We Must Completely Negate the Old Forces' Arrangements
By a Falun Dafa practitioner in Heilongjiang Province
(Clearwisdom.net) When I reread Teacher's article "Dafa is
Indestructible", I feel an extra sense of familiarity, because this article
was taught to me by a Dafa practitioner, one sentence at a time, when we were in
a forced labor camp. At that time, I did not dare to slack off a bit, memorized
the Fa, sent forth righteous thoughts again and again, and kept every thought
and all my thinking based on the Fa. As soon as negative thoughts entered my
mind, I immediately eliminated them, opposed them, corrected them, and made
myself walk through the situation in an open and honorable way and alongside
many other Falun Dafa practitioners. Meanwhile, I also realized that I should
not fear an evil environment. The key is whether we are able to walk our paths
correctly and completely negate the old forces' arrangements. When we are
righteous and grounded in the Fa, we are indestructible. Let's remember
Teacher's words: "I have said that there are many Buddhas beyond the level of Tathagata.
What do those demons account for? They are very minute in comparison."
"One righteous mind can subdue one hundred evils. If you do not pursue
anything, no one will dare to bother you." (Zhuan Falun) The evil CCP has been persecuting Falun Dafa for six years. From aggressive
arrogance and insane persecution, it has come to the point of simply maintaining
the persecution. After reading "Understanding a Fellow Practitioner's Words
and Actions in a CCP Court," in which several hundred people were
implicated and arrested after two other practitioners were arrested, I realized
that the issue of how practitioners walk righteously in facing the persecution
is really important. Many articles on "Clearwisdom Weekly" record how Dafa
practitioners, with righteous thoughts and righteous actions, can walk away
freely from the evil. I would like to share my views with everyone and hope we
can improve together. 1. Understand the Fa from the heart, and be clear about a Dafa practitioner's
mission in assisting Teacher to rectify the human world - offering salvation
to sentient beings. We all know from studying the Fa why Teacher spreads such a great law at this
time. The old cosmos is selfish, and follows the principle of
formation-stasis-degeneration-destruction. Through Teacher rectifying the Fa, he
creates a new cosmos that is unselfish, considers others first, harmonious, and
eternal. Right now, Dafa practitioners are saving sentient beings, validating
the Fa, and completing our missions. We are doing such a great thing; there is
no reason to be fearful or not righteous. 2. According to China's laws, the persecution of Dafa is illegal, so the
police are violating the law. Falun Dafa practitioners follow the principles of "Truthfulness,
Compassion, Forbearance" and strive to be good people, obtain many benefits
and are not harmed, and at the same time they are improving people's morality,
social stability, and economic development. Many people who previously spent a
lot of money on treatments for their incurable and serious illnesses recovered
through practicing Falun Gong. We have no reason to accept the evil CCP's
persecution of us or the illegal interrogation by the police. According to the laws of China, the highest authorities are the National
People's Congress and the National People's Congress Standing Committee. Only
the legislation that they approve is lawful. The ban on Falun Gong was issued by
the Bureau of Civil Administration and personally directed by Jiang Zemin. What
judiciary authority does it have? It is illegal. The Chinese legislation also
states that police officers are not allowed to gather information using torture,
and are not allowed to infringe on people's human rights. 3. A practitioner's righteous thoughts and actions, when faced with
persecution, include sending forth righteous thoughts, reciting the Fa, using
supernormal capabilities, exposing the evil, and clarifying the truth. Once, when the local police called me to the police station, an officer took
out a list of questions. I refused to answer any of his questions and thought: I
am a Dafa practitioner, and my mission is to save sentient beings. I want to
leave and do the things that I should do. Then I sent forth righteous thoughts
to clear away evil that controlled the policemen. The director came over,
"You must cooperate. Otherwise you will suffer." I said to myself: I
cooperated before and ended up with one year of forced labor, I won't do the
same thing again. I continued to send forth the righteous thoughts. The
interrogation questions were one page long, which the police read out to me--my
response was silence. The policeman asked me to sign my name, but I refused. The
officer said, "You can go home now." 4. The consequences of cooperating with the evil. If we are not clear-minded and cooperate with the evil, the direct result is
detention, forced labor or a jail sentence, and thus being unable to save
sentient beings. However, what is it to save a person through our
truth-clarification? Teacher said, "He also stated that there were three thousand such worlds in a grain
of sand. A grain of sand is thus just like a universe," "The same is
true with human molecular cells." (Zhuan Falun) The salvation of one person can affect an immeasurable number of living
beings, very possibly corresponding to an immense universe or cosmic body. Is
the harm of cooperating with the evil still small? Therefore Dafa practitioners
must walk righteously. 5. Unrighteous ways can't be used in the face of persecution In a forced labor camp, with Dafa practitioners arrested for validating the
Fa, one practitioner accepted all the "responsibility." Even the head
of the brigade said, "So and so is a man who dares to stand up."
