Solemn Declaration
I am an elementary school student. Because I had not studied the Fa well enough, I was coerced by my teacher into signing my name on a petition against Falun Gong. The signature is hereby nullified. From now on, I am going to study the Fa more diligently and keep up with the Fa rectification process.
Lu Shuangci, July 30, 2001
Solemn Declaration
As I picked up the pen to write this, I felt very ashamed of myself. I had written a "Solemn Declaration" before, but when another test came afterwards, I repeated the same mistake that I had made before. My action is an insult to Dafa and unforgivable.
I carefully examined my own conduct against the principles of Dafa to dig out the root causes of why I made the same mistake over and over again. I have realized that I was simply following along with others the first time I wrote my declaration. I saw that other practitioners were doing that and decided to follow suit. However, I had not recognized both the consequences and seriousness of my actions, which did not meet the standard of Dafa. I failed to realize that I would not be able to pass my test if I could not let go of my many attachments. This also made it clear to me that my understanding of the Fa is not deep enough. I did not practice genuine cultivation in my daily life solidly enough. Now I am clearly aware of the fact that I need to be responsible for my words and actions for the sake of myself, society, the future, and most of the all for the sake of Dafa. Therefore, once again I am hereby nullifying my prior words and actions that do not conform to the standard of Dafa. In addition, I will take concrete steps to make up the damage that my actions have caused to Dafa.
(Translated on August 13, 2001 from Http://www.minghui.ca/mh/articles/2001/8/7/14395.html)
Solemn Declaration
Master Li said, "Cultivation practice is a serious matter." Because I was not able to let go of my attachment toward my family, I had an "inability to deal with things using righteous thoughts amidst painful trials." When it came to tests and tribulations, I also chose to "view it completely with your human side." Despite repeated hints from Master Li, I still made a horrible mistake when I should have known better and wrote a pledge promising to give up practicing Falun Gong. After I turned in the pledge, I went back to my jail cell. The next morning when I started to meditate, I saw Master Li with tears in his eyes. I knew then that what I had done was wrong and wanted to take my pledge back. So I wrote another letter describing my wishes but in the end could not find the courage to turn it in.
I wrote another pledge because I did not have a righteous mindset, and the only thing that I cared about was not going back to jail. I did not think about the fact that I should not have given in to the evil. I treated myself as an ordinary human being and thought that there was no way I could hold my ground against more than a dozen policemen. Every single practitioner of Dafa has the side that is divine, and the evil is nothing in front of that side. In the end, I was not able to hold my ground and allowed myself to be arrested and taken from my home for no apparent reason the second time. This time after holding a hunger strike for 11 days without any food or water, I was released. After I went back home, I started to relax and thought that I had finally passed the test. I studied the Fa less often and began to feel afraid again. When the evil came back for me, they successfully extracted a second pledge from me.
Master Li said, "Whenever you do not take a step well, it really pains my heart. Everything that the evil has done has actually targeted the attachments and fears that you have not let go of." When I looked back, I realized that in the past I had not been able to achieve the state of mind where my thinking had melted into the Fa completely in my everyday life. As I was faced with tribulations and tests, I was not able to hold the Fa in my heart and deal with them seriously as a cultivator. On the surface, I made these mistakes because certain people coerced me. In reality, it is because I "had attachments, were momentarily taken advantage of by the evil, and did what a cultivator should not."
Another reason is that after passing a major test, I was not able to hold myself to a high standard and found new attachments. Once these new attachments came into being, I was not able to eliminate them immediately. I allowed myself be controlled by the evil and made another mistake. Now I want to make a solemn declaration: all of my previous statements against Dafa (including those written by my family members on my behalf) are hereby nullified. I will continue my cultivation steadfastly, work hard to make amends for my mistakes, and catch up with the Fa-rectification process.
Dafa Practitioner Yang Ziran, August 7, 2001
(Translated on August 16 from Http://www.minghui.ca/mh/articles/2001/8/8/14449.html)
Solemn Declaration
I was one of those that Master Li mentioned in his article "Suggestion," who willingly allowed themselves to be "transformed" by the evil and then helped the evil persecute Dafa. I was sentenced to three years at a labor camp for practicing Falun Gong. On October 27, 2000, the labor camp brought four people who had been "transformed" to hold brainwashing classes for us. They talked to us about how they began their cultivation and how they were arrested and sent to labor camps for appealing for Falun Gong. They endured a great deal of hardships at the labor camps, went down to the wrong path in the midst of the tribulations, and believed in the articles that were falsely attributed to Master Li. Because I had not learned the Fa well enough, I lost my senses due to my many strong attachments and allowed the evils to take advantage of gaps in my mind. As I was listening to them describing how they had "enlightened" along an evil path, my head started to hurt a lot. I thought to myself that there was something wrong with them. But once again because I had not studied the Fa well enough and had not gained a deep enough understanding of the Fa, I still listened to them and thought that their words made some sense. Immediately after the session, I tripped and fell hard twice. I thought they were hints from Master Li to enlighten me. But still I was not able to use a righteous mindset to think about what had happened. I allowed the evil to take advantage of gaps in my mind and gradually lost control of myself. I began to "enlighten" along an evil path more and more everyday until finally I wrote a statement of "suddenly waking up to the truth" and a pledge promising to give up practicing Falun Gong. I even helped the evil by going to the detention center to talk to the practitioners there about my own experience. I pretended not to know about Master Li's new articles. Even on those rare occasions that I read the articles, I still read them to find support and evidence that my "enlightenment" was correct. When fellow practitioners brought Master Li's new articles to me and asked me to read them, I even thought that it was a test from Master Li and that by not reading them, I had passed the test. For a long period of time, I could not drag myself out of my state of "enlightenment" along an evil path and walked down the wrong path further and further.
I want to express my deepest gratitude to Master Li for his vast benevolence and tireless arrangements. I was given another opportunity. With help from fellow practitioners, I finally woke up from my "enlightenment" along an evil path on July 1, 2001. I came to realize that I was damaging Dafa, aiding the evil, and walking down a path toward certain doom. I want to urge those practitioners who are still crawling toward "enlightenment" along an evil path to wake up to the truth and go back to the righteous path. I also want to ask the part of me that has cultivated well to send forth and increase the power of righteous thoughts. That way, I will be able to use my supernormal abilities in different dimensions to eliminate the evil substances that are controlling those people who are on the wrong path and demonstrate the power of Dafa to them. I want to tell them why Master Li is still waiting them benevolently and how important it is to increase their beliefs in Master Li and Dafa through studying the Fa. I just finished reading Master Li's new article "What are Supernormal Abilities." The article has pointed out to me the principles of Fa and the path that I need to take even more clearly. At this time, I want to make a solemn declaration: I had walked on the path toward "evil enlightenment" on the urging of my attachments. I deviated from Dafa and was used by the evil to damage the Fa. I want to take this opportunity to declare that all my past words and actions against Dafa, including my pledge promising to give up practicing Falun Gong and my statement of "suddenly waking up to the truth" are hereby nullified. I will use everything I have to validate Dafa and work hard to make up for my mistakes. I will not put stains on anything that I had cultivated from the great Fa of the universe ever again.
Dafa practitioner Liu Meitao, July 5, 2001 (the above statement was made by her orally and recorded by a fellow practitioner)
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