Teaching the Fa and Answering Questions in Jinan

 

Teacher: This is due to your having a master soul that’s not good or your thought karma at work. Some people may also be possessed by spirits. This will happen if other practices are mixed in. Those of us who don’t mix in other practices and only practice Falun Dafa won’t have possessing spirits. In most cases it is due to thought karma.

 

Teacher: Cultivation isn’t an attachment; cultivation is returning to the original, true self, so that one’s true nature emerges. That’s your true nature, so it’s not an attachment. But if you are always saying, “All I want to do is become a Buddha through cultivation,” “I’ve improved by such-and-such amount today,” and “I’ll become a Buddha at a such-and-such time,” then that’s an attachment. Just cultivate with the intention to practice but with no intention of obtaining gong, and it will be fine if you just have that wish.

 

Teacher: If they didn’t attend the lecture series and aren’t our students, why would I take care of them? If I were to take care of everyday people so casually and implant this thing for everyone in China, would that do? If someone learns the practice on his own, learns it from the book or tapes, will he get it? Let me tell you, in the future the form of learning the practice will be just like that. Since you have my Law Bodies to take care of you, my books have Law Bodies, and my videotapes and audiotapes all have them—those who truly follow a practitioner’s standards will also be given this. But they have to truly cultivate according to a practitioner’s standards, and only then will they be given this. If you say that you just want to do it for physical exercise and don’t want to cultivate towards higher levels, then you won’t be given this.

 

Teacher: It’s not that once you have started doing the practice, everything will change immediately for you. What about your xinxing? You want to reach a practitioner’s state, so you have to change yourself, starting from your xinxing. There are people who ask, “I’ve started practicing Falun Dafa. How come my illness hasn’t been cured?” You are still an everyday person among everyday people, and you do the exercises and then expect your illnesses to just go away—how could it be like that? If the goal isn’t right, the result will be different [than expected].

 

Teacher: If mind-intent from other practices is added, the Falun will be deformed. As for your various, messy thoughts, those are from your attachments and won’t cause the Falun to be deformed. As soon as messages from other practices are added—not just your hand movements, if you add into your mind things like using mind-intent to guide your movements, some way of breathing or some ideas from other practices, all of this will cause the Falun to become deformed. Since cultivation is indeed a serious issue, it’s essential to focus exclusively on one cultivation way.

 

Teacher: In fact, it was transformed by high-energy matter. Since Buddhism practices Nirvana and doesn’t teach bringing along the body, he doesn’t need that body anymore. If he wants it, that body can be transformed by high-energy substance. For instance, there are three monks in the Jiuhua Mountains. Their bodies are flesh bodies that haven’t decomposed after hundreds of years or a thousand years, and that’s because they have been completely replaced with high-energy matter. Those bodies are no longer everyday people’s bodies, so they won’t decompose.

 

Teacher: Not necessarily. Some of them are not wicked practices in the beginning and are pretty good in the beginning, relatively speaking. They become wicked later if they don’t cultivate xinxing. Perhaps later, their Cultivated Infants may melt away; or even if they don’t melt away, they will become very wicked and vicious. Things can’t be judged by the form of their manifest abilities, and what manifests can’t be judged based on that. Whatever practice you do, you have to cultivate xinxing.

 

Teacher: We don’t worry about “the next life” or anything of that sort. We require that one achieve the goal of Unlocking Gong and enlightenment in everyday people’s society. Let me tell you, one can still cultivate at very high levels, but usually when an everyday person reaches a certain level through cultivation, he will stop—he won’t progress even if he keeps practicing, as he can only go that high. However, under extremely special circumstances, gong can grow through practice in that dimension. The Falun you will develop for yourself in the future will always be functional and with you forever.

 

Teacher: “Genuine cultivation” means you genuinely cultivate. That’s what it means.

 

Teacher: It’s not Three Flowers Gathering on Top, then. Gong—there are just so, so many forms of manifestations. Over the path I have traveled, in the beginning or at very shallow levels, the gong’s variations numbered in the tens of thousands. They were too many to remember and I didn’t try to memorize them. The body’s changes in form at each level are also different.

 

Teacher: You’ve practiced something else. When a practitioner truly cultivates and lets go of everything, my Law Bodies will help him take care of it. Of course, sometimes when you produce gong, some Buddha images will appear on the surface of your skin. There will be many of them, and they can move too, as they exist materially. They can talk and move. Of course, these are all normal.

