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My Understanding of Hand-copying Teacher's New Lectures
By a Falun Dafa practitioner in China
(Clearwisdom.net) I had an unexpected opportunity to share experiences
with a fellow practitioner. I found that her understanding on the Fa
was comparatively better than mine. In my conversation with her, she said that
every time Teacher's new lectures come out, she would always hand-copy the Fa at
least three times. What she said reminded me of a time when I hand-copied one of Teacher's
lectures a while ago -- "Teaching the Fa at the 2004 International Fa
Conference in New York." At that time, I felt that the result was quite
good but because I was busy, I did not keep my commitment of studying the Fa in
this way. In sharing with this practitioner, I was awakened to the fact that the
reason why this fellow practitioner understood Teacher's Fa so well and
remembered the Fa so solidly had a lot to do with her hand-copying the Fa. Every
time Teacher's new lectures came out, whether long or short, she would hand-copy
the Fa at least three times. This kind of sustaining spirit should certainly
deserve our admiration. Inspired by this fellow practitioner, I returned home and started
hand-copying Teacher's most recently published lecture, "Teaching the Fa in
Canada, 2006." I hand-copied the lecture three times. After completion, I
felt wonderful, my eyes sparkled and my heart brightened; Teacher's Fa was
deeply imprinted in my brain. This was Fa study, melting into the Fa and
entering into the Fa. Now I have already thrice hand-copied two more new
lectures, "Teaching the Fa at the Fa Conference at the U.S. Capital"
and "Teaching the Fa in the City of Los Angeles." In the process of hand-copying, I have come to understand the Fa more deeply
and have come closer to the deeper meaning of the Fa. Through hand-copying the
Fa I began to realize more about how precious the Fa is and how great a
responsibility we carry in our historic mission. The vast and mighty push of Fa-rectification has entered its final stage,
piercing closer to the surface. The Fa requires from every one of us
practitioners a greater and higher effort. Therefore we need to have a clearer
understanding of the Fa. In order to guarantee that we push forward towards
higher levels without any deviation, we need to study the Fa more thoroughly,
and truly quiet our minds and melt ourselves into Fa study so as to enable us to
walk every step with safe and steady footing. Although we have limited time to
study, we must squeeze our time, value our time, and make good use of our time
to study well, and to even memorize the Fa. Basically speaking, Dafa practitioners' cultivation is different from any
other cultivation practice, because we are related to the Fa-rectification,
responsible for a great historic mission while the new universe is replacing the
old one, training and preparing ourselves to be future kings or masters of
numerous great kingdoms. In view of this, only when we study the Fa well can we
follow the momentum of Fa-rectification, raising our levels as a whole body.
Through hand-copying Fa lectures, I came to better understand our cultivation
way: "The Great Way is invisible but united as one body." This is our
cultivation way that enables us to exist in human society, allowing us the
opportunity of saving people, enabling us to save more sentient beings, to
better achieve our historic mission, and to fulfill our great prehistoric vows:
"You resolved to save sentient beings, and assist Master as he journeys
this human world;..." ("Assisting the Fa" from Hong Yin) Today I am writing my understanding about hand-copying Teacher's new lectures
in the hopes that fellow practitioners can continue to help one another by
exchanging ideas and discovering our differences and shortcomings. In this way,
we can safely pass through every occurrence, every trial and tribulation at this
final stage, truly achieving the standard of Dafa and not disappoint our great
Teacher who has been saving sentient beings with great compassion. Sept. 21, 2006 |