Practitioners Should Not Be Addicted to Computer Games

I've recently read about certain young practitioners' lack of diligent cultivation because of their addiction to computer games. I would like to share my son's and my own cultivation experience that might awaken these young practitioners.

All three in my family practice Falun Gong. When my son was five years old, he spent a lot of time visiting neighbours and watching other children play computer games. He got excited and tried the games a few times. Due to a passport issue, my son wasn't yet able to attend school in China, where we lived. We felt he might be bored at home, so my husband went to our neighbours and copied several good games for him, such as chess, car racing and boat adventures. Whenever he downloaded a game, however, there was a picture of a frog at the end, though he did not pay attention to it. My son was very happy with the games and started playing at home. The first thing in the morning he wanted to do was to play the games. We were worried and started arranging his time. We tried a chess game with him. Two people could compete with each other. We thought he would benefit from playing this kind of game, but we became addicted to the game ourselves. When my husband went out with my son, I wanted to play that game myself. I knew that was not right, but I always found excuses to play the game over and over again until words disrespecting our Master appeared in my head. I finally realized the problem after several such incidents. I forced myself not to play.

That night I felt physically weak and was nauseous when I practised the exercises. When I was doing the Falun Standing Stance, my heart beat so fast - it seemed it could jump out of my chest, and it seemed that several chessmen jumped inside my chest. I had to stop exercising. Sending righteous thoughts in the middle of the night, my son saw fire in his eyes and saw evildoers, too. He asked my husband to delete the games from the computer. After they were deleted, I felt much better.

My emotional involvement with my son and thoughts about the benefits the games would have for him had disturbed my mindset. These games are designed to make people addicted to them, thus trapping one into the games, and dragging you down. The games are addictive, and for a cultivator, can destroy one's will to diligently cultivate. I hope that Dafa practitioners who are addicted to computer games, especially youngsters, will see the harm of the games and no longer waste their valuable time.