(Clearwisdom.net) The process of Fa-rectification has entered its last stage now, and each and every Falun Dafa practitioner is making the best use of the time to rescue sentient beings and righteously walk his or her path of validating Dafa.
Below is an overview of our workplace situation. Falun Dafa practitioners in our workplace have stepped forward to validate Dafa one after another as early as 2000, and some have even been to Beijing. A portion of practitioners had not stepped forward then, but since 2002 and 2003, some of those practitioners have stepped forward to validate Dafa as well. However, as we then had not quite understood circumstances from the standpoint of the Fa, negative things happened. Our fear was relatively great as we stepped forward just recently; therefore from time to time practitioners were arrested, detained or sentenced to forced labor. Moreover, the headquarters of our workplace even detained more than ten Dafa practitioners for over a year and brutally tortured them. It was considered one of the workplaces most heavily involved in the persecution. Many CCP (Chinese Communist Party)'s officials meanwhile followed Jiang's evil group closely, passing down to lower levels the orders to persecute Dafa and Dafa practitioners and have thus misled a lot of people. Although we practitioners have been trying our best to clarify the truth, distribute flyers and post truth-clarification banners, because of the CCP's red terror only a very limited number of people understood the truth.
On Nov. 15, 2003, our compassionate and venerable Master published the comments on a practitioner's article "Expose the Evil Happening Locally to the Local People." We decided to follow the requirement of the Fa-rectification to expose the persecutory acts personnel in our workplace had committed, so as to rescue many sentient beings in our workplace. During the process we experienced many difficulties. For instance, some practitioners' xinxing hadn't improved soon enough, so they changed their attitude several times. Some practitioners were afraid of the CCP's retaliation and persecution again, so they held that distributing the truth materials from the other regions could rescue the sentient beings the same. We sat down again and again and exchanged our understandings, and in the end everyone reached an agreement. After the publication of our materials on the Minghui/Clearwisdom website, we widely distributed the materials, including to other workplaces nearby. The impact was very big: people said "good job," many people understood the truth. The wicked people at our workplace were shocked. We had struck fear in them, and it has kept their evildoings nearly at bay.
I must mention that our cultivation environment has relatively eased up for nearly three years since that incident, except for one practitioner's arrest and torture. This practitioner was one who did not agree to expose the local evil. We think if all the practitioners' xinxing could have improved sooner and they actively participated in activities, our cultivation environment would have been even better and more sentient beings would have been rescued.
Since the beginning of 2006, some practitioners in other workplaces have exposed the retributions suffered by those who had been personally involved in the persecution. Because the persecution was initially severe at our workplace, relatively more obvious and numerous instances of retribution have happened to the evildoers. Some had accidents, and some suffered a deadly illness. A member of the CCP died of illness after sending several practitioners to a labor camp. The doctor who examined his body said his brain had exploded! In many cases, the evildoers suffered retributions themselves, but in some cases their family members were implicated, too. Even everyday people said, "So and so suffered this because he was too ruthless to Falun Gong." Therefore we decided to expose the retributions suffered by those who were involved in the persecution to the public, so as to further expose and shock the evil, rescue sentient beings by educating them with the heavenly principle, "good is rewarded with good, and evil with evil."
We had planned to do things the same last time--preparing materials while coordinating with all practitioners in our workplace and trying our best to have everyone's improved understandings and agreement to participate. At the planning stage we decided not to make it known on any greater scale before the coordination had achieved its goal. However, a practitioner leaked the information out. As a result, a large dispute occurred: some practitioners refused to meet with the practitioners planning the action. They complained and said bad things. They wanted to prevent us from doing it, not to mention not being willing to work together with us. We had to postpone the plan because of these difficulties.
Right at this moment, the evil dark minions reached out to our workplace. Shortly afterwards, a practitioner was reported while clarifying the truth and was arrested. For a while our workplace had become the evils' focal point. Before long two more practitioners were arrested, one of whom was sent to forced labor in only a few days, and the other was sent to a brainwashing center and has been detained there ever since. Several others have been harassed, too.
This was a hard lesson. We have gradually come to realize that the evil still exists after all, and we have failed to take the opportunity to expose it and disintegrate the evil factors in other dimensions in time.
For the past two years we hadn't exposed the evil thoroughly enough and did not clarify the truth to other workers in our workplace well enough. The evil was thus able to take advantage of our loopholes and persecute us rampantly. Of course the evil can only be rampant in the surface dimension, and it is their last struggle, but we can never lower our guard. We have come to understand that practitioners in China should further study Teacher's comments in the article "Expose the Evil Happening Locally to the Local People," because in some areas the evil is still ruthlessly arresting and brutally torturing Dafa practitioners. We need to continuously put efforts into stopping it. In our humble understanding, if every practitioner could do well in exposing the evil in his or her workplace and area of living, then it would not only shock the evildoers, disintegrate the evils in other dimensions, but also rescue sentient beings. And, during the process practitioners would improve as a whole.
As to our workplace, some practitioners still need to improve their understanding on this issue. Moreover, some of them have not even understood the real reasons behind the persecution and still kept their understandings in the human level, thinking that exposing the evil in our workplace is inviting trouble.
The reason for us to write this article is to share our understandings with all practitioners in our workplace, in hopes of improving our understanding as a whole as soon as possible, based on effective Fa-study. We also hope practitioners in other areas who have experienced similar situations can learn from our lessons. We would like to also remind everyone that, in validating Dafa, as a practitioner, if one's xinxing has not yet reached a certain level and needs to ascend, please make sure never to keep other practitioners from exposing the evil and clarifying the truth. The several practitioners who suffered the persecution I mentioned earlier were the very ones who tried to prevent our actions of exposing the evil. Cultivation practice in Dafa is serious! Let's not leave loopholes for the old forces to take advantage of.
This concludes my limited understandings. Please kindly point out anything improper.
