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Falun Dafa Practitioners Also Need to Uphold Their Human Living Environment
A Dafa practitioner in China (Clearwisdom.net) During the past several years, many Falun Dafa
practitioners in mainland China have been severely persecuted, and many have
experienced enormous losses. Some lost money through extortion, some were
deprived of work, some were forced to leave home, and some were discriminated
against at their workplace and were unable to receive the benefits that they
deserved. For these things, some practitioners passively forbear, and some think
practitioners should not be attached to money and property, thus letting it be.
We should look at this issue from the perspective of Fa-rectification. This is
part of the persecution arranged by the old forces. Dafa disciples should oppose
it, and maintain a basic human living environment. In "Fa-Rectification and Cultivation" (Essentials for Further
Advancement II), Teacher said, "During the Fa-rectification, Dafa disciples have a
different situation from when personal cultivation was done in the past. In
the face of the groundless harming, in the face of the persecution of Dafa,
and in the face of the injustice forced upon us, we cannot handle things or
categorically accept things as before in personal cultivation, because Dafa
disciples are now in the Fa-rectification period. If a problem isn't caused by
our own attachments or mistakes, then it must be that the evil is interfering
or doing bad things." Having a normal job and life in the everyday society while cultivating, is a
way left by Teacher for cultivators. Practitioners should follow this path.
After the persecution started, many practitioners' regular work and life were
affected, and some even lost their jobs. For a practitioner as an individual,
this is interference to personal cultivation and validation of the Fa. If many
practitioners have this problem, it is an attack targeting Falun Dafa as a whole
and the Fa-rectification. If a practitioner is unable to have a normal job or
life, or experiences enormous financial loss, it can be hard for an everyday
person to understand it, which might lead to family conflicts. This is an issue
of failing to harmonize well in the level of everyday society. Moreover, the Fa-rectification
period is different from ordinary cultivation. If more practitioners were unable
to have a normal work or life, not only are they unable to harmonize at the
level of ordinary society, but it also affects their validating the Fa and
saving sentient beings. If we are unable to meet basic life requirements and
have to exhaust ourselves every day to make a living, how could we have more
energy and more time to validate the Fa? Right now, preparing
truth-clarification materials and saving sentient beings requires some financial
input. If all practitioners were forced into financial difficulty, or deprived
of their basic human living environment, they would have no spare money to do
things to validate the Fa. The fact that Jiang's regime has a policy of
"bankrupting [practitioners] financially" indicates this. Furthermore,
the persecution is sustained monetarily. After extorting money from
practitioners, the police use it as bonus money for their persecution work, or
to further the persecution. Zhangshi Labor Camp in Shenyang City, Liaoning
Province extorted money from practitioners in the name of "tuition"
for the Zhangshi Brainwashing Center. Part of the money was used to purchase
high-voltage electric batons to torture practitioners with. Therefore, sometimes
when we do not safeguard our basic human living conditions, we may actually help
those responsible for the persecution, and foster their bad deeds. When practitioners' human living conditions are damaged, it also presents a
negative image to everyday people. Thus it could negatively affect
truth-clarification and saving sentient beings. Most people nowadays are
pursuing material interests, and many do not know the true wonderfulness of
Falun Dafa and the benefits it offers in body and mind. Instead, they only see
that practicing Falun Dafa results in persecution, suppression, being arrested
and detained, financial loss, or deprivation of job. In this way, even if they
could come to know that the persecution is wrong, they could still have a
negative impression of Falun Dafa or stay away--since they believe that
practicing Falun Dafa often leads to "trouble." Teacher has said that cultivation directly targets the human heart; we do not
lose anything materially. Teacher also repeatedly told us to maximally conform
to the everyday society. Of course, under the current situation, it is not
unusual for some practitioners to experience certain financial losses or lose
their jobs. When this occurs to more practitioners, however, it means there is
something wrong with us. Practicing Falun Dafa will bring wonderfulness; how
come there is loss? Why are we experiencing unfair treatment? Could it be that
we condone evil and agree with the persecution? Therefore, Dafa practitioners
need to safeguard the human living condition, and completely oppose the old
forces' persecution. The old forces' persecution of Dafa practitioners can be explicitly seen in
terms of work. Many practitioners are unable to have a regular life, or have
been removed from their original posts. This is especially the case for some
practitioners who have been to Beijing, detained and sent to labor camps, and
who are discriminated against in terms of their salary. Practitioners should
request a reasonable job and salary. This also creates opportunities to clarify
the truth to more government officers. Practitioners should maintain their legitimate financial rights. However, we
cannot be attached to material gain or money, nor could we strongly pursue the
result. A practitioner may also have financial debts, and some things that were
lost may not have belonged to us in the first place. In fact, after experiencing
such an enormous tribulation, we should not be too attached to money. There is
no difference between financial gain and loss, since everything was given by the
Fa. The maintaining of legitimate rights is not to satisfy our personal desire,
but to oppose the persecution and validate the Fa. While part of the Dafa
disciples' income should be used to meet daily needs, more of it should be used
to validate the Fa. October 25, 2004
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