(Clearwisdom.net) Falun Dafa practitioners have gone through the most severe persecution in history. They are now entering the ninth year of persecution yet continue to maintain the righteous principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance, and have kept their prehistoric vows.
Falun Gong's uninterrupted effort to expose and end the persecution is, first and foremost, the practice of a righteous faith. More importantly, it fulfills the mandate of saving sentient beings through counteracting the persecution. When humankind remembers this period of history, it will realize that the ancient prediction of the "co-existence of men and gods" manifested at this time. Falun Gong practitioners have overcome the most difficult hardships by keeping to the righteous and grandest faith. They have passed through the darkest persecution in history, and have brought hope for the continued existence of mankind.
Negating the Persecution: Practicing Righteous Faith in Adversity
Using every vile method they had employed in previous struggles, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) thought that by using the entire government mechanism to physically, mentally, and financially ravage a group, they could eliminate that group within three months. However, the CCP has to admit it failed. Violence and deception cannot overcome this unarmed spiritual group that believes in Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance. Furthermore, members of the evil CCP will come to realize that if the CCP does not stop persecuting Falun Gong, it will only accelerate its own demise.
The CCP has used violence and deception to the extreme. On July 20 ,1999, when the persecution began, Jiang implemented a policy to eliminate Falun Gong: "Defame their reputations, bankrupt them financially, and destroy them physically"; "If [a practitioner is] beaten to death, then claim that the person committed suicide" and, "Don't check the identity [of the murdered practitioners], cremate the bodies without hesitation." Under this policy, the CCP's detention centers, forced labor camps, prisons, brainwashing centers, and even the mental institutions where practitioners are illegally detained have used such despicable means as illegal detention, brainwashing, beatings, confinement to dungeons or water dungeons, using electric batons and electricity to torture, barbaric force-feeding of food, concentrated salt water, and even human waste, sleep deprivation, sexual abuse and rape, forced administration of drugs that destroy the nervous system, and finally, the organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners - an "evil never before seen on this planet." Such crimes could not have been predicted as they are too heinous to believe.
In their efforts to deceive the people, the CCP went from continuously publicizing lies about Falun Gong on TV, radio, in newspapers, and on websites to slander Falun Gong and arouse public hatred of Falun Gong, to staging the "Tiananmen Square self-immolation" with the involvement of the military, police, secret agents and the entire state propaganda machine.
Falun Gong practitioners did not surrender, even during the darkest days. Their persistence in peacefully negating the persecution is based on their strong belief and practice of a righteous faith. Practitioners' faith in Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance has kept them mentally strong, allowed them to be perfect and indestructible, and to maintain great fortitude in the face of torture and humiliation. Their faith in Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance is the sustaining force for them to spread the truth to the world far and wide and reject the persecution in a peaceful, wise, and tolerant manner that is free of hatred or violence. Even under the most difficult hardships, Dafa practitioners' righteous faith allowed them to break down the barriers of nationality, race, religion and language, and to spread Falun Dafa to over eighty countries around the world.
Negating the Persecution: Saving Sentient Beings Within this Poisonous World
Behind all the previous appeals and lobbying, the bringing to justice of the perpetrators of the persecution - Jiang, Lou, Liu, and Zhou, or the current spreading of the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party and persuading people to quit the CCP, behind all the practitioners' anti-persecution activities lie deeper and more noble aspirations: to spread the truth of Falun Dafa far and wide using all possible means, to hold back the poisonous, worldwide current of deteriorating morality, and to save sentient beings.
In the past eight years, practitioners both inside and outside of China faced headwinds of all sorts; yet they have spread the truth to every corner of society and have awakened more and more of the world's people. People like Chen Yonglin, Hao Fengjun, and others who used to work with the persecutors, have now abandoned the darkness and joined the good. Seeing the imminent demise of the wicked party, many CCP cadres started long ago to prepare a "back door escape" for themselves. Many CCP committee members or party secretaries, police officers, and national security personnel have also abandoned the evil and secretly helped practitioners to escape from torture and persecution. People who have learned about the goodness of Falun Dafa and how the people have been deceived by their own government, have started to learn the practice of Falun Gong.
