Reject the Evil Persecution from the Bottom of Your Heart

By a Falun Gong practitioner from Gansu Province

(Clearwisdom.net) Last year, for no apparent reason, I had stomach pain several times. Recently, I have suffered from the pain again, twice in one week. Last year, the intervals between each time were relatively long.

In the beginning, I had an ordinary person's notion. I thought maybe the food I was eating was not suitable. But I am a cultivator, a Dafa disciple. It should be okay for me to eat anything, suitable or not. It must be because the evil forces took advantage of my loopholes and persecuted me. Right away, I started to send forth righteous thoughts to eliminate the evil that undermines the Fa. However, my thoughts were not very effective. When the pain came, I could not even study the Fa or practice the exercises. The only thing I could do was lie down, which made me feel a little more comfortable. So whenever the pain started, I could not stop myself from lying down. It's very clear that the evil forces interfered with me, to stop me from cultivating. However, I felt powerless to reject them.

When I did not know what to do, my mother-in-law (also a practitioner) enlightened me with her words. She said, "You still acknowledge the existence of the evil. Although you send forth righteous thoughts to eliminate the evil, you reject the persecution under the acknowledgment of the evil forces' persecution. Therefore, they have enough excuse to persecute you. You ought not to acknowledge the evil and do whatever you should do." Suddenly, my mental block disappeared.

My thoughts became clear: how can I acknowledge the persecution of the evil forces? So I added these thoughts during sending forth righteous thoughts: "Firmly deny the evil forces and never acknowledge their arrangements. I don't acknowledge the existence of the evil forces or anything related to them." In my mind, I completely rejected the evil forces' persecution. While practicing the exercises or studying the Fa, I did not think about whether my stomach hurt or not. I just did whatever I should do.

I don't have stomach pain anymore. But why could the evil forces persecute me in the first place? After searching inward deeply, I discovered that I had many attachments that needed to be eliminated, such as an attachment to fame that makes me concerned about my child's scores in school, the attachment to comfort that makes me sleep longer than necessary, an attachment to profit that makes me long for a salary increase, and the attachment to watching TV. Even while reading Dafa, sometimes I could not help but look at the TV. This is really disrespectful to Master! I think these are all loopholes and reasons the evil forces can use to persecute me. Although I still have not completely eliminated them, I remind myself by writing them down. I believe if I cultivate diligently and firmly, take the Fa as teacher, look at issues from the viewpoint of the Fa, and remember to be a cultivator at every moment, I will completely rid myself of my attachments in a short period of time.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2008/4/18/176720.html

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