Dafa Practitioners Should Not Rely on Everyday People to Validate the Fa By Li Yiyan (Clearwisdom.net) We often read in reports from Mainland China words such as: We hope
human rights organizations and overseas practitioners will appeal for so and so. As a form of
truth-clarification, this is not a problem, but as a Dafa practitioner, sometimes I feel that in
quite a number of such appeals there exists an everyday person's mentality of hoping everyday people
or overseas practitioners will uphold justice on our behalf. From Master's repeated teaching, we all know that when we see conflicts we should look within
ourselves. So when this thought came to me, I calmed down my mind and looked first within myself,
asking: Why am I always reading such sentences in these articles? I found indeed that I also had a
mentality of seeking external help. Take the lawsuit against dictator Jiang for example: During the
legal proceedings, I subconsciously attached great importance to the legal proceedings themselves
and to everyday people's decisions, as if those things had become the reasons for my efforts. From
the perspective of the Fa, it is wrong to do this. It is not based on the Fa and can run counter to
what we set out to do, because the old forces are keeping a close eye on Fa-rectification period
Dafa disciples and are looking for loopholes to take advantage of. I benefited a lot from the Chicago Fa-conference, especially from what Master said about the case
regarding the UN Human Rights Commission. I clearly saw what I was lacking in my understanding. Due
to the mentality of doing things amongst everyday people and the habits of doing things, as well as
the earnest desire to end the persecution, to reduce the loss and damage to fellow practitioners in
Mainland China and to hope that everyday people could play a crucial positive role in ending the
persecution, I developed a mentality of relying on everyday people (at the time, I did not realize
this was relying on everyday people, and that it was not based on Dafa disciples validating the Fa).
Therefore, many of my thoughts and ways of doing things focused on specific tasks. Also, while
clarifying the truth, I tried hard to seek everyday people's "right decisions" and failed
to at all times merge together cultivation, validating the Fa and saving people. Looking retrospectively at the case of the Human Rights Commission, we can see clearly that at
that time we did pursue the resolution by the United States and the vote by the UN Human Rights
Commission. Our feelings went up and down along with their decisions, and many practitioners both
inside and outside of China have had such a mentality in the past few years. What was the result?
Our gaps were taken advantage of by the old forces. The U.S. resolution failed to pass in the first
year, and failed again in the second year. At the same time, the CCP seemed to be gaining influence
with its money-diplomacy and lobbying. In the face of setbacks, we all failed to look within in time
to see if there was unrighteousness or impurities in our ways of thinking. Instead, we took a
one-sided approach and tried to improve specific ways of doing things. As a result, the situation
deteriorated to the point that the United States was driven off the UN Human Rights Commission,
which was set up by the United States in the first place, and a country with a horrendous human
rights record became the chairman of the commission. Still, we did not truly realize the impurities
in our mentality, and were thus "arranged" by the old forces. Only by drawing lessons from past experience and by even more clear-headedly cultivating
ourselves can we avoid manipulation and interference by the old forces and do better at the things
we should do in validating the Fa and saving sentient beings. The current lawsuit against dictator
Jiang provides a good opportunity for us to draw lessons from the past, to cultivate and improve
ourselves and to validate the Fa. We must not allow the old forces to take advantage of our gaps
anymore. When we are able to clarify the truth with pure hearts, and when people have righteous
hearts, everyday people will naturally do things with justice; otherwise it won't work and will
bring about the opposite result. We are not doing everyday people's things, and all the mechanisms
behind us are supernormal. July 1, 2003 Posting date: 7/6/2003 |