(Clearwisdom.net) Yesterday, I casually read a pamphlet about the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP's) secret concentration camps. I then found it difficult to breathe, my heart ached and I was terribly sad. I felt the horror of the heinous crimes committed by the CCP and the inexpressible suffering that Dafa practitioners are enduring. I felt as sad as if my own family members were suffering. As soon as this feeling surfaced, I immediately felt that something was not right. Isn't this ordinary people's sentiment? We are Dafa practitioners during the Fa rectification period. We are people on our way to divinity. How can we look at problems with an ordinary person's perspective?
When I look back at some of my former actions and thoughts, it seems that they were all from a human angle. It does not seem wrong to feel sorrow for practitioners who are suffering, but I found that this viewpoint was wrong when I looked at it from higher levels. If we view from the perspective of a god looking at problems, we will be able to see more clearly those who need our sorrow. Are they our Dafa practitioners? Definitely not!
Teacher said in Zhuan Falun,
"There are also people who claim: 'The scripture in the Paradise of Ultimate Bliss is totally different from that down here, and it's not at all the same thing. Not only are the words different, but the implications and the meaning are all different, as they've changed.'"
The principles in heaven and the human world are opposite. From the angle of human beings, we see only superficial phenomena, instead of the essence of matters.
This made me think of the story about Jesus meeting with tragedies. Jesus knew that he would be crucified. The day before his execution, he prayed to God and asked him to change this decision. Was it because Jesus was afraid? No. On his way to the execution grounds, some Jewess' cried for him. He told them, "Cry not for me, but for your offspring. People without offspring are blessed." Now we can see clearly. Jesus asked God to change his decision not for himself, because gods and humans see problems from different views. Those Jewess' were humans who felt sorrow for Jesus' innocence and suffering. What Jesus saw was the sufferings of the Jews. Because of his death there would be more than 2000 years of pain and punishment. Jesus was crucified, but he resurrected. But how about the Jews? The suffering of penance lasts through today.
Today is very different from former days. Now it is the period of Fa rectification. The levels Dafa practitioners will reach cannot be paralleled by gods in any historical period. What a crime it is to persecute Dafa practitioners. I am afraid the aftermath will be too horrible to imagine. How about those sentient beings who will lose their futures, those who do not know the truth and those who are apathetic about the persecution? So it is not the Dafa practitioners we should be sad about. No matter how much suffering Dafa practitioners go through, they are just reflections in the maze of this human world. As long as they firmly believe in Teacher, they will be welcomed with nothing less than glories in the heavens. Those who are truly pitiful and need to be saved are those sentient beings who still haven't awakened to this brutal reality. Evil has persecuted us for so many years. Why are we against the persecution? Not for ourselves or the suffering and pain being endured. It is for sentient beings to awaken, stop the crimes against gods and save a future for humanity.
Some practitioners, including me, paid a lot of attention to formality when making truth clarification materials. Some practitioners worked at clarifying the truth with a lot of human sentiment. I think it is because we have not started from the right point and have been looking at this persecution as one of humans against humans. If we look at it from a god's perspective, clearly see the most essential truth of it, then we will not be numb when saving sentient beings. In addition, I want to encourage the practitioners who are being persecuted to have a correct starting point, and keep righteous thoughts and righteous actions. Changing the persecution environment is also saving sentient beings. No gods can see as clearly as Teacher and no gods can be as benevolent as Teacher. Teacher told us he would be happy if half of the Chinese could be saved. How many of us can truly understand the mood when he said this? We do not have much time and there is too much undone or that has not done been well. We cannot relax, but should be more diligent.
Above are some of my personal understandings. Practitioners, please kindly point out mistakes, so that they can be corrected.
June 17, 2006
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