(Clearwisdom.net) There are some practitioners in and out of China who think that spreading the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party is the most important thing. When experiencing conflicts among the activities, they feel that everything else can be postponed, even ignored, because otherwise, it is not following the trend. It can indeed be called "following the trend" that Dafa disciples follow the progress of Fa-rectification, but its inner meaning, the foundation and the purpose of following the progress of Fa-rectification makes it fundamentally different from ordinary people's meaning of the term - "following the trend." If we don't try to understand it from the Fa, we will have misunderstandings and go to extremes in our actions. Each time Master teaches us a principle of the Fa to correct our mistakes in cultivation, there are always those that take things to an extreme, therefore causing new problems. We are busy every day, and we are doing many things but sometimes we don't try to fully, rationally and objectively understand the things we are doing based on the Fa. We do not consider the meaning and the impact of the thing we are doing, keeping in mind the whole situation; instead, we take hurried actions. The good intentions, therefore, precipitated negative results and made for losses in our attempts to save sentient beings and for our cultivation.
No matter what we Dafa disciples in the Fa-rectification period do, the focal point should be validating the Fa and clarifying the truth. In other words, no matter what the situation is, validating the Fa and clarifying the truth should always be the main focus of everything we do, and everything else is secondary. Other things might have changed, but this main focus has never changed. It has not changed because of the publication of The Nine Commentaries, either. During the Fa-rectification, everything new that happens follows the principles of the Fa, and Dafa is all encompassing. This has always been true.
The Nine Commentaries is a tool to help eliminate the biggest hurdle for people to clearly understand the truth. It is very important for us to use it well, but it cannot be the main focus of what Dafa disciples do. It should not dilute or replace validating the Fa and clarifying the truth of the persecution and Dafa.
For people who refuse to listen to the truth because of obstacles from the evildoing CCP, especially those who are from China, The Nine Commentaries is very powerful in clearing away the obstacles from their thoughts. But for those who just simply don't know the facts, and if the CCP is not the main obstacle for them to accept the truth, we can directly tell them about the persecution and Dafa, so that the purpose of offering people salvation can be reached sooner. We don't have to first make a detour with The Nine Commentaries. It is just like crossing a river in the shortest time possible. If the person can leap over the river, then we should help them do that. We need to build a bridge only for the others who can't make the jump. After all, widely publicizing The Nine Commentaries and convincing people to quit the CCP should not be the motivation and the purpose of Dafa disciples' actions in and of itself.
I hope that all those fellow practitioners who wish to follow the progress of Fa-rectification, particularly those who have a strong will to do things and to do "big" things can calm their minds. That includes those who like to ask Master for guidance again and again when doing things, and mistake Master's Fa as "administrative orders". I hope you can calm your hearts, stand firm on the basis of Fa-rectification cultivation, and try to clearly recognize from the Fa what kind of trend or state you are trying to follow. You must be clear on why you are following it this way, and how you can follow it well. That way, we can avoid thinking of problems like ordinary people do when they are trying to follow a trend, and avoid taking extreme actions without being aware it.
If we deviate from the fundamentals from which a cultivator must understand the Fa and simply judge which thing is the most important by counting how many times Master has mentioned it, and think that only doing that thing and emphasizing that thing is following the trend, we will easily go to an extreme and cause new problems.
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