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You are perfectly right about this. There is a balance between virtue and karma. If your total energy field is 100 parts, let us say you have 90 parts karma and 10 parts virtue. You will be extremely stiff in your body. After you suffer a bit you will get to 11 parts virtue and 89 parts karma.... This way, suffering and being virtuous in daily life, you need to reach 90 parts virtue and 10 parts karma to be very flexible. The target is to annihilate all karma and being pure virtue(which can then be transformed into Gong - virtue is your precious fuel to Gong level and consummation). My karmic load was extremely heavy and I could not even do the half Lotus when I started out in Falun Dafa. With practice and dedication, in eight months I went to full Lotus(with back support...) and now the posture is my next challenge. The legs is one part but the posture is a much bigger part(in my opinion). Keep your back straight for long periods of time is not easy. Work off your karma is therefore imperative, there are no shortcuts. And your karma is tied to your attachments(your desires and emotions) which make you unable to reach stillness(Ding) while meditating. Start out with half Lotus(or even Indian), prolong the sitting times gradually and when the left leg has come down to the floor, cross the legs to double Lotus. I recommend avoiding all types of pillows or back supports, they just fool you into thinking you are done... I had a girl in my office, she asked me about the double Lotus and then crossed her legs with tight jeans and shoes on, just smiling, then asked me what was the problem about this, she could sit like that for a very long time.... Thinking about it she was a hard worker, very dedicated, very honest and never complaining. High level virtue. It is always connected. That is what I mean with inborn quality, it differs for everyone and it is so valuable... But if one steels their will they can eliminate their karma, it just takes more effort.

Well, all cultivators are a "normal" guy at the beginning of their cultivation, but not towards the end of his life, that is my opinion at least... The difference between a Buddha and an average cultivator is that their inborn quality is much higher and therefore they cultivate up much faster and reach higher realms. I have not seen christians talking about Buddhas before, that is news to me. Normally they accept only two gods, Yahweh and Jesus.

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Try and look into Falun Dafa. I can tell you all sorts of incurable diseases have been cured by practicing in Dafa. I suffered severe allergy for 30 years before getting rid of it thanks to Dafa. The practice is tough and one must be very dedicated and believe in it, otherwise it will not work. Some stories from practitioners who were very sick: http://www.clearwisdom.net/html/cate-81/ You may start by reading the book Zhuan Falun and see what Dafa is about: http://www.falundafa.org/eng/books.html

This discussion gets bigger, briefly here a few words. When I talk about the human emotions and desires I mean this: http://www.mandarinbook.info/chinesewords/monosyllabic/buddhist_emotions.php http://www.pureinsight.org/node/1633 When you start cultivation you are an everyday person. If you as an everyday person has a wish to cultivate up and transcend this dimension that is the best thought anyone can have. So everyone will help you. You may call that a desire but that is ok since you are an everyday person and just want to start raising your level. The higher you go in cultivation the fewer desires and emotions you have left. So when approaching Arhat level you gain without effort, you just drop all your desires and emotions of everyday people and naturally walk towards God-hood. That does NOT mean not working, not caring for family etc in society. Still you must be a very good person doing a great job in everyday society. You just do not have the heart for typical human desires and worries and do not worry about anything, you are free basically and at a much higher level than everyday people. About your healing ideas, that is a separate matter, we can discuss it in detail later. FD cultivation is about you consummating, if you manage that your family will benefit too. And unintentional healing is ok, the pursuit for healing on a wide scale is not, at least not for everyday people. An everyday person is supposed to have birth, sickness, old age and death. A better way to help a person getting rid of his illnesses is to tell him about cherishing virtue. That way he will stop generating karma and hence have less diseases. Diseases are brought to people to make them eliminate some karma by suffering. one is not allowed to alter society´s rules easily. After a person is healed he will likely go out again and create karma(his attachments have not been eliminated at all) so the benefits are limited unless he cherishes virtue. And you will loose your Gong in the process of helping him(karma and Gong can be exchanged for one another). So people must learn to help themselves, that is the key to success. This way is a better way of showing compassion as I see it. In short that is my level of understanding.

