(Minghui.org) Greetings to our great benevolent Master! Greetings to fellow practitioners!
Master attended the 2015 New York Fa Conference in person. In answering a disciple's question about suing the evil head [former Chinese president Jiang Zemin, who singlehandedly launched the persecution of Falun Gong], Master answered:
“Indeed, it should be sued (enthusiastic applause from the disciples); all of humanity should sue it. It has harmed all Chinese people, as well as many people in other regions all over the world. So many people are going to be dragged into Hell because of its lies.” ( “Fa Teaching Given at the 2015 New York Fa Conference”)
Listening to Master's lecture in New York, I felt that the Fa-rectification is progressing forward very rapidly. When Master made clear the Fa principle of suing Jiang in the human world, I feel that in the other dimensions, it represents huge cosmic changes, and it is in fact also “the Will of Heaven."
Master said,
“Without human action happening under cosmic changes, such conditions would not have been brought to ordinary human society, and neither would they be called cosmic changes.” (Zhuan Falun)
As Dafa disciples – Master's disciples, how do we follow the cosmic changes, to abide by “the will of Heaven” to sue the evil head in this human world, and to take action in a timely way?
When I eventually submitted via EMS my criminal complaint against the evil head to the Supreme People’s Court and the Supreme People’s Procuratorate of China, I truly felt Master’s tremendous benevolence and the urgency for disciples to seize every minute and second to save sentient beings.
After coming back from the New York Fa Conference, although I realized that I should sue Jiang as soon as possible, I did not know why for many weeks, I could not focus on writing my criminal complaints against Jiang. Every day was so incredibly busy with a full schedules of doing the three things. My cultivated side told me that time was pressing and under the cosmic changes, we need to co-operate and take action as soon as possible. However I just kept delaying.
It seemed that my human side was being restrained by something. Since this has been a persistent habit of mine for years, I feel I can do the three things no matter how hard the tasks are. However, eventually even that forms another kind of attachment of comfort and ease – that is, when you are used to doing something every day, you feel comfortable and at ease. In terms of suing Jiang, although it was very important, I had never done it before and I felt it difficult, and so I just kept delaying it; this was the state of my cultivation after coming back from the New York Fa Conference.
One day when I was reading the "Your Master Consciousness Should Predominate" in Zhuan Falun, Master said:
“Since everything in other dimensions has life, karma is also the same. When one begins to practice cultivation in a righteous way, one must eliminate one’s karma. Eliminating karma means having karma wiped out and transformed. Of course, karma will resist, and so one will have tribulations and obstacles.” (Zhuan Falun)
I realized that at this very critical moment of Master’s Fa-rectification, to participate in suing Jiang, we really need to break through the interference created by our poor xinxing, and strengthen our main consciousness. When Master saw that I had this thought, he arranged several practitioners to come talk to me about writing their criminal complaints. I understood that during the process of helping them, it was Master who was helping me overcome the interference, purifying my thoughts, strengthening my main consciousness, encouraging me to focus my energy, and providing the time to finish writing my criminal complaint.
It is also a very precious cultivation opportunity to decide what to write and from what starting point. From the Fa, we understand that Master is so compassionate to save all sentient beings in the entire universe. However, the evil head that was selected and produced purposely by the old forces, turned itself into the enemy of Master’s Fa-rectification, with the purpose of destroying all sentient beings.
In “Teaching the Fa at the 2004 Western U.S. Fa Conference”, a disciple asked: “That chief evil thing in China that was chosen by the old forces must have a shameful past. Could Master tell us its background?”
