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Keeping Up with the Progress of Fa-rectification
By a Practitioner from Jiamusi City, Heilongjiang Province
(Clearwisdom.net) Practitioners often talk about "the progress of the Fa-rectification."
This shows that their main concern is the situation of Fa-rectification. There
are various mentalities we all carry, including expectations, and the mentality
of cherishing things. However, most practitioners want to know whether they or
their area have kept up with the progress of Fa-rectification. During this
progress, Teacher has made cultivation arrangements for us at each stage.
However, coming with the arrangements are interference and sabotage arranged by
the old forces. In each stage there are Fa-rectification things that we need to
do well, standards we need to reach and mighty virtue that we need to establish.
The progress of the Fa-rectification will not stop because one practitioner or a
group of practitioners have not kept up, nor will it repeat because a group of
practitioners did not do well. Therefore, every opportunity is precious and will
not come again.
Although we can make up for and redo something that we have not done well at
first, the environment and the requirement of the process of Fa-rectification
will be different. Therefore, some practitioners saw that whenever they did not
do well, lives and materials from the part of the celestial body they
represented would be eliminated. Although this is only the scene these
practitioners saw at their various levels and not the ultimate truth of the
universe, at least it tells us how important it is for us to keep up with the
process of Fa-rectification.
1. To understand the progress of the Fa-rectification is a precondition for
keeping up with and doing a good job in what we are required to do.
To understand the progress of the Fa-rectification is a precondition for
keeping up with and doing a good job in what we are required to do. Then how are
we able to understand the progress? My personal understanding is that we should
study the Fa more. We must, first of all, read "Zhuan Falun" (1)
repeatedly. We should also study Teacher's new articles, Fa lectures and
comments on practitioners' published articles during the Fa-rectification
period. Teacher made arrangements and set requirements for us in these
documents. We must "truly believe" in Teacher and take the Fa as master. We must
study more. We must read the Clearwisdom articles that provide guidance in a
timely way, especially those written by the Clearwisdom editing team. Teacher
has already told us that, "Practitioners must pay attention to the attitude of
Clearwisdom.net on all important matters." My personal understanding is that the
Clearwisdom articles that give guidance are part of Teacher's arrangements for
us. However we should truly take the Fa as Master. This is only my personal
understanding. As for personal sharing published on Dafa websites, including the
scenes perceived by practitioners who have their third eye opened, my
understanding is that it is not accidental that these articles are published on
Dafa websites. If all practitioners can measure themselves according to the Fa,
they really can find the things they have not paid attention to and the reason
behind them. The sharing amongst practitioners is one of the cultivation forms
left by our Teacher. It is also an indispensable environment for us to get rid
of our notions, and push us to be more diligent and improve ourselves.
2. The things that need to be done well in the process of Fa-rectification.
On August 8, 2004, the Minghui.net editors (Chinese version of
Clearwisdom.net) made an announcement soliciting articles for the First Falun
Dafa Written Experience Sharing Conference in China. The announcement states
clearly the reasons for convening such a conference, the point of view from
which practitioners in China should look at it , and the security issues that
need to be taken care of. My personal understanding is that such a conference is
a joyous event for all practitioners. It will be a grand conference in which
practitioners can sum up their experiences while checking for their shortcomings
so that they can upgrade themselves and keep up with the progress of the Fa-rectification.
It is not important if one's article is selected or not. The important thing is
that every practitioner should take this opportunity to sum up their progress in
their cultivation, to report to Teacher and to share with their fellow
practitioners. At the same time we can find some of the reasons for not doing
well with the things that we should, so that we can wholeheartedly do the three
things (2) that Teacher asked us to do. We should not consider the conference as
the task of a small amount of practitioners or practitioners who are considered
to be doing well in their cultivation. We should take the experience sharing
conference as an important event in the Fa-rectification process. As a matter of
fact, the process of experience sharing is the process of upgrading ourselves.
3. Taking the task of providing information for anti-torture exhibitions as
our own responsibility
On August 12, 2004, Minghui.net published an article talking about the
effects of frightening the evil and the results achieved by awakening the
world's people through the anti-torture exhibitions run by overseas Falun Dafa
practitioners. At the same time, most of the Dafa practitioners outside of China
have not suffered from the persecution directly so they are not able to depict
as vividly the persecution suffered by the practitioners in China. Therefore the
overseas practitioners sincerely hope that more and more fellow practitioners in
China can shoulder the responsibility of providing more information about the
torture they have suffered, so as to stand side by side with the overseas
practitioners and together expose the persecution and eliminate the evil. My
personal understanding is that the anti-torture exhibitions have caused strong
repercussions overseas while playing an effective role in frightening the evil
and awakening the world's people. Through the demonstrations conducted by the
practitioners outside of China, the exhibitions have displayed the great image
of Dafa practitioners' faithfulness, unyieldingness, as well as their great
mercy and tolerance in their striving to live by the characteristics of
"Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance."
