FACELESS – more Q&A from mr. li

Yo,

Since you asked, here are more q & a for your entertainment. and hey, after mixing the HT stuff and Falun for a few days, I have come up with my own system which i’m considering setting up my own school. I think i will call it ZHUANG PAKUA DAFA. Instead of the FASHEN, my system has the ORGANSHEN!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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Peace out!!

Some people may find what I just said strange and incomprehensible. Try to think about it, everyone. The earth is orbiting with great regularity. Then, what difference is there between when electrons revolve around the nuclei and when the earth revolves around the sun? They are of the same pattern. If you could magnify an electron to the size of the earth and take a look at it, you’ll see if there is life on it? What kind of matter is there on it? Buddha Sakyamuni said, “It is small enough without interior.” To what extent did he see? In the microcosm of matter, he could already see something very microscopic. He said that in a grain of sand there were three thousand great worlds. Inside a tiny grain of sand there are three thousand great worlds. Then, try to think for a moment, everyone. If what Buddha Sakyamuni said is true, within that grain of sand, in that world, aren’t there also rivers, streams, lakes, and seas? Then, on the sides of those rivers, streams, lakes, and seas, isn’t there also sand? Then, within that grain of sand, aren’t there also three thousand great worlds? Then, in the sand within that grain of sand, aren’t there still three thousand great worlds? Exploring it further, Buddha Sakyamuni discovered that it was endless. Therefore, he made a statement and said, “It is small enough without interior.” He did not see what the most original source of matter was. Of course, we talked about this most original source of matter in the past, so I shall not talk more about it here. If I say something too profound and too deep, people may not understand it, especially when many people do not quite understand the Chinese language, so I will not talk too much about things on this topic. I think that I will just say this much first. Now, you may raise some questions concerning cultivation practice and the study of the Fa, and I will answer them for you.

Question: We have read “Zhuan Falun” Book 1 and Book II, in which I have found a sentence not easy to comprehend, because I was once a disciple in Tantrism. An issue there seems to suggest that the levels of Bodhisattvas and Tathagatas are presently experiencing a catastrophe?

Master: This is a very high level question. Only when you have reached a higher level through cultivation practice, will you be able to see it and understand it. Of course, I can only give you a simple and general answer. The fact that this Fa at the human level is no longer effectual is because the morality of human society has altogether declined. The moral values in people’s hearts have been corrupted. When there is no righteous mind, it means that the Fa is no longer effectual. When the Fa is no longer effectual in human society, mankind will decline. If this Fa became ineffectual not from this society of mankind, but from a very high-level dimension, then it evinced a deviation, and the physical lives will fall downwards. They are not good anymore, so they fall downwards. In that case, if it evinces problems on a large scale, it is no longer just an issue of mankind. For instance, the Dafa comes all the way down. If it deviates a little bit from above, below that, everything will have changed beyond recognition. It is just like shooting a gun. If your aim is off the target by just a little bit when the bullet goes out, you do not know where it will hit. Why does such a great change occur down below? The change in human society has been quite frightening! People would stop at nothing in doing evil things such as drug abuse and drug dealing. A lot of people have done many bad deeds. Things such as organized crime, homosexuality, and promiscuous sex, etc., none are the standards of being human. How do Buddhas look at these issues? Your government permits them. Laws permit them. Still, it is only the approval by mankind itself. The principles of heaven do not permit them! In the past, beautiful and good things were the objects of pursuit for mankind. Now, you take a look at the toys that are being sold, the paintings that are painted, they are all randomly and casually slapped together and smeared, and this is artistry. What is it? No one can say it for sure. All human concepts are changing in the opposite direction. A pile of trash laid out there would become a master sculptor’s work. The entire societal phenomenon is like this. As for the toys in stores, even excrement has been made in the form of toys to be sold. In the past, a doll had to be made very pretty so that people would be willing to buy it. Now, skulls, evil-looking characters, goblins, devils, ghosts, and monsters have all been made into toys, and they are sold quite fast. People with no kind thoughts are willing to buy them. What issue does this elucidate? People’s values are declining very badly! In the past, singers would have beautiful voices and were graduates of music schools. The physique and bearing should be as elegant as possible since music is supposed to give people a sense of beauty. Nowadays, there are people, hard to tell whether they are men or women, with long hair, who when screaming hysterically “Ah!” would become singing stars with the help of TV promotion. Everything is being corrupted, and everything of mankind is declining. There are also a lot of phenomena that are extremely terrifying! If you do not practice cultivation, you will not notice them. Man’s understanding of religions has also become different, and he treats them as politics. Some people are insulting Buddhas as soon as they open their mouths. There is even the so-called “Buddha Jumps over the Wall” on restaurant menus. This is slandering Buddhas! What has happened to human society now? You do not know it if you do not practice cultivation. Once you practice cultivation, you will be shocked if you turn back and take a look! Think about it, everyone. This mankind has not corrupted to such an extent in isolation. It is because problems have occurred with this Fa in certain dimensions. It results from the deviation of a lot of substances and a lot of lives from the Fa. I can only tell you in such a way. If I talk about it too deeply, many people sitting here would not be able to comprehend it. I think that you will understand it when I put it this way.

