(Clearwisdom.net) I am seventy-four years old, and I obtained the Fa in 1996. Since for so many years I had been poisoned by the CCP’s atheism, I had very poor enlightenment quality. However I am thankful since experiencing the good fortune of being saved by Master from the bottomless abyss. Every day I was thinking how can I truly cultivate? How can I solidly cultivate? Recently I read an experience-sharing article from the Minghui Weekly by a fellow practitioner from the countryside: that is, for everything just listen to Master’s teaching, just follow what Master says. I felt enlightened. In cultivation, I just need to listen to Master and it will produce instant results. I want to give two to three examples as follows.
When I was reading the Fa at the Fa-study group, very often I had the problem of omitting or adding words, and I was very concerned. Before I started to read the Fa, I always thought to myself that I should not read it incorrectly. But every time I still misread it at times.
Master mentioned in “Dafa Disciples Must Study the Fa”:
“You must study the Fa well, for that is the fundamental guarantee that you return to your position. (Disciples applaud) This isn’t just something that I casually thought up: what Master is imparting to you is the Fa of the cosmos. What I just said was to tell you that you absolutely must not slack off in your cultivation, you absolutely must not slack off in your Fa-study, and that you definitely must do it with all due sincerity. If previously you didn’t study well, you definitely should, once you leave here today and having heard Master address this again, really earnestly study and cultivate, and not let your mind wander. (Disciples applaud)”
Fifteen years have passed, I did not cultivate well, and Master still talked about it one more time, I felt sorrow and regret. From now on, I should listen to Master, study the Fa, and when I read the Fa, I should not let my mind wander. It had immediate results, and since then I have not made mistakes in reading.
Recently when I was doing the fourth exercise, the Falun Heavenly Circuit, I could hardly bend down. I could only circle my hands around my thighs. What should I do? After looking inside and sending forth righteous thoughts, my hands still could not reach the proper position. One day as I was bending down, Master's voice on the recorded music said: “make a circle around your feet”, I immediately understood that I was asked to make a circle around my feet. I quickly sped it up. I was almost there and making a circle around the feet. When I listened to Master, the blockage was opened. I also thought that if I listened to Master all the time, in that way, how fast I could improve.
I also have been puzzled in my mind for the past several years, since I did not study enough of the Fa, and I did not cultivate well. My fellow practitioners from my team always said to me when they tried to help: “You have been cultivating for so long, and you have not changed at all, so-and-so was not diligent and he passed away.” After hearing this, very often I was not happy. They continued to say things like, “You have already fallen into the morass, someone is trying to save you, and you are still so picky in choosing what way they should use to save you.” After listening to a lot of things like this, I had the attachment of fear, fearing that the bad substance in what they said would be passed onto me through their supernormal power, and so “locking” me in the level of “being incapable.” I had a very strong pursuit, begging them to just remind me of what part I did poorly and not anything else. Since I had poor xinxing and did not do well in studying the Fa or cultivating my xinxing, I felt in pain. I did not even want to see my fellow practitioners. I went to the Fa-study group once each week. Later on I heard some fellow practitioner say: “So-and-so could not get along with a fellow practitioner and so refused to join the Fa-study group. As a result, he was arrested. I wanted to change to a different Fa-study group. But if I leave, isn’t that conflict even growing larger? Isn’t that a loophole that would invite persecution?
Why is cultivation is so difficult? One day I could not suppress my puzzlement and I told a fellow practitioner that I felt the pressure was huge. This fellow practitioner told me right away: “Sister, please read what Master wrote in “Teaching the Fa at the 2004 Chicago Conference,” Master said:
“…since you're cultivators and you're among ordinary people, you just have to listen to those displeasing words, and you have to be able to listen to those displeasing words. (Applause) Otherwise, when you haven't even resolved this most basic cultivation issue, how could you call yourself a Dafa disciple?”
Master also said:
“Exactly because you people have those attachments, there exist factors that hit on your attachments; and exactly because those attachments of yours are stirred up, you get irritated; when all of you have those attachments, the situation where everyone is irritated by the person who hit on their attachments comes about. If you can all keep a calm and steady state of mind while being assaulted by strong words, and you're not at all affected, then see if those factors still exist."
As soon as my fellow practitioner finished reading Master’s words, the substance of my fear was gone, and the wall between me and the fellow practitioner was broken down. I felt very light. Within two minutes, the problem I had for years was gone with Master’s Fa. It is really great to listen to Master.
After several experiences, I deeply feel that if Dafa disciples want to go home with Master, we have to pay attention to studying the Fa. We have to listen to Master all the time. Only in this way can we quickly purify ourselves, and can we keep our promise to assist Master in rectifying the Fa.
Category: Improving Oneself
