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Three Points of Understanding Regarding Our Trip to Iceland By a practitioner in Canada
(Clearwisdom.net)
1. Getting Rid of Interference, Unwaveringly Strengthening Righteous Thoughts
Ever since the moment I decided to go to Iceland to send forth righteous
thoughts in close proximity, various tests came, one after another. Some
tribulations were obvious, while others were difficult to detect. Only when the
great importance of using righteous thoughts to eliminate the evil factors in
other dimensions that manipulate the head of evil is truly understood from
Fa-principles, can one not be confused by any interfering superficial phenomena.
First, I met with interference coming from thought karma. For a few days, a
thought kept lingering on my mind: "Look at yourself, sometimes you can't
even guarantee that you'll do the global, four times daily sending forth
righteous thoughts. Could you display your capability to the full extent in
Iceland? If your state of mind is not good at that time, you may as well send
forth righteous in front of the local Chinese Consulate." These types of
self-doubting thoughts continued to flood me. I realized that my basic
understanding about the trip to Iceland needed a breakthrough. Through studying
the Fa with a calm mind, I discovered that this interference was originating
from selfishness. Namely, I was attached to my own cultivation state, rather
than truly considering the trip to Iceland from the needs of the
Fa-rectification progress, or the angle of being responsible for all positive
elements in the cosmos. As soon as I understood, from the Fa, that fulfilling
the needs of the Fa-rectification progress is a sacred, duty-bound
responsibility of Dafa practitioners, this interference disappeared instantly.
Following this was applying for a visa. After receiving my information, the
clerk told me: "Since your time of applying for a visa is so pressing, we
cannot guarantee you a visa before your prescheduled departing time (June 10th)."
I replied with a smile: "To tell you the truth, I've already purchased a
plane ticket for June 10th. I believe that you will surely approve my
visa." Just as I expected, I got my visa the next morning.
When I told my husband about my plan of going to Iceland, as if begging me,
he said: "Iceland is so far away-- just don't go. Jiang will be visiting
the US in the next half year. You can go then, for I have nothing against this.
Just don't go this time. This way, you can still read Zhuan Falun to me
every day, and you can also teach me the exercises." This statement made by
my husband, who is not a practitioner, was really not a small test for me.
Luckily my head was clear at that time, so I instantly rejected the thought of
"waiting". Meanwhile, I realized that my attachment to my husband's
obtaining the Fa to cultivate was being used as a test. Even though my husband
didn't understand this completely, he still saw me off and gave me a ride when I
left for the trip.
The day before I left, I heard a practitioner telling me over the phone:
"You guys probably won't be able to enter Iceland. Icelandic Consulates in
some areas were already rejecting issuing visas. Those who had gotten visas will
be facing the possibility of being barred from entering Iceland." I said to
the practitioner: "No matter what news you read or hear, don't ever be
affected by it. Just firm up your one thought: as a practitioner following
Teacher's Fa-rectification path, only what Teacher says counts. Not only will we
be able to enter, also not one single person will be left out from entering the
country."
2. Omission in Understanding Created Loopholes for the Evil; Elevating
as One Whole Body Enabled Eventual Entering through Customs
Before we left, in the discussion among practitioners, in our minds, we
seemed to have tacitly acknowledged the obstacles that we were about to face
upon entering Iceland. We even contemplated with human notions how we would deal
with them while answering questions. Everyone seemed to think that entering
Iceland was the immediate priority, and other issues should be avoided as much
as possible. Dafa practitioners' tacit acknowledgement of the obstacles that we
were about to face, as well as our anxious intention to pass into Iceland
quickly, created loopholes for the evil to exploit.
When we made flight connections in Boston, under pressure by the Chinese
Government, the Icelandic judicial department and Iceland Airline respectively
gave each passenger an open letter. The limited police force in Iceland, the
guarantee for public safety, and etc., were used as excuses to unreasonably
request passengers to sign a document to guarantee that any passenger would not
participate in any protest and demonstration during Jiang's visit in Iceland. We
were also informed that if we refused to sign the document, we would not be
allowed to board the airplane.
At the time, since everyone was afraid of encountering obstacles, and hoping
to enter Iceland as soon as possible, many practitioners tried to pass the test
with human cleverness. We all thought that our entering Iceland was for sending
forth righteous thoughts and we didn't plan on protesting and demonstrating to
begin with. Some practitioners realized that they should clarify the truth to
airline workers. However, feeling that it would be difficult for the airline
company to make any changes in such a short time (insufficient righteous
thoughts), even though practitioners thought something was not right, we still
all signed our names on the relevant documents. Afterwards, in our conversation
with a lawyer, we understood that Iceland Airline had no right to ask passengers
to sign any papers at all. This kind of action not only violates business
ethics, it also violates the law.
