(Clearwisdom.net) Today I talked with a fellow practitioner about another who was looking for Falun Dafa books since all her books had been illegally confiscated by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials. I often read in articles on the Minghui/Clearwisdom website that such and such practitioner, whose home was ransacked by the police, had all his or her Dafa books taken away, but these articles never mentioned how these practitioners had reacted when their Dafa books were taken away.
A few days ago, I watched a video program from Minghui entitled the "Strength of Pure Shan (Compassion)" which talked about a 61 year-old Western practitioner who came to China to clarify the truth and was arrested by the Chinese police. She kept reading Zhuan Falun, the main book of Falun Gong. When a policeman tried to grab the book away from her, she resolutely protected the book. From the video program, I could see the practitioner's determination: Want to grab Zhuan Falun from me? No way!!! Both sides refused to budge. After a while the policeman was ordered to stop. Then a policewoman said to the practitioner, "It seems that you treasure this book very much." The practitioner replied: "Yes, it is the most valuable treasure you can find in this world."
I recalled a report from another practitioner. The main idea was that the police ransacked a practitioner's home and wanted to seize the book Zhuan Falun from her hands. She held the book tightly to her and walked toward the window. Then she turned around and said: "If you dare to come to grab the book, I will jump out of the window." Seeing this, the police gave up.
Here locally, when the police seized Dafa books, we just hopelessly watched them be taken and we had no intention to protect the Fa. Some even thought, if you confiscate my book and I will get new ones. Once I go to the material processing site, I can have all the Dafa books I want. My fellow practitioners, this is not right. Dafa books are more precious than our lives! Before the persecution began, the evil forces saw that some practitioners did not treasure Dafa books and did not respect Teacher and the Fa. The old forces used that as an excuse to destroy Dafa books. Even today, the CCP still dares to destroy Dafa books in our hands. We must pay attention to this issue. Didn't that Western practitioner know that it was very convenient for her to buy Dafa books overseas? We cannot look at things so superficially and think in such a naive way.
We must examine our conscience to see if our attitudes towards these Dafa books and Dafa materials reach the requirements of the Fa. How should a person who has been saved by Dafa treat the books that provide us with guidance during our cultivation?
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