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(Continued from Part 1, http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2005/7/4/62532.html)
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We Must Use Righteous Thought to Eliminate Evil Demons
One day in 2004, I went to another town to pick up Dafa materials. During the bus trip the top of my head (in another dimension) suddenly split open. Blood was dripping and a very ugly demon jumped out and was swinging in front of me, causing a headache. I immediately realized that this was interference from a demon, and I quickly recited the verses for sending forth righteous thoughts. Instantaneously a guardian god of the Fa eliminated the demon. After that the whole trip was smooth. My enlightenment to this is: That demon came from my hidden attachment to fear, and it was exposed by the test. In fact earlier that day I was a little worried. I was thinking how my elderly mother worries about me and how I am one of the focal targets at the police station. In short, it was the attachment to fear. When my righteous thoughts came out, that demon was defeated immediately.
One morning, my mother and I were sending forth righteous thoughts when we received a phone call from an unknown person. The caller asked my name and then hung up. My mother was afraid that the call had come from the police station monitoring us. Suddenly she could not speak, and her right side wouldn't function. The symptoms were like a stroke. She broke into tears. I said, "Mom, don't be afraid. You will be all right if you raise your xinxing." But my mother thought she was sick, and there was no change in her condition.
I took her to a hospital for medication because I was afraid my sisters and brothers would be upset with me if I didn't. I could not let go of my sentimentality. After two weeks there was no improvement. By then I had told my mother many stories about eliminating karma and said, "Mom, we are practitioners. The medicine and injections are for everyday people. They seem to cure the disease, but are useless to a practitioner. After all the time and money spent, they are still not working for you. What can be used on you, a woman in your 80's, to improve your xinxing? Only giving up sentimentality and eliminating the karma in your body can work. Now we have to let go of the mindset of treating it as an illness, quickly raise your xinxing level and study the Fa well. Teacher will take care of you." Hearing this, my mother seemed to understand and said, "I want to study the Fa well." Immediately her spirits lifted and she picked up Zhuan Falun and started reading it. She said she did not feel like eating, though. This made me worry and I did not know what to do.
Teacher said,
"The process of cultivation involves working off karma and enduring hardships. If you don't endure hardships the karma can't be worked off. So bodily suffering isn't necessarily a bad thing." ("Suggestions Given at the Beijing Falun Dafa Assistants Meeting" from Explaining the Content of Falun Dafa)
At that time, I sincerely asked for Teacher's help so that my Mom's process of eliminating karma would finish quickly. Then I saw a demon was jumping back and forth in front of her and would not let her get up. I immediately sent forth a thought: Teacher please strengthen me with divine powers, immediately eliminate the demon. In the blink of an eye, I saw that a guardian god of the Fa struck the demon dead with a sword in another dimension. Since it was breakfast time, I quickly put the meal on the table and asked my mother, "Do you want to have a meal?" She answered immediately, "Yes." She then could speak clearly. Her body was also restored to a normal state. This incident showed that practitioners really do not have illnesses. When we upgrade our xinxing while eliminating karma, we will pass the tribulation.
"Falun Dafa Is Good!"
Late one night in 2004, I was lying on my bed and thought: Falun Dafa is so wonderful! I want sentient beings in the cosmos to learn about it as soon as possible. I wanted to stand on top of the highest mountain and shout, "Falun Dafa is good!" With this thought, while reciting in my heart, I fell asleep.
Clarifying the Truth Unceasingly, Teacher Frequently Gives Me Encouragement
Every day I arrange half the day to study the Fa and the other half to distribute truth clarification flyers and other materials. Every time I go out, I think beforehand of where to go and who to speak to. Sometimes I'm not sure where to go. If I meet a stranger, I start from physical health and slowly talk into the subject. Sometimes when the television broadcasts lie to defame Falun Gong or some practitioners are in danger somewhere, the person that I talk to replies in a rush, "Now the situation is difficult[A1] . You must be careful." I thought "the more difficult" the situation the more we should go out and save those who do not know the truth. Teacher said,
"Clarifying the truth, at the same time as exposing the evil, restrains the evil and lessens the persecution; and exposing the evil is at the same time purging from people's minds the poison of the evil's lies and deception--it is saving people. This is the grandest mercy." ("A Message" from Essential for Further Advancement II)
One day, I bumped into four women chatting near the roadside. I knew one of them, so I joined them and chatted about daily family activities to let them understand why we persistently practice Falun Gong, why Jiang's regime persecutes Falun Gong practitioners and why we clarify the truth to everyday people. In the end they all wanted to memorize and recite "Falun Dafa is good!"
When I do well in truth clarification, I often can feel Teacher's encouragement. I must continue, do it better and speed up for those who still do not know the truth.
Areas of Separation and Partitions Are Demonic Interference
When I distribute Dafa flyers and booklets, if the quantity is large, I usually go to villages that have not already been covered. If the quantity is small, I distribute in our local area. Over time, the villages near and far have been covered and everything goes smoothly. One incident a little over a month ago remains deep in my memory. It relates to the "partitions" Teacher mentions. It caused me to suffer a lot.
