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Having the Proper Perspective While Saving Sentient Beings By a Falun Dafa Practitioner in China
(Clearwisdom.net) Yesterday, I casually read a pamphlet about the Chinese
Communist Party's (CCP's) secret concentration camps. I then found it difficult
to breathe, my heart ached and I was terribly sad. I felt the horror of the
heinous crimes committed by the CCP and the inexpressible suffering that Dafa
practitioners are enduring. I felt as sad as if my own family members were
suffering. As soon as this feeling surfaced, I immediately felt that something
was not right. Isn't this ordinary people's sentiment? We are Dafa practitioners
during the Fa rectification period. We are people on our way to divinity. How
can we look at problems with an ordinary person's perspective? When I look back at some of my former actions and thoughts, it seems that
they were all from a human angle. It does not seem wrong to feel sorrow for
practitioners who are suffering, but I found that this viewpoint was wrong when
I looked at it from higher levels. If we view from the perspective of a god
looking at problems, we will be able to see more clearly those who need our
sorrow. Are they our Dafa practitioners? Definitely not! Teacher said in Zhuan Falun, "There are also people who claim: 'The scripture in the Paradise of
Ultimate Bliss is totally different from that down here, and it's not at all
the same thing. Not only are the words different, but the implications and the
meaning are all different, as they've changed.'" The principles in heaven and the human world are opposite. From the angle of
human beings, we see only superficial phenomena, instead of the essence of
matters. This made me think of the story about Jesus meeting with tragedies. Jesus
knew that he would be crucified. The day before his execution, he prayed to God
and asked him to change this decision. Was it because Jesus was afraid? No. On
his way to the execution grounds, some Jewess' cried for him. He told them,
"Cry not for me, but for your offspring. People without offspring are
blessed." Now we can see clearly. Jesus asked God to change his decision
not for himself, because gods and humans see problems from different views.
Those Jewess' were humans who felt sorrow for Jesus' innocence and suffering.
What Jesus saw was the sufferings of the Jews. Because of his death there would
be more than 2000 years of pain and punishment. Jesus was crucified, but he
resurrected. But how about the Jews? The suffering of penance lasts through
today. Today is very different from former days. Now it is the period of Fa
rectification. The levels Dafa practitioners will reach cannot be paralleled by
gods in any historical period. What a crime it is to persecute Dafa
practitioners. I am afraid the aftermath will be too horrible to imagine. How
about those sentient beings who will lose their futures, those who do not know
the truth and those who are apathetic about the persecution? So it is not the
Dafa practitioners we should be sad about. No matter how much suffering Dafa
practitioners go through, they are just reflections in the maze of this human
world. As long as they firmly believe in Teacher, they will be welcomed with
nothing less than glories in the heavens. Those who are truly pitiful and need
to be saved are those sentient beings who still haven't awakened to this brutal
reality. Evil has persecuted us for so many years. Why are we against the
persecution? Not for ourselves or the suffering and pain being endured. It is
for sentient beings to awaken, stop the crimes against gods and save a future
for humanity. Some practitioners, including me, paid a lot of attention to formality when
making truth clarification materials. Some practitioners worked at
clarifying the truth with a lot of human sentiment. I think it is
because we have not started from the right point and have been looking at this
persecution as one of humans against humans. If we look at it from a god's
perspective, clearly see the most essential truth of it, then we will not be
numb when saving sentient beings. In addition, I want to encourage the
practitioners who are being persecuted to have a correct starting point, and
keep righteous thoughts and righteous actions. Changing the persecution
environment is also saving sentient beings. No gods can see as clearly as
Teacher and no gods can be as benevolent as Teacher. Teacher told us he would be
happy if half of the Chinese could be saved. How many of us can truly understand
the mood when he said this? We do not have much time and there is too much
undone or that has not done been well. We cannot relax, but should be more
diligent. Above are some of my personal understandings. Practitioners, please kindly
point out mistakes, so that they can be corrected. June 17, 2006
Posting date: 7/19/2006 |