Further Talk About Surfing the Web and Looking at Mobile Phones

(Minghui.org) I have repeatedly set my mind to doing well regarding surfing the web and using my mobile phone. A few days ago, when I was checking over my diary to look at things I had not done well in my cultivation, the item “surfing the web to look at ordinary people’s content and browsing through shopping websites” stayed there untouched. I shuddered and asked myself, “How can a truly cultivating practitioner allow himself to behave like that? Why haven’t I done well in this respect? Why did I do poorly over such a prolonged period in this respect? What is the source of the problem that has caused this issue to drag on for so long?”

I looked up Minghui.org and found “Minghui Compilation: Getting Rid of the Addiction to Mobile Phones and Retrieving One’s Initial Cultivation State.” Through reading the shared articles by fellow practitioners, I was inspired and gained a lot. Here, I’d like to talk about my own understandings based on my recent cultivation experiences.

From my own and fellow practitioners’ experiences, it can be seen that the addiction to the internet and mobile phones is a rather common problem and is harmful. A practitioner who could let go of his attachment to life and death to act righteously has been disturbed and kidnapped by the evil in these screens unknowingly. This is a really serious lesson.

Looking within myself, I discovered that I was less familiar and clear, and I had a shallower impression from Master’s lectures regarding the internet and mobile phones compared to the Fa taught in Zhuan Falun. Since I am not so clear about the Fa principles, my righteous thoughts were not that strong. I had not put much effort into practicing true and solid cultivation.

Master said,

“Things are a mess now in today’s society, and the Internet is now a mishmash of all sorts of bad things—it’s really like the Devil, and those things are like a whirlpool, with whatever enters it getting mixed in and jumbled together with everything else. It is a menace to society as well as to people’s minds, morality, and traditions, altering how people live.” (“Fa Teaching Given at the 2016 New York Fa Conference,” Collected Fa Teachings, Vol. XIV)

“Those things are alien technologies, and they are being used by demons to seduce people, making them give up all that they had going for them, and leading them to become obsessed with those things. You’re wasting your life with them, yet still unwilling to give them up! That isn’t befitting even an ordinary person, much less a cultivator.”(“Fa Teaching Given at the 2016 New York Fa Conference,” Collected Fa Teachings, Vol. XIV)

“People may say that it doesn’t matter what they see with their eyes, and that they can just stop looking at something if they no longer want to see it. But that’s not true. When your vision makes contact with something, that thing has entered. That’s because any thing can replicate itself in other dimensions, so the longer you look at something, the more it enters. No matter what it is, be it on television or on a computer, it enters once you look at it. As more of these bad things are loaded up in your brain and body, they end up dominating your actions.” (“Fa Teaching Given at the 2010 New York Fa Conference,” Collected Teachings Given Around the World, Vol. XI)

I understood that the virtual online world on the screens of mobile gadgets is actually real material things and has life in another dimension. Every day, people’s websites are filled with black matter from humankind, this lower-level realm, and all sorts of evil and low-level spirits, such as fame, personal gain, lust, and desires, that keep enticing the human attachments that we have yet to eliminate. The internet, which is everywhere, seems to bring convenience to people, but the truth is that it is pervasively seducing and corrupting humanity. When people log onto the internet, this material and these beings will enter our brains and bodies through our eyes.

The internet is already a norm in society, but it has actually made our cultivation environment complicated. How we use our mobile phones and the internet is an important test of our true and solid cultivation. The solution that was mentioned in “Minghui Compilation: Getting Rid of the Addiction to Mobile Phones and Retrieving One’s Initial Cultivation State” is to eliminate our addiction to them.

I set specific ways for myself to eliminate this attachment, such as writing notes to remind, caution, and wake myself up, and to follow through on these things strictly. For example, I wrote a note to myself to: 1. Log onto Minghui.org, 2. Log onto the websites run by Falun Dafa practitioners, be clear about my goal while I am completing the task, and do not browse through content meant for ordinary people 3. Do not log onto everyday people’s websites, but if I must access an ordinary website, I will directly log on based on the objective and finish the task as soon as possible 4. Unless I need to use some functions of my mobile phone, I will not touch it and will put it down immediately after I am done with what I needed to do with it.

Recalling when such problems had affected me, the usual cause was my attachment to comfort and wanting to relax. It was usually the thought of seeking comfort or relaxation that would make me unable to maintain my xinxing. After I turned on the mobile phone or logged onto an everyday people’s website, my main consciousness would be defeated by the evil, driven by my curiosity.

The loopholes of human attachments, like seeking comfort, relaxation, or curiosity, seem ordinary but are actually dangerous. Any element that can lead a cultivator to diverge from their xinxing standards is dangerous. The more they seem ordinary, the more they are able to numb our main consciousness, making them more dangerous.

The closer we are to the end, the higher the requirements for our xinxing. Therefore, whenever we detect attachments, we must immediately catch hold of them, eliminate them, and never let them gain their way. When the thoughts stemming from attachments appear, we must immediately reject them and not acknowledge that these attachments and thoughts are from our own main consciousness, so that we will not be led by them. We can immediately memorize the Fa to get rid of them.

In the past, when I logged onto Dynaweb, I would look at domestic political situations, the evil Party’s crimes, social media commentaries, and read information about the Party’s imminent fall. I even found an excuse that it helps me clarify the truth. I discovered that even doing that would move my heart and cause me to have attachments.

Master said,

“Don’t pay heed to the affairs of bygone dynastiesAll will be known when you return home at Consummation” (“Clarity upon Gaining The Way,” Hong Yin II)

There are also many matters in the mundane world that seem to be true, but we all need to do actual cultivation by reflecting upon them based on the Fa. The purer a cultivator’s realm, the stronger his righteous thoughts.

In the past, I had the habit of looking at my mobile phone before I fell asleep. Now, I will listen to the Minghui broadcasts that I have downloaded, and turn the bad things into good things.

After I set clear standards for myself, the experience that I had when I meditated the next morning was that after I entered a tranquil state, the word “underworld” came into my mind. I understood that the things on everyday people’s websites are material substances of the underworld, and I cannot let this black and dirty matter from the lower level realms pollute me. I cannot let these lower-level realms’ low-ability evil beings enter my space.

I later felt that my main consciousness had floated into the sky, thousands of meters high. I looked down and saw that there was a piece of darkness below me, and my feelings about the lower-level realms became more intuitive and clear. Falun Dafa practitioners have cultivated for so many years, and we are already in the realms of higher levels. We cannot go back to pick up rubbish from the lower levels. Even later, my main consciousness became awake and quiet. It felt so quiet, as though the other parts of my brain had fallen asleep. Thank you, Master!

For the past few days, I feel that I am clean and there’s no longer so much interference.

My level is limited, so kindly correct me if there is any room for improvement.