(Clearwisdom.net)
(Continued from Part 1: http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2006/6/25/74789.html)
Then why did some of our practitioners "take action" whenever they heard the "news?" I personally thought that it was because of their reacting with human notions. They regarded the evil’s persecution as if it were all just human beings persecuting other human beings.
Since then, through studying the Fa and sharing with fellow practitioners, many practitioners have changed their mindsets. However, some of the practitioners still haven’t changed their thinking. Since the start of the persecution, some practitioners thought that they were against the government and felt guilty about this. Later on, Master told us to do the three things well. They knew from their hearts that they should do the three things. But they always did the three things as if they were mundane tasks. They didn’t do the things from the heart, and they didn’t do them in a noble and righteous way. Since the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party was published, they again felt that they were involving themselves in politics and couldn’t change these notions. When fellow practitioners were arrested, they thought that it was because we delivered too many fliers and posters and doing so attracted the evil’s attention. They thought it resulted from exposing the evil.
During the last two years, we have experienced many such lessons in our area. I gave one example here, and I hope that the practitioners who are mentioned don’t mind. It is only for the purpose of sharing based on Fa principles and not intended to criticize anyone.
One practitioner wrote an article to expose the local persecution in 2004. After the article was published on the Internet, a policeman from the city level investigated it. He found the practitioner’s relatives through a local police officer. He investigated and asked the practitioner to go to the police department. The practitioner couldn’t maintain righteous thoughts and asked other practitioners to give him suggestions. Some practitioners suggested that he not go, as they thought it was a trap. Some practitioners suggested that he go to meet with the policeman and clarify the truth with righteous thoughts and righteous actions, and all the practitioners would strengthen him by sending forth righteous thoughts. However, the practitioner could not face this with righteous thoughts. Not long after that, he was secretly arrested by that policeman, who was monitoring him just outside his home.
After that practitioner was discovered missing, some practitioners started to complain about the practitioner who sent the article to the Internet for that missing practitioner. They said that he was not responsible, that he should not have published the article using that practitioner’s real name and that he didn’t think of the practitioner’s safety. This issue had a huge impact on the local practitioners. Many practitioners continue to think that we shouldn’t send articles that include real names to the Minghui/Clearwisdom website. They thought it was exposing the evil that caused trouble. Therefore, for the last two years, no one dared to write articles exposing the persecution. Some practitioners were cruelly persecuted in the forced labor camps. After these practitioners returned home, they didn’t expose the persecution and those responsible for it. They feared that if they wrote it down, those identified would seek revenge.
My understanding from the Fa is that the evil greatly fears being exposed. Don’t we Dafa practitioners write articles exposing the evil as a process of eliminating the evil? I sincerely ask these practitioners to calm down and review the article "Expose the Evil Happening Locally to the Local People" in issue No. 227 of "Minghui Weekly" along with Master’s comments.
Now, I would like to discuss the question of whether the trouble resulted from the exposure of the evil by using real names.
As I recall, at that time our local practitioners were blocked from the Internet and couldn’t readily connect to the Minghui/Clearwisdom website. So the article written by the local practitioner was submitted by a practitioner from another area. Around that time, several dozen articles exposing the evil’s persecution, which included real names, were sent out. Several articles were also published in the Minghui Daily News. Some were even used as fliers to disclose the local persecution and were passed out on a large scale. They didn’t cause any trouble. Why was it that this practitioner’s article was found out? Let us look deeper. Shouldn’t the person who was involved look further inward? In my humble opinion, as an onlooker, I felt that the true reason might be in you, yourself. Is it the case that a gap in your xinxing was taken advantage of by the evil? After you were arrested in 2003, fellow practitioners actively rescued you (in addition to your strong righteous thoughts); thus you got out of the detention center quickly and in a noble and righteous way. But what was your thinking at that time? Did you realize that it was the power of Dafa and Dafa disciples’ righteous thoughts? Or did you think that it was the role of somebody in the police department whom your relatives asked for help? The situation requires the person involved to calmly and deeply look inward to find the true reason. Because every practitioner’s cultivation path is different, it may have some other deeply rooted factors. If one can find the gap after all that was taken advantage of by the evil, one can improve from the Fa and break through the human notions. One would then overcome this kind of tribulation and move up.
