At present, more and more people are becoming Dafa practitioners, and there is a trend wherein newcomers have a better perceptual understanding. With no obstacles from the ultra-leftist thinking that earlier existed in society, or from conceptual processes of understanding, they do not need to spend a great amount of time on discussion during group study of the Fa. So they should spend a great amount of time studying the Fa to elevate themselves as quickly as possible. The more your mind holds, the faster the change.

I once talked about what is a good person and what is a bad person. It is not that one who appears to have committed a bad deed is a bad person and one who has done something good is a good person. Some people’s minds are full of bad thoughts—it is only that they have not shown them or have slyly concealed them relatively well; yet these are truly bad people. Some people, on the other hand, are not bad to begin with but occasionally commit wrong deeds; these people are not necessarily bad people. Then how should we understand good people and bad people?

A person is like a container: he is whatever he contains. All of what a person sees with the eyes and hears with the ears are: violence, lust, power struggles in literary works, struggles for profit, worship of money, other manifestations of demon-nature, and so on, of the practical world. With his head filled with these, such a person is truly a bad person, no matter what he appears to be. One’s behavior is dictated by one’s thoughts. With a mind full of such things, what’s one able to do? It is only because everyone’s mind is more or less contaminated to some extent that people cannot detect the problem that has surfaced. Incorrect social trends that are reflected in every aspect of society are imperceptibly changing people, poisoning mankind, and creating a large number of so-called "anti-tradition," "anti-upright," and "anti-moral" human beings with demon-nature. This is what’s truly worrisome! Even though society’s economy has made progress, it will be ruined in these people’s hands since they do not have human ways of thinking.

On the contrary, if a person accepts the kind, traditional thoughts of mankind that have prevailed for thousands of years, believes in proper human behavior and standards, and is filled with all good things, what will this person’s conduct be like? Whether or not this person shows it, he is a genuinely good person.

As a practitioner, if his mind is filled with nothing but Dafa, this person is definitely a genuine cultivator. So you must have a clear understanding on the issue of studying the Fa. Reading the books more and studying the books more is the key to genuinely upgrading yourself. To put it more simply, as long as you read Dafa, you are changing; as long as you read Dafa, you are elevating. The boundless content of Dafa plus the supplementary means—the exercises—will enable you to complete cultivation. Group reading or reading by yourself is the same.

The ancients have a saying, "Having heard the Tao in the morning, one can die in the evening." No one in mankind today can really understand its meaning. Do you know that when a person’s mind accepts the Fa, isn’t that part of his mind that accepts the Fa assimilated to the Fa? Where will that part go upon the death of the person who has heard the Fa? I ask you to study the Fa more, remove more attachments, and give up various human notions, so that you will not take away with you only a certain part, but reach completion.