";Exhaustion"; and ";Pursuit of Comfort";

I have discovered through my cultivation that the realm of “exhaustion,” this god who is interfering with Dafa practitioners, is actually very low. It is made up of very coarse particles. Just like a layer of dust, it is not very powerful. But it could bring people a feeling of lassitude. What is really causing damage to Fa-rectification is the “pursuit of comfort” (from “Fa-Rectification Period Dafa Disciples”). This “pursuit of comfort” penetrates to very high levels. It represents a type of old force that does not want to assimilate into Dafa. In the human world it manifests as the kind of laziness that prevents one from contributing to Dafa. Even some very diligent disciples are influenced by this “pursuit of comfort” to various degrees. After working hard for a whole day, when it is getting late at night and everything around you is quiet, should you go to sleep or study the Fa a little more, doing things for Dafa a little more, practice the exercises a little more, or send forth righteous thoughts a little more? Every one of us is faced with this choice.

“Exhaustion” and “pursuit of comfort” always arrive at the same time. While “exhaustion” is interfering on the outside, the “pursuit of comfort” is corrupting the righteous thoughts of Dafa disciples on the inside. The first thing that comes is always that lethargic feeling, which results from the material made up coarse particles dropping down onto one. Then the “pursuit of comfort” would urge you from the inside to go to sleep and get some rest. “Rest” means “to get some sleep.” This human notion is being used to cause interference. At that time, do you consider yourself as an enlightened being and believe in what Master Li said, “Practicing cultivation is the best form of rest. You can obtain the kind of rest that can’t be obtained through sleeping” (from Lecture at the First Conference in North America), or do you think of yourself as an ordinary human being, follow the principle of the human world, and get some sleep?

My own experience made me understand that the difficult thing is the struggle between one’s righteous thoughts in one’s heart and the “pursuit of comfort,” while exhaustion is simply an external cause. The former is the hardest because it requires one to search inward and break through oneself, rectify deviation on high levels and elevate one’s level. Once one can achieve that breakthrough internally, the external “exhaustion” falls down beneath one’s feet like dust in a split second.

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http://www.zhengjian.org/zj/articles/2001/11/6/12353.html