Solidifying Our Understandings of the Fa and Eliminating Interference from Human Notions
By a Practitioner from China
(Clearwisdom.net) I have found that some fellow practitioners, during the Fa-rectification period, are unable to
view things entirely based on the Fa. Some of us have unintentionally mixed experiences, lessons,
mindsets, and notions that we have accumulated from thousands of years of human history into our Fa-rectification
cultivation. When faced with persecution, some practitioners completely lose their righteous
enlightenment from their original nature. They view the persecution with their human side. If they
don't correct this view, they will be unable to fully step out of humanness and the restrictions of
human notions. They will suffer long-term tribulations, continually stagnating in a state of
passivity and humanness. The following are some common misunderstandings. Some practitioners talk about "persecution by the evil." However, they don't fully
understand what "persecution by the evil" really means. Ordinary people are just puppets
being manipulated by the old evil forces. Low-level beings within the Three Realms have directed
ordinary people to persecute Falun Dafa practitioners. The ordinary people themselves are incapable
of doing this. Teacher said, "An everyday person is feeble before a cultivator. Today's humans have in fact had
tribulations arranged for them by this system of the old forces at different levels, and humans have
been controlled by the old forces at different levels. This is why they've become so forceful, why
they dare to do things to cultivators, and why they dare to be disrespectful to Dafa." (Teaching
the Fa at the Washington, D.C. International Fa Conference) So although it appears to be the vicious police or evil people who try to hurt us, actually it is
the evil beings behind them. A fellow practitioner asked me whether I was being monitored. I answered, "Ordinary people's
monitoring us is just a superficial manifestation. It is actually the evil beings in other
dimensions that monitor our words and actions all the time. A practitioner will be persecuted if he
or she has ordinary people's attachments. It is just like ordinary people getting ill. Karma or an
ordinary person's attachments are the root causes of the illness. You will not get ill if you don't
have sickness karma and ordinary person's attachments." The excuse used by the old evil forces to persecute us is that we have omissions in our hearts
instead of our doing things incorrectly. Practitioners are persecuted not because they left
fingerprints behind or because they were monitored. Teacher told us, "Everything that the evil
has done has actually targeted the attachments and fears that you have not let go of." (Eliminate
Your Last Attachment(s)) Teacher also said, "My only concern is that Dafa disciples
themselves won't be firm inside; when there's some kind of attachment, some kind of fear, or what
not, then the old forces see it and take advantage of the omissions and persecute them." (Touring
North America to Teach the Fa) Teacher told us to learn the Fa well. "The best way to deal
with this situation is for Dafa disciples to walk their paths righteously, to try their best not to
let the evil or the old forces take advantage of their gaps, and to solidify their righteous
thoughts." (Teaching the Fa at the 2002 Fa Conference in Boston) Teacher also said,
"In practicing cultivation of our school, you will not have any problems as long as you can
conduct your xinxing well, since one righteous mind can subdue one hundred evils." (Lecture
Three in Zhuan Falun) "When you conduct yourselves righteously Master can do anything for
you." (Touring North America to Teach the Fa) So whether a practitioner will be
persecuted or not doesn't depend simply on how many safety precautions he or she has taken. I don't mean that we should ignore safety concerns among everyday people, since we need to be
rational. I am talking about the basis on which we are viewing this safety issue. It is not enough
to just follow everyday people's safety guidelines. The key is that we are Falun Dafa practitioners.
We are not a group of people working in the underground. Teacher wants our hearts to be good. When
our hearts are correctly positioned, everything will turn out well. The Fa that Teacher has taught to us is the truth of the universe, while all the superficial
manifestations in this world are just illusions. It will be extremely difficult to pass the tests we
are given if we fail to see the truth of the persecution based on the Fa. Then we will be unable to
join the Fa-rectification and Fa-rectification cultivation. There are few evil beings left. They can only seek to ruin the Fa in some small areas. They run
away whenever a practitioner holds his palm erect. So how can they dare to stay close to
practitioners? It is because those practitioners analyze problems using an ordinary person's
notions. They only see the superficial aspect of the persecution. Thus the evil finds excuses to
persecute them. A few days ago, an evil policeman called a few fellow practitioners and ordered them to report to
the local police station. The practitioners had an attachment. They were afraid that they would be
arrested and tortured, so they left home and went from place to place. They later gathered together
and realized that Fa-rectification Dafa disciples are as righteous gods. They said, "We are
here to eliminate the evil. How can we be scared away by the evil? They should be afraid of us. They
would be scared away if they see us hold our palms erect. We should not have left home. We should go
back." So they went home. Sure enough, the evil did not dare to hurt them after they returned.
If we viewed the situation using an ordinary person's logic, we would expect them to be arrested on
their return. During Fa-rectification cultivation, we need to study the Fa as much as possible. We need to
remember the Fa as much as possible, so that we will always be solidifying our understanding of the
Fa principles. We should recognize and get rid of any interference from ordinary people's notions,
and take the Fa as our guide. We need to talk about the Fa based on the Fa and understand the Fa
from the Fa. Each and every thought should be a righteous thought coming from the Fa. Only by doing
this, can we become diamond-like in our unwavering determination. Only in this way can we save
sentient beings and assist Teacher in rectifying the Fa without obstruction. The above are some of my personal understandings. Please kindly correct me if I have said
anything inappropriate.
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