Discussing How to Relate the Lawsuit Against Jiang to Government Officials and the Overall Situation By a Dafa practitioner from the United States
(Clearwisdom.net) It is a great event in the human world to file a
lawsuit in a US court charging Jiang with genocide. Fa-rectification period Dafa
disciples should jump out of the mentality of win or lose in the dispute at the
human level. Rather than pitting ourselves against any individual or being the
opposite of anything, we should understand, look upon, and handle saving
sentient beings from the standpoint of Fa-rectification and offer salvation to
sentient beings.
Recently, I made an appointment with the legal assistant of my representative
and talked with him about the lawsuit against Jiang. The suggestions he offered
after listening to me were quite inspiring and here I would like to share them with fellow
practitioners.
When you tell people about the crimes Jiang has committed, you are not
presenting the issue on the level of good and bad, or right and wrong; that is,
you are not arguing on the same level that I am right you are wrong, or I am
good you are bad. To put it more specifically, do not present this kind of thing
as an antagonistic bilateral relationship.
For example, regarding the so-called "self-immolation" incident, should we
focus on clarifying how many Wang Jindong's there are, whether Wang Jindong is
or is not a Falun Gong practitioner, or on the fact that this persecution should
never have happened in the first place? Should our thinking be focused on
completely denying this persecution or negating a victim who has been
manipulated?
For example, for the rescue of Charles Li, shall we regard the rescue itself
as the ultimate goal, and try our best to achieve "his release" and stop there?
Or, should we clarify the truth about the overall persecution, let people understand the
reason why Falun Gong practitioners try their best to explain the facts, let
people learn the fact that the Chinese state-run media has been covering up the
truth and distorting the facts, and let people realize the significance for each
country to learn about the truth, uphold justice and freedom of belief, and the
corresponding impact it would have on the country's social stability and the
happiness of its citizens. If, during the course of clarifying the truth, we
clear the evil factors and obtain people's support, could the evil persecution
against Charles Li continue?
Also, should we clarify the truth in order to hold a painting exhibition, and
take whether the exhibition can be held as the criterion of success? Or, should
we explain the facts in order to help people understand the persecution, and
allow those countries and nations to be saved, while using the form of an art
exhibition?
The two examples point out the need to understand the relationship between
parts and the whole, details and the overall situation. Only when we look at the
overall situation from the perspective of the Fa-rectification, can we avoid
becoming entangled in details and being manipulated by interference from
ourselves and externally. This way, we can maintain a clear mind without
drifting away from the major objective.
We must pay great attention to the lawsuit against Jiang, the legal procedure
itself, and do well. It is far from enough to only carry out the concrete legal
affairs. The significance of this lawsuit is global and is far beyond the
meaning of a lawsuit in the human world. It is a great event when Fa-rectification
period Dafa disciples in the human world help all people make a clear
distinction between right and wrong and knowingly choose their futures. We also
provide an opportunity for the sentient beings to clearly distinguish truth from
lies, to straighten out the social operation tenets, to let each country
correctly position itself, and to justly enforce the law.
It also concerns the goal of saving sentient beings during the course of the
lawsuit. It is very important to clarify the truth to people in order to
directly affect whether the lawsuit will be successful. We could say that the
most important activity in the human world is for sentient beings to discern the
evil through our truth-clarification and to restrain and eliminate the evil.
However, there were occasions when practitioners, including myself, who went
to explain the persecution facts, carried a mentality of competitiveness that
was hard to detect, and on the surface, and it looked like we were upholding
justice and distinguishing right from wrong. To clarify the truth this way, the
compassionate heart of saving sentient beings can be easily blocked off by the
human mentalities we have not gotten rid of. Thus, audiences could not fully
capture the essentials that we truly wanted them to understand. In addition,
this kind of mentality often made us turn an originally fundamental big event of
saving sentient beings into letting the audience help us solve our individual
grievances. This kind of attachment made our words less powerful than Fa-rectification
period Dafa disciples are supposed to be and therefore, made our words unable to
move and awaken people's consciences. It also let the audience have passive
reflection and hence, they could not actively participate in the matter or
devote themselves to the issue.
Because of the same mentality, when our request did not achieve what we
expected, we would complain about why this department or that organization could
not position itself correctly. Why was the bottom line of the moral standard so
low? Real complaints followed. Sometimes, this kind of complaint was also added
to conversations or correspondence with government officials.
If the moral standards of humans were high enough, there would be no need to
rectify the Fa. Master scooped us out of an extremely degenerated moral state
and allowed us to become Fa-rectification particles through cultivation; how
much painstaking effort has Master exerted? Everyday people have not gone though
the procedure of "being cleansed" as we did, therefore, they need us to tell
them the facts and to save them, rather than to complain to them or blame them.
Our complaints and reflected human attachments are exactly the reason that
everyday people will be blocked off, and are also the parts that the old forces
try hard to magnify so as to take advantage and to make trouble.
In addition, when we need to do some Dafa work that requires special human
knowledge, skill, or technology, two situations often occurred among ourselves.
One was that quite a number of people were afraid of difficulty and therefore
were hindered by human mentalities and notions. One word of "difficulty" gets in
the way, and prevents one from actively studying and quickly adjusting ourselves
to achieve the state of being able to actively contribute. Another situation is
to pose as a specialist, consider it more important to prove one's ability than
to validate Dafa, and to forget that the power of rectifying the Fa and saving
sentient beings comes from Dafa and Dafa disciples rather than from
"specialists" or "experts" in the human world. All of these form obstacles on
our path of going forward.
Under the exterior condition of the old force's evil performance and many
sentient being's deterioration, it is often our Dafa disciple's attachments that
cause different kinds of discontented responses in the human world during the
course of Fa-rectification. If we don't get rid of our attachments, more people
will be blocked by the old forces and therefore destroyed, or unable to truly,
clearly, and correctly position themselves when they have the opportunity to do
so. Our attachments come to be the obstacles that prevent sentient beings from
being saved.
If we can truly follow what Master said in "Explaining the Fa During the
2003 Lantern Festival at the U.S. West Fa Conference": "You should always
remember this: I don't recognize any of the interference that's occurring among
Dafa disciples today, all of the things that shouldn't happen are the old
forces' arrangements; they see your personal cultivation as the first priority.
Of course, personal Consummation is the first priority, since there's
nothing more to talk about if you can't reach Consummation. But today's Dafa
disciples are doing something different from the cultivations in any other
period in history, and it's because you are shouldering a greater responsibility
that surpasses your personal Consummation. Saving sentient beings and validating
the Fa, far surpasses your personal cultivation, they're even greater things.
And this is something that the old forces can't handle correctly, so they're
interfering with you. Negate them, and face all of it with the right thoughts!"
If we can correctly understand Fa-rectification period Dafa disciple's
"looking inside," shouldn't we often ask ourselves whether we really explained the
facts clearly to these government officials who do not know about the truth? Did
we clarify the truth with the compassion of offering salvation, or with the
pursuit, hidden in our hearts, of achieving an instant result? Were we free of
any pursuit to just purely, rationally, and wisely help them to learn about the
facts? Did we let go of ourselves and always put Dafa and saving sentient beings
as the first priority?
If we still have not truly achieved this, every one of us should look inside,
and practitioners as a whole should look inside, to find the obstacles in
the way we think, firmly remove them, and do things well in accordance with the
requirement of the Fa-rectification.
Posting date: 4/16/2003 |