Question: I was very embarrassed originally, but, if I do not grab this opportunity, I am indeed afraid that I will miss it. This is a question that many people could not answer. Today, Teacher is here, and this opportunity is too precious. It is that I was doing the sitting meditation according to the Tantric way one day around 12:00 midnight several years ago. I practiced Tantrism in the past. However, I was spinning like a plane propeller. It was so fast that I cannot describe it, and I levitated in this way. I rose up this high and came out from the top of my head. There was a little bit of a sharp pain while coming out from the top of my head. When I continued to rise up higher in pain, I was very frightened. I thought that maybe my soul had left, and I could not see my body. The following day, a strange phenomenon occurred. I was sitting in the room in broad daylight when I saw a silver aureole and silver light. Then, they disappeared five minutes later. On the third day, I saw a Falun. What was going on?

Master: Although you practiced Tantrism in the past, it did not have an effect. Why were you able to see a Falun? It was because we were already taking care of you prior to your cultivation. It is very easy for a practitioner to levitate, which scientists nowadays cannot explain. In fact, when all the channels of a person’s body have all been completely opened up, he will be able to levitate. Even if he does not levitate, while walking he will also feel light and airy. Be it hiking or going upstairs, he will not feel tired. This is when the channels are opened up, and it will be this way. As for one’s Yuanshen coming out, some people’s Yuanshen can easily leave their bodies while other people’s Yuanshen cannot come out as easily. After it left your body, the Falun brought in motion your body that levitated. Thus, it spun very fast. As for your not daring to go up that high, it is just because at the time you only had energy of that height. The first time you encounter this kind of thing, you will be frightened. Everyone would. In fact, there are many practitioners of our Falun Dafa who have levitated. It is quite normal. Once a practitioner begins cultivation practice, he will start to open his channels. Then, as soon as one’s Great Heavenly Circuit is opened, he is then able to levitate.

I have made it known, but I would still like to advise everyone that no one should have this kind of thought, “How great it would be if I could levitate!” Once you have the idea of pursuit, even if you can levitate, you will not levitate. It is because cultivation practice requires non-action, emptiness, and intentional cultivation without the intention of attainment. One should have the intention of practicing cultivation without the intention of attaining Gong. Everyone should maintain such a state to practice cultivation. If one always thinks about becoming a Buddha all day, that is a strong attachment. One will never make it if this attachment is not given up. Therefore, cultivation practice is to remove human attachments. Among ordinary people, anything that you are attached to is an attachment. Speaking of pursuing this or pursuing that, the more you pursue it, the less you will have it. Only when you give up this attachment will you have it. Everyone should make sure to remember this principle. Among ordinary people, if you want to attain something, you may pursue it, study it, and attain it after making the effort. However, for things beyond ordinary people, only by giving it up, can you attain it. What is it called? It is called, “natural attainment without pursuit.”

You have mentioned the issue of fear. In fact, there is nothing to be afraid of. If you levitate, you just levitate. You were scared because no one told you about it at that time and there was no master amongst ordinary people to teach you. Levitation is a very normal phenomenon, which is controlled by one’s mind. If you say, “I want to come down,” you will come down as soon as you think about it. You can levitate again if you want it. When you become increasingly scared, it is also an attachment, and you would fall down easily. Thus, make sure that you never get scared. In the past, there was a person who became an Arhat through cultivation, and he fell down as soon as he became delighted. Why? Delight, the human delight, is also a manifestation of sentimentality as well as an attachment. As a person who has succeeded in cultivation, he is not moved if you swear at him or say something unpleasant about him. He is not moved either if you say something good about him. He does not take it to heart if you say something bad about him. Therefore, once he was delighted, he fell down. It is not very easy either to become an Arhat through cultivation. In the end, this person again continued to practice cultivation! A few years later, he reached the level of an Arhat again. He thought to himself this time, “I should not be delighted. If I become delighted, I will fall down again.” Then, he became afraid of being delighted in his mind. However, once he became scared, he fell down again because such a fear is also an attachment. Cultivation of Buddhahood is a very serious issue, not a joke! Therefore, everyone must pay attention to this matter.

Before you continue to ask questions, I shall mention another issue, which is we must stick to one cultivation way in our practice. I know that many people sitting here studied Tantrism in the past. A lot of people believe in Buddhism, and many people believe in Christianity or Catholicism. I hold that one must stick to one cultivation way only! Why should one stick to one practice? This is an absolute truth! This is a principal reason why people nowadays cannot succeed in cultivation in the Dharma-ending period. It is caused by a couple of reasons: being unable to understand the Fa, and the other is mixing up cultivation practices. Mixing up cultivation practices is a main reason. Once you practice this way, you should not practice others. Why do I tell you this? It is because the statement of “taking the best of every school” is what ordinary people would say, and this is a principle for pursuing the skills and techniques among ordinary people. However, the principle in cultivation practice requires sticking to one practice. In Buddhism it is called sticking with only one way of cultivation practice. If you say that you will follow both the Buddha School and the Taoist School, you will accomplish nothing. No one will give you Gong because “cultivation practice depends on the individual while the transformation of Gong is up to the master.” Please think about it. Can one become a Buddha by simply doing Qigong exercise? Can one become a Buddha by simply chanting the Tantric incantations plus some mind activities and a few hand movements? The human mindwill is nothing but a wish. What really makes things happen is the master! Some people may think, “Since they all belong to the Buddha School, isn’t it good to practice both Buddhism and Tantrism, as well as Qigong of the Buddha school?” That is a human understanding, and gods do not think so. Think about it, everyone. How did Buddha Tathagata or Buddha Amitabha succeed in cultivation? It was according to their own ways of cultivation practice that they completed cultivation. It was also in accordance with their own transformational forms that their Gong completed the formation of their paradises and succeeded in cultivating them. Everything that they have was brought about by the elements of their own cultivation ways during the course of their cultivation practice.

