改善我的修煉環境(PM fifth haring)
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尊敬的師父好！
同修們好！
下面我將分享一下我最近幾年的修煉歷程。
1. 改善我的學法與修煉環境
8 年前我們從海外搬回澳洲，搬到了一個沒有其他同修、也沒有良好修煉環境的維州鄉村。我感到難過，也覺得自己的修煉狀態跟不上，但又不知該怎麼辦。隨後我的家人，包括丈夫和兒子在內，經歷了許多病業干擾，這使我更加忙碌。我們承受著非常大的壓力，唯有通過對大法的正信，我才能夠堅持下去。我知道這是魔的干擾，但似乎無法突破。
師父在《二零零八年紐約法會講法》中說：
「不要因為有些地區學員少，或者有些地區學員之間一直存在著爭論，就使你們在證實法、救度眾生甚至於你個人修煉的問題上都變的很消極。你在毀自己。你要知道，我一直在講，大法弟子看問題一定要反過來看，因為三界是反的，但是你們要走正。常人認為不好的，作為修煉人——想離開這裏的生命，就是好的。」
我向內找，發現自己有依賴別人來开创修煉環境的私心和執著。我沒有意識到，為我周圍的人創造修煉環境，是我自己的責任！我從1998年開始修煉，作為大法的一個粒子，我怎麼還可能找藉口？於是我在當地建立了幾個煉功點，並找辦法改善我的修煉環境。
我知道我必須堅持修煉，並把三件事做得更好。我誠實地審視每一件事，思索自己在哪些地方必須做得更好。
在發正念方面，我發現我經常沒有停下手中事務，參加下午2點的全球發正念，而是繼續工作，而我多數時間是在家工作。我心中的藉口是，我的工作非常緊迫，但我意識到那是人的觀念。除非有特殊情況，否則發正念絕不可能干擾我們的工作，而我當時並沒有用一個修煉人的標準要求自己。我發現，當我更精進地發正念時，我能更好、更快地完成工作，遇到的障礙也更少。現在，當我錯過下午2點的發正念時間時，我一定會盡快補上，不再將其略過。我也會每天定期在心中進行短時間的發正念，我發現這有助於清理大腦、排除干擾，有時在晚上睡前也會發正念。在過去幾年裡，我也經常長時間發正念來清除干擾，特別是當我能感受到，我有責任去清除其它空間的敗物時。
對於講真相，我意識到我做得還遠遠不夠，我需要加入一個項目，以便能更持續地講真相。
我誠懇地請求師父的幫助。在那不久後，我在2020年時聽說有一個新的法輪大法網絡課程項目正要啟動。我有網絡營銷的一些經驗，知道這是師父慈悲的安排在幫助我，於是我與其他人一起， 投入並啟動了這個項目。
2. 在網絡課程項目中嚴肅去執著
我們在2020年啟動了法輪大法網絡課程項目，自那時起，我們的團隊迎來了7000多人參加網絡教功班，並有1000多人觀看了師父的九講班影片。我們的英文線上廣告被來自澳洲、新西蘭和亞太地區的網民們瀏覽了2100萬次，向許多人展現了大法的美好。如今我們的團隊愈發壯大，新加坡團隊和新西蘭團隊已與我們合併，組成了一個大型的英語亞太團隊。
當我們的項目剛開始時，我們團隊完全沒有一起集體學法。我認為這是一個問題——如果沒有集體學法和交流，我們怎麼能作為一個整體融洽地合作？所以在克服了所謂「忙碌」的阻力之後，我們開始在會議前花 10 分鐘閱讀師父的《洪吟》詩詞。參與者們發現這對他們的修煉很有幫助，也幫助會議開得更在法上，最終節省了我們的時間。
過了一陣子，我們將每週的學法時間增加到30分鐘，之後交流修煉心得，然後是項目進度報告。現在我們已將學法時間增加到1小時。之後，我們在群組裡依次圍繞一周以來的自身修煉、正在努力克服的執著、需要突破的魔難、或是學法的體悟進行交流。這種簡單的形式非常強大，讓我感覺更能對自己的修煉負起責任。學法對我們修煉產生的正面影響，使我們的項目在過去運作的6年中基本上能夠協調合作，保持在正軌上。我們小組每週學法時這種深入向內找的習慣，徹底改變了我的修煉狀態，我終於感覺自己像是以煥發的精力和決心在重新修煉。
