Finally Understanding the Essentials of Sending Righteous Thoughts

(Minghui.org) Minghui.org recently published many sharing articles about placing emphasis on sending forth righteous thoughts and I have been greatly inspired by them. I understand that sending righteous thoughts is one of the three things that Master has requested Falun Dafa practitioners do well. I also want to do it well, meet the standard, and truly have an effect through sending forth righteous thoughts!

I checked the problems that I had while sending righteous thoughts and found that all this while, I have been just going through the motions when I sent forth righteous thoughts. I was neither strict nor serious when I was doing it. Instead, I just treated it like a task to be completed. The main problem was that I was not focused, and my mind was not calm. All sorts of thoughts would run through my mind like turbulent waves, and all the trivial things would come into my mind, and my palms would fall, and my conscious was foggy. My body would even slant to one side, such that I was not attaining the standards that Master has set for us. Therefore, the effects of my sending of righteous thoughts were really lacking! This made me feel frustrated and feel that my sending of righteous thoughts did not have much effect. I was usually unable to complete all four sessions of sending forth righteous thoughts every day.

Overseas Dafa practitioners have all started to take action to safeguard Dafa. In this case, how can Dafa practitioners in China cooperate with the overseas practitioners to safeguard Dafa together and do well what we should be doing? I looked up Master’s lectures that are related to sending forth righteous thoughts and repeatedly recited Master’s Fa,

“First, you clear out your own bad things, and this encompasses all of them. All of the bad things contained in your mind—and there are so many of them—are encompassed; a great number of bad beings make their way into the space within the domain of the human body. Many bad things squeeze their way in! A person’s body is very much open. If you were to examine it with a powerful microscope, you would find that the gaps between one particle and the next are like the ones between grains of sand; and if you were to increase the magnification, the distance between them would be like that between planets in our universe. Microscopic and even more microscopic substances can pass through the body; the beings at those levels can freely pass through. And in fact, the Daoist school has taught that the human body is a small universe. So it’s no minor thing when you send righteous thoughts toward your human body and clean out those bad things, right?” (“Fa Teaching Given at the 2016 New York Fa Conference,” Collected Fa Teachings, Vol. XIV)

“Clearing out the universe outside is the same as doing so with the one within.” (“Fa Teaching Given at the 2016 New York Fa Conference,” Collected Fa Teachings, Vol. XIV)

I understand that I had a serious problem when it came to cleansing inward. I recited the verses of sending righteous thoughts as though I were memorizing textbooks. After reciting it once, my mind would wander off such that my heart was not into it. I did not treat the fact that I am a small universe seriously. I treated those verses like those that were recited before the start of each set of our exercises, where I would start the exercise movements after I finished reciting them.

Sometimes, I would even wait impatiently for the five minutes to be up so that I could immediately erect my palm to cleanse outward at the second sound of the bell. As such, my thoughts were not focused, and the dimensional field in my small universe was dirty. Since my mind was not pure or righteous, there was no power either. To make things worse, I would think that I was doing poorly in my cultivation, such that my ability was not enough to cause any effect. I did not have a steadfast belief in Master and the Fa.

Master said,

“Do you realize something? My Dafa disciples, your righteous thoughts do have an effect. And the combined effect of each of you together is powerful beyond compare. The reason you can’t achieve such an effect is that your faith is lacking, and your righteous thoughts aren’t strong enough. With so many Dafa disciples around the globe sending righteous thoughts at the same time, 100 million plus Dafa disciples sending righteous thoughts together at the same time globally, would that not be terrifying to the evil and the old forces? To the gods, it would be a truly magnificent sight. What power! Even with just one Dafa disciple, if your righteous thoughts are strong, the power is enough to split a mountain—just one thought will do it.” (“What a Dafa Disciple Is,” Collected Teachings Given Around the World Volume XI)

With that, I strengthened my inward cleansing intensity and treated myself as a small universe. I cleansed myself seriously for five minutes. After I thoroughly changed my absent-minded state of mind, my sending of righteous thoughts really had great effects. Although I did not feel or see anything, my mind was especially clean and light with no trace of wild thoughts. Even when I continuously sent forth righteous thoughts for an hour, my mind was always in this superb state. As the days continued, although there were times when I did not do well, most of the time I was able to stay in this quiet state. I now no longer feel deterred from sending forth righteous thoughts. I am even able to proactively find time or voluntarily squeeze in time to send forth righteous thoughts. I send righteous thoughts for half an hour at 6 a.m. and send righteous thoughts for an hour at 12 a.m. If time permits, I also send righteous thoughts for half an hour at 12 p.m. and 6 p.m.

Thank you, Master, for your enlightenment. I am really grateful to Master for not forsaking or giving up on me. Thank you, Master, for giving this disappointing person another chance to improve and cultivate myself and save sentient beings! I will definitely make good use of this final chance to catch up, do well in every one of the three things, and catch up with the Fa-rectification progress.