 

Teacher: I’m telling you that everything has its causal relationships. If you lose money, the Falun won’t intervene—there was probably a reason for it. Isn’t it your intention to use the Falun to punish the one who steals your valuables? How could it be like that? It may be that in some cases it was owed to others. You feel upset and want to use Falun to strike at others. How could it be like that? Wouldn’t I be teaching a wicked practice? Don’t rack your brains over these things. Cultivators have my Law Bodies to protect them and they will protect you whenever they should.

 

Teacher: I do acknowledge the real Buddhist teachings, the teachings by Shakyamuni. But Buddha Shakyamuni said that the things that are truly his account for less than ten percent of all the scriptures.

 

Teacher: It won’t affect anything. But go to those places as little as possible. There’s too much yin in those places. Besides—how should I put it—we don’t want to go to unclean places, as those messed up things are very bad. They’re graves, after all!

 

Teacher: When those things crawl in, killing them is the right thing to do. Those bad things just want to possess a human body, and they are demons. Human society has developed to where it is today, where their disturbance is just too rampant. Because these things have been wreaking havoc, the qigong community is on the verge of collapse. The same goes for the temples, where things like these are wreaking havoc.

 

Teacher: It existed originally. You are stretching your imagination too far.

 

Teacher: You still can’t let go of these attachments. What’s your goal in reading them? Those books aren’t about Dafa cultivation—what are you reading them for? Do you want to get something out of them? If not, what are you reading them for? If you truly think a particular statement is good, then you have accepted it and your gong will be messed up. Why did Buddhism and Taoism not allow contact with any books outside of scriptures in the past? It’s because they feared their things would be messed up. To ensure your genuine cultivation, it’s important to treat this issue seriously and solve this fundamental issue of yours. How could you not be serious and not let go of this attachment? I’m just making this point. If you don’t want to cultivate and just want to study these things, go right ahead. It’s not that I won’t allow everyday people to read them. As for whether you can use massage and acupuncture, if you are a doctor of Chinese medicine, you can go ahead and there’s no problem. If you are not a doctor and practice Dafa, and you just want to treat patients, I would say that you need to let go of this attachment.

 

Teacher: Among Falun Dafa students, no one can claim to be a teacher, they’re all students and disciples. Everyone is learning and cultivating. After achieving Unlocking Gong and Enlightenment, only the titles at different levels in the Buddha school can be used. There are no other high level masters in Falun Dafa.

 

Teacher: Your imagination is running wild. How can you and I be discussed on the same level like that?! There are two ways for life to be created. One is to be produced through the motion of various substances at various levels in the cosmos. These lives are thus relatively primitive, but this form has continued to the present day. The motion of the cosmos can still produce lives and is still producing lives—that is why some people’s lives are not that long and some people’s histories are very short. Another form is to be born from those high level beings that appeared very early at various levels. I think these beings are quite fortunate, as they have mothers. Those beings born of nature are envious of those who have mothers, as they don’t have mothers.

 

Teacher: Some people follow the lecture series everywhere and attend the lectures as they are held. I can’t oppose this intention to attain the Fa. But there is one point you shouldn’t forget: you need to truly cultivate! It’s not going to work if you’re always following me around and only attending lectures. Your xinxing needs to be tempered through actual cultivation and you need to cultivate solidly. Some people think that by following me around they won’t have any tribulations. How would you cultivate then? Some people believe that I will go into the mountains and they want to follow me into the mountains to cultivate, but wouldn’t you be cultivating your subordinate consciousness, then? There are two forms of cultivation. If you want to improve yourself and complete your cultivation process, you must cultivate yourself in a solid, down-to-earth manner amidst everyday people and study the Fa well.

 

Teacher: Every word shows your thirst for knowledge. You’d better let go of this attachment. I have talked about the origin of humanity: Isn’t life produced from the motion of the earliest substances in the cosmic dimensions?

 

Teacher: How could it exist if both body and soul have been destroyed? It’s as if he never existed in this cosmos. But the process of total elimination is one of suffering and extreme, bitter regret. In our dimension, it seems like he died instantly, but in the time field where he’s being eliminated, it feels infinitely long.

 

Teacher: As we do the practice, the purpose of our bodies becoming more youthful is for you to cultivate longevity, rather than to live as everyday people do. It may involve what you described since the whole body is becoming more youthful. So you should be careful about these things.

