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"By Having Your Heart Unaffected You Will Be Able to Handle Every Situation"
By Guang Lian, a Falun Gong practitioner in Jinzhou, Liaoning Province (Clearwisdom.net) [Note: The title is a quote from "Eliminate
Your Last Attachment(s)" in Essentials for Further Advancement II] 1. "By Having Your Heart Unaffected You Will Be Able to Handle All
Situations" I have discovered that the CCP fears these words the most --- "Heaven is
about to eradicate the CCP; Withdraw from the CCP for your safety." Since
we began to expose the CCP's crimes, we have posted the dreadful truth about the
CCP on the streets in different colored paper. Here are some examples of the
messages we've posted: "Heaven is about to eradicate the CCP. Withdraw from
the CCP for your safety. Sujiatun secret concentration camp harvests internal
organs from live Falun Gong practitioners," and so on. People find these
flyers everywhere. Some truth-clarification flyers were left on the
streets for a long time, while police officers whose minds are still poisoned
removed some flyers shortly after they were posted. One evening at around 9:00 p.m., I posted truth-clarification flyers on the
walls along a marketplace street because a lot of grocery shoppers walk along
that road in the morning. All of sudden a man appeared from out of the shadows.
I took a good look at him and found that he held a walking staff in his hands. I
glanced at him once more and continued to post the flyers. He followed me. I
knew he was following me, but I didn't turn around. After about 90 yards, I
entered an apartment building with an open entrance because I wanted to get rid
of him. He began to panic when I disappeared into the building. He looked around
the entrance for me. When I saw him enter the building, I climbed the stairs and
he followed. When he reached the second floor, he looked up. By then I had
already reached the fourth floor. All the lights in the hallway were on, but I
didn't have any fear. In fact, I was very calm. I took the keys out of my pocket
[to pretend I lived in this building] and walked calmly down the stairs. When I
passed him, he glowered at me. I was not intimidated, but he froze like a
scarecrow. When I reached him, I looked into his eyes and said, "What do
you think you are doing here?" It was not until then that I had a good look
at him and realized he was an undercover policeman on duty. I thought, "You
stay right here until I leave!" I escaped right under his nose. One night at at around 10:00 p.m., I had just finished posting the last two
flyers on a electricity pole in front of a building when someone walked out of
the courtyard and asked curiously, "What are you posting?"
"Truth," I replied. He hurried out to read the flyers. After a while,
he came after me. I immediately began to sent out a thought to disintegrate all
the evil that might manipulate him in order to save him. From the sound of his
running feet, I knew he was gaining on me, but I didn't turn around. He ran in
front of me and grabbed my hands. He said, "Sister, you have done an
incredible job! You are truly courageous. You are truly admirable to post these
messages. The CCP should have perished a long time ago. It has ruined my life. I
have so many talents, but the CCP denied me the opportunity to use them simply
because my family was branded as a 'rich farmer.' I have read the "Nine
Commentaries on the Communist Party." It is written wonderfully. The
CCP is capable of nothing but bullying and lynching people." "Have you
read the truth about Falun Gong?" I asked. He said, "But you people
must not fight with the CCP or you will suffer consequences." I explained,
"We are not fighting with the CCP, nor are we interested in seizing power
from the CCP. Falun Gong is a Buddha school cultivation practice. We want
nothing but to tell people the truth in order to help them see through the evil
nature of the CCP. We want to help people tell right from wrong and good from
evil. We want to save people from the poisonous CCP. We hope that people will
choose a bright future for themselves by withdrawing from the CCP, the CCP Youth
League and the CCP Young Pioneer Group." He replied, "Oh, I see. Why
don't you help me withdraw from the CCP? My name is XYZ." I am so happy for
him. 2. Don't Wait for or Depend on Fellow Practitioners' Help; Coordinate
Practitioners in the Villages and Send the Nine Commentaries to Them Last year two coordinators in my area were arrested and police ransacked a
