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We Should Study the Fa with Our Heart By a Falun Dafa practitioner from Tangshan City, Hebei Province
(Clearwisdom.net) Studying the Fa is a required course for
each and every Dafa disciple, but what counts as studying the Fa well and having
learned something from the Fa? Some fellow practitioners study and memorize the
Fa every day, but they take it as a job. What happens is that while they are
studying the Fa, they pay more attention to how many pages they've read, than to
what they read. Their thoughts are elsewhere. They regard the Fa-study group as
a book club, and they do not check their cultivation against the Fa. Let me cite an example. One Fa-study group is comprised of practitioners of
all ages. One day at their study session, it was an elderly practitioner's turn
to read the Fa and he was going very slowly. A fellow practitioner stopped him
and said, "You may stop reading it, let me read it. I am a fast
reader." So he took over and finished reading it quickly. Afterward the
elderly practitioner complained, "You read it so fast that my eyes couldn't
follow the words in the book." The above example reflects the state of mind of some practitioners when they
study the Fa, and it shows that in the group study environment, the issue of
improving character is involved. Have we been considerate of others at all
times? Have we studied the Fa with our hearts? And how do we study the Fa with
our hearts? Master told us in Zhuan Falun, "Shakyamuni talked about proper thoughts--you should chant scripture
with undivided attention to really shake the world of the discipline you
cultivate, and only then can you invoke an Enlightened Being." Do we pay undivided attention to the Fa when we study? Do we focus our mind
so that every word of the Fa appears in front of our eyes? If we really want to
have each and every word appear in front of our eyes, we will not have the
feeling that we read the Fa too slowly. So, only when all of us study the Fa
with our hearts will we be able to obtain something from the Fa through studying
it and enlightening to it, and assimilate to the Fa. The above is my personal understanding, and fellow practitioners are welcome
to correct anything that is not right.
Posting date: 7/9/2007 |