantern Festival at the U.S. West Fa Conference" that, "If you want it to be good then it will be good. And if you don't intend to make it good, or if you are wavering in your mind, then it won't be easy to rectify things." "I think that you absolutely shouldn't be disheartened. Do this compassionately no matter who it is, and with a compassion that can melt steel you'll be able to do well." "When you truly look at things from the perspective of being responsible to the Fa and truly have a heart that can melt steel, I just don't believe things can't be handled well."

Teacher's lecture greatly encouraged me and I adjusted my mentality further and treated my family members with compassion, giving up the attachment of worrying and purifying my righteous thoughts. I enhanced the power of sending forth righteous thoughts to eliminate their bad thoughts, suppressing the evil factors behind them in other dimensions and sending righteous thoughts to the depth of their minds so that they could understand the heavenly principle that "good will be rewarded with good and evil will be met with evil" as well as see the solemn dignity of Dafa.

Before long, my mother asked about Falun Dafa, and I explained many facts to her. I no longer had the previous feeling that I was not able to explain and was incapable of talking about it. My mother's attitude was not like it had been before, when she had found things difficult to accept or understand. Our conversations seemed as natural as water flowing in a stream.

I remember that in Lecture 7 of Zhuan Falun, it described two ways of pulling a tooth: Traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine. Wasn't western medicine's way of pulling a tooth the same as how I had clarified the truth to them? I had emphasized the means in this dimension. I used great efforts and thought out all kinds of methods to tell them, but they had a negative attitude and the results were bad. However, when I emphasized eliminating the interference from other dimensions, and then clarified the truth, it became analogous to pulling a tooth using Traditional Chinese medicine. I did not use any effort when talking. It was also easy for her to accept. Therefore, I have enlightened that we should fully bring righteous thoughts into play when we clarify the truth. In this way, in truth-clarification we can get twice the results without the unnecessary struggling.

Steadfast belief when sending forth righteous thoughts is crucial. We should correctly know our capability and the relationship with Dafa. Every Dafa disciple is part of Dafa, and Dafa disciples' sending forth righteous thoughts is the manifestation of the process of Fa-rectification. When I am sending forth righteous thoughts to eliminate the evil in other spaces, it is Dafa's supernormal power that is being used "to repress evil, eliminate disorder, harmonize everything." If interference and persecution occurs to a Dafa disciple, that is truly the manifestation of the being that is attacking the universe's Fa-rectification. But at the same time, the occurrence of inference must be due to one's loopholes that can be attacked. One must find one's own loopholes in a timely manner and rectify oneself according to the requirements of Dafa. After understanding this principle, I had not a bit of doubt about my capability. Energy encompassed my body. Not only should we look at things this way when sending forth the righteous thoughts, but we should also use strong righteous thoughts in our daily lives.

No matter how rampant the evil is, and no matter how big the difficulty is, and no matter how hard it seems to change a situation, they can be instantly dissolved, changed, and disappear in the Fa. Teacher gave us the capability to control everything. We can thus fully use the capability and thus better validate Dafa and save more sentient beings.

Posting date: 7/1/2003
Original article date: 6/30/2003
Category: Practitioners' Insights
Translated on 6/19/2003
Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.cc/mh/articles/2003/6/15/52288.html

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