Master answered:
“It actually doesn't have much of a background. It was a puff of evil air emitted by a decomposed body that was thousands of years old, and it turned into a toad embryo and was chosen by the old forces. Being prone to jealousy that stemmed from its short temper and pettiness, and through its wheeling and dealing in bureaucratic circles, it developed its ways of hurting people to get ahead, forming cliques, having no noble aspirations, bootlicking, and doing utterly shameless things. The old forces felt that it completely met the standard for being human scum--it had more than satisfied all the requirements--and had all kinds of wickedness. The old forces were incredibly fond of it and they knew it was sure to be quite useful when the time came. It was selected by the old forces and was then deliberately molded. When they were making the selection back then they were looking for something that's evil and stupid. That's why it completely behaves as it does.” (“Teaching the Fa at the 2004 Western U.S. Fa Conference”)
Master also clearly points out:
“The moment the Party and that evil ringleader exclaimed that they wanted to ‘defeat Falun Gong’, the gods gave the verdict that the Party must be dissolved and destroyed.” (“We Are Not ‘Getting Political’” from The Essentials of Diligent Progress Vol. III )
Master also said, “Aren't even those who carry out the persecution, with the exception of the head of the evil, themselves targeted by the persecution?" ( “Fa Teaching at the 2009 Greater New York International Fa Conference”)
I understand from Master's Fa, with Master’s compassion, even those that persecute Dafa practitioners are supposed to be saved by practitioners. However due to the evil nature of the evil head, it was doomed to be destroyed by all the gods. The evil head’s destiny has already been decided by the Fa-rectification!
When I correctly based my starting point on save sentient beings, nothing seems to be able to interfere with me. Everything seems to be perfectly arranged. The Minghui website provides us with many ready-to-use materials and formats. I mainly focused on writing my personal experience of persecution.
My criminal complaint against Jiang included the following points: in June 2002, the evil head disregarded the western country’s sovereignty, when it was visiting Iceland, and exported the persecution of Falun Gong to this once democratic and free country. About 70 Falun Gong practitioners came from North America and other countries with a Chinese passport and valid visa to enter Iceland. However, we were unlawfully interrogated at the airport. Later on, we were detained at a school near the airport for more than ten hours.
The local media exposed Jiang’s illegal activity of providing a blacklist of hundreds of Falun Gong practitioners to the Iceland government. Jiang applied pressure to the Iceland government to guarantee that it would not see any of our peaceful Falun Gong protests during his time in Iceland.
In the face of the huge pressure from the local media and the local residents, we 70 Falun Gong practitioners were released later on. By witnessing that we were in fact peaceful and kind in the face of this unlawful detention, after learning the truth of Dafa, the local residents learned the Falun Gong exercises with us right outside the school where we were detained.
We were later on released, but wherever we went, we were harassed by spies sent out by the Chinese regime: we were followed and photographed. The owners of the hotels where the practitioners were staying were forced to cancel our stay. Jiang thus unlawfully exported the offenses of illegal detention and harassment to Iceland, not only persecuting Falun Gong practitioners, but also bringing a huge disaster to this once rich and democratic country, including later incidents such as the financial crisis and volcanic activity.
On the day that I decided to mail my criminal complaint via EMS, my workplace was miraculously quiet. I understood that it was Master who was giving me time to purify myself and get my complaint ready. Before going to the post office, Master gave me sufficient time to send forth the righteous thoughts. I felt my body and mind enveloped with tremendous energy.
In this human world, we can see that when Master made clear the progress of the Fa-rectification, the situation on this human level was also changing as per the requirement of the Fa-rectification. A new policy that came into effect on May 1, 2015 stated that the Supreme People's Court will guarantee the registration and processing of all criminal and civil complaints. The Supreme People’s Court started to reform “the case acceptance system,” replacing “the case-filing review system” with “the case-filing registration system.”
At this very important historical moment of suing Jiang, for the Chief Justice of the Supreme People’s Court and the Procurator-General of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, and the related staff, Dafa disciples’ criminal complaints are the most important opportunity for them to hear the truth and re-position themselves.
Before I went to the post office, I sent forth the righteous thoughts. My gong and energy were eliminating the factors that were interfering with these officials and keeping them from knowning the truth. At the post office, the moment I sealed off the envelopes, I saw that the envelopes were shining brightly.
The moment that the tracking numbers were scanned into the computer at the post office, I understood that in the fastest dimension, these two criminal complaints had already reached their destination. The staff told me it usually took about 6-9 working days. I said to myself, in this dimension, those working days are for me to continue sending forth righteous thoughts to eliminate the evil.
