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Understanding the Process of Breaking Through the Internet Blockade
By a practitioner from China
(Clearwisdom.net) I learned how to access the Minghui website (Chinese
version of Clearwisdom.net), normally blocked by the Chinese Communist regime,
last year. Soon after, the access was again blocked. Seeing the appearance of
the blockade and also the appearance of software to circumvent this excited and
impressed me. I admired the practitioners who had developed the software. It was
not until I saw an experience-sharing article that I realized that the blockade
should not even be acknowledged. Breaking through the Internet blockade is not a
matter that concerns only the practitioners who developed the software, but has
to do with all practitioners as a whole body. The interference eventually and gradually decreased. Occasionally I couldn't
get onto the web, or the downloading speed would be slow. Whenever this
happened, I looked inward and sent forth righteous thoughts, which was sometimes
very effective, and sometimes not. While sharing experiences with practitioners
from other areas, we discovered we couldn't access the Internet at almost the
same times. This helped me understand that when the interference was directed
toward each individual, individually sending righteous thoughts would be fairly
effective, but when the interference was directed toward the whole body, if we
didn't realize it and didn't send righteous thoughts concerning the whole body,
then it would be difficult for the righteous thoughts to be effective. Master in his lectures has emphasized the importance of coordinating as a
whole body. Quite a few practitioners' experience sharing articles have been
published about this as well. I now feel that I have some understanding about
coordinating as a whole body and about looking at things from the standpoint of
the whole body. To me it means not merely cooperating while we are all working
to accomplish a task. It is during this cultivation period, when we run into
something, especially something major, that every practitioner should consider,
understand, and accommodate from a whole body point of view. If we regard our
whole body as a "living object," and if everyone of us is filled with
righteous thoughts, then this "living object" as a whole must be full
of righteous thoughts. Then any interference with or persecution of the whole
body won't exist. By looking inward though, I knew that I had many realized and
unrealized attachments, and on many occasions I didn't do well, as I had not
actually realized that I was one of the practitioners who didn't do well. Yesterday (February 20, 2008), another practitioner told me that he was
unable to access the Internet. When I turned on my computer to try, I couldn't
either. I immediately realized that it was due to interference with us as a
whole body. Once I realized this, my immediate thought was that the blockade
evil was nothing. I thought, "What does the blockade amount to? A small
finger is enough to crush it!" I tried to access again while sending
righteous thoughts. I got through, but just couldn't download files. After a
moment I realized that the NTDTV Chinese New Year Splendor performance
would be broadcast to Mainland China on February 20 and February 21. This
blockade could be interference with the broadcast. I felt very sad. First of all, by looking inward with regard to the overseas Chinese New
Year Splendor performance, as a Mainland practitioner I didn't have a good
understanding of how to coordinate it. I thought we just had to wait for the DVD
and then let relatives and friends watch, that's all. When I saw a
practitioner's article proposing to cooperate as a whole body by sending
righteous thoughts with the overseas practitioners to eliminate the
interference, I hurried to inform the practitioners I could contact. I had seen
several notices about the broadcast to the Mainland during the Lantern Festival,
but I didn't think about the need for righteous thoughts to support this until
the Internet blockade occurred. Why couldn't my understanding catch up? The
reason was that I couldn't step out of myself. If we only look at things from an
individual point of view, we will often think it has nothing to do with
ourselves. I would suggest that all the practitioners who encountered this Internet
blockade look inward. How much attention did we pay to this performance? Did we
realize this should be accomplished through the cooperation of both Mainland and
overseas practitioners on the basis of a whole body? Above are merely my personal thoughts. Please point out anything improper.
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