Cultivating Anew
A Practitioner in China
(Clearwisdom.net) I am a practitioner who has collaborated with the evil. I am writing out my
experience and understanding to share with my fellow practitioners. It was my
fellow practitioners in the United States and Europe who called me because they
found my name on the Minghui website and told me that I had committed errors. I
eventually returned to my senses through Fa study and realized that my
attachments had been utilized by the evil. I immediately published on the
internet, my solemn declaration that I would make up the loss I had caused to
Dafa. While cultivating myself with firm determination, I tried to help other
practitioners who had collaborated with the evil. Some practitioners realized
their mistakes, but they thought that publishing solemn declarations was just a
formality and resuming practicing at home would be enough. I think it was
because of fear that they didn't write a solemn declaration. Our teacher has
given those of us who went astray a precious chance to start anew. How can we
not take it? In his article "Coercion Cannot Change People's Hearts",
Teacher stated, "When they return to their senses, they will immediately start doing
again what a Dafa student should do during this time, and, in the meantime,
will declare as null and void everything that they said and wrote when they
were not in their right minds due to intense persecution, and will declare
that they are determined in cultivation." I think neither of the two things can be spared: to start doing again what we
should do and to make a declaration, because it is a declaration to the evil of
our determination to correct our wrong-doings, a proof to the universe that we
are Dafa practitioners, and an exposure of evil rumors. Teacher said, "Don't we often refer to the conservation of matter? Whatever you do will
leave an image and some message in a specific space. When people have done
something, as they do with a wave of hand, it is all material existence. In
another space, it is conserved and will exist there forever." (Zhuan
Falun, Lecture Two, on "Supernormal Capability of Total
Recall") Many practitioners who have collaborated with the evil have written a lot of
words against Dafa. If you don't declare as null and void everything that you
have said and written against Dafa, how can they be destroyed? The Gods in the
universe are watching us. Here are the two enlightenments I obtained when I began to cultivate anew.
When I realized that I had gone astray, Teacher showed me in my dream that my
immortal infant (as tall as my chin) melted down, exactly as said in the Fa
lectures. I know that Teacher has borne so much for me. His profound compassion
is beyond words. I cultivated myself and clarified the truth with full effort.
Then, Teacher gave me another situation to enlighten to. I walked step by step
out of a dungeon, and Teacher held my hand. It was very tiring, but I followed
Teacher without saying a word. Suddenly, I was stuck in a black mess that
dragged me down. I shouted for Teacher out of nervousness. I knew that Teacher
was next to me. He didn't say anything. I finally calmed down after being
dragged down one floor. I said to myself, "I am a Dafa disciple in the Fa-rectification
period." I started reciting the Fa-rectification formulas. The black mess was
gone. I continued to follow Teacher, and eventually walked out of the dungeon.
Then Teacher called me by my name. He said, "You finally walked out!" And then,
Teacher sent me to a tall mountain. I realized that I finally walked out of
hell. During the time I re-joined Fa-rectification, my workplace held a
brainwashing class, and they asked me to help with brainwashing others. I told
them that I had started cultivation again. They wanted to send me to a
brainwashing class. Because of fear, I didn't realize that I should have
resisted the persecution, so I left my home. On hearing that I left home, my
company asked my husband to write a "guarantee" for me. I realized that this was
a form of evil persecution, and so was the situation of being forced out of my
home. I shouldn't have borne this persecution passively. I returned home, told
my husband not to write a "guarantee" and gave him an explanation. My husband
understood and agreed not to write it. My company finally gave up. They told me
that they wouldn't send me to the brainwashing classes and that my husband no
longer needed to write a "guarantee." Because of my resistance to the
persecution, my company agreed to drop my case. But I took this opportunity to
clarify the truth to my bosses. They returned to their senses. Teacher has made it clear that, "Wherever there's a problem, that is where you need to clarify the
truth and save people. Don't take a detour when you run into difficulties.
When you see something that does us harm, or when you see something blocking
our validating the Fa, don't take a detour -- you should face it, and
clarify the truth and save those beings." ("Teaching the Fa at the
Washington, D.C. Fa Conference", 2002). When I clarified the truth by boldly facing my company and my community [the
bottom layer of Chinese state machinery, responsible for collecting information
about the common people and passing on instructions from the government], I
found more freedom in my environment. People were willing to listen to me and it
became easier to clarify the truth. The above is my personal understanding at my level. Please kindly correct
anything inappropriate.
Chinese version available at
http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2002/9/15/36550.html
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