Dissolving the Old Factors' Interference with Practicing the Dafa Exercises

By a Fa particle

(Clearwisdom.net) For a long time, I wasn't willing to practice the Dafa exercises. I knew it was an issue that I needed to work on since I knew how important it is to practice the exercises. Many times I decided to practice the five sets of Dafa exercises every day. However, I could only do so for a few days. Then the thought of not practicing the exercises would surface again.

Recently, when I joined group study and group practice, a fellow practitioner seriously pointed this out to me. I guess that one of the purposes of group study and group practice is actually for Teacher to use our fellow practitioners' mouths to point out our shortcomings to us during those occasions. I felt it was time that I solved this problem.

I received a copy of Teacher's new article "The Ukraine Fa Conference" the day before yesterday. I decided I should memorize it. Therefore I have been reciting this article during the past a couple of days. This morning, when I got up to get ready to practice the Dafa exercises, those thoughts came back to me and I became unwilling to do the exercises again. At that time, I remembered what Teacher said in this article,

"As you progress in cultivation, your mission of saving beings and dissolving the evil and the old factors' interference will naturally converge with your cultivation." ("The Ukraine Fa Conference")

I came to realize the root cause of my problem. I asked myself, "Does the thought of not being willing to practice the exercises come from my true self?" Definitely not! Then where does it come from? I hadn't been clear-headed, and I took it as myself when it had been interference with my cultivation all along.

I then sent forth one thought, "Dissolve the old factors that have been interfering with my practicing Dafa exercises." Immediately, one layer of things was removed from my body, and I no longer had the thought of "I don't like practicing the Dafa exercises." I felt all the exercise-practicing mechanisms that Teacher planted in my body starting to run. Without any other thoughts, I naturally followed the mechanisms to practice the exercises. I then realized how much my true self had been hoping to get assimilated to the Fa.

I wrote down what I just experienced, hoping this would help those fellow practitioners who have similar problems. We have to know that the thought of "not being willing to practice the Dafa exercises" does not come from our true selves. We need to dissolve it and all the old factors' behind it. Some practitioners don't like practicing the standing exercises. Some others don't like practicing the sitting meditation. Some don't like to do the Holding Wheel exercise. All these thoughts are not from our true selves, and we need to dissolve them since the mechanisms that Teacher gave us require us to do all these five sets of exercises. From the personal cultivation perspective, doing the exercises also requires us to remove attachments and everyday people's notions. Then isn't the thought of "I don't like to practice the exercises" an attachment or a notion that we need to remove? Teacher's article "The Ukraine Fa Conference" made me realize that the process of practicing the exercises also goes hand-in-hand with our mission of saving sentient beings, and dissolving the evils and the old factors' interference. Therefore, we must pay more attention to this issue.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2006/6/9/129935.html

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