A Suggestion: Overseas Practitioners Should Continue to Frequently Practice The Falun Gong Exercises Together Outdoors
April 16, 2004
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By Li Ming
- Falun Gong is a cultivation system of mind and body that consists of both
inner cultivation and practicing exercises. It is better if we can practice
outdoors so that everyday people can see us, and those who have a good
predestined relationship can find us.
- Falun Gong has spread far and wide throughout the world. Falun Gong
practitioners should frequently practice outdoors together, since it forms a
great environment for group practice all over the world (except in China,
due to the persecution currently underway there). This is a tangible
exhibition of the spread of Dafa in the world and is the undeniable
responsibility of each practitioner.
- Falun Gong practitioners benefit infinitely from Dafa and should not just
gain without contributing. We should overcome various kinds of obstacles,
and practice outdoors on our own initiative. Even if only one person
practices outdoors in one area, it can move everyday people and shake the
world in ten directions.
- Practicing outdoors in a group can also clean up any abnormal factors and
purify our overall environment.
- Practicing outdoors in a group is an exhibition of Falun Gong
practitioners stepping out of humanness with righteous thoughts and
righteous actions. This will serve to validate Dafa.
- Practitioners have been through a great deal and have established this
hard-won practice environment. Dafa practitioners all over the world should
cherish today's peaceful overseas environment. Practice outdoors every day
in a group -- this is a powerful way to support the practitioners in
Mainland China.
- Overseas practitioners practicing outdoors in a group can also allow
Chinese people who pass by the exercise sites to understand the truth of
Falun Dafa. Perhaps, some of these people will tell their relatives and
friends back in China about what they saw. These people can become a great
way to spread the truth.
- Why do we live overseas? Because we can use this peaceful and good
environment to validate Dafa. Group practice outdoors is an indispensable
part of validating Dafa.
- Dafa practitioners all over the world frequently practicing outdoors in
groups will leave a reference for the beings in the future. This is a
wonderful reference to leave for the history of the universe.
Teacher tells us in Teaching the Fa at the 2003 Atlanta Fa Conference:
"You need to be clear that a Dafa disciple's cultivation is about
stepping out of humanness; it is to step out of the old colossal firmament
that is restrained by all kinds of factors that result from endless,
countless, innumerable beings in this old cosmos; it is to gain a new life,
emerging from an environment that is at the last of the last stage of the
formation-stasis-degeneration-destruction process of the colossal
firmament."
Teacher tells us in "Environment" in Essentials for Further
Advancement,
"The cultivation practice form that I have left for Dafa disciples
ensures that disciples can truly improve themselves. For example, I ask you to
do the exercises as a group in parks in order to form an environment. This
environment is the best way to change the surface of a person. The lofty
conduct that Dafa disciples have established in this environment--including
every word and every deed--can make people recognize their own weaknesses and
identify their shortcomings; it can move their hearts, refine their conduct,
and enable them to make progress more rapidly. Therefore, new students or
self-taught disciples have to go to the practice sites to do the
exercises."
Here we are appealing to those overseas practitioners who cannot step out of
humanness and who have not yet understood the importance of outdoor group
practice: We should practice together in order to continue to do well and to
ensure solid and persistent advancement in our cultivation.