(Minghui.org) I am a Falun Dafa (Falun Gong) disciple and have been cultivating for two years. I am very grateful to Master. I have always been able to experience Master’s compassionate salvation and protection. As Dafa disciples, I strongly believe that as long as we have the heart to accomplish something, Master will arrange the best for us.
I have read many Minghui articles about practitioners sharing how they benefitted from memorizing the Fa. I admired those practitioners and always wanted to join them. Under the encouragement of other practitioners, I started to join group Fa recitation. I would start after sending forth righteous thoughts at 6:20 a.m. and end around 7:30 a.m. On the weekends, we would also have group sharing for about half an hour. Upon entering the group Fa recitation, I immediately felt the ambience of:
“Focus on how you study and cultivate” (“Solid Cultivation,” Hong Yin, Translation Version A)
After memorizing the Fa for only a few weeks, I felt that my life has been renewed and I improved dramatically.
I would like to share some of my thoughts and experiences memorizing the Fa.
The First Change: Getting Rid of My Laziness
I experienced the power of memorizing the Fa as it is a process of constantly rectifying any abnormal states. For example, I have been staying up late at night ever since I was young and have never been able to wake up early. If I was doing some Dafa-validation projects, I would go to bed even later and would use that as an excuse to sleep in the next morning. Thus, I was never able to send righteous thoughts at 6 a.m.
However, after memorizing the Fa, everything changed. The first week was truly arduous for me and I experienced all sorts of interference. I felt like I was carrying an immense burden. I overcame my attachment of laziness by memorizing the Fa. The first day of memorizing the Fa laid a strong foundation for my cultivation because I changed from being very muddleheaded to clear minded. I realized, “Oh wow, memorizing the Fa early in the morning truly feels very wonderful.”
The Second Change: Eliminating My Attachments
Memorizing the Fa was also a way to eliminate my attachments. On the first day, I started to be worried when I could not memorize the Fa well. On the second day, I got even more worried and while memorizing the Fa on the third day, I started to doze off even while standing up. On the fourth day, I was suddenly enlightened and asked myself, “Isn’t this an attachment?”
Master has always stressed gaining without pursuit. Memorizing the Fa is something we need to work on slowly every day. I decided to let go of the desire of wanting to memorize the Fa. I started to read the Fa aloud with other practitioners and during this process, I felt splendid as each layer of Fa principles was revealed to me one by one. I was able to truly understand the Fa since I was reading at a much slower pace. I was even able to find problems that I did not even know I had. For example, I had to ask myself whether or not I had the mentality of needing to accomplish something, or if I did let go of my ego, or if I was “tolerant” enough. Did I maintain a heart of compassion at all times?
The Third Change: Improving My Enlightenment Quality
Memorizing the Fa upgraded my enlightenment quality and I could better inspect my cultivation. I realized that “enlightenment” is very important when we study the Fa. Once we are enlightened to something, we need to strive towards that direction of improvement. From memorizing the Fa, I was also able to discern right from wrong. When tribulations occurred, I was able to overcome them. Venting anger and getting angry are all manifestations of demon nature. In the past, I was not able to control myself from getting angry and venting. After being clear minded on the Fa principles, I was able to experience and observe negative substances in other dimensions and eliminate them.
I was able to study the Fa better after memorizing the Fa. For example, I would be more focused and concentrated while I studied the Fa and I knew I needed to be unmoved by my surroundings. Master has kept saying that we should study the Fa with our hearts and I was able to experience what Master meant. It means that we need to study the Fa with undivided attention and with no concerns in our heart and every single cell in our body needs to assimilate to the Fa and we also need to cultivate ourselves.
Master said:
“You must be strict with yourself. In cultivation of the Buddha Fa, you should strive forward vigorously.” (Lecture Nine, Zhuan Falun)
There are many benefits to memorizing the Fa and everybody might have their own understandings. I enlighten to new things every day. Isn’t memorizing the Fa a way to improve Fa study? Memorizing the Fa is also a way to be diligent in cultivation.
I want to thank all the fellow practitioners in the Fa recitation group, because the state of each Dafa disciple is key to the formation of our energy field. Your diligence has moved me and I was able to see my shortcomings. As a person who joined the group later, it has motivated me to do better. I will continue memorizing the Fa, cultivate myself and save more sentient beings. I will never forget the real reason why we are here and “Cultivate as you did at the beginning, and you are sure to succeed!” (“Fa Teaching Given at the 2014 San Francisco Fa Conference,” Team Blue Translation)
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