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Seeking Outside Help to Redress the Injustice versus Acting Together in Concert By Yiyan
(Clearwisdom.net) In "Teaching the Fa at the 2004
Chicago Conference," Master taught us, "As Dafa disciples have clarified the facts you have
saved many beings who were supposed to be saved, but it's not enough. In fact,
so far, what you've accomplished is still limited, and in terms of numbers the
proportion is still quite small. The Dafa disciples in Mainland China, in
particular, have the greatest responsibility. The main body of Dafa disciples
is in China, so the Dafa disciples there should do even better; through
lessons learned they should become more rational and more clearheaded, and do
things more righteously; they should allow more sentient beings to be saved;
and they should have the effect of the main body of Dafa disciples. Everything
the Dafa disciples in other regions do revolves around the main body of Dafa
in Mainland China, and is restraining the evil's persecution, lessening the
pressure for the Dafa disciples in Mainland China, and helping the Dafa
disciples in Mainland China to clarify the facts." I have come to realize that Master's teaching is to correct
the thoughts that were formed in the past five years of our fellow practitioners
in China and abroad alike. Since July 20, 1999, the persecution has been very brutal
indeed and the pressure in that environment has been very intense. Many fellow
practitioners in China (possibly what Master describes as the third group of
students) maintain the mentality of everyday people passively enduring the
persecution. They cannot set aside the attachment of seeking outside themselves
and they always look for some external forces to end the persecution and thus
end their sufferings. Misled by such everyday people's mentality, this group of
practitioners has been passively expecting some outside factors to redress the
injustice for them. One of the manifestations is that they anticipate some
external force to save them …quot;looking for answers from certain everyday people
like the Prime Minister, from the "Two Conferences (1)," from the
United Nations Human Rights Committee, from overseas practitioners who are
making phone calls to eliminate the persecution, and from some international
organizations to bring Jiang to justice. By and large, they are looking for
someone to save them. It is this very attachment that hinders the effect of
restraining and lessening the persecution and thoroughly ending the persecution.
The earlier one sets aside this attachment, the more likely one can demonstrate
the power of Dafa through oneself as a Dafa practitioner. This is because the
persecution is not about some ordinary people persecuting others. Rather it is
about the dark minions of the Old Forces controlling the rotten demons that
commit bad deeds. Sometimes the dark minions may even commit bad deeds
themselves. Therefore, the problem cannot be resolved with human attachments.
Surely it cannot! If we don't abolish our attachments or elevate ourselves with
regards to our understanding of the Fa-rectification, the remaining evils will
continue to come back, even if their numbers have been reduced. They will
specifically target for persecution those who have strong attachments in their
cultivation practice and those they consider are not qualified to be Dafa
disciples. As long as we do the three things we Dafa practitioners are supposed
to do, and we always do things wholeheartedly, the dark minions of the Old
Forces will not be able to do as they wish, because we do what Master has
required of us and we do not fall into the trap of the Old Forces. On the other
hand, if we hold onto the attachments of everyday people and more or less take
ourselves as victims in daily life, or do not follow Master's requirements to do
the three things we ought to do, the dark minions of the Old Forces will take it
that we choose to be the disciples of theirs instead of Master's. In that
case, they will certainly take care of us in their way …quot; their way of
teachings to beat us lethally or beat us to death until our righteous thoughts
come out. Therefore the attachment of dependency upon outside help,
which shows up merely as being weak or unconfident, is in fact a manifestation
of the lack of firm belief in the Fa and lack of understanding of the Fa. Such
an attachment is certainly very harmful. As the Fa-rectification reaches such a
critical stage, one must set aside the attachment and become a genuine Dafa
disciple. Regarding the situation overseas, since the anti-persecution
and truth-clarification activities we have been doing are truly effective, some
of us have slowly become accustomed to stressing something like "this is my
project," "I want to establish my mighty-virtue," etc. Driven by
our everyday attachment of abilities and accomplishments, we start to take Dafa
work personally, fall into the habit of doing the project itself, amplify the
work we are doing unconsciously, and finally forget about where the work we're
doing objectively is in the overall picture of the Fa-rectification, and about
how to support the entire Fa-rectification from the project we are doing. Actually if I should take some everyday things to contrast
with, in this war between good and evil, practitioners inside China and outside
China are like different armed forces assigned to fight in different
battlegrounds. China is the main battleground and the Dafa disciples in China
are the main armed forces, who, using righteous thoughts and power gained from
the cultivation practice, are eliminating the evil forces that come from other
dimensions. Practitioners outside China, on the other hand, are like
supplemental armed forces that are restraining the evil and helping
practitioners in China eliminate the evil. Wherever they are, each soldier is
part of the whole army, and each battleground plays an irreplaceable role.
Nobody can replace another's role. Otherwise, it would not be us fighting in
concert.
Posting date: 7/7/2004 |