An Understanding of "Completely Opposing the Old Forces' Arrangement"
(Clearwisdom.net) Lately, the evil forces have been trying to kidnap me.
While meditating one day, I thought about Teacher's words, "I only teach people
to be good. At the same time, I unconditionally help people get rid of their
diseases and health problems, and I enable them to reach higher realms of mind.
I don't charge any money or ask for material things as reward. All of this has
had a positive impact on the society and its people, and it has, on a large
scale, turned people's hearts towards goodness and made their moral level high.
I wonder if that is why they seek to extradite me. Do they want me to return to
China so that more people can obtain the Fa and cultivate their hearts?"("Some
Thoughts of Mine" in Essentials for Further Advancement II)
In my own situation, I wondered why the evil would try to kidnap me. Do they
want me to work for the promotion of the universal law of "Truth, Compassion,
and Tolerance?" Is it because I exposed wrongdoers' lies by telling people the
truth? Is it because I didn't give up my belief? The truth is I've done nothing
wrong. I have been doing everything very righteously. I am righteous according
to both the rules of the old cosmos and that of the new cosmos. Is there any
reason for the evil to kidnap me? No. The murderers who persecute Dafa disciples
are the ones who should be arrested and sentenced.
I wholeheartedly communicated these words to the evils that were persecuting
Dafa and Dafa disciples. At that moment, I felt something break through in my
heart. I entered a free world that did not have the evil's persecution. I could
work in the Fa rectification freely. The evil was not able to enter this new
world at all, nor was there any persecution. I felt extremely at ease.
Meanwhile, I realized that many fellow practitioners and I have been studying
the Fa, sending-forth righteous thoughts, keeping our minds righteous, and so
on. When we do that, we also have so many goals, such as not being kidnapped
away, keeping our safety, having no troubles, being efficient, and not letting
the evil take any advantage, etc. Aren't these pursuits? Can we improve when we
study the Fa like this? It seems that we have taken studying the Fa and
sending-forth righteous thoughts as a weapon and tool. Looking into this even
further, we have not completely opposed the old forces' principles, nor have we
totally started from the point of opposing the old forces. We have been studying
the Fa and sending-forth righteous thoughts with pursuits. Have we wanted to
make ourselves strong? When we are strong, we shall have enough righteous
thoughts and strong energy potencies, so the evil could not get close to us.
Isn't this our mentality? Should we have to challenge the old forces on these
aspects? I believe the thought that we should strengthen is, "The evil is not
qualified to persecute us even if we have attachments."
Is it right that we endure the tremendous persecution and never give in? Why
should we have to endure? Do we need to show our refusing to yield to the old
forces' persecution? Even if we passed the old forces' test, would we be
qualified? Whose test have we passed? Whose standard have we reached? Doing
hunger strikes or striving with our lives is to resist the evil's persecution,
to eradicate the evil in other dimensions, and to demand our release without any
charges. The evils want to lock us up and we want to break their arrangement.
Are we very clear on this objective? Have we fulfilled this objective
thoroughly? Have we had any reservations or hesitation?
In the Clearwisdom.net article series "The Path of Returning," the following
paragraph appears where the practitioner from Beijing decides to get out of the
forced labor camp through a hunger strike, "In the past month, I studied
Teacher's new articles. I realized that I should not passively endure anymore. I
should not agree with old forces' arrangement. Teacher has told us in Dafa is
Indestructible that 'A Dafa disciple completely opposes everything arranged
by the evil old forces.' It's time for me to get out of here with my righteous
thoughts! I know that I have poor enlightenment quality. I have wasted a lot a
time, and have missed many opportunities. The evil is spreading rumors and has
poisoned so many people. Those who don't know the truth are waiting for me to go
out to clarify the truth to them. There are other practitioners who are forced
to give in and are waiting for my help. How can I keep passively enduring it? At
the beginning, I believed that it would be hard for me to get out since I have
been sentenced to a forced labor camp. Yet this notion is accepting the old
forces' arrangement. Yet how can we fulfill our vows of assisting Teacher to
rectify the Fa while inside a forced labor camp? In the forced labor camp, I
never gave in to the evil. I have not given a single word of written record,
signature, or photograph. I have not participated in a single day of labor. But
I have only succeeded halfway. Ultimately, I am not supposed to stay in the
forced labor camp. I should completely oppose the evil old forces' arrangement.
When my understanding was upgraded, I realized that I was sure to get out of the
evil den!" From this, we can see how strong the power of our righteous thoughts
become after we correct ourselves. Can there be anything that could stop us?
Our mighty virtue is not established through accepting the evil's
persecution, but through the process of eliminating the evil's persecution.
Article Referenced:
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http://www.minghui.cc/mh/articles/2002/10/11/37849.html
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