As the main body of Falun Dafa practitioners, the practitioners in China have
personal experiences in suffering from the persecution so they have the
responsibility to provide more detailed and more true-to-life information,
especially their personal experiences of being tortured. Practitioners who
suffered torture can draw or video-tape their own demonstration of the torture
they suffered. They can also describe the torture in words to show the
seriousness of a certain torture method. This will help the overseas
practitioners stage more true-to-life anti-torture exhibits. It will also be a
case of Dafa practitioners opposing the persecution while exposing and
eliminating the evil as one body.
4. Using legal knowledge to oppose the persecution and clarifying the truth
with everyday people, those in the legal system in particular.
At present there is more need to expose the human rights violations taking
place in China. From the surface, it is a movement of everyday society; however,
from the Fa perspective this situation does not exist by accident. No matter how
the old forces arranged things and no matter what the goal of the Jiang group
is, it has provided us with a very good opportunity to oppose the persecution
and clarify the truth of Falun Dafa. In recent months, Minghui.net has published
a series of articles on how to use legal knowledge to oppose the persecution and
clarify the facts. It also published articles with detailed clauses exposing the
Jiang group's violations of the law. In recent days, Minghui published a special
edition of this issue on its home page. My personal understanding is that all
Dafa practitioners in China have personally experienced the criminal acts
violating the law by the evil clique, so to make use of this good opportunity,
using this legal knowledge to fight against the persecution and clarify the
truth, is an opportunity to establish our mighty virtue. It is also an
opportunity for the families of Dafa practitioners and the world's people to see
clearly who is violating the law so as to save the sentient beings, especially
the ones in the legal system who suffer from the lies most. This will also
create conditions for the unconditional release of those detained Falun Dafa
practitioners and to push forward in the Fa-rectification process.
5. We should strengthen our efforts in sending forth righteous thoughts and
clarifying the truth, take part in the battle between good and evil by
eliminating the evil forces that have retreated to Beijing and New York.
Recently, Dafa websites have published articles depicting the scenes that
some practitioners with supernormal abilities have witnessed in other
dimensions. The battle between good and evil in the period of Fa-rectification
is unfolding as the evil elements are retreating to two places: one is Beijing
in China and the other is New York City (Manhattan) in the United States. At the
moment, some practitioners in China are guessing about the manifestation of the
battle between good and evil appearing in the human world, some are still
waiting for further insights, some still take an attitude of wait-and-see, but
the majority have thrown themselves into the battle. My personal understanding
is that no matter how the battle manifests in the human world, the most urgent
thing is to strengthen our effort in sending forth righteous thoughts to
eliminate the evil forces.
6. Please help those fellow practitioners who still fail to step forward or
those who have deviated from the righteous path.
This is the requirement set by our merciful Teacher in his lecture, "Teaching
the Fa at the 2004 Chicago Conference," on May 23. My personal understanding is
that this is not only an opportunity provided by our merciful Teacher to the
practitioners who have failed to step forward, those who have not done well and
whose who deviated from the righteous path; it also provides opportunities for
practitioners who have stepped forward and those who are doing well to further
cultivate their steadfast righteous thoughts and profound mercy. Powerful
righteous thoughts include righteous enlightenment, and the steadfast but
unshakable belief of a cultivator as well as righteous belief toward Teacher and
the firm belief in one's own abilities. As for the righteous enlightenment based
on the Fa, this includes the principle that what we see is
only on the surface level, and on another level, Teacher's law bodies and
righteous Enlightened Beings are also participating. It also includes the
principle of how to further establish mighty virtue in tribulations and who it
is done for. If we fail to righteously enlighten to the Fa from the Fa we will
have feelings of "hate," "fighting," "discouragement" and other mentalities that
Dafa practitioners should not have in the process of helping other
practitioners. Whenever tribulations appear we must look inside ourselves to see
if we failed to eliminate the interference by the dark minions, or whether we
truly tried to help fellow practitioners out of pure compassion and not with a
mentality and concept of fulfilling a task or pursuing a result. Does this mean
that we cannot distinguish between personal cultivation and Fa-rectification
cultivation or between the two paths, one arranged by the old forces and the
other by Teacher? As long as our thoughts are pure and righteous we should all
be able to see our own shortcomings.
Notes
(1) The book, Zhuan Falun, comprises the principal teachings of Falun
Dafa.
(2) The "three things": Study the Fa (Law and principles, the teachings of
Falun Dafa), clarify the truth, send forth righteous thoughts |