(Clearwisdom.net)
Recently, I've become more and more aware of the importance of strengthening my main consciousness so I write this to share with everyone.
About a month ago when I was sending forth righteous thoughts, I was in a negative state in which I lacked the power to do what I wanted to do. I was feeling very upset and I was not completely in control of myself. Several of my fellow practitioners had just been arrested at the time. I was experiencing truly heart-wrenching pain. That was when I really needed to thoroughly examine myself! A fellow practitioner happened to visit me at the time, and I asked her to help me send forth righteous thoughts to eliminate all the evil persecuting me. I was fully aware that my main consciousness was not very strong.
Afterwards, whether I was eliminating the evil in my own dimensional field or even before I erected my palm to eliminate the evil, I added this thought: main consciousness strengthens and anything that interferes or obstructs my main consciousness' cultivation or my sending righteous thoughts to completely eliminate the evil and the evil, old forces, is the target of the eliminating force which encompasses everything and leaves out nothing. When interference occurred while I sent forth righteous thoughts I also did the same thing. I extended the time for my sending forth righteous thoughts to eliminate my attachments as well as all of the evil and all of the old forces behind them until the attachments were eradicated. The effect of doing so was very good. Later after reading "Teaching the Fa at the 2002 Fa Conference in Philadelphia U.S.A", I was more determined in sending righteous thoughts to clean up my dimensional field. Each time I sent forth righteous thoughts I did it for one to two hours and I extended the time period for cleaning up my own dimensional field. In doing so, the quality of my righteous thoughts was very good and my main consciousness became clearer and clearer by the day. Additionally, the tests that previously felt very difficult to pass had now become so easy to pass.
I have gained the following insights that I would to share with fellow practitioners.
1. In order to strengthen our main consciousness, we need to completely eliminate the evil, old forces that interfere with our main consciousness. This is a crucial point for Dafa disciples as we completely break through all of the arrangements made by the old forces.
2. We are safest when we are able keep our main consciousnesses clear in each and every moment. I thought about one issue this morning while I was practicing the exercises. Why was it that I only became more diligent under pressure, such as when some fellow practitioners had been arrested? It appears as if the old forces' persecution has become the motive for my becoming more diligent. That's so unrighteous! Is this not seeking excuses for the old forces' persecution of Dafa?
I then enlightened to this: If every one of us Dafa disciples is able to maintain a strong main consciousness so that we can rationally distinguish the differences between the arrangements made by Teacher and the arrangements made by the old forces and if we are able to truly take the path arranged by Teacher, then we are actually destroying the arrangements made by the old forces. This is the safest. If under all circumstances we are grounded in the Fa and we are able to forge ahead vigorously instead of going along in formality, and we are able to truly maintain a strong main consciousness then we are better able to do the three tasks instructed by Teacher with a pure and clean mind.
I also enlightened to the following: In the Fa-rectification period, any living being is in danger if it cannot correctly handle personal cultivation in relation to the Fa-rectification. We Dafa disciples should follow Teacher's words and do things from our hearts instead of from formality. When we truly look inward and from our hearts we assimilate with the Fa, we are then able to manifest Dafa's power.
3. One practitioner's issues are the issues of every other fellow practitioner within this one body. It is not by chance that we are situated with the practitioners presently around us, as it is possible that they all have something to do with a special aspect of our lives or with the attachments that we need to remove. A fellow practitioner that I had direct contact with had not studied the Fa for a long time and her emphasis was just on doing Dafa work. I kept reminding her to study the Fa, but that did not have any effect. I had a hard time trying to understand her and then some attachments developed. Whenever I started to think about her I felt bad. I knew that there was definitely something wrong with myself, yet I didn't look for the cause of the problem. I was impeded by this notion that "not studying the Fa is not right." I was actually judging right and wrong at a superficial level, and I failed to truly search inside myself for attachments.
I read through all of Teacher's articles thoroughly--from the early "Essentials for Further Advancement" to "Essentials for Further Advancement II", to the more recent articles--from the beginning to the end I enlightened to them from my heart. When I read, "Actually, there are a few students who have always been reluctant to do things that are for destroying the evil and clarifying the truth--as if that would be doing something for Master, or as if that would be putting in extra for Dafa." ("Fa-rectification Dafa Disciples" in Essentials for Further Advancement II) it really touched a chord in me. During this time several practitioners around me had been arrested, and I felt that we should first stop doing truth-clarification work for a while, and that we should stay home to study the Fa, practice the exercises, and send forth righteous thoughts. Nevertheless, other practitioners still went ahead to do truth-clarification work as usual.
It was then that I realized that my actions in clarifying the truth did not exactly come from my true nature, since it was conditional. I did it under the condition that my own personal safety would be guaranteed. I was selfishly trying to protect myself to the greatest extent and I was attached to personal cultivation and my own consummation. Hidden behind these two attachments are actually the old forces.
I sent forth righteous thoughts to eliminate them. I also told them directly and openly: I am cultivating Falun Dafa and I am cultivating my main consciousness. I'm the master of the small universe in my body. These two attachments are not me. They are forced upon me by you old forces. I don't acknowledge them and I don't accept them. Don't you ever think about having any effect in this small universe of my body! Your body and your soul shall become extinct immediately and shall be completely destroyed. After sending this thought, I felt as if my head was being dug into and then some heavy substances were completely removed. After that, my compassion emerged like spring water and my motives for doing truth-clarification work became even more clean and pure.