3. 在煉功與學法上變得更精進
我一直很不重視煉動功，從我剛開始修煉時便如此，一個星期只能完整煉動功3到4次，晚上煉一次短時間的靜功。我如今意識到，我今生的生命不能放任自流，我需要把全部心力投入到大法修煉中。我曾以為，自己沒有時間每天既進行足夠的學法，又煉完功，但那只是人的觀念。我開始每天煉所有的功法，突然間我可以在早晨 5 點左右不用鬧鐘自動醒來，使得學法和煉功都變得很輕鬆。
然而我發現，我的學法質量時常有所欠缺，注意力有時不集中，特別是當我忙於項目或工作時。一位同修聯繫我說：「我每天早上5:30在線上參加學法小組，歡迎你也來參加。」
我很感謝師父的安排。現在我大部分早晨都參加這個學法小組，在學法時非常專注。能夠與全澳各地的同修聯繫和交流也很棒，這對參與整體協調起到了更好的作用。
在那之後，我開始參加從早上 6:55（夏令時後改為 7:55）開始的網絡煉功群組，煉完全部動功，除非我要去煉功點煉功。這種形式為我每天學法和煉功打下了堅實的基礎，我非常珍惜。
到了晚上，我和兒子一起學法或觀看20分鐘師父的講法錄像，或者和媽媽一起面對面學法，我們發現這樣做真的很有益處。我繼續參加每週兩次的法輪大法網絡教功班小組交流（一個是亞太地區，一個是北美團隊），並在線上聆聽墨爾本大組學法交流。我還幾乎每天都收聽明慧廣播的心得交流文章。
我分享這段修煉歷程，是因為它使我突破了舊勢力的干擾與迫害，並在講真相中能夠發揮更大的作用。在這個過程中，我兒子開始重新和我一起修煉法輪大法，我認為這歸功於我能為他提供一個良好的修煉環境。
通過一點一點艱難地重新找回精進狀態，我所經歷的磨難干擾在性質上也減輕了。感謝師父慈悲的安排。
4. 為墨爾本更廣闊的修煉環境做出貢獻
這些年來，我注意到墨爾本的西人同修修煉環境似乎變得越來越糟。當我去參加學法時，到場的西人同修越來越少，西人團隊的修煉環境變得缺乏主动性。我對此感到越來越擔憂，我覺得當我們留意到某種情況不對勁時，通常是師父安排我們去採取行動，但我當時想不出該怎麼做。
我甚至責怪有些同修不夠努力，但我知道這是錯的，因為我相信，我們絕不應對同修產生負面想法。以我有限的理解，師父選擇了他的每一位弟子，所以就不应该對他們有負面想法。其次，我不了解同修們正在經歷或承受著什麼，所以我們不應去審判他人。
我意識到，連我自己也沒有花時間去參加墨爾本的集體學法。於是我每週在線上參加大組學法交流，然後盡可能地前往墨爾本，參加博士山（Box Hill）的小型英語學法小組和交流，有時也會去霍索恩（Hawthorn）的大組學法。乘公交到那裡需要花費我3個小時，但我並不覺得那是浪費時間，我覺得像是一場朝聖。旅途中我會聽師父講法、做一些工作、或者睡一會，而且不用花住宿費。我經常在同修家過夜，只要對他們來說方便就行。與留宿我的同修進行更深入的交流，也是非常寶貴的機會。我覺得這非常好，但我也需要更加努力。
我回想1999年到2000年初時，我們在墨爾本擁有非常強大的西人修煉環境，我們曾有溫馨的聚會，經常在同修家見面，享用午餐或晚餐，進行非正式交流，然後學法交流修煉體悟，就像一個大家庭的氛圍。這種良好的環境對修煉非常有益，使我們形成了一個整體。因此，在與佛學會商议後，我決定重新開始組織這種聚會。
到目前為止，我已經協助組織了約4次西人同修的聚會。上一次聚會非常感人——我一抵達就能感受到，我們的聚會地點的上方有神在加持。我們吃了午餐，進行了一些非正式交流和學法，然後大家依次分享了各自的修煉體悟。聽取其他同修的交流讓我獲益良多，我們在一起的感覺非常溫暖。許多人說，他們總是感到有些孤獨，所以非常珍惜這種聚會。
5. 去除對常人社會狀態的執著與做政府工作
