(Clearwisdom.net) Jiang Zemin's regime does not show off how it beats up people in Tiananmen Square, how it cruelly force-feeds Dafa practitioners, how it gives poisonous injections to practitioners detained in psychiatric hospitals, or how the bestial police like Qianmen [in Beijing] Police Station Chief Ma Zengyou insult female Dafa practitioners. Nor does it show off how the gangsters from the "6.10" office [an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all other political and judiciary systems] dragged a practitioner to death with a motorcycle in broad daylight and how they set fire to another practitioner and burned her alive in front of a township government office. Then, why does Jiang's regime shamelessly and triumphantly show off its "reform" achievements to the general public both in China and abroad? We all know that "reform" is the ultimate goal of its attempt to destroy people's will using every possible means.
However, this "reform" is a form of persecution and abuse that is even more brutal than beating, force-feeding, or even death. It tramples upon people's consciences and attempts to destroy their souls. This is the case for everyone, whether or not he or she is a Dafa practitioner. For a Dafa practitioner, the damage caused by the "reform" is really beyond description. I have met many practitioners who had setbacks in their cultivation, and they all shared one regretful thought, "I would be better off had I died before being 'reformed.'" In fact, many of them indeed had no fear of death, but were taken advantage of by other attachments.
"Reform" is also extremely painful for everyday people. As a matter of fact, the so-called "reform" has existed for a long time. During the Cultural Revolution, many innocent young people were turned into violent ruffians by the evil theory of struggle, which led to innumerable horrible tragedies, such as betraying their parents, putting their thumbnails into their teachers' foreheads, and even killing in broad daylight. The son of the famous writer Yang Mo later wrote a book entitled "Bloody Dusk," in which he painfully recalled the bitter memory of how a son tied up his mother and beat her up. Between the lines there was irredeemable pain and regret.
Imagine that under ruthless threats or the deception of lies, if you are a mother, being asked to deny that the infant you are holding in your arms is your own; if you are a husband, being asked to deny that your wife, whom you love so much, is yours; if you are elderly, being asked to admit that the pension you have earned through life-long hard work belongs to somebody else. Although innocent, you are asked to admit that you have committed despicable crimes.
You know that all these claims are untrue. However, your will has been destroyed by threats and persecution and you have no choice but to admit that they are true. Through these admissions, you have lost your loved ones, your reputation and everything you cherish, and having lost all these, you live in an ignoble existence, not knowing when new disasters will fall upon you. Isn't this far more painful than torture or death?
I had a roommate in college whose mother used to work as the caretaker of a storehouse that lost several hundred bolts of cloth. Such things were commonplace during those turbulent times; but the "work team" seized the opportunity to torture people. They conducted lengthy interrogations, asking her the same questions hundreds of times, and repeatedly made suggestions to her saying, "Think again. Think properly...you did take them, but have forgotten...think again..." In the end, his mother "admitted" that she had taken the cloth, but the "work team" did not punish her, because by then she had a mental breakdown and showed signs of insanity.
It was not until after she went insane that my roommate was born. The cruel reality drove his father into violent despair. He beat my friend savagely, even using a thermos flask filled with boiling water. In primary school, when my roommate was asked by his friends why his mom's room had three locks, he had a feeling of extreme anger and humiliation, and didn't say a word. Even with three locks, his father would still break into the room and beat and scold his mom. If he tried to protect his mom with his tiny body, his father would beat him as well.
When he was as young as 4 or 5 years old, his mom would often tell him that his father was going to kill them. One day, she told him that his father would kill them that evening, so they agreed that as soon as his mom tapped the heater pipe, they would run away. At night, he was awakened by the hasty noise of tapping. He ran out into the freezing cold with his mother, who had on only her underwear.
At the police station, a policeman took him aside and asked quietly, "Is there something wrong with your mom?" He cried and said firmly, "No, my mom is not sick. There is nothing wrong with my mom!" It was not until he was in high school that he gradually understood that his mom had indeed become mentally ill from the persecution she had received. But for the previous ten years, he had lived in fear, assuming that his father would "kill" them at any time.