Recently some fellow practitioners said, "So and so fellow practitioner has
been arrested, he knows a few dozen practitioners. He did not give up one name,
but took all the responsibility on himself." In the forced labor camp,
there was another fellow practitioner who told the Procurator everything he
wanted to know during interrogation. Other practitioners suggested that he
should not accept such persecution. He replied: "The cultivation period is
close to the end, I am not afraid." This is an attachment to time. Not
being afraid does not mean allowing the evil to persecute us. This practitioner
is still in prison. Compared to Teacher's Fa, these practitioners' acts did not
completely deny the old forces arrangements, but acknowledged them in a
different way. Dafa practitioners have done nothing wrong by validating the Fa
and exerting their own rights, we are not committing any crimes. How can we
accept responsibility? Isn't that admitting our wrongdoing and acknowledging the
old forces' arrangements? How have we positioned our own deeds and Dafa? 6. Completely deny the old forces' arrangements In the forced labor camp, while we were practicing the standing exercises and
sending forth righteous thoughts with one palm in front of the chest, a group of
police and guards suddenly entered the room. The practitioners who were sending
forth righteous thoughts did not move a bit, and the police did not touch them.
However, I had a human notion and went to stop them from arresting people. A fat
policeman came over, lifted another practitioner and me in each of his arms and
moved us aside. I did not enlighten and ran over again. As a result, I was
beaten and passed out on the floor. I don't know how much time passed before I
woke up, but I only realized what I had done wrong a long time later. On that
day, I was sent to the detention center. I could not lie down for a week, I
could only sit. The police questioned me, "The government does not allow
the practice of Falun Gong, but you still practice. Are you against the
government?" "I am not against the government" I replied.
"The forced labor camp reported that a few of you are heads." I said,
"I am not a head, there is no hierarchy amongst Dafa practitioners."
He then said, "You shout Falun Gong slogans." I was going to say that
I did not shout, but immediately realized that I came to validate the Fa, so
would I not dare to admit shouting the truth? I answered: "I did
shout." But what he wrote down was: "Have you shouted Falun Gong
reactionary slogans?" I pointed out that shouting out the truth about Falun
Gong is not reactionary and asked him to correct what he had written. He would
not. I then told him that if he did not change it, I would not sign it. Thus, he
had to change the sentence. Through this incident, I realized: A Dafa
practitioner's every step in validating the Fa is very important, we must mind
every thought and monitor our thinking, and compare it to the Fa at all times.
Only with righteous thoughts are we able to act righteously. As of now, I feel there are two things we should pay attention to. First, when our workplace or certain departments ask us to write a
guarantee statement, some people think we can write first and then
make a solemn declaration, negating what we wrote, on the Internet several days
later. This is not going to work. Cultivation is very serious and can't be
treated with human notions. Such actions show that we are not being responsible
to Dafa or to ourselves. Also, when the persecution was severe, some practitioners had fear. Thus,
some practitioners were not willing to deliver Teacher's new articles or "Clearwisdom
Weekly" to fellow practitioners, because they were worried that the
imprisoned practitioners would reveal their names if they were caught. This is
also wrong. Although what they did is not satisfactory, we must try our best not
to leave one practitioner behind. A fellow practitioner had a dream in which a practitioner and many other
people were busy in a greasy hole. When she passed by, that practitioner said,
"Let me know when you leave." I thought, we all need to, and should,
help any practitioners who are lagging behind. "In Buddhism, it is said that every phenomenon in human society is
illusory and unreal." (Zhuan Falun) I think the persecution every practitioner faces is also illusory. When
practitioners walk the path correctly, this phenomenon will not exist; when
someone acknowledges the old forces' arrangement, it can make them real. Everyone's situation is different, and their paths are different; however, we
all must walk our paths correctly. A fellow practitioner once wrote a poem: Cultivation is difficult, difficult to enlighten,
Layer on layer of rosy clouds and layer on layer of fog,
Clouds turn and the fog emerges, how to find the way out,
How simple - righteous thoughts are the way.
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