(Clearwisdom.net) The reasoning "one divides into two" has long been used as a plausible but faulty argument by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to confuse good and evil. It is also an old trick of the Party culture that has long been used. Regarding moral issues and major issues of life and death, what is right is right and what is wrong is wrong; good is good and evil is evil. Such things cannot be confused with one another. How can one be possibly divided into two?
For example, some ordinary people said that we should also view Dafa with the reasoning that "one thing divides into two." Their argument is that people who cultivate in Dafa also make mistakes [implying Dafa may not be 100% good]. Such a ridiculous conclusion stems from a mistaken concept for two different things that have no cause-and-effect relationship. These people are confused by a wicked sophistry. It is the same as the reasoning that a teacher teaches his students when the teacher tells his students to be good students, but there are some students who fail to be good. Can you then turn around and say the teacher is not good? It is the same with textbooks. The school uses the same textbook, yet some students do not do well. Can you say that the textbook should be blamed for their failure? The fact that "Faun Dafa is good" is absolute. In other words, Falun Dafa conforms to the criteria ("Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance") by which to judge what is right and what is wrong, what is righteous and what is evil. Some people also apply the reasoning that "one divides into two" in analyzing the evil CCP. Their argument is based on the concept that there are also good people within the CCP. Again this leads to a wrong conclusion based on linking two things that have no cause-and-effect relationship. They are confused by the CCP's wicked sophistry.
All humans have the factors of Buddha-nature, "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance," except those evil beings who have no human nature left, such as Jiang and his accomplices. The nature of the CCP is "evil," and it possesses the human body and destroys the human nature. This likewise suppresses humans' Buddha-nature from emerging. Therefore, the "good conduct" demonstrated by those so-called good Party members is due to the fact that the part of their human nature that conforms to "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance" has not been completely lost. So their "good conduct" is not a demonstration of the factors of the Party. That the Party is evil is also absolute. The Party is bound to be opposed to "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance."
My understanding is that when we look at people and things, if we use the principle of "good and evil co-existing" instead of "one dividing into two," then we can explain more clearly what is right and what is wrong regarding major issues. For example, good and evil aspects co-exist in things, or we can say that "there are good and evil aspects in humans and things." In short, we need to add the two words "good" and "evil." The good and evil referred to here are used as the general moral standards to distinguish good from evil. Compassion refers to the Compassion aspect in "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance," and the opposite is evil. If we apply it this way, then there would not be an issue of people using "one dividing into two" to view Dafa, and to view the CCP.
In discussing principle matters of life and death and in discussing the origin and destination of life, the concept of "one dividing into two" is a fuzzy concept with no criteria. As for the criteria that judge good and evil, the CCP has turned the principle of "the co-existence of good and evil" into "one dividing into two," and has taken out the two words "good" and "evil." The concept of what is good and what is evil seems to have become something uncertain, something that can be twisted at will by the CCP. This way the CCP can confuse good and evil as it pleases. The CCP has used this camouflage and confused many people. Due to the coercive brainwashing by the Party culture over many years, many people have lost more and more of their Buddha-nature.
If people can see through this wicked sophistry by the evil CCP and completely eliminate the evil Party culture from their minds, their true nature of "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance" will come forth.
January 26, 2007
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