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Practitioners' Mentalities Drive the Current Persecution Situation
By a practitioner from China
(Clearwisdom.net) Since the beginning of 2008, especially during the
"two conferences," (the Chinese National People's Congress and the
Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference) there were many cases of
persecution of Falun Gong practitioners across the country. In Beijing alone,
more than 100 practitioners have been arrested and more than 200 practitioners
were arrested in Hebei Province. As the Fa-rectification comes to an end and the evil factors become less and
less, they are unable to organize a large-scale persecution as they once did.
Now is also the critical moment when large numbers of sentient beings need to be
saved. However, the persecution continues. How can this happen? How can we deal
with it? The practitioners in our area had an urgent sharing and found that many
practitioners had such thoughts. The only difference was their level of
understanding. In 2008, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) wanted to convene the
"two conferences" again. What's more, there is also the Beijing
Olympics that they want to use to further disguise their true nature. Therefore,
the situation has been even more tense and the evil forces have accelerated
their persecution of Falun Gong and have arrested more practitioners. This is
their last minute struggle. Some practitioners have totally accepted the CCP's
agenda and have completely failed to recognize that it was the arrangement of
the old forces and that we should negate it at once. Some practitioners thought
it was not right and should negate it but failed to do so throughly. Still,
others thought they did not have this kind of notion, however; when looking more
carefully, they did find that this kind of notion flashed through their mind but
it was mostly ignored. Now think about it, if one person thinks this way, or two
people think this way, it's not a big deal. But if many practitioners think this
way, then it will become a strong attachment. This will provide the old forces
with an excuse to persecute us. They would think that since that many
practitioners thought this way and were afraid of the persecution, it was really
accepting the persecution. Then, the old forces would believe that they should
let the persecution happen to test if you are still afraid of it or still
accepting it. It was practitioners' mentalities that made it possible for the present
persecution situation. As Dafa practitioners, we must each look inward to check
every thought of ours. If we find any attachment of fearing persecution, we must
negate and eliminate it at once, and should not give any excuse to the old
forces to take advantage. At the same time, we must have very powerful righteous
thoughts. At the critical moment when sentient beings are in danger of being
eliminated, practitioners should let go of life and death and try our best to
clarify the truth and encourage people to withdraw from the CCP and
its subordinate organizations. What we are doing is the greatest and most sacred
thing in the universe. However, the evil factors use practitioners' human
thoughts as excuses to conduct the so-called test to persecute practitioners who
are saving sentient beings. Their deeds seriously interfere with the salvation
of sentient beings. This shows that the evil factors are really warped and
unreasonable. Our Teacher would not admit the old force's arrangement nor would
practitioners. We must throughly negate all their arrangements. The evil factors
are not in the position to test us but must be eliminated. We must justly and assertively do well the Three Things and
should not be afraid of the evil factors. As a matter of fact, they are the ones
that are really in fear. They have been timid, nervous, and unsure in their
persecution of practitioners. We must clearly understand this and position
ourselves correctly. We are the Fa-rectification Period Dafa Practitioners.
Teacher also gave us all the Buddha Fa divine powers as well as the
Fa's power that would destroy all the evil factors in the universe. Teacher
said, "What do a handful of wretched creatures above or on the earth amount
to? " (Greetings) "Nor is human history a recreation ground created for the evil to
display its viciousness. " (To the 2005 European Experience Sharing
Conference) We must walk the path Teacher arranged for us. We must believe in Dafa and
Teacher. We have the power to eliminate the evil factors. At the same time we must regain the initiative, step up our efforts in
sending forth righteous thoughts to eliminate all the evil forces and evil
factors, and clear away the situation in which practitioners have been
persecuted. We need also to expose the evildoers and their evil deeds and help
to strengthen the righteous thoughts of those detained fellow practitioners.
Let's launch attacks both within and without to destroy the evil's den, free the
detained practitioners unconditionally and have the evildoers who persecuted the
practitioners receive immediate retribution in this lifetime. At the time when I was about to finish this article, New Tang Dynasty
Television broadcast the plan declared by the Coalition to Investigate the
Persecution of Falun Gong to start the "Human Rights Torch Relay" in
China. Some practitioners were extremely excited and ran around spreading the
news. Some practitioners felt that it worked off their anger, therefore their
hearts became unsteady. Fellow practitioners, we cannot use human notions to
address anything in this world. These are just the needs of the Fa-rectification
and we cannot depend on changes in the external environment. We should not rely
on everyday people. On the contrary, people are relying on us to be saved.
Therefore, how can we pin our hopes on everyday people? We are the leading
characters who are most responsible for the Fa-rectification process. Therefore,
we must position ourselves righteously since our mentality will decide the
changes in the human world. Human mentality would make the result worse. We must
draw lessons from the past, such as "relying on the premier" or
relying on the "result of the two conferences" to do our job. We
should have righteous thoughts and righteous deeds, we should not be affected by
external situations and we should steadily do the three things well.
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