(Minghui.org) Recently I have been interfered with by drowsiness when doing the Falun Gong exercises and sending forth righteous thoughts. A fellow practitioner pointed it out to me, but I still felt that it wasn't serious. I was not convinced within, “Your palm wasn't upright either, not just mine!” One time when sending forth righteous thoughts, I had a camera with a tape recorder taping the whole process. After viewing the tape, I was surprised to see that my right palm was sometimes straight and sometimes slanted without my knowing it. One day when doing the morning exercises, my hands were seriously out of shape. Since my main consciousness was so sleepy, wasn't I cultivating in a subconscious state?
Teacher said:
“You cannot be in a trance or lose yourself when practicing the Great Way of Spiritual Perfection. Your main consciousness should govern you at all times as you do the exercises. Gong that is cultivated in this way will grow on your own body and you will acquire gong that you yourself can take forth with you. That’s why Falun Dafa is so precious—you yourself get gong.” (The Great Way of Spiritual Perfection, English Version, 3rd Translation Edition, July 2006)
“For thousands of years, all other practices introduced among everyday people have refined the cultivator’s assistant consciousness; the person’s flesh and main consciousness have served only as mediums. Upon reaching Perfection, the cultivator’s assistant consciousness would ascend and take the gong away with it. There would then be nothing left for the person’s main consciousness and innate body—a lifetime of cultivation effort is in vain.” (The Great Way of Spiritual Perfection, English Version, 3rd Translation Edition, July 2006)
Teacher's Fa quickly alerted me. I had been like this for over two years, and I wasn't even aware of it! When the other practitioner pointed it out, I didn't see it and still thought that I was doing all the three things well: I took part in a small Fa-study team every night. I was in charge of supplying truth-clarification materials for six people, and I am still employed. Yet, I found that I have not really cultivated myself. The good thing is, Fa-rectification has not ended yet, so I must now cherish the limited time to cultivate myself.
Each and every day, I search and read fellow practitioners' cultivation articles on the Minghui website, and I have benefited a great deal. Because of laziness, however, I had not written even one article. This time, I used my camera to videotape fellow practitioners, encouraging them to all look inward and to write their findings so as to awaken other fellow practitioners who might have similar problems.
Fellow practitioners, please kindly correct my errors.
