Cultivating Xinxing and Overcoming the Interference of Fatigue

By a Falun Dafa practitioner from China

(Clearwisdom.net) For practitioners, the "demon of fatigue" is directly related to our xinxing. When I am afraid of hardships or exhaustion, attached to comfort, or not being diligent, I find that the "demon of fatigue" keeps interfering with me. The more I sleep, the more I want to sleep, and the less energetic I am. In contrast, when I am fully dedicated to doing the three things well and considering others, I become very energetic and am not tired at all.

In April, it was exposed that hospitals in China were harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners. I did some investigation over the phone and found that many hospitals were doing more organ transplants at night than during the day. Since Falun Dafa practitioners did not have a lot of opportunities to send forth righteous thoughts at night, in the latter half of the month, I organized a number of practitioners to continuously send forth righteous thoughts at night. During that period of time, I sent forth righteous thoughts every hour on the hour for thirty minutes or longer each time, then studied the Fa and did the exercises. During the day, I only slept for three or four hours in order to spare time to print truth-clarification materials. I also needed to teach classes, but I did not feel tired.

When studying the Fa, sending forth righteous thoughts, or doing the exercises, I often think of Dafa practitioners around the world, especially all the detained practitioners, studying the Fa, sending forth righteous thoughts, and doing the exercises together.

Through my celestial eye, I could see that the energy fields of Dafa practitioners are connected as one when they are studying the Fa, sending forth righteous thoughts, or doing the exercises. I also saw the grand scene of Dafa practitioners doing these things together simultaneously in different dimensions. When I study the Fa or send forth righteous thoughts, I ask all beings who are assisting Master in the Fa-rectification and saving sentient beings to study the Fa and send forth righteous thoughts together. When I see, through my celestial eye, scenes of detained Falun Gong practitioners joining us in studying the Fa and doing the exercises diligently, I am often touched and do not want to slack off. One day, I wanted to cut short my Fa study of Zhuan Falun for half an hour. As I got up and wanted to leave, I saw through my celestial eye that no one else moved. I asked a fellow practitioner who was detained in a labor camp, "Why are you still sitting here?" He said, "It hasn’t been two hours yet." So we continued studying the Fa. I wake up as soon as the clock goes off every morning, as I think of the many fellow practitioners who are waiting to study the Fa, send forth righteous thoughts, and do the exercises together with me.

When inspired by an environment in which everyone is diligent, one will not care much about oneself. Occasionally when I feel tired and close my eyes for a second, my main consciousness will remind my physical body to be mindful of the fellow practitioners and sentient beings so that I can do better from the bottom of my heart. There are many reasons for interference. However, I feel that if we become less selfish, we will experience less interference from external factors.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2006/7/5/132109.html

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