Experience Sharing Article from the Israel Fa-Conference

By a western practitioner

On the 24 of August 2002 I read Teacher Li's newest article "Hurry up and tell them". My understanding is that this article provides me and other practitioners the last opportunity to really understand the great law, for whenever Teacher himself begins to clarify the truth, this opportunity will no longer be valid.

After reading the article, for me to reach this understanding, I had to look inside, within myself asking myself some questions:

Do I have within me anxiety or fear of clarifying the truth to people I don’t know?

Will I be able to transmit the truth in such a way that it will penetrate to people’s hearts like a sharp sword?

How strong are my righteous thoughts?

Will I be able to express the enlightened being inside me?

Do I recognize this enlightened being inside me?

Am I able to distinguish inside me demons such as laziness, selfishness, fear, and other rotten attachments so that I can get rid of them?

Do I consider the fact that Fa Rectification is progressing faster and faster?

Here I’d like to bring forth a small example: Once, as I was passing through the centre of Jerusalem, in Zion’s square, I saw how a stage was being built for a rock concert. I saw many youngsters nearby, suddenly I felt a heavy burden on my soul, and I realized a lot: that this music is taking over these people, programming their thought and souls.

I saw many other things that stimulated the most obscene impulses in people and attachments that were driving people further and further away from their true nature: Truth-Benevolence-Forbearance, driving them astray from themselves and from their responsibility to themselves or for their souls. I was petrified by all this, so I searched inside myself and revealed attachments that tied my soul and didn’t let me change towards Truth-Benevolence-Forbearance facing these individuals, who failed to see what was really happening to them. I then started to answer the questions I asked myself beforehand, and as a result I took a pack of flyers, and with a smile on my face I started to distribute every one of them patiently all along Ben-Yehuda st. in Jerusalem until the flyers ran out. The last person who received a flyer asked me as he was laughing: is it you meditating in that picture?

I realized it wasn’t accidental. I thought how little did I do for the Fa [Law and principles of Falun Gong], and felt light in my heart and freshness. I realized how much more I could do!

My Second Experience:

As an introduction I have a song dedicated to Teacher Li Hongzhi:

Like in a flame the ice gets cold
Like in the heart divine cold
Like in life eternity sings –
That’s how I am within you young forever.

Frequently a question comes up inside me and other cultivators of how to treat certain situations that happen, so that the heart will be in the Fa. It’s obvious that there is a need for an independent understanding. But how should one go about promoting this understanding most effectively is the main issue of this experience.

One morning I went driving to look for a new job. From the moment I went on the road I had thoughts on my future career and future plans, hopes and emotions. After I got a rejection from 3 places, I had to stop these thoughts, that started to be driven by crazy emotions, and I drove to practice with one of the practitioners. On the way to his place, out of deep inner efforts, I rejected all hopes and thoughts – the positive and negative ones. Only after that did I start to practise. This is because I knew Teacher will set up everything for me in the best way, and that I only need to become one with his Fa, to live within Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance towards everything I recognize, and to elevate my Xinxing [Moral character]. After practice it was all gone, and all my bad thoughts had been dismantled and dissolved, and there was only emptiness.

On the way my wife called and asked me to take my small daughter for a walk, the work also called and asked me to work through the evening and the night.

I had to decide to which place to go and I decided to go to my daughter. Perhaps someone would wonder why I drove to my daughter and how it is related to my Xinxing cultivation. On an ordinary level it can be said that I had three options. Had I gone to work - that would be out of an attachment to money and breadwinning. Had I gone to the lecture I was invited to – that would be out of an attachment to the career. I drove to my daughter because there were no attachments there, and I could elevate my Xinxing.

I’ve said quite a bit, so in summary the main question this experience deals with can be answered. This question is: What can promote this understanding most effectively? Teacher Li answers us when he uses a Buddhist expression in the book Zhuan Falun in the Chapter “Energy Field”: “The Buddha’s lights illuminate all things and bring propriety and righteousness to brightness and perfection”.

I would like to wish all the cultivators to study and be able to hear the voice and see the glare of your enlightened cultivated side, which is the Buddha nature.