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Greetings, Master!
Greetings, fellow practitioners!
In the process of writing this paper, so many attachments came out in me that I almost decided it was best not to write it. I was so fearful I was writing it out of self validation that it stopped me. However, after talking to others and going through many attachments and hesitation I decided to write without any intention at all. I would like to share a few of my experiences and understandings with the hope that all of us can improve together more diligently.
I obtained the Fa just a little over a year ago. Exactly one month before I heard of Falun Dafa, I was sitting in meditation and had a life changing experience. Unknown to me at the time, it prepared me for the greatest path any being could ever walk. It was the clearest and most vivid vision I have ever had.
I was standing in a place with small mountains and rocks to one side of me and a small forest on the other side, with a desert in the middle. The sun was just beginning to set when a large number of Native American Indians started to walk past me very slowly. One of them turned to me and said, "It is time." I felt that he was telling me it was their time to leave. Suddenly, an immense wind came over the entire area, but it didn't feel like a natural wind, it was almost like a wind caused by something large and moving very fast. I looked up and the sky was filled with a blackness that almost looked as if it was swallowing up the entire sky. Red eyes emerged in the black sky with great big black hands that opened up across the entire land. Then, a sound came that was so terrifying there is nothing to compare it to. In the distance, I saw thousands upon thousands of demons running and screeching, destroying everything in their path and leaving the Earth black and lifeless.
At this point, the wind was so strong that I could actually feel it on my flesh body in this physical dimension. I realized the gates of hell had opened up and every single demon was now loose in our dimension. I felt so helpless and afraid that I didn't know what to do. The demons were everywhere, finding any essence of life and making sure it was destroyed.
When I was just about to give up all hope, in the distance I saw a man wearing all white, with long hair. His eyes were soft, yet full of confidence and without any fear. He just stared at the army of demons and than began to walk towards them. I thought to myself that this man was Jesus. At the same time, something was telling me that it was not Him, but I could not accept it at the time. As he walked forward towards the demons he created a tunnel of light behind him. He walked through the demons with out even blinking; eliminating any demon that was in his way. They tried everything they could to stop him, but they were all being destroyed in the process.
After he got about halfway, I looked back from where he had started and saw there was a door made of light. From behind the door were hundreds of people all looking down the tunnel, scared and nervous, watching anxiously as this man was clearing a path through the demons. His focus never wavered once, and his eyes were only looking straight ahead without even looking at the demons. After he broke free of the last of them, another door of light appeared. He turned around to look at everyone at the end of the tunnel and slowly nodded his head. Then, with much hesitation and being extremely cautious, everyone started to run down the tunnel with a feeling of excitement.
He walked all the way back and followed the last person down the tunnel. As the people entered the other door made of light, a great and wonderful place welcomed their eyes. It was a beautiful lush forest with huge colorful waterfalls, giant fruit, enormous trees, and brilliant grassy green fields with a river that seemed to be alive. They all waited for the man who saved them to enter and with so much happiness in their hearts that they wanted to express their eternal gratitude. After the last person entered, the man stood at the door but did not go in. Instead, he turned back around and walked the other way. As he did this the tunnel vanished and he stood in the middle of this barren wasteland, alone and silent.
At that moment he turned and faced me. I was crying the entire time I was experiencing this, and I wanted nothing more than to be this man and have no fear. He looked at me right in the eyes and said, "Be prepared, for this is who you will become in the future." I couldn't believe what I had just heard. I thought to myself, "He is Jesus, I could never be like him." He then looked up at the heavens and a beam of light descended down on him. He started to rise in the light and than he turned into a body made of light and ascended up to the heavens.
After that it was like I was instantly pulled back into my body, in tears and disbelief. I could not believe that I was going to be this person. Upon coming in to Falun Dafa, I realized it was Master who arranged this for me to help me understand my role as a Fa-rectification disciple. In "Let Go of Human Attachments and Save the World's People", Master said,
"For a Fa-rectification period disciple, personal liberation is not the goal of cultivation: when you came, saving sentient beings was your greatest aspiration, and that is the responsibility and mission history has bestowed upon you in Fa-rectification. Thus great numbers of beings are to be saved by you."
Recently while sending righteous thoughts I was shown from my level the progress of Dafa disciples as a whole. I saw all disciples walking together in rows, wearing yellow with our hands erect. We were all walking toward the last of the demons that were scared and backing away from us. There was a gigantic demon behind them trying to get them to attack us. In the sky above us and as big as the entire group was Master watching over every single one of us and leading us.
The disciples in front were extremely tall and had their eyes closed with a slight smile, walking confident and strong. The demons were terrified of them. However, because of gaps found in others' cultivation caused by using their human side to look at things and not their divine side, I started to see demons sneaking around the diligent practitioners and taking advantage of others by using their attachments to cause them harm. They would grab them from underneath and pull them down. I saw Master's head turn and watch this taking place, with worry in his eyes for them. The range of diligence varied: some practitioners were doing the three things very well, some were just looking around watching others, some were trying but battling attachments, and some were walking, but actually asleep. The practitioners in the far back were even talking amongst themselves, laughing and not paying attention at all to what was happening.
I then saw a transparent black wall that the demons placed between them and the rest of the group, and without them even noticing, they were being led astray from the rest of the us. Their shirts were not as bright as the rest of the group from not taking cultivation seriously. The demons were laughing and enjoying every minute of it. Master turned to look back at them and he had a look of grave concern for them. However, because they still were wearing yellow I somehow knew that Master still had not given up on them and was waiting for them to start taking cultivation seriously. Master has repeatedly said in many lectures that as long as Fa-rectification hasn't ended yet there is still time to step up and become diligent in cultivation practice.
This is only the level of the Fa that I have been shown. Master has said in "Fa-Lecture at the Conference in Florida, U.S.A.,"
"Then if every student is able to do that, I can tell you, with five minutes of sending forth righteous thoughts together, the evil in the Three Realms will never exist again--that's how important this is."
I know that through Fa study and strengthening our minds and clarifying the truth we will only get stronger and soon end this persecution. Our hearts and minds must be on the Fa at all times though. I am also telling this to myself as a reminder that I need to be doing better and that I can always be doing better. Master's poem "Gaining the Fa," has always helped guide me:
"Gaining the Fa
Cultivate Dafa with all your heart,
Nothing else could be more important.
Becoming one with Dafa,
And consummation is, in time certain."
Thank you, Master!
Thank you, fellow practitioners!
