(Clearwisdom.net) We have started sending forth righteous thoughts every hour around the clock. One thing that needs to be clarified is that sending forth righteous thoughts every hour doesn't mean not to sleep or rest 24 hours a day. Rather it is to pay full attention to sending forth righteous thoughts and do it well at the time when not sleeping. Thus, as one body, the Dafa disciples around the world are doing it together every hour and it has tremendous power.
We think that it is the most important thing right now. Whether it is printing the truth-clarifying literature, distributing flyers in the street, or other Dafa work, they are not as important as eliminating the chief evil. If we can arrange the time properly to do Dafa work and everyday work between moments of sending forth righteous thoughts, that would be best. If there are difficulties, we ought to overcome them and put as first priority the task of eliminating the chief evil.
At our present xinxing level, if there is another "4.25", "7.20", or "10.27" (Note: Dates of Jiang's political directives persecuting Falun Gong), what are we going to do? I am sure there would be ten times or hundreds of times more disciples stepping forward than before. Why? It is because we are now enlightened to the fact that it is more important than anything else to step forward in such situations. It is more important than any Dafa work that we arrange for ourselves, for it is the requirement of the Fa-rectification.
The importance of the issue mentioned above and its significance in history, in my opinion, is like another "4.25", "7.20", and "10.27" along our path of cultivation. But there is one big difference. This time we have the initiative. "thoroughly annihilate the Evil and sweep the entire cosmos clean" (Cleaning Out). This is the time mentioned in the poem. The point is to realize that it is the will of heaven that we should follow.
Master says, "so each student has to truly, clearly realize what his responsibility is, and when he sends forth righteous thoughts he has to be able to truly calm his mind and truly produce the effect of righteous thoughts. So this is something extremely critical, extremely important. Then if every student is able to do that, I can tell you, with five minutes of sending forth righteous thoughts together, the evil in the Three Realms will never exist again--that's how important this is." (Fa-Lecture at the Conference in Florida, U.S.A.)
I realized that the state of sending forth righteous thoughts Master mentioned is different from what we currently have when sending forth righteous thoughts. Right now we are far from Master's requirement and have the incorrect way of thinking or mindset, such as feeling that it's not important to send forth the righteous thoughts, fearing difficulties while doing it or not having a firm belief in the effect, finding excuses of doing other things and not sitting with legs crossed and hand up, thinking that it is all right to only recite the verses in one's mind.
Ever since we started sending forth righteous thoughts, we have been doing it 7 to 8 times a day, sometimes even 12 to 13 times a day - and we find that it is possible to do it. Many times we have helped practitioners who fell into the hands of the evil get out by sending forth righteous thoughts. While being persecuted, we have also eliminated the evil's arrangement in this way many times.
All the negative ways of thinking about sending forth righteous thoughts and false imagination are arranged by the old forces in remote history. Many of them directly interfere with the human side in our minds. The disciples in the Fa-rectification period should firmly deter and eliminate the negative mindset in sending forth righteous thoughts and destroy the evil decisively.
We call upon all the Dafa disciples in Beijing to get into the state of sending forth righteous thoughts every hour as soon as possible, eliminating the chief evil and sweeping clean the place where the evil gathers.
April 19, 2002
