Don't Slack Off Practicing the Exercises

(Minghui.org) I have benefitted greatly by reading for a few hours every day the articles from the 9th China Fahui on Minghui.org.

I haven't diligently practiced the exercises for over a year and rarely participated in the morning exercises. I would intermittently do a few exercises in the afternoon or evening. I felt very tired every day because I neglected them. When I went back to my dorm room I just wanted to lie down. I felt anxious but after doing better for a couple of days, I would slack off again. I dreamt many times about doing the exercises but I just couldn't go through the motions. Sometimes I dreamt that the weapons I shot to the evil were very weak when I eliminated the evil and the evil wasn't intimidated.

For the past couple of weeks I have continuously read experience sharing articles. I have been moved by the righteous thoughts and actions of my fellow practitioners and at the same time felt worried about my own cultivation and shortcomings, particularly after reading, “A Young Practitioner Strives Forward and Assimilates to the Fa,” (9th China Fahui on Minghui.org.(http://en.minghui.org/html/articles/2012/12/10/136589.html) The article was like a sword that cut through the illusion and my anxiety, and all that remained was Dafa. I made the connection and became determined in my own mind to truly cultivate. I wanted to break through my current circumstances. I had to study the Fa more. I had to fill my dimensional field field with the Fa, and eliminate all deviant notions.

Master said,

“A person is like a container, and he is whatever he contains. All of what a person sees with the eyes and hears with the ears are: violence, lust, power struggles in literary works, struggles for profit in the practical world, money worship, other manifestations of demon-nature, and so on. With his head filled with these, this kind of person is truly a bad person, no matter what he appears to be. A person’s behavior is dictated by his thoughts. With a mind full of such things, what’s a person able to do?” (“Melt Into the Fa” from Essentials for Further Advancement)

I really loved to watch television and read books, especially historical and mystery novels, when I was young. The bookstore was my favorite place. The past few years I've especially enjoyed reading novels and have downloaded many from the internet. I often felt deep regret that I had wasted time after reading them. I deleted the novels that I downloaded. Soon I downloaded new ones, read them, regretted it and then deleted them again. This cycle repeated many times. I went through the same cycle with movies, particularly western science fiction and thrillers. I downloaded, read, erased and downloaded new ones. I became trapped in human attachments, suffered and drifted along with the tide. Although I still did the three things, I wasted too much time in reading novels and watching movies. Sometimes I came across wonderful scenes in a novel or movie, and didn't send righteous thoughts at the designated times. I rarely read Dafa books. I became more exhausted. These things seriously interfered with my doing the three things well.

I have read so many novels and watched so many movies, filled with violence, lust, and people vying with one another. I don't know how many notions and toxic substances I have formed within my dimensional field. I need to completely get rid of them. They are in stark contrast with the Fa that Master has taught. Master to please help me, your disciple, to remove these bad substances.

The first thing I did was to get rid of the novels and movies that I had stored on my computer and USB drives, in order to guarantee that my exterior dimensional field was clean and pure. Previously I stayed in the office to kill time for about half an hour after morning reading. Now I grab this time, run back to my dorm room and study the Fa. Even though it's very little time, it helps me to melt into the Fa. Other students listen to music while they study. I listen to Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party. I don't relax at noon but use the time to study the Fa more and read experience sharing papers by my fellow practitioners. I squeeze in more time in the afternoon to study the Fa. In the evenings, after class, I visit the Minghui website. I read until it's time to send forth righteous thoughts at midnight.

I usually don't rest at noon. If I go to sleep after midnight and wake up by 5:50 a.m., I'll only sleep a little over five hours. If I join the morning exercises at 3:50 a.m., I won't get much sleep. This notion has interfered with me doing the exercises. The time is tight, yet I study the Fa a lot. My mind has gradually calmed down. I have begun to break through this notion. I insist that I get up and do the early morning exercises.

A few days ago when I was doing the second exercise, the Falun Standing Stance, I compassionately told the sentient beings in my dimensional field, “I didn't emphasize the importance of doing the exercises before. I really hurt you and interfered with your assimilating to the Fa. Now I will follow Master's teachings. I will take doing the exercises seriously. I will follow Master home. I hope that all of us will assimilate to the Fa together.” As soon as I had this thought, my whole body shook and I felt a warm current course through my body. Tears of compassion silently bathed my face. One thought filled my mind, “I'm not doing the exercises just for myself, it is for the sentient beings in my world, This body isn't just mine. I have no grounds, nor the right to be lazy. I can't let the selfishness that I developed postnatally influence the sentient beings in my world.”

After I developed the habit of getting up early to do the exercises, I was no longer anxious and my spirit wasn't listless. On the contrary my mind was really clear and I was one hundred percent energetic. At the same time I saved more time to study the Fa and tell people the truth about Falun Gong and the persecution.

I was finally able to do the early morning exercises with Master's blessings. Thank you Master.