I started with the real cultivation and Fa rectification path since my first step out of the door to participate in the European Falun Dafa experience exchange conference held in Geneva, March 2001. This year, I went to Geneva again, listening to the speeches of other practitioners and practising on the same lawn. Looking back over the past two years, I have been enlightened to more and more profound principles step by step, meanwhile, many attachments formed in the human society have gradually dropped away during the cultivation process.
Ceaseless improvement through enlightenment in the Fa
I did not regard the group reading and practise as an important issue at the beginning of my participation because I still had many human thoughts and attachments while my comprehension capability was poor. I considered them to be far away from me - clarifying the facts, spreading Fa and appealing etc. I found an apparently good excuse for not doing those things: Master asked us not to be involved in the politics. I did not understand the importance of saving sentient beings at that time. Those represented my cultivation level of that period. One day I went to join in the group Fa studying. Another practitioner and I got on board the train to Brussels. However, after a short time we found that the train was going in the opposite direction. We immediately changed the train and took part in the group Fa studying; otherwise we would have gone sightseeing in the Netherlands!. While some practitioners asked about the reason of catching the wrong train, I could not make it clear. I had never caught the wrong train especially to Brussels during the ten years when I lived in Belgium. I contemplated this thing afterwards and I was enlightened that this was a revelation, pointing out the cultivation path I insisted on was in opposite direction to the path real cultivation and Fa rectification. Master mentioned in the ninth chapter of ‘Zhuan Falun’ “It does not matter for an ordinary person to mind the ordinary people’s business as he will apply the principles of ordinary people to size up things. You must use the supernormal principles to look at them. It is an issue of Xinxing if you do not help stop a murder or a fire when you see it. How will you show that you are a good person otherwise? What else do you get involved if you do not help stop a murder or a fire?” Since then, I have understood the duty of a real Dafa practitioner. I began to clarify the facts and spread the Fa. Gradually, I became able to do whatever Dafa work for which I can take responsibility. However, this is just the beginning. I am willing to be more determined and participate in more Fa rectification activities.
In my personal cultivation, I have repeated comprehensions of the same thing, for instance the issue concerning diseases and taking medicines. Master said in the third chapter of Zhuan Falun “Can you be considered a Falun Dafa disciple if you just practise a few sets of the exercise everyday? That is not necessarily so. This is because genuine cultivation practise should follow the requirements of the Xinxing standard that we have established, and you have to truly upgrade your Xinxing. That is the genuine cultivation practise”. In my point of view, I was qualified to be a real practitioner in the issue of disease and taking medicines. Occasionally, I felt uneasy with the body. I would not go to see the doctor and never took medicines since I understood that those phenomena were solely the reflection of eliminating karma. I personally thought that I passed the tribulation well. It did not matter to me. One year ago, I went to buy the vitamin complex for my husband in a supermarket. However, he said that only the vitamin from apothecary was acceptable for him. I had to leave them for future use. Sometimes when I saw them, I took one with the thought that I could not waste them because I paid for them. After a period, the nu,ber of the vitamins had decreased a lot!. However, I did not take notice of it. One day when I got a sore on the mouth, I took a vitamin so as to make it recover soon. However, I was sick just half an hour later. The day after, I experienced to the same thing again. I was enlightened that I was a Dafa practitioner and the medicines for everyday people will never have any effects on me; I still had deep-rooted attachment to taking medicines; I did not consider myself as a real practitioner while I took the medicine. In the past, I did not find the difference between the life of an everyday person and a practitioner. Gradually, I felt the difference. A practitioner always asks themselves "why" when they have problems. They usually measure whether their behaviour is in accord with ‘Truth, Compassion and Tolerance’. If they behave well, they will do uprightly whatever Dafa disciples should do.