Falun Gong truth-clarification material production site. It brought great damage
to my area. Afterwards, several other coordinators felt a lot of pressure. I
decided that I could no longer sit idly by. I talked to several coordinators and
tried to identify the cause of this giant loophole. I discovered the root
cause--they were too busy doing truth-clarification work and were not diligent
in their Fa study, practicing the Falun Gong exercises, and sending
forth righteous thoughts. This is the reason why the evil was able to find and
exploit their loopholes and create so much damage. We have always talked about
being responsible to the one-body. Today the truth-clarification site in our
area was sabotaged and our fellow practitioners were arrested. How can I stand
by and do nothing? How could I neglect the one-body for fear of my personal
safety? If so, how could I live up to the title of a Falun Gong practitioner in
the Fa-rectification period? I went to a coordinator and said, "Is there
anything that I can help do? I will do it." At the time I thought of only one thing: "There is Teacher and the Fa;
no demonic tribulation can stop me. As a practitioner, I must be responsible to
the Fa." At the time, there was very little help available, so I took
responsibility for several projects. At the time, we were distributing the
Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party far and wide. We basically covered
the urban areas, so we needed to cover the rural areas next. I volunteered to
coordinate fellow practitioners in the rural areas and ship the Nine
Commentaries to them. At first, I faced a lot of difficulties because practitioners in the rural
areas are generally busy with farming chores. They don't have a lot of time to
study the Fa, have a strong attachment to fear, and do not trust fellow
practitioners. They don't usually keep contact with fellow practitioners from
other areas out of fear for their personal safety. But there are some who study
the Fa well. I repeatedly communicated with them and shared my understanding of
the Fa with them. Sometimes I asked to meet them in the urban area to exchange
cultivation experiences face to face. Sometimes we communicated via public pay
phone. Gradually they began to trust and open up to me. Thus I began to see some
progress in the truth-clarification work. In order to have farmers read the
Nine Commentaries sooner and purge the CCP's poisonous lies from them, I
volunteered to ship the Nine Commentaries to fellow practitioners in the
rural areas. There were some difficulties in spreading theNine Commentaries in the
rural area. Farming villages are far from each other. Practitioners in the rural
area are mostly women and older people. It is not easy for them to carry several
dozen books on their back. Yet no one complained. Every practitioner carried out
his or her mission. Some did an exceptional job in spreading the Nine
Commentaries. In some rural areas there were no practitioners, so it became
difficult to accomplish our goal. We organized several practitioners to travel
to villages many miles away with copies of the Nine Commentaries strapped
to their bicycles. Sometimes they stayed up until dawn distributing them. It was
hard work and very exhausting, but everyone knew that the mission of
practitioners was to save sentient beings, do the Three Things well
Teacher requires of us, and help Teacher with His Fa-rectification in the world. 3. Rectify Myself and Help Fellow Practitioners Overcome Their Difficulties Lately there was a huge conflict between coordinators in our area. For a very
long time, some coordinators were too busy with Dafa work to study the Fa,
practice the exercises, and send forth righteous thoughts. As a result, the old
forces targeted them and intensified their conflicts, thus creating huge
partitions between them. My heart ached to witness their problems. Why didn't
they seek within in the final and critical stage of the Fa-rectification,
especially when their conflicts had reached a deadlock? After I learned what had
happened, I went to see one of the coordinators and exchanged cultivation
experiences with her. She was under a lot of pressure as many problems appeared
to be associated with her. She told me, "I quit. I can't do anything
right." I said, "A cultivator shouldn't say such things. It's not a
bad thing to have conflicts if you know how to handle them and overcome them.
