A Reminder for Young Practitioners Addicted to TV and Internet Video Games

(Clearwisdom.net)

I am a young Falun Gong disciple. My mom got me started on practicing Falun Gong with her when I was seven. Seven was a tender age, but I was very diligent in my cultivation practice. For the first few years after the Chinese Communist regime started to openly persecute Falun Gong on July 20, 1999, I continued to cultivate myself while validating the Fa. But as time went by and as I started middle school, I became busy with schoolwork and neglected my Fa study. I also started to pay less attention to clarifying the truth about Falun Gong. I deviated more and more from the Fa. Instead, I became addicted to pop music, TV drama, martial art films and gunfight movies. Eventually I stopped studying the Fa altogether. As a result, the demons began to exploit my loopholes. Last night around 10:00 p.m. (August 23, 2005), I had horrible nightmares as soon as I went to bed after watching TV. I would like to share the nightmares so that it will be a lesson to all my fellow young practitioners.

Nightmare 1: The sky was pitch black. My mother was driving my older sister (also a Falun Gong practitioner) and me while it was snowing. Then suddenly my mother and my sister had to leave the car. They left me in the car waiting. I suddenly had trouble breathing as though the air was gone. I started to call out to Teacher for help and then I woke up, finding myself catching my breath.

Nightmare 2: As soon as I fell asleep again. I met a few stars I admired. At first we played together, but soon we started fighting. Then I began to send forth righteous thoughts. As soon as I did that, all the "stars" perished and turned into vapor.

Nightmare 3: Three demons with blue faces and tusks came at me with batons in their hands. They perished right away when I sent forth righteous thoughts.

Nightmare 4: Another demon ran towards me with a hatchet in its hands, but it didn't perish when I sent forth righteous thoughts. I told it, "I am a Falun Gong disciple. If you do not leave right away, I will eradicate you." The demon replied, "A piece of cake. There are only a few days left for your cultivation practice. If you should continue to fantasize that you will be able to complete your cultivation practice in just a few days, I will torture you to death!" Next it jumped on me and bit two of my fingers. Blood immediately gushed out. I begged Teacher to reinforce my righteous thoughts and my body began to feel burning hot. But next I felt a cold stream of air flowing down my body from the top of my head. I experienced the hot-cold cycle a few times, but I kept chanting, "The Fa rectifies the cosmos, the Evil is completely eliminated." Soon the demon was vanquished.

After I woke up from the nightmares, I realized from the demon's words that we are truly pressed for time. I must grasp the remaining time available to me to study the Fa diligently and to eradicate the evil specter of the Communist Party, as well as all the bad substances harbored by the TV, other degenerated modern culture, evil beings and rotten demons. I must truly do well the Three Things that Teacher has asked us to do from now on. Meanwhile, I would like to remind all the young practitioners not to repeat the mistakes that I made. Free yourself from the TV and from Internet video games. Send forth righteous thoughts frequently.

I have been away from my home for over a year, but fellow practitioners have been looking after my children. These fellow practitioners are terribly busy, but they always squeeze in time to visit my children, clean their rooms and chat with them affectionately. My children enjoy fellow practitioners' company very much. I truly appreciate what these fellow practitioners have done for my children. The only way I can repay them is by doing the truth-clarification work well.

For the past few years we may have been living in different places, but we have been doing the same Three Things. After all, doing the Three Things well is the primary goal of our life. Sometimes when I called my children, I learned that they didn't get a copy of the latest Minghui Weekly or Teacher's new articles, but I believe it is more important to have them upgrade their understandings of the Fa. I hope that fellow practitioners will try to find time to exchange cultivation experiences with them and help them more in this regard. Meanwhile, I was wondering if other practitioners' children have the same need. Incidentally, my children enjoy reading Falun Gong's truth-clarification materials. I thought I would take the opportunity to provide my feedback to Minghui.org/Clearwisdom.net.

At the time of writing, I leaned that my children had gotten a copy of Minghui Weekly, but I thought I would write about it for the sake of other children who long to read Minghui Weekly.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2005/9/2/109606.html

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