PureInsight | August 6, 2001
Recently I have often heard practitioners talking about how to send the purest, most powerful, righteous thoughts. Here are a few of my ideas.
In my opinion, to send the purest righteous thoughts, not only are those couple minutes of sending righteous thoughts critical, but our cultivation in our daily life is also important. Powerful righteous thoughts come from the solid foundation built during daily life cultivation. In Zhuan Falun, it is said, “When one chants the Buddha’s name, one must do it single-mindedly with nothing else in mind until other portions of the brain become numb and one becomes unaware of anything, with one thought replacing thousands of others, or until each word of ‘Buddha Amitabha” shows up before one’s eyes. Isn’t this an ability?” “If you do not believe it, you can give it a try. With different strong desires and attachments and without being able to give up everything, you may try and see if you can achieve tranquility.”
When sending righteous thoughts, do we have the ability established from solid cultivation in daily life to resist various unclean thoughts caused by attachments? Can we assure that eight characters “Fa Zheng
Qian Kun, Xie Er Quan Mie”(“The Fa rectifies the Cosmos, the Evil is completely eliminated.”) show up before our eyes?
Sending righteous thoughts is also a comprehensive test of practitioner’s Xinxing. On one hand, it is to see if a practitioner can step forward when facing the choice of right or wrong at the critical moment, to see if he/she can resist and thoroughly deny the evil with firm determination. On the other hand, it is also a test
to see if a practitioner has treated those trivial matters with righteous thoughts in his/her daily life. Can we manage to read one chapter of Zhuan Falun each night, even when we are tired and need a rest? Can we manage to break through tiredness and laziness to practice the exercises every day? When others point out our attachments, can we accept it frankly, or do we try to defend ourselves with an excuse. When recognizing an attachment, can we correct ourselves immediately, or find an excuse and leave it for the future? When our Master tells us to erase some audio and videotapes, will we do it, following Master’s words, or try to keep them out of human emotion? When family members interfere with us using sentimentality, can we deal with the situation with compassion? Can we always stay peaceful and compassionate when telling the truth to others? When working for Dafa, can we stay out of trivial conflicts by putting Dafa in the first place, and always consider everything from a broad perspective? Do we have the heart of pursuing fame, zealotry, and the notion of “doing things” when doing Dafa work?
There are many smaller cases: If other people’s clothes frames fall down on the ground, do we help to put it back? If the food does not suite our taste, do we finish it completely? Do we pay attention to and respect the customs of a different country? Do we keep our clothes clean?
“Cherishes lofty aims and regards trivial matters”. As a practitioner, not only should we do better than everyday people on big issues, but also on small issues. Only in this way can we cultivate our Xinxing solidly. If we cultivate Xinxing solidly, our every single thought will be righteous. When sending righteous thoughts, we do not need to think about how to do it, because the thought at that moment must be righteous. I believe that righteous thoughts can be sent only when our heart is clear and clean. For the time being the righteous thought is from one’s innermost life, and one’s innermost body. This cannot be achieved through effort by our brain or thought from the human side.
Cultivation is serious, and there is no short cut. All righteous thoughts come from solid cultivation bit by bit, and one step after another. To send the most powerful and pure righteous thought at the critical moment, we must strictly cultivate ourselves at every moment, every test and tribulation, and always consider ourselves as practitioners.
Translated on July 29, 2001 from http://www.zhengjian.org/sci/sci/home/newscontent.asp?ID=10806
