PureInsight | December 23, 2002
Does it make you feel tired to send forth righteous thoughts (SFRT)? Many fellow practitioners have expressed in articles on the internet that they feel very tired after SFRT. I would like to discuss this issue from my own personal experiences.
In May 2001, when Teacher taught us to SFRT, I was suffering from a serious interference from the evil, as I felt very tired. I not only had a hard time getting up in the morning, but my body also started to become itchy in the evening. I could do nothing but grit my teeth and bear it when my condition continued to worsen. In the beginning when Teacher told us to SFRT, I really felt tired, and I needed to go to sleep after each session of sending forth righteous thoughts. Nevertheless, my physical condition from the evil interference was gradually lessened.
Where does being tired come from? Isn't tiredness itself a life from within the Three Realms? What is it that makes the tiredness control a practitioner? Some fellow practitioners have asked, "Why is it that I feel quite energetic before sending SFRT, but became tired right afterwards?" When we are tired our work cannot be done properly, we become sleepy while studying the Fa, and sometimes we cannot even finish the exercises. Some practitioners who do not take the matter of SFRT seriously are hindered even more.
I. Compassion Dissolves Tiredness and Strengthens Energy
The purpose of SFRT is to eliminate the evil, yet the existence of the evil is to destroy the sentient beings and interfere with Fa-rectification. SFRT has bearing on the salvation of sentient beings, doesn't it? At the same time, doesn't it manifest the compassion of the Dafa disciples? Even though it is eliminating the evil from the pure compassionate heart of Dafa disciples, why do we feel tired?
While pondering this, I SFRT with a compassionate heart to save sentient beings. I gradually felt an immeasurable amount of energy and a benevolent force that I had never felt before. It was already swiftly changing everything. I no longer had to endlessly ask for stronger energy, and the breakthrough in enlightening to the Fa made me feel the infinite righteous thoughts naturally. Several times while SFRT, I saw numerous living beings bowing toward me from afar.
To SFRT is the same as being benevolent because the righteous thoughts we send eliminate an immense amount of evil, so as to spare the fate of a myriad of lives from being interfered with, destroyed, or even annihilated. For this, they really are eternally grateful. When I SFRT, sometimes, the tears rolled down my cheeks without knowing whether I was happy or touched.
Gradually, each time I SFRT it becomes a process of collecting more energy, and I feel more energetic afterwards. Furthermore, after each SFRT, I feel that something is not quite finished, and I want to continue, thus I experience the magnificence of righteous cultivation.
II. Our Main Consciousnesses Must be Strong and Distinguish that the Elements of Interference Are Not Ourselves
From another angle, all the elements interfere with us, making us weary and sleepy are at the same time impeding Fa-rectification. SFRT is also at the same time cleaning out those elements, and the old forces have nothing to say against it even by their principles. "When Dafa disciples send forth righteous thoughts, pure and righteous thoughts, to clean out the evil's persecution, that's allowed—the old Fa-principles include principles like that as well." (From: "Touring North America to Teach the Fa")
It isn't we who feel tired. The tired ones are those beings that haven't yet assimilated, and the ruined evil beings from our own systems. Whenever we SFRT, those evil beings from our own systems know that they are going to be eliminated, so they fight desperately to disrupt our main consciousness. If you cannot distinguish them, the elements of tiredness, aches, worries, and so forth become natural, thus making us fail in SFRT, or do it unwillingly. "You know, when this evil sees that it's going to be eliminated, it runs totally rampant." (From: "Teaching the Fa at the Fa Conference in Canada, 2001")
For this reason, our main consciousnesses must be strong when SFRT, and we have to clearly distinguish and get rid of elements of interference. Once we firmly oppose the notion that they are ourselves, these evil elements will be eliminated in no time at all. This is because in the dimension of our own systems there exists a pure and righteous part, in other words, the cultivated part which is our true selves. When we no longer accept the evil elements, they lose the foundation of their existence.
Currently, the only way to make us more clear-headed and to distinguish and expose some of the deeply-hidden evil elements is to study the Fa well. Sending forth righteous thoughts, at the same time, is also a course of cultivation, self-purification and sublimation of benti (one's physical body and the bodies in the other dimensions.)
III. All the Evil Elements that Interfere with the Fa-rectification, Including Tiredness, Are Deviations from the Characteristics of the Cosmos
Our tiredness, aches, and pains, all abnormal physical conditions, and all the evil elements that externally, or superficially, persecute Dafa were all produced after we deviated from Zhen-Shan-Ren. When we clear away the unhealthy elements from our own self, it makes each one of our own systems closer to Zhen-Shan-Ren, the characteristics of the universe. We eliminate the evil from the systems that we are responsible for, and at the same time we also make the whole firmament closer to the characteristic of the cosmos. When all lives return to Zhen-Shan-Ren, then Fa-rectification will have ended.
Now, I further understand the words from Teacher, "Completely eliminating the evil is for Fa-rectification, and not a matter of personal cultivation. In personal cultivation, there is usually no going beyond the limits of Forbearance." (From "Beyond the Limits of Forbearance" in Essentials for Further Advancement II)
The course of becoming a whole body in Fa-rectification is closer to the end of a perfect consummation because there is less evil. The evil elements in each individual system are less, so this makes the individual system of each Dafa particle gradually come close to the final stage of cultivation. In this way, we should be closer to the spirit of the cosmos. How could we be tired after SFRT?
SFRT shouldn't make one tired. The root of being tired is due to the deviated elements from the practitioners who have deviated from the characteristics of the cosmos. I hope that we can all upgrade our level in the Fa, make breakthroughs, and get rid of our deviated notions.
Translated from: http://zhengjian.org/zj/articles/2002/11/4/19120.html
