Doing the Exercises Is Important

(Minghui.org) Since Falun Dafa is a practice of body and mind, as we cultivate and let go of our attachments, we should not ignore the exercises. Neither should we give up doing the exercises because we think Fa study and truth clarification are more important.

The exercises strengthen our energy and supernatural abilities and transform our body into high-energy matter.

A practitioner told me one day, “I had a dream last night. I saw someone who was about to fall, so I quickly helped her up.”

I thought about it and said, “There is no such thing as a coincidence. The person in your dream must have been me. Master asked you to help me when I’m not doing well.”

The practitioner asked, “Do you do the exercises? The person in my dream chose to walk on the muddy path instead of the wide road in front of her. Her face appeared old, and she staggered. I could tell her body was like a young person’s, but her outer shell looked old.”

I thought about her dream. Indeed, I seldom did the exercises. I didn’t regard doing the exercises a priority. I used Master’s teaching as an excuse to cover my laziness.

Master said:

“However high your level of xinxing is, that is how high your gong is—that’s an absolute truth.” (“Teaching the Fa at the Founding Ceremony of the Singaporean Falun Dafa Association”)

“For a practice to really be considered one of mind and body, there has to be both a spiritual and a physical component to it.” (The First Talk, Zhuan Falun)

I wasn’t following Master’s instructions, so my body wasn’t properly transformed. That was why the practitioner said I looked old. As I spent little to no time doing the exercises, my energy and supernatural abilities weren’t fortified. No wonder I often felt tired.

I recalled the story of a practitioner who said she hardly ever did the exercises, so her energy was low. One time she saw many dark spirits and elements. She sent forth righteous thoughts to get rid of them, yet she couldn’t eliminate them. Giant pythons showed up in her dreams several times. She sent forth righteous thoughts, but the pythons were able to fight back. I laughed at her dreams then, but now that I think about it, they were such sad experiences!

Fa-rectification period Falun Dafa practitioners possess supernatural abilities that can wipe out the bad elements in an instant. If we seldom do the exercises, our gong potency is greatly reduced when we send forth righteous thoughts.

Falun Dafa is a cultivation practice of body and mind. If we don’t diligently do the exercises, our bodies cannot be transformed into high-energy matter. It will be too late for regrets when Fa-rectification is over.

Therefore, doing the exercises is important too.