I agree on FD becoming a religion later, not yet though. The idea about eliminating your emotions and desires(at my level of understanding) is to break through your "shell". After birth you form alot of postnatal notions, emotions and desires, all these make up your second self - your "shell", which is closely connected to your karma. If you have a head full of emotions and desires you are bound to create alot of karma while pursuing alot of things in life. Your pursuits of money, fame, sex, food&drinks, sleep, mental pleasures is likely to make other people suffer and hence you create karma for yourself with your desires. So your desires are in fact a "karma generator". So you are right about what you say about "yourself-what I here refer to as your "shell"). Your "shell" needs your desires and emotions to survive. The question is, do you need or want your postnatal shell? I would say your shell is karmic and bad for you. With many desires and emotions you will never reach stillness while meditating. Ie during meditation you may think about women, hobbies, good food, news, enemies, friends, health troubles, money issues, how to achieve your goals in life etc etc. All cultivation aims at eliminating all your desires and emotions, also the Buddhist religion has this aim according to their "Precept, Samadhi(meditation), Wisdom). So that is not a new idea, it exists in many religions. The difference is that in FD one points out all the attachments, emotions and desires that modern man has. To get to the heart of the matter and make people understand. When your shell is broken through your true self will be born. The benevolent, compassionate and true person who is unaffected by human troubles and events. That is a mighty person. That person will do a very good job where he is working and he will be helpful and kind to everyone. Always considerring others first before doing anything. I believe such a person is very calm in his heart if other people try to take advantage of him. As a cultivator in FD you know that if someone slaps you you will gain virtue and loose karma - a very good deal. Hence one does not look at suffering like everyday people do. Everything is in fact inverted as a cultivator. It is an adventure very hard to describe and must be experienced. A cultivator wants to increase virtue and reduce karma to be able to rise up higher. If other people help you do it for you - thank you. That is why Jesus said: "If someone slaps me on the cheek I turn the other cheek to him". He wanted virtue too, he was a cultivator too. About "authority" I believe that is a human concept. In fact the Master helps you rise up by giving you so many things and he is doing it only out of benevolence.

First of all, FD is not a religion - yet. Later is another story. Buddha and Jesus never started a religion, it was long after they were gone that some everyday people started the religions based on some of their teachings. Later christianity got political and has virtually nothing to do with Jesus teachings anymore. Buddhism is better but also has modern problems. Master Li has seen this problem and therefore he has created all the scriptures of FD by himself, so FD can not get corrupted in the future - when it will become a religion. FD is still a formless cultivation school meaning that anyone anywhere can cultivate on their own no matter what they do in life. No priests, no religious forms, no worshipping, no organization, no membership, no money, no buildings. Of course many practitioners try to spread the word about the practice to other people so they can benefit from the advantages too. After one has experienced FD it is very likely one will continue to cultivate in FD. The personal benefits are just outstanding from all perspectives. I find it interesting that so many people have so many notions about FD even though they never read the book or performed the exercises. After one has tried it one may form an opinion which is more qualified. Here is the book Zhuan Falun: http://www.falundafa.org/eng/books.html I give you right in the fact that nobody can be dragged into cultivation and you should look internally always. A wish to cultivate comes from your heart. If you have a heart for it you will start cultivating. Predestination counts for alot. Hence the reason to spread the word about Dafa is not foremost to recruit new cultivators. The predestined cultivators come anyway. The reason to spread the word is to save people. Many people have felt for many years a nagging feeling that something is going to happen soon. How low will mankind be allowed to sink before someone up there will intervene and rectify us once and for all?.. Did not all religions prophecise this event, where good people and evil people will be separated? Also Jesus and Buddha Shakyamuni did that. FD being introduced now is a historic event(as mentioned in my last message) for mankind and everyone in the world should know FD exists and that FD is founded on Zhen-Shan-Ren(Truth-Compassion-Forbearance) and hence Falun Dafa is good. In case one sticks to his old cultivation school or religion does not matter, what is important is that you know what FD is about - "Truth-Compassion-Forbearance is good" and therefore "Falun Dafa is good". It is said that if you recite "Falun Dafa is good" while in trouble you will get lucky...

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Good reply, I agree on most of what you say. About the FD practice being diluted however, I believe this time Master Li has made many, many arrangements to stop this process in the future. Ie the litterature is finished and written by the Master and nobody can alter it in the future, also many other absolute demands have been put down on paper to stop it from becoming political etc etc. So I believe FD will be kept for a very long time in its right shape. I like what you say about virtue. I believe every righteous cultivation school has the same theme first and foremost, that is cultivating virtue and becoming a good person. Today there are very few virtuous people so it is comparably easy to stand out in this respect. I know many prophecies are fake but the old ones are often good. They are not exact and as for the dates I believe there is just one person making the final decisions. As far as I remember Master Li has said 07/20 might be numbers of incomparable significance in the future... Remember the persecution started 1999-07-20 and remember Nostradamus said it would last twenty and seven years....

