Presented at the Southeast Asian Falun Dafa Cultivation Experience Sharing Conference
Our compassionate Teacher said,
"I know that you've all worked so hard. You have to work and have to study, you have your family life and social activities, and at the same time you have to take care of your family, do a good job at work, and you have to study the Fa well and do the exercises well, and what's more, you have to clarify the truth. It is hard! It's pretty hard both time-wise and financially. It's hard, so your mighty virtue is displayed; it's hard, and so it's a good opportunity to establish your mighty virtue. Remarkable! Since you are cultivators, even though it's hard you should do even better." ("Teaching the Fa at the 2001 Canada Falun Dafa Cultivation Experience Sharing Conference")
My personal experience is that, although every day I clarify the truth to the public, spread the Fa, study the Fa and do the practices as well as complete my assignments at work, I can still manage my time effectively and do not feel tired. Everything is going smoothly. In the past, I had to spend a lot of time getting some work done. But now I can accomplish a lot of work within a short time. So when others ask me, "Where do you rush from?" Or "Where do you hurry to?" I always correct them, "I'm not in a hurry." I know all these changes come from my cultivation. They are the effects of Dafa's power. Dafa has given me all these amazing benefits, which allow me to establish my own mighty virtue in this historical Fa-rectification period.
Now, I'd like to talk about my recent experience in eliminating the interference of fatigue.
No long ago, fatigue was taking every opportunity to interfere with my cultivation. I could feel that it was around and waiting for its chances. If I let myself relax slightly, it would immediately attack. Once before our regional group study, while I was reading Teacher's new articles, fatigue constantly interfered with me. Before I could finish reading a few pages, I fell asleep. Subconsciously I asked myself not to yield to fatigue. I struggled to open my eyes to continue my reading. But before long I would fall into sleep again. The situation repeated itself several times. Later it seemed that I heard Teacher's voice during a speech. I suddenly woke up and remembered that I had a cassette of Teacher's new articles. So I started to listen to the recording. Immediately I became energized again. Fatigue was eventually driven away. I finished reading Teacher's new articles and "Essentials for Further Advancement."
Even today, fatigue still bothers me. Especially when I study the Fa, it often starts to attack. To solve the problem, I tried every way to avoid it. But fatigue would redouble its mischief. Sometimes it even spoke to me, using other's mouth, "Are you well lately? Are you too busy? You don't look so well; are you too tired?" Although I did not accept all this, I also did not resist it and oppose it with my strong main consciousness either. I left out some attachments so that the interference from fatigue became quite rampant. For several nights, during sleep I had a pain in my back. Sometimes the pain became so severe that it woke me up and I could not go back to sleep. At the time I treated the pain as karma elimination and endured it passively. Later, I found that whenever I clarified the truth and sent forth righteous thoughts, the pain would vanish. Once I fell asleep the pain would come back again. It dawned on me that it was the evil forces at work, not my personal karma-elimination. Next morning when I did the exercises, I sent forth my righteous thoughts to eliminate them. I felt heat on my back and hands, and the pain immediately disappeared.
I understand that sending forth the righteous thoughts to eliminate the evil is an inevitable requirement for Dafa practitioners in the Fa-rectification cultivation, and we must not forget this. We are very fortunate to be able to cultivate in the Fa-rectification period. Teacher taught us the verse for sending forth the righteous thoughts, and endowed us with the ability to eliminate the evil with our righteous thoughts. Teacher told us, "As for the interference by evil in other dimensions, we must seriously eradicate it with righteous thoughts." ("Fa-rectification and cultivation")
As a Dafa disciple in the Fa-rectification period, we must study the Fa more diligently and distinguish right from wrong. Teacher said, "The Fa can reveal all attachments, the Fa can eradicate all evils, the Fa can expose and dispel all lies, and the Fa can strengthen righteous thoughts." ("Deter Interference") Now I am doing my best every day. I send forth righteous thoughts every hour on the hour, whereas before, I did this only in the morning and evening and also during the group activities at designated times. Only when I measured myself against the highest standard all the time and follow a righteous path every step along the way in this Fa-rectification period, can I fulfill my responsibility as a Dafa disciple and complete my journey as a Dafa disciple.
The above is my personal experience. Please offer your compassionate corrections if you find any part objectionable.
