PureInsight | February 11, 2002
Recently, I often thought about how to clarify the truth in more depth while I was sending forth righteous thoughts. Since I thought that clarifying the truth was very important, I didn't pay attention to the fact that I wasn't keeping a clear mind when sending forth righteous thoughts. This problem became even more and more serious as time went on. Initially, I only thought about clarifying the truth during the first five minutes when I was supposed to clear out my mind. This eventually extended to the next five minutes when I was supposed to eliminate the evil. I just couldn't keep my mind pure and clear. This reduced my power when sending righteous thoughts. I eventually realized that this was interference from the evil. I tried my best to eliminate it, but sometimes I still couldn't reach a tranquil state.
Master mentioned in Zhuan Falun: "Why is one unable to attain tranquility? … In my view, that is looking for external help. If you want to improve yourself, you should search your inner self and work hard on your heart—only then can you truly ascend and achieve tranquility in sitting meditation…" (From "a Clear and Clean Mind" in Lecture Nine)
I had thought wholeheartedly only about how to deter interference. But I didn't search inside myself. Thus I still looked for external help. The evil precisely took advantage of my heart wanting to look for external help. It also took advantage of the fact that we thought clarifying the truth was very important in order to interfere with me when I was sending forth righteous thoughts to eliminate it completely. In this way, it weakened my power when sending forth righteous thoughts. The evil will take advantage of every omission. Only if we indeed keep studying the Fa during the Fa-rectification cultivation, can we send forth the most powerful righteous thoughts and eliminate the evil completely. After I realized that eliminating the evil was also part of the process of cultivation, I calmed down when sending forth righteous thoughts.
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