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What Can We Do to Put an End to the Persecution that Our Fellow Practitioners Are Enduring? By a practitioner from Beijing
(Clearwisdom.net) I have been thinking about Mr. Cao Dong lately. He is
currently alone and imprisoned in Northwest China. I have learned so much from
him in the past several years. He has always put validating Falun Dafa as his
first priority. He was only newly-released from prison, but he didn't stop
validating the Fa. When he was needed to step forward, he risked his life to be
interviewed by the Vice President of the European Parliament, Mr. Edward
McMillan-Scott. In contrast, some of the other practitioners in Beijing, having experienced
tribulations, are trapped in personal cultivation and fail to measure up to the
various requirements of Falun Dafa practitioners. They fail to be increasingly
diligent as the end of Fa-rectification approaches. For example, they will not
take any risks to clarify the truth, are busy with everyday life,
and are seeking comforts in life. They would like to spend the last stage of Fa-rectification
in peace. The mission and responsibilities of Fa-rectification practitioners are
fading from their minds. Although they check the Minghui/Clearwisdom website
occasionally, send forth righteous thoughts on schedule, and study the Fa
and also clarify the truth, something is separating them from Falun Dafa. It is
selfishness and human concepts. They are holding on to them and will not let go.
They do not immerse themselves in the Fa, in a selfless manner and without
reservation. Some give excuses of needing to study the Fa with a calm mind, and
conforming to ordinary society. In fact, they are covering up their fear and
their attachments in order to protect themselves. What they want to protect are
their comfortable lives. They are passively waiting for Teacher and other
practitioners to rectify the human environment. When other practitioners are
being persecuted, they pick on their shortcomings and attachments, in effect
acknowledging the arrangements of the old forces, and reinforcing instead of
alleviating the suffering of fellow practitioners. I believe that what has happened to Mr. Cao Dong should have touched upon
every practitioner in Beijing. Fa-rectification disciples are being tested as a
whole. If we want to completely negate the tests and arrangements of the old
forces, we have to measure up to the xinxing level and realm
required of Fa-rectification period Dafa practitioners. Mr. Cao Dong was the
first to take risks to clarify the truth directly to the international
community. This requires tremendous righteous thoughts, based on courage from
Falun Dafa and compassion for sentient beings. His illegal arrest
and trial has a lot to do with the state of the one body of Beijing
practitioners. When we heard about his persecution, we should have all looked
inward to see what xinxing issues of ours have contributed to the
loopholes of the one body. Whoever is persecuted brings losses to the one body.
What are our responsibilities? If we had done better, perhaps our fellow
practitioners would not have been persecuted. If we had known that our
practitioners were going to clarify the truth, if we had all cooperated and
studied the Fa well and helped with the planning and with sending forth
righteous thoughts, continuously and intensively, and if our xinxing
level and state were in the right place, and we had formed a strong, harmonious
one body, we would have established a strong field of righteous thoughts. As a
result, the evil may not have been able to persecute any of us. Instead, they
would be eliminated. Now that the incident has happened, our thoughts are very crucial. What can
we do to dissolve the persecution our fellow practitioners are enduring? We can
no longer be indifferent and regard this from the point of view of an outsider.
We should not feel lucky that we, ourselves, are not being targeted or blamed by
other practitioners. Beijing practitioners have the responsibility to intensify
sending forth righteous thoughts to clear the evil in the field of Beijing. We
should also expose the situation, regarding how Mr. Cao Dong is being
persecuted, on the Internet in a timely fashion, and distribute the information
to the residents of Beijing to appeal for their assistance in the rescue. We should also keep in mind that the purpose is not only to rescue a
practitioner, but to eliminate the evil field in other dimensions so more people
will be saved after they understand the truth. At the same time, in order to
rescue a fellow practitioner, we have to be cooperative so we can grow as one
body and improve as one body. If we could not do as Teacher said, "The next
person's things are your things..." (Teaching the Fa at the Washington,
D.C. Fa Conference), we would still be selfish beings from the old cosmos and we
would be taken advantage of by the old forces. Mr. Cao Dong will soon be sentenced according to the perpetrators' schedule.
We cannot acknowledge such trials that ignore the principles of heaven. We have
to disintegrate it. In fact, this is not just for Mr. Cao Dong. Faced with the
pressure and dirty means of the national machines, hijacked by the evil, our
fellow practitioners are enduring what they should not be enduring. To put an
end to all this, we should all think hard: What can we do? February 9, 2007
Posting date: 2/27/2007 |