(Clearwisdom.net) Minghui Weekly (issue #151) published the article "Dafa Practitioners Should Have the Courage to Expose the Persecution" written by a fellow practitioner. I'd like to supplement by providing my own personal understanding of the issue.
Detention centers, brainwashing centers, and police stations are the places where Falun Gong practitioners are most severely persecuted. They should be the focus of our efforts to expose the evil. Many fellow practitioners have been detained and persecuted in these places and therefore have a large amount of first-hand information. These fellow practitioners have an obligation to completely expose the evil in a timely way on the Minghui website (In English, Clearwisdom.net) or locally in the form of written articles using the information they have from personal experience, things personally witnessed, information collected from others, or knowledge they have about the persecution suffered by other fellow practitioners. This is not just a matter of concern to us or to other individual fellow practitioners. Writing the article and exposing the evil to the public is not only to for exposing the evil, eliminating the evil, and alleviating or stopping the persecution against fellow practitioners to a large extent, but it is also saving the world's people. It is part of the things that Dafa practitioners should do in validating Dafa as well as part of the process of our personal cultivation and improvement. Some fellow practitioners may have not realized the importance of this issue from the Fa-rectification perspective, and therefore have not taken any action.
Some practitioners are concerned that by exposing the persecution they might expose themselves and bring trouble or persecution again to themselves or to others. This thought itself is not right. It is the evil that fears being exposed the most. Exposing the evil is actually eliminating the evil. How can it dare to persecute you when it is trying to avoid being eliminated? If trouble or interference comes after exposing the evil, it must be caused by our mentality of fear or our thought that we will surely be persecuted. As a result, the evil will truly use this excuse to create some interference, which is caused by our own unrighteous mind.
"As true practitioners, we should look at issues from a very high level instead of from the perspective of everyday people." (Zhuan Falun)
Therefore, Dafa practitioners should not have such thoughts and concerns. Exposing the evil in an upright and open manner will not bring any trouble. It is more necessary for those who have experienced the persecution personally or those who know of unreported persecution situations to write them out. If we don't write them out, how can others become aware of them? How can the evil be exposed?
There are still some fellow practitioners who are hindered by the human mind and human sentiment. Some feel that they did not do well while being persecuted. Some were used by the evil to do some bad things. What we expose is the evil itself. We should expose the evil regardless of whether we did well or poorly. To those fellow practitioners who did not do well, it is a good opportunity for them to doubly compensate for the loss to Dafa that they caused.
To have the courage to expose the persecution, Dafa practitioners should not necessarily limit themselves to the form of writing articles. We can use different forms instead. For example, we can take torture re-enactment photos to publish on Minghui/Clearwisdom and other such things. Those who have personal experience of being persecuted can add some of this information when clarifying the truth to people directly, which is more convincing. Some people still don't know much about the persecution. Some still doubt that it is even happening.
In addition, Dafa practitioners should have the courage to expose the persecution no matter what circumstance we are in and what kind of people we are facing. We should particularly do this in the face of the persecution and injustice imposed on us, when we face the evil policemen and evil people, and when we are in dangerous situations or trapped in the evil places. This is the direct war between the righteous and the evil and the truth has the power to frighten the evil and eliminate it. We should not wait to expose the persecution until it has happened or has ended. Instead we should have the courage to expose the persecution and stop the persecution while being persecuted and before being persecuted. In particular, those who have been detained in detention centers or prisons for a long period should do this, grasping all opportunities and using various methods to expose the evil. All this can effectively lessen and even stop the persecution being imposed on oneself and fellow practitioners.
In the article, the fellow practitioner mentioned one unrighteous thought that some have about exposing the persecution, which is, "It is only worthwhile to expose the persecution when it is very severe. I don't have anything to write, as what I suffered is nothing." From this, I have thought of one issue: Dafa practitioners should have a clear understanding about this persecution and expose the persecution comprehensively.
Some may think that it is regarded as persecution only when being abducted and being beaten and that it is regarded as severe persecution only when being beaten to death or to injury. In fact, the persecution against Dafa and Dafa practitioners is comprehensive and comes in various forms. Being abducted and beaten is persecution. So is being illegally fined, being deprived of personal freedom, being discriminated in work or life, and so forth. Physically being beaten and tortured cruelly is persecution. So is being mentally abused and brainwashed. Having money or property confiscated is persecution. Exerting pressure on relatives or causing them to turn bitter toward us is still persecution.
We should not intentionally classify persecution into big and small or severe and light, thinking that the big persecution should not be accepted and the small is tolerable or that severe persecution should be exposed while the less severe persecution should be ignored. Dafa practitioners should oppose the old force's persecution completely and expose the persecution completely. As long as it is persecution, we should oppose it and expose it regardless of whether it is big or small.
When we don't feel the severity of some of the persecution, it is because we are Dafa practitioners and we are different from ordinary people. Furthermore, it is Master who endures for us. We personally don't feel the severity, but in fact it is very evil and it is particularly shocking to ordinary people on the surface.
Some people have a misconception, thinking that only a small number of people or a few evil policemen and evil people are persecuting Dafa practitioners. After Clearwisdom.net reprinted "On the Collusion of Jiang Zemin with the CCP to Persecute Falun Gong" and also published some experience-sharing articles written by fellow practitioners, we should have a clear understanding about this issue. Therefore, Dafa practitioners should not only have the courage to expose the persecution, but also expose the persecution comprehensively and from multiple angles. Of course, it is still important for us to focus on exposing the evil places' persecution against Dafa practitioners and their being beaten and tortured. We should not slack off in any respect.