因為之前一直不在澳洲生活，我已經很多年沒有做過向政府讲真相的工作了。當我回到澳洲時，環境變得不同了，有些政黨似乎相當令人失望。我覺得這令人擔憂，並對此產生了許多人的觀念，特別是在維州疫情封鎖期間。我陷入了看許多陰謀論影片的執著，但又很快意識到當今社會「泥沙俱下、魚目混珠」的現實，我應該抵制被拉下去的誘惑。看影片與做好三件事毫無關係，只是一種干擾，消耗了我們的時間和精力。
儘管如此，我仍對禁足令感到憤怒。我和丈夫、朋友經常在一起表達對此的不滿。我甚至在社群媒體上發表了一些非常負面的評論。事後我覺得很糟糕，並嚴肅審視了自己的修煉狀態。我被卷入了常人的事務和政治中，怎麼能做好一個修煉人呢？無論常人怎樣行事，修煉人都需要以慈悲心待人，因為他們是為得救而來的。我意識到，部分原因是我感到自己的切身利益或我家人的利益受到了侵害。然而，我不應該做到無怨無恨、坦然承受苦難嗎？看到親友受苦而動心，是需要去掉的對情的執著。
師父在《精進要旨》〈修煉不是政治〉中開示：
「我在講課中一再強調，常人社會形式，不管它是甚麼樣的社會與政治，都是有定數的，是天定的。修煉的人無須管人間的閒事，更不要參與政治鬥爭。社會上對我們如何，那不是在考驗修煉人的心嗎？不能說我們被搞到政治裏邊去了。」
我意識到我在這方面已經滑下去很遠了，沒有按照法的要求來行事。如今不是末法時期嗎？這個非常複雜的環境，難道不是為我們修煉提供的絕佳環境嗎？儘管許多事情可能是舊勢力的安排，但在我們努力的講真相中，我們否定、清除它們，才能夠扭轉乾坤。而就我們個人修煉而言，這個複雜的環境難道不是一件大好事嗎？
此外，當我被要求接觸當地議員時，我照做了。但當我審視自己的內心時，卻發現了大量的怨恨、不信任甚至反感的情緒。這樣我怎麼可能救得了他們？這是一個很大的問題。
我開始向內找，發現我對其中一位積怨最深的議員有許多負面想法，比如「她從來不做任何事，她從不回覆任何訊息，也許她正在和中共勾結」。我開始徹底清除所有的負面想法，直到一個不剩。然後我開始定期發正念，清除任何可能存在的干擾。我使用一個新的電子郵箱，誠摯地向她發送了一封以活摘器官為主題的信件。我也意識到，憑藉我們的能力可以幫助眾生明白真相，所以我發出正念，希望她了解在中國發生的活摘器官的真相。不久之後，我收到了這位議員非常友好的回信，而我以前從未收到過她的任何回覆。她感謝我提供這些資訊，並邀請我與她的助理會面，討論活摘器官的事宜。
为了更好的讲清真相，我特意用Canva軟件製作了一份演示文稿 ，並希望能為這次會談提供一些視覺方面的衝擊力。
去的路上，我騎著自行車上坡前往議員辦公室的途中，感受到頭上有拿著號角的美麗天使、長著翅膀的小天使和其他神在鼓勵我，這非常美妙。當我從單車包裡拿出筆記本電腦時，我能感到它閃爍著光芒。
感謝師父的安排，會談非常順利。唯一不足之處可能是演示文稿的最後沒有加上行動呼籲，要求這名議員採取行動緊急制止這件事，我意識到，這種要求可能還為時過早，可能會讓她措手不及，因為我們才剛開始對話。我想，在很好地講清真相之後，明白了真相的众生自然會做他們該做的事。我們的角色其實不是在這個世界上取得甚麼特定的成就，而是救度眾生。一旦他們知道了真相，就能做出正確的決定來擺放自己的位置。
以上只是我近年來修煉的一些心得體會，但大法的修煉是如此博大精深，其實還有很多可以講的。我還有很多缺點和需要提高的地方，通過不斷向內找，我會不斷努力提高。師父太偉大了，我們非常幸運能成為正法時期大法弟子，讓我們珍惜這段時間吧。如有不當之處請同修慈悲指正！
謝謝師父！
謝謝同修！
Improving my cultivation environment
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Greetings, revered Master! Greetings, fellow practitioners! I’d like to share a bit about my cultivation journey in recent years.
