(Clearwisdom.net) A cultivator will come across all sorts of tribulations in cultivation. Master taught us in Zhuan Falun that Falun Dafa is a cultivation system of mind and body,
"Looking at it this way, a complete system of both nature and longevity cultivation needs to have cultivation, and it needs to have exercises."
I did not understand Master's words correctly before, and I thought that doing the exercises was less important than upgrading xinxing, so I was not diligent with the exercises, and the evil exploited my gap.
I started cultivation when I was 17 years old. I thought that I was very healthy and that the movements were the supplementary means for reaching consummation, so as long as I studied the ""Fa well and upgraded my mind nature, then I would be fine. Before 1999, the cultivation environment in China was relatively good. I was interfered with by the demon of sleepiness, and I was always reluctant to go to the group practice site in the morning. My parents would urge me to go, and then I would find that after doing the exercises in the morning I was so energetic; I never felt tired all day. Although I experienced the miraculous effects of the exercises, I was still not doing the exercises diligently, especially in the winter.
After 1999, the group exercise environment was destroyed. I did not do well exercising at home. Once, while doing the fifth exercise, my legs were very painful, and I felt uneasy. I heard Master's Fashen say to me, "Your karma is so enormous, why don't you get rid of it soon." I enlightened that Master was hinting me to seize the day and do the exercises.
Then I mistakenly thought that the fifth exercise was more important than the other four, so I only did the fifth exercise. After I began working, the exercises were done even less. After reading Master's words in Zhuan Falun,
"The timing doesn't matter to us: when you don't do the exercises at midnight, gong refines you, when you don't do the exercises in the morning, gong is still refining you, when you're sleeping, gong is still refining you, when you're walking, gong is still refining you, and when you're at work, gong is still refining you again."
I enlightened to it wrongly again. I thought the gong was refining me anyway, and that I did not need to do the exercises. The evil used my gap and often made me have symptoms of sickness karma. I knew that I was a cultivator, so I firmly negated the evil persecution in my physical body, but I was in those "sick" periods for a relatively long time. My parents always urged me to do the exercises, but I even grew a rebellious mentality, which was another gap that the evil exploited. I was very yellow and pale, had no energy, was afraid of being cold or hot, was very tired, and always wanted to sleep. Even my reading the Fa was interfered with, because as soon as I started reading I would feel sleepy.
Our Benevolent Master did not give up on me. One day I was watching a video of overseas practitioners doing group exercises. That solemn scene made me recall the scene in China before 1999, where there were several hundred of us doing the exercises together. I cried so hard, and I felt that I had been not worthy of Master's mercy. I started reading The Great Consummation Way of Falun Dafa and corrected my every movement. Accompanied by Master's serene exercise music, I felt warm currents coursing through my whole body. I felt myself being enlarged, and I did the exercises in a very empty huge space. When I was holding the Falun on top of my head, I felt a huge stove warming me behind my back. After I finished the five exercises with ease, I was very calm and peaceful, and was very eager to read Zhuan Falun. I deeply enlightened to Master's Fa on this aspect.
Cultivation practice is both cultivating the mind and refining the body; only then can we reach cultivation of both mind and body as a genuine Falun Dafa disciple.
Please correct any of my mistakes. Heshi!
