(Clearwisdom.net) Recently I studied Teacher's lecture, "Teaching the Fa at the Conference in Vancouver, Canada, in 2003." As I was reading I suddenly understood something new about righteous thoughts and righteous actions. Master said,
"There's Zhuan Falun at every level, the truths at each level are different, and the words inside appear different, and they're all the truth of the new cosmos at different levels." ("Teaching the Fa at the Conference in Vancouver, Canada, in 2003")
When we follow Master's teachings, we are doing things in accordance with the principles of the new cosmos. Therefore, the rules of the old cosmos do not apply to us, and the old forces cannot touch us, nor persecute us. In such a state we are at ease.
The following is one of my experiences of getting rid of the mentality of fear. I would like to share it with my fellow practitioners. Please kindly point it out if there is anything improper.
I am a teacher. Two years ago, because of clarifying the truth, I was reported to the police and sent to a brainwashing class. Although I was released from the class with righteous thoughts, I was fired from my job. I tried many times to get my job back, but did not make any progress. I calmed down and looked inside, "Maybe I haven't "clarified the truth" enough. Shouldn't I clarify the truth to more people about my persecution experiences in order to save more sentient beings with predestined relationships?"
Master said in "Teaching the Fa at the 2004 Washington, DC Fa Conference,"
"Wherever there's a problem, that is where you need to clarify the truth and save people. Don't take a detour when you run into difficulties. When you see something that does us harm, or when you see something blocking our validating the Fa, don't take a detour -- you should face it, and clarify the truth and save those beings."
I thought that since I had worked in the education system, the teachers in the whole county might be the sentient beings that I was suppose to save. Therefore, I decided to clarify the truth by writing letters. I would mail a letter to every school in the county. There would be over a hundred letters. I would write one letter and then make multiple copies of it. Before I mailed out the first letter however, the mentality of fear started to interfere with me. I thought, "If I clarify the truth on such a large scale, I may suffer persecution again."
From Master's teachings, I knew that Dafa disciples possess the divine power of the Buddha Fa, which cannot be matched by anything, and have the ability to restrain the evil in every dimension. What is there to fear? I then started to mail the letters. The mailing did not go smoothly and I had interference from time to time. It was said that the post offices open the letters to stop those letters with articles about the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party (published by The Epoch Times newsgroup). So I didn't mail all the letters at one time, and only mailed two to three letters each day. Therefore, the process took a very long time.
After I mailed dozens of letters, someone informed me that I was in danger. My fear arose again. "Should I continue to mail the letters, or stop?" At that time, Master's words occurred to me,
"It's because all matter within the scope of the dimensional field that's around his own body transforms with his thoughts. This is also 'transforming according to thoughts.'" (Zhuan Falun)
I realized that if I didn't think about it and didn't let it transform, it would not form any harmful matter in other dimensions. Master also taught,
"...a good or bad outcome comes from one thought." (Zhuan Falun).
On recalling the Fa, my mind calmed down, and I continued to mail the letters.
A few days later, just before the May 1st holiday, when I still had letters left to mail, a fellow practitioner informed me that there would be large scale arrests of Falun Gong practitioners in our county around that time, and that it would last five days. At the same time, Minghui Weekly also reported the news of the planned statewide arrests. One trouble followed another. The mentality of fear occurred in my mind again and even became stronger than before. I kept sending forth righteous thoughts and reciting the Fa in order to eliminate this mentality but was not successful. I stopped mailing letters for two or three days. When I picked up Zhuan Falun and started to read, I happened to start from the section of "Your Thoughts Have to be Proper," in Lecture 6,
"Then think about it: when you went to him for fortune-telling, didn't you listen to him and believe him? Didn't it burden your mind then? When you have a mental burden it's going to weigh on your mind--isn't that an attachment? How are you going to get rid of this attachment? Haven't you imposed on yourself another tribulation? And don't you have to go through even more hardship to get rid of this self-made attachment?"
I couldn't help but cry. I kept saying to Master, "Master, I understand. I understand." The pressure in my head suddenly subsided and I felt extremely relaxed, both mentally and physically. The Fa is so immense and wonderful that it cannot be described in words. I truly experienced the boundless power of the Fa:
"The Fa can break all attachments, the Fa can destroy all evil, the Fa can shatter all lies, and the Fa can strengthen righteous thoughts." (Essentials for Further Advancement II)
Through mailing letters, I strengthened my Fa study and sending forth righteous thoughts. I also exposed my mentality of fear. When I sent forth righteous thoughts before, I was rarely able to calm down. Now, I can feel that my dimension is much calmer. I am deeply grateful for Master's benevolence and arduous salvation, which has guided me step by step to get rid of my fear. A few days ago, I finally finished mailing out all my letters. The process of mailing the letters was also one of getting rid of the mentality of fear.
Through this experience, I realized that as long as one follows Master's teachings, one will not encounter any tribulations. Why did I suffer nearly six years of persecution? It is because I didn't regard myself as a genuine practitioner and didn't have enough righteous thoughts, and therefore went along the path that the old forces arranged. If one cannot get out of the old cosmic principles, one will not be able to deny the old forces' arrangements. Since Master taught us to completely oppose everything arranged by the old forces, I always think of how to oppose them and not acknowledge the old force arrangements. When I send forth righteous thoughts, I also add in this thought. However, I still didn't deny the arrangements by the old forces fundamentally. For nearly six years, I cultivated in tribulations. Although I have always firmly believed in Master and believed in Dafa, the depth of my belief was not enough. Even before I wrote this letter, I still hadn't found the way to oppose everything arranged by the old forces.
Master said in "Teaching the Fa at the 2004 Chicago Conference,"
"Of course, we don't acknowledge any of the things that the old forces arranged--I as your master don't acknowledge them, and Dafa disciples of course don't acknowledge them either. But after all, they did do what they wanted to do, so there's all the more reason for Dafa disciples to do even better and cultivate themselves well in the course of saving all beings. When you encounter ordeals during your cultivation, you have got to cultivate yourself and look at yourself--that doesn't mean acknowledging the ordeals arranged by the old forces and trying to do well amidst the ordeals they've arranged, that's not the case. We negate even the very emergence of the old forces and everything that they've arranged; we don't even acknowledge their existence. We're fundamentally negating all of their things, and all of, and only, the things you do while negating and getting rid of them is mighty-virtue. It's not that you're cultivating amidst the ordeals they created. Rather, you are to walk your own path well while not acknowledging them, not even acknowledging the elimination of their ordeals' manifestations. So looking at it from this angle, what we need to do is completely negate the old forces. Dafa disciples and I don't even acknowledge the manifestations of their last-ditch efforts."
I wrote down this paragraph as well as the last paragraph in "Teaching the Fa at the Western U.S. International Fa Conference" (February 26, 2005) and recited them every day. I strengthened my sending righteous thoughts and read Zhuan Falun whenever I have time. During the process, our benevolent Master manifested the Fa principles to me on how to negate the old forces, not acknowledge the old forces, and how to break through the evil interference. When I mailed out the letters, I didn't encounter any dangers. I deeply realize that one must have strong righteous thoughts during the process of validating Dafa. That is, one's mind must be right. In such a state, bad things cannot touch us. Therefore the negative factors will not transform according to our minds and there will be no demons to interfere. One will be able to negate the old forces and not acknowledge them.