Buddha Sakyamuni’s way of completing cultivation is called “Precept (morality), Samadhi (meditation), Wisdom.” One must cultivate four types of deep meditation as well as eight forms of concentration, etc. and follow his cultivation way. In practicing this way of cultivation, your Gong also has to be the Gong cultivated by Buddha Sakyamuni. Only then can you go to his place through cultivation practice. If you want to practice Tantrism, you must follow the requirements of “Body, Speech, Mind” in Tantrism, and only then can you go to the paradise under the care of Tathagata Dari via cultivation. If you practice everything, you will not get anything. If you practice the Pure-Land School and chant Buddha Amitabha, but also turn around to study the theories of Zen Buddhism, by the same token you will not attain anything. A person has just one body. Everyone knows that it is not an easy thing to transform one’s body into a Buddha’s figure or a Buddha’s body, and you cannot do it yourself. It has to be done by a Buddha. It is an extraordinarily complicated thing to transform your body into a Buddha’s body, and it is more complicated than the most precise instrument of mankind. He will install in your body a system called an energy mechanism. In addition, he will put in place many seeds that can develop various Buddha’s divine powers and plant them in the Dantian area(lower abdomen). All of these are things belonging to his school of cultivation so that you can practice cultivation in his school and go to his Buddha paradise through your cultivation. If you do not focus on one school, with only one body, how can you be cultivated into one individual for two Buddha’s paradises? How can you succeed in cultivating two of you? When Buddhas see that you are like this, none of them will give you anything, and they think that your Xinxing is not good. To put it plainly, what you are doing is human being attempting to mess up the Buddha Fa. How hard and how difficult it is for a Tathagata Buddha to succeed in cultivating a Tathagata Buddha! For a Tathagata Buddha to complete the cultivation of a Tathagata Buddha, how much suffering he has to endure before he succeeds in cultivating a Buddha Tathagata! As an ordinary person, if you want to change his stuff or mess up his stuff by mixing two things together and messing up what two Buddhas have enlightened to, is this not undermining the Buddha Fa?! This is how serious it is! However, monks and mankind nowadays are damaging the Buddha Fa, and yet they do not even know it. Of course, if you do not know it, we cannot blame it all on you. However, although it is not all your fault, still, nothing will be given to you. A person will not be allowed to casually mess up the Buddha Fa. For two schools of the Buddha Fa, the Fa of two Tathagata Buddhas, to be messed up by you, that is absolutely impossible! Therefore, as long as you mix up cultivation, it will be impossible for you to attain anything. This is not to say that it is all right if you only practise ways of the Buddha School and not those from the Taoist School. If you practice Zen Buddhism, Tantrism, the Pure Land Sect, Hua-Yan Cultivation Way, and Tian-Tai Cultivation Way of the Buddha School, you are still messing things up. That is called being reckless, and you will not get anything. Indeed, you will not attain anything, so you must hold on to one way in cultivation, and only then can you complete cultivation.

What I am saying here is a principle. It is not to say that you have to study this Falun Dafa of Li Hongzhi. Like Buddha Sakyamuni’s Buddhism, our Falun Dafa once saved people on a large scale in human society during a prehistoric time. In this period of human civilization, it has never done so. Since the appearance of mankind this time, this is the first time that we have brought it out again, and it could also be the last time that it is made public and taught to man. However, it is something that will never become defective. Of course, we have the Falun Paradise, and those disciples who complete cultivation can go to the Falun Paradise. However, it is not to say that you have to practice cultivation in my Fa. You may practice cultivation in any kind of Fa. As long as it is an orthodox Fa or if you are able to gain the genuine teaching of that school and you think that you can complete cultivation in that school, go ahead and cultivate in it. But, I advise you to stick to one school.

I am also telling everyone that a Buddha cannot directly come to save you with his real Buddha’s appearance, displaying great divine powers. If a Buddha sits here and teaches you the Fa, that is not saving people. That is called undermining the Fa. Seeing a real Buddha here, those with all kinds of unforgivable sins would also come to learn it, and there will be no need for enlightenment. Who would not learn it? The entire mankind would learn it. Wouldn’t it be this way? Therefore, only a master that is reincarnated among ordinary people can teach it and can save people. There is an issue of enlightenment in this. It is up to you to believe it or not. But, you may weigh up the Fa yourself. Anyway, out of responsibility to you, I am disclosing such a principle. I am telling you this because you want to practice cultivation. Otherwise, I would be as good as not being responsible to you. Now that you have such an opportunity and affinity to sit here, I would tell you about it. Nowadays, it is very difficult to succeed in cultivation in any school, and nobody cares about it anymore. The key point is that cultivation practices are all messed up. Of course, if you think that you can handle it properly by yourself, you may practice cultivation on your own. If you think that you can complete cultivation successfully, then it is fine for you to practice cultivation in any school. This is just the way it is. Because Buddhas mean well for the mankind, therefore, I will tell everyone that if you want to practice cultivation, you should stick to one school. You should neither practice movements from other schools, nor read the teachings of other schools. You should not think about things of those other schools in your mind, not even a mind intent. This is because in practicing Gong many things rely on the mindwill. Once your mindwill occurs, it becomes a pursuit. If you go after something, it will come. Then, the Gong in your body will be messed up, and the Falun will become deformed and will lose its effectiveness. Your cultivation will be in vain.

