(Minghui.org) I am a 12-year-old Canadian Falun Dafa practitioner and would like to share some of my cultivation experiences and enlightenment with everyone.
Eliminating My Attachment to Tasty Foods
I realized I had an attachment to tasty food after I began cultivating Falun Dafa. My mother took me with our neighbor and her daughter to a shopping mall one day. I had eaten a lot for lunch but still wanted an ice cream. I enjoyed the ice cream because my mother hardly ever let me have anything sweet. But I began to feel sick on the way home, and my whole body hurt. I tolerated the discomfort and didn't dare tell my mother.
Our neighbor's daughter, Yaya, who was as tempted by tasty food as I was, had finished an ice cream much bigger than mine. Yaya also ate a lot of snacks in the car on our way home. She threw up in the car and she looked quite unwell. After Yaya threw up I told my mother how uncomfortable I felt.
Though I felt uncomfortable I didn't throw up. I think Master protected me.
My mother reminded me to look inward. I knew this happened because of my attachment to tasty food. I had eaten a big lunch, but I was greedy and still ordered a big ice cream. My mother had been worried that I wouldn't be able to finish the ice cream, so she had wanted to share it with me. I refused and wanted to eat it all by myself. This was a manifestation of my attachment of greed.
After I became uncomfortable I realized that I should have controlled my desires and only had a small amount of ice cream.
I also realized that I should have been a better role model to Yaya, who does not practice Dafa. Yaya ate a lot like me, but she didn't have Master’s protection, so she threw up. She must have felt much worse than I did. My attachments had caused her discomfort, and I hadn't been a good role model.
I recently had a growth spurt and I’m almost as tall as my mother. My mother still calls me a child. I realized that the reason my mother still calls me a child is because a child does not have a strong mind. Whenever attachments surface, I can’t use strong righteous thoughts to rectify myself. This is a child’s characteristic, so this is why my mother still calls me a child. Being mature has nothing to do with height or how long or short one’s hair is. Only when one knows what to do and what not to do, abides my Master’s teachings, and is able to control one’s desires can one truly be regarded as being mature and grown up.
Eliminating the Attachment of Wanting to See Scenes in Other Dimensions
I have read about other young practitioners seeing scenes of fairies or heavenly paradises in other dimensions, in experience sharing articles on Minghui.org. I envied them for seeing these things and wanted to see things too.
My mother reminded me to have righteous thoughts a couple of days ago. My mother said, “There are many demons in other dimensions. If you don't study the Fa and practice the exercises well, those negative substances will enter your body and control you. The lives in other dimensions can see us but we are unable to see them.”
After hearing what my mother said, I thought to myself, “Perhaps I am a child that would get interfered with easily, and this is why Master didn’t open my celestial eye. Master is trying to protect me.”
Master mentioned in Zhuan Falun how Bodhisattva Guanyin conjured up the scene of beautiful, heavenly figures who tried to seduce a 30-year-old man. The young man had strong righteous thoughts and was praised by Buddha Amitabha and Lao-tzu, who said, “This lad is teachable.”
If I saw something in another dimension, I might not be able to hold myself to the standards of a practitioner. So Master has arranged the best path for me by not letting me see scenes from other dimensions.
After enlightening to this, I’m no longer attached to seeing scenes from other dimensions.
Asking For Master’s Help
I don’t have a strong mindset about asking for Master’s help when I’m in trouble. At times, when I do think of Master and ask for Master’s help, things often change for the better.
I got angry at my mother once for her not being able to hang curtains without my father’s help. I returned to my room and started to recite, “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.” I slowly calmed down and asked Master to help my mother while still reciting the two phrases. A short time later a neighbor called and said that he could help my mother hang the curtains.
I remember when my classmates and I were playing in the field at school once, and it started to rain. Just when we were about to head to the field again, the weather turned cloudy and it looked like it was about to rain. I asked for Master’s help for it not to rain and miraculously it did not rain. We played for a long time before heading back. It began to rain just as we returned to our classroom.
The rain poured down that day and it seemed like someone had turned a faucet on. I had forgotten to bring an umbrella and hoped that the rain would stop when school ended. I asked for Master’s help in my heart and the rain really stopped by the end of the school day.
I realized that Master is always beside us. Master knows what we are thinking at all times. Master will also know whether or not we do well in cultivation.
The above is my personal understanding. Please kindly point out anything that is inappropriate.
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