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Discovering my Sneaky Jealousy

2007-01-29

When I read articles by fellow practitioners about jealousy in the past, I felt that I had no such problem because I took everything lightly in my work and life and did not seek fame or material gains. Recently, however, I had a dream that enabled me to realise my deeply-hidden jealousy.

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All My Happiness Comes from Falun Dafa

2007-01-22

For the first half of my life, I struggled between having enough to eat and being forced to do physical labour. After I got married, I suffered immensely from various illnesses and lived under constant pressure from my family. I felt like a hopeless walking corpse. I would like to share my experience of the endless misery I suffered to finally being given a new life and a bright future from practising Falun Gong; just like a full moon after the dark cloud has passed.

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A Lesson Learnt from the Attachment of Seeking Comfort

2007-01-22

I also used the excuse that we need to conform to the way of society as much as possible to conceal my attachment. I did not want to address it or bring it up with other practitioners. As a matter of fact, I protected this attachment, for which I paid dearly. Here I want to share my experience with fellow practitioners so that they can draw a lesson from it.

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Looking Inward

2007-01-21

A few days ago during experience sharing, we were repeatedly discussing how to solve a conflict between two practitioners. The two practitioners had big conflicts cooperating with each other, and there was also a relationship involved. We spent the whole evening discussing it but were not able to resolve it. We felt that something was not right. How come we kept criticising others? Let's look inward!

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Do Not Provide a Hiding Place for Acquired Notions

2007-01-21

I would find topics to talk to her about and try to keep her staying longer, consciously or not. Even if I did not have the ability to help her, I would try my best to seek other possibilities, etc. On the contrary, if an unattractive girl comes to ask for my help, I would have no such feeling and would not do the same thing. I would follow all protocols for handling business and refuse her without any hesitation if I could not help.

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A Simple Illustration of "Non-Omission"

2007-01-19

I hesitantly handed the bag to the woman and said, "Here, I have a plastic bag. It has holes too, but you can try it." She took my bag and wrapped it around her bag of soybean milk. It turned out to be quite effective in stopping the leakage. After a while some milk began to leak out again, but the amount was much less than before. I thought that if we had had a third or fourth plastic bag, even if each one had holes, together they could have stopped the leakage completely.

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An Inmate in Taiwan: I'm So Grateful for the Chance to Learn Falun Dafa

2007-01-19

I have improved my character and understanding through studying the Falun Gong teachings and practising the Falun Gong exercises. I have also gradually let go of some of my attachments. For a long time I was not able to get along with other prison inmates. Now due to my practising Falun Dafa, I adhere myself to follow the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance (Zhen-Shan-Ren). Whenever someone needs help, I will try my best to give him a hand.

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Studying the Falun Gong Teachings Allows Me to Understand the Inner Meaning of Falun Dafa Cultivation

2007-01-17

We could not have persisted in the group study of the Falun Gong teachings, the Fa, in Kumamoto City without the great effort of the local Chinese practitioners. Since the Japanese practitioners don’t know the Chinese language, this form of group study in Japanese is a precious treasure to our local Japanese practitioners. With regular improvements in our understandings of the Fa, however busy we may be, many of us actively attend the group study.

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Why I was Feeling So Irritable

2007-01-17

I have been in an irritable mood for a long time, and it has not been eliminated. This kind of irritable mood manifests in different aspects of cultivation practise. It even becomes habitual, which is not easy to perceive. It is not merely having a bad temper. Behind it are many hidden attachments.

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Witnessing Miracles in the Five Months Since I Began to Practise Falun Dafa

2007-01-16

This February I had an opportunity to read Zhuan Falun. I was immediately fascinated by the principles in the book. Although there were things that I didn't understand, my feeling then was that everything I'd been searching for in my life was in the book. I really enjoyed reading it, but I was hesitant to walk away from church to practise Falun Gong. I'd already changed religious practices four times.

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Western Practitioner: My Journey to Finding Falun Gong

2007-01-16

I explained that in time Falun Dafa was going to make me a better person. I reminder her how much more calm I was getting; that I was no longer loosing my temper any more; how my language was getting cleaned up. I had stopped drinking alcoholic beverages and getting agitated. I attributed all these changes to Falun Dafa. I reminded her that, although we both were practising Christians for many years, nothing really changed in our life. Only Falun Dafa could change me.

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Work, Family Life, and Cultivation

2007-01-13

My relationship with my son wasn't very strong. My wife was very worried about this and complained to me all the time. She also has a full time job and she takes care of the kids. She felt I didn't care about her, either. She was always waiting for me to be home to help her with the house chores. But most of time when I was home, I was either busy with duties for our media or working on other Falun Dafa related tasks. We experienced lots of conflicts at home. Balancing family and cultivation was a big challenge.

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Let Go of Preconceived Notions and Study the Falun Gong Teachings with Attentiveness

2007-01-13

I realised that I often went through the motions when studying the Falun Gong teachings, lost my concentration, and could not pay full attention to what I read. The answer is now obvious. It was me, not the method that I mentioned earlier. It was my incorrect notion which made me behave like an athlete who tries to achieve top performance by continually forcing his body to the peak.

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My Four Years of Cultivating in Falun Gong

2007-01-12

Four years ago I was a cancer patient. After cycles of chemotherapy, I was extremely weak. The cancer shifted to the lymph glands and the doctor, seeing my body so desperately ill, told me that I only had one more year to live. I obtained many materials introducing Falun Gong from Seattle Falun Gong practitioners. I read the book Zhuan Falun from cover to cover in just one sitting, and it was as if a lightning bolt had lit up my life and awakened my true nature. What is the meaning of life? I finally found the answer. From then on I decided to follow Teacher, and walk the path of cultivation

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Inadequate Study of the Falun Gong Teachings Is a Major Omission

2007-01-12

Since Fa study is so important, we must put all our efforts and concentration into it! I think a practitioner who doesn't take Fa study seriously does not know how to practice cultivation, just as one cannot achieve Consummation by building temples. Personally, I think Fa study is not difficult but the key is whether we can truly understand the importance of Fa study. If not, we will get mired in tasks once our workloads increase.

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