 

Teacher: My Fa is taught by me, and it is integrated. The things I talk about are the things of Dafa. What I’m teaching here are not my personal views, so when you’re referring to it, you can only say “This is what the book says,” or “This is what Teacher said,” which is also fine. The best way is to read from the book. Don’t use my words as your own, as they won’t work then, and it is an act of plagiarizing the Fa. But you may talk about your own understandings—that’s different from the Fa.

 

Teacher: I would say those are just scenes from other dimensions suddenly reflected here by some freak occurrence. The structures from the other side aren’t always those of ancient times. There are also some modern style buildings and structures. In addition, some of the dimensions on the other side may be able to shift.

 

Teacher: Let’s say someone has cancer and you don’t want to tell him the truth. For things like this, it is barely acceptable. You are still doing it for others, doing it for someone else’s benefit. Of course, I think that when you arrive at a high level and encounter these things, you will be able to handle it well on your own. I don’t think you should lie to the patient. Isn’t being afraid that the patient will suffer something that’s adopted by everyday people? When you cultivate to a high level, you will find that it’s not like that. Suffering will eliminate karma, and the person will benefit in the next life.

 

Teacher: First, it is a form of respect. Second, people all believe that’s only a formality, but in fact, the smoke that appears when the incense is burning, what you see is the smoke in our dimension, but in other dimensions there is smoke too. When the substance in our dimension disappears, it will appear on the other side. They need this to develop their Law, so the provisions are offered to them. There is this facet involved in addition to the matter of respect. It’s called provisions, after all; otherwise it wouldn’t be called offering provisions.

 

Teacher: That’s normal. Gong is just like that. In the beginning they are even smaller than a tiny grain of rice, and later they get bigger and bigger. That’s because every layer of particles of the body has to change, and in the end it becomes a Buddha body.

 

Teacher: Some of our students have seen it. There are mountains and rivers, towers and pavilions. If you want to know the details, then just cultivate.

 

Teacher: Buddha Shakyamuni said that the number of Tathagatas is as many as the grains of sand in the Ganges River. Could they be discussed one by one? If you’re not supposed to know about something, then you won’t be allowed to know about it. If an everyday person were to know everything, then wouldn’t that be the opposite of how it’s supposed to be? You’d be a Buddha and they would be everyday people. How could an everyday person know such deep, profound things? In the past, things above the level of Tathagata were off limits to humans. And the Falun Paradise is not in this universe. Actually, Buddha Shakyamuni mentioned things about us and about things from my past. Some were recorded, while some no longer exist on record.

 

Teacher: What do you mean by “gong to be dispersed”? It doesn’t have that ability. If you can’t handle yourself well and attract those things—if you want them—that’s a different matter altogether. If you are unmoved, it won’t be able to harm you. Having fear in your mind is an attachment and shows a lack of steadfastness in Dafa. My Law Bodies can only take care of those who are steadfast in cultivating Dafa.

 

Teacher: It’s the same whether your eyes are open or closed, and it is a matter of how you are used to looking. Once you get used to it, you will be able to see both ways.

 

Teacher: Sorcery is about low-level spirits and ghosts. As someone cultivating Dafa, what do you want to study that for? As for the Book of Changes and the Qimen practice, if you want to study those things, you can, but I would say it’s not appropriate for a Falun Dafa disciple. Among those things, there are some elements involving technique, and some are things at the lowest levels of the Taoist discipline. Use your judgment to decide what to do.

 

Teacher: These are all acts done with intention, and aren’t part of cultivation. Besides, there are too many for you to release, and maybe some of them have lived out their lifespans. It is an attachment to do these things deliberately. We believe in non-action. Why are you so bent on doing these things with intent? Whether it’s birds that were shot down or fish that were caught, the fact is, that is what those people do. After someone buys them from him, he will go catch more. Say you buy them all from him and release them, well, tomorrow he’ll go and catch more. Are you going to buy and release them again? That would be the same as helping him do a bad thing. I would say you should avoid doing this kind of thing as much as possible. Nowadays, these things done with intent are being carried out even in Buddhism. There were no such forms back when Shakyamuni was teaching his Dharma.

 

Teacher: If he insisted on taking it and you had already given it to him, then don’t worry about it. Of course, it’s not good to give it to others—it will harm them.

 

Teacher: Yes, it’s like that. When you have done something good, my Law Body will appear happy or shine with light. When you have done something bad, he will look very stern.

 

Teacher: Yes, you may. He believes in a wicked practice and crooked way, so when you stop him from doing it, you are saving him. If he insists, don’t force him and just leave him alone.

