Asaf’s Experience - Shared at the Israel Fa-Conference

Tel-Aviv, Israel

By a western practitioner

My name is Asaf and I am 26 years old, but I’m actually only year and a half years old. I started cultivation practice a year and a half ago, and since then I grow daily and discover new things about the world and about myself. I understand new ideas and act according to these understandings. Cultivation is a great thing, and I find it remarkable to be able to check oneself by the principles of the universe, and to change every time so as to be in unison with them. This is what truly separates a cultivator from a person who isn’t cultivating.

Only one who understands that cultivation is an everyday changing of oneself can progress and manage to not stand still. For a year and a half truly wonderful things have happened to me, and I thank teacher for giving us the Dafa. I understood that cultivation is a continuous concession of attachments, and to let them go you first need to find them. To find them one need to understand them, and to understand them – one needs knowledge and knowledge comes through reading the book.

In my view the book is like a math book that contains all the knowledge in the world starting from 1+1 and up to the most complex formulas. At the beginning I read the book in its entirety and understand what is 1+1. The second time I read the book in its entirety I also understand what is 2x2. The third time I read the book in its entirety I also understand what is 2 to the power of 2, but this understanding is much easier because I have already read in the past about attachments, and although I didn’t understand anything, this time its easier. And so on.

Thus, if one wants to reach the highest realm, there is a need to read the book another time, so as to progress a little each time.

I’ll finish with an experience I once had while walking near a beautiful waterfall, whose waters are poured into a pond. We decided to stop there and send righteous thoughts on one of the rocks. The atmosphere was amazing, and after I opened my eyes I saw all the fish in the ponds gathered underneath us in a shape of a big fan whilst their heads were facing us, as if they were deriving strength or food from the sending of the righteous thoughts. Afterwards they started to slowly disperse and turn around to wander in the pool. I understand the special power of sending forth righteous thoughts.

I hope we can all continue to change so as to adapt ourselves to Truth, Benevolence and Forbearance and in the end to be assimilated to these characteristics.

Thank you for listening.