(Clearwisdom.net) On March 1, 2010, police from the Public Security Bureau and Domestic Security Division in my area began harassing and arresting quite a few practitioners, under the pretense of "security for the Two Congress meetings." I learned that these practitioners have been repeatedly harassed and arrested on "politically sensitive" days in recent years, though they acted well when they were held in detention. Some even escaped brainwashing centers with righteous thoughts. Then why were they harassed and arrested again in the same year or the next year? I believe it was because the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is very evil, and the old forces took advantage of the loopholes of practitioners to persecute them. All of our Dafa practitioners must coordinate well and use righteous thoughts to dissolve and eliminate the old forces' arrangements. We should be in the Fa at all times and use the Fa tool that Master gave us, which is looking inward and cultivating ourselves well. I'd like to share my understandings. Practitioners please consider my points from the perspective of the Fa.
1. Doing Dafa work isn't in itself cultivation. So we should look back and review whether we still have the attachments that were formed long ago, but that we haven't cultivated away, as the old forces may grab hold of them. It is imperative that we look within and completely negate the arrangements of the old forces. If we don't look within, then we are countering the persecution within the arrangement of old forces. Thus we are acknowledging the persecution and suffering hardships unnecessarily.
2. We should check to see if we are going to extremes and if we only want to do "big" things and ignore our own behavior. Do we often have conflicts with family members and forget to validate the Fa at home or to people around us? Master warned us long ago that going to extremes would not have a good effect. Master also gave a detailed account of how we should balance the relationships with other people in our families, society, and in the workplace, so we should do well in this regard. We should remember that we are Dafa disciples and need to play a positive and good role as evidenced by what we do. We shouldn't discredit Dafa. We are validating the Fa. As long as our family members and people we encounter know that Falun Dafa is good, they will be saved.
Master's every word is worth a thousand pounds of gold. Cultivation is serious and has a standard, so we can't afford to make even the slightest mistake. If we measure each thing we do using the Fa standard, then we will have happy families and the environment around us will change for the better. Practitioners' compassion is powerful.
3. Some practitioners lost their jobs due to the persecution. This was the arrangement of the old forces, and we should completely deny it. We then have to make sure we clearly understand the Fa principles of "loss and gain," consider whether we used bribery to be released from illegal detention, and whether we still have attachments to money or other interests. The old forces grab hold of these attachments and don't let us go. Regarding jobs, many practitioners have refused to acknowledge or co-operate with the arrangements of the old forces. Some have vehenently denied it and gone to work as usual. As a result, nothing happened to them. Some who had lost jobs are now clarifying the facts to their previous workplace and related departments, while finding jobs during the course of saving sentient beings. They walked their own paths while getting their previous jobs back.
We should not passively accept the tribulations or passively send forth righteous thoughts. We should not passively rescue or help practitioners when tribulations come. When tribulations come, however, we should co-ordinate well to rescue practitioners. We should be responsible regarding fellow practitioners' cultivation. When we see practitioners having problems, we should sincerely tell them and together look within and cultivate out those black substances. Only when every practitioner has cultivated himself/herself well can we say that we have completely negated the old forces and will we have more time and more practitioners to save sentient beings.
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