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Stop Destroying Yourselves and Ruining Others; Do not be Used by Secret Agents Warning and Wake-up Call to Practitioners in Beijing and Other Parts of China Who Have Strong Ordinary People's Attachments
(Clearwisdom.net) Recently, more than ten practitioners' attachments were
taken advantage of by secret agents, and they established a so-called
"temple" in an apartment near a university in Beijing, and they made
up a nice sounding claim of helping people to realize their predestined
relationships. They put up several Buddha and Bodhisattva statues in the
apartment and took turns watching the statues. They told practitioners and
everyone who believed in Buddha to bow down and kowtow to these statues. They
claimed that an alternate body of Master told his family members to do this,
some claimed that Master's sister saw things with her celestial eye and had
Master's daughter from a previous life do this, and some claimed that Master's
daughter is personally taking charge of this issue, so on, so forth. This
affected some local practitioners because of their attachments. It has been
learned that there are practitioners visiting the apartment and bowing down to
the statues on a daily basis, especially during the first and fifteenth of the
lunar month. Encouraged by secret agents, some practitioners are planning to
make an official seal, claiming that it is to be used during the "transfer
of power after the redress." They also asked for money from practitioners
who went to visit. So far it is known that there have been cases of
practitioners paying between 20,000 to 30,000 Yuan, and some paying more than
100,000 Yuan. In these past few years, many Dafa disciples around the world have
lived very frugal lives in order to save money to expose the evil and stop the
persecution, meanwhile, these practitioners are obsessively and misguidedly
spending money on things that have to do with political power. Genuinely
cultivating Dafa disciples would know at a glance that the above-described words
and actions are blatantly violating Dafa's requirements for Dafa disciples, and
they are a severe case of misleading the public and undermining the Fa. During the past few years of persecution, Master's whole family has moved to
North America to continue cultivating. In order to prevent some practitioners
with strong ordinary people's attachments from following others' words instead
of regarding the Fa as the teacher, Master's family had stopped communication
with anyone in Mainland China a long time ago. However, because a group of
practitioners have not gotten rid of their ordinary people's mentalities even
after a long time, they have served as easy targets for secret agents who try to
manipulate practitioners and spread deception among practitioners. They are
attached to their human feelings for Master, want to show off that they have
better access to information than others, are attached to selfishness--their
attachments of fear, worshipping of supernormal abilities, and attachments to
money and material wealth and reputation are still there--they always want to
create something new or take a shortcut, everything except solidly following
Master's requirement to do well in the "Three Things". Haven't secret agents
caused us enough huge losses and painful lessons in these past few years? Why
didn't these practitioners admonish themselves when they saw those types of
things? Do they really know what they are actually doing, and are they being
responsible to themselves and others? Do they regard Dafa as the top priority in
their hearts? Or are they more interested in things in ordinary society? Come to
your senses! The secret agents who interfere with and undermine cultivation will go down
to hell for sure and receive karmic retribution in this lifetime; however,
whenever something like this happens, for all of the practitioners who were
involved, all of you bear undeniable, major responsibilities. You should
immediately let go of the attachment to self, and solemnly reflect on this issue
and look at yourselves. The Fa has a higher requirement for Fa rectification
period Dafa disciples than during the period of individual cultivation. We can
only continue to improve when we do well in all three of the things that Master
requires of us, otherwise instead of improving, we will drop in level.
Clarifying the truth and saving the world's people is the historic mission of Fa
rectification period Dafa disciples. Saving people is something that builds up
an immeasurable amount of virtue, and by the same principle, ruining a person,
in particular a practitioner who has already attained the Fa and begun
cultivation, will result in an incredibly enormous amount of karma. For the sake
of attachments to something among ordinary people, you are moved by these things
today and seeking something else tomorrow--doing anything but fulfilling
Master's requirement of "letting go of human attachments"--are these
the state of mind, words, and actions of genuinely cultivating disciples? Your
attaining the Fa was not a recent thing, and as Fa rectification of the human
world is imminent, you still don't know the reason for cultivating in Dafa and
how to cultivate! If you still don't awaken, you will not only lose the last
opportunity to make up for your actions and cultivate your way back, you will
also interfere with and ruin even more practitioners and people with predestined
relationships. No being can afford to pay for those grave consequences. Have you
stopped to think about this calmly and clearly? Master has explicitly told us in his 1996 scripture "Cultivation
Practice is Not Politics" (Essentials for Further Advancement),
"Other than doing a good job with his work, a cultivator will not be
interested in politics or political power of any sort; failing this, he
absolutely isn't my disciple." "Never get involved in politics,"
"Never get involved in politics, nor interfere with state affairs. Truly
cultivate and become benevolent. Keep Dafa pure, unchanged, and indestructible
like diamond, and it will thereby exist forever" ("Dafa Will Forever
be Pure Like Diamond", Essentials for Further Advancement).
