Gods, It is Time to Awaken (Part II)
By a practitioner from China
(Clearwisdom.net) (Continued)
Part 1: http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2004/5/27/48608.html
A miraculous story I got to know Lao Li in a forced labor camp. Since I had heard about the
"brainwashing" that goes on in the camp, I was quite concerned about
having any conversations with the guards. One day I was sitting beside Lao Li
during a meal, and he cheerfully told me, "Good news! Officer Zhang is
coming." Seeing my confusion, he explained the situation. After he arrived in the labor camp, he volunteered to talk to the police one
by one and clarify the truth to them. At the beginning, the police were very
pleased because it was just what they wanted, feeling they could use the
opportunity to "transform" him. However, Lao Li talked to them, from
shallow to deep, with easy and understandable words to explain the facts and
even about principles of the Fa. Later they realized Lao Li was
"transforming" them. Through the conversations, they could see
that Lao Li's words were very reasonable and felt that his arrest was wrong.
Finally the division leader realized that such conversations eventually might
end up with the guards practicing Falun Gong. Therefore, an informal rule was
made that there would be two people present during any conversations Lao Li had. Lao Li didn't have a chance to meet Officer Zhang and therefore could not
talk to him. Now the opportunity came. How could he miss it? Lao Li approached
Officer Zhang and said, "How are you, Officer Zhang? I would like to share
my thoughts with you. Can you make an appointment with me today?" According
to the regulations in the labor camp, the police should not refuse such an
invitation by an inmate. Officer Zhang agreed ambiguously. Apparently, he was
trying to avoid such a talk. It really opened my eyes. Usually practitioners would all be alert before
having any conversations with the guards. However, Lao Li was looking forward to
such an opportunity. The guards in the division tried to hide from Lao Li in
order to avoid talking to him. Then, in other dimensions, the divine side of Lao
Li must be just like what Master said, "It's like sharp swords shooting out
together from their mouths" (From Hong Yin II) and manifested
powerful supernormal abilities. Of course, some of the police on night duty
would call Lao Li into the office and have a long talk with him until they felt
satisfied. One time, an officer called Lao Li in and talked for more than five
hours until 2 am. Both Lao Li and the officer looked very pleased. I asked Lao Li whether he could explain everything clearly. Lao Li told me,
"If a question is hard to answer, I will tell them that I need more time to
think it over and will give them the answer later. Then I will come back to do
further thinking. Normally it is because I have something unclear on the Fa.
Dafa creates all. How can anything not be explained. As long as we are clear on
the principles of the Fa, everything can be explained." Therefore, through
clarifying the truth, Lao Li became more and more clearheaded on the Fa and more
and more steadfast on the Fa; fewer and fewer questions could stump him, even
temporarily. His abilities and wisdom became greater and greater. Later, Lao Li manifested his powerful supernormal abilities in clarifying the
truth during the "brainwashing class" that the forced labor camp held.
The "brainwashing class" used despicable means to torture the
practitioners. Many practitioners were confused by collaborators [Former
Falun Gong practitioners who have gone astray due to brainwashing and torture]
and compromised with them. Therefore, practitioners told each other,
"Do not talk to those collaborators." The evil then started using the
"hard" ways to torture practitioners. Practitioners suffered a lot.
Lao Li was taken there too. Nine days later, Lao Li returned from the "strictly-monitored"
group without being "transformed." He told me he had been questioned
over 100 times during the nine days. The collaborators had been switched several
times because the guards realized that they were very close to being
"transformed" by Lao Li and thus had to be sent away. The following story was told from that time. The police arranged a drug
offender who had a severe conflict with Lao Li before to monitor Lao Li.
Apparently they hoped he would give Lao Li a hard time. However, one day when
the police and the collaborators were not there, the drug offender told Lao Li
privately, "Be quick. Have a nap on the desk. I will watch for you."
In those days, Lao Li only had three or four hours sleep per day. He was helping
Lao Li! Since he had to accompany Lao Li every day and had a chance to listen to
him, he realized Lao Li was truly a good person. Only Dafa disciples have the
power to change people toward goodness and to frighten the evil. Several days later, Lao Li was sent to the "Psychological Clinic"
of the labor camp (where practitioners were persecuted). Lao Li was not afraid
and just eliminated the evils while being there. This time, the evils sent some
"key" collaborators to brainwash him. Eighteen days later, they had no
effect on Lao Li and he was left alone. The two darkest "black dens" in the labor camp were nothing in the
face of Lao Li. In fact, conditions in this forced labor camp were very bad.
Practitioners were deprived of sleep, were punished standing straight for long
hours, were hung up for several days and nights, and suffered by being beaten
and other tortures. All those who persisted to the end suffered much. One
practitioner who had gone on a hunger strike for 100 days eventually compromised
under the influence of an unclear mind. Every day Lao Li ate and slept as usual. If the evils used "soft"
ways, Lao Li would clarify the truth clearly and deeply, which left the police
and the collaborators with nothing to say. If they took "hard"
approaches, Lao Li had powerful wisdom and supernormal abilities, and thus they
couldn't do any harm to him. The guards hated him so much but couldn't do evil
in front of him. Several times when inmates were doing bad things, Lao Li stood
up to stop them (for more details, see the article on the web, http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2004/3/17/46117.html) Lao Li was due to be released. The labor camp was not willing to release him
like that. They had planned to send him to the mental hospital to torture him.
