Correctly Understanding the Relationship Between Individual Practitioners and Truth-Clarification Materials Production Centers

By a Falun Dafa practitioner from Jilin City

(Clearwisdom.net) Truth-clarification materials production centers play a critical role in our efforts in assisting Teacher with rectifying the Fa and saving sentient beings. Through them, we are able to receive Teacher's instructions and suggestions in time. With them, we are able to communicate with each other under the current severe persecution environment. With them, we can improve as a whole and become an indestructible one body. With them, we can better fulfill our sacred promise of saving people.

What is the real purpose of the evil in damaging truth-clarification materials production centers? It is to undermine Teacher's rectifying the Fa and stop us from assisting Teacher with saving people.

Therefore, it is very important for us to protect these centers. In the past five years, when the evil rampantly carried out the persecution, many fellow practitioners fearlessly committed themselves to protecting the centers with their firm belief in Teacher and in the Fa. Under huge pressures, they have been very strict with themselves. Their thoughts were from the Fa. They always looked inside themselves first, when problems arose. They constantly kept strong righteous thoughts. They continued to communicate with each other and learn lessons from each other. They truly melted themselves into the Fa. They sacrificed a lot and suffered a lot. However, now and then we heard of a center getting damaged or destroyed. Many fellow practitioners who participated in making truth-clarification materials were arrested and brutally tortured. Whenever I heard this kind of news, I felt very sad and sorry. I always sent forth righteous thoughts for the centers' safety. However, I felt I couldn't help more since I wasn't directly involved in the operations of any truth-clarification materials centers. The notion of "being responsible for my own matters" made me feel separated from the centers. What was the root cause?

When I started to seriously look inside myself, I came to realize that I had been taking the centers for granted. I would go to the centers and request whatever I needed, such as Teacher's new articles, articles published on the Minghui website, truth-clarification materials, Dafa books, etc. However, what did I do when the centers needed me? Did I try my best to give the centers what they needed? Did I always think about the safety of the centers? When the workload of those fellow practitioners became too heavy, did I try to help out? When the evil tried to damage the centers, did I send forth powerful enough righteous thoughts to eliminate the evil? When evil interfered with the fellow practitioners who worked at the centers, did I help them in time? Did I truly think of their needs? When I thought about it, I realized that sometimes my unrighteous thoughts actually made it worse for the centers and fellow practitioners.

I felt ashamed of myself. I clearly saw my selfishness. Everything I did was based on "self." Even when I sent forth righteous thoughts, I thought "I" was "helping" the centers. I didn't realize that I was a part of those centers too, even though I didn't work at the centers. The truth-clarification materials production centers are an inseparable part of us. We are one body. Protecting the centers is my responsibility. I should not position myself outside of the centers to "help them." Instead, I should truly melt into the centers. How could I allow the evil to damage our centers? Whenever it happens, it is a sign that we as a whole have some omissions.

Then, how can we form an indestructible whole body? It requires each and every one of us to get fully motivated so we can truly deem ourselves to be a part of the centers. We need to understand the Fa from the Fa, to position ourselves correctly. Let's gather our strong righteous thoughts together to form a layer of protection over the centers. Let's become a harmonious one body. As Teacher said,

"You need to make all the energy channels in your body get wider and wider, make the energy stronger and stronger and brighter and brighter, and finally, at some point, have tens of thousands of energy channels merge together, achieving a state of no energy channels and no acupuncture points, with your entire body connected into a whole." (Zhuan Falun, Lecture Eight)

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2005/1/3/92705.html

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