I am telling everyone that this Falun is simply too precious. Even though I have given it to you, before I started to pass it on, those who had cultivated the Tao for a thousand years to get it could not attain it. Upon attaining it, a person can be said to have already completed half of his cultivation, and his Gong will be automatically transformed by the Falun. As long as you cultivate your heart, Gong will grow and be upgraded. It is a higher life. That means, it is even higher than your life. I have given it to you, because you want to practice cultivation, which manifests the Buddha nature in you. With such a wish expressed, we would save you and have done it this way. What you have attained is very precious. Cultivation of Buddhahood is an extraordinarily serious matter. We shall also not let you mess it up and destroy it. If you are to have your cultivation mixed up with other things, we shall have to take it back and not let you destroy this life — a higher life. Some people think, “When I studied other things, why didn’t the Falun intervene since it has such mighty powers?” This is because there is another principle in the universe, that is you make your own decisions as to whatever you want. It is what you want yourself. You want something evil, then that evil thing is all pervasive. Even if you do not want it, it still tries to worm its way around! If you want it, it will come at once, and it will come in less than a second. Why didn’t Falun intervene? It is because you wanted it. Thus, everyone must be really careful. Human cultivation practice is a very, very serious matter.

While I was teaching the practice in China, there were many people whose Tianmu was opened at relatively high levels. It is not easy either to practice cultivation with Tianmu opened. They see that big and tall deity, he looks big and tall because the life forms of other dimensions can become very large, and he is also dressed in yellow. People think that he has great supernatural capabilities. He may say to you, “I will take you as my disciple, and learn from me.” If a person’s attachment surfaces and immediately learns from him, this person will be ruined at once. Although he may look gigantic, still, he has not transcended the Three Realms. He is nothing, except that he is not in this dimension, and he can transform his body. Therefore, everyone must be sure to watch out for such things. There are also demons coming to interfere with you, “Come and learn from me, and I will teach you something.” Some people, especially those who practice other Qigong, will easily develop some kind of spontaneous movements the moment they sit there and their hand movements seem to be very beautiful. Let me tell you that demons also know such things. You do not know who gives it to you. Therefore, as long as you follow it in practice, it will add things to your body, and your body will be messed up. I have seen some people who seem to study this or that practice, and their bodies are chaotic with all kinds of things. You will not be able to practice cultivation any more. We believe in predestined affinity. If you run into me, it is also your predestined affinity. If you really want to practice cultivation, we will thoroughly clean it up for you. We shall keep good things and remove bad things for you. Your body will be smoothed out and purified. Only upon reaching the state of Milk-White Body, can you really develop Gong and raise your level.

Question: You have many Fashen (a body made of Gong and Fa) who can guide people’s cultivation practice. However, we are in Australia. Who will guide us? Who should be our teacher?

Master: He has raised a very important question here. It is known to all that it is a very serious issue for one to practice cultivation. Because one has karma lifetime after lifetime and did things that were not good in previous lifetimes, he will have enemies and creditors in other dimensions. If they find out that you are practicing cultivation, they will come to you for revenge. Then, a beginner in cultivation practice will face life-threatening danger. That’s why I said that if you did not have a master, it would be completely impossible for you to succeed in cultivation, and it would be absolutely impossible to make it. Only if there is a master to look after you and protect you, can you succeed in cultivation. Only by not allowing you to run into any major problems can you succeed in cultivation. In the past there were cultivation practitioners everywhere in the world, and there were relatively more of them in China. Many Taoist practitioners had disciples. Although you may find that Taoism, which appeared later on, had many disciples, the master only genuinely taught one person so that he could guarantee that the person would not have any problems. He could only look after one person because the Taoist School does not have the wish to offer salvation to all sentient beings.

Why can I teach and save so many people? In China, there are tens of millions of people studying it, not even including those overseas. Why hasn’t anything happened to anyone? There are those sitting here, who have been hit by a car. The car was damaged and yet nothing indeed has happened to the person. The person was neither in pain nor frightened, and nowhere was he injured. Why did it happen this way? It was that those creditors had come to you to demand payment (of the debts you owe). However, we cannot let real danger happen to you, but the debts must be repaid. Without the protection of the master, he would have died instantly. How could he practice cultivation if he had died? I have numerous Fashen who look the same as me. They are in another dimension, so of course they can become large or small. They can become very large or very small. Their wisdom is completely opened with the same power of Fa like that of a Buddha. The main body is here with me, and they have the ability to do things independently. They will look after you, protect you, help you transform Gong, and do certain things. In fact, they are the embodiment of my wisdom. Therefore, I am able to safeguard you. Though I am not in Australia in person, Dafa has already been passed on to you, and you can take the Fa as the master.

