(Minghui.org) I read the series “What Causes Us to Fail to Look Within?” last night on the Minghui website and found it very helpful. I was more aware of the interference when I studied the Fa later that night and was able to eliminate it quickly. That incident reminded me of how important it is to study the Fa with a clear mind.
I studied the Fa after reading the articles and began to feel sleepy a little after 11:00 p.m. The content of the article popped into my head, so I began to examine the “sleepiness” that I was experiencing and tried to look for the cause behind it.
At that very moment, my main consciousness left my body and entered a different dimension. Though my main consciousness couldn't see anything, it felt that there were many evil beings around my body. I knew that they were the cause of my sleepiness.
I extended my hands and took two of those beings' weapons—two metal sticks—from their hands and threw them away. Then I quickly returned to my body and the sleepiness was completely gone. I was able to finish reading the Fa and send righteous thoughts at midnight with a clear mind.
I had been experiencing sleepiness while studying the Fa every night at around the same time for the past few days. But because it was not serious and didn't last very long, I didn't take it seriously. I just tried to suppress it and continued studying the Fa.
If I had not read the series, I wouldn't have paid much attention to this seemingly minor issue. Yet thinking back, if I didn't try very hard to look within, I would not have been able to eliminate the interference so completely and quickly.
This incident reminded me of some other wonderful things I experienced previously in cultivation and would like to share with my fellow practitioners.
Studying the Fa well is required to fundamentally assimilate to the Fa and is the basis for doing everything well. Just imagine, if we are often interfered with by the various sentiments and desires of ordinary people and are not able to rise above and beyond, then how can we have the ability to save others? Even though we really wished to save sentient beings, we simply would not have the power to do so.
I cultivate in a state of gradual enlightenment and have had some wonderful experiences when I was able to keep a clear mind while studying the Fa. I hope that my sharing will help those who cannot yet see with their celestial eye to experience these wonderful things, so that they'll understand the power of studying the Fa with a clear mind.
While on my way to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Gong in late 1999, I was stopped on the train and detained at the local railway police station. I recited the Fa the night of the arrest when I was alone in the office. Since I had just started practicing a few months prior, all I could remember was Lunyu. I recited Lunyu over and over again and tried to keep a clear mind. If I made a mistake or if my mind ever wandered off, I started reciting Lunyu from the beginning again.
I could feel the huge interference that manifested in the form of sleepiness, which came out of nowhere. It was a formless, yet powerful force that attacked my willpower and made me foggy minded and caused me to lose focus. It was trying to stop me from remembering the Fa. I kept going and started over as soon as I caught myself making a mistake or not paying full attention to what I was reciting. I must stay awake!
I don't know how many times I had to bring myself back to the Fa and how many times I had to start over that night, but after what seemed like a long long time, I suddenly reached a state of tranquility, where I had no other thoughts on my mind. The sleepiness and the powerful force just disappeared and I was still reciting the Fa.
I heard a clear voice of a little boy at that moment that repeated each sentence of Lunyu after me. I was leading him in reciting Lunyu. He only made a few mistakes and I helped correct them each time. I realized then that the formless powerful force that was going against the Fa was rectified and assimilated by the Fa, and it had been transformed by the Fa into a new life.
Thinking back, I realized that the process of studying the Fa with a clear mind is the process of rectifying (or saving) sentient beings in our corresponding cosmic bodies.
I recited Zhuan Falun every day when I was detained in 2009, though I could only remember about three quarters of the book. I had a dream one night and saw the space I was in rise from the earth. When it got to about ten meters above the ground, I turned around and saw a cellmate giving me the thumbs up. She had a smile on her face and was full of admiration. A thought came into my mind through soundless telepathy, “Your human side is impeccable.”
I thought to myself, “How could my human side be impeccable? It should be my divine side that is impeccable.” I then continued to move up. As I got higher and higher into the space of the universe, I had a more intense feeling of sacredness. I felt that I was equally sacred and becoming more so. I cannot describe the feeling—it was as if the universe and I became one and I felt very righteous and holy. As I got higher, the feeling became stronger. When I reached my limit and couldn't take any more of that feeling, I stopped going up.
I stood somewhere in the universe and looked back. Close to the ground, the broad earth, there existed a small group of the communist evil spirits that had not been disintegrated. Compared to the endless earth and the sky, it was puny. Then I woke up.
Thinking about it now, the comment “your human side is impeccable” was probably about how well I focused on reciting the Fa. I truly was very focused at the moment. Thinking back, I realize now that the process of studying the Fa with a clear mind is also a process of becoming 100% righteous and improving oneself.
I was transferred in 2010 from a detention center to a women's prison, where I recited Zhuan Falun every day. Sometimes I recited one to two lectures at night before I went to sleep. The nights were quiet and there were no distractions. Many times, as I recited the Fa, I felt that my entire body was filled with energy and was exploding. The powerful energy burst forth in all directions of the space and got as far as it could possibly go. As the explosions continued, a thick field of negative substance that had tightly enveloped me was blown up and destroyed.
Looking back, I realized that studying the Fa near the evil is a process of quickly disintegrating it.