The Power of Righteous Belief
By a Dafa practitioner from China
(Clearwisdom.net) When the word "believing" is mentioned, every Dafa practitioner will firmly reply,
"I believe, otherwise, I would not persist in cultivation." There are, however, various
degrees of believing. My understanding is that at a critical moment, such as when conflicts or
tribulations arise, our first thought should be: "What does Dafa require of me at this moment?
What does Dafa tell me to do?" We should not fall into the ordinary human environment and
respond according to the ordinary people's notions, such as using cleverness, wit, or worldly
wisdom. In the following sections I provide some of my personal experiences. In "Rationality" Teacher said, "Some students suggest that the best practice of cultivation is to get placed into a
detention center or a labor camp, or get sentenced to jail in order to validate the Fa. Students, it
is not so. Stepping forward to validate the Fa using many different approaches is a magnificent act,
but this absolutely does not mean that you have to be arrested by the evil. If that were the case,
why would those students who step forward to make appeals demand the release of all those innocent
students who have been arrested, detained, sent to labor camps, or sentenced to jail? Getting
arrested is not the purpose. Validating Dafa is what's truly magnificent, and it is to validate Dafa
that you step forward. Since you step forward, you should try to succeed in validating the Fa--this
is the real purpose of stepping forward." 2. I was detained after making an appeal in Beijing in June 2000. When I was being body-searched
I thought of Teacher's words, "just by having your heart unaffected you will be able to handle
all situations." I was very calm. It was summer time and I had dressed lightly. I had a
hand-written copy of "Hongyin" and although the police looked all over, even inside my
bra, they did not find the poems. They put me in a chamber with Dafa practitioners that did not have
a copy of Hongyin. In the prison, doing the exercises meant being beaten and verbally abused; I was quite scared at
the beginning. In Zhuan Falun Teacher Li said, "To tell you the truth, the entire
cultivation process for a practitioner is one of constantly giving up human attachments." Since
I knew my fear was an attachment, I had to let go of it. After realizing this, I joined the group
exercises. Of all the practitioners who did the exercises, the jail guard beat only me. I knew it
was a test and I resisted it with determination. Those males and females relentlessly beat me with
rubber batons. But in the end, the female guard sprained her back muscles, and I didn't feel
anything. I knew that Teacher bore it for me. Teacher just wanted me to have righteous thoughts and
a righteous belief. I encountered several tests in the prison. I got along very well with other
inmates. I spread the Fa and clarified the truth to them. Some prison inmates started studying the
Fa and some of them saw Master Li's law body. After being kept in prison for 19 days, I was
released. The chief of the inmates said, "We shall miss you." This resulted from my
thought: Prison was not my cultivation environment, and I was not supposed to be here. At that time,
it was the eve of July 20 and nobody was allowed to be released before July 20. In addition,
according to a common rule, Dafa practitioners should be imprisoned at least one month. However, I
was not restrained by human notions. From then on, no policemen dared to harass me. 3. One summer evening in 2001, several Dafa practitioners gave out truth clarification materials
in the local communities. Our activities were reported. The next day, the chief of local police
found my husband and my husband's supervisor. The chief wanted to search our house. At that time, I
was at work. My husband told me what was happening over the phone. In our house, there were two big
pictures of Teacher and the Falun emblem, which can be seen as soon as you enter the house. My
husband wanted me to come home and hide them. It would be a pity if the police confiscated them. I
firmly told my husband, "They cannot enter our house." My home is only 5 minutes from my
workplace, but I didn't go home. At that time, I didn't have any human notions, such as I would be
reported, investigated, arrested, etc. I did not even have any thought of "if by any remote
chance..." I sent forth righteous thoughts at work, eliminating the evil in other dimensions.
As a result, they did not arrest me from work nor ransack my house. After that day, I was followed for several days. I went to work and came home as usual and the
police followed me all the way to my workplace. As long as I could see them, I sent forth righteous
thoughts. After several days, they left me alone. Afterwards, I met a policeman face to face on the
street. A young fellow in the local community said, "In our workplace, there are some Falun
Gong materials." The policeman stared at me, saying, "It's not my business." After
this, I told my husband that it was because of Teacher's Fa picture that the police did not come to
our house. Teacher was protecting us. If we had hidden the Fa picture, the result would be
different. My cultivation path has not always been smooth; sometimes I did well, but sometimes I didn't.
Reflecting back, as long as I stood in the Fa with righteous thoughts and righteous actions,
everything turned out well. No matter how big the tribulations are, they can be overcome. While
facing the evil, or in everyday life and at work, I have one thought: I am the most righteous. Even
though I did not do well in some occasions, I am getting better and better. The evil is not worthy
of testing me. I know that this thought comes from the Dafa and it is the most righteous, the best.
When it manifests in personal cultivation, it is truly believing in Teacher and truly believing in
Dafa. Most of my fellow practitioners may have had similar experiences as mine. My understanding in
some aspects might be restricted by my xinxing and cultivation level. Teacher has taught the Fa
quite clearly. I felt the power of true belief during the preceding experiences. In the future, I
hope that we will take every step well.
Chinese version available at
http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2002/7/24/33784.html
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