(Minghui.org) The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) recently ended their so-called “zero-COVID” policy for the pandemic. As a result, the CCP virus has swept across the country. Many people are infected. Many are afraid to go out, and few people are on the streets. I wrote this article to share my observations and understanding regarding sickness-karma and sending forth righteous thoughts.

I found that many practitioners around me have exhibited the illness-karma of the CCP virus in the past couple of days. Some practitioners became restless, thinking that they had contact with or been infected by so and so. Actually, this first thought was already wrong. There is nothing wrong with this thought if you are an ordinary person. But if cultivators think that they were infected with the virus, then at that moment, they do not regard themselves as cultivators. 

If there are fellow practitioners around us who point this out to us, and we correct ourselves in time, I don’t think it’s a big problem. After all, we are all cultivators and are constantly improving.

My husband was such a case. He recognized that his ‘symptoms’ were a falsehood. However, the symptoms came one after another. In the past when he sent forth righteous thoughts, he dozed off and his hand dropped, and he was often interrupted when he studied the Fa. When he was affected by sickness-karma, I helped him send forth righteous thoughts and asked him to do the exercises. He, himself, also tried his best to study the Fa more. After a couple of days, he was fine. 

I looked back to find the reason he was affected by the sickness-karma. He told me a while ago that he felt disappointed that so many people were mourning the death of Jiang Zemin, given that we put so much effort into telling people about the atrocities Jiang committed. He also said that another practitioner he recently met felt the same way, and even felt it was hard to continue with cultivation. 

I asked him at the time if he had stopped studying the Fa for the dozen days he was traveling. He said yes, and he also slacked off sending forth righteous thoughts. I did not say much, and just silently sent forth righteous thoughts for him. He also told me that he had bad thoughts after watching a video on his cell phone, and he felt a coldness invading his body afterwards. I told him to send forth righteous thoughts to eliminate it. 

I enlightened from this that any bad thought will interfere with one’s cultivation. It can be an excuse for the old forces to pull us down. On the other hand, as long as we always keep our thoughts in line with the Fa and be diligent in clearing our own space, those lowly spirits and rotten demons will be unable to reach us. I hope practitioners who have similar thoughts and sickness-karma will learn the same lesson. 

The other day, I listened to a Minghui Broadcast titled “Be Serious in Sending Forth Righteous Thoughts.” Most of those articles were published in 2010. Those fellow practitioners reminded everyone to be serious about sending forth righteous thoughts. They solidly did so. I could see the gap between myself and them. 

I began to adjust my state of sending forth righteous thoughts. I read through part of Master’s articles on sending forth righteous thoughts and reviewed the requirements published by Minghui.org. I now can typically send forth righteous thoughts for half an hour, and sometimes for one and a half hours at night, without feeling tired. 

Previously, I was unable to do this. I could not even ensure that I sent forth righteous thoughts on the hour four times a day. If I went five extra minutes, I was checking the time. I often had interference from things or people in my daily life, or from unrighteous thoughts coming from my own space. 

After I adjusted my cultivation state in this regard, I can focus as soon as I sit down, and the energy that Master strengthens me with is especially strong. One night I sent forth righteous thoughts with high intensity, and the next day it was very easy for me to clarify the truth about Dafa to customers. My thoughts were clear and my mind was calm. I had been afraid to talk in the past, because my mind was not settled. Basically, I had not put myself in a righteous position to save people. This all resulted from not taking sending forth righteous thoughts seriously. 

I feel that I am more calm and concentrate better when studying the Fa since I began to take sending forth righteous thoughts seriously. I am no longer anxious and scared like when COVID was affecting everyone around me. My mind is calm. What I think about more is how to save people and validate Dafa. 

I am not trying to show off how well I am doing, but I truly feel the greatness of Master and Dafa. Master has given us so many powerful tools. We will feel undeserving of Master’s salvation if we do not work hard at this special moment. I recited this paragraph of Fa to strengthen my righteous thoughts and share with fellow practitioners:

““I’m Li Hongzhi’s disciple, I don’t want other arrangements or acknowledge them”—then they won’t dare to do that. So it can all be resolved. When you can really do that, not just saying it but putting it into action, Master will definitely stand up for you. What’s more, there are lots of Fa guardians around Master, there are lots of Buddhas, Daos, and Gods, and there are even greater beings, and they will all participate, because forced persecution that’s not acknowledged is a crime, and the cosmos’s old laws don’t allow it either—irrational persecution absolutely is not allowed, and the old forces don’t dare to do it if that is the situation. So you should do things as righteously as you can.” (Teachings Given on Lantern Festival Day, 2003)