(Clearwisdom.net) I am a practitioner born in the 1980s. My cultivation path has been similar to most of the other young practitioners who began to practice during adolescence and cultivated through our teenage years.
During these years, our cultivation journeys have seen happiness and diligence after obtaining the Fa as well as the determination to continue cultivation after July 20, 1999. Some of us became less diligent after entering college, starting to work, falling in love, or getting married. However, Master never gave us up. He always gave us chances to come back to the cultivation path. As one of the young Falun Gong practitioners, I feel that selfishness, irresponsibility, and personal ambition--but not talent--are our general shortcomings.
Compared with some older practitioners, my cultivation is less solid. The mental capacities of older practitioners have been firmly expanded step by step. Looking at myself, I am really short on this kind of industrious and diligent attitude. I always have had great imagination but without actual follow through. After I turned 30, there were problems from work, family, the business, my marriage, and divorce. In such conditions, life choices need to be made carefully.
I obtained the Fa when I was young, pure-hearted, and carefree. Now, lifestyle choices and problems with the balance between work and cultivation keep surfacing. Sometimes, I have felt that my evil nature was getting stronger. However, I can rectify it by practicing cultivation. It's not a big problem. My biggest concern was that I could not maintain a steady pace in my cultivation. I was always vacillating between diligence and relaxation.
Compared with other practitioners, I really feel ashamed about how I let up in my cultivation. I understood that the problem could be solved through righteous thoughts. The Minghui website (Chinese version of Clearwisdom.net) is a really good website and has a lot of useful information, including Master's pictures, Master's lectures, practitioners' articles, and other materials to validate Dafa. When I feel lonely, I often listen to the “Heavenly Music” programs on MH Radio. (The English version of the website is currently not available.) Some songs, such as “The Family That We Came from,” “Journey of Coming and Returning,” and “Glorious Buddha with a Thousand Hands,” make me feel really calm and peaceful. Therefore, I would like to thank all the practitioners who make this happen.
