The Deviation of Wealth

By a Falun Dafa Practitioner

(Clearwisdom.net) A Dafa practitioner works as a salesperson in a retail store. She is also the backbone for the local Dafa work and has sacrificed a lot for Dafa. However, the sales of the store were very poor and often the paychecks were delayed. Later, she herself opened a small store for the needs of Dafa work, but business conditions were still very tough. Practicing Dafa is a blessing. The goodness of Dafa is being expressed to the world through Dafa practitioners. Now that she could not even get paid, how would everyday people look at Dafa practitioners? We need to harmonize the Fa at the level of everyday people and need money to prepare truth-clarifying materials. The practitioner told me her confusion and doubt and expressed that she did not find that she had any attachment to wealth. I pointed out that this was the persecution from the vicious old forces and she was forbearing it passively.

The vicious forces have come to a dead end; however, they are not prepared to accept defeat. They desperately try to find all kinds of opportunities, places, different levels and environments to persecute Dafa and Dafa practitioners. Since we do not understand the Fa fully, we sometimes cannot immediately distinguish and recognize the evil and allow it to take advantage of loopholes in our minds to persecute us. In order to control practitioners who have left home and become destitute, the old forces have made use of their sentimentality. They have used their anxiety to disperse Dafa disciples. Those who work very hard at home for Dafa experience the old forces' making use of poor financial situations to persecute Dafa practitioners. Inside forced-labor camps they release 'mange insects' to torture Dafa practitioners, along with many other means. There are also laziness, the human world's pursuit of comfort and many other methods of interference and persecution by deviated beings that persecute Dafa practitioners. They have created conflicts and difficult situations for practitioners during their Fa rectification cultivation. Their aim is to interfere with and even stop the course of Fa rectification.

I have recently realized that "wealth" is a totally deviated being. It favors the unrighteous and looks down upon Dafa practitioners. If you take a look inside China, the corrupt officials who have consumed the flesh and blood of the people have become extremely wealthy. The dishonest are lucky with money and Dafa practitioners who practice "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance," the law of the universe, are facing difficult situations. Practitioners are being discharged from their jobs, their names are removed from payrolls and their savings are extorted from them. Practitioners' houses are being ransacked and many other forms of persecution are taking place. Many workplaces are afraid to employ Dafa practitioners. Many Dafa practitioners have become homeless after going to Beijing to appeal and no longer even have enough to eat. The ruffians and vicious police indulge themselves, lavishly spending money taken from Dafa practitioners. "Wealth" has been in the forefront during the persecution by the old forces, and as a result, Fa-rectification disciples have endured unnecessary persecution.

The above is just my understanding. Kindly point out anything inappropriate.
Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.cc/mh/articles/2002/1/25/23500.html

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