Question: Can Fashen guide our cultivation practice and protect us?

Master: When a practitioner is about to run into troubles, my Fashen will dissolve such things for you and not let them occur. He may also drop you a hint. When you indeed cannot enlighten to it and yet, you are doing quite well in cultivation practice, he may appear before your eyes to tell you something or perhaps let you hear his voice. Because your cultivation level is not high enough, he will not let you see him, but he will let you know his voice. Most of the time he lets you see him in your sleep. This way, it is as if you are in a dream, and there is still enlightenment as to whether it is real or false. Therefore, people can see him mostly in dreams. If your ability of concentration is very good, you may also see him during the sitting meditation. However, if you always want to see me, it is also a kind of pursuit or attachment. Thus, you will not be allowed to see him either. When you do not think about it, as long as you practice cultivation, you will surely be able to see him in future.

Question: The master protects me, but my karma is so big. How can I be protected?

Master: This also brings up a very important issue. Because in today’s human society, people have all reached this stage with karma built upon karma and their karma is already quite enormous. It is not only human beings who have such big karma, because a human life can be reincarnated and become an animal, a physical substance, a plant, a being of a high-level dimension, or a being of a low-level dimension. This is samsara (six paths of reincarnation), so everything can be reincarnated. People take both De and karma with them. People of modern times have a small portion of De and a lot of karma. Then, it appears that not only does man have karma, cement and soil have it as well. We all know that in China in the past, if a farmer cut his hand when working in the fields, he would grab a little bit of soil and apply it to the cut, and it would heal. Sprinkle a little bit of soil, and it would be healed. Now, do you dare to touch the soil? Even if you do not touch it you would get tetanus! There is karma everywhere. There is karma in matter, plants, animals and people. Karma is everywhere. Therefore, looking from a high-level dimension, black waves are rolling in human society. Why are there epidemic diseases? Very serious epidemic diseases are those black waves, which are the mass of karma with very high density, rolling around. When they roll over to this place, there will appear epidemic diseases. Nowadays, the karma of mankind is so big. What should be done? Let me tell you as I mentioned earlier that if you want to practice cultivation, and to practice cultivation only after clearing the debts of a few lives that you owe, I’m afraid that the situation might be different as time passes and you may not be able to run into me either.

What should be done, then? The people in this universe are not meant to be human beings, but to practice cultivation to go back and to return to the place where you were created. One may say, “I am in ordinary human society, and I cannot give up the ordinary people’s sentimentality. If I practice cultivation, what about my wife, sons, daughters, parents, and brothers? Then, I will be living without meaning.” That is your understanding from your human point of view and a thought on the present basis. When you move up to a new basis and after raising your level, you will not think this way. When you are in another realm, you will not think this way. However, I will tell you a principle. Who are your real relatives? Here I am not interfering with your family relations. In samsara you are human this lifetime and an animal or a plant in the next lifetime. From one life to another, how many parents, wives, sons, daughters, sisters and brothers have you had in each lifetime? In your long journey of life, you are even unable to count them. Also, some are human and some are not human. Which ones are real? It is just that human beings are lost too deeply in the maze! Your real parents are in the place where the universe created you. That is where your parents are. This is because life has two kinds of origins: one is the life created from the motion of enormous matter; the other is the life with a form that is created from the motion of matter in the universe. In itself, it is like a person who is pregnant, giving birth to a life. For such lives, they will have parents. Therefore, your real parents are right now watching you over there, hoping that you will return; but instead of returning, you get lost here and still feel that your relatives are all here.

For human beings to be human is not the goal. The goal is to return to your original true self. Once a person has this thought of cultivating Buddhahood, though he does not have the opportunity of cultivation, still, he has seeded the benevolent fruit of cultivating Buddhahood. Why is it said this way? It is that for him to have this thought is just too precious! For a person in an environment as bitter as this and in an environment as confusing as this, he still has the heart to go back and the heart to cultivate Buddhahood and to be kind. Then, if you want to practice cultivation, everyone will help you and think of ways to give you the green light. When a person has such a thought, it will shake the world in ten directions. It is as glittering as gold and everyone will be able to see it. If this person wants to practice cultivation, it will be this way. With so much karma, what could be done? Then, measures have to be taken to eliminate the karma for you. Elimination of karma cannot be done unconditionally, nor can it all be eliminated for you. To what extent can others do it for you? I do not look at it. However, it is said in Buddhism that you cannot succeed in your cultivation in one lifetime, and that only after a few reincarnations can you succeed in your cultivation. Namely, you are unable to eliminate that much karma all at once. However, if you really want to practice cultivation, we will find a way to allow you to succeed in your cultivation in this lifetime and to complete it in this one lifetime. If you really are very old or your life is very short and there is not enough time left, you will carry the Falun into the end of your life span and be reincarnated. As soon as you are born, you will carry it to connect to the next predestined relationship.