When I returned to my work place after mailing the complaints, I immediately sat down and sent forth righteous thoughts. I clearly saw that my two criminal complaints were just like two brilliantly sharp arrows dashing towards Beijing, eliminating the demons all along the way and allowing the evilness nowhere to hide. After sending forth righteous thoughts, I felt very light and I truly felt the sacredness and wonder of participating in suing Jiang.
Seizing Every Minute and Second to Save Sentient Beings
To co-operate with cosmic changes of suing Jiang, I call lawyers in China to clarify the truth to them. I truly feel that there are still many kind-hearted people who are waiting for us to clarify the truth to them and save them. Once, I called Yunnan Province and had a conversation with a lawyer. After I clarified the truth about the regime's forced organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners and the staged self-immolation incident to him, he told me that he completely believed what I told him.
I could sense that he was sympathetic to Falun Gong and I suggested that he withdraw from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-related organizations. I told him that withdrawing from the CCP is to choose righteousness and kindness thereby getting protection from heaven. He agreed to withdraw from the Youth League and the Young Pioneers.
When I congratulated him on doing so, he said he also wished Falun Gong practitioners all the best. He said that in China, the living situations are very tough, and he hoped that Falun Gong practitioners could protect themselves. I told him that over four thousand people in China had filed criminal complaints against the evil head Jiang Zemin. I hoped in the near future when all necessary conditions were satisfied, that he could help the practitioners in China from the legal perspective. He said that although he felt sympathy for Falun Gong, he also felt powerless in terms of helping them legally because he knew that in China, the profession as a lawyer is just like a performer, many times, the result of the case has been pre-arranged. I could tell that he had no confidence in suing Jiang and sounded indifferent. After I hung up the phone, I felt happy for him since he chose to withdraw from the CCP and knew the truth about Dafa. However, I reflected that since this lawyer was quite righteous, but indifferent to suing Jiang, this was a reflection of my own dimension. It was a reflection of the fact that I had delayed writing my criminal complaints. This phone call also pushed me to finish my criminal complaints later on.
After calling China for a period of time, I felt that due to the time difference, the best time to call China is in the morning, my time, before 10 a.m., since it's before they go to bed in China and after they come home from work. People are more relaxed, with no colleagues or supervisors around them. In order to be more efficient in calling China, I asked around to see whether any other fellow practitioners wanted to start Fa-study at 3:55 a.m. Practitioners quickly responded and supported me.
Currently, we have a group of people start Fa-study at 3:55, and we do the first, third and fourth set of the exercises at 5:20 a.m. At 5:55, we sending righteous thoughts, and we continue with the second and the fifth set of the exercises. In this way, every day, when I am settled down with my computer ready, I start calling China before 8 a.m.
When I am in a good state of cultivation, I can feel a very strong energy field around me. Sometimes I feel that I am in a "supernormal ability state." It is not necessary that each phone call results in people withdrawing from the CCP. It is that my energy field can really influence sentient beings. Even though might not have agreed to withdraw right away, it will lay a good foundation to prepare him to agree to withdraw the next time a practitioner contacts him.On weekdays, I usually make calls until 9:10 a.m. before I drive to the subway and take the subway to work. Recently, especially under the cosmic changes of suing Jiang, I feel that I am being pushed forwarded by the huge current of Master’s Fa-rectification. Master keeps enlightening me that in saving sentient beings, I have to seize every single minute and second.
One day after calling China, I drove to the subway station. The moment I walked into the station, I saw there was a huge line-up. In the front, it seemed that a senior Chinese gentleman was trying hard to communicate with the staff at the ticket-booth. I went up and asked if I could help and found out that this elderly gentleman wanted to buy some senior TTC tickets, but since his English was not good, he said "sears" tickets instead of “senior” tickets. I helped clear up the misunderstanding and he bought the tickets he wanted. When he followed me onto the subway, he was waving to someone who was in the line behind us. He said that was his wife. We talked in a friendly manner and I clarified the truth to them. This couple happily agreed to withdraw from the CCP. I asked them to remember that Falun Dafa is good and Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good. They thanked me and also