Giving Up Human Notions

(Minghui.org) Fellow practitioner Mr. Zhang suffered from severe motion sickness when traveling by train or bus. Even when getting a ride in ox wagon, he experienced dizziness and nausea. Such symptoms existed even after he began practicing Falun Dafa in 1997.

However, when he participated in the appeal of 10,000 practitioners in Beijing on April 25, 1999, he did not have motion sickness during the 30-mile bus ride. After the appeal, two local police vehicles took him and other practitioners back home. Concerned that the police may have had intentions to persecute him, he took off mid-way and walked home. He later went somewhere on a bus and had motion sickness again. Then he suddenly recalled that he did not have motion sickness during the April 25 appeal.

Some fellow practitioners are afraid of motion sickness and carry a plastic bag with them in case of vomiting. As a result, he or she would vomit as expected soon after the bus started moving.

Some other fellow practitioners who have such an issue recite Falun Dafa teachings wholeheartedly on the bus. As a result, they were fine and nothing happened.

My wife has asthma which did not fully go away after practicing Falun Dafa. She had a recurrence of symptoms last year. I wrote an article titled “Knowing the Purpose of Evil” based on my enlightenment then. This year the interference came again. I said to her, “It is because of our notion. Let's concentrate on reading the Dafa books and not allow any distraction.” Her symptoms disappeared while we read the Dafa books. She used to have the symptoms for days or even a month.

Now it is the Fa-rectification period, and Falun Dafa practitioners are assisting Master to save sentient beings. Time is limited. How is it possible that Master would let us disciples lie in bed to “eliminate karma”? “Illness” belongs to everyday people. But we are divine beings and have elevated beyond humanness. “Karma elimination” is for the personal cultivation stage, but we have passed that stage. Therefore, all “illnesses” or “karma elimination” are false phenomena created by the old forces to interfere with our effort to save sentient beings.

Why is it that the old forces can interfere with us? It is because that we have human notions.

Human notions are formed in human society. Notions are lives in the other dimensions. They collude with other evil factors and create “illness” symptoms. If we are deceived by the illusion, we are human at that moment and humans should have illness. Nowadays, many fellow practitioners are dominated by concepts or notions. Some even passed away from illness or lie in bed to “eliminate karma,” losing precious time to save sentient beings.

If we treat the false phenomena created the old forces as illness, the root of the illness is the notion that we formed. Then how to get rid of the root of illness is essential.

Master told us,

“Cultivation is a matter of a person’s realm of xinxing as well as how responsible he is about saving sentient beings and what attitude he has towards it.” (“Fa Teaching Given at the Epoch Times Meeting”)

Thus, we need to improve ourselves by reading the Fa more and calmly, assimilating to the Fa, sending more righteous thoughts, cleansing evil factors, cultivating ourselves in saving sentient beings and truly upgrading our xinxing and realm. Only by truly giving up notions can we advance.

The above is my current understanding.