To Practitioners Who Clarify the Truth Via TV (Part 4) By a Practitioner in China
(Clearwisdom.net)
After reflecting on my experience during the past year, I want to talk about
my understandings regarding Fa study and looking inward as a reference for
fellow practitioners.
A. Why do we need to study the Fa
Master said,
"So during the two years of persecution that you've been through,
you have been able to persevere in your cultivation, make yourselves more
and more clearheaded, and recognize ever more clearly the evilness of this
persecution. So in other words, Fa-study truly is extremely important for a
Dafa disciple, for a cultivator. No matter how difficult your environment
is, no matter how busy you get, you cannot forget to study the Fa. You must
study the Fa, because it is the absolute, most fundamental guarantee of your
improvement"
("Fa-Lecture at the Conference in Florida, U.S.A.").
"When you do well in the Fa-rectification, I can see that it's
always because you are able to understand the Fa from the Fa; and when you
do somewhat poorly, I can see that it's because you aren't making a priority
of Fa-study and you aren't able to understand the Fa from the Fa. As a Dafa
disciple, no matter what the situation or what the circumstances, you have
to study the Fa, and you can't neglect your own assimilation and
improvement; you can't forget to study the Fa" ("Teaching the Fa
at the 2002 Fa Conference in Boston").
After coming through these past four years, we see that the old forces
interfere with our Fa study in different ways, so as to further persecute us. We
now better realize the nature of some of this interference. For instance, we
tend to become sleepy whenever we began to study the Fa. So this way, we lose an
opportunity for Fa study. Sometimes we aren't even aware of our unstable minds
while studying the Fa. The old forces make us lose time; they render us unable
to take Fa study as our first and the most important priority. They make us
become bothered and busy with our daily work and even our family problems. Our
time is taken away by traffic jams, communication problems etc. We even lose
time in finding each other at appointed locations. As a result, we have less
time to study the Fa. Some practitioners don't realize this even though they are
interfered with. For example, some take three hour's time to finish an hour's
work. But they still take it for granted and consider it as natural and common.
We are Fa-rectification period Dafa disciples,
"What's a Dafa disciple? He's a being created by the most
magnificent Fa." ("Teaching the Fa at the 2003 Washington DC Fa
Conference")
When we look back on the tribulations we went through during the past four
years, what did we depend on to persist up till now? Didn't we depend on Master
and the Fa? Master put everything he can help us with into the Fa. Master said
"I've also told you that this Fa is so powerful, and that I have
melded my immense abilities into this Fa, so this Fa can do anything for
you."
("Fa-Lecture During the 2003 Lantern Festival at the U.S. West Fa
Conference")
Although we know this from Fa-principles, when we look at the state in which
we study the Fa, do we really take Fa-study that seriously? Why don't we
strengthen and increase our Fa-study? Who is blocking us? It has to be the
substances of the old cosmos that are to be eliminated and rectified. By
studying the Fa we can eliminate them. Dafa just has this great power and can
correct and rectify everything that is unrighteous within us.
"Matter and mind are one and the same." (Zhuan Falun)
"When you understand Fa-principles on this side, then changes in
other dimensions are quite big, and the part of the body that's made up of
microscopic particles undergoes intense changes."
(Unofficial translation, Lecture in Australia)
No matter at what level we are, we can break through the old forces'
arrangements at that level, and our validation of the Fa and saving people will
go more smoothly, and we will have fewer troubles. If we don't break through a
certain level, no matter how hard we toil on the surface, we are still circling
around on that same level, just like ordinary people doing their things. When we
do Fa-study, as we constantly understand the Fa-principles, we are also
constantly breaking and eliminating our old notions, cleansing the elements of
the old cosmos, and our mechanism of looking inward is also getting stronger. We
compare ourselves with the requirements of the Fa-principles and constantly
purify ourselves. Therefore, Fa study is included in solid cultivation, and it
includes looking inward, cultivating and rectifying ourselves and saving
sentient beings.