Well, it will not matter where one goes, to be safe one needs first of all to be a good person who welcomes the Fa-rectification: Master Li Hongzhi explains it very well(http://www.clearwisdom.net/html/article ... 74333.html): So when human beings have come here and are among other human beings, whoever here, in this setting, goes beyond the set boundaries of this state and during the course of his life keeps doing serious harm to others and bad things, that person is spoiling this environment and spoiling this state that human beings are to have, and he is sinning against this momentous affair itself. So while Dafa is being disseminated and during the course of Dafa disciples' cultivation, when it comes to whether people can obtain the Fa and whether they can cultivate to the end, the amount of karma they accrued in history definitely causes varying degrees of challenges for them as human beings or as cultivators. Put frankly, when it comes to the questions of whether someone can obtain the Fa and whether someone can cultivate all the way, there will be different forms of interference for different people. Those troubles all stem from the person's own past actions, so no one should complain. Who can obtain the Fa? Who can break out of the shell? And who can truly, rationally see this Fa for what it is? Viewed in this light, things are indeed fair for sentient beings. For human beings, the attitude they hold toward something as significant as this is of utmost importance. So this state of delusion has an effect on human beings: When it comes to whether you can cultivate, whether you can see the Truth, whether you can see the true picture of things, and whether you can encounter this Fa, the fact that the lives are in a state of delusion indeed makes things terribly hard for them. That's why the Dafa disciples we have sitting here today don't include the entire human race. Of course, as I have said, the spreading of Dafa has been fair to all beings. One's social status or position does not matter--only one's heart and one's attitude toward Dafa matter. In fact, the entire Fa-rectification has been done in this most lenient, most merciful manner. The mistakes that beings made in history are not counted against them. No matter how large of a crime you committed or mistake you made in history, none of it is held against you: Only your attitude towards Fa-rectification today and your understanding of Dafa matter. That's the only thing that counts. If you can't accept even Dafa, then you have lost your chance. If you say, "I don't acknowledge Dafa," well, if you don't acknowledge Dafa you are not acknowledging the future, for the future is made by this Fa.

Welcome! Tao Te Ching book was my starting point before enterring Falun Dafa cultivation which also includes the Taoist concepts. I wish you all the best. Becoming a good person is the first step towards achieving your potential.

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Look here for a solution(Zhuan Falun is the book to read first): http://www.falundafa.org/eng/books.html Good luck! PS: YOur troubles has to do with karma I believe.

What I did was that I first tried a variety of physical cultivation methods like Biyun QiGong, Yoga etc. What I lacked was a profound theory of how to reach high levels. Also, most practices only want to reach your pocket for money. Then I found Falun Dafa(Falun Gong) and all my questions about life and the theory of high levels were answerred. Also it is completely for free which is unique in this world today. FD includes the Dao and belongs to the Buddha Fa school of Qi Gong. In addition the exercises are very detailed and make you reach a very high level quickly, free from illness. The Master of FD is called Li Hongzhi. I suggest you start by reading the book Zhuan Falun and you will know if this is for you: http://www.falundafa.org/eng/books.html Good luck!

Try to read Zhuan Falun is my advice: http://www.falundafa.org/eng/books.html Many more and interesting books there too but the start of everything is Zhuan Falun.

http://www.clearwisdom.net/html/articles/2010/8/9/119146.html By a practitioner from China (Clearwisdom.net) While doing the sitting meditation exercise, a young practitioner, Xiao Qi, saw the battle between good and evil in another dimension: "Dafa disciples appeared as divine beings and fairies. Some sat on lotus flowers, others rode on flying dragons. The energy emitted by Dafa disciples gathered into a huge ball of light. If Dafa disciples were not focused on sending righteous thoughts and had random thoughts, then the light emitted would be very weak and the ball of light would become smaller. Consequently, the evil was not eliminated. Instead, the evil would mock them and say: 'Are you a Dafa disciple?' If the disciple instantly adjusted his state of mind and concentrated on sending righteous thoughts, then the light emitted would become very strong and the ball of light would expand a little. When the whole body of Dafa disciples send very strong righteous thoughts, the huge ball of light would move down closer to the earth. Currently, it is very close to Earth. If Dafa disciples do not do well as one body, the huge ball will not move down, and it will be farther away from earth. When this ball reaches the earth, it will be the beginning of the Fa's rectification of the human world. "Those whom Dafa disciples should have saved through clarifying the truth but were not saved, looked at Dafa disciples with hatred in their eyes at the end of Fa-rectification. The disciples were also very sad and cried, 'We are sorry!' "When Dafa disciples clarify the truth, those who remember the words, 'Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good,' are able to go to the other side of a golden wall. It is very beautiful on the other side. However, those who do not know the truth will not get through even if they try to push through the wall." Dafa disciples must be clear minded. They must eliminate the evil with righteous thoughts, break through interferences, send righteous thoughts, and do well in saving sentient beings! Posting date: 8/9/2010 Category: Practitioners' Insights Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2010/8/5/227978.html

You may very well explain how you practically achieve what you are talking about? How do you cultivate your nine eyes exactly and become an Arhant? I believe you refer to the nine heavenly layers. Each level gives a new eyesight but you do not have nine eyes. You need to get much higher than Arhant I believe.