(Clearwisdom.net) First I would like to thank compassionate Teacher. With Teacher's help, I looked within, found many attachments, and let go of them. I also strengthened my righteous thoughts and eliminated interference from sickness karma. Many practitioners in various areas have experienced such interference, limiting our efforts to validate the Fa and save sentient beings. In order to help solve these problems so that we can keep up with the Fa-rectification process, I share my understandings here.
I enlightened to the fact that various types of persecution, severe conflicts between practitioners, different means used by the evil to slander Dafa, and people's unwillingness to listen to the truth, could all exist because we have human notions. In other words, the old forces could take advantage of our fundamental attachments and impure thoughts to interfere with us.
After being arrested for clarifying the truth, I was initially puzzled. I had been opposing the old forces and the persecution, as well as keeping up with Fa-study. Why was I arrested for saving sentient beings? Now I have come to realize that although I have been cultivating for many years, I had not followed Teacher's words to look within for attachments and eliminate them. The old forces took advantage of this. Not only was I arrested, but two other practitioners were also affected. The lesson was severe.
During the time of detention, my attachments to family members were very prevalent. Every day I worried about my parents' health, my child's schooling and the family income. Since I had these worries and was unable to study the Fa, the old forces took advantage of this using sickness karma. As a result, I could no longer work and even had difficulty sitting up. I also had problems with prostate and insomnia. It was very painful.
I tried some methods to solve this, but they did not work well. In the end, when there was no way out, I decided to send forth righteous thoughts to eliminate my attachments and bad thoughts. In fact, Teacher had enlightened me several times to look within for attachments and send forth righteous thoughts to eliminate them. I tried several times but gave up because of interference from impure thoughts.
I could not eat or sleep well, I decided to spend my time sending forth righteous thoughts. I did this for five days, and the situation significantly improved. My thoughts also became simpler. I was very happy, and I finally was able to get rid of the sickness karma. However, because my purpose was not clear--just to get rid of sickness karma, I stopped after one month when things improved somewhat. The situation then became very severe.
Five months before my release, I realized that I could not go home in such a physical condition, as my family members would suffer and it might affect the image of Dafa as well. In addition, my family members might oppose my cultivation because of that. At that point Teacher enlightened me to the fact that by strengthening righteous thoughts and eliminating various attachments, I could return home early (practitioners without attachments will not be detained) and regain my previous job.
So, I calmed down, and started to eliminate the attachments one by one--starting from those that were obvious or significant. Sometimes, I even came back to eliminate some attachments again until they were completely gone.
After more than five months' effort, when it was time for my release, I found most of my attachments were gone. By then, the illnesses were also essentially gone. My previous workplace asked me to come back to work. After I started to handle things with righteous thoughts and eliminate attachments, my father, who had been hospitalized for six months and had been in a life-threatening situation, became healthier. At one point, he appeared to be in a severe situation again and was vomiting blood, but within several days his situation suddenly improved and became better and better. He recovered from three severe ulcers that were considered incurable. The doctors said they had never seen anything like this before--someone in his 80's could come back to life so many times. My wife's diabetes recovered without any medication. Our bicycle, which was lost more than six months ago, reappeared. Many things are changing subtly as my situation improves. My wife, who has not yet started to cultivate, also takes the initiative to look for Dafa books and materials for me.
The above are some understandings of my strengthening of righteous thoughts and eliminating old force interference. During this period of time, Teacher helped me compassionately. From this, we can see the magnificence of Dafa and the great power of sending forth righteous thoughts.
Of course, these things are specific to my situation and every practitioner may have different circumstances. Especially nowadays when practitioners are so busy with doing the three things, not everyone may have as much time as I had available to eliminate attachments. Plus, studying the Fa well is a prerequisite for eliminating all attachments, and it also ensures that our righteous thoughts are more powerful. From now on, I will do the three things well, consistently improving myself to keep up with the Fa-rectification process.
January 19, 2008
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