(Clearwisdom.net) I am very much inspired after reading Beijing practitioners' sharing published on the Minghui website lately. From many aspects, the state of Beijing's Fa-rectification appears promising. Here, even as a new Beijing practitioner of only four years, I'd also like to share my thoughts regarding the one-body with the aim of improving together and keeping up with the progress of Master's Fa-rectification.
In his comments on the Minghui article "Do Not Differentiate Between Fa-Rectification Projects; 'A Great Way Has No Form' But Exists As a Whole," Master said,
"Well said. Each person's cultivation path is different, the way in which each validates the Fa is different, their social statuses are different, their occupations are different, and their surroundings are different, but they can all cultivate nevertheless. This is the path Dafa presents to its cultivators. Dafa disciples are one body, and I affirm everything they have been doing during Fa-rectification--they are all doing what Dafa disciples should do. Different approaches are in fact the all-encompassing way in which roles are dynamically distributed in the operations of the Fa, and the Fa-power is a reflection of the one body."
Master has taught us long ago in the Fa that cultivation in Dafa is following a broad and formless path. Master also told us in later lectures that each and every practitioner doing what a Dafa disciple should do is in fact forming one body. I understand this as: If every practitioner can do his very own best the three things Master asks us to do and diligently keep up with the progress of Master's Fa-rectification, that would become the greatest one body, the most fundamental one body, and the most formless one body.
Of course, "the Law manifests in different forms at different levels." (Zhuan Falun) Master also said that it takes on a form when all come together but becomes individual particles when scattered.
Let me start with my own situation, and then I will share my thoughts regarding the situation of the Beijing practitioners. During the several years since I obtained the Fa, the diligent practitioners I knew have all been taken away and persecuted one after another. At present, the only practitioners I can meet with face to face with are all from the same small group of new practitioners who obtained the Fa when I did. Just as that Beijing practitioner said, it was "each doing his own things, a bit like loose sand on a plate." Yet right there at work, where I thought there were no practitioners, over time I discovered just in my small unit alone at lease four others who had once obtained the Fa. In addition, I've heard that in our organization there are even people who attended Master's classes when he lectured on the Fa, and one of my colleagues had his illness treated by Master himself. Of the four in my unit, two had given up practicing by themselves before the onset of the persecution--one had only read Zhuan Falun once in three years of practicing cultivation, while the other was pregnant with health problems at the time, had only practiced the exercises for one year but practically never studied the book, and now says that she was never a believer. Another person, who had practiced for two years but dared not continue after the persecution started, says she has not forgotten Dafa and knows that Dafa is good. The last one only started practicing in early 1999 for purposes of improving health. After practicing three years at home, she was reported to the authorities and taken to a brainwashing center, where she was "transformed." She gave up practicing after that. When I came into contact with them at different times, I did try my best--given my xinxing level at that time--to get them to return to Dafa but with very little success. (Things have improved a little now.)
As for myself, for one, I am not compassionate enough, and, secondly, I did not form a workable Fa-study group with them, helping them to improve in the Fa and, in the process, breaking through the barriers created by the old forces. One of them had basically done no reading, two had read the book only once, and another one was unable to understand the Fa from the Fa. I suspect that this could be a common phenomenon in Beijing and even all over the country. That is to say, the main reason for practitioners falling behind is because of lack of Fa study, and therefore they cannot understand the Fa from the Fa. Consequently I feel that the suggestion made by fellow practitioners in the recent sharing articles is very good: that is, to try our best to break through the barriers created by the old forces and form Fa-study groups to "bring about material changes through better understandings in our minds."
In addition, Beijing is the information center for the whole country: it has the highest number of Internet users in the whole country. That is to say, Beijing has the most open information channels as demonstrated by the greatest number of people quitting the CCP and its affiliated organizations. This is a distinct advantage. Master has told us that we should do our best according to our own conditions and abilities. So I wonder: while we establish Fa-study groups, can we not also help more fellow practitioners, in technical know-how as well as with regard to xinxing, to get onto the Minghui website and from this angle, utilizing the Minghui platform to break through the old forces' barrier, forming an even bigger and more formless whole body and at the same time building a foundation for the creation of more truth clarification material centers. I suggest that Beijing practitioners, while using different means to clarify the truth, pay more attention to helping ordinary people break through the Internet blockade. It could bring about very good results.
Last but not least, cultivation is approaching the late stages, and the difference in levels among practitioners has become more pronounced, so on the same issue each practitioner may have a different understanding due to the difference in his or her realm. But, as an element of the integral body, let us all put away the notion of self and cooperate more with the whole body of Fa-rectification. For example, if some Beijing practitioners initiate a proposal on Minghui for the one body to rescue all unlawfully detained practitioners, each of us Beijing Dafa practitioner should harmonize it, using our different ways to do our part the best we can.