Eliminating My Attachment to Comfort

(Minghui.org) I always wanted to be comfortable because I had multiple illnesses when I was young. My health was restored after I started practicing Falun Dafa. However, I still had an attachment to comfort, so whenever I had illnesses symptoms and eliminated karma I behaved like an ordinary person.

I did the Falun Dafa exercises every day when I first began practicing. I always planned to meditate at night, but seldom did because I usually fell asleep. Whenever my elementary-school-age son woke me up by patting my head I got up and meditated. I asked my son one day, “How did you remember to wake me up to so I could meditate at night?” He replied, “I didn’t. I didn’t know you meditated at night.” I realized that Master woke me, but I thought it was my son. I thanked Master from the bottom of my heart. I began doing all five exercises every day.

It’s good to go to bed early, but I haven’t been strict with myself and failed to eliminate my attachment to comfort. For more than 20 years, I went to sleep around 7 p.m., slept for the first half of the night, got up to send forth righteous thoughts at midnight, studied the Fa, and did exercises for the rest of the night. The other practitioners know that I go to bed early, so they usually visit me during the day. I admired those practitioners who went to sleep late, and then got up early and did the exercises. I thought I couldn’t, but I didn’t realize it was due to my attachment to comfort.

My heart was heavy after I read Master’s lecture “The Ordeals Our Spiritual Discipline Faces” published in June 2024. However, my understanding of Master’s teaching was limited to the perceptual level instead of rational. It’s a pity that I didn’t remember that it’s our responsibility to alleviate the ordeals by using the divine power Master gave us.

I recently read practitioners’ articles about the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) interference overseas. The other practitioners and I decided to help eliminate the interference by sending righteous thoughts at 7 p.m., 8 p.m., and 9 p.m. every evening. I asked myself how could I continue going to sleep early, since I have a mission to fulfill as a Falun Dafa practitioner of the Fa rectification period?

No matter how sleepy I am after dinner, I don’t go to bed. I did miss sending forth righteous thoughts a few times, but I deeply regretted it. I tried different ways to stay awake, but nothing worked. I stopped laying down and did some chores. I finally overcame sleepiness after several days. I can now send righteous thoughts simultaneously with the other practitioners. I go to bed after I send righteous thoughts at 9 p.m., and still get up at the normal time to do other things.

I’ve finally broken through the barrier of sleep and eliminated my attachment to comfort to a certain extent. Our local coordinator suggested we send righteous thoughts for an additional 15 minutes after the time to send righteous thoughts world-wide. We also signed up to send righteous thoughts in a 24-hour relay. I now send righteous thoughts early in the morning and late at night, as well as during the day.