Use the Evil's Lies and Slander to Find Our Own Fundamental Attachments
Written by Shan Guo
June 12, 2003 (Clearwisdom.net) Recently the Xinhua News Agency again published an absurd venom-filled
commentary that used SARS to demonize and attack Falun Gong. Furthermore, it
produced propaganda distorting and quoting out of context Teacher' new lectures.
Here I'd like to talk about some problems that probably exist in our
cultivation. I remember when the persecution of Falun Gong just began in 1999, many of the
lies fabricated by the evil were directly aimed at some of the attachments and
confusion common to Dafa practitioners at the time. As pointed out by Teacher in
"Towards Consummation" (Essentials for Further Advancement II): "Do you know that one of the biggest excuses the old evil forces use at
present to persecute Dafa is that your fundamental attachments remain
concealed? So in order to identify those people, the tribulations have been
made more severe...Whatever you're attached to, they have evil ones concoct
lies about that." Therefore, are the recent fabrications the consequence of the continued
presence of related attachments still dwelling in the minds of a significant
number of Dafa practitioners? For instance, is it because a significant number
of Dafa practitioners actually very much rely on and worship the experts and the
scientific theories of everyday people, which they think are much easier to
explain and more readily accepted by the everyday people than the truth of Dafa?
Are they then attached to explaining such scientific theories as western
medicine's immunology and the genetic expression of polymorphic neutrophils
etc.? When I saw that much of the propaganda was aimed at people's most susceptible
emotions, I thought to myself: Was this because a significant number of us Dafa
practitioners hadn't yet thoroughly understood these human emotions from the Fa
and let go of them that the evil had this chance to exploit? If so, the Dafa
practitioners who have encountered, heard and witnessed these phenomena, should
all be mindful and pay serious attention. Teacher has recently explicitly
pointed out: "When the persecution first began, the students in Mainland China and
outside the Mainland alike indeed didn't do well with a lot of things. When
they didn't do well at that time, you could say that they lacked experience,
or hadn't ever run into something like that, or didn't know what to do. But in
a flash a few years have passed, and you can't say that anymore. And you know
clearly and rationally how to handle those things. So you should do even
better, and what happened in the past shouldn't keep occurring." (draft
version of "Lecturing on and explaining the Fa at the Metropolitan New York
Fa Conference") It has been nearly 3 years since "Towards Consummation" was
published. We should calmly examine what our fundamental attachments were, and
determine whether we have rooted them out in the course of our cultivation or if
we are still attached to pursuing what we yearned for driven by these notions. Of course, Teacher has also said, "When interference comes up it's usually caused by those old forces. Then
when we do everything righteously, should we expect there to be no
interference? It can only reduce a lot of the losses. And that's because your
gaps would be taken advantage of due to the fact that you yourselves still do
have undetectable elements, and the old forces insist on forcing in what they
want to do." (draft version of, "Explaining the Fa During the 2003 Lantern
Festival at the U.S. West Fa Conference") In conclusion, I think now that the evil has fabricated these kinds of lies,
which must have poisoned sentient beings to a certain extent, we must promptly
clarify the facts in a timely manner. At the same time, we should make use of
this reminder, even though it came in the form of vicious lies, to reflect and
root out as much as possible our deeply imbedded and not easily detectable
fundamental attachments, and do better and better in the final and critical
stage of Fa-rectification.
Chinese version available at
http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2003/6/12/52136.html
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