(Clearwisdom.net)

Currently Dafa practitioners want to spend as much time as possible validating the Fa and saving sentient beings. How to truly study the Fa with a calm mind and assimilate to the Fa during the precious and limited time available for Fa-study is a question that every Dafa practitioner needs to face with righteous thoughts.

Teacher taught us in Zhuan Falun, "We shouldn't be looking at how the tools look, but at how effective they actually are." I understood that we need to pay attention to the actual effect of our Fa-study. The actual effect is not equal to how fast we can study the Fa (it is good to study the Fa fast, but with calm mind). How can we have the best results from Fa-study and achieve the maximum effect within the precious and limited time every day? Below is my personal understanding.

1. Clearly Realize the Factors that Interfere with Our Fa Study and Keep Our Main Consciousness in Total Control

Every Dafa practitioner wants to have a calm mind during Fa-study. But why are things sometimes contrary to what we expect? I think it is because of our acquired notions and attachments, including thought karma and factors formed during our past lives at different levels, and the evil factors that interfere with our main consciousness.

We all know that it is the main consciousness that obtains gong during our cultivation within the Fa. We also know that our main consciousness should clearly govern us all the time as we do the exercises. Our main consciousness should also very clearly govern us to clarify the truth and validate the Fa.

So why can't we let our main consciousness clearly govern us and achieve the maximum effect during our Fa-study? We should clearly realize that the factors that interfere with our mind during Fa-study are not us. We should use our strong main consciousness to control our brain and restrain and suppress the interference. This process is also the process of eliminating the interference. At the same time, we should let the Fa we study clearly reflect in our mind.

2. The Evil's Interference and Persecution of Us Starts from Interfering with Our Fa-study

The prerequisite of validating the Fa is to study the Fa well. The evil's interference and persecution of us also starts from interfering with our Fa-study. If we do not pay attention to Fa-study, the evil will not only not let us study the Fa with a calm mind, but will also gradually lead us neglect Fa-study and finally deviate us from the Fa. I think the interference happened during our Fa-study is the most serious interference.

Currently some practitioners are still interfered with during the Fa-study. For example, they frequently misread the Fa, and are so distracted that they do not know what they just read after finishing reading. They may be sleepy and nearly fall asleep. Some practitioners have become so frustrated with this kind of interference over a long period of time that they have unconsciously become passive and gotten used to being distracted and sleepy when they study the Fa.

Studying the Fa must not become a formality. As we study the Fa, our main consciousness needs to be completely focused. Even if the time is limited and we can only study one lecture, we need to actually study that lecture and assimilate to the Fa. If we can really do that, our every thought will have the mighty power of righteous thoughts originating from the Fa.

3. Focus on the Actual Result and Continuously Improve Ourselves

For a long time now, every day when I study the Fa, my whole body and mind assimilate to the Fa's boundless meaning and energy fields. I truly feel the most magnificent and wonderful glory in the universe. Sometimes Teacher's Fa enlightens me and lets me understand the higher level of the Fa's principle. I can feel my body being stimulated from an extremely microscopic level to the outermost surface. I feel I have become a completely new person since these experiences. My thoughts are calm and clear. My body is light and purified. Since I focus on the actual effect of the Fa-study, my status is also very good when sending forth righteous thoughts, clarifying the truth and persuading people to withdraw from the CCP. I basically do not have any interference at all.

After sharing cultivation experiences, we all realized that most of the practitioners who did not have good results from Fa-study and were interfered with were actually spending enough time to study the Fa. They usually guarantee a certain amount of time to study the Fa every day. Sometimes they even set aside a large amount of time to study the Fa. But the actual result of the Fa-study was not good. The fundamental reason was that they did not have a calm mind when studying the Fa. They solely pursued quantity and speed. Some practitioners felt they were already very familiar with the content of Zhuan Falun. So the Fa-study became a formality for them. They had the feeling of being "familiar" with what they read. While they read the current sentence, the next sentence also reflected in their brain. Some practitioners' main consciousness did not take full control of the brain, which caused them to unconsciously think of the next sentence while reading the current sentence. One practitioner read so fast that while he was reading the current sentence, his eyes already looked at the next sentence. All these phenomena negatively affect the outcome of Fa-study.

Some practitioners realized that it was not good to read the Fa too fast. But they also said when they read the Fa quickly, their thoughts were not distracted. However, when they read the Fa slower, their thoughts were easily distracted. After sharing these experiences, practitioners understood that this is the wrong way to do Fa-study. When a practitioner reads the Fa very fast, his main consciousness focuses the brain on "reading," instead of "studying the Fa with calm mind." Because the practitioner wants to read the Fa quickly, fluently and correctly, his main consciousness is completely focused on "reading," not "studying."

It is worth mentioning that after the experience sharing based on the Fa, the practitioners who were interfered with before clearly understood the nature of the interference and their own problems. During their Fa study afterwards, they intentionally reinforced their main conspicuousness and used a slower speed to read the Fa. Although in the beginning their thoughts were still distracted, the practitioners constantly reinforced their main consciousness and let every word they read reflect in their brain. As the practitioners fought with the evil's interference, the interference got weaker and weaker until it finally was eliminated. The practitioners who eliminated the interference now study the Fa with a calm mind and this helps the whole body become better and better.