For a person who practices cultivation in the orthodox Fa, I will eliminate his karma to the extent that he can practice cultivation and can endure it. Eliminating all of it is not permitted, and not repaying at all is not allowed either. Then, how to repay the portion that needs to be repaid? We shall place it in your path of cultivation practice, and it is all your own karma placed at the different levels where your improvement is needed in cultivation practice. It will serve as trials or tribulations for improving your Xinxing. When you need to raise your level, you will run into some trouble or your body may feel pains somewhere. These are for your enlightenment. When this happens, it is a test whether you can treat yourself as a practitioner, whether you will treat these problems like an ordinary person, or whether you can detach yourself from them and take them lightly. When you take each trial or each tribulation as a good opportunity for improvement and let go of it, you will be able to pass the test. Some people find their tribulations very big in cultivation practice, but actually they are not. The bigger you find them, the bigger they will become and the smaller you will become. If you do not care and do not put them on your mind, with the master and the Fa here what is there to fear? As long as the green mountains remain, there is no fear of having no firewood to burn. Ignore them! Once you give them up, you will find that the tribulations have become smaller and you have become bigger. You will overcome them in one step, and the tribulations will become nothing. It is guaranteed to be this way. If one cannot overcome them, it is actually that he cannot give up the attachments or does not believe in the Fa. In most cases, it is because one cannot give up one or another attachment. His failure is all due to his inability to give up the attachments. Because he cannot back that one human step, he is not able to overcome them.

Question: I have a question. I have practiced Falun Dafa for a very long time already. I read Teacher’s books and watch Teacher’s video tapes as if feeling a hunger or quenching a thirst. However, there is one sentence that I do not understand. It is that Teacher made a statement, “Falun cannot be developed by your own practice. A Falun has to be installed by Teacher in person.” Thus, I am thinking of going to China to ask Teacher to install a Falun for me. This is one question. The other is that if a person has a Falun, how can the person verify that he has a Falun? These are the two questions.

Master: Many people worry about one issue, that we want to study this Fa, but we have not attended your lectures or seen you in person. Are we going to have Falun as well? Some people also do not feel anything. Is the Teacher not taking care of us? This is a question that many people will have. In fact, I have already written it in the book that you will have Falun. Because I come precisely to offer salvation to all sentient beings, if I am not responsible to you, reading such things will all bring danger to you. Therefore, I must take care of you. If you genuinely practice cultivation and I don’t look after you, it would be the same as harming people and putting them to death. Then, I would be punished, so I cannot do it this way. Now that I have done it, I will be responsible for you. Many people with very good inborn qualities can see that every word in this book is a Falun. Because dimensions are different, upon looking further into deeper dimensions, every word is my Fashen, who are all the image of a Buddha. Every component of each word is also an individual Buddha. Think about it, everyone. One Buddha’s power is already very great. Why will your illnesses be healed when you pick up this book to read? Your eyesight is not good. While reading this book, why do you see the words becoming bigger and bigger and your eyes are no longer tired? Why is it that miraculous changes will occur when you read this book? It is because those words are made of Fa. They can do everything for you, and they can install Falun for you. I also have Fashen taking care of you, and they will do all of these things. Thus, you will still attain it without seeing me in person.

As for the feeling, some people may be sensitive and will feel the lower abdomen rotating. Not only is it rotating in one place, it is rotating everywhere, all over their bodies. Someone sitting here said something wrong and should be careful in future. A claim was made that our Falun Dafa practices nine Falun. Let me tell you that only one Falun is genuinely installed for you by me. This one Falun already has incomparable power and it can divide itself without a limit. In the initial stage of your cultivation practice, in order to adjust your body it is unknown how many hundreds of Falun I installed outside your body, and they were rotating everywhere. Someone said that it rotated here or rotated there. Wow, the entire body was rotating, and it was rotating everywhere. This is because your body needed to be purified and assimilated. I was using the characteristic of our Gong to adjust you, so you would feel that there were Falun rotating everywhere, and they were so numerous that you could not even count them. You might have felt that there were nine Falun, so you said that there were nine Falun. I will use many external Falun to adjust your body. Some people are sensitive while some are not. Those who are not sensitive will not feel them while those who are sensitive will be able to feel them. However, no matter whether you can feel it or not, this all occurs in the initial stage. When those who can feel it become accustomed to it and when it becomes a part of your body, you will no longer have the feeling. Your heart is beating, do you know that it is beating usually? You will know it when you feel it with a hand. Your stomach is undulating. Do you know that it is undulating? Your blood is circulating. Do you know it? When it becomes a part of your body, you will not have the feeling, and you will not feel it. There are also times when there is no feeling at the beginning. In the early stages, there are quite a lot of people who do not feel anything. However, in future cultivation practice, you will have a great deal of feelings. As long as you practice cultivation, I will definitely take care of you.

