Reflections on the Relentless Brainwashing Sessions Held in the Huludao Region
(Clearwisdom.net) The authorities in the Huludao area have
continuously and regularly conducted brainwashing classes for quite a long time.
Every now and then they abduct a new group of practitioners to send to their
brainwashing class and attempt to force practitioners to give up their practice. Teacher says: "The students in regions that have been severely persecuted, or in
places that have been seriously damaged, should really think about it: what's
really going on?" (From "Teaching and Explaining the Fa at the Metropolitan New York
Fa Conference") Reflecting inwards, it may seem that we have made progress along the path of
Fa-rectification and that we have made improvements. If this is true, why have
we failed to make a breakthrough in this regard? I would like to take this occasion to present my preliminary analysis of what
causes this problem. I hope that it will inspire everyone to reflect on this
issue so that we can improve together and create better conditions for Fa-rectification
in our area. 1. Insufficient Communication and Failing to Strive Forward Together Judging from the overall situation in our area, practitioners who have
advanced and progressed well are few in number among all those who have obtained
the Fa. On the other hand, there are still quite a number of practitioners who
are lagging behind in their understanding of Fa-rectification and who have not
kept up with the progress of Fa-rectification. What Teacher wants is "striving forward together" and
"improving ourselves together". I personally think that the progress
of Fa-rectification relies on the state of practitioners as a whole, instead of
the diligence of a small group of practitioners. I don't know if anyone has noticed a recent phenomenon: Practitioners who
have been harassed or kidnapped for persecution are mostly those who have just
stepped forward or who have not been so diligent. We have failed to "strive
forward together" which is exactly where we have not done well. Practitioners who are not as advanced should, of course, work hard to catch
up. Practitioners who have done relatively better should take on even more
responsibilities, and reach out and give practitioners who have failed to keep
up a helping hand. We are often busy distributing truth-clarification material,
when in fact maybe we should share experiences more often and motivate everyone
to move up together. For example, certain practitioners who are not that well-educated may not
have a thorough understanding after reading a Minghui article, where a
face-to-face sharing of understanding might have an immediate effect. Every
practitioner wishes for improvement, it's only that we haven't quite fulfilled
our responsibility in this respect and have not done well. Therefore the whole
body has been affected. Regarding the practitioners who stepped forward late, we should not think it
is good enough that they return to Fa-rectification cultivation and then we stop
talking or listening to them. We should have contact with them, show care for
their state of being and communicate with them. They may not be mature in many
areas and lack experience. In particular, they lack awareness or a clear
understanding of elements that interfere with Fa-study and striving forward. As
a result, they may be diligent for a while, and then slack off for some time
under the influence of interference. Evil influences often make their move while
they slack off. We should assume more responsibility with regard to this
problem. In terms of communication, we practitioners form one body. Therefore, we
should be able to communicate and share experiences without obstacles. Evil
interference prevents us from forming a cohesive body, communicating or sharing.
They separate us in other dimensions. In this dimension they use force and great
pressure to stop us from contacting each other. By taking the initiative to
contact each other, we are actually breaking the separation created by the evil.
