(Clearwisdom.net) We felt a lot of inspiration after reading the article "By Eliminating Evil Near Us, the Environment Around Us Becomes Relaxed" (http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2008/9/29/101029.html). I want to talk about my personal understanding based on the progress of Fa rectification in our region. During the Beijing Olympics, our region suffered severely in persecution, which created difficulty in saving sentient beings. Some practitioners had a sense of having no alternatives and thus we were quite passive in validating the Fa. Some began to worry about the fact that we could not form one body and some began to complain or accuse others of not doing things the right way, etc. Every one of us wanted our Fa validation environment to become better. However, we all looked outward and complained about others. How could our environment improve? If the particles comprising the whole body do well, won't the whole body do well?
In "Fa Teaching at the 2008 New York Conference," Teacher said,
"Those of you who have fallen behind, who have become passive, who are full of complaints, who hold strong grievances against others, or who focus your attention on those in the Falun Dafa Association, none of you are willing to cultivate yourselves, and are instead looking outward."
That's quite accurate. If there is a problem, we should examine whether we have not done well in some aspects. If we worked together and helped each other, our fellow practitioners might not have such great pressure. If we truly consider the entire environment, we should first cultivate ourselves well. Whenever we encounter some conflicts or difficulties, we should each look inward and start from ourselves and then our whole body of cultivation will change. If we do not follow the Fa, we may add some black substances to our environment. Our cultivation environment is created by each and every one of us and it also depends on each fellow practitioner's effort.
The article "By Eliminating Evil Near Us, the Environment Around Us Becomes Relaxed" talked about sending forth righteous thoughts. If we can help sentient beings learn the truth and not be used by evil, won't our environment become better? A region near us has had a very peaceful and comfortable Fa rectification environment. Practitioners there focused on clarifying the truth to people in the police station and the village committee. Their method was to have a good coordination among fellow practitioners. First they sent righteous thought to clean up the space. Then some practitioners would go to talk to the authorities in person, and some would mail letters. Their efforts were very successful. They truly use their hearts when doing those things, and this was reflected in their results. Once the authorities learned the truth, they would no longer participate the persecution. Some even began to protect Dafa practitioners. When an order of persecution was distributed from higher level authorities, they would refuse and would speak up for Dafa practitioners. Thus their future lives are very well placed. For those individuals who would not listen and continue to do evil deeds, they adopted a different method and exposed their evil deeds on a large scale until it stopped the persecution. This prevented them from committing more crimes towards Dafa, so that they then suffer less in the future.
In fact, we are not only trying to save sentient beings, but also dissolve the persecution at the surface. The evil forces arranged the persecution from the top down: from higher authorities in the 610 Office, the police, procuratorate, and judicial system, down to our local districts, village committee, police station, street office, and township, etc. The local authorities live near us and know us. They can provide details about Dafa practitioners, and are directly involved if they participate in the persecution.
Dafa practitioners should not wait until the environment becomes quiet and safe and then begin to validate the Fa. Consider it as an important project and begin to do it. Start from yourself and do not rely on others. Try to save those that can be saved. For those who are no longer worthy, make sure that they will not dare to persecute practitioners. Be genuine and start from your neighborhood and local police station. Completely dissolve the persecution situation in other dimensions and the surface time and space.
Dafa practitioners are still passively enduring the persecution, affecting the speed of saving more sentient beings. Since Teacher told us to perform our lead role well, let us be worthy of Teacher's hope and the hope of sentient beings. Let's use our divine righteous thoughts to manifest Dafa's power and to perform well in our leading role.
The above is my personal understanding. Fellow practitioners, please point out any mistakes.