Looking back, in fact, it's not that the contents of the signed paper
matters-- what matters is that we should not have cooperated with or
acknowledged this kind of request that didn't even comply with human legal law.
Practitioners' tacit acknowledgement of the evil's arrangement had increased the
difficulty of entering Iceland.
Once we arrived at Icelandic customs, our passports were unjustly taken away
by the police, after which we were interrogated one by one. Then we were all
taken to a closed, isolated school and guarded by the police, and they also
claimed that we would be repatriated. Realizing the existence of loopholes in
our xinxing, we started group Fa-study, group practice and sending forth
righteous thoughts. We explained the true situation to the police, media,
lawyers, American Consulate officials in Iceland, officials of the Canadian
Consulate in Iceland, school staff and local people who came to support us.
After several rounds of heart-shaking, soul-stirring big confrontations in
another dimension, between the righteous and the evil, late that night the chief
of police of the airport personally delivered our passports back to each and
every one of us. He took pictures with us and shook hands with us, and then he
sent practitioners off all the way to the town on a big bus.
As a matter of fact, in the Fa, Teacher has clearly told practitioners the
three big things that Dafa disciples need to do at present: study the Fa,
clarify the truth and send forth righteous thoughts. We cannot neglect any one
of them. Wherever we encounter an obstacle, that is the place where we need to
clarify the truth. Moreover, clarifying the truth cannot be obstructed by the
old forces. The key to overcoming interference is practitioners' state of mind.
While participating in Fa-rectification activities, practitioners should not be
trapped by everyday people's logical deductions and various assumptions. When
practitioners' xinxing reaches the level that they are supposed to reach
as a whole, and do things without pursuing, Dafa will naturally display its
boundless power.
3. Constant Righteous Thoughts
That night, after checking into a hotel in Reykjavik, I started to meditate
and was completely in a wonderful, empty and light state, not feeling my body's
existence in this dimension. Beyond the space of a small cosmos of boundless
length and breadth is the boundless Dafa of truthfulness-compassion-forbearance.
I felt the sacred solemnity of life being melted into the Fa and Teacher's
infinite grace. Quietly, with tears flowing, what I broke through were levels
after levels of heavens. Being tranquil, I was without a shred of distracting
thoughts. After doing heshi and coming out of ding, I really
understood this: We always said that we could give up everything and sacrifice
everything for Dafa, but in fact, we are the ones who truly gain. Our lives, and
everything we have was originally granted to us by Dafa's merciful creation.
We started to send forth righteous thoughts every hour or every half hour.
During the break, we studied the Fa, practiced the exercises and kept purifying
ourselves. After communicating with the police, we were permitted to send forth
righteous thoughts at a location twenty meters away from a road where the head
of evil would be passing. When we were about to sit down, the police let us
advance another twenty meters from another direction. While sending forth
righteous thoughts, I felt strong, pure energy flying out of my head and my
palm.
On the day when Jiang was leaving Iceland, Dafa practitioners applied for a
permit to a location where he would be passing. The police marked an area with
yellow lines and requested practitioners to stay in that restricted area.
Several police cars unreasonably blocked an intersection to prevent
practitioners from entering the airport before Jiang took off. As if we had
prior agreement, two American practitioners and I wanted to break through this
unreasonable restriction. With strong righteous thoughts in practitioners'
minds, after several attempts, a police officer allowed us to enter the airport.
After we broke through this critical point, our mentality of zealotry was
triggered and we failed to maintain righteous thoughts. Losing our righteous
thoughts for one moment, we saw the police chief's car driving toward us, and we
were forced to leave the airport, tailgated by the police.
We realized where the problem lay and understood the key of constantly
maintaining righteous thoughts and not being moved by any single shred of human
thought. We pleaded with Teacher to give practitioners another chance. Teacher
saw our firmness, so on our way out of the airport, we came upon Jiang's convoy
face to face. Coincidentally, a police car stopped in front of our car at that
moment, helping us to extend our time of sending forth righteous thoughts in
close proximity.
I've gained numerous understandings from my trip to Iceland and I cannot
describe them all. Our Teacher, who treasures us more than we treasure
ourselves, is still waiting for all practitioners to really step forward from
humanness and return to the position where our lives originated. Beneath this
infinite grace, what reason do practitioners have to not strive forward, to not
cultivate steadfastly, and to not fulfill our sacred vows of assisting Teacher
in rectifying the Fa with full confidence?
Posting date: 7/2/2002 |