(Clearwisdom.net)
Teacher said, "Dafa disciples' righteous thoughts are powerful" (from Essentials for Further Advancements II). Here I'd like to share a few stories and my experiences with sending forth righteous thoughts.
1. A few years ago, my child was in elementary school. At that time, we didn't have many truth-clarification materials and the evil was quite rampant. The media was spreading fabricated lies to smear the reputation of Teacher and the Fa day after day. As Falun Dafa practitioners, we made posters on our own and put them up on the streets. Malicious people tore them down and we put them up again. People could see our posters everywhere.
One day, my child made a poster and said he wanted to put it up himself.
That night, we went out together and found an electric power post. My child stood on a pile of sand and carefully stuck the poster on the post. After that, he raised his arms and did heshi above his head while saying, "The guardian gods of the Fa, please carefully protect the poster and do not let bad people tear it off."
I was moved by his pure thoughts. Every day when I passed the post, I'd check and that poster was always there. That poster was quite eye-catching. Two days later, a fellow practitioner stuck another poster above my child's and later another one below it. Later on, the one below was torn off, so was the one above. However, the poster that my child posted was still there. The sunlight bleached the golden yellow paper to white and the words on it were no longer visible. However, the poster was still there. It made me think about why.
2. One day, my child came back from school with news that his school planned to play to the students a DVD that smeared the Fa. He asked me what I thought we should do. I said, "Send forth righteous thoughts to make the DVD machine unable to play that DVD!" That night, we sent forth righteous thoughts together. The next morning, I reminded my child to send forth righteous thoughts again at school. At home, I also sent forth righteous thoughts towards the school's direction. When my child came back from school that day, he said, "Our school didn't play the DVD today. They said they would play it tomorrow." Therefore my child and I continued to send forth righteous thoughts. The next day, my child came back home and gladly told me, "They brought the DVD machine but it couldn't play the DVD and therefore they gave up."
3. One year, on the evil party's anniversary, our community posted Jiang's picture and some articles about the evil party on the bulletin board. I made a little banner saying, "Jiang Zemin is a criminal." I stuck the banner against the evil Jiang's face. A few days later, I passed by the news board and found Jiang's picture was taken off and that the articles about the evil party were replaced as well.
4. I met a fellow practitioner that was brutally tortured at a forced labor camp. Later he broke out without making any deals with the authorities. I asked him, "Did you ask Teacher for help and send forth righteous thoughts when you were being tortured?" He said, "No, I forgot."
I had similar experiences. In the past few years, our community and the local police substation often harassed me. In those years, only once did I remember to send forth righteous thoughts, and that was the last time a policeman came to my home. It was right before a party meeting. A policeman from the local police substation came to my home and said, "See, it doesn't look like the Party will restore Falun Dafa's reputation. I would suggest you to study Buddhism instead." I thought, "I'll just ignore him and send forth righteous thoughts to eliminate the evil behind him." Just with that thought, the policemen left without bothering me further.
When I think about it now, I have come to realize that the reason I didn't send forth righteous thoughts in those years was because I had too many attachments, which suppressed my righteous thoughts. My biggest attachment was that I was afraid and tired of their harassment. Also, I wasn't clear on the Fa and thought the persecution was launched because of some ordinary reason. Things wouldn't have been like what they were if I had kept a calm heart in those years.
Here, I'd like to remind fellow practitioners, especially those that are in tribulations, please pay attention to sending forth righteous thoughts and do not forget to ask Teacher to strengthen us.
