(Clearwisdom.net) Recently, after reading some of my fellow practitioners' experience sharing articles, I have been reading the Minghui website every day [Minghui is the Chinese version of Clearwisdom.net]. In the process I discovered why my cultivation state has not been good in recent months.
First, from a Fa-rectification point of view, I know that Minghui/Clearwisdom plays a very important role. Teacher wrote in Hong Yin II: "Clear Wisdom saves the predestined. New Life can rid the head of evil. The People's sharp pens fill demons with worry. Falun Dafa gives rise to Pure Insight." Teacher has also said that we should read Minghui/Clearwisdom to learn about major important issues. Also, Teacher's articles and lectures are published on Minghui/Clearwisdom, and the website plays the important role of eliminating evil, exposing evil, helping fellow practitioners share experiences and improve, and saving sentient beings. It's a sharing platform that Teacher arranged for Dafa practitioners all over the world. This platform unites Dafa practitioners, and forms an enormous unified body, which scares, exposes, and disintegrates evil.
Now, let me talk about my personal cultivation experiences. I began practicing Falun Dafa two years ago. When I obtained the Fa, I had a computer at home, but it was not connected to the internet although I had had it for over three years. I enlightened that Teacher arranged that long ago. A few days after I actually obtained the Fa, I started to read the Minghui/Clearwisdom articles under Teacher's arrangement and with the help of fellow practitioners. Reflecting now, I think Minghui/Clearwisdom gave me a big boost. Every time I viewed the website, I felt enormous energy around me. I felt physically and psychologically moved. I felt bad materials leaving my body. Every time I was moved I cried because of the articles on Minghui/Clearwisdom. I shed tears for fellow practitioners' righteous thoughts and righteous actions. I shed tears for the evil's madness, and for sentient beings' safety. I shed tears for Teacher's boundless benevolence. At that time, I participated in group Fa study every day, and I felt that I improved very quickly. I often checked my own shortcomings after reading about fellow practitioners' tribulations. I often had experiences to share that were published on Minghui/Clearwisdom.
Let's talk about when I started to focus on being able to do the sitting exercise. When I felt pain in my legs, I would recite Teacher's Fa again and again: "When it's difficult to endure, you can endure it. When it's impossible to do, you can do it." (Zhuan Falun) Soon, I was able to cross both legs. After a year, I was able to sit for one hour. In order to get rid of the attachment to sleep I arranged my time so that I did my morning exercises, sent forth righteous thoughts, then read the articles on Minghui/Clearwisdom. After reading them, my mind was clear for the whole day. I did not feel sleepy although I slept only five and a half hours a night. Because I persisted in reading Minghui/Clearwisdom every day, my xinxing improved very quickly. After six months Teacher helped me to realize my wish to produce truth clarification materials that I'd had since I first obtained the Fa. With the help of fellow practitioners our site is like a small flower that has blossomed. I think all these changes are due to the righteous thoughts I obtained from reading Minghui/Clearwisdom every day.
However, I was attached to fame and pursuing my personal goals in the ordinary world. I found a job, which used up a lot of my time every day. This also resulted in reducing my time for Fa study. I thought that reading Minghui/Clearwisdom every day was less important, so I only read it once or twice a week. I glanced at the web, downloaded some materials, did not take time to read the weekly edition, and gradually did not read Minghui/Clearwisdom as often. Then, after I left my job. I spent more time on producing truth clarification materials. I still did not spend much time reading Minghui/Clearwisdom. It seemed that I did more and more things to validate the Fa, but my cultivation state was not as good as before. I was trapped in "doing things." I could not concentrate on studying the Fa, felt sleepy when doing the sitting exercise, and could not wake up and did not have a clear mind when sending righteous thoughts at night. I did not look inward and fell behind the pace of Fa rectification.
Recently, I read a fellow practitioner's article discussing this topic. I was suddenly enlightened. I felt the main reason I had not done well in doing the three things in the last few months was because I did not read Minghui/Clearwisdom as diligently as I had before. My righteous thoughts did not catch up. Doing the three things was only a formality, just like finishing a task. Three days ago, I started to read Minghui/Clearwisdom again every day. I felt my xinxing changing. My righteous thoughts gradually increased. From fellow practitioners' experience sharing, I found my own numerous attachments. I am determined to do well from now on. Because of this, I am able to break the evil's suppression and interference and write this article today. This is the first time I have written about my experiences since I stopped reading Minghui/Clearwisdom every day six months ago. I believe, as I continue to read Minghui/Clearwisdom every day, my righteous thoughts will become stronger and stronger. I will be more determined in believing in Teacher and the Fa. I can recover any losses, study the Fa well, cultivate myself well, and be able to do the three things better and in a more sacred manner.
This personal experience is to let fellow practitioners know the importance of Minghui/Clearwisdom, and to encourage those who can, to read Minghui/Clearwisdom every day. We should remove people's thoughts of being afraid that doing so is not safe, and eliminate the attachment of fear. The real benefits are endless. Don't think that reading the web is a waste of time. It will not hinder our Fa study or clarifying the truth. Fellow practitioners' articles cite many of Teacher's teachings. They are thoughts and enlightenment from practitioners at different levels or different states. They are helpful to our Fa study and xinxing improvement.
Let us all pay attention to Minghui/Clearwisdom, and increase righteous thoughts to form a strong, unified body. Let's eliminate all evil and save countless sentient beings.
I welcome any corrections. Heshi.
