(Minghui.org) Group Fa-study and group exercises are the cultivation format that Master has given to practitioners to help us to reach consummation. I believe it's good for Fa-rectification practitioners to do the exercises outdoors. It not only cultivates us, but also has the effect of clarifying the truth about Falun Gong and saving sentient beings.
We have three practice sites in our city. The local western and local Chinese residents pass by two of them. Australian residents and many precious Chinese tourists from the Mainland can see the third practice site. Over one hundred tourists from Mainland China pass by the practice site each day. Many Chinese people may have been arranged by the gods to come abroad to see Falun Gong practiced freely and admired by the locals.
When I do the exercises at home, I feel the physical reactions more. For example, my body becomes increasingly warm, sometimes even dripping with sweat from my head to my toes during meditation. When I do the standing exercises I feel the strong energy driving my hands to move up and down. However, the strongest energy happens in group practice outdoors.
I was in northeast China in 1998. I was very diligent in studying the Fa and practicing the exercises. In the few months before the persecution began on July 20, 1999, I did the exercises every morning at the outdoor practice site. When I did “Vajra Toppling a Mountain”, I opened my eyes subconsciously, and my hands were glowing in a bright golden light. I thought this happened to everyone, and it should be this way. After group study at night, we would meditate for one hour. When the meditation music reached a certain point, a scene appeared before my eyes of a magnificent ocean, with myself and many fellow practitioners adorned in court dress standing on ancient boats, facing a red sun, sailing joyfully on the water bathed in a golden sunshine.
I have been abroad now for a decade and have participated in many group exercise sites. Several experiences impressed me deeply. It happened twice during a morning meditation at the practice site. In the last ten minutes of exercises, while I was enduring the numbness and pain in the lotus position, I suddenly entered an ethereal place, which was totally silent, completely separated from the surrounding environment. I became empty and could not feel my body. Everything around me disappeared, including the exercise music, and the noise from the Chinese who were doing morning exercises.
My one thought seemed to be immersed in a huge cosmic or celestial body. This was a vast endless celestial body, with nothing in it. This celestial body had countless small celestial bodies or small universes in the big body. Everything was empty, and I just had this one thought. This state probably lasted about one or two minutes then it slowly returned to the normal meditation state, as if nothing had happened. It was a very unique, wonderful feeling and it has only happened twice.
Whenever there is a large number of Chinese tourists’ visiting the practice site, I feel a stronger energy than when I practice at home.
Last week I felt strong energy when I practiced the first set of exercises. The "stretching" and "relaxing" was automatically driven by the energy.The movement was so accurate and easy, and this was unprecedented in my ten years of cultivation practice.
Doing the second set of exercises, the powerful energy drove my arms to holding the “Law Wheel” accurately. When doing the third set of exercises “Coursing Between the Two Poles” both hands were following two straight cylinders. It was an especially beautiful feeling.
During the fourth set of exercises "Falun Cosmic Orbit”, when my hands went down following the mechanism, I actually did not feel my body’s material existence. I was very surprised because I’d always thought that this could only happen during the sitting meditation. Now I realized that we could experience the body disappearing while doing the standing exercises.
I experienced the strongest energy that day and I was very relaxed and comfortable, and at the same time, each movement gently reached the perfect status.
During the sitting meditation, a strong energy drove my hands perfectly into each movement, with "soft on the outside, strong on the inside”. My back was upright. The sitting meditation was completed effortlessly under the powerful and beautiful energy.
Afterwards, I wondered why I experienced stronger energy outdoors with the group than exercising at home. Is Master’s law body strengthening me? Are the fellow practitioners' energies forming a common effect at our site? The practice in this environment is beneficial to us and also promotes Falun Dafa to local residents and clarifies the truth to Chinese tourists. Our thoughts are righteous, and our minds are calm. Maybe due to the Master's extra blessing, we do exercises better to show the beauty of Falun Dafa to others.
I notice I feel very proud, sacred and solemn every time I do exercises at the practice site. I am happy for the deceived precious Chinese tourists who pass by our site and can see and perhaps feel the righteous energy of Falun Dafa practitioners. Those tourists will be shocked, rectified, and saved by the strong, compassionate energy field produced by Dafa practitioners. We are the living cultivators admired by Buddha’s, Taos, and Gods in the heavens. We are true disciples who assist Master in Fa-rectification, and we are the only hope for sentient beings. We do exercises before this large crowd, under the watchful eyes of the gods and all beings in the universe. We are cultivating while validating the Fa and also saving sentient beings.
I wish more practitioners would participate in the weekend's exercises. It's a spectacular scene and with strong energy it will have such a big impact on Chinese tourists!
The same applies to practice sites in Chinatowns and other sites where Chinese tourists visit.
Precious Chinese people from so far away are just around the corner. Gods brought the them to us to save.
Several years ago, my 70-year-old mother who lived in Mainland China called me and said she was going to travel in Europe. (Mother was deeply deceived by the CCP, and had many misconceptions about Dafa). I expected that she would see Falun Dafa around the world, and have the facts clarified to her overseas. After returning home, however, she was most disappointed in not seeing any Falun Dafa practitioners at all during her travels.
A relative from China asked me whether it is illegal to practice Falun Gong oversees. I was both ashamed and shocked (because a few years ago, I clarified the truth of Falun Gong to her and helped her to withdraw from CCP). So, I patiently explained to her that Dafa has spread around the world, and only the evil CCP in China is persecuting Falun Gong. She asked me whether I "had gone insane from the practice" and I said that I am not insane, and quite the opposite. I had become known as a model husband and father to my non-practitioners friends. Many Chinese friends (including experts and scholars) have asked me how to become a diligent and happy husband, and how to educate their children to become high academic achievers. While I was talking, she unexpectedly told me: "I understand now." She also spoke aloud on the phone, "Falun Dafa is good. Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good. "
I suggest more fellow practitioners come out of their houses to the practice sites in Chinatown, and the tourist attractions to do the exercises, clarify the truth and to help save sentient beings.
