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Regarding the Evil's Rampant Behavior in Changchun
By He Ping, a practitioner in China
(Clearwisdom.net) Recently the evil forces have been especially rampant in
Changchun, becoming a focal point of the practitioners' attention. I'd like to
share some thoughts on this issue. I hope that my fellow practitioners will
point out any shortcomings in my understanding.
The current manifestation of the evil forces seems quite similar to the
"thought karma" many practitioners have encountered in the past. At
that time, some practitioners felt that a certain "thought karma" was
eliminated in the process of cultivation, but it would reappear after a period
of time, even worse than before. Teacher has addressed this issue many times in
different lectures. Teacher said, "In other words, a bad thought is likely
to be composed of the very shallow stuff on the outermost surface; it also might
be composed of matter that's a little more microcosmic. So some bad thoughts
might be present from the microcosm up to the surface. Therefore, even though
this side of you has met the standard and a layer is cleansed and separated,
there's still some in the next layer. Elimination of the things you need to let
go of in your cultivation has to be repeated. Some people say: "I feel that
I've cultivated pretty well and have been doing well for some time. But why are
bad thoughts coming up again now?" It's that the part you've cultivated
pretty well has been separated, while the part that's not yet cultivated has to
continue cultivating, but it's becoming weaker and weaker. I know - sometimes
the thoughts that spring up are just awful. You don't have to worry. The more
microcosmic matter is, the greater its energy. In other words, the more power it
has, the greater its bad influence; it can control people. Also, on the
outermost surface, the closer matter gets to the surface, the lesser its energy.
The lesser the energy, the lesser its ability; but the lesser it is and the
closer it gets to the surface, the worse it becomes." ("Teaching the
Fa at the Western US Fa Conference")
I think the "bad thoughts" are, in nature, the same as the evil
forces that are trying to damage Dafa. Both are to be eliminated during the
Fa-rectification. Therefore, the process of our eliminating the evil forces is
similar to the process of our eliminating the bad thoughts within ourselves. The
more it comes to the surface, the more unrestrained the evil becomes, yet its
energy becomes less powerful. In reality, it is approaching its end. In front of
the great enlightened beings cultivated from the righteous Fa, it is nothing.
When the evil forces discovered that practitioners were broadcasting the
truth-clarifying programs, they were burning with anxiety, but they could do
nothing to interrupt the signal. It is evident even in this dimension of the
human world that the remaining energy of the evil forces is too weak to stop
practitioners from clarifying the truth. This was further illustrated by the
incident of Guangzhou Daily carrying Teacher's poems.
Teacher says in "The Effect of Righteous Thoughts," "These
countless foreign systems formed tens of millions of dimensional segments in the
Three Realms, which became different domains of power, thereby hiding many evil
beings. Some beings and objects have even been segmented into many layers,
almost with particles of each layer segmented into a separate layer. The Three
Realms had countless dimensions to begin with. Now tens of millions of countless
dimensions like this have been added. This has made the Fa-rectification more
difficult and the situation more complicated. Sometimes the evil beings were
clearly eliminated when Dafa disciples sent forth righteous thoughts, but then
they were found to still exist in some of the segments and were continuing to do
bad things. So, this is why some evil beings can be eliminated in one shot when
Dafa disciples send forth righteous thoughts, while others can't be eliminated
easily in one shot and it even takes many times to eliminate them. This is the
case for those chief evil ones in Mainland China." Now I understand why
Teacher says the following words in Explaining the Content of Falun Dafa,
"Throughout the entire course of your cultivation there will be the
question of how you fundamentally understand the Fa and whether you can be
steadfast-you'll be tested on whether you are steadfast in the Fa all the way
until the last step of your cultivation."
During the process of the evil being eliminated layer after layer in
different dimensions and getting ever closer to the surface dimension of this
human world, the evil's actual energy becomes less and less, while its
superficial appearance is inevitably more and more rampant. This phenomenon will
continue until the moment when the Fa rectifies the human world. Therefore the
test for Dafa disciples will also last until the end of cultivation. We shall
not be deceived or confused by the current rampant appearance of the evil, for
it is merely a reflection of the evil's final, desperate acts.
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