The most obvious thing is that your body will be purified very quickly. Many people in Mainland China know that cultivation in Falun Dafa is simply too miraculous! Upon starting the practice, the illnesses will be gone. Why is that? Many people did not seek after healing illnesses. They think that the Dafa is good, so they practice it! Their illnesses were healed as a result. However, sometimes there are people for whom the effect is not very good. Why was it not good? If someone hears that practicing Falun Dafa can heal illnesses, so he comes to practice it with the purpose of healing illnesses. Then, his illnesses will not be healed. “Gain naturally without pursuit.” Your wishing to heal illnesses is also a pursuit. Human bodies are meant to repay karma and should have illnesses. You should only have the heart for practicing cultivation and give up your attachment to healing illnesses. Only by not thinking of healing illnesses and ignoring such things, will you attain everything as long as you keep up the cultivation practice. If you have the attachment of healing illnesses, you will not attain anything. In the past, we have always forbidden the mentally ill and critically ill patients to enter the classes. That is to say, no matter how you ask such a critically ill patient to give up that attachment, he still will not be able to give it up. His life is almost over. Can he not think about his illness? He cannot fall asleep at night since all he thinks of is the illness. Thus, no matter how you ask him to give it up, he still cannot give it up. Sometimes, he says that he will give it up, but in his mind he still thinks about it very vigorously. Therefore, there is nothing we can do. Why can’t we do anything? Because teaching the orthodox Fa to save people has its requirements, very strict requirements, otherwise we would be teaching an evil Fa. You must change this thought, and then we can help you. If you do not change your thought, we will not be able to do anything. By changing this thought, you are no longer an ordinary person. If you cannot change this thought, you will still be an ordinary person. The difference is right here. Therefore, it can only be that one gains naturally without pursuit. Some people came here without carrying any preconceived thoughts and found it very good, so they came to try it out. When they saw others practicing Qigong, they also came to practice it without a clear purpose. Nevertheless, they have all been healed. Of course, we do not require too much of people all at once. There is a process of understanding, which is permitted. But, do not come to practice cultivation with any attachment of pursuit.

Question: Teacher, I am very sorry. I want to ask three questions. The first question is that when I read Zhuan Falun, it says that the Qimen School (the Unconventional Cultivation Way) does not snap off the Gong you practice. Some practices, after your practice, just snap off eight tenths of it to substantiate that paradise. Then, will the Dafa that we are practicing also break it off?

Master: Because one is practicing cultivation among ordinary people, he must develop through cultivation everything that he needs to have as a Buddha in future. It is known to all that a Buddha can have whatever he wants and has great divine powers. His good fortune is unparalleled. Where does he get them? However much he suffers, however much good fortune he will have. Thus, the Gong that he cultivates has to reach quite a high level before he can succeed in cultivating a Buddha. In the past, this was mentioned only among very high-level people in our community of cultivators, and it was not mentioned among ordinary people in the past. A practitioner indeed needs to reach a very high level of cultivation practice before he can attain completion. Why is that? If you move up with Gong alone, you will not have whatever you want and you do not have any of the good fortune. That will not do. During the course of your cultivation practice, you will have to develop all of it through cultivation. The suffering you have endured throughout the entire course of cultivation practice is your mighty virtue. Suffering increases Gong, and upon improving Xinxing one will increase Gong. Therefore, after your cultivation practice has reached a very high level in future, eight tenths of the Gong will be broken off to complete the good fortune of your boundless Fruit Status and to enrich your own small paradise. That comes from your cultivation by bearing hardships. Even the Xinxing standard that you have cultivated will also be broken off to enrich the inside. That is your true fortune, and it all comes from your suffering. As for the remaining two tenths, that is your Fruit Status. Those who reach the standard of Bodhisattva will be Bodhisattvas. Those who reach the standard of Buddha, will be Buddhas. Those who reach the standard of Arhat will be Arhats. If you reach a higher realm, you will be a greater Buddha. Yet, the Qimen School cultivation way is relatively complicated, but one also needs to use his Gong to complete his good fortune and virtue.

Question: My second question is that, as our Xinxing level is not high enough, I get very angry in my heart when others swear at me or bully me. According to what Teacher said, when others hit you, swear at you, or bully you, they are all giving you De. But you should not be angry in your heart. Is it that if one gets angry the Gong will not grow?

Master: Because as a practitioner, when you get angry with an ordinary person you are already the same as an ordinary person. When you get angry, you are pushing it away, except that you have not pushed it back. You have not pushed it back, because you are the one who lost in the first place. As long as you approach it in the same way as he does, you will push it back. One may think that this guy has bullied me too much and has defrauded me of a lot of money. Still, I have to be happy and thank him. You beat me up, and I also have to bear the insult. Not only should I endure it, but I should also thank him. Won’t other people say that you are being Ah Q (a self-deceiving character in a novel)? And being too weak? No. Think about it, everyone. If you do not have a Xinxing level as high as that, you would not be able to do it. That shows a practitioner’s strong will. Can an ordinary person do it? If one does not have a will as strong as that, he will not be able to do it. That is not being timid and weak. Of course, you should be happy. Think about it, everyone. If he did not bully you, you would not have been able to gain an additional piece of De. If you get an extra piece of De, you will cultivate and develop another piece of Gong. When he bullied you, your own karma was also being eliminated! Can you become a Buddha while you are still carrying karma? You have to eliminate it completely. When he bullied you, he gave you De, and you also eliminated karma. You did not behave in the same way as he did, keeping a calm mind. Your Xinxing standard became higher. Xinxing has a yardstick above one’s head. The yardstick above one’s head is as high as the Gong level. Your Xinxing level is higher. Your Gong level is higher too. Your karma is transformed into De as well. He also gave you De. You have gained four for one. Shouldn’t you thank him? You should really thank him from the bottom of your heart. Because as I just mentioned, the principles of good or bad held by human society are reversed. Upon reaching a higher level, one will find that the things people are attached to are all bad.

