I got this from the site called Falun Dafa, under the heading Books and Recent Writings
These poems are found at the bottom of the page, at Hong Yin III Oct 2011 publication date, Mar 30, 2012 translation date. I took the PDF
Infatuated
Life is short,
You've merely stopped over at the inn.
Don’t forget your vow before descending here;
If you hesitate along the path because of
fame, self-interest, emotion, and revenge,
When will you wake up and return to your home?
Don't Argue
Don’t argue when people argue with you
Cultivation is looking within for the cause
Wanting to explain just feeds the attachment
Breadth of mind, unattached, brings true insight
The Approach to Cultivation
We don’t isolate ourselves in temples or mountains
We are students, farmers, and workers alike
Directly working on our hearts, we cultivate the Fa
Pure lotuses in the secular world can’t be tainted
The Dissolving
The thunder is roaring
The rain keeps pouring
Heaven ’n Earth are turning,
the evil Party under purging
The century-old Red Beast,
will be gone overnight
The sky shall clear,
when the storm is done
All for This Day
Beyond time and space I vigorously rectify the Fa
Despite the huge ordeals my will never bends
Amidst crazed evil, I never lose my way
I regard eliminating the evil as whisking dust away
When disciples walk righteously the path of Dafa
Their light illumines the world, purging evil completely
Diligent disciples—plum blossoms in winter’s chill
The eons of hardship were all for this day
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This is Li Hongzhi
Zhuan Falun, Turning the Law Wheel by Li Hongzhi
On Dafa
(Lunyu)
Dafa is the wisdom of the Creator. It is the bedrock of creation, what the heavens, earth, and universe are built upon. It encompasses all things, from the utmost minuscule to the vastest of the vast, while
manifesting differently at each of the cosmic body’s planes of existence. From the depths of the
microcosm to where the tiniest of particles first appear, there are layers upon layers of countless particles, ranging in size from small to great, reaching all the way to those of the outer planes that humankind knows—to atoms, molecules, planets, and galaxies—and beyond, to what is still larger, with particles of varying sizes making up lives of varying sizes as well as the worlds of varying sizes that are found throughout the cosmic body. Lives at any of the various planes of particles perceive the particles of the next larger plane to be planets in their skies, and this is true at each and every plane. To the lives at each plane of the universe, it seems to go on infinitely. It was Dafa that created time and space, the multitude of lives and species, and all of creation; all that exists owes to it, with nothing outside of it. All of these are the tangible expressions, at different planes, of Dafa’s qualities: Zhen, Shan, and Ren.
However advanced people’s means of exploring space and probing life may be, the knowledge gained is limited to certain parts of this one dimension at a low plane of the universe, where human beings reside. Other planets were explored before by humans during civilizations predating history. Yet for all the heights and distances achieved, humankind has never managed to depart from the dimension in which it exists, and the true picture of the universe will forever elude it. If a human being is to understand the mysteries of the universe, space-time, and the human body, he must take up cultivation of a true Way and achieve true enlightenment, raising his plane of being. Through cultivation his moral character will elevate, and once he has learned to discern what is truly good from evil, and virtue from vice, and he goes beyond the human plane, he will see and gain access to the realities of the universe as well as the lives of other dimensions and planes.
While people often claim that their scientific pursuits are to “improve quality of life,” it is
technological competition that drives them. And in most cases they have come about only after people have pushed out the divine and abandoned moral codes meant to ensure self-restraint. It was for these reasons that civilizations of the past many times met with destruction. Yet people’s explorations are necessarily limited to this material world, and the methods are such that only what has been recognized is studied. Meanwhile, things that are intangible or invisible in the human dimension, but that do objectively exist and do reveal themselves in real ways in this immediate world—such as spirituality, faith, divine word, and miracles—are treated as taboo, for people have cast out the divine. (continued in link)
Here's something I feel goes very well with this knowledge, to help.
