Reevaluating the Meaning of "No Politics" By a Dafa Practitioner in Canada
(Clearwisdom.net) While explaining the facts about the persecution, an obstacle that we
encounter most often is that a lot of people think we are getting mixed up in
politics. These people appear to be very stubborn and strongly object to us in
their minds. They usually cannot bear to listen to our explanations of the
truth. We have often discussed this issue, and it has been suggested that we
should forcefully deny this accusation. However, it seems that we keep running
into the same problem over and over again. When I calmed my mind and thought about my mental attitude while clarifying
the truth, I felt that I found the root cause of some problems. Every time I
told people about the various crimes the Party has committed over the past fifty
years and the persecution against Dafa for the past four years, my human
attachments unwittingly surfaced. I naturally talked with a sharp tongue and I
could not control myself. Therefore people always ended up saying: "You
want to practice Falun Gong, so be it! But why get into politics?" I think that if during truth clarification we keep encountering the same
obstacle, and have difficulty explaining the same thing, or people keep asking
us the same question, we should refer back to the Fa and examine ourselves to
see what attachments we still need to let go of. With regard to the Party, I remember Teacher has mentioned this many times,
"But I don't want to defeat you, *** Party,..." ("Teaching the Fa
at the 2003 Midwest-U.S. Fa Conference"). In the past I didn't make a real
effort to understand this Fa-truth. Afterwards, I discovered that many people
were hindered by my lack of understanding, and as a result some of them could
not be saved. After studying the Fa and reflecting on it, I realize that, rather than
targeting the Party as a human institution, we should instead expose, target and
eliminate the old cosmos's evil forces. "Everything through the ages has
happened for the Fa" ("Just a Play"). All of the old forces have
made arrangements from the highest to the lowest level, with the Party being
nothing but a tribulation for the Fa-rectification at the very lowest level and
the manifestation in the human world of the old forces' master manipulator.
However, the evil behind-the-scene helpers actually exist in other dimensions.
Why then should we treat this surface manifestation as our opponent and forget
about the real culprit? In fact, the only way to eliminate it by the root is through Fa-rectification
cultivation, that is to say, by doing everything that Teacher has required of
us. My understanding is that we should live up to the standards of real Fa-rectification
enlightened beings and be compassionate, selfless and free of attachments. If we
fail to achieve this we won't be able to eliminate the evil and the evil will
prop up this shell on the surface. Yet, this cannot be resolved by using human
concepts or human methods at all. Unless we understand what Fa-rectification is
from the Fa, we won't be able to do a good enough job and we'll incur losses. The Party is not an abstract notion in this dimension; instead, it consists
of sixty-six million people. However among them, many are also beings that have
been harmed by the evil's deception; therefore they are pitiable. Moreover, just
because they are members of the *** Party doesn't mean that they lack benevolent
thoughts and that it is not possible to save them. On the contrary, we should
offer them salvation too. When we consider eliminating the Party as the goal in
our minds, we are in fact putting sixty-six million people in opposition to us. With this understanding, I no longer have the notion of the Party; instead,
there's only the distinction between the righteous and the evil. I tell people,
"I don't care if you belong to the Party or to which Party you belong, but
if you do evil you'll be exposed. There is still hope if you just give up evil
and return to virtue. As long as you are a human being, you should be able to
distinguish the righteous from the wicked and good from evil; this way there
will be hope for you in the future." I gradually discovered that when I
didn't follow the arrangements made by the old forces or hold human emotions
towards the Party, people no longer talked about "being political." If the old cosmos's beings cannot change for the better, it is their own
choice. An enlightened being will simply safeguard the Fa compassionately and
steadfastly. The Fa's dignity will certainly eliminate all elements that damage
the Fa and poison sentient beings. In this persecution the crimes committed by
Jiang's scoundrel political group under the flag of the Party are all evils and
are to be eliminated. They need to be exposed completely and totally when we
offer salvation to sentient beings. However, if we react with human anger and
resentment, the effect will usually be the opposite. Having understood these principles of the Fa-rectification, I think "no
politics" is our ability to remain unaffected by human politics, which
means that we will not be affected by the Party in this dimension at all. We
have to clearly distinguish what the evil is, how evil it is, why we have to
expose it and how to expose and inhibit it comprehensively. Therefore, it
doesn't matter which human means we use, as long as we understand the essence of
Fa-rectification, I think nobody in the cosmos will have any arguments left.
People in the human world naturally will not say that we are getting into
politics. Therefore, the key is not to count our accomplishments, but to see
whether we are able to do things without any attachments. The above is just my personal understanding. Please kindly correct me if
there's anything improper. Posting date: 10/25/2003 |