Restoring Dafa's reputation or not is a matter of ordinary people positioning
themselves in facing the truth, and not something that cultivators should be
attached to. We simply do well in the Three Things Master requires of us with a
persistent, solid and pure mind. (The three things are studying the Fa and
improving our character, clarifying the truth to save the world's people, and
sending forth righteous thoughts to eliminate the evil.) Worldly power has
nothing to do with Dafa cultivation, so why should you worry about any so-called
"transfer of power"? Once the redress actually happens, the
persecution will end and everyone's position will be fixed. With this type of
character, where will you end up? In the past few years, the cultivation
environment in Beijing has been severely disrupted. Many practitioners in
Beijing have strong ordinary people's mentalities and fears, which is one of the
main reasons why the Fa rectification situation in Beijing is lagging behind
many other regions. In the present situation and at the center of the evil, you
go to the same place one after another to so-called "realize predestined
relationships," yet the police don't step in to interfere. Do you really
think that this is because you're more "vigilant" than everyone else?
Or is it because what you are doing is not upright, and those evil people are
using you to fulfill their insidious plans? The remaining elements of the old
forces and the dark minions and rotten demons they have arranged will continue
to do wicked things up until the last instant when they are completely
disintegrated, and their main persecution targets are precisely practitioners
who still have strong ordinary people's attachments. Those special agents are
creating pit traps for you--are you so willing to leap into them? Do you really
think that once an ordinary person kowtows to a Buddha or Bodhisattva, he can
enter the next historic period without understanding the truth? Can you decide
on the standard that Fa-rectification has established for all beings? No matter who it is, everyone came for the Fa. Some came to play a positive
role, and there are also some who the old forces arranged to play negative
roles. Master has suffered countless hardships and is giving people the
benevolence and the chance that have never existed before in history, giving the
greatest effort to save all sentient beings, including those who play positive
roles and those who were arranged to play negative roles. But in the end, how
each person walks his or her own path, whether or not they will be saved, and
what their final result will be--these can only be decided by each person's own
choices and actions. Whether a person can be responsible for himself during this
fleeting historic moment and whether he truly wants to be saved is a decision
that has to be made by each being through his own rational thinking. Becoming a
demon that undermines the Fa is also a choice--it is a tragic and extremely
stupid choice, as it means the complete negation and destruction of that being
itself. Anyone, no matter who he thinks he was or who other people have told him he
was in the past, if they can't cultivate well by taking the Fa as teacher in
this life while Master is teaching Dafa, he will forever lose this opportunity
to return to their true original selves. If they ruin other practitioners and
ordinary people while destroying themselves, they will have to shoulder the
enormous sin and karma created through their own actions. There is a proverb
among ordinary people, "One misstep turns into an eternity of regret;
looking back, ten thousand mountains have already gone by." The old forces
have created barrier after barrier for Fa rectification period Dafa disciples to
mislead practitioners and cause them to fail midway, in order to prove that they
are "right" and to get what they want through Fa rectification. The
path that we can take is very narrow, but Master has already pointed out the
only righteous path for us. Fa rectification period Dafa disciples must walk the
path righteously, and only through walking the path righteously will we reach
Consummation and enter the future. Awaken! Don't let your mind run wild anymore,
and put your mind and energy into truly doing the three things well in
accordance to the Fa's requirements! Since this incident took place in Beijing, it is hoped that all Dafa
disciples in Beijing will really look at themselves according to the
requirements in Master's scriptures and look for shortcomings in their character
and actions, give up ordinary people's mentalities and forge ahead diligently,
and at the same time, everyone please send forth righteous thoughts a lot to
directly cleanse themselves, cleanse the environment, and eliminate the
interference. Encountering difficulties during truth clarification will be
unavoidable. The environment is good in some other regions because the local
practitioners established such an environment together amidst hardship over the
years. Only by walking the path righteously amidst tribulations can Fa
rectification period Dafa disciples establish mighty virtue and go towards
Consummation--there are no shortcuts in cultivation. Let us establish a good
environment for cultivation and truth clarification together by relying on each
person's righteous thoughts and righteous actions in studying the Fa well,
sending forth righteous thoughts well, and clarifying the truth well, and seize
our time to save the world's people. Clearwisdom Editors Original Chinese written on December 8, 2004 Posting date: 12/13/2004 |