Lessons in Cultivation Practice Learned from Interference Experienced in Malaysian Art Exhibition

By a Dafa Disciple in Malaysia

(Clearwisdom.net) After the Clearwisdom website published the article regarding the interference to holding art exhibition at Malaysia (http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2005/8/9/63752.html), many practitioners involved thought the article did not give the whole story.

On the morning of the second day of the art exhibition, after several senior members of Chin Woo Stadium had looked at the paintings, they questioned practitioners outside the art gallery. The members said that when the practitioners had rented the art gallery, they had not told the Chin Woo Stadium administrators that this was an art exhibition related to Falun Gong. The practitioners told the administrators only that it was an "international art exhibition." The members even became indignant and said that the practitioners had not abided by "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance."

This was a matter that should not have occurred. If the practitioners in charge of this matter had remembered the importance of clarifying the truth about Falun Gong and the persecution every time and in every place, and if they had let go of their fear of being rejected, this matter would not have occurred. The practitioners would not have needed to go to the police station to file a case and be on record in case charges ever needed to be brought.

What is the most important mission of Dafa disciples at the present time? It is to offer salvation to all sentient beings! We have to offer salvation to all the deceived and misled sentient beings by telling them the facts about Falun Gong and the persecution. When encountering conflicts and interference, we did not first search inwardly. Instead we immediately assumed that the evil was obstructing the event and that we had to expose and suffocate it. Why didn't we first search inwards to find out why the evil was obstructing our event and persecuting us? When eliminating evil, shouldn't we look at the big omissions in our own cultivation that allow the evil to pinpoint our attachments and find ways to hinder us?

This is what we think. First of all, we had some omissions on this area and had the attachment of fear that the art exhibition would be rejected if we identified ourselves and the content of the art exhibition. Therefore, we did not tell them about the facts of the persecution. The evil took advantage of this loophole and interfered with our art exhibition. In Malaysia it is rather common that everyday people have misunderstandings about Falun Gong and Teacher, aside from the fact that the Chinese community has long been poisoned by misinformation from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). In the past several years, a couple of pro-CCP Chinese media have often reprinted news items slandering Dafa directly from the Xinhua News Agency, Mainland China's official media, seriously deceiving the Chinese people in Malaysia. People of other ethnic groups have also been affected. The local media never did correct their false reports on Falun Gong to the public. Although practitioners have diligently strived to clarify the truth to the public for several years, the overall environment has not changed significantly. Practitioners who grew up in Malaysia all understand this environment. We need to clarify the truth to the public so that they may understand Falun Gong.

Many administrators and members of Chin Woo Stadium are public figures in the Chinese communities. Originally they all had misunderstandings about Falun Gong, and our practitioners have never clarified the truth to them. We have not truly clarified the truth to the majority of the Chinese communities either. How could we totally blame everyday people after the interference occurred? The idea of filing a case at the police station in the event that charges might have to be brought against Chin Woo Stadium in the future is trying to win a fight over everyday people. Such conduct would only lead the Chinese communities to develop a bad impression of us. Practitioners did not write and submit the complete story to the Clearwisdom website. They skipped the key points of this entire event: we did not clarify the truth and we did not first search inward afterwards. It would not be a surprise if similar incidents were to happen in the future.

Since the interference has already occurred, we now have the responsibility to transform this evil interference into an opportunity to offer salvation to all sentient beings. We would like to ask all Dafa disciples in Malaysia to utilize this opportunity to start thoroughly clarifying the truth in Malaysia, to use righteous actions to eliminate the evil, and to clear up the misunderstandings. This way, we can then eradicate the arrangements and destruction deployed by the old forces and the evil spirit of the Communist Party, and let people living in Malaysia benefit from listening to the truth and enjoy a glorious future.

August 25, 2005

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/8/26/109169.html

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