(Clearwisdom.net) We would like to share our cultivation experience on holding a group Fa-study since August 2007 and doing the three things well. Group Fa-study is the format Master has given us. As along as one cultivates well, one will be able to help Master save sentient beings more effectively.
Group Fa-study development
Our group Fa-study began with only two people and slowly expanded to nine adults and six children. Most of practitioners come from one big factory. Initially, an elderly practitioner couple who lived near the factory offered their home for daily group Fa-study during factory lunch breaks.
In the beginning, some practitioners frequently showed up late and knocked on the door after the group had already begun to study the Fa. We had to stop and wait for them to settle before we could start studying again. The group continued for several days, and then some stopped attending. We realized the problem and shared our concerns and thoughts among practitioners. We agreed that Fa-study had rapidly improved everyone's xinxing and that we should continue to study in a group format. Later we held group study on weekends, and then practitioners also brought their children.
Around June 2008, the old couple who held the Fa-study at their home met interference and were reported to the police. They hid in their daughter’s (Practitioner A) home, while hometown police searched for them. Later the couple stayed with another relative.
Two other practitioners were on the authorities' blacklist, but they had righteous thoughts and were able to negate the interference when police visited them. Of them, Practitioner A, did the best; she refused to hand over her identification card and clarified the facts about Dafa to the Residential Committee leaders and the local police when they visited her at her job. The management where she worked was very supportive of her belief in Falun Dafa and vouched for her innocence. Practitioner A also told the police who were searching for her parents how her elderly father's leg fracture miraculously healed after he started cultivation.
Later, after the older couple returned to their hometown, the police visited them but did not cause any trouble. The couple no longer encountered any interference thereafter.
With the improvement of xinxing, everyone now has a more relaxed cultivation environment. We've also paid special attention to safety issues over the past few years, leaving the evil no chance to persecute any practitioners.
Just after the Chinese New Year in 2011, a practitioner proposed memorizing Zhuan Falun. We all agreed. We memorized five paragraphs a week and recited these five paragraphs at the group study on weekends. We were afraid of difficulties at first. For example, some memorized a paragraph in a day, but forgot it the next day. Young practitioners also had some difficulties in the beginning, but the more they were involved, the more they enjoyed this process.
We start the group study by practicing the exercises for half an hour, then study or memorize the Fa for another hour, and then send righteous thoughts for fifteen minutes.
At the beginning, most of the children could not sit still for a long time, lost their patience after half an hour, and wanted to go somewhere else. Their parents were firm and recognized the importance of having children involved in Fa-study. They continued to bring them to the group and insisted that the children complete all the sections. In the winter and summer, we added more Fa-study sessions for children after school and asked them to memorize Hong Yin. After three years of group Fa-study, the children changed a lot. They could sit in the louts position during the Fa-study and could pay attention for more than an hour.
Studying the Fa and doing the three things well
When we conducted group Fa-study, we did not treat it as a superficial form, but rather as a real opportunity to learn and understand the Fa.
Master said,
“In addition, you must study the high-level Fa thoroughly and know how to practice cultivation.” (Zhuan Falun)
Through years of group Fa-study, we gradually improved. Practitioners shared their experiences and cooperated well. They would look inward when there was a conflict.
Each person was responsible for a Dafa project. One was in charge of writing truth-clarification messages on paper money, another printed out the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party, some were focused on urging people to quit the CCP, and everyone was involved in the distribution of truth-clarification materials. Each month we would distribute more than 1,500 copies.
Since last September, Practitioner A has been printing truth-clarification messages on paper money. She made them look attractive and interesting, so that people could easily accept the facts. In the beginning, she only provided enough to be distributed within our group. Gradually, there were demands from other practitioners from throughout the city and outside of the city. Within a year, we provided more than 100,000 pieces of one-yuan paper money for distribution.
Practitioner B purchased a laser printer using her own money and printed Master's new articles and other Dafa materials. Practitioner C made booklets for practitioners, and Practitioner D was responsible for binding and delivering them. One practitioner was good at computers and provided technical support and maintenance. Older practitioners focused on asking people to quit the CCP. In some months they helped more than 130 people quit.
Everyone in the group improved quickly. Prior to us holding group Fa-study, it would take a long time to abandon attachments. Through the group study, we could recognize and discuss issues with fellow practitioners and pass tribulations quickly. Now we devote more time to cultivating ourselves and offer more people salvation. We have worked as one body.
If every group could resume group Fa-study and promote this group study format as Master has required, we could help many practitioners who have fallen behind catch up to the Fa-rectification process.
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