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Improving as a Whole Body to Stop the Persecution
By a practitioner from China
(Clearwisdom.net) During the recent phase of Fa-rectification, I read
some articles posted on the Minghui/Clearwisdom website that reported on severe
persecution in some areas. We should deeply ponder once and again that Teacher
has told us we should deny this persecution: "...we don't even acknowledge
their existence." ("Teaching the Fa at the 2004 Chicago
Conference") Why are we repeatedly suffering from persecution? After
thinking about it, I believe it is because we have not been working on improving
ourselves, and therefore have failed to meet the even higher requirements of the
Fa. Cultivating in Dafa is limitless. The more relaxed the environment is, the
more strict we should be with ourselves. We should constantly look inside
ourselves. From studying the Fa, we know that before reaching Consummation, we
all make mistakes. If a practitioners were surrounded by compliments from fellow
practitioners, then they would be consumed in their own merits. Therefore, it
would be difficult for the practitioners to improve by correcting their
mistakes. Regardless of how relaxed our environment is, if the evil forces still
exist, we should not neglect the matter of safety. Furthermore, we should not
ignore our own improvement and that of the whole body. Often, when things are on the verge of success, our human mentality becomes
more vulnerable, but slacking off even a little bit might cause disastrous
losses. It could cause a total defeat. Currently, our cultivation is no
exception. Until the evil forces are completely eliminated, the demons will
constantly seek opportunities to create interference for us. Teacher said in
"Teaching the Fa in the City of Los Angeles," (2006) "Dafa disciples, all the way until their last step to Consummation,
will be tested as to whether they can make it. There could be very, very
critical tests for you all the way until you are just one step away from
finishing. That is because every step becomes more and more critical to your
cultivation and your tests, especially toward the end. You know, those lawless
gods of the old cosmos will try to maneuver things until the very end, as long
as they are still around." I understand that the closer we are to the end, the more crucial it is for us
to improve as a whole body. When we are able to improve as one body, we can
demonstrate the mighty virtue of Dafa, and our energy field will be stronger.
The demonic forces will be frightened, so they won't dare to interfere with us
any longer. In our everyday practice, we should not ignore improving ourselves. Teacher
wants all of us to become masters and kings. Therefore, when we rectify the Fa,
we should improve our abilities to carry out tasks by ourselves. We should avoid
worshiping anyone or relying on other fellow practitioners. We have to walk our
own solid paths. Many practitioners like to think that we should help lessen the
volunteer coordinator's load and reduce the pressure on the
truth-clarification materials production centers. Therefore, we
participate in some tasks. As a matter of fact, this happens as a result of
righteous enlightenment in the Fa. This is walking on one's own path. Some
practitioners in remote areas hand-write their truth-clarifying materials and
post them by themselves because they do not have access to the ready-made
materials. Some practitioners who did not know how to read and write, learned to
write and wrote the truth on Chinese currency. They are all walking their own
paths. For a long period of time, those practitioners who did not have any
special skills simply told people the truth of Falun Gong, and they persuaded
people to renounce their Chinese Communist Party (CCP) membership. They are also
walking their own paths. To clarify the truth of Fa, fellow practitioners have
not waited, nor have they relied on anyone else. They have all been clarifying
the truth from the perspective of their understanding of the Fa. They are all
walking their own paths, and at the same time, they are also improving and
rising. As the end draws closer, coordinators should be more clear-minded and more
rational. We should not bring the focus of the whole area onto ourselves, nor
should we keep fellow practitioners revolving around us. If we do, it can bring
negative effects to us and the whole body as well. We are all particles of Dafa.
Whatever we think and do should reflect what the Fa teaches us. We should use
the Fa as the only means of measurement for ourselves and our cultivation. It
does not matter how well one practitioner is doing, we should always operate
from the basis of being responsible for the coordinator and fellow
practitioners. We should help them understand that Dafa is great and sacred from
our own behavior. We should understand that practitioners are not validating
themselves, but are instead validating the Fa. We should, therefore, avoid
falsely leading fellow practitioners into learning from certain persons instead
of from the Fa. Our volunteer coordinators should pay attention to fellow practitioners'
improvement. Coordinators should share the coordinating jobs among fellow
practitioners and let fellow practitioners walk their own paths as soon as
possible. Unless a task requires the whole group to work together, coordinators
should help practitioners to work individually based on their own understanding
of the Fa. In addition, coordinators should let fellow practitioners do some
small-scale coordinating jobs. In doing so, we can all experience what Teacher
described, which is that everyone is a coordinator and everyone is responsible.
While working with fellow practitioners, coordinators should pay even more
attention to their own improvement, broadening their minds, and taking the
initiative to accept and use suggestions and ideas of fellow practitioners. It
is like in a play; coordinators should be willing to play the supporting roles
and even assist others in the play. In doing so, they can help fellow
practitioners to develop their abilities to solve problems independently. We
should do our best to cooperate with fellow practitioners and silently harmonize
when problems occur. Fellow practitioners should also keep coordinators in mind. If the
coordinators ignore certain points, we should help to fill in the gaps. When
they are not doing things according to the Fa, we should point it out to them
immediately. If we all take responsibility for the whole group, and regard the
coordinating jobs as our own, our environment will improve. We should all
voluntarily do positive things for the group, and point out things that are not
consistent with the Fa. We should react to and stop anything inappropriate from
spreading. We should be concerned with fellow practitioners. Besides doing the
three things well, we should encourage each other and improve
together. Every single practitioner's improvement is connected with the
improvement of the whole group, and every practitioner's safety relates to the
safety of the whole group. If the majority of practitioners in one area can walk their own paths, not
shy away from difficulties, not worship anyone or rely on anyone, not blindly
follow anyone, but instead follow Teacher's teaching at all times, be
responsible for the Fa, and unconditionally harmonize with Teacher's requests,
they will become a whole body of solid gold as they work together, and be shiny
particles when they work by themselves. If we, as a whole body or by ourselves,
can meet the requirements of the Fa at different levels, the persecution will
end by itself. This is my personal understanding. Please point out anything inappropriate. March 17, 2008 |