Lao Li replied with his conventional expression, "Isn't this doing
evil?" and he thought, "I am not going to the mental hospital at all.
If I were sent there, I would turn it upside down and then come back out."
Every day Lao Li sent forth righteous thought for this. It is really "when
your thought is righteous, the evil will be disrupted." [3] Soon after
this, we didn't hear about their plan anymore. Lao Li walked out of the labor
camp nobly and with dignity. It seemed that the mental hospital was really
afraid that Lao Li would go there and turn things upside down. When I told Lao Li's story to another practitioner, he didn't accept it as
right, "Of course, he has supernormal capabilities." In other words,
he meant that other people did not have supernormal capabilities, thus could not
have achieved the same. From ordinary people's point of view, Lao Li did not have supernormal
capabilities either. You could always find some ordinary people's explanation
for his stories of displaying huge supernormal capabilities. You could also say
that he had no supernormal capabilities, because he looked just like most of the
other practitioners who couldn't see what supernormal capabilities they have,
nor did they know the form of the supernormal capabilities. But he believes, and
he doesn't doubt his own supernormal capabilities. Whenever he had bad thoughts in his mind, no matter when or where, his first
reaction was always to send forth righteous thought to eliminate them. He was
even eliminating the bad thoughts when he was in his dream. If he didn't
eliminate the bad thoughts in his dream, he would do it the first thing when he
woke up. Often he would send forth righteous thoughts for at least a dozen times
a day to eliminate his bad thoughts. He was truly following what Master said. At
critical moments when there was persecution, his first thought was always to use
supernormal capabilities, that others and even he could not see or feel. These
are god's thoughts. Because he believed, he could be different from those who
could not believe, and could make great use of his supernormal capabilities in
dreams and the illusion of this world to eliminate evil and save people. What I want to discuss with other practitioners here is not to make a
"model" that is too high to reach. Like many miracles in Dafa, a lot
of practitioners admire such fellow practitioners or feel they themselves are
not good enough after they read about these others. If that were the case, this
story would have no meaning. As a matter of fact, Lao Li is a very common practitioner. Compared to other
practitioners, he did not have any special supernormal capabilities, nor could
he see any special scenes that others could see. He had a lot of attachments
too. Some of his attachments were rather strong. There were times that evil
could take advantage of his gaps. And sometimes he accepted the persecution to
different extents. For such a practitioner, what he had been doing was the same
as the other practitioners, which is as simple as clarifying the truth and
sending forth righteous thoughts. My fellow practitioners, please don't assume that others can do certain
things because they have cultivated well. Please don't deny yourselves by
thinking, "I have no supernormal capabilities and I am not good
enough." There is no such saying that one can only show supernormal
capabilities after he has got rid of all of his attachments, not at all. During
this special period of humans and gods existing simultaneously, we will have
attachments until the last moment. The key is to have the god's side control us. The feeling that "he has supernormal capabilities, but I'm not good
enough" has many human attachments, inferiority, and jealousy etc. Probably
you can show many supernormal capabilities already. You are Master's disciple.
You are a great god. Why should you admire others? My fellow practitioners, Master has given us all of the supernormal
capabilities that can administer heaven and earth. Everything is within the Fa
Rectification Verses, and within the word "Mie." [note: This is the
last word in one of the formulas, and means "cleaned out,"
"eliminated," "purged," etc. It is pronounced "Myeh."]
It depends on how much we believe and how firmly we believe. The firmer we
believe, the greater our supernormal capabilities and the greater our wisdom. As
long as you firmly believe in Dafa, you can do anything. It is as simple as
this. I have realized that the Fa rectification has entered a new stage. After
Master published the article "Eliminate the Dark Minions With Righteous
Thoughts and Stop the Evil Acts with Righteous Thoughts," the evil force
became extremely crazy around the country. Many material sites in different
areas have been damaged. Many practitioners have been detained. Some places
started searching family by family, which had not happened since the end of the
Cultural Revolution. I believe that this is the last crazy struggle of the dark
minions, and that it is about time practitioners genuinely use their supernormal
capabilities. Whether it is a dream in the human world, or a long dream in the
old cosmos, all of the countless stories of brilliant and colorful times,
repeated reincarnations, and suffering are just a big dream. "A dream of
ten thousand years has finally pulled into shore." (Hongyin) Our
god's side should waken now, should totally come to life. My fellow practitioners, the supreme lords of different cosmic bodies, the
gods that Master created by hand, let's revive today after we have slept for a
hundred million years. Facing the dark minions' wildness, facing people's
expectation, let's use the supreme supernormal capabilities that Master granted
us to destroy the dark minions and save the people! Note: [1] Zhuan Falun [2] "Teaching the Fa at the 2004 Western U.S. Fa Conference" [3] Hong Yin II [4] "Teaching and Explaining the Fa at the Metropolitan New York Fa
Conference"
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http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2004/5/6/73898.html
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