1) Improving my Fa study and cultivation environment
We moved from overseas back to Australia 8 years ago and moved to regional Victoria where there weren’t other practitioners, and no good cultivation environment. I was sad, and also felt my cultivation wasn’t keeping up, but I wasn’t sure what to do. Then, our family experienced lots of sickness interference including my husband and son, making me even busier. The pressure of our situation was often intense and only through my faith in Dafa was I able to endure it. I knew this was interference but I couldn’t seem to break through.
Master said, in the Fa Teaching at the 2008 New York Conference:
“Don’t let having relatively fewer students in a particular area, or the presence of ongoing disputes among our students in some areas, become grounds for being passive about validating the Fa, saving sentient beings, or even your own cultivation. You would be ruining yourselves, then. You should know, and I have been saying all along, that when you, as Dafa disciples, look at something, you have to make sure to view it in reverse since the Three Realms are inverted, and you have to conduct yourselves in a positive, correct manner. What ordinary people regard as not good is good for cultivators–beings who wish to leave this place.”
I looked within and found I had the selfish attachment of relying on others for my cultivation environment. I hadn’t realized it was my own responsibility to create this myself, and for others around me! I started cultivating in 1998, what could possibly be my excuse, as a particle of Dafa? I started a couple of local practice sites, and began to try and find ways I could improve my cultivation environment to close any gaps the old forces could use to exploit, step by step.
I knew I had to cultivate and do the 3 things better. I looked at each thing honestly, to see where I had to do better.
With sending forth righteous thoughts, I noted that I often didn’t stop to do the 2pm global righteous thoughts and continued working, even though I mostly worked from home. The excuse in my mind was that my work was very pressing, but I realized that was human thinking. Unless it’s special circumstances, there’s no way that doing righteous thoughts will interfere with doing our work, and I wasn’t fulfilling my duty as a practitioner. I found that when I became more diligent sending righteous thoughts I could do my work better and more quickly and less obstacles came up. Now, when I miss the 2pm time, I make sure to make up for it as soon as I can, and don’t skip it anymore. I also send righteous thoughts for short periods of time in my mind regularly throughout the day and find it helps to clear up my mind, and any interference, and sometimes right before I go to sleep. For the last several years I also often do an extended session of righteous thoughts to clear up interference, particularly when I can sense things in other dimensions that I was responsible to clear out.
For my truth clarification, I realized I wasn’t doing anywhere near enough and I needed to join a project so I could more consistently clarify the truth.
I sincerely asked Master for help. Not long after, I heard about the new Falun Dafa online class project in 2020 was starting up. I had some experience in online marketing, and I knew it was Master’s compassionate arrangements looking after me, so with others, I jumped in and started it up.
2) Being serious about getting rid of attachments, and working on the Online Classes project
We started the Falun Dafa online classes project in 2020 and since then our team has welcomed over 7000 people to join the online Falun Dafa exercise class, and over 1,000 people to watch Master’s online 9-day lecture series. Our online ads have been viewed 21 million times by English speakers in Australia, NZ and the Asia-Pacific region, showing the beauty of Dafa to many who are online. Our team has grown, and now the Singapore team and NZ team have joined with us to make one big English Asia-Pacific team.
When our project first started, our team didn’t do any group Fa study at all together. I thought that was a problem- how can we work harmoniously as one body without group Fa study and sharing? So after some resistance that people were too busy, we started to study for 10 min reading Hong Yin poems before our meetings. Those who joined found it very good, and helpful for their cultivation. It also helped our meetings to be more on the Fa and save time in the end.
