(Clearwisdom.net)
(Continue from Part 1)
5. Solemn Fa Conference
At 8 a.m. on July 20, the Fa conference began. Practitioners all sat on the floor with their legs crossed. The meeting place was dignified and solemn. Practitioners read Teacher's "Teaching the Fa in the City of Chicago" twice, and the whole room was full of immense compassion.
(i) Commemoration
Conference Host: It has been six years since the persecution began on July 20, 1999. During this time, the number of practitioners known to have died from the persecution is 2,686. All of them can be identified by name and all of their deaths were reported on the Clearwisdom website. There are possibly many more deaths that we are not aware of or have not been told about. Today we are holding a "Fa" conference. Let us first mourn these 2,686 practitioners who have died due to the persecution.
(Play the short film, Mourning)
Host: We still have so many practitioners who are illegally held in prisons, forced labor camps, detention centers and brainwashing centers. Let's together send forth righteous thoughts to completely eliminate all the dark minions, rotten ghosts and evil spirits in all of the prisons, forced labor camps, detention centers and brainwashing centers that persecute Dafa practitioners. Rescue these practitioners and help them to be released soon.
(Practitioners send forth righteous thoughts for ten minutes.)
(ii) The Three Things
The conference host read two of Teacher's articles: "The Fa Conference" and "A Letter to Shijiazhuang Dafa General Assistance Center."
Host: We have read Teacher's requirements for the Fa conference. For this conference, we mainly share about how to do The Three Things well. Time is limited, so we will share one by one about doing The Three Things.
a. About Studying the FaHost: OK, let's talk about the issue of studying the Fa first. With regard to Fa study, Teacher stresses in every lecture that we need to study the Fa more. I will talk about it first, and take the lead. Then everyone please share.
Some practitioners feel sleepy as soon as they study the Fa. Sleepiness is also a kind of demon. This is a matter for individuals to break through. Another problem is that our hearts are not tranquil when we study the Fa. This seems to be relatively common. Let's see what Teacher said about it.
Reads the sixth and seventh paragraphs of the "Fa-Lecture at the Conference in Florida, U.S.A."
Here Teacher told us clearly, "I think that you have to calm your mind when you study the Fa, and remember to keep your mind steady during Fa-study when you're busy."
Practitioners then had a discussion about the situation of a practitioner who had gone astray and was not acting in compliance with the Fa. They discussed ways in which to help their fellow practitioners understand the situation and not be negatively influenced, and decided that besides sending forth righteous thoughts, they would also talk to those practitioners who had been affected.
Host: The Buddha Fa is boundless; there are ways to deal with it. As long as everyone improves in the Fa in regards to this matter, then it will be fine. We can write about the situation and send the article to the Clearwisdom website, kindly advising those affected to really calm down, study the Fa and quickly wake up. We are still kindly advising and saving people.
Practitioner: This is a good way.
Host: It is five minutes to the hour, let's send forth righteous thoughts together.
(Practitioners send forth righteous thoughts for ten minutes.)
b. About Sending Forth Righteous ThoughtsHost: Let's share about the problems in relation to sending forth righteous thoughts. We are doing it every day. Some people's minds are not clear when they send forth righteous thoughts, some forget to do it and some people are too busy to attend to it. All of these situations are not good. We must draw attention to sending forth righteous thoughts. In addition, we found that practitioners are not sending forth righteous thoughts in phase and in a unified way. When we send forth righteous thoughts at the set time, we do all do it together globally. All practitioners are one body. When we do it simultaneously, it is very powerful. Therefore, we must send forth righteous thoughts at the same time, consolidate the essentials and not assume it as a matter of course according to how one feels. On March 11 of this year, the Clearwisdom website especially published an article about sending forth righteous thoughts. I will send it out.
Reads "The Essentials to Sending Forth Righteous Thoughts and the Schedule for Sending Forth Righteous Thoughts at Set Times Around the World (Update 2)"
Practitioner (question): What was it that you read in relation to pronouncing the verses of sending forth righteous thought in Mandarin? I did not hear clearly.
Host: It says as such, "whether or not one's primary language is Chinese, they should use accurate Mandarin Chinese pronunciations as much as possible when reciting the verses." I think this sentence is mainly for Western practitioners. Many practitioners outside of China can't speak Chinese, but when sending forth righteous thoughts, these two verses need to be pronounced in Chinese. They are also capable of pronouncing it. I think we should also try our best to silently recite these verses in Mandarin. We normally speak the local dialects and may not be used to speaking Mandarin. We may feel reluctant. It does not matter. In any case, we can use accurate Mandarin Chinese pronunciations in our minds to pronounce these eight characters in two sentences. We all can do it. We just recite it in our hearts. Nobody can hear. (Everyone laughs.)
Practitioner: I read from a practitioner's experience sharing article that except when he is sleeping, he sends forth righteous thoughts every hour, so he does it 16 times a day. He feels his condition is completely different from before. He can truly feel being in the state of a deity and able to send out powerful Gong when sending forth righteous thoughts. Instantly the evil in other dimensions is destroyed. The Gong comes from the microcosm. The powerful supernatural ability formed by microcosmic particles blasts and disaggregates all sorts of evil demons and rotten ghosts with one blow. Now when the police and evildoers see him, they all hide and move far away from him. They don't dare to look for him at all.
Practitioner: I saw a fellow practitioner's article on a website about how he had felt very nervous and unhappy when he heard that local practitioners were being arrested. Later, he enlightened to the understanding that we are one body. Other practitioners' concerns are also his concerns, so he began to send forth righteous thoughts to rescue the detained practitioners. In the beginning, it was very difficult. He sent forth righteous thoughts for a month before the fellow practitioners were set free. Afterwards as soon as he learned that practitioners were arrested, he sent forth righteous thoughts to rescue them and did it together with other practitioners. In this way, along with their righteous thoughts becoming stronger and stronger, the arrested practitioners were released earlier and earlier. The quickest one was set free after just two days of detention. They enlightened to the understanding that the stronger the righteous thoughts, the bigger the mighty power, and the earlier the practitioners were rescued.
Host: That's right. Why do we send forth righteous thoughts simultaneously across the world? It is because we are one body. We used to have this wrong mentality: When some practitioners were arrested or some materials production sites were damaged, our first thoughts were often that the arrested practitioner had some xinxing problem, so he or she had this incident. The problem was caused by a few practitioners at the materialsS production site who, for a long time, could not calm down to study the Fa. They even had a long-term conflict among themselves. These practitioners were taken advantage of by the evil due to their shortcomings and loopholes. We often thought that way. However, this kind of thinking is possibly the exact manifestation of our flaw of not forming one body, and is the biggest loophole for the evil.
Practitioner: It is extremely important to improve as a whole. In "Fa-Lecture at the Conference in Florida, U.S.A.," Teacher mentioned the issue of sending forth righteous thoughts,
"As you know, the persecution that Dafa disciples in Mainland China suffer is quite severe, so each student has to truly, clearly realize what his responsibility is, and when he sends forth righteous thoughts he has to be able to truly calm his mind and truly produce the effect of righteous thoughts. So this is something extremely critical, extremely important. Then if every student is able to do that, I can tell you, with five minutes of sending forth righteous thoughts together, the evil in the Three Realms will never exist again--that's how important this is."
Teacher told this to us in December 2001. Three years have passed and we still have not achieved calming everyone's mind to send forth righteous thoughts for five minutes as one body. If we include every practitioner, a whole body has not been completely formed.
Host: It is the time to send forth righteous thoughts again. Let's calm our minds to send forth righteous thoughts.
(Practitioners send forth righteous thoughts for ten minutes.)
(To be continued)
