(Clearwisdom.net) Studying the Fa is a required course for each and every Dafa disciple, but what counts as studying the Fa well and having learned something from the Fa? Some fellow practitioners study and memorize the Fa every day, but they take it as a job. What happens is that while they are studying the Fa, they pay more attention to how many pages they've read, than to what they read. Their thoughts are elsewhere. They regard the Fa-study group as a book club, and they do not check their cultivation against the Fa.
Let me cite an example. One Fa-study group is comprised of practitioners of all ages. One day at their study session, it was an elderly practitioner's turn to read the Fa and he was going very slowly. A fellow practitioner stopped him and said, "You may stop reading it, let me read it. I am a fast reader." So he took over and finished reading it quickly. Afterward the elderly practitioner complained, "You read it so fast that my eyes couldn't follow the words in the book."
The above example reflects the state of mind of some practitioners when they study the Fa, and it shows that in the group study environment, the issue of improving character is involved. Have we been considerate of others at all times? Have we studied the Fa with our hearts? And how do we study the Fa with our hearts?
Master told us in Zhuan Falun,
"Shakyamuni talked about proper thoughts--you should chant scripture with undivided attention to really shake the world of the discipline you cultivate, and only then can you invoke an Enlightened Being."
Do we pay undivided attention to the Fa when we study? Do we focus our mind so that every word of the Fa appears in front of our eyes? If we really want to have each and every word appear in front of our eyes, we will not have the feeling that we read the Fa too slowly. So, only when all of us study the Fa with our hearts will we be able to obtain something from the Fa through studying it and enlightening to it, and assimilate to the Fa.
The above is my personal understanding, and fellow practitioners are welcome to correct anything that is not right.
