(Minghui.org) During my recent interactions with fellow practitioners, I found practitioners in some areas have not “taken the Fa as the Master,” and have not strictly maintained the way Dafa should be spread, or the way Master left to us. Specifically, to make studying the Fa more convenient, some practitioners have not paid attention to the principles of Dafa. The results are, in fact, detrimental to Dafa.
1. For convenience, some elderly practitioners still have Master's articles being read in a woman's voice in their MP3 players. This is mainly because the younger practitioners who were helping those elderly practitioners set up the MP3s did not keep the safeguards, and did not pay attention to Master's directions. Some practitioners have stopped listening to such recordings but haven't deleted them.
2. Quoting Master's words only using quotation marks but not verifying the source. When quoting Master's original words in an article, we need to make notation of it.
3. Inventing a word, or using a word from a Buddhist teaching with new meaning to explain one's understanding of Fa, which has resulted in some fellow practitioners having misunderstandings and becoming separated from the main body.
4. Converting the “Falun Dafa—Teaching the Fa to Australian Falun Dafa Practitioners” to MP3 format. Yet in this format, the subtitles on the DVD during the segments where the sound was not clear did not work, making the lecture incomplete.
5. Converting Master's earlier video recordings of teaching the Fa and exercises to MP4 format.
6. Converting Master's e-book format to different formats to read on cellular phones (Minghui.org's format and version are the standard).
7. Downloading Master's Fa teaching lectures and recordings onto everyday people's and personal websites. Their intentions are good—to let ordinary people learn about Dafa—however, it is not respectful behavior. Downloading Master's lectures onto everyday people's websites without permission is a copyright violation. Master's Fa teaching has a sequence—one would get the best result only after listening to the entire lecture. In China, with censorship on the website, the recording quality is poor, thus ordinary people would not treasure the recordings. Those who have learned the truth about Falun Gong, and know how to get on the internet can easily find our software to break through the censorship. People who are genuinely seeking Fa will be able to download necessary Fa reading materials online.
Minghui.org published an article on November 18, 2009, “Only Teacher's Words and Voice Can Be Used in Audio Recordings of Dafa Scriptures; No Other Recordings Are Allowed.” (http://en.minghui.org/html/articles/2009/11/18/112446.html) Teacher specifically commented on that article.
Master had warned us long ago,
“Disciples! You should not casually take up a term used or mentioned by everyone. Isn’t this adding something human to Dafa? Last year, after the Beijing assistance center put forward the four phrases, I wrote an article, “Correction,” specifically for it. It should be taken seriously. Of course, there are still some other improper terms being circulated. You should think about it: If one word is added today and another the day after tomorrow, with the passage of time the next generation of disciples will not be able to tell whose words they are, and gradually Dafa will be changed.
You must be clear that the form of cultivation practice that I leave you can never be altered. Don’t do anything that I do not do, and don’t use anything that I do not use. In cultivation you should say things however I say them. Pay attention! Inadvertent alteration of the Buddha Fa is undermining it all the same!
I also want to tell you that your nature in the past was actually based on egotism and selfishness. From now on, whatever you do, you should consider others first, so as to attain the righteous Enlightenment of selflessness and altruism. So from now on, whatever you do or whatever you say, you must consider others—or even future generations—along with Dafa’s eternal stability.” (“Non-Omission in Buddha-Nature” from Essentials for Further Advancement )
“Every step I, Li Hongzhi, take is to establish an unchangeable and unalterable way for the transmission of Dafa in future generations. Such an enormous Fa will not be over after a moment of popularity. There cannot be any slight deviation in the countless years to come. Safeguarding Dafa with your own conduct is forever the responsibility of Dafa disciples, because Dafa belongs to all sentient beings of the universe, and this includes you.” (“Stability of the Fa” from Essentials for Further Advancement)
Remember, my fellow practitioners: no matter what have we enlightened to from Dafa, no matter which higher level we have cultivated to, no matter how powerful our supernatural powers are and how many major projects we have done helping Master with the Fa rectification, we have to remember—Dafa is first (Dafa's principles come first), and nobody is allowed to use any excuse to change Dafa's principles. This is to protect, validate, and treasure Dafa! Master said,
“When all sentient beings treasure Dafa, they are treasuring their own lives and being compassionate to all sentient beings. Dafa is unchangeable and unshakable. It will live on forever and always exist in the world. Heaven and earth will remain stable forever.” (“Definitive Conclusion” from Essentials for Further Advancement)
I suggest that fellow practitioners who have not paid attention to any of the above issues spend more time studying Master's Fa teachings on these topics, and fellow practitioners' sharings as well. In addition, we should immediately correct ourselves and others when we notice any detrimental behavior, so Dafa practitioners as one body can take even more solid steps on the path of Fa validation.
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