 

Teacher: After the subordinate consciousness leaves, you won’t know it. There won’t be any state.

 

Teacher: Yes, it will. If you didn’t pass it once, it will come again. You may be controlling it pretty well now, but what about in the future? You will be tested again.

 

Teacher: During our classes, we have never said that a married couple has to live separately! We’ve said that you should take these thoughts [of sexual desire] lightly and right now you may still maintain a normal life, and that will be fine. For now, this is all that can be required of you. Suppose that after you learned the practice you became [celibate like] a monk—behaving like a monk or nun even though you’re not one—and your spouse, who isn’t a practitioner, wants a divorce from you, and what if all Falun Dafa disciples became like this? Just don’t make this into too big of an issue, and in the future when you have gradually improved, you will know how to handle the matter.

 

Teacher: No, it won’t. It was removed from your body in this physical dimension, but it was not removed in other dimensions.

 

Teacher: The entire process of xinxing cultivation is about eliminating your bad thoughts and various desires. If you have eliminated all of them in the course of your cultivation and no more bad thoughts exist, then haven’t you reached the end of your cultivation? Have you already succeeded in cultivation and reached Consummation? So, they’ll continue to appear during the cultivation process. Sometimes bad thoughts will appear and that’s normal, but you should pay attention to them and be sure to reject them.

 

Teacher: If you have to visit them, then you can go ahead. If there’s nobody in your family to pay respects at the grave, then you can go ahead. But one point to keep in mind: when your level is very high and your energy is great, if you go, the things there will be afraid and get driven a great distance away.

 

Teacher: When a child can’t handle himself well, or when adults in the family are not careful and always ask the child to look at this or that—when attachments grow—it’s likely to ruin the child. Let me tell you, I see that among the kids who practice, many have a significant background. Don’t ruin them. If you can’t improve through cultivation and in the meantime ruin them as well, the sin is tremendous.

 

Teacher: Our true cultivators won’t run into this kind of thing. Things that aren’t useful for your cultivation won’t be arranged for you.

 

Teacher: Those who want to learn Falun Dafa can listen. But I would say that indiscriminately letting people listen who don’t believe in it and undermine the Fa isn’t allowed, nor should you irresponsibly just let whoever listen to it indiscriminately. In that case perhaps your recorder will malfunction or your tapes will be erased.

 

Teacher: The Buddha school teaches returning to the true origin by the nine nines. This universe of ours has now gone through nine destructions and reconstructions. With many things in this universe, the number nine is considered the biggest number.

 

Teacher: Except for the one in the lower abdomen, there is no so-called fixed Falun. The ones on your shoulders and head are for adjusting your body and not for you to keep. After your body is adjusted, they won’t be needed and will go back to where they came from. The one that is really for you is the one in the lower abdomen. In your future practice, you will develop your own.

 

Teacher: That’s not necessarily true. There are so many of my Law Bodies, they are practically countless.

 

Teacher: Those ancient axioms are not Fa principles to guide cultivation. Don’t cling to those so-called ancient axioms. What the ancients taught may not be the ultimate truths. The nature of the cosmos is the sole criterion for determining whether someone is good or bad. What the ancients said about what’s good or bad is still the standard among everyday people. Of course what some people said, for example what the sages taught—the philosophical things at very high levels—are acceptable. I think that you shouldn’t be attached to these things. When cultivating Dafa, you need to be guided by my Fa.

 

Teacher: This is all right. He may make a joke or say something ironic to have you enlighten to something, but he won’t teach you the Fa directly or do something for you.

 

Teacher: If a xinxing test is not passed, the Falun won’t be deformed—it has nothing to do with the Falun. Whenever the Falun is deformed, it’s always caused by mixing in other practices.

 

Teacher: There are no plans for it yet. Even when the Falun Dafa base is built in the future, it will be run by our full-time disciples or out-of-home practitioners. It still won’t involve money or material wealth.

 

Teacher: You don’t have Gong Bodies. My Gong Bodies’ image is the same as my image here and is made up of gong. Law Bodies are produced from within the body, and are also formed with gong and Law. The Law Bodies’ image is like the one with blue curly hair and yellow clothing. The Gong Bodies look just like me.

 

Teacher: That’s not true at all. We have said that if you were not attached to something in the first place, it’s fine for you to forgo it in form—that’s what I am telling you. It’s just like the issue of eating meat that I talked about the other day. Some people just don’t eat meat—they just don’t do it, whether that state comes or not. I would say that too is fine, it’s all right not to eat meat—there is no need to create this attachment.