One day a practitioner suggested distributing flyers in a far away village that has no public transportation. It is over 30 kilometers (almost 20 miles) away so we needed to walk over 75 kilometers (almost 50 miles) to get there and back. The road is especially rough; there are stones, and potholes everywhere. We took flyers, booklets and posters and went on the road. When we arrived at our destination, it was already night. The distributing process was fine, but in the end we lost each other. She was looking for me, and I was searching for her. She eventually left the village first. I did not have a flashlight and it was completely dark outside the village. The terrain was unfamiliar to me. Although I was really somewhat lost, I had to proceed. I went from a walk to a run, and at the same time I shouted the other practitioner's name with all my energy. In that wilderness of a quiet night, there was no response; it was still like death. My feet bumped into stones frequently but I was too busy to think of the pain. I asked for Teacher's help to quickly find the practitioner. About one third of the trip back, I found there was a flash of light in the distance, so I shouted in that direction, but there was no response. Only when we had almost returned, and she could not find the direction even with the flashlight, did we finally meet each other. I was tired and was sweating all over my body, my feet really hurt, my legs were also hurting and it was difficult to walk. She said she called my name not far away from the place where we departed, and I walked back there trying to find her. In fact it was not far away, but the old forces saw that our path was too smooth, so they added these "partitions" to persecute us.
At the end of it, I could no longer walk. After returning home I found four of my toes were badly injured. A few days later, the nail of one toe fell off completely. The other practitioner also had 3 seriously injured toes.
Only When We Study the Fa Well Can We Walk Smoothly on our Cultivation Path
During one period of time, my mother and I made good use of our time. We would study the Fa together. We would get up around 4:00 a.m. to do the exercises, send forth righteous thoughts at 6:00 a.m., then finish the exercises with the sitting meditation. After a simple breakfast, we would start Fa-study for one morning or one afternoon. The other half of the day we used to clarify the truth or make truth clarification materials. During Fa-study, we would sit in the double lotus position until we finished. Reading out loud has a very good effect. We feel more and more energetic and want to read more and more. One day reading Zhuan Falun, I completed 5 lectures without a break. I almost did not want to put down the book. That night I had a dream: I went to the highest building in the city. I took the elevator and went straight to the top. I feel that this was encouragement from Teacher.
There was a very long period of time when I was extremely busy on the surface rushing here and there to do things to validate Dafa. I used "busy-ness" as a reason to neglect Fa-study. Even when I studied the Fa, my mind was not clean and all kinds of thoughts would pop up, or I would be so very sleepy that I was studying in vain.
Teacher saw our problems and gave us lectures from various perspectives so that we could quickly understand and diligently improve and truly cultivate ourselves. In the "Fa-Lecture at the Conference in Florida, U.S.A." Teacher said:
"No matter how difficult your environment is, no matter how busy you get, you cannot forget to study the Fa. You must study the Fa, because it is the absolute, most fundamental guarantee of your improvement ...
"So when you study the Fa, don't just go through the motions. You have to calm your mind when you read it, and truly study it. Don't let your mind sneak away from you. Once your mind wanders off, you'll be studying in vain. If we look at it from another angle, when you study the Fa and your mind isn't on the Fa, it's not only a problem of just going through the motions, but also that the person studying the Fa is actually not being very respectful of the Fa. How could the Fa reveal itself, then? So from this angle, I think that you have to calm your mind when you study the Fa, and remember to keep your mind steady during Fa-study when you're busy."
Teacher's words woke me up. We must save sentient beings. They are waiting for us.
I felt my great responsibility and that time is pressing. There is no time to hesitate. My understanding of the Fa changed from "floating" to "solid," and it changed fundamentally, deep in my heart. I calmed down to study the Fa. I changed our former Fa-study schedule (I used to go to bed at 9:30 p.m.). Now we start Fa-study right after sending forth righteous thoughts at noon and continue until midnight when it's time to send forth righteous thoughts again (except dinner time). During Fa-study, my mind is clear with no other thoughts. The more I study, the more I live to study, and every word goes into my heart. My mind is very calm like when I am doing the sitting meditation, and I have a kind of excitement without my heart being moved. After sending forth righteous thoughts at midnight, I continue Fa-study until 12:30 a.m. During sleep, I do not undress. I do not use the electric blanket (my home is quite cold); sometimes I do not even go to the restroom. I do not want myself to be in a "comfortable" state and thus desire more sleep. I always maintain a clear mind and get up early around 4.00 a.m. to do the standing exercises.
I'm trying hard. Every day I study the Fa until midnight. It takes me just two days to finish one read through of Zhuan Falun. Sometimes I study Teacher's other articles in the middle. After two rounds of studying Zhuan Falun, I study Teacher's other lectures for one round and then return to Zhuan Falun. In the morning I also read some Minghui/Clearwisdom articles. Then I go out to clarify the truth. The whole afternoon is used to study the Fa. Previously in Fa-study I had to force myself to study longer. Now I always feel something new in Fa-study, am very eager and do not want to put down the book. Thus unnoticed the time was suddenly 2:00 a.m. Then I saw: I am running in another dimension. This is again encouragement Teacher gave to me, to speed up cultivation moving forward.
During Fa-study we should not neglect anything. The Fa is serious. Once our mind is relaxed just a little, the attachment of comfort, laziness, the attachment of fear and other attachments will pop up. Then the demons in layers upon layers occupy our minds. They make us not want to study the Fa, not want to do the exercises, and not want to send forth righteous thoughts to eliminate them.
Teacher said,
"If the attachments at your human-surface side aren't removed, then Master and the Law-guardian Gods are put in a tough position. But if your righteous thoughts are strong, then Master and the Law-guardian Gods can do anything for you."
("Fa-Lecture During the 2003 Lantern Festival at the U.S. West Fa Conference")
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