(Clearwisdom.net) During the past few years, some practitioners outside of China have passed away from sickness karma, which was arranged by the old forces. Recently, we have seen some practitioners who have been cultivating in "sickness" for a long time, and we've not seen them improve much. Other practitioners could not resist family pressure and married ordinary people in a rush. In my view, both of these situations resulted from the damaged group cultivation environment outside of China.
I have thought about those issues a lot. Recall that, before July 20, 1999, many people with life-threatening illnesses joined Dafa cultivation and recovered quickly. At that time there were practice sites and group study groups everywhere in China. Under such circumstances, everyone benefited. Everyone was being cleansed in the group environment. The large group environment was enabling everyone to cultivate and assimilate to Dafa. After July 20, 1999, practitioners outside of China joined one project after another. In the past eight years, we've been working on all kinds of projects. Actually, we are Dafa disciples first. As Dafa disciples, it is critical that we are able to deeply understand the Fa and enlighten to the Fa, and use the Fa to guide our cultivation and our projects. If we ignore upgrading ourselves as a whole-body in the Fa, and are trapped in projects, we will be wasting our own time and exhausting our energy after such a long time. Many losses were the result of ignoring Fa study.
I remember before July 20, 1999, the practice sites and study groups in China had Fa study and exercise almost every day. If we had problems, we would not have them for long. We talked about them and shared them and could solve the problems quickly. In the past eight years, China lost the big environment of group exercise and study. Outside of China, we treasure our free environment even more. This environment is for Dafa disciples' cultivation and validating the Fa. It is not for us to live ordinary lives. Whether one can step forward is the difference and distance between human and gods. When I heard about a practitioner who rushed to marry an ordinary person, I was not thinking about whether she should marry an ordinary person. Instead, I was thinking that there are problems in our overall cultivation environment. Everyone is very busy. We lack a regular, stable environment in which we can open our hearts to communicate. So many problems accumulate for us that in the end, they become difficult to solve. In some regions, practitioners meet once a week like hurrying passersby. They study the Fa, talk about some jobs at hand, and that's it. Unknowingly, we are just following this form. Everyone has knots in their hearts that have not been untied. Only when we give up our sense of self and openly communicate can we better correct the cultivation environment and solve problems.
In fact, coming out more to do group exercise and Fa study has only benefits and no harm. When we can put aside the projects, we might be able to do the projects better. Everyone needs to pay attention to maintaining the group exercise and Fa study environment for the whole body. Therefore, we shall put more effort in correcting our cultivation environment as a whole body. The regions with conditions can increase Fa study groups and exercise sites, or increase the frequency of group study and exercise. We should do these most basic things in the most practical ways. When group exercise and Fa study sites blossom all over the world, they will purify the whole body's environment and accelerate the group's upgrading. Then we can form the mighty power to suffocate the evil and catch up with the progress of Fa-rectification.