 

Teacher: Like I said just now, in fact many practitioners came in here because of predestined connections. Some brought their children, and many youngsters have a significant background—they are all to attain this Fa. Some children have remarkably good foundations, and they will attain the Fa when the time comes. When one person obtains the Fa, the whole family will benefit.

 

Teacher: They are my Gong Bodies.

 

Teacher: That’s my Law Body teaching you to do the exercise.

 

Teacher: If you know clearly yourself that you are the one doing the practice, then that would be your master consciousness doing it.

 

Teacher: In other words, you’re able to remain calm on the surface, but haven’t let it go in your heart. That’s still not enough. You know, people who have reached the level of an Arhat won’t take anything they encounter to heart. Nothing among everyday people will bother them—they’re always jovial, and they’re all smiles no matter how big a loss they suffer. If you’re able to do that, you have reached the initial Attainment Status of an Arhat.

 

Teacher: Yes, you may. If you want to do them, go ahead. If right now you have let go of everything—haven’t you already succeeded in cultivation? As you constantly do the practice, you will take some things lightly. You won’t want to do them even when you are asked to.

 

Teacher: If you’ve scratched it, you’ve scratched it, but it’s best if you don’t. When you scratch while practicing, your qi mechanism will be fouled up. As a matter of fact, these are all forms of interference from demons, so don’t worry about them. Isn’t it a good thing to pay off your karma?

 

Teacher: No! Tai-chi is a qigong. In addition to the Tai-chi forms, Tai-chi sword forms, Bagua forms and Xingyi forms and the like are all qigong practices. If you say, “I just want to do it,” then go ahead and do it. What I’m teaching here is truly being responsible for the students and so I set forth the requirements that I do. In order to cultivate to higher levels, you must commit to only one discipline. If you say you just want to do that practice, I’d say go right ahead—that approach too is good if you can really succeed in cultivation with it. It’s not that I’m insisting on your cultivating Falun Dafa. I’m just telling you about the issue of committing to one discipline, an issue of taking cultivation very seriously. Tai-chi is pretty good, but the part regarding cultivation of the mind hasn’t been disseminated, so it can only be used for fitness, not cultivation.

 

Teacher: Unlocking the gong at low levels—that is, unlocking the gong at very low levels—that person can’t go to the Falun Paradise, and he can’t go to higher levels, either. The reason is, that’s just how high he can reach through cultivation.

 

Teacher: You can be a good person and do the practice at any social strata. Whatever job you do is just your work among everyday people. If you do something according to the regulations of your workplace, maybe you’re not doing anything wrong. But in doing anything, you need to treat others with kindness and try your best to be considerate of others. Just follow this Dafa in doing anything. If you ask me specific questions like these and want me to explain them all to you, then what’s there for you to cultivate? What’s there for you to enlighten to?

 

Teacher: Regard yourself as a cultivator, and you will get what you should when it’s time. If you leave the lecture today and don’t regard yourself as a cultivator, you won’t get anything.

 

Teacher: First off, you should stop doing bad things—just cultivate naturally among everyday people and don’t deliberately create conflicts. Activities that are good for promoting Dafa may be supported.

 

Teacher: They are religious rituals and have nothing to do with us.

 

Teacher: After succeeding in cultivation.

 

Teacher: As you improve yourself continuously, you will find it to be less and less fun. In the end you will find that this type of dancing is partly demonic in nature.

 

Teacher: Yes, some people’s souls are very small in the first place, and when it squats inside the Niwan Palace, they will feel quite small. Yet this body can also become very big. Sometimes you will feel like you span Heaven and Earth, and this is all normal. In addition, the bodies in this dimension can change.

 

Teacher: If you can’t even get over trivial things and lose your temper over them, how can you expect your gong to grow? We should regard ourselves as cultivators. It won’t affect you if you occasionally lose your temper over some small matter, but you can’t always be like that—you need to improve.

 

Teacher: It can’t be mentioned in the same breath as my Fa. My Fa is based on the things I have taught and nothing else. Window on Literature and the Arts is written from the perspectives of literature and art. Art lends itself to being based on real life but then going beyond it, or seizing something and then really putting the spotlight on it, or expressing something in its own way. Absolutely do not cultivate according to that, as taking that as your guide won’t be allowed. Since it is a product of the arts, it contains made-up things. If you want to cultivate, then do so with this Fa as your guide.

 

Teacher: I don’t read Tibetan Tantrism at all. I don’t read the Buddhist sutras from China, either.