Question: The third question is the issue of killing as mentioned in the book. Killing a life is a very big sin. If a person commits suicide, does it count as a sin or not?

Master: It counts as a sin. Now, this human society is no longer good, and all kinds of strange and bizarre things have appeared. They talk about the so-called euthanasia and give injections to let people die. Everyone knows it. Why do they give an injection to let a person die? They think that he is suffering. However, we think that his suffering is eliminating karma. When he is reincarnated in the next life, he will have a light body without karma, and he will have a great fortune awaiting him. While he is amidst the pain and is eliminating karma, he is certainly not having an easy time. If you do not let him eliminate his karma and kill him, isn’t that murder? If he is gone, carrying the karma, in the next life he will have to repay the karma. So, which would you say is right? Committing suicide has another sin. This is because a person’s life is pre-arranged. You have disrupted the sequence of the god’s entire layout. Through the obligations you carry out to society, between people there is this kind of interrelationship. If the person dies, won’t this entire sequence disrupt the god’s arrangement then? If you disrupt it, he will not let you go. Therefore, committing suicide is sinful.

Question: A Buddha does anything he wants. Doesn’t a Buddha have a clean mind and little desire? Does he still enjoy himself?

Master: Some people say that a Buddha does not eat food, and that a Buddha does not have a human body. This statement sounds as if people all think that a Buddha is this way. Let me tell you that what a person says in the community of cultivators should not be understood with an ordinary human mind. A Buddha does not have a human body, which is to say that it does not have this dirty human body made up of matter of the molecular particle level. The coarsest particles of his body on the surface are atoms while his most microscopic particles are the more microscopic matter in the universe. The more microscopic his matter is, the greater his radioactive energy is. The Buddha’s light shines everywhere. Some people say that a Buddha does not eat food. A Buddha does not eat human food. He eats the substances within his level. Also, he does not call it “food” as in human terms. Therefore, you will not be able to understand the meaning of the language in the Buddha’s realm and cannot comprehend them. Human beings just have the human way of thinking.

Some ordinary people say that if one becomes a Buddha, how boring it would be. One will have nothing, sitting there like a piece of wood. Let me tell you that a Buddha is the king of Fa in his heavenly world. We call him a Tathagata as a way of referring to the embodiment of his Xinxing standard level. He is actually the king of Fa in that world of his. In that world, there are numerous beings under his management. Of course, it is not the management of our ordinary people with laws for reinforcement. He manages it completely with compassion and loving-kindness. Everyone meets the standard of that realm, and it is wonderful beyond compare. They do not have the sentimentality of ordinary people. But, they have compassion, a higher realm, and something purer. They have none of the things that ordinary people have. They have things that are correspondingly more wonderful in a higher realm. That is a higher life; there are even higher, even higher, and even higher lives. If it were all boring, one would be better off to die and end it all. It is more wonderful. Only by going to that world, can one know what happiness is. It is more wonderful, but if you do not give up these ordinary people’s attachments and cannot remove them, you will not be able to attain it.

Question: Why doesn’t the Qimen School break off the Gong?

Master: Who says that the Qimen School does not take down the Gong? Everyone has to complete his Fruit Status with his cultivated Gong. The Qimen School does not have just one kind of cultivation. They have all kinds of practices that are very unique. During the course of cultivation practice, some of them would complete such a practice while still practicing cultivation, but the effort they put in is the same. They do not develop it here and thus do not need to break it off. As for those people who need to break it off, their Gong will develop rapidly. If one does not break it off and completes his good fortune and virtue while still practicing cultivation, he will develop it very slowly, but the effort is the same.

Question: Two questions. The first question is that when I began the sitting meditation the first day, I saw Master’s Fashen sitting by my side, on the left. But, his clothes were black, and he had a smiling face. Later, I read what was said in a document. Because it was my first time to see him, today I would like to ask again why he was not the same color as on the TV tape.

Master: This is also because there is a contrast between different dimensions. For example, what color does a Taoist like? It is purple. Therefore, he talks about the purple Qi coming from the East and regards purple as the highest. The Buddha School likes yellow or golden yellow. But, they are of one color. It is purple in this dimension and golden in another dimension. Then, what is seen as black in our dimension is seen as white in another dimension. Seen over here it is whitish; over there it is quite dark. Here it is green; over there it is red. All colors have such different manifestation in different dimensions. Then, if you were only in that kind of state, what you saw would be that color. Everyone must be a little bit careful because the demons sometimes cause very severe interference. The majority of my Fashen are wearing the Buddha’s robes with blue hair, the curly blue hair. It is very blue, bright jade blue. Sometimes, only under extremely special conditions, can one see my Fashen in such clothes that I am wearing. It is extremely, extremely special, and is very rarely seen. Thus, everyone should distinguish it well. If he is really me, you will feel very sure in your mind that he is me. If he is not me, you will draw a question mark in your mind.