Since the publication of the Nine Commentaries at the end of 2004, when more and more Chinese people, both inside and outside of China, have come to realize the evil nature of the CCP, there has been a groundswell of people publicly disassociating themselves from the CCP. One after another, they renounce their affiliations with the CCP and erase the mark made by the evil spirit behind the CCP. As of today, the number of people who have publicly renounced the CCP (party memberships, as well as affiliations with the Communist Youth League and Young Pioneers) on the Epoch Times website has exceeded 23,900,000. The number is growing at a speed of about 30,000 entries per day. Trickling streams are gathering into a mighty river that is forging forward with great momentum. A new era of awakened people is imminent.
The European Parliament passed the "Necessity of International Condemnation of Communist Dictatorship Crimes" bill; the US president gave a speech during the opening ceremony of the Victims of Communism Memorial; and the President of Romania condemned the Communist dictatorship. This provides an international backdrop for humankind to be rid of the evil spirit of Communism.
When Falun Gong practitioners negate the persecution and reveal the CCP's efforts to eradicate the practice, they are helping those who "have been deceived by the most evil cult organization of human history and those who have been given the mark of the evil beast." At this critical time, people need to seize this fleeting opportunity and make the most important choice.
Negating the Persecution: Bringing Hope to Humankind
The ancient prophecies and the vast changes in the universe seem to focus on today's world. If you consider all the changes in the recent years, you will find that the gods, Taos, and Buddhas seem to be more and more frequently hinting to humankind with heavenly secrets.
In 1992, Falun Dafa was taught publicly and rapidly started to spread throughout China. In 1993, a naturally-formed giant statue of Buddha Maitreya was discovered in the Thousand Mountains of Anshan, Liaoning Province.
"The udambara (in Sanskrit) flower blooms once every three thousand years, and is seen as an omen of good things to come when it occurs. The day the udambara flowers bloom is the day when the Holy King Who Turns the Wheel descends to the world to save people." Since 2005 there have been reports of the udambara flowers being seen in Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Liaoning and Shandong Provinces in China.
In Zhangbu Township, Pingtang County of Guizhou Province, in 2002, a giant million-year-old rock was discovered inside of which six huge Chinese characters had been carved. The six characters were formed by nature with no trace of a human hand. Apparently, the six characters spelled "Chinese Communist Party Dies." This "Rock with Hidden Words" is a remarkable heavenly secret that has remained hidden for 270 million years. The rock rolled and cracked open about 500 years ago. This significant message was only discovered in June 2002.
In recent years, the phenomena of statues of divine beings leaking tears or blood have been reported. People of many religious groups believe that these phenomena indicate that a significant event is about to occur in the human world.
Astronomers have found the recent years to be the most trying in human history. From baby stars breaking out of cocoons, to the explosive emergence of super new stars, a vast number of new star systems are emerging with never before seen volume and speed. The metabolism of the universe appears to be speeding up. Are the astronomical changes coinciding with big movements in the human world?
Two songs from the NTDTV Chinese New Year Spectacular, "Searching for Truth" and "Compassion" have cracked the secret: "I see no clarity in heaven and on earth, worldly people where are you headed? In the confusion with no direction, the Truth leads the way; Wealthy or poor are all the same, when disaster arrives they have nowhere to hide; heaven is compassionate and gives us a way, please hurry to find the truth." "Heaven will destroy this evil party, God asks me to save these people, compassion makes it unbearable for me to see you destroyed along with the evil party."
In the past eight years, Dafa practitioners around the world have been the only people revealing these heavenly secrets and spreading the truth, helping people to erase the mark made by the evil beast, as well as helping people accept the compassion of gods. They have brought hope to all corners of the globe and to all nations. In this movement of negating the persecution, Dafa practitioners have staged one act after another, legendary in the human world.
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