After a while, we increased the weekly Fa study time to 30 minutes, and afterwards we shared our cultivation experience, then project updates. Now we’ve increased the Fa study time to 1 hour. Afterwards, we go around the group one by one and share about our own cultivation for the week, any attachments we are working on, trials we needed to overcome, or enlightenments from studying the Fa. This simple format has been very powerful, and made me feel much more accountable to my own cultivation. This positive effect on our cultivation has made our project able to work mostly harmoniously together and keep on track for the 6 years it’s been running. This weekly habit of deeply looking within in our group study changed my cultivation state completely and I finally felt like I was cultivating anew with refreshed energy and determination.
3) Becoming more diligent in exercises and focused Fa study
I’d always been very lax doing the standing exercises, even when I first started to cultivate, and only did the full standing exercises 3-4 times a week, and a short meditation in the evening. I realized this life is not a practice run, I need to put my all into my cultivation. I had the belief that I didn’t have time to do both enough Fa study and the full exercises in one day, but that was just human notions. I started to do all the exercises every day and suddenly I could wake up automatically at around 5am in the morning without an alarm, making it easy to do both Fa study and the exercises. \
However I found that my Fa study quality was sometimes lacking and my concentration sometimes wasn’t focused, especially when I was busy with projects or work. A practitioner got in touch and said “ I join a 5:30 am Fa study group online every morning, feel free to join.”
I was thankful of Master’s arrangements. Now I join this Fa study group most mornings and find the focus of my Fa study is excellent. It’s also been great to connect and share with practitioners from all over Australia and has been great for coordinating more as one body.
After that I started to join an online exercise group from 6:55am (or 7:55am daylight savings time) to do the full standing exercises, unless we have our physical practice site on. Having this solid foundation for my Fa study and exercises every day has been something I cherish.
In the evenings, my son and I study the Fa or watch the 9-day lectures for 20 minutes together, or join with my Mum to do this in-person, and we find it really good. I continue to join the 2 weekly Falun Dafa online class sharings, (one for Asia-Pacific and the other with the North America team) listen to our Melbourne big group Fa study sharing online, and listen to Minghui radio experience sharings almost every day.
I share my journey because it has enabled me to break through that old forces’ interference and persecution, and be much more effective in truth clarification. During this process my son started to cultivate Falun Dafa again with me, which I think is partly due to me being able to provide a good cultivation environment.
Through this difficult process of becoming more diligent bit by bit, the interference I was experiencing has lessened in kind. Thank you Master for your caring arrangements.
4) Contributing to the wider cultivation environment in Melbourne
At the same time, over these years, I noticed the western practitioners’ cultivation environment in my closest big city Melbourne seemed to be becoming worse and worse. Fewer western practitioners were attending Fa study when I went, and the environment among the Westerners felt a bit uninspired and weary. I felt increasingly worried about this, and I feel when we notice something, often it’s because Master has arranged for us to do something about it – but I couldn’t figure out what.
I even partly blamed practitioners for not putting in enough effort – but I knew this was wrong, because I believe we should never have negative thoughts about fellow practitioners. In my limited understanding, Master has chosen every one of his Disciples, so negative thoughts about them may be like a sin against Dafa. Secondly, we don’t know what practitioners are going through or experiencing, so we can’t really judge others.
I realized even I wasn’t putting in the time to join the Melbourne Fa study groups much. I joined the big group Fa study sharing online every week. Then I started to travel when I could to Melbourne to join the small English-speaking Fa study group and sharing in Box Hill, and sometimes to the big group Fa study in Hawthorn. It took 3 hours from my home to get there by public transport but I didn’t feel like it was a waste of time, it felt like a pilgrimage. I would listen to the Falun Dafa 9 day lectures, do some work, or have a nap, and didn’t waste money on a hotel. I would often stay at a practitioner’s home overnight, as long as it was convenient to them. It was also precious to share more deeply with the practitioners I stayed with. I felt this was very good but also I needed to do something more.
I thought back to when we had a very strong westerners cultivation environment from 1999 to the 2000s in Melbourne. I remembered our warm gatherings where we would often meet at a practitioner’s home, have lunch or dinner and informal sharing, then do Fa study, and share our cultivation experiences. It was like one big extended family. This environment was very conducive to a good cultivation environment, and we were like one body. So, coordinating with the Falun Dafa Association, I decided to start up these kinds of gatherings again.
