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Some Thoughts from Reading the Article "By Eliminating Evil Near Us, the Environment Around Us Becomes Relaxed"
By a Dafa Practitioner from Liaoning Province
(Clearwisdom.net) We felt a lot of inspiration after reading the article
"By Eliminating Evil Near Us, the Environment Around Us Becomes
Relaxed" (http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2008/9/29/101029.html). I
want to talk about my personal understanding based on the progress of Fa
rectification in our region. During the Beijing Olympics, our region suffered
severely in persecution, which created difficulty in saving sentient beings.
Some practitioners had a sense of having no alternatives and thus we were quite
passive in validating the Fa. Some began to worry about the fact that we could
not form one body and some began to complain or accuse others of not doing
things the right way, etc. Every one of us wanted our Fa validation environment
to become better. However, we all looked outward and complained about others.
How could our environment improve? If the particles comprising the whole body do
well, won't the whole body do well? In "Fa Teaching at the 2008 New York Conference," Teacher said, "Those of you who have fallen behind, who have become passive, who are
full of complaints, who hold strong grievances against others, or who focus
your attention on those in the Falun Dafa Association, none of you are willing
to cultivate yourselves, and are instead looking outward." That's quite accurate. If there is a problem, we should examine whether we
have not done well in some aspects. If we worked together and helped each other,
our fellow practitioners might not have such great pressure. If we truly
consider the entire environment, we should first cultivate ourselves well.
Whenever we encounter some conflicts or difficulties, we should each look inward
and start from ourselves and then our whole body of cultivation will change. If
we do not follow the Fa, we may add some black substances to our environment.
Our cultivation environment is created by each and every one of us and it also
depends on each fellow practitioner's effort. The article "By Eliminating Evil Near Us, the Environment Around Us
Becomes Relaxed" talked about sending forth righteous thoughts. If we can
help sentient beings learn the truth and not be used by evil, won't our
environment become better? A region near us has had a very peaceful and
comfortable Fa rectification environment. Practitioners there focused on
clarifying the truth to people in the police station and the village committee.
Their method was to have a good coordination among fellow practitioners. First
they sent righteous thought to clean up the space. Then some practitioners would
go to talk to the authorities in person, and some would mail letters. Their
efforts were very successful. They truly use their hearts when doing those
things, and this was reflected in their results. Once the authorities learned
the truth, they would no longer participate the persecution. Some even began to
protect Dafa practitioners. When an order of persecution was distributed from
higher level authorities, they would refuse and would speak up for Dafa
practitioners. Thus their future lives are very well placed. For those
individuals who would not listen and continue to do evil deeds, they adopted a
different method and exposed their evil deeds on a large scale until it stopped
the persecution. This prevented them from committing more crimes towards Dafa,
so that they then suffer less in the future. In fact, we are not only trying to save sentient beings, but also dissolve
the persecution at the surface. The evil forces arranged the persecution from
the top down: from higher authorities in the 610 Office, the police,
procuratorate, and judicial system, down to our local districts, village
committee, police station, street office, and township, etc. The local
authorities live near us and know us. They can provide details about Dafa
practitioners, and are directly involved if they participate in the persecution. Dafa practitioners should not wait until the environment becomes quiet and
safe and then begin to validate the Fa. Consider it as an important project and
begin to do it. Start from yourself and do not rely on others. Try to save those
that can be saved. For those who are no longer worthy, make sure that they will
not dare to persecute practitioners. Be genuine and start from your neighborhood
and local police station. Completely dissolve the persecution situation in other
dimensions and the surface time and space. Dafa practitioners are still passively enduring the persecution, affecting
the speed of saving more sentient beings. Since Teacher told us to perform our
lead role well, let us be worthy of Teacher's hope and the hope of sentient
beings. Let's use our divine righteous thoughts to manifest Dafa's power and to
perform well in our leading role. The above is my personal understanding. Fellow practitioners, please point
out any mistakes. |