B. How to study the Fa well
If we understand the reason why we study the Fa, we can make diligent
progress in Fa-study, and we can also break through the evil beings'
interference with our Fa-study,
"Any time some kind of interference comes along in your practice,
you have to look within for the cause and find what it is you still haven't
let go of." (Zhuan Falun)
As we constantly eliminate our notions and attachments, our heart becomes
calmer and calmer when we study the Fa. For example, if we get rid of the
mentality of work we won't always think about doing Fa-rectification work while
studying the Fa. We shouldn't pursue while studying the Fa, because we gain
without pursuit. We should just study with a calm mind.
"A person who truly cultivates will gain things naturally without
pursuing them. All of the gong and Fa lie in the book, and one will
naturally obtain them by reading Dafa" ("Seeking Discipleship with
Teacher", Essentials for Further Advancement).
As I become more and more clear on why I study the Fa, I'm constantly
breaking through the maze on every level that prevents me from studying the Fa.
I can see different Fa-principles on different levels, and therefore the Fa can
instruct me to do well the Fa-rectification and coordination work in my area,
and my personal improvement is included.
In order to study the Fa well and understand the Fa in depth, besides reading
Zhuan Falun everyday, I worked hard on reciting the Fa as well. I recited
Zhuan Falun once and now I'm reciting it for the second time. I recited
Master's recent lectures "Teaching the Fa at the 2002 Fa Conference in
Philadelphia, U.S.A.", "Teaching
and Explaining the Fa at the Metropolitan New York Fa Conference",
"Explaining the Fa
During the 2003 Lantern Festival at the U.S. West Fa Conference", all
the way up until "Teaching
the Fa at the 2003 Washington DC Fa Conference."
I recited all of them. After I finished reciting, I began reciting them for a
second and then again for a third time. Reciting the Fa is not the purpose; the
most important thing is that I am able to assimilate to the Fa with my heart.
During this process, I use my heart to remember, recite and assimilate to every
word, every sentence and every paragraph Master says. Every time after I finish
reciting a scripture, I feel a great change inside, and it has a great effect on
my negating the old forces' arrangements and validating the Fa. For example, I
recited "Teaching the Fa at the 2002 Fa Conference in Philadelphia,
U.S.A." twice and broke through the old forces' evil arrangement of killing
my flesh body by poisoning it with carbon monoxide. I did pass out but I just
had one thought, "I simply won't acknowledge everything arranged by you,
the old forces." When I felt the most pain and when I was the weakest, I
kept this thought, and I almost returned to normal on that same day. I recited
"Explaining the Fa
During the 2003 Lantern Festival at the U.S. West Fa Conference" three
times. Besides understanding the whole Fa-rectification process in other
dimensions and the whole magnificent process, I also realized that I did not do
well in respecting Master and the Fa. I felt that I was one of the people who
"are already half way out into thin air" (Fa-Lecture During the 2003
Lantern Festival at the U.S. West Fa Conference"). After I recited it for
the first time, tears gushed out and every one of my bodily cells was shaken. I
felt closer to the Fa and I felt Master's infinite compassion toward disciples,
and I realized my problem of "expanding self" when I deviated from the
Fa during Fa-rectification. When I read the scripture several times before I
recited it, from the surface I didn't see much for myself, and I thought Master
was talking about others who don't respect Master and it doesn't seem to have
much to do with me. Then I recited it twice and during that process I constantly
gave up myself and cleansed the "expanding self" in the old cosmos and
the degenerate element that was meant to be eliminated. I deeply felt the damage
that can be done by the strong "self", especially fellow practitioners
who have achievements and influence in a certain area more or less have this
problem. If we aren't able to understand this deeply, that will cause a huge
tribulation. It's very dangerous if we aren't able to understand the
relationship between us and Master and the Fa correctly. Fortunately, through
reciting the Fa and assimilating to the Fa, I eliminated this strong
"self" and walked through.
Moreover, I used short spare time to study the Fa. For instance, I recite the
Fa if I am not sending forth righteous thoughts on my way to work, on the bus
and while cooking. At times when I wait for the bus, I can recite Lunyu
and "Expounding on the Fa" ten, twenty times. Because I am blended
into the Fa at all times, my head is clear and I am not affected by things that
happen on the surface. My righteous thoughts are therefore strong and Master has
resolved many dangerous situations for me.
To be continued... Please see Parts 1, 2, and 3 on Posting date: 9/15/2003 |