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Rectifying Our Basis
By a Falun Dafa practitioner from China (Clearwisdom.net) We almost bumped into some policemen from a local
police station during a recent truth clarification activity. I
realized why it happened when I looked inside. Since the publication of the Nine
Commentaries on the Communist Party, the practitioners in our area have been
spending more and more time and effort making and distributing copies of the Nine
Commentaries. Some practitioners have focused on urging people to quit the
Chinese Communist Party (CCP). They still work on other Dafa projects; but they
no longer put their hearts into them. Therefore, the basis of validating the Fa
in our area has changed. I had a dream the other day. In my dream, I wanted to save an old friend. He
looked at me with hope and expectation in his eyes. Instead of explaining the
facts of Dafa, I started to talk about the Nine Commentaries. He became
disappointed and left. I came to realize that although it is important to distribute the Nine
Commentaries, the purpose is to eliminate the obstacles during our
clarifying the truth about Dafa. The only thing that can truly save people is
the Fa. Many people, especially Chinese people, have been deceived by the evil Party
culture for so long that they are unwilling to listen to the truth. The Nine
Commentaries is a powerful tool that Teacher gave us to remove the obstacles
so that sentient beings could become willing to learn the truth about Dafa. The
purpose of the Nine Commentaries is for our practitioners to further and
more thoroughly clarify the truth to save more sentient beings. Some
practitioners, however, regard clarifying the truth as a way to help distribute
the Nine Commentaries, which is wrong. Teacher said, "Right now the biggest obstacle is that the Party culture is
influencing sentient beings and rendering them unable to see or listen to the
truth. With that situation at hand, the Nine Commentaries were
published with the purpose of helping people to see the CCP's fundamental
nature." (Teaching the Fa at the 2005 Manhattan International Fa Conference) Teacher also said, "So since the publication of the Nine Commentaries, through
clarifying the facts and saving sentient beings Dafa disciples have really
helped many people come to understand the true situation." (Teaching the Fa at the 2005 Manhattan International Fa Conference) To help people learn the truth of the Fa is the most important thing. Teacher
said, "When you see sentient beings who need to be saved, what's crucial is
getting the beings saved." (Teaching the Fa at the 2005 Manhattan International Fa Conference) Teacher also said, "If the CCP, while in its death throes, still tries to use different
tactics to tamper with the salvation of sentient beings, then we have other ways
to deal with it--the Buddha Fa is boundless!" (Teaching the Fa at the 2005 Manhattan International Fa Conference) Only when a person gets rid of the evil Party's control can he or she become
willing to listen to the truth about Dafa. Only when people see through the
essence of the CCP and realize how evil it is can they become willing to quit
the CCP, and therefore be saved. The Nine Commentaries is a tool to help
people become more receptive to our other truth-clarification materials. Only
when people know the truth of the Fa and assimilate to the Fa can they be saved.
Therefore, it's crucial for us to do a good job on both clarifying the truth and
helping people learn the Nine Commentaries, so we can achieve the maximum
effect. We shouldn't go to extremes. Recently, the CCP has installed many cameras on major and minor streets in
our area, in order to catch people who distribute the Nine Commentaries.
This has made it more difficult for us to distribute truth-clarification
materials. This shows an omission on our part. I think that there are many
reasons for this, and we each need to look inside and rectify our basis for
rectifying the Fa. When we deviate from the Fa, the evil on the surface has an
excuse to bring trouble to us. The essential reason for the change of our basis is that we haven't studied
the Fa enough. We need to study Teacher's recent articles continually, without
holding onto ordinary people's notions. June 30, 2005
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