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How to Help Fellow Practitioners Under Persecution (Clearwisdom.net) A Dafa practitioner in our local
area had been persecuted in prison for a long time and his health had become
ruined. With the help of fellow practitioners, he was able to get out of prison.
After he returned home, he had serious reactions. He felt acute pain all over
his body, and couldn't even hold a book. Practitioners immediately began to send
forth righteous thoughts for him every day, and at the same time, read the Fa to
him, share experiences, and help him to strengthen his righteous thoughts. He
expressed his firm belief that he would get well as long as other practitioners
helped him to send forth righteous thoughts for four days in a row. A few months have passed since then, and his health condition
has not improved. A few practitioners decided to moved in with him. He felt
better after that and could eat and sleep when practitioners sent forth
righteous thoughts. However, when practitioners stopped sending forth righteous
thoughts, he felt terrible and asked others to hurry up and send forth righteous
thoughts again. At the same time, this practitioner became ill tempered, and
often scolded his wife. Under such conditions, some practitioners thought we should
continue to send forth righteous thoughts to eliminate the dark minions and
rotten demons until he got well. Some others thought it wouldn't help much
unless this practitioner had strong righteous thoughts himself. Several of us had a discussion and shared our understanding
about this. It is not wrong to send forth righteous thoughts to eliminate
the dark minions and rotten demons. However, why didn't it work? As Dafa
cultivators, we are either following Teacher's Fa, or the arrangements made by
the old forces. Teacher told us to deny even the existence of the old forces.
Many practitioners stopped doing the three things that Teacher told us to do,
and went to this practitioner's home to send forth righteous thoughts. Didn't we
acknowledge the existence and arrangements of the old forces? It surely would
not work attempting to take action against the persecution under the
arrangements of the old forces. This did not conform to Teacher's Fa. As Dafa
disciples, we should do all three things well. However, what we did was exactly
fall into the trap of the old forces by leaving ourselves no time to clarify the
truth and to encourage withdrawals from the Chinese Communist Party and its
affiliated organizations. Some practitioners have suffered from persecution in prison
for a long time without studying the Fa. We can't demand them to immediately
reach a high level. To have strong righteous thoughts, this practitioner has to
study the Fa himself, to improve his understanding of the Fa, and to improve his
character (xinxing). A cultivator should not resort to only external means in an
attempt to solve cultivation problems. Doing so would only give the old forces
an easy way to interfere with us. "Aren't you all putting down doing the
three things to come to send righteous thoughts for him?" Thus, the old
forces kept him in poor condition, or even worse condition. By controlling him,
the old forces were able to interfere with the whole group of practitioners in
order to see how well we could handle things. Teacher has said that everything that happens today in the
ordinary society is the result of Dafa disciples' thoughts. ("Teaching the
Fa at the 2002 Fa Conference in Philadelphia, U.S.A.") Dafa practitioners
are one-body. What happened was not aiming at any particular Dafa practitioners,
but at all practitioners as a group. Its purpose was to check how we would be
affected and whether we could continue to cultivate the Fa. Of course, there is nothing wrong in helping a fellow
practitioner in need. However, the Fa has higher requirements for cultivators.
We should not regard "sending forth righteous thoughts" as a tool in
ordinary human society and use it with human attachments to "help" a
fellow practitioner. We believe we should continue to send forth righteous
thoughts while continuously doing the three things. It's important to help this
practitioner listen to Teacher's lectures and read Teacher's recent articles.
Only through this way can we completely deny the existence of the old forces. We are not sure if similar situations exists in other areas,
so we wanted to share our understandings here. Please correct us if there is
anything inappropriate. September 13, 2006 Posting date: 9/28/2006 |