Once we form an indestructible single body, the evil will no longer be capable
of making their move on individuals. The inability of those who were taken to brainwashing classes to resist the
evil is also a reflection of our inability to form one body well in our area. In
this case, gaps exist in other dimensions that we should have long eliminated
and broken through. Even if practitioners in brainwashing classes are detained
in solitary confinement, but we manage to eliminate partitions in other
dimensions, we can still form together as one body in the other dimensions. 2. Busy Doing Things While Neglecting Fa-study, Sending Righteous Thoughts
and Genuine Cultivation in Daily Life Some of the practitioners who were kidnapped recently have done very well at
clarifying the truth, but have not done the other two things so well, allowing
the evil to take advantage of their shortcomings. Teacher has talked about the
importance of Fa-study and sending forth righteous thoughts many times. Teacher
stresses their importance in almost every lecture, perhaps implying that we have
not been doing well all along. Regardless of how much work we have done, if we don't study the Fa, we are
simply completing a job like any ordinary person. Even if we have done a lot of
work, it doesn't mean that we have assimilated to the Fa. Genuine cultivation is also very important. After being
kidnapped, a fellow practitioner summed it up: The level of his Fa-study and
sending righteous thoughts seemed to be fine. However, he created a loophole by
falling to an ordinary person's level and getting into conflicts with his family
members and others. Recently when I studied Falun Gong, I came across the
following words: "Everyday people take insignificant friction and minor
problems really seriously. They live for their ego and tolerate nothing. They
will dare to do anything when they are angered to an unbearable point. Yet as
a practitioner you will find the things that people take seriously to be very,
very trivial--even too trivial--because your goal is extremely long-term and
far-reaching. You will live as long as this universe. Then think about those
things again: It doesn't matter if you have them or not. You can put them all
behind you when you think from a broader perspective." (Falun Gong) In fact, if our minds are on the Fa, personal tests and
tribulations will not affect our minds so much or appear to be so difficult to
pass. Another very important aspect is to read the articles on the Clearwisdom
website. One of the important cultivation forms Teacher has left us is the Fa-conference.
In addition, Teacher has many times affirmed the importance of the positive
guiding role of the Clearwisdom website. The Clearwisdom website is just like a
big Fa-conference and reading Clearwisdom articles is just like attending a Fa-conference
and listening to fellow practitioners' understandings. Fa-truths that we have
not enlightened to, fellow practitioners' touching righteous thoughts and
actions as well as experiences and lessons they have gained at a great price can
all enable us to better strive forward, and take fewer detours. Each article is
the result of a fellow practitioner's painstaking effort. By reading the
Clearwisdom articles carefully, we are demonstrating a correct state and realm
of humbleness, as well as showing respect to others. There is no excuse for not
taking it seriously. 3. Failing to Resist and Oppose the Evil Thoroughly There are still some people who, upon being abducted, lack righteous thoughts
and therefore are concerned with how it will affect their friends and relatives.
Other reasons for the persecution's escalation may include that practitioners
are scared that if they resist, their tormentors would be angry, or they may
have an attitude of indifference to the persecution. Every one of our righteous thoughts and every little bit of refusing to
cooperate, bit by bit, will eliminate the evil that persecutes us and accumulate
positive substances. Once these positive substances have accumulated somewhat,
we will certainly be able to break away with righteous thoughts. Of course, not
cooperating with the evil should come from the bottom of our hearts, and should
not simply be a superficial pretense, or it will not have any effect. 4. After a Brainwashing Class Started, Practitioners Outside Did Not
Strengthen Their Righteous Thoughts Enough Upon hearing that a brainwashing class is about to start, everyone does their
best to send righteous thoughts. However, once the class has actually started,
practitioners stopped taking this task seriously. In this case, the real culprit
is actually the selfish mentality. Their sending of righteous thoughts was
mainly for their own good. Therefore, once they felt that they were safe, their
sending of righteous thoughts was not as good. From another perspective, does having avoided arrest mean that it is not our
problem? If we always send forth our best righteous thoughts to help others in a
brainwashing class, it would not be so easy to arrange brainwashing classes
continuously and regularly. If we persist on continually doing so in this
positive state, eventually brainwashing classes will close down. Wouldn't this
be a victory for every one of us? Our inability to consider others' things as
our own and to truly form one whole body is something our detractors hope to see
most, because they will be able to persecute us one by one, at will. Every time we try our best to consider fellow practitioners' things as ours,
this in itself is rectifying ourselves, cultivating ourselves and enabling
ourselves to gradually reach the standard of the new cosmos. In the end I would like to call on all Dafa practitioners to send powerful
righteous thoughts to completely eliminate everything that persecutes Dafa
practitioners and to help practitioners who have been illegally kidnapped to
break away with righteous thoughts. I hope fellow practitioners can correct and supplement the above
understandings.
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