On March 4, 2000, I went to ask the police near the People's Congress Centre how to express our concerns to the congressmen. As a result, I was taken to Ti-An-Men Police Station and detained until 5:00PM. During that period of time, I saw Falun Dafa practitioners come and go onstantly. Although I did not achieve my original goal that day, I further understood that there are many ways to guard Falun Dafa.
During this special time of Law Rectification, guarding Dafa and our own cultivation are closely related. While guarding Falun Dafa, we are also cultivating ourselves and establishing our own record of great virtue for the future. We will be able to do it better and better and get rid of our attachments layer by layer, as long as we: look at things from the perspective of Falun Dafa, have the heart of selflessness and altruism, treat ourselves as Falun Dafa practitioners whenever going through tribulations, and as long as we look into ourselves whenever there is a conflict. We Falun Dafa practitioners are taken care of by our Master. We cultivate in order to go home.
Only by giving up all of our attachments, including the attachment for consummation, can we return home.
Master Li said, "When a tribulation arrives, if you, as a disciple, can truly maintain an unshakable calm, or set your mind to meeting different requirements at different levels, this should be sufficient for you to pass the test. If it continues endlessly and if there do not exist other problems in your Xinxing or conduct, it must be that the evil demons are exploiting the loopholes caused by your lack of control." The process of our cultivation is also the process of
establishing our own record of great virtue for the future. Being able to combine cultivation with the Law Rectification is an issue facing every genuine Falun Dafa practitioner throughout cultivation.
Master Li said, "At the critical moment when I ask you to break away from humans, you do not follow me. Each opportunity will not occur again. Cultivation practice is a serious matter. The lag has become greater and greater. It is extremely dangerous to add anything human to cultivation practice." Some Falun Dafa practitioners said, "On the day when our Master calls us to get on the Law Boat, I would follow the Master without even turning my head back." Every Falun Dafa practitioner wants to go home, as this is the real purpose of being human. Yet we are in a maze and every such opportunity would present itself in a form that conforms with the ordinary human society. How could we succeed if we don't regard ourselves as Falun Dafa
practitioners when dealing with our daily conflicts? Isn't it true that every test we have during our cultivation is for us to give up attachments and for us to get a step closer to home? How can we go home carrying a huge pile of attachments? For example, would a piece of garbage be allowed in a sacred palace?
In my opinion, there are many different ways of guarding Dafa. The key is to do it from the stand-point of Dafa, and not try to maintain or conceal something human. Every Falun Dafa practitioner has gone through innumerable suffering, life after life, to establish the once-in-a-thousand-year opportunity to obtain Falun Dafa. We go to guard Falun Dafa, to suppress the savage and stubborn resistance from the demons and the old forces, to introduce the law of the universe to more and more people who don't know the truth yet, and to awaken their consciences. Even if people don't cultivate Falun Dafa, at least they will have heard of the Buddha Law, and possibly become good people; at least they won't take advantage of situations for self-profit, or help the bad people perpetuate wicked deeds. Improved behavior would be extremely beneficial to their eternal lives. In fact, it is part of the upright force conforming to the cosmic trend for increasing numbers of sentient beings to want to learn the great law.
Now that our Master has given us so much and we have suffered so much to get here today, why can't we give up the attachments at the critical moment? We all know that we can't reach consummation if we still have even one attachment.
Every Falun Dafa practitioner is very important in the Law Rectification process. What must we do now, so that we won't feel shame about the solemn promise that we once made but could not keep?
(Translated on Mar. 15, 2000)
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