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Guard Against The Less Obvious Forms of Persecution by the Dark Minions of the Old Forces By a Dafa Disciple from China
(Clearwidsom.net) Recently many fellow practitioners shared their
experiences on Clearwisdom.net regarding how the dark minions of the old forces
exerted persecution against their physical bodies and how they finally managed
to eliminate them with strong righteous thoughts. Lately similar incidents also
happened to some people around me. The practitioners involved were in their
thirties and forties. Unfortunately they did not have the same clear-minded
understanding as the practitioners mentioned above. Three of the practitioners
died and the others continue to deteriorate in their health without proper
enlightenment. Practitioner A was in his forties. The authorities persecuted him in early
2000 by sending him to a forced labor camp for two years. He was later released
on the basis of medical parole soon after he had symptoms of a stroke. One month
after he returned home, his health became abnormal and his symptoms of sickness
were intermittent. Since then, the police officers and security forces have no
longer bothered to come over. Many of the local practitioners including he
thought that this was the way Master protects him. Only a few practitioners were
clearheaded and realized there were problems in this. His situation had an
extremely negative effect on validating the Fa. When he was suffering
physically, he took it as reducing karma. He could not handle the tremendous
conflicts in his family, either. In the end he passed away. Another fellow practitioner of mine, practitioner B, 37 years of age, was
also released on the basis of medical parole when he was diagnosed for pulmonary
tuberculosis during his detention in a forced labor camp. Since then, he had
been working at a Dafa literature site to validate the Fa. However, the dark
minions of the old forces had been interfering with and controlling him. First
he had a lot of dreams …quot; almost every day he had dreams. Other than doing the
first four exercises, he spent most of the time between dinnertime and the time
for sending forth righteous thoughts at midnight talking about his dreams. After
some experience sharing with another practitioner, this practitioner finally
became clearheaded on this issue. However, he was unable to move a step further
to uncover his own fundamental attachments and to truly understand the Fa.
Instead, he immediately threw himself into his work for producing the Dafa
literature. Then the dark minions of the old forces started to persecute him in
various ways …quot; first making his voice husky, and now he has difficulty
speaking. At this time he has even lost his voice almost completely and can't
swallow any food. To some degree he still takes it as a process of reducing
karma and he fails to entirely eliminate the persecution. Perhaps there are a lot more such scenarios that I am not aware of. The old forces used to instruct the dark minions to control the rotten demons
who then persecuted Dafa disciples by means of wicked people. Now the old forces
have been destroyed; the rotten demons have been mostly eliminated; the wicked
people have gotten their retribution; sentient beings are awakening to the facts
of the persecution and are seeking the facts about Dafa; the dark minions of the
old forces are seeing themselves come to a very sad and dreadful end. However,
poison is always poisonous. The dark minions of the old forces will not retreat
from this historic drama by themselves. My personal understanding is that the physical persecution against the Dafa
disciples is a form of the final struggle by the dark minions of the old forces
that directly persecute Dafa disciples under the vague appearance of the human
world. Exploiting Dafa practitioners' blurred understandings of the Fa, the dark
minions exert this persecution against the physical bodies of Dafa disciples in
an unnoticeable form to interfere with the Fa-rectification and the salvation of
the sentient beings. They exploit the abnormal situations among Dafa disciples
to damage the Fa, to impact the understanding of many people, to interfere with
and hinder the public from learning the facts, and to maintain the material
field for their own presence. That is the reason why there are relatively more
such cases lately. In spite of the many stages we Dafa disciples have been through since the
historic day, July 20, 1999, this new form of interference and persecution seems
to offset the effect of the truth-clarification efforts by Dafa disciples. Isn't
it a new stage in the process of Fa-rectification that requires us to cultivate
to a higher level? We must be clearheaded in recognizing persecution by the dark minions of the
old forces. We must use our powerful righteous thoughts in the process of widely
saving sentient beings to thoroughly eradicate their sabotage and interference.
In the meantime, we must, in my opinion, be introspective as to the
responsibility and mission we have as Dafa disciples, maintaining our starting
point in the Fa-rectification, and making sure that we are truly validating the
Fa from the Fa. Of course, since the very first day of the persecution, the old forces have
been persecuting Dafa disciples not only in the form of detention, forced labor
camps, and jail sentences, but with whatever means they can use. Compared to the
widespread persecution of detention, forced labor camps, and jail sentences,
other forms of persecution are relatively not as obvious. Examples are troubles
that are not supposed to occur in the workplace, unreasonable harm from the
conflicts of everyday life, and the physical sufferings that are different from
the regular karma-reduction process of "illness karma." We must be
clearheaded that these are cases when the dark minions of the old forces are
exploiting our loopholes when we don't have clear understanding of the Fa. Only
by closely following the course of Fa-rectification and elevating ourselves
through rational and clear minded understanding of the Fa can we get rid of them
with our powerful righteous thoughts.
Posting date: 7/7/2004 |