My Understanding of How to Cultivate Well

By a practitioner in Hebei Province, China

How to cultivate well? I have often heard this question asked. It has been discussed many times and there are different points of view. Here I'll briefly present my humble understandings.

First of all, we must be clear that we are Falun Gong practitioners and Falun Dafa disciples. We should understand things from the standpoint of the Fa. As Falun Dafa disciples we are beings forged by the greatest Fa. We must study the Fa and cultivate our minds. We must follow Teacher's guidance and the Fa in everything we do.

How to cultivate well? Teacher says:

"As for how to do things well, that means doing well in the three things that Dafa disciples should do--that is doing things best." ("Teaching the Fa at the 2004 International Fa Conference in New York")

My personal understanding is that to do the three things well is to cultivate well. The three things are: First, study the Fa and cultivate the mind. Second, send righteous thoughts. Third, validate the Fa and save sentient beings. Have we really done these? We should evaluate it from the standard of the Fa.

We are cultivating in the human world, so it is very possible that our human attachments will display themselves. When a human attachment surfaces, we should cultivate it away. We should cultivate away our deficiencies, restrain our shortcomings, and eliminate our shortcomings. We should hold ourselves to higher and higher standards. We should not dwell on external things or other people's factors, or our bad tempers. We should truly and solidly do what Teacher wrote about in "Assimilation":

"Scriptures cultivate the heart,
Exercises practice the body;
One day achieving Consummation,
Zhen-Shan-Ren kept." (Hongyin)

We should cultivate ourselves bit by bit from the center to the surface, and walk righteously every step in our cultivation. Under the present situation, be careful not to be distracted, don't ever think about doing something else, and especially don't be distracted by money.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2005/3/31/98414.html

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