(Clearwisdom.net) Recently, through studying the Fa, I have come to understand a lot of issues that I did not understand before. The first is "gaining without pursuit." True cultivation is about letting go, rather than pursuit. I have also felt and understood the hardship that Master has endured in order to compassionately save us, which has strengthened my righteous thoughts of returning with Master upon reaching Consummation. I have come to the understanding that the true purpose of life is to return to our original true self, and have understood how to truly cultivate in the environment at home, at work, and in society, how to validate the Fa, how to clarify the truth and make truth-clarification materials, as well as what it means to truly save sentient beings in order to fulfill our pre-historical vows. The Fa study has helped me to become clearer on the Fa principles and improved my xinxing, and accordingly, the mighty power of Dafa has also manifested itself to me.
Recently an incident touched me very deeply. Several months ago, my 83-year-old father suddenly became ill and could not get out of bed. The pain in his lower back was very severe. As a son, I should respect and look after him, but his falling ill has involved a lot of my time and effort, and my Dafa work has suffered from the interference. Through looking within, I found that my attachment to qing is too strong, which reflects itself in my attachments to family members. My elderly father insists that my elder sister and I stay close by to look after him on a long-term basis. All this happened right after the CCP's forced organ transplantation of Dafa practitioners was exposed in the Epoch Times, which is the time when our truth-clarifying was most needed. We immediately realized that this was interference by the rotten demons and evil specters of the CCP.
We then sent forth righteous thoughts intensively at the top of each hour to eliminate the interference. We immediately eliminated a lot of the evil matters in other dimensions including the dark minions, rotten demons, the evil specters of the CCP and the demons of qing, and we achieved some good effect. This enabled us to have some time to study the Fa and do Dafa work. However, the situation was still not quite satisfactory. At that time, I knew only Dafa could break any interference, then not only my own time for Fa study would be guaranteed and my pressure in life would be reduced, but also my father would also hear the Fa, enabling him to quickly recover. So I read Zhuan Falun to him every day. After doing this for a period of time, his situation still did not improve. Later, because I had been doing this for quite a while, I developed the habit of reading the Fa at a set time. In this way, my attachment of pursuing treatment for his illness and reducing the interference was gradually removed.
Several days later, my father suddenly stood up by himself, and he was be able to walk, and it only took another few days for him to be strong enough to go outside.
Through this, I have realized that in the past, I was reading the Fa for my father with a heart of pursuit. What a dirty attachment it was! This was doing things with pursuit, for the sake of treating an illness, and it was to get something from Dafa. Later, when I no longer had the attachment of pursuing treatment from Dafa, or the attachment of doing this or that, when I let go of various attachments and studied the Fa with a pure heart and mind, the effect was naturally different.
The mighty power of Dafa has been witnessed by my family members and friends. They also began to believe in Dafa, believe that Falun Dafa is the righteous Fa, and that the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) persecution of Falun Gong was based on deceit and doomed to fail along with the fall of the CCP itself. Most of them have withdrawn from the CCP and its affiliated organizations.
The above is a little bit of my understanding, and I hope that my fellow practitioners will point out anything that is improper.
August 24, 2006
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