(Clearwisdom.net) Through Fa study I realized that there are two prerequisites for sentient beings to be saved. The first is recognizing Dafa, and the second is denouncing and quiting the CCP.
We must perform many tasks in order to truly save people. Master asked us to send forth righteous thoughts to eradicate the evil in other dimensions. Starting with large-scale purging, we later shifted to targeting the dark minions, rotten ghosts, meddling deities in the three realms, and evil specters of the CCP. Although these evil beings and factors were different, they all played the role of interfering with the Fa Rectification, persecuting sentient beings. Completely eradicating the evil is the prerequisite for saving sentient beings, since it resolves issues in other dimensions.
Once the evil and other factors were completely eradicated in other dimensions, the only remaining obstacles blocking people from obtaining salvation were karma and notions. Master said in "Buddha-Nature" in Zhuan Falun II:
"Karma has no criteria of Zhen-Shan-Ren. It measures things by the criteria of the notion at the time when the notion was formed..."
"If karma was formed in a certain state or under conditions of certain moral standards in previous years, then it would measure things by such a criterion. If much of such a thing has been formed, the person will be controlled by it for his whole life. When the formed notion deems something good or bad, the person will also believe it good or bad and think it should be done in this or that way, but he himself has become lost. He himself is completely surrounded or covered by the acquired notions which are not good in their nature. He has lost the real criteria of his own for judging between good and bad."
The CCP started slandering and vilifying Falun Gong on July 20, 1999, and has been inciting hatred towards Falun Gong practitioners among people all over the world ever since. The brutal persecution has affected the direct interests of many people, arousing their enmity and misunderstanding and causing them to refuse to listen to the truth. The notions formed within this environment and background are the standard set by the CCP. At the same time, people have created large amounts of karma with their bad thoughts and conduct by drifting with current social behavior. Now many people have realized that fact to varying degrees, but the bad notions still exist in people's minds. The persecution is still ongoing. Many people still cannot fundamentally transform themselves in order to be truly saved.
People will change their previously formed bad notions on a large scale only after we eradicate the leading villains in the human world, stop the persecution, expose every lie, and transform the whole situation. Therefore, putting an immediate stop to the persecution is a necessary step that every Dafa practitioner must support.
Completing this step still will not afford people true salvation. It only removes the persecutory environment. That is not the same as having people truly recognize Dafa. People have assimilated to the extremely mutated CCP culture in their bones after being injected with it for several decades. They really don't believe in the existence of gods. They think their ancestors evolved from apes. Mutated culture has caused mutated thoughts. Just look at the present Chinese. Their moral standard could not be any lower. They don't believe in reincarnation or retribution. They lie whenever they speak and never take responsibility for anything. Their tactics and tricks are all very bad. In order to save them, we must dissolve the CCP culture, bringing people's ideologies and notions of life back to the standards set by gods. Only then can these people truly recognize Dafa and truly be saved.
Master repeatedly emphasized that everyone in the world today has very profound connections and origins. They came to earth representing lives from different cosmoses, and they came to assimilate to Dafa in order to be saved during Fa rectification. Their primordial spirits are in the human world. All acquired matters were not part of their innate characteristics and nature. In order for sentient beings to be truly saved we must cleanse all the microscopic matters that damage humankind, rectify their acquired notions, and help them fundamentally recognize Dafa.
Of course, Master already took care of those more microscopic, more fundamental factors during the Fa rectification. Master wants the most pristine, most original life for us and for every sentient being. What is being accomplished during the Fa Rectification is for everyone to assimilate to Truth, Compassion, Tolerance, and return to their Buddha Nature.
Please kindly point out any omissions in my personal understanding.
September 24, 2007