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We Cannot Let Fellow Practitioners Die in Vain
By a Practitioner from Changchun City of Jilin Province
(Clearwisdom.net)
Wang Kefei, a female practitioner from Changchun City, Jilin Province, was
tortured to death in the Changchun Heizuizi Women's Forced Labor Camp. She died
on December 20, 2001. Many kind-hearted people were greatly saddened by the end
of such a dignified, pretty, and young mother's life, at the hands of such
cruelty. Her enduring spirit of not giving in to evil touched people deeply.
After her death, many learned that this practitioner sacrificed her young life
in order to uphold the truth, awaken people, and save sentient beings.
Ordinary people though, did not think further after hearing news of her
death. Some even continued helping the evil to persecute Dafa practitioners. How
many more practitioners must be tortured to death? When will the evil be totally
eliminated? As Falun Dafa practitioners, we need to search inside ourselves for
answers. Some fellow practitioners have become numb because the persecution has
been continuing for quite some time. For over two years, Jiang's authority has
cruelly persecuted Falun Dafa practitioners. Tens of thousands of practitioners
have been arrested, beaten up, and detained. Over three hundred practitioners,
who are accounted for, have been tortured to death. As time passes, some
practitioners seem to have gotten used to and become numb towards this extreme
treatment and persecution of good people. Some practitioners have lost sight of
what we want out of cultivation and why we began practicing Falun Dafa.
There are still fellow practitioners who haven't truly melted into the Fa. We
have not reached the requirements of "Truth, Compassion, and
Tolerance" set for us. We mistakenly stereotyped the actions of other
practitioners, after the improvement of their xinxing. This includes
going to Beijing to hold up banners, handing out truth-clarification materials,
and clarifying the truth to people under any circumstance. The mistake lies in
not truly and rationally understanding the sacredness and the dignity of
carrying out these actions. Without improving our xinxing or cultivating
compassion while learning the Fa, we weren't able to validate the Fa and expose
the evil with a pure heart. We did not achieve improvement in our xinxing
while working on Fa-rectification, so that we can eventually reach consummation.
Instead, we have put a lot of direct effort on work without cultivating
ourselves. By having separated our hearts from what we are doing, it is easy to
imagine the effect on self-improvement as well as on Fa-rectification work.
More efforts need to be put into learning the Fa and cultivating our hearts.
Many fellow practitioners have gone to Beijing to safeguard the Fa and did very
well because of their pure thoughts. They were ready to give up everything they
had in order to awaken the people around the world. They weren't at all thinking
about their own consummation. The result of clarifying the truth, validating the
Fa, and exposing the evil under all circumstances is also related to the
broadness of our compassion. We can do well with every aspect of cultivation
only when our hearts really melt into the Fa.
When clarifying the truth and exposing the evil to local people, we need to
tell them the typical cases that have happened nationwide and worldwide.
However, we should lay special emphasis on telling people what has happened
locally, especially when there are local practitioners persecuted to death. We
need to let people know why they have died. Didn't they die because they wanted
to awaken more people's conscience and save more people? Shouldn't we use
incidences of vicious persecution as examples to deeply and completely clarify
the truth and expose the evil to people? Making a few phone calls or handing out
fliers a couple of times without doing anything else isn't enough. We can not
allow our fellow Falun Dafa practitioners to die in vain. If we don't improve
our xinxing during this kind of situation, the vicious persecution might
spread to more areas and last a longer period of time. If we don't truly improve
our xinxing, the old forces might use this as an excuse to intensify the
persecution and find our omissions. We need to pay more attention to this issue
and truly understand that the old evil forces using the vile people in this
world to persecute us who cultivate Truth, Compassion, and Tolerance, are
actually persecuting all the kind-hearted people and all sentient beings. It's a
critical battle between evil and good in the universe. In every important event,
all the sentient beings are taking positions or repositioning themselves. We
Falun Dafa practitioners must be the first to become aware of this issue and
then actively do something about it. "If the evil has already reached the
point where it is unsavable and unkeepable, then various measures at different
levels can be used to stop it and eradicate it." (From Teacher's article,
"Beyond the Limits of Forbearance") We definitely can not allow the
evil to undermine the Fa so recklessly and endlessly. We need to go all out to
use various forms, channels, and measures to dynamically eradicate the evil.
When we have a deeper understanding of the Fa, I'm certain we will be
enlightened to more and better ways to eliminate the evil completely.
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