An Adventure in Reading: A Cultivation Experience

A Western Practitioner

PureInsight | August 6, 2001

Here is an experience. My words can only give a limited dimension to the greatness that our Master has shown me but I hope these words can destroy whatever evil that they make contact with.

I was on summer vacation from college after my first year there. At that time I had been practicing for three months. I would read either Zhuan Falun or Essentials for Further Advancement until I couldn’t read any more, and then I would sleep. I kept my book by my bedside. I was either asleep or in that state between sleeping and waking where my main consciousness was still aware but my body was mostly asleep when it was as though I was rising from my bed. I felt very pure and noble, not bound by human notions. I started to float upright as if standing and moved towards the closet of my room, which was on the other side of my room. I was floating almost a yard off the ground and, looking back on the instance, I didn’t really feel any sort of weight either from myself or any objects in the room. I did however feel a strong drawing force pulling me towards the closet. In the closet I kept all of my old Qigong books and Christian books, and other not so good things. I could feel and see the darkness and density of those things. Realizing that those books and things were evil, the words Zhuan Falun filled my mind.

At this time (time, by the way, felt very similar in this dimension to time in our dimension) I felt an over whelming sense of protection. The clothes hamper from another corner of my room moved in front of me and so did the chair from my desk. At the same time as both of these things happened, the copy of Zhuan Falun that I had been reading flew in front of me and opened up. As I began to look at it all of my senses in all parts of my being began to read the book. I heard beautiful music and other parts of my awareness that I didn’t know existed became immersed in the Fa. As I looked at the page there were many dimensions of it that I could see. In one space I saw beautiful pictures of Master explaining different aspects of the principles (Zhen Shan Ren) to me in different scenes. As the page turned the scenes gradually changed also, so it was like watching a movie and a slideshow at the same time. Also on the left side of the book as it opened towards me there were words which scrolled up the page from bottom to top in a language that I could then understand but haven’t to my knowledge been conscious of since. The words were white-gold and moved up at a constant, trusting, comfortable pace, while the pages changed at a different pace as the scenes needed to change. At one point, after what seemed to be thirty or forty minutes, I had my first thought for the whole experience. I thought something like “ I’m so fortunate” Or “this is great” and then I started to descend back to my bed. When I woke up my book was on the chair across the room arranged similarly to the way I remembered from the experience that I had during the night.

I’m writing this for a few reasons. Firstly, to reveal the truth about the greatness of our Master’s compassion. Secondly, to break through the interference and notions that had stopped me from sharing this experience before. I had thought before that this was something that only practitioners should know about in order to help our understanding of dimensions and the Fa’s power to transcend all time and space. But I only told certain practitioners about it. This notion was incorrect for a few reasons. Everyone should know about Master’s benevolence and no force should stop that, especially a practitioner. My understanding is that if you don’t share information publicly, it is also an attachment to showing off, or an attachment to not showing off and should be eliminated.

Thirdly, in this phase of Fa-rectification every practitioner has the responsibility as a guardian of the truth in the cosmos to help in every aspect possible to clarify the truth thoroughly. By sharing my experience I more firmly break through the layer of deformed notions and science created by the old forces and say that there is no truth but the ultimate truth of Zhen-Shan-Ren. By being perfect in our actions and doing as much as we can for Dafa these righteous actions will eliminate evil. If everything we do is righteous the evil will cease to exist. So we should all put forth the truth of our experiences, perfect every aspect of our cultivation, and leave that precedent for future generations of history.

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