Another popularizer was E.A. Abbott (1838–1926), a Victorian schoolmaster and clergyman who published in 1884 his famous novel Flatland. Ostensibly a story about two-dimensional creatures ('Flatlanders’) who dare to imagine life in a three-dimensional universe called 'Spaceland’ and even a four-dimensional world called ‘Thoughtland,’ it is really a satire on the class-ridden, male chauvinistic values of Victorian society, as well as being a veiled explanation of mystical experience in terms of journeys to worlds of higher dimensions. Abbott was influenced by the English mathematician Clifford’s translation of Riemann’s 1854 lecture in the scientific journal Nature (1873) and by Charles L. Dodgson, a mathematics lecturer at Oxford University who is better known as Lewis Carroll, author of Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass, in which he poked fun at the concept of the fourth dimension and its fascination for the contemporary English reading public.
A mathematician by the name of W.I. Stringham published in 1880 in the American Journal of Mathematics an article containing one of the earliest known sets of illustrations of the projections on a plane of the six regular polyhedroids or polytopes — the four-dimensional counterparts of the five regular polyhedra: tetrahedron, octahedron, cube, icosahedron and dodecahedron. Figure 1 (the picture above) shows his depiction of the four-dimensional cube, or ‘tesseract.’ It contains 16 corners, 32 edges, 24 square faces and 8 three-dimensional cubes, or 'cells.'
Rather than supporting scientists like Helmholtz who believed that the non-Euclidean geometries of Lobachevsky and Bolyai had discredited Kant’s Howard H. Hinton contention that Euclidean geometry is true a priori, Hinton gave the philosopher credit for identifying space as the necessary means by which human beings cognise the world. However, instead of accepting the three-dimensionality of perception as an unalterable fact of life, Hinton proposed in his books A New Era of Thought (1888) and The Fourth Dimension (1904) that it was merely a temporary feature of man’s evolution. He agreed with Kant that the three-dimensionality of space is a necessary condition of man’s consciousness. However, it is necessary only to normal awareness. Altered states of consciousness such as those experienced by mystics and psychics acquired four-dimensional perspectives. Four-dimensional space had a mystical significance for Hinton. If not the Unknowable One that mystics spoke of, it was the closest level of this ineffable Reality that the rational mind could approach. He claimed that four-dimensional mental vision could be acquired with sufficient effort — just as Poincaré had speculated earlier. For this purpose, he developed a complex system of mental exercises to visualize the four-dimensional hypercube or tesseract, using multi-coloured cubes as sections of the hypercube. He regarded time as an illusion created by movement in the fourth dimension, and he claimed his method produced a time-ordered vision of the tesseract made up of successive observations of its coloured, three-dimensional cross-sections. However, it is unlikely that readers who purchased his cubes from the publishers of his books ever managed to achieve the experience of four-dimensional vision that he claimed his cubes had given him. (cont. in link)
All right you sweet people! This is how you can train your mind to see clearer, into the depths, just by drawing the Tesseract. It's a simple exercise. You take a blank piece of paper and a pencil. Save that W.I. Stringham's Tesseract into your pictures. Then bring it up on your computer where it's a good size for you to study. Look at it for a while. First you can look at where the four triangles are. Or you can look at where the four squares are. Start easily by taking only one shape. See how they are all connected at their corners. Draw that, free hand, onto your sheet of paper. You see? Then you begin to connect the parts. Observe how they connect. When you are done, it might look messy, but at least you now have the understanding of how those shapes are put together. Do it with the squares, then do it again with the triangles. You can do it until you don't have to look at the picture on the computer anymore. Once you've done that, you can play with it. Get a bunch of color pencils and start colouring in parts and pieces. That helps your mind to comprehend the other sides of reality, instead of only the flat two dimensional pictures. Then when you are looking at real life, your mind will start to open up to other ways of looking. It's a fine exercise, I love it!
And here are some beautiful pictures of geometrical shapes... Tesseracts (test your acts!)
Oh this one is sooooooo pretty! It's my favorite!
Thanks! To all those gorgeous yummies out there who did this artwork of all these gorgeous tesseracts!
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