 

Teacher: It’s normal for your arms not to be able to relax, as in the course of circulating, the energy flow produces a magnetic force that will immobilize them. How can you not conjoin your hands, though? Do what you’re supposed to do. If you don’t conjoin your hands, the energy flow can’t be formed. If the energy can’t flow freely, how could you and your gong be evolved and developed?

 

Teacher: Do what you think is the best. I think it’s best to totally eliminate that demon.

 

Teacher: I have my things and they have theirs, so it’s not a matter of somebody doing something in place of somebody else. Teaching the Fa and saving beings is not something that can be done in someone else’s place.

 

Teacher: The cause is something in the process of your mind being adjusted, or such a state will appear when qi is flowing in great quantity during your practice—it’s totally normal.

 

Teacher: Doing the mudras has this characteristic of the forearms leading the upper arms. On the other hand, the Taoist Schools usually have some martial arts elements, so their movements often have the upper arms leading the forearms. The mudras should be done with the forearms leading the upper arms. As the forearms are moving, they’re leading the upper arms in their twists and turns. So in doing the mudras, a little bit of force should be applied to the forearms.

 

Teacher: This was the result of your becoming overjoyed. If the movements you did were not those of our Falun Dafa, you’d better stop doing them immediately! This is interference from demons, wanting to add various messed up things to your gong and destroy you. So, don’t do any movements that I didn’t teach you. When it comes to doing the greater mudras, I’m telling you, make sure you never do them! If you do them, that’s demons interfering with you—they are adjusting things of yours, harming you, and adding things. Don’t get this attachment of being overcome with joy; you couldn’t handle yourself well even on something this insignificant. In the future, if you see those who come and go at high levels and who have great abilities, and you follow them, you will be totally ruined.

 

Teacher: True Attainment Status means successfully reaching Consummation through cultivation of an upright Law—that’s attaining True Attainment Status. True Attainment Status is separated into different Attainment Statuses: Arhat Attainment Status, Bodhisattva Attainment Status, as well as Buddha Attainment Status; they can all be called [reaching] Attainment Status.

 

Teacher: It won’t look like my Law Body, regardless of how it tries to morph itself. Look carefully and you will see that it doesn’t look like it, as it can’t come up with anything that strongly resembles it. If it is truly hard to tell, you may call out my name. As for a Bodhisattva, that’s hard to say.

 

Teacher: It seems that this phenomenon doesn’t occur much in our Falun Dafa. As for the fact that assistants have some disagreements among themselves, that’s also an opportunity to improve xinxing. We don’t worry about the concept of unity or discord—we are concerned about cultivating xinxing and cultivating oneself, and whoever doesn’t do well, that’s his problem as an individual. Whoever loses his temper with others, whoever gossips about others, whether it is good or bad, it affects himself. He wouldn’t be cultivating himself. Whoever does this, his xinxing is not good, and at the very least he is not up to par on this issue.

 

Teacher: That shows that you have overcome it. Whenever this situation appears—before and after it happens—make sure you are determined in cultivating Dafa, clearly distinguish yourself from it, and understand that it was caused by thought karma and possessing spirits. As long as you are clear that it’s not you, my Law Body will help you clean it up.

 

Teacher: Yes, they’re the same! The main purpose of doing the exercises in a group is to enable you to discuss things together and improve faster, and it also has the benefit of boosting your enthusiasm for practicing. Doing the practice by yourself or in solitude seems to be a little too isolated. That’s how it is, and in reality they are the same.

 

Teacher: At the very least you should help others understand, and it’s not acceptable for you to constantly appear to be really supernormal. You need to pay attention to this. Among everyday people, you should take care to be like an everyday person such that there is no difference on the surface between you. It’s just that deep in your heart you are cultivating and improving yourself.

 

Teacher: Don’t let your hands touch each other. The gong won’t decrease, but it is easy to mess up the mechanisms that way. You are trying to strengthen the qi mechanism through doing the exercises.

 

Teacher: Whenever such a situation arises, be determined in cultivating Dafa and you need to handle yourself well. In the meantime, you should distinguish between yourself and thought karma.

 

Teacher: There are two possibilities. One is that our student did something wrong while he was doing the practice. The other is, for a long time he has been doing only the exercises without following the practitioner’s standard, so his xinxing hasn’t improved; both will cause that to happen. Whenever you find that you have regressed or there is something wrong, examine your xinxing and there will be changes for sure.