So far, I’ve helped to organize about 4 gatherings for western practitioners.
The last gathering was very touching – as soon as I arrived I could sense heavenly beings above the practitioner’s hair salon where we were meeting. We had lunch and some informal sharing, some Fa study and then one by one everyone shared their experience or something they were facing in their cultivation. I gained a lot from listening to other practitioners sharings and we had a warm feeling together. Many said they also had some feelings of isolation so they cherish these gatherings a lot.
5) Getting rid of attachments about the state of society and doing government work
I hadn’t done any meaningful government work for many years as we had been living overseas. When we came back, the environment seemed different and it seemed some political parties had become quite corrupt. I found it a concern and had many human notions about that, especially when the covid lockdowns occurred in Victoria. I went down the rabbit hole of looking at some conspiracy theory videos. I soon realized “pearls and fish eyes are jumbled together” and I should resist that temptation to be drawn into those things. It has nothing to do with doing the three things well and is just a distraction, using our time and energy.
Nonetheless, I felt resentful of the lockdowns. My husband, or my friends and I, would often speak about dissatisfaction with how things were being handled. I even made some very negative comments on social media. Afterwards I felt bad and I had a hard look at my cultivation. I was getting swept up in human affairs, human politics, how could I be classified as a cultivator? We need to treat everyone with compassion no matter what they do, as they came here to be saved. I realized that some of this came from feeling like my own self-interest or those of my family were being infringed upon. However, shouldn’t I be able to suffer hardship with ease and without hatred? Seeing friends and family suffer is the attachment to qing that needs to go.
In Essentials for Further Advancement, Cultivation Practice is Not Political, Master says,
“In my lectures I have repeatedly stressed that the form of human society – no matter what type of society or political situation – is predestined and determined by heaven. A cultivator does not need to mind the affairs of the human world, let alone get involved in political struggles. As to how society treats us, isn’t it to test a cultivator’s heart? We should not get involved in politics.”
I realized how far I had fallen in this area, and was not acting in accordance with the Fa. Isn’t this the Dharma ending period? Isn’t this very complicated setting great for our cultivation environment? Even though many things may be a result of the old forces arrangements, in our truth clarification efforts we negate them and repel them, and turn the tide back. But in terms of our personal cultivation, isn’t this complicated environment a very good thing?
In addition, when I was asked to reach out to my local MPs I did so, but when I looked at my heart I found a lot of resentment, distrust and even dislike. How could I possibly save them? This was a big problem.
I started to look within regarding one of my MPs who I seemed to have the biggest grudge about. I had negative thoughts like “she’s never done anything, she never replies to any messages, maybe she’s collaborating with the CCP.” I started to eliminate all negative thoughts completely until none were left. Then I began to regularly send righteous thoughts towards this MP to clear up any interference. I sent a heartfelt email, from a different email address than the one I had used previously, regarding organ harvesting. Soon after, I got a very compassionate email back from this MP, who I had never had any replies from before. She thanked me for this information and also invited me to meet with her assistant about organ harvesting.
I prepared a Powerpoint in Canva, as my memory for details isn’t good, so I would use the slides to jog my memory and give some visual depth to our discussion.
On the way to the meeting I was riding my bike up the hill to the MP’s office and I could sense beautiful angels with trumpets, cherubs and other heavenly beings above encouraging me, it was very wonderful. As I got out my laptop from my bike bag, I could sense it shining with light.
The meeting went very well thanks to Master’s arrangements. The only thing I thought I should have improved was not including a call to action at the end, asking her to urgently do something about it, as this took her aback. I realized it was too soon to ask things, as I’d only just started the conversation about this. I think after we are able to clarify the truth well, MPs will naturally do what they should do. Our role isn’t really to achieve something in particular in this world, it’s to save sentient beings. Once they know the truth, they can make the right decisions to position themselves.
The above are just a few sharings from my cultivation in recent years, but the cultivation practice of Dafa is so rich and magnificent and I could share many more things. I still have a lot of shortcomings and things to improve, but by continually looking inward I will keep striving to improve. Master is incredible, and we are so lucky to be Fa rectification period Disciples, let’s treasure this time. Please point out anything not in line with the Fa.
Thank you Master, thank you practitioners.