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Correctly Understand the Overall Situation of Fa-Rectification; Revisit Clearwisdom Editorials Regarding Fund Raising Among Practitioners By a practitioner in Shenyang City, Liaoning Province
(Clearwisdom.net) In our area, a situation has occurred among practitioners.
After reading the article "What Two Little Disciples See in Other Dimensions:
The Battle between Righteousness and Evil to Begin in New York City," some
practitioners thought we should donate money to overseas practitioners so as to
support their truth-clarification activities in New York City. As a matter of
fact, some have already begun to raise funds among practitioners. In my opinion,
Beijing is also a battleground. Practitioners in China should focus their
attention on Beijing. Also I'd like to revisit two editorials by Clearwisdom.net
with regard to the issue of collecting money among practitioners.
(See
http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2004/8/8/51159.html for the article
mentioned above.)
Put an End to All of the Damaging Acts of Collecting Money From Dafa
Disciples
Clearwisdom Editor
(Clearwisdom.net) Recently in Mainland China's Jiamusi City and other areas,
some Dafa disciples received a notice for collecting money from Dafa disciples.
The people who spread this would direct people to deposit money in some specific
account, which would be mailed to the United States to Master, and so on.
Already there have been a few practitioners who haven't studied the Fa well that
were tricked by this. So it is hereby declared: This is an act that seriously
damages Dafa; Master never has and never will ask for a penny from Dafa
disciples; any such act to collect money from Dafa disciples is strictly
forbidden by Dafa; whoever starts or assists in collecting money in the name of
Dafa disciples or Dafa Associations, etc, is doing things that damage Dafa and
interfere with Dafa disciples on behalf of demons.
Dafa disciples in the Fa-rectification period, especially the great numbers
of Dafa disciples in Mainland China, are doing everything they can to put every
penny into clarifying the truth and offering salvation to people of the world.
While opposing the persecution, many practitioners are facing huge difficulties
in basic necessities, yet they are still saving everything they can and doing as
much as possible to offer salvation to people of the world. How each
practitioner handles his own money is each person's individual choice, and when
a few practitioners who know each other well want to do things together as
individuals -- this is also those individual practitioners' individual choices.
But it is absolutely not allowed to collect money from Dafa disciples at any
time and in any place.
In addition, Dafa requires that cultivators as a group be loosely organized,
no names are registered and there are no name lists. Each Fa-rectification
period Dafa disciple should also strictly handle themselves well; don't be used
by demons and solemnly put an end to the losses that might be brought upon
themselves, to other practitioners, and to Fa-rectification because of this.
Dafa's principles are Diamond-Like -- unchangeable and indestructible. Every
Dafa disciple should follow and safeguard them of their own initiative.
The hope is that every Dafa disciple will persist in studying the Fa,
studying the Fa well, and on the basis of sticking to and safeguarding Dafa of
their own initiative, do well in the things that Fa-rectification period Dafa
disciples should do.
Clearwisdom Editor
April 8, 2003
Cherish Our Opportunity and Walk Our Paths Righteously
Clearwisdom Editors
Presently as the Fa-rectification approaches success day by day, how each
person walks his remaining path is directly linked to his future. Master
solemnly pointed out to us in 2001 in "Teaching the Fa at the Washington, D.C.
International Fa Conference":
"...any desire you have can become an attachment and can be used by the evil.
As soon as that kind of thought emerges, the evil might conjure a false image
for you, and this will then cause interference. Cherish the present time and
make the best use of it--this time is meant for the disciples."
In this year's lecture at the Vancouver Experience Sharing Conference, Master
again benevolently reminded us:
"So before the Fa-rectification is over you should seize the time that's left
and solidly do well in every single thing that a Dafa disciple should do. That's
how you should proceed on this path toward the future and toward what's the most
magnificent; you can't miss any single opportunity, or go awry with any step." For the sake of Fa-rectification and saving all sentient beings, Master has
endured countless hardships and so much suffering. All along, Master has been
creating opportunities for us to be rescued and saved, as well as other sentient
beings, including those practitioners who have still not understood what the
mission of Fa-rectification Dafa disciples is, and those practitioners who had
fallen during the persecution because of their own attachments. However, instead
of cherishing this unprecedented chance that will never come again, some people
are even doing bad things that are tarnishing Master and Dafa's reputation in
this world and damaging the chance for the world's people to be saved.
According to recent news from Mainland China, a very few people are still
collecting funds among practitioners, and some practitioners who have not
studied the Fa deeply and have not let go of their attachments are responding to
these people. This is severely interfering with practitioners' cultivation and
daily lives, going against Dafa disciples' efforts to validate Dafa, and in some
cases directly impacting people's understanding of Dafa.
Those who are collecting funds come forward appearing as practitioners, yet
their words and actions are totally against Dafa--they actually have the gall to
use Master's modest lifestyle as an excuse to do things to frame and harm
Master. As for those who are giving funds, have they not thought at all about
why Master asks us to "take the Fa as the Teacher?" In the eleven years since
the public introduction of Dafa, Master has never taken a single penny from
practitioners. Aren't Dafa's principles immovable like diamond? Those
practitioners who are responding to the people who are stealing Master's name to
collect money are having their loopholes taken advantage of by the evil while
they're not clearheaded. They are directly creating obstacles for Master's
rectifying the Fa and saving people, and have done things that many wicked
people couldn't do--their sins are grave indeed.
We have reported the matter of using Master's name to collect funds. Master
has paid a great deal of attention to this matter, but still wants to save the
practitioners, so instead of talking about it directly, Master has asked those
of us who are still cultivating to talk about it, leaving a chance for those
practitioners to change their ways and make up for their mistakes. It is hoped
that those involved will immediately stop short of the precipice that they're on
the edge of, calm their hearts to study the Fa well, and make up for their
mistakes through concrete actions of clarifying the truth.
There is another situation that also concerns whether we can walk our paths
righteously, and it is something that requires everyone to regard with righteous
thoughts. Some people, driven by attachments to individual fame or gain and to
accomplishing things like everyday people, under the name of truth-clarification
material production sites, have tried to ask those practitioners who have not
left home to avoid the persecution to contribute money for collective use (this
does not include self-formed, voluntary cooperation among individual
practitioners). Even though this is a very rare occurrence, these actions have
seriously violated the Dafa principle of "we can't collect money from students".
("Teaching and Explaining the Fa at the Metropolitan New York Fa Conference")
This has tarnished Dafa's reputation, and these are absolutely not appropriate
acts for genuinely cultivating disciples of Dafa. In reality, those
practitioners who are overcoming day-to-day difficulties to give money to the
people collecting it should think about it more rationally: Fa-rectification
period Dafa disciples depend on devoting their hearts and walking their paths
righteously to save people of the world, and not going astray on matters of
principle is of utmost importance for validating Dafa.
There is another point that we all need to never forget: regardless of
whatever excuse, whatever reason, whatever the situation might be, if someone
claims Master said something that Master did not say, "this person is
undermining the Fa, regardless of whether his motives are good or not."
("Immutable") Dafa disciples absolutely cannot act recklessly and irresponsibly.
We are all beings that are living in the old cosmos. The chance to cultivate
during Fa-rectification is unprecedented and something that will not happen
again in the future. All of us Dafa disciples who have been fortunate enough to
attain the Fa in this extremely special historical period of Master's Fa-rectification
must cherish it. We should use our greatest benevolent, righteous thoughts to
walk our own paths righteously, not let down Master's merciful, arduous
salvation, and not let down the sentient beings' long wait over the course of
history.
Clearwisdom Editors Posting date: 8/24/2004 |