 

Teacher: The subordinate consciousness, various human concepts, thought karma, and possessing spirits will all manifest themselves in the struggle, but for cultivators generally, in most cases it is your own concepts. Your own concepts and thought karma will fight when they are being eliminated, saying things like “such and such is no good.” It is a condition produced in your own mind.

 

Teacher: The human personality is directly related to your parents, and your master soul serves the function of directing it. But the things your parents carry also play a certain role.

 

Teacher: The manuscript wasn’t reviewed and I was not notified. These things are only literary works and you don’t need to worry about them—it’s just telling a story. If it’s necessary in the future, I can write an autobiography for you, documenting my cultivation process and the things I have done. Now is not the time and the occasion hasn’t come yet, because some things are at very high levels. If they are put into words, the general public won’t be able to accept them.

 

Teacher: Isn’t it better to do some business? Trading stocks is gambling and taking other people’s money. Some of those who trade stocks lose everything they have—do you know how that feels? A cultivator should never do this. How could you cultivate yourself with an attachment like that! The same holds true for mahjong. Some people ask, “Can we play mahjong?” You might as well ask me, “Teacher, can I gamble?” How does a practitioner measure his xinxing? Have you acted according to this Dafa?

 

Teacher: Don’t listen to him. It’s quite likely that he is possessed by a fox spirit. Do you think that you are whatever he says you are? Let me tell you, it doesn’t matter what your soul was in previous lives. Your being able to cultivate in your present life is a matter of here and now, and when you reach a certain level in your cultivation, all of those bad things of yours will have been removed and those messages will have all been removed. Don’t worry about them. We have reached this point in teaching the Fa today, and let me tell you: there aren’t that many cases of humans reincarnating as humans—that’s how it is in the six-fold path of reincarnation.

 

Teacher: Most of them are evil themselves, so how could these things be enshrined at home? What do you mean, “repel evil”? During the Dharma-ending period, the temples are very much in disarray. Shakyamuni didn’t teach his disciples to do these intentional acts that damage the Fa. Some monks have possessing spirits on their bodies and sell things to you to make money. What would you do if what he sold you had possessing spirits?

 

Teacher: For the time being, you won’t be able to develop it and you need to cultivate yourself well. You will have your own only after you succeed in cultivation and achieve Consummation.

 

Teacher: You’d be practicing Zen Buddhism, then. We tell you not to think about anything and cultivate according to our cultivation way. Many cultivation methods are cultivating the subordinate consciousness. After Huineng, Zen Buddhism’s way of cultivation went into disarray. It increasingly went to extremes and mixed in more and more things, and those above don’t recognize it anymore. Why are you still following Zen Buddhism in your cultivation? In religions, the schools are not allowed to interfere with each other or cultivate by mixing in components from each other. They follow “no second discipline.” After everything I have taught up through today, how could you still have this question? How could doing that be allowed?

 

Teacher: In most cases, if someone’s Falun becomes deformed, he can no longer practice. That’s because, in a sense, he has done bad things, very bad things. But for a portion of them, in the past there were those whose Faluns had become deformed and were adjusted back, but the ones adjusted like that and the ones I planted were not the same. What is planted for you is something close to the Falun-forming mechanism, and it’s for you to cultivate gradually, but it just wouldn’t be allowed for me to keep giving it to you. It can also be formed as you do the practice, but you have to give more yourself.

 

Teacher: That’s normal. It is normal even if the mountains are shaking and the ground is shifting, but your physical body hasn’t moved.

 

Teacher: No. It has to be at the level of Wisdom Vision, and that’s why I open it for you at the level of Wisdom Vision. That’s because the Falun exists in other dimensions.

 

Teacher: Whatever practice you used to do doesn’t matter—you have been adjusted while in this field of mine. Those of you who are truly cultivating Dafa, even if you’ve never gone through a lecture series and been adjusted by me in person, if you truly cultivate at a Falun Dafa practice site you will be adjusted all the same.

 

Teacher: I’ve told you about the standards for our practitioners. You can do whatever you think you, as a practitioner [of Dafa], should do. Those who do healings are not my disciples.

 

Teacher: Your state of mind was very good in this field and reached a certain level. You slacked off after the lectures, but you still need to boldly and vigorously forge ahead with improving through cultivation. But you won’t be able to see using the Third Eye when it is being mended. It’s also possible it was done to get rid of your attachments.

 

Teacher: I don’t like others writing about me. I just want to disseminate this Fa and help everyone to learn it.

