PureInsight | May 6, 2002
The moon is very bright one night and I walk airily to a green lawn. At the end of the lawn is a dense wood. My mind is very clear without any distracting thoughts. It seems that the constant churning of my head has stopped. I feel that from inside to outside, both my mind and body are filled with peace, serenity, holiness, and purity. I have never had this kind of experience before. As clean as ice and as pure as jade, an exalted feeling rises from the purity of both mind and body that I am experiencing. Without any thinking activity, there is only purity and emptiness in my mind. Suddenly, I lift off slowly from the ground and fly up into the sky. My mind is still empty without any thinking. I cannot remember any everyday people's thoughts at all. In other words, I do not want to have any everyday people's thoughts. I'm just flying with holiness and purity. I fly through some buildings which cannot block me. I pass through the last room and see a westerner, similar to those you often find in western religious paintings, sitting there quietly. Two angels with wings stand on his shoulder. Calmness and serenity show on his face.
I keep on flying. All of a sudden I feel reunited with my physical body. I open my eyes and find myself lying in bed. I can clearly recall the experiences I had just a moment ago. It was a dream, and it was also real. Everything is still alive in my memory. I felt the pure state of my true self; I felt the holiness and purity that's without any human thoughts. Since then, I always compare my regular thinking with the state I experienced in the dream. I have found that many human thoughts originate from a thinking mechanism, a kind of program built of human notion, logic and deductive methods. This program differs from person to person because different people have different notions. Conversely, many such notions, which are formed deep in ones bones and not easily detected, originate from this thinking mechanism.
In his article "Towards Consummation," Master said, "What's a fundamental attachment, then? Human beings acquire many notions in this world and are, as a consequence, driven by these notions to pursue what they yearn for." Master has clearly told us already that our notions are our fundamental attachments. When I realized that the thinking mechanism in my head is the source of the notions, I decided to eliminate it. I kept studying Dafa and reinforcing my righteous thoughts. At the same time, I try my best to not use my conventional logical thinking that comes about naturally when I think about problems. I try to keep my mind always in an empty state. Of course, it is a progressive process. The bottom line is that studying Fa is the key. The more you study the Fa, the more likely you will look at things from Dafa's perspective. I can feel the elimination of the old thinking mechanism in the process. At the surface level, I can feel my human notions becoming less and less. My reaction to problems is a direct process instead of a thinking process. When I feel that the old thinking mechanism has been removed, I feel the relief of the elimination of the human shell. I always feel that I am in a state of tranquility and emptiness. My mind rarely thinks things and becomes a little bit "slow." The reaction towards things is a direct process. I have realized very deeply the importance of studying Dafa. Only after you study Fa well, can we guarantee that all the Dafa work that we do are truly based on the Fa.
During the process of Fa-rectification, I found that many factors that slowed down the process could be attributed to the remaining human notions of practitioners (including myself). If we can recognize the factors and mechanisms behind our notions and eliminate them accordingly, our Fa-rectification process will speed up along with the holistic improvement of our Dafa disciples.
Translated from http://www.zhengjian.org/zj/articles/2002/4/16/14695.html
