(Minghui.org) Some practitioners have recently switched from watching New Tang Dynasty satellite television (NTDTV) to Double Star, and many are also watching ordinary people's television. I would like to share my thoughts on the matter of practitioners watching television.
The purpose of installing NTDTV satellite dishes is to allow people learn the truth about Falun Dafa, inspire their kind thoughts, and save them. Practitioners are using their wisdom to save people using ordinary people's desire to watch TV. We can guide them to watch NTDTV, and they'll learn the truth and be saved.
There is nothing wrong with installing Double Star satellite TV for ordinary people, however if we install Double Star satellite systems for fellow practitioners or their family members who already understand the truth, we are not doing them a favor. I believe that NTDTV is enough, and that there is no need to switch to Double Star. It is a waste of practitioners' manpower and money. If a practitioner insists on installing Double Star, perhaps he has the attachment of watching ordinary people's television and should eliminate this attachment.
As Fa-rectification period Dafa practitioners, our mission is to validate the Fa and save people. We shouldn't waste our time watching television, except for Shen Yun Performing Arts. Even if we don't have the attachment to watching TV, it's a waste of our precious time. Have we thought about how much Master has sacrificed to give us this time? We should use this hard-won and precious time to study the Fa and save people.
I personally know that television, especially ordinary people's television, is a serious type of interference and can be damaging for us. When I had the attachment to watching TV, the people on TV appeared as skeletons to my celestial eye.
Since I had NTDTV installed, I thought that it should be alright to watch TV produced by practitioners, but I gradually became addicted to the soap operas. My head started to ache after watching these shows for several days, and I began skipping words as I studied the Fa. I realized that it was wrong for me to watch TV.
I had a dream where a man in black removed a dirty substance from my head. I believe that Master was telling me how much damage watching TV had done to me, so I stopped watching. After a while, my husband, who is also a practitioner, told me that many practitioners watch TV. My attachment to TV came up again, and I started watching. This went back and forth, and I still have not totally given up watching TV.
I saw many ghosts in a dream last December. They were wearing costumes like the people in the soap operas I had been watching. They chased me, and I ended up on a newly-laid asphalt road. I felt like I could fall at any moment, and I wanted to fly up, but I couldn't because my feet were stuck to the asphalt. I cried and blamed myself for not progressing diligently. The ghosts got me and started beating me. They yelled, “We will make you disrespect your Teacher and the Fa.” They were about to throw me into a fire, and I gave up. After I woke up, I regretted it so much. My body also ached badly and I could no longer cross my legs when I meditated. I felt as if I was being punished for wanting to watch TV.
On February 11, 2014, a practitioner told me that she hadn't watched TV for a long time because the TV set was broken. One day she was printing truth clarifying materials in her daughter-in-law's room, and was watching the TV. She was watching as she printed the materials. The printer then stopped working. She realized that it was because she was watching TV, but she didn't stop, and kept watching to the end of the episode.
During a dream that night, there was a tall woman in her sixties standing in front of her. She realized something was wrong but she couldn't move. She recited the formula for sending righteous thoughts and the woman became a big fox. It lay on her chest and wouldn't leave. She kept reciting the formula and pushed it away. The fox came back many times in different forms, and asked her to do many things that she was shouldn't do, but the practitioner did not listen.
Master said in Zhuan Falun,
“As one of our practitioners was turning the pages of a qigong book, a big snake jumped out of it. Of course, I will not discuss this in detail.”
This practitioner realized that since the Chinese Communist Party is an evil cult, its television network is like those bad qigong books. The sound and images on the TV contained elements and messages from the CCP, which were far worse than any qigong book. As practitioners, there is “no second cultivation way” (Zhuan Falun) , and we should not be reading/watching messages from the CCP. Another practitioner said that after she watched TV one night, she saw ghosts walking out of the TV in a dream.
Through exchanging opinions with other practitioners, I realized that our Teacher has already told us in Zhuan Falun , how to solve every problem in our cultivation. He told us what we should and should not do. It is only a matter of whether we realize it or not, and whether we want to be steadfast practitioners or not.
Through reading Master's article “Righteous Thoughts,”
“They surge like thunderbolts to cosmic heights Roaring with colossal power, they reach beyond the heavens They sweep across the cosmos, no crevice left untouched Eliminating at once all that’s degenerate and deviant”
I realized that it wasn't enough to just stop watching TV—I should help Master to rectify the Fa. I should send out colossal, powerful righteous thoughts to eliminate the evil in every form everywhere.
