Changing Human Notions While Dissolving Karma

(Minghui.org) Several fellow practitioners and I have recently experienced karma-dissolving. I have changed my human notions during the process. I would like to share our common experience, as well as discuss our understanding. 

We often had strong righteous thoughts at the start of karma-dissolving, knowing that our symptoms weren’t due to illness. However, as time passed by, the discomfort bothered us repeatedly, and even worsened. We usually got confused at this point, wondering if we had done anything wrong, and why it hadn’t gotten better, as we cultivated diligently.

Master taught us,

“...when I taught a class in Changchun, there was a person with very good inborn quality, who was indeed a good prospect. I found him to be very good and increased his tribulations a little bit so that he could quickly repay karma and become enlightened—I was preparing it this way. Yet one day he suddenly seemed to have the symptoms of a stroke and fell to the ground. He felt that he could not move and as though his four limbs were out of commission. He was sent to a hospital for emergency treatment. Afterward, he was able to walk again.” (Lecture Six, Zhuan Falun)

I used to think that it’s a pity that the fellow practitioner in this example hadn’t treated karma-dissolving as a good thing, but I didn’t pay attention to the sentence: “I found him to be very good and increased his tribulations a little bit so that he could quickly repay karma and become enlightened—I was preparing it this way.” (Lecture Six, Zhuan Falun)

It dawned on me this time it’s truly a good thing that tribulations increase a little bit to make him repay karma and become enlightened. However, we wavered as the appearance of karma-dissolving lasted longer or worsened, and failed to realize that it was a good thing for a cultivator. If we had treated it as a good thing, how could we be afraid of experiencing more good things for longer?

Our human notions are often the reason why we waver. We know that enduring the pain in the legs during meditation is dissolving karma. We can endure it without hesitation. Why can’t we endure it when symptoms of dissolving karma last longer or worsen? It’s because our human notion tells us the leg pain won’t kill us, but the so-called “diseases” could endanger our lives. It’s a non-practitioner’s notion. It is incorrect and exactly what we cultivators need to eliminate.

Another common experience we had was that symptoms didn’t completely disappear in a second as soon as we gained an understanding of the Fa. Although reduced, the pains were indeed felt for a long time and were beyond our control.

I found out this time that my main consciousness wasn’t strong enough every time the symptoms came back. When we were imprisoned and a prison guard was about to beat us, we knew to eliminate the evil behind him with strong righteous thoughts. But we couldn’t see the germs and viruses that the old forces used to persecute us in another dimension, so our main consciousness often failed to eliminate them with righteous thoughts. Instead, we lay down to rest, took some warm water, or used other ordinary means to make us feel better. Human notions took the upper hand. 

Dissolving karma is a process of enduring suffering knowingly, but the old forces have attempted to shake our righteous thoughts with false appearances under the excuse of testing Dafa practitioners. Master doesn’t recognize it, neither do we. Although we can’t see how the old forces create false appearances to attack us, we should still deny it and eliminate the interference with strong righteous thoughts.

Master has told us repeatedly that cultivators don’t have any illness/disease. “The root cause of your illness has been removed, and what remains is only this bit of black qi that will come out on its own to let you suffer a little and bear a little hardship.” (Lecture Two, Zhuan Falun) It’s sickness karma elimination and also a test of one’s xinxing. To what level do we believe? Do we believe this as much as we believe that the sun rises in the east? If someone tells you that oxygen doesn’t exist in the air, we would laugh out aloud, thinking it’s nonsense, but if someone tells you that you could be sick, shouldn’t we laugh out aloud too? How could cultivators be sick?

Dissolving karma is difficult, but Master has already dissolved a lot of karma for us and distributed the rest of the karma at every step of our cultivation, so that it is used for us to make improvement. 

We all know the importance of studying the Fa, but we have blocked ourselves with fear, doubt, and the pursuit of ending our suffering soon. If we don’t improve in our understanding and cultivation, our karma can’t be dissolved, and the suffering will continue.

Let’s study the Fa without any human notions, maintain a strong faith in Master and Dafa, and harbor no complaint about dissolving our own karma. Can we do it? What notion has blocked us? We should identify it by looking within, and eliminate it.