This is just one case that shows the real effects of the brutality of "reform."
The key point is that Jiang Zemin's regime has gone so far as to show off this type of brutality! Why? I believe this is because they have taken advantage of people's ignorance and the fact that they have not realized that the ultimate goal of all these brutalities and lies is to "reform" the practitioners. Therefore, "reform" is also the cruelest persecution.
When pondering that some of our fellow practitioners were "reformed" under severe pressure, some practitioners hold this train of thought: "So and so had attachments and were thus brainwashed." I should learn from the setbacks, give up my attachments and determinedly cultivate myself to the end. There is nothing wrong with thinking this way. However, we should not neglect another point-- that those who were "reformed" are victims of the cruel persecution of the old cosmic forces that undermine Dafa. Many of them fell under extremely brutal circumstances. Therefore, we must first of all clearly recognize the evil nature of the old cosmic forces and root out all their evil arrangements. Otherwise they will exploit any loopholes we may still have. We should try our best to help those who were brainwashed. The key is that we should be clear in our minds that Master does not acknowledge any of these arrangements. "Although they had attachments, were momentarily taken advantage of by the evil, and did what a cultivator should not, a cultivator ought to be looked at in his entirety. I do not acknowledge any of those things" ("Coercion Cannot Change People's Hearts").
As for everyday people, we should clearly tell them that the "reform" is brainwashing and persecution. This persecution is especially horrifying when those who have been "reformed" have to pretend to be happy amidst the persecution. We should help everyday people understand the brutality of "reform" from the perspective of those who were brainwashed.
After the incorrect mentality about "reform" is eliminated, the propaganda and the showing off of "reform" achievements by Jiang Zemin's regime will lose ground, and have no place to survive.
For instance, Jiang Zemin's regime would never show off the "achievements" of the June 4th massacre at any press conference. [A reference to the violent crushing of the students' pro-democracy movement in 1989.] Whenever the June 4th incident was mentioned, everyone would wait to see how they would make fools of themselves. At the APEC press conference, when asked about the Internet blockade, the spokesperson replied that it was because of a "data transmission problem." Everyone burst out laughing. There is no place for such a lie, and it could not be taken seriously. Through our clarifying the truth about the "reform," the "reform" will also become a laughingstock in the end, and will only serve as evidence of the Jiang Zemin regime's crimes. When people start to view the "reform" in the same way as they view the cloth full of blood in the "June 4th" massacre, the evil will completely lose ground, lose confidence and lose power.
"A large number of declarations from students all over the country have appeared daily. The last hope of attempting to change Dafa disciples' righteous thoughts through coercion and deception has been completely shattered." ("Coercion Cannot Change People's Hearts") We are aware that the "reform" is the last hope and the last resort of the old evil forces. Once we have a clear understanding of the nature of "reform"--that it is an arrangement of the old cosmic forces, the ultimate goal of the evil persecution and the most cruel form of persecution--we will be able help the public see the truth and to break the last means of the old evil forces to persecute Dafa. We can impel them to completely give up their attempt to "reform" Dafa practitioners. The more practitioners they "reform," the more it shows how evil they are. Breaking the evil "reform" is not only the responsibility of the practitioners in jail, but also of those outside. Breaking the evil "reform" is not only to help those practitioners who had setbacks in their cultivation awaken to their mistakes through our heartfelt support, but also to break the space field that the mentality of "reform" depends on for existence. This will have a preventive and eliminating effect. At the same time, we should try even harder to free and rescue those Dafa practitioners, including Teng Chunyan. If we feel discouraged by the Jiang Zemin regime's propaganda of "reform" achievements, we will have fallen into their treacherous trap.
If we cannot correctly understand the nature of "reform," if we cannot clearly recognize that "reform" is the last and the most vicious means the old cosmic force has to damage Dafa, and if we cannot effectively prevent and eliminate the "reform" instead of just passively reminding ourselves to not be brainwashed like others, then we have in fact acquiescently acknowledged and indulged the old cosmic forces in their arrangement of the "reform."
The above are my personal views. Due to my limited cultivation level, some of my understandings may not be correct, so please kindly point them out.
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