 

Teacher: It’s normal for doctors of Chinese medicine or western medicine to treat patients. What I have said is that treating patients with gong is not allowed.

 

Teacher: The child needs to be taught. Explain to her the principles I’ve talked about. An eleven-year-old is old enough to study the Fa.

 

There is no more to talk about since I think I have covered everything that needed to be addressed. During this lecture series, we have talked about some things that were not covered in the few previous lecture series. That’s primarily because I felt that the time for me to disseminate this practice is basically coming to a close, so I wanted to leave you with all the real things, and that way you will have this practice and the Fa as guidance in your future cultivation. During the entire course of teaching the practice, we have tried to be responsible to you as well as to society, and by doing so we have had good results. We have indeed done things according to such a principle. As for whether they have been done well or not, I don’t want to talk about that. That’s because when it comes to whether it has been done well or not, how I have done, and if I’ve been responsible towards everyone, everyone present can make their own judgments, so I won’t talk about these things. Of course, my desire was to bring this thing to the public, have more people benefit from it, and enable those who truly want to cultivate to have the Fa for their improvement through cultivation. At the same time, during the course of disseminating the Fa, I have also explained the principle of how a person should behave as a human being. It is also hoped that when this lecture series is over, those who can’t cultivate based on Dafa can at least be good people. Actually, you will be good people—I know that. Even if you don’t want to cultivate here, you will surely be good people after you leave, which will be beneficial to our society.

During the course of disseminating the practice and the Fa, there have of course been obstacles, and interference from various places has been tremendous. But while holding the lecture series in Jinan, things have, due to strong support from the leadership of our sponsoring work unit and our gymnasium along with the leadership at various levels of the provincial and city qigong associations, concluded pretty successfully. Everything I taught in the lectures is for guiding you in your practice and cultivating towards higher levels. Nobody ever talked about these things in their teachings in the past. We even have some people who might or might not acknowledge it, but regardless, the things we’re teaching today are very clear and they are being taught in combination with modern science and the present day’s science of the human body. It’s not like some things in the past that were explained vaguely and equivocally. Here we have explained things very clearly and at very high levels. This is mainly for your sake, for you to cultivate, and in the future, you will be able to truly improve your level and cultivate towards higher planes—that is my starting point.

In the course of our teaching the practice, many people have felt that the Fa is very good, but it was so hard to put into action. Actually, I’d say that whether it is hard or not depends on the person. An ordinary person doesn’t want to cultivate, so he would say or feel that cultivating Falun Dafa is just too hard, inconceivable, and that he can’t succeed. He is an everyday person and doesn’t want to cultivate, so it’s very hard in his view. For a true cultivator, in my opinion, it is easy and not out of reach. In fact, many veteran students sitting among us, as well as veteran students who aren’t, have already cultivated to quite high levels. I didn’t tell you these things for fear you would develop attachments and grow complacent, which would severely hinder the growth of your gong potency. Someone who is truly determined to cultivate can endure, and when faced with various interests, he can put aside his attachments and take them lightly. In fact, I would say that being able to do just this one thing alone is very hard for a human being. Whoever says it is hard can’t lay down those things. Cultivating through the exercises is not itself hard, and improving one’s level isn’t either. It is because he can’t lay down his human attachments that he says it’s hard. That’s because they are very hard to lay down when you stand to benefit in tangible ways. With those benefits right there, you tell me, how could he let go of that attachment? Actually that’s exactly why he finds it difficult. When interpersonal conflicts arise, if you can’t endure it and can’t control your temper, and you can’t even conduct yourself as a practitioner, I would say that’s not right. Actually, as practitioners, you might want to give it a shot. When I was cultivating in the past, many men of great character told me this: even though you may find something to be very difficult, when it’s hard to endure, try to endure it. When you encounter something impossible or hard to do, maybe it can be done. That is indeed the case, and you might want to give it a try when you go back. When going through real tribulations or tests, give it a try. When something is hard to endure, endure it for a bit; when something looks impossible or hard to do, give it a try and see if it’s possible to do after all. If you can truly do that, then you will find that there is “light at the end of the tunnel.”

I don’t want say too much. I’ve already said a lot. If I say too much it will be hard for you to remember. I hope that you will regard yourselves as practitioners in your future cultivation, and truly cultivate yourselves. I hope that the new and veteran students present today will cultivate in Dafa, and all have complete success! This concludes the lecture series. I hope all of you will go back and make good use of your time to cultivate solidly! That’s all I’ll say.