Because most of us have practiced cultivation without the celestial eye open and we can't see into other dimensions, we were often only concerned about the phenomena in this superficial human dimension and ignored the factors in other dimensions. However, aren’t all kinds of manifestations in this dimension caused by the evil factors in other dimensions? Cultivation is a serious matter. The evil in other dimensions is looking intently at the loopholes in our xinxing and thinking about how to pull us down at all times. Some practitioners always emphasized safety in this human dimension and didn’t recognize the evil factors in other dimensions that they couldn’t see. Therefore, they always tenaciously clung to human notions. However, human notions are exactly what we should get rid of.
Let’s analyze further. Why was there always such negative "news?" Was it brought about by our thoughts? Master said when answering practitioners’ questions in "Teaching the Fa in San Francisco, 2005"
"The old forces will then lose interest, thinking, ‘These people aren't moved. If none of them are moved, what is the point?’ They will then let the matter drop …"
Once something happened there, some practitioners would be moved and their minds would be unsteady. Wasn’t this kind of response providing reasons and excuses for the evil? "How can it be okay if these practitioners aren’t tested?" So, the old forces always wanted to test these practitioners, and then the evil always gave such "information."
Master said,
"Those disciples who have stepped forward to validate the Fa in the face of pressure are magnificent." ("Towards Consummation" from Essentials for Further Advancement II)
During our last several years of cultivation in the Fa-rectification period, haven’t all of us made it through in the face of pressure? However, some practitioners always evaded things once they experienced the pressure. If you always evade things like that, how can you become a noble and upright "Dafa disciple in the Fa-rectification period?" Even the communication and sharing among practitioners couldn’t occur.
"Practitioners will be arrested as long as they stay at home and practitioners must be homeless." Isn’t that the arrangement of old forces? Why haven’t we negated it? Shouldn’t we negate even the very existence of the old forces? Why do we always think about being arrested? Master once said in "Teaching the Fa in New York City" in Falun Buddha Fa: Lectures in the United States,
"If you can let go of life and death, you’re a God; if you can’t let go of life and death, you’re a human."
Don’t we need to let go of life and death sooner or later? Otherwise, how can we succeed in cultivation?
Master said in the last paragraph in "Teaching the Fa at the Western U.S. International Fa Conference,"
"To walk this path well and progress to its end--nothing is more extraordinary. I say that because during the journey you will have hardships, tests of every sort, unforeseen ordeals, and you will have unexpected interference from all kinds of attachments and emotion. The interference will come from family, society, good friends, and even fellow cultivators. And along with this there is interference from changes in the state of human society and from human notions that were formed in society. All of those things can drag you back to being like an ordinary person. But if you can break through all of it, you can advance towards godhood. So as a cultivator, what is truly remarkable is when you can be steadfast and have righteous thoughts so firm that nothing can sway you. Be solid and firm like diamond, or granite, and then nothing can affect you--evil will be afraid at the mere sight of you. If upon encountering trying circumstances your thinking can be truly righteous, then, when faced with the evil's persecution and when faced with interference, just one sentence of yours fortified with steadfast righteous thoughts can instantly make the evil disintegrate (applause), and it will make those who are being used by the evil turn and flee, it will make the evil's persecution of you dissolve, and it will make the evil's interfering with you disappear without a trace. One thought born of righteous faith is all it takes. And whoever can hold firm that righteous thought and go the distance will become a magnificent god forged by Dafa. (Long applause)"
Many fellow practitioners can recite this paragraph of the Fa. We all say, "Believe in Master and the Fa." However, at the critical moment, we were still influenced by our human notions. There is a saying, "Among thirty-six stratagems, fleeing is one of the best." We still thought that our old, human ways were the safe ways. So these practitioners are still evading things. I would like to ask these practitioners, "When are you going to stop evading it?"
Some practitioners may not agree with me and think that it is not rational. Actually, many fellow practitioners who have righteous thoughts and righteous actions have already verified my points with their own experiences in their cultivation paths.
I clearly knew that my realm of thinking was limited. I showed a lack of "compassion and good tone" between the lines. So a long time passed, and I didn’t have the courage to write these things down. Moreover, some practitioners currently don’t want to get in touch with other practitioners, and so we cannot share with them face to face. These problems have already seriously blocked our cooperation as one body and efforts to "Expose the Evil Happening Locally to the Local People." So I asked for a forum on the Minghui/Clearwisdom website to share with fellow practitioners to help us to improve together. If each of us can understand the Fa from the Fa and break through our human notions and if we can put our hearts in the three things Master asked us to do, we can then form an indestructible one-body, and the evil will no longer exist.
Above is my personal understanding at my present level. Please kindly point out any shortcomings.