The whole cultivation process for a practitioner will be one of constantly giving up the human attachments
I focused on the goal of improving my health by means of exercises. I did not admit that I had many bad thoughts and attachments in the past. However, I got into troubles again and again in daily life. I was afraid of losing face and of not having a decent job. Consequently, my good dream did not last long. My contract as an employed clerk was ended only three month after I obtained it. I was strongly attached to getting a driving license, however, I failed in the practical exams one after another until the practise license expired. Finally, I did not have the driving license. I was attached to saving up for a rainy day. However, I spent all of my savings on the driving license. I mostly feared that I would lose my family and the comfortable life I had, however, all the mostly feared things were pushed on me one by one. Even so, I never gave up the belief in ‘truth, compassion and tolerance’. I am even more diligent in cultivation because Master teaches us in the article A Brief Statement of Mine "Other people may treat us badly, but we do not treat others badly, nor do we treat people as enemies."
According to the teachings of Master, no matter who we are faced with, we have to consider them before we think of ourselves. We have to do more good things. I often tell my acquaintances that if I do something improperly, that is my fault because I do not achieve the requirement of Dafa. I use my demeanour to prove Dafa step by step and try to let more people know the truth meanwhile to get rid of my own attachments.
I have lots of hobbies. Some of them become attachments that ought to be gotten rid of by a practitioner. I do not detect some of them. Once I find them, I will definitely give up them. The old attachments go away, the new attachments emerge. Therefore, I need constantly find them and remove them from roots. Master teaches us in the first chapter of Zhuan Falun “As a practitioner, one must cultivate oneself and go through trials of hardships in the ordinary human environment to gradually get rid of attachments as well as various desires.” For example, tea is my favourite. Last year, a friend brought quite alot of high-quality tealeaves to me. I was so excited and got attached to enjoying the tea. However, I got stomachache one time after drinking the tea; the other time, I was so uncomfortable that I wanted to vomit. I was enlightened that my attachment to tea is too big and I must make light of it. After I was enlightened in this issue, I do not feel uncomfortable when I drink tea routinely just as Master said in the first chapter of ‘Zhuan Falun’ “To tell you the truth, the entire cultivation process for a practitioner will be one of constantly giving up the human attachments.”
A bit comprehension on establishing of righteous thoughts
When I took part in the Geneva Falun Dafa experience exchange conference in March 2001, as not being a real practitioner, I was filled with many bad thoughts. However, I could not discern them. I did not trust anyone except myself. I even suspected and misunderstood a Belgian practitioner. Not until the Dafa conference in March 2003, did I clear up this misunderstanding. I apologised to him for my unrighteous thoughts. There is another experience of righteous thoughts. Since I was a child, I have had a problem. When I get into a vehicle, I feel sick. This is a genetically inherited condition passed from my mother's side. Any factors prior to getting into the vehicle, such as insufficient sleep, improper foods, hot weather, can lead to the occurrence of the problem. I will vomit and faint. No medicines are capable of solving it. In March of this year, I abstained from foods and water to avoid the problem when I got into the car to Geneva. However, I ate an orange on the way. I vomited continuously afterwards. It was exactly like master addressed in ninth chapter of Zhuan Falun “Because of this body, an ordinary person will run into such a problem that: he cannot make it if it is cold, hot, thirsty, hungry, or tired. Still, he will have birth, age, illnesses, and death. Anyway, you will not be comfortable.” It was a pity that I did not have strong righteous thoughts and admitted it as the unchangeable arrangement of inborn genetic traits. During the five-day period in Geneva, my brain was full of spreading Fa, telling truth and Fa rectification. My righteous thoughts were fairly strong. At the last day, I was steadfast to use the righteous thoughts to face with my innate problem and reject the arrangement of old forces completely. As a result, I was in good condition all the way home.
Looking back to the two-year short cultivation, I find that I have not lost any material things in my life; I have got rid of only the bad thoughts and attachments. It is the Great Law that Harmonise me and gives me all the best things. Falun Dafa is the great law of the universe. I will do well with the remaining cultivation and Fa-rectification things in the meantime improve myself constantly.
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Thank you.
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