(Clearwisdom.net)

For a long time, I didn't focus on sending forth righteous thoughts, studying the Fa or doing the exercises. Looking back, I realize that I wasn't diligent enough. In actuality, I had forgotten what it meant to be diligent. However, I still visited the Clearwisdom website and followed the teachings of the Fa while trying to get rid of my attachments.

I later recognized my lack of diligence was due to the interference of thought karma. I thus began to memorize the Fa. When I memorized the section "Your Master Consciousness Needs to be Strong," in Chapter Six of Zhuan Falun, I felt some improvement. However, I was still in a passive, depressed state, and could not free myself from it. I then thought that if I followed the progress of Fa-rectification, I would be able to improve.

About a year ago, I felt I couldn't cultivate any further since I reacted strongly to all kinds of disturbances. When I tried to find out why, I realized I didn't do the three things as required by Teacher. I questioned myself, "Will sending forth righteous thoughts really work?" Since then, I have felt the advantage of sending forth righteous thoughts and have persisted in doing it.

Sending forth righteous thoughts is a requirement of a Fa-rectification period Dafa practitioner. When we do not meet the requirements of the Fa, we will encounter problems, lag behind the progress of Fa-rectification and even fall behind in our own cultivation.

When I first started to send forth righteous thoughts, I saw something blasting around me and I felt hot. Saliva filled my mouth to the point that it flowed out by itself. Later, I saw a beam of light surrounding me.

Another time when I was sending forth righteous thoughts, I saw a black human shape coming out of my body. I decided to eliminate it. At this time, I saw two child-sized bodies (I felt that they were a part of me) meditating and fighting the black body. I sent out a ray of light to battle it, but I was not able to defeat it. I then thought I should eliminate it. As soon as that thought appeared, I saw a disk-shaped object fly out of my chest. I eliminated the black body. After eliminating it, I felt the negative thoughts that used to appear in my mind had lessened. They were not as strong as before.

Once, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) hung an evil propaganda banner in the area where I live. I decided to send forth righteous thoughts to get rid of the banner. Afterwards, it started to rain a little. The banner was still there the following day, so I continued to send forth righteous thoughts. Three or four days later, it started to rain harder and became windy, but the banner was still there. I then had some doubt as to whether sending forth righteous thoughts had any impact and questioned if I should continue to send forth righteous thoughts. I thought that I should continue. When I sent forth righteous thoughts after I got home, I saw a black shadow wandering about and I then eliminated it. Somehow, it was able to come back to life and it had some capabilities. I was unable to eliminate it. It then transformed into a fish and threw up some green waste at me, but I wasn't affected. I then had an idea. Why not change it into something else? I then saw it change into a silver colored body. I wasn't sure whether I had done the right thing. The following day, I saw the banner had changed--eight characters had disappeared, with only two characters, "without evil" remaining on the banner.

Sometime later, after I read an article about a persecution case that occurred in Sichuan Province, I decided to eliminate the evil elements behind the two perpetrators involved. One of them was the head of the 610 Office and the other a CCP supporter. When I was sending forth righteous thoughts, I saw two black shadows in human shape in my field. They didn't move and quickly disappeared.

If there are any evil elements in our field such as thought karma, human notions, or dark minions and rotten ghosts, they will harm people. My passiveness and depression were the results of their doing. I realized that when I was memorizing the paragraph of "Your Master Consciousness Needs to be Strong," I was being led by them. When I had just memorized a few words, an interesting subject would appear in my mind and I would unconsciously follow it for many minutes. After I regained my thoughts, I continued to memorize the Fa. Then my mind would wander again for awhile after memorizing a few words. Under such conditions, it took me four or five hours to memorize a paragraph that would normally only take thirty minutes. After I sent forth righteous thoughts to eliminate them, I felt a different situation appear. The word, "diligent" appeared in my mind. I then started to study the Fa and do the exercises. My attachment of fear decreased as did my passiveness and depression. Positive behavior then began to appear.

I visit the Clearwisdom website every day. Fellow practitioners' articles have helped me enlighten and improve in my cultivation. For example, after reading one practitioner describing his fear (http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2006/10/27/79363.html), and how others dissolved the old forces' interference by doing the exercises, I then began to send forth righteous thoughts to eliminate the interference and thus began to resume doing the exercises.

I hope that my experiences will encourage fellow practitioners to take sending forth righteous thoughts more seriously and to do the three things well.