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Dafa Disciples and the Old Forces
Written by Wenhua (Clearwisdom.net) After studying Master Li's new articles and lectures, I read the
previous article "The Effect of Righteous Thoughts" once again and
have come to understand the relationship between Dafa disciples and old forces.
In the past, when mentioning the old evil forces that persecute Dafa, I always
think about those evil beings that are vicious in Mainland China or hide behind
the bad people outside China. My eyesight always looks for external factors. In
fact, many evil beings hide in Dafa practitioners' fields and many arrangements
of the old evil forces are manifest through our own actions.
Master Li told us, "Before the Fa-rectification, the old forces crammed
the lowest-level section of each of those tens of millions of remote cosmic
systems into the Three Realms of the central cosmic system where we are.
Seemingly, this was to prevent them from being left out of the Fa-rectification,
and was to show that they took part in Fa-rectification, when in reality they
were using Fa-rectification to reach their selfish goals" (The Effect of
Righteous Thoughts). Due to the deviation of old evil forces, their
arrangements are also warped and impure and are objects to be rectified in the
Fa-rectification. Master Li doesn't accept any of these old forces'
arrangements. As Master Li's disciples, how can we completely deny the old
forces' arrangements for us? This may be the biggest test for us as
Fa-rectification disciples.
First of all, the only way to break through the old forces' arrangements and
get rid of their control is to study the Fa and send forth righteous thoughts.
The Fa can break all attachments, and the Fa can offer salvation to all sentient
beings. Sending forth the righteous thoughts can directly eliminate those that
have corrupted to such an unsavable and unkeepable extent. The old forces that
are eliminated are those higher beings that refuse to accept the Fa that Master
Li tells them and still stubbornly insist on doing things according to their own
requirements. Similarly, if practitioners don't study the Fa or even if studying
the Fa we fail to act according to the requirements of Fa-rectification, we may
very likely become barriers to Fa-rectification under old forces' arrangements.
It is really very dangerous and terrible.
Then how can we genuinely study the Fa well? Master Li makes it very clear in
the beginning of Lunyu, "In order to explore this domain, people must
fundamentally change their conventional human notions." If we study the Fa
with attachments, that is not Fa-study. When everyday people study the
philosophy, they also have a saying called, "Only when you empty the cup of
your heart, can you then contain new things." Fa-study is similar to
cleaning us. There are dirty things pushed out from the growth rings of our
lives every day. There are old forces' arrangements for us every day and it is
the last chance for sentient beings to be saved every day. Therefore, we should
study the Fa every day.
The most fatal shortcoming of the old forces is their selfishness. In
Fa-rectification, they only want to change others. They don't want to change
themselves. None of them wants to change themselves and even to the greatest
extent they try to keep the things that they are attached to. The manifestation
of this in our own cultivation is our looking outward. An example of breaking
through the old forces' arrangements, then, is our turning the tables on the old
forces and looking inward instead.
The above is just my personal understanding. Please kindly point out to me if
there is anything inappropriate.
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