4. I read the articles on Minghui very carefully every day and I sincerely exchange experiences with fellow practitioners, but this is the first time that I have written down my experience. Before coming to writing this article and in my process of writing it, I had to overcome various internal and external interferences and obstructions. This article is a reflection of the accomplishments in cultivation that I have attained after working very hard. It is with a pure and upright mind and with very strong righteous thoughts that I was able to write this. I remembered one time that after reading a fellow practitioner's article I was able to understand something that I had a hard time enlightening to even after deliberating on it painstakingly for half a year. After my original nature had elevated, I became truly aware of the preciousness of other practitioners' articles.
5. When I send righteous thoughts, I always add a thought: Encompassing
everything and leaving out nothing, completely reject and completely break
through all arrangements made by the old forces for Dafa, Dafa disciples and
sentient beings of various realms. With a most mighty and most compassionate
mind, "focus powerful thoughts in saying the word Mie1 (
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after they finish saying the formula(s). The Mie ()
word needs to be so strong that it's as large as the cosmic body, encompassing
everything and leaving out nothing in any dimension." (from Righteous
Thoughts) I told myself to be fully aware that completely eliminating the
evil is at the same time saving countless sentient beings who are deceived by
the old forces. With a most compassionate mind I told sentient beings the Fa-principle:
"Sentient beings! Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is the great, basic Dafa
of the universe. As long as you assimilate with Dafa and as long as you
assimilate with Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, your life will be renewed
and can enter the new cosmos. It will not be extinguished and will last into
eternity. If you go along with the old forces in damaging Dafa, you are
committing the biggest sin. Dafa is solemn and serious!" When I do this I
instantly feel countless sentient beings receiving salvation.
6. My understanding of one whole body:
Firstly: The one whole body of Dafa disciples is manifested in another dimension where our divine sides are manifested. In other words, as long as each and every one of us Dafa disciples is able to maintain strong main consciousnesses and we let our divine side truly take effect, the one whole body in another dimension can then display its incomparable power. I came to understand that being "diligent without letting up" (from Righteous God) is Teacher's requirement for Dafa disciples at the very final stage of the Fa-rectification period.
It is not so hard to be diligent and not let up for a certain period of time. However, to be constantly diligent without letting up is not an easy task. For the past several months, I have felt that I have become more diligent than I was in the past. In the past, it would take me a day or two to recover from not doing something well. Now, as soon as I realize that something is wrong, I quickly take care of the problem with righteous thoughts. The period for recovery has gotten shorter and shorter. For the past month, I have also felt that I have become more and more diligent and more and more tranquil. I feel that my divine side has become stronger.
Secondly: This one whole body is a living being. If several or many parts go wrong and fail to fully display their powerful capabilities, then in the confrontation between the righteous and the evil, wouldn't this living being not be able to display its full potential power? If several or many parts of this body fail to cooperate with one another, just as we Dafa disciples fail to cooperate with each other, then, in the battle between the righteous and the evil, wouldn't this human body not be able to display its full potential power? So the matter of how to make this one whole body display its power to the maximum extent is crucially important.
Thirdly: One time I had this thought: If we Dafa disciples are able to communicate with open hearts with each other and compensate for each other's weakness with our own strengths, and if we abandon the notion of you as separate from me, if we are able to do so and not remain just saying so, we can then form an indestructible whole body. This requires that every Dafa disciple truly look within himself and cease debating over right or wrong at the superficial level. If the thought for looking within yourself is not strong enough and you are still complaining about others, you are then judging right from wrong like an everyday person and you are not truly looking inward. Teacher says: "Remember my words: Regardless of whether the matter is your fault or not, you should look within yourself, and you will find a problem." (Lecture at the Conference in Europe)
Our fundamental foundation is based on the rectification of the Fa. It is rooted in being compassionate to sentient beings, rooted in being compassionate to fellow practitioners and rooted in completely rejecting and destroying the arrangements made by the old forces by looking inside ourselves. Looking inside ourselves is a precious means that Teacher has bestowed upon Dafa disciples with which to completely reject all arrangements made by the old forces. Truly being able to looking inward is Fa-rectification's requirement for us.
Fourthly: Help from fellow practitioners is very important. The reason I was able to improve myself so quickly was because fellow practitioners had sent forth righteous thoughts for me at the very beginning, and it also was the result of my being diligent. In addition, if we don't isolate ourselves, when we have problems we can ask Dafa disciples for help when we send forth righteous thoughts. If when sending forth righteous thoughts, every Fa-rectification Dafa disciple can send pure, righteous, clear and strong thoughts continuously, our one whole body will quickly become stronger and stronger.
7. With regard to the issue of fundamental attachments, I would like to remind fellow practitioners that this issue should not be neglected. Sending forth righteous thoughts is a very effective means to eliminate the fundamental attachments as well as all the evil and the old forces behind them.
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1 This is the last word in one of the formulas, and means "cleaned out," "eliminated," "purged," etc. It is pronounced "Myeh." |
