I Am Really Fortunate to Be Master’s Disciple

(Minghui.org) I started practicing Falun Dafa with my grandma when I was 16 years old, but I did it on and off and did not cultivate seriously. Grandma said, “You started learning Dafa when you were sick, and you stopped once you recovered. That is wrong.” I did not care much about it. I only knew that when my stomach illness recurred, or my body felt any discomfort anywhere, it would recover immediately once I practiced Dafa. When I think back now, that was compassionate Master not giving up on me.

Only in recent years did I truly start cultivating in Dafa. Encouraged by a fellow practitioner, I started studying the Fa, promoting the Fa, sending forth righteous thoughts, and I started a materials production site at home. However, I just could not find the motivation to do the exercises. This problem kept troubling me. Every time that I woke up in the morning to do the exercises, I would do them for a few days and then feel at ease and rest for a few days after that. When I felt that resting in between was incorrect, I would practice the next day. Sometimes I lay in bed after I woke up and thought about if I should get up to do the exercises. Seeing that the time was still early, I would then let myself sleep for another 10 minutes and would then oversleep and miss the exercises.

After watching the movie Once We Were Divine I was very touched. My righteous thoughts emerged, such that I would wake up at four plus in the morning to complete the five sets of exercises. After persisting for a week, I could not wake up for the exercises again. I thus kept facing this problem over and over again. I just could not find the determination to do the exercises.

I accidentally flipped open the Master’s lecture that I had copied and noted the teaching.

Master said:

“If it’s a Dafa disciple who cultivates himself very well and who manages to rationally understand what Dafa is, he will surely work at it with considerable effort and not let up when it comes to this. On the other hand, those who are not diligent are likewise studying the Fa, and they know that the Fa is very good, but their thinking is not grounded in the Fa and they don’t have ample righteous thoughts. So, naturally their understanding is not high; that is, they can’t truly understand the preciousness of the Fa. That’s why they’re not all that motivated.” (Teachings at the Conference in Los Angeles).

This was Master, telling me precisely to be a Dafa practitioner who is diligent in his cultivation and full of righteous thoughts. Just then, a sentence that Master had mentioned, came into my mind,

“Master is very worried, but this cannot help!” (“Further Elimination of Attachments,” Essentials for Further Advancement)

Master! I did really badly in the past. Tears flowed down my cheeks.

Cultivating in Dafa is a serious matter. My cultivation has unknowingly been obstructed by human notions and attachments, such as the attachment to comfort, enjoyment, and not being willing to take hardship. The evil has made use of these matters to form a strong barrier for me, stopping me from doing the exercises. We do not cultivate only when we are suffering hardship, we must also do well when we are living in a comfortable environment. True Dafa practitioners are those who can come through in all kinds of environments.

I felt that the obstruction lessened a lot and I had motivation. This was benevolent Master helping me get rid of the matter that had been interfering with me. Following that, I needed to change my thinking and treat hardship as joy when I did the exercises every day, so that I could keep up with the Fa-rectification progress.

In the morning at 4 o’clock, a gentle voice sounded before the alarm, “It is time.” This was the first time that I had awakened in such a calm way. When I looked at the time, it was four in the morning. A thought appeared in my mind, “Let me lie down for another minute.” I immediately sent forth righteous thoughts, “Eliminate this evil thought, annihilate the old forces’ interference, and listen to Master’s call to get up and do the exercises!” The barrier that had obstructed me from doing the exercises really disappeared.

When I practiced the fourth set of exercises, “Falun Cosmic Orbit,” a warm current went through my whole body, making me feel so warm and comfortable. After completing the exercises, I felt joy physically and mentally. My whole body felt light, as though I was lying in the clouds. No words can describe that wonderful feeling.

Benevolent Master, you allowed this non-diligent disciple to understand so many Fa principles and helped me resolve my problem of not being able to do the exercises, which had been troubling me for a prolonged period of time. You also cleansed my body and helped me overcome this tribulation.

Master said,

“You are a practitioner, so as your xinxing improves, won’t your gong also increase? You have gained four ways in one shot.” (Lecture Four, Zhuan Falun)

Master, I have benefited much more than that! I am really fortunate to be Master’s disciple.

No words can express my gratitude to Master! Once again, I appreciate Master!