Isn't it a great opportunity to elevate your xinxing? We are
required to cultivate ourselves amidst conflicts and difficulties. This is
nothing. As someone who is older, may I suggest that you calm down first? Study
the Fa, practice the exercises, send forth righteous thoughts, search from
within for your attachments, and let go of our human thoughts. You should pass
this xinxing test and elevate your level of cultivation." After exchanging thoughts a few times, she untied the knot in her heart and
let go of her human thoughts. She thought she had a lot of inadequacies, but the
main problem was that she didn't study the Fa enough. That's why her heart was
not big enough to tolerate others. All day long she was too busy with Dafa work
to place herself among practitioners. She shouldn't have placed herself above
fellow practitioners. She should have communicated with fellow practitioners
more often. She shouldn't have depended on or waited for other practitioners'
help. She should unite all the practitioners in our area and help form an
indestructible one-body so that we can elevate our cultivation levels together. Each time Teacher gives a Fa lecture, the Fa-rectification period enters a
new stage. Therefore, each Fa lecture addresses the current and near-future
situation. It is imperative that we study and understand each Fa lecture so as
to catch up with the Fa-rectification and prevent any problem or detour. Some
practitioners do not have a good understanding of the situation of the current
stage of the Fa-rectification. In other words, they do not have a sincere
attitude towards Teacher's latest Fa lectures. They think the best cultivation
practice is to do more Dafa work, validate the Fa, and save sentient beings. But
the truth is that these things are practitioners' duties. Although they are part
of the process to build our mighty virtue, it is more important to elevate our
cultivation levels during the process. The Fa-rectification has gradually reached the human realm. As the Fa-rectification
gets closer to the human realm, mankind's selfishness and warped thoughts will
come more and more to the forefront. These are things that a human being finds
most difficult to let go of. It is also a form of battle between the righteous
and the evil. Such battles also take place between practitioners or between
coordinators, thus creating huge partitions between practitioners. Fueled by our
human thoughts, these conflicts appear to be very severe. For example, some
practitioners [overcome with such conflicts] would become calculating, stab each
other in the back, or form factions. These are manifestations of the warped
notions bred by the evil CCP culture. As cultivators, we must eliminate these
warped notions and behavior. 4. Follow the Fa-Rectification Closely and Never Slack Off In March 2006, the Minghui/Clearwisdom website exposed the CCP's crime of
harvesting internal organs from living Falun Gong practitioners for profits. I
was shocked and didn't know how to respond. It was as though I could picture the
crime taking place right before my eyes. But I managed to calmed down quickly. I
realized I should respond as a cultivator. I know the evil CCP is capable of
anything. It's despicable beyond words. I have no doubt that the CCP is capable
of doing this. As Falun Gong practitioners in the Fa-rectification period, we
must expose it when the CCP abuses and slaughters our fellow practitioners. We
must expose its crime to the world and have the world know what kinds of
horrific crimes the evil CCP has done to a group of people who believe in Falun
Gong's principles of Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance. Teacher said, "Minghui's main feature is that it reports primarily on the facts of
the persecution of Dafa disciples in mainland China. Those reports are
first-hand information that exposes the evil, and over 99 percent--or even up
to 100 percent--of the reported information is accurate. It is distinct from
the other, conventional media." ("Teaching the Fa in the City of Los
Angeles") I remember these words well. I hurried to find the coordinators because I
wanted to discuss with them about how to expose the crime as soon as possible,
but they did not respond. They continued to work on things they had been working
on. I felt very anxious. I thought, "It is such an important thing to
expose this crime. Why don't they understand?" I went to those
practitioners responsible for making truth-clarification materials and they
immediately agreed with my idea. They quickly made a lot of booklets and flyers
detailing the dark secret of the Sujiatun concentration camp about harvesting
organs from practitioners for profits. We spread them throughout the entire
county and passed the Nine Commentaries again. (In the past, we had left
one copy of the Nine Commentaries for every three to four households.) This is such an significant crime. If we fail to expose it to disintegrate
the evil, the old forces will find an excuse to persecute us. The Fa is solemn.
Cultivation is solemn. We must catch up with the Fa-rectification and never
slack off. Please kindly point out anything inappropriate in my understanding. |