(Clearwisdom.net)
Doing the Exercises
I've been joining a group practice for over a week and I have had many understandings. During the past eight years, due to various reasons, practitioners in China have lost a lot of time that we could have used for practicing the Falun Dafa exercises. The following are what I've observed.
- Some practitioners become slack in their practice. They pursue comfort and excuse their own laziness. They don't practice all five sets of exercises. Some even don't do them at all for a long time.
- Some practitioners regard the first four exercises as low level cultivation, and they only practice the fifth meditation exercise.
- Some practitioners become sleepy when practicing the exercises and their movements or positions are incorrect.
- Some think they have reached a high level and therefore believe there is no need to practice the exercises. They quoted some sentences out of context from Zhuan Falun to justify not doing the exercises and thought they were understanding the Fa from the Fa.
- Because of the persecution, some practitioners are used to finding time on their own to do the exercises and therefore are reluctant to join the group practice, which is at a specific time.
The Fa-rectification has now reached its final stage. The transformation of our own bodies is very important. I hope our fellow practitioners in China strictly follow Teacher's requirements to catch up with the Fa-rectification.
I hope more and more fellow practitioners can break through their attachments to comfort and get rid of laziness and selfishness, and join the morning group practice.
Joining the National Group Practice in the Morning
After we received the New Tang Dynasty TV signal in our area, we also received a signal from the Clearwisdom radio program. This program broadcasts the Falun Dafa exercise music in the morning. In our area, we all get up at 3:50 a.m. to do the exercises with the national group practice.
We are very excited. We feel as if we have returned to the thousand-practitioners group practice back when Dafa was freely spreading in China. The energy field is very strong and our hands are very light. That field helps me to strive forward and remove my laziness. My pursuit of comfort used to be very stubborn and I wasn't able to eliminate it in the past. Yet, I felt most of it melt away immediately when I joined the group practice. During the practice, I felt each musical note carrying strong gong and energy. It extends to the extremes of the cosmos and all the space fills with it. It was like a house cleaning. It cleans up all the trash from the macroscopic to microscopic in the cosmos. Together with practitioners' movements, it degenerated the evil lives and elements more broadly and more quickly. I also felt an urgency.
Joining the Group Practice in the Morning
Recently, the Clearwisdom website published a notice saying that the Clearwisdom radio program would broadcast the Falun Dafa exercise music from 4:00 a.m. (later changed to 3:50 a.m.) to 6:00 a.m. I had a thought, "How wonderful it will be if all fellow practitioners in China can join this group practice!" My mother and I started to join it and we also spread the news to other practitioners in our area. Now many practitioners in our area have joined this group practice.
Initially, many notions tried to stop me. I am a full time mom. Therefore I always had excuses to get up late. The first day when we planned to join the group practice, demons interfered with us and we didn't sleep well for the whole night. Still, we got up at 3:50 a.m. However, in the next few days, due to my laziness, sometimes I couldn't get up in time. Sometimes, I woke up in time but didn't want to get up. I wanted to keep sleeping. Sometimes, the evil used my baby. My baby woke up so I wasn't able to practice the exercises. Eventually, my Buddha nature eliminated the demon nature. My true self woke up. "I can't be this lazy!" With this thought, I was able to get up at once. When we shared with each other our experiences, all the practitioners who joined the group practice said, "We thought we would be sleepy or tired when we got up this early. However, it was quite the opposite. We feel very energetic the whole day. Also, we feel the energy field is very strong and we feel very comfortable."
Here, I'd like to share my feelings so more fellow practitioners can join the group exercise. I'd also like to remind fellow practitioners that this is a valuable opportunity to validate the Fa. I believe the energy that is sent out by our group practice can eliminate the evil in one second. The Fa-rectification time is flying by. Why shouldn't we cherish this valuable opportunity to validate the Fa together? Let's make good use of the environment that Teacher has arranged for us! As a disciple that started to practice Falun Dafa after 1999, I truly appreciate Teacher's arrangement for me to experience the sacred and solemn feeling when joining the group practice. I can't find words to describe my feelings.
It Is Truly Magnificent to Participate in the National Group Exercise
I've been joining the Clearwisdom Radio Program's national group exercise every morning. It brought me huge changes immediately. It is so amazing that no words can describe my feelings.
The following are the main changes that I have noticed in myself:
a. The time I need to sleep went from from eight hours to five hours.
b. The sleep demon has disappeared. Before, I was able to keep up with Fa-study and sending forth righteous thoughts. However, the sleep demon often interfered with me and therefore the effects were not that good. Now I still spend a lot of time on the three things that Teacher asked us to do, but I'm able to do them well and much more effectively.
c. My wisdom was opened by the power of the Fa. I previously often felt helpless in my cultivation. Now I'm able to be more rational, stable and proactive when working on the three things on the basis of studying the Fa, cultivating my heart, and enlightening.
d. I'm no longer tired or in a hurry all the time. Now I'm more relaxed and happier, and I'm able to validate the Fa in a more stable and orderly manner.
e. I was stuck in a stereotype of low-level "self-cultivation." Now I'm able to take the Fa as Teacher and I have started to truly look inside.
April 21, 2007
