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The Importance of Sending Forth Righteous Thoughts with a Clean, Clear Mind By an anonymous author
(Clearwisdom.net) When we first started sending forth righteous thoughts,
I paid much attention to purifying my mind. I was then locked in a detention
center. I noticed that when my righteous thoughts were not focused, my head
would hurt. It would then be over after a while, and I would again gather my
thoughts to cleanse my mind. I would then experience a headache again and it
would disappear after a while. I could clearly feel that the bad matters were
being eliminated piece by piece. Recently, however, when I didn't pay much
attention to cleansing myself, there was more interference. I couldn't devote
the full five minutes to cleansing my mind, as there was always something to do
during the five minutes before the top of the hour. There was even interference
in my own thoughts. I always miss one or two minutes. Sometimes I didn't even
purify myself at all and immediately started to send forth righteous thoughts to
eliminate external evils. I discovered that this is a common problem with many
practitioners. The Fa teaches us that sending forth righteous thoughts consists of two
parts. One is cleansing oneself inside, and the other is sending forth righteous
thoughts to eliminate the evil matters which are extrinsic. Sending forth
righteous thoughts should be done for at least five minutes. This is what Master
asks us to do, and this is the Fa. Taking three or four minutes may not have the
optimum effect. I think other practitioners and I who are in same state only
paid attention to half of Master's Fa. We have paid less attention to clearing
our minds and only paid attention to eliminating the external evil matters. It
may seem that only holding the upright palm to send forth righteous thoughts is
what sending forth righteous thoughts encompasses, and clearing our minds prior
to that is not sending forth righteous thoughts, but this is an incorrect
understanding. There will be many problems if we cannot clear our minds well. On the one
hand, it will interfere with maintaining our strong righteous thoughts, and the
evil factors will also interfere with others. On the other hand, when the bad
matters in our mind are not well cleansed, they will interfere with our minds,
causing us not to be able to focus our thoughts. Soon our minds will think about
other things or even be muddle-headed, like falling asleep. These are the
results of not being serious about purifying ourselves. So now I try my best to
clear my mind for a full five minutes. If it is only three or four minutes prior
to the top of an hour, I use the first five minutes to clear my mind and then
use the two hand gestures for a full ten minutes. In other words, I pay equal
attention to clearing my mind and to eliminating the external evil factors. June 26, 2006 Posting date: 7/18/2006 |