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My Understandings of "Immediate Retribution in This Lifetime"
(Clearwisdom.net) Recently I shared this understanding with a fellow
practitioner: "With the Fa-rectification having come to the present stage
and so many local practitioners having been seriously persecuted, why aren't
there many karmic retribution cases locally? Master told us that karmic
retribution cases would happen on a large scale. Why haven't retributions
happened on a large scale locally? We really have to search inward." After continuous discussion in recent days, I developed a deep understanding
of "immediate retribution in this lifetime." Ordinary people believe that, "when it's time, all good and evil will be
rewarded respectively." But this is a warped principle. This belief
actually contains aspects of "having no alternative" and reflects
someone who does not fully believe. Human society is a realm of delusion. No
matter whether someone does good or bad things, most people are rewarded or
receive retribution in their next lives. Therefore, immediate feedback is
impossible. Moreover, during reincarnation, people's memories are purged of the
past. They have no idea about their previous lives, and cannot understand the
interconnection between their previous and current lives. Therefore, people feel
happy when they have good or smooth lives, and feel pain when they have
difficult lives. They may blame God and other people, "God is not fair to
me!" They really don't know everything is karmic retribution. Under
hopeless conditions, people loose their belief in God, stop behaving well, and
eventually destroy themselves. Especially in China, the evil party uses
so-called "atheism" to destroy the morality of humankind. Without
belief, people dare to do all kinds of bad things. In such a way, the moral
standards of human society have quickly degenerated, and human beings are on the
verge of destruction. As practitioners, we realize that this is the arrangement
of the evil old forces due to their wanting to weed out sentient beings. If a person could immediately receive a reward after doing a good thing, or
quickly receive karmic retribution after doing a bad thing, he (or she) could
easily experience the existence of the heavenly rule, "good will be
rewarded with good, and evil with evil." Thus, people would not dare to be
evil and accumulate endless karma that they could not pay back. Because the
universe has deviated, people can no longer verify the existence of the heavenly
rule. People behave badly until they loose all their virtue, and then they head
for destruction. My personal understanding is that this is one of the elements
which caused the old universe to deviate. The future universe will exist forever. In my understanding, the rule of
"good will be rewarded with good, and evil with evil" will exist in
the future. No matter if one does good or bad, a person will receive returns in
their current life. Master taught us this in the Fa-rectification verse,
"The Fa rectifies heaven and earth, immediate retribution in this
lifetime." (Essentials for Further Advancement II) In my personal understanding, Master wants to rectify the deviated rule of
"good will be rewarded with good, and evil with evil" in human
society. As the Fa-rectification progresses, the rule "good will be rewarded with
good, and evil with evil" is gradually starting to surface. For example: However, many ordinary people, especially those who persecute Dafa and Dafa
disciples, have not received any retribution yet, and they still behave badly.
They often talk boastfully, saying "Where is the retribution? I did a lot
of things to persecute Dafa, why haven't I received any evil returns?"
Therefore, they intensify their efforts to do more bad things. I have some
understandings about this situation as well: "As I've said, everything that happens today in the ordinary society
is the result of Dafa disciples' thoughts. Even though the old forces do
exist, if you don't have those thoughts they can't do anything." In my personal understanding, the reason for the situation is the result of
Dafa disciples' righteous thoughts. The objective of the old forces is to
destroy sentient beings. When they persecute Dafa, instead of rewarding them
with evil right away, the old forces arrange the retribution to come later
during the Fa-rectification of the human world. Some fellow practitioners even think that it is not good behavior to let evil
people who persecute Dafa disciples receive retribution. Their various
understandings all come from misunderstanding the Fa.
If all Dafa disciples could rise to a higher level through understanding the
Fa's principles, we could realize that making those who persecute Dafa
practitioners receive immediate retribution is true compassion and salvation. We
could also understand that this thought reflects great virtue and the
retribution should arrive as early as possible. Every day exists for the needs
of Fa-rectification and for saving sentient beings. If those beings don't
receive retribution until Fa-rectification in the human world arrives, they will
loose their chance to survive. The only thing left for this kind of being is
elimination. It would definitely bring adverse effects on saving sentient
beings. Therefore, if all the practitioners in an area could follow the progress of
Fa-rectification, the karmic retributions in the area should occur more often.
In this way, ordinary people could really see the rule, "good will be
rewarded with good, and evil with evil." Ordinary people could then see
both the merciful and the dignified sides of Dafa. Hence, they will respect Dafa
and be saved. Let us send pure and firm righteous thoughts that all the people who
persecute Dafa and Dafa disciples receive retribution in this life. Let's save
more people and sentient beings in order to perfect and harmonize what Master
wants. July 13, 2007
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