(Clearwisdom.net) The re-emergence of evil Jiang Zemin has caused some large fluctuations among practitioners in Mainland China, let alone for members of the public. Some practitioners have said, “I didn’t want to follow along when practitioners called for us to set off firecrackers. How could we do so just according to several articles published on the Minghui website? Master didn’t ask us to do so, neither did the Minghui Editors. The CCTV didn’t announce Jiang’s death, either. Setting off firecrackers would also cause problems for those who clean the streets. So I didn’t do it. Now Jiang has reappeared. How do we explain this to people?” Some said, “My heart remains unaffected even though heaven falls and the earth rends. Whether Jiang is alive or dead has nothing to do with Dafa disciples. So I didn’t set off firecrackers at that time; I didn’t develop that attachment. However, Jiang has reemerged. How can you explain it?” There are other comments like these, as if to crusade against the practitioners who supported setting off firecrackers or who celebrated by doing it.
I want to share my understanding about Jiang’s reappearance with fellow practitioners. We are all Dafa disciples, shouldn’t we look inward when encountering problems?
First of all, is it really true that this has nothing to do with us: whether Jiang is dead or not? It does have something to do with us. The existences of evil Jiang and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) are used by the old forces to interfere with Master rectifying the Fa and to test Dafa disciples. Master doesn’t acknowledge it, and Dafa disciples should do likewise. If evil Jiang lives one more day, he will play an evil role one more day. The old forces use it one more day to persecute and destroy practitioners they consider unqualified and to stop more sentient beings from being saved.
Speaking from the perspective of ordinary society, evil Jiang is the prime criminal of the persecutors. Jiang issued numerous inhuman orders such as “killing without pardon”, leading to the deaths of at least 3,800 practitioners. In addition, the propaganda ordered by Jiang has cheated and poisoned so many sentient beings. Its existence is an obstacle to saving sentient beings and a disaster for practitioners and the Chinese people. It oppresses people but protects corrupt officials. It is the root of all evil.
Regardless of the way in which Jiang was used by the old forces to reappear in public, we should look inward. Isn’t it because of our human thoughts and the attachment to self that the old forces took advantage of our loopholes?
Master told us,
“So, as Dafa disciples go about validating the Fa and saving sentient beings, their attitude, state of mind, and manner of doing things are all critical, for such things can determine what changes take place in this world. A single person can determine the outcome of things within a certain expanse, and when we are talking about even more Dafa disciples--since there are so many Dafa disciples, even tens of millions--once they put their minds to something, it's something to reckon with.” (“Fa Teaching at the 2009 Washington DC International Fa Conference”
Each of us really needs to look inside to examine how we think about these issues. We should search our hearts and ask ourselves: under cosmic changes, if one didn’t want to set off firecrackers because of one’s own opinions, and one used various excuses to refuse to participate and didn’t enlighten and admit one’s mistake afterwards, are the practitioner’s xinxing and deeds still in accordance with those of a Dafa disciple? It is Master who told us that we should see Minghui’s attitude when big things occur. Some practitioners didn’t follow Minghui’s direction, but instead relied on the evil CCP’s CCTV. Some took no action with the excuse that “My heart remains unaffected even though heaven falls and earth rends.” But where did your "being unaffected" come from?
I still remember that when the CCP started its persecution of Falun Gong on July 20, 1999, one practitioner didn’t stand up for Falun Dafa. Instead, he claimed that he needed to stay at home to “cultivate calmly.” One remained unmoved and only thought about obtaining from Dafa, while Master and Dafa were being slandered and persecuted. Wasn’t it because of one’s selfishness and the attachment to self and one's personal understanding that he did so? He even thought that he did better than others because he was unmoved.
Now, when the news agencies around the world, such as Asian TV stations in Hong Kong and Japanese Sankei Shinbun, reported that Jiang had died, and then many people in China began celebrating by setting off firecrackers, some practitioners used the excuse of “being unmoved” again to stop setting off firecrackers. Let me make a rather unpleasant joke. Are you afraid of Jiang’s death, or are you reluctant to hear Jiang’s death? It does not matter much if only one or two practitioners think like this. But if many practitioners think like this (as far as I know, many practitioners in my local area have this thought), doesn’t it provide a loophole that can be taken advantage of by the old forces-- such that evil Jiang has managed to appear again? Isn’t Jiang’s reappearance caused by these practitioners’ human attachments, numbness, and selfishness?
Master has told us in several lectures that as long as the CCP does something, it is for sure to fail and to be bad. This time, how long evil Jiang can be propped up could depend on our minds and cultivation status. Evil Jiang is already 85 years old and has suffered from stroke four times. He reappeared on the scene being supported by others. Why? We should think about it from the standpoint of saving sentient beings and Master rectifying the Fa, rather than from our human notions or attachments to our personal understandings. Time marches on, waiting for no man. We cannot fail to clearly enlighten to the Fa principles and lag behind the progress of Fa-rectification whenever the situation changes. We need to step out of humanness and stop make the same mistakes.
I suggest that everyone take the time to let go of self-interest and personal understandings and study the five lectures that Master taught in these two years (from “Be More Diligent” to “What is a Dafa Disciple”), study each lecture 10 times with our hearts. Only after we get rid of our own obstacles and upgrade xinxing can we understand the needs of the Fa-rectification and no longer delay the progress of Fa-rectification.
The above is just my recent understanding at my level. It is to share with fellow practitioners only. Please kindly point out anything improper.
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