My Sharing on "How to Study the Fa Well"

Understanding the Fa from the Perspective of the Fa

I have some enlightenment of how to understand the Falun Gong teachings, the Fa, from the perspective of the Fa. At the beginning of my cultivation, I couldn't fully understand many of Master's lectures. But with constant Fa study, I found the answers in Master's other lectures to the parts I couldn't understand.

Another aspect of my cultivation is that when I have conflicts with others, I look within according to the Fa, but some of the related Fa I have yet to understand. Normally I find the answers in Master's other lectures when I study the Fa. Through continuous Fa study I realised this rule: Whenever I come across something that I can't understand, I relax and just continue studying the Fa and I find the answers in the Fa. This is my experience of understanding the Fa from the perspective of Fa.

I also realised that it is a gradual process of meeting the standards of the Fa, of understanding the Fa from the perspective of the Fa, and of assimilating to the Fa. When we use the Fa to measure ourselves or practitioners in any conflict, we shouldn't carry any of our human notions. We should make judgements purely from the Fa perspective, which is the crucial measure of whether we can truly look inward with the criteria of the Fa. Master said in the article "For Whom do You Exist?" in Essentials for Further Advancement

" ...... if a life can really assess things without any preconceived notions, then this person is truly able to take charge of himself. This clearheadedness is wisdom, and it is different from what average people call 'intelligence.'"

If we can persistently understand the Fa from the perspective of the Fa and cultivate ourselves under the guidance of the Fa, our whole body of practitioners can certainly melt into the Fa and do well the things that Dafa disciples should do.

The Fa Study Group Should Create an Environment of True Cultivation

The Fa study groups in our area often come across the issue of some practitioners not being able to handle well the relationship between personal cultivation and the cultivation of Fa- rectification period, thus resulting in many conflicts in the family and personal relationships. They bring those problems to discuss at Fa study. Thus our Fa study group becomes a place to solve the problems we come across in our personal cultivation. At the moment, almost all of the Fa study groups in our area are involved in this. In such an environment we are unknowingly drawn away from the cultivation of the Fa-rectification period, and the Fa study group becomes a group aiming at personal cultivation. Doing this for a long time, many practitioners forget the fundamental mission that "Disciples of the Fa-rectification period" are responsible for.

Master said in the lecture, "Teaching the Fa at the 2002 Fa Conference in Philadelphia, U.S.A.:"

"As I've said, everything that happens today in the ordinary society is the result of Dafa disciples' thoughts."

So the manifestation of such a state reflects the extent of the hardship we face in our saving sentient beings. Actually Master lectured on this issue in several of his lectures.

In "Lecture at the Conference in Switzerland," Master said:

"For a person to melt into such an immense Fa... I'll give an example. It's like if a wood chip or a piece of sawdust were to drop into a blast furnace of molten steel: instantly you'd lose sight of it."

But some practitioners can't let go of their personal improvement and consummation even though they cultivate in such an immense Fa. Master has chosen us Dafa disciples to help Master rectify the Fa, and all the beings in the universe admire us. Then what is it that we Dafa disciples can't let go of?

But at the moment there are practitioners who can't put right the relationship between personal cultivation and Fa-rectification period cultivation. Hence they spend a lot of time discussing the dissolving of karma and how to solve family conflicts, and it is hard for them to turn the topic back to that of Fa-rectification cultivation. In the Fa study group, conflicts come up when practitioners' opinions differ as to how much effort they should put into a project. And they are not able to solve it because indeed some practitioners are too concerned about themselves. It is hard for them to put right the relationship between personal cultivation and cultivation in the Fa-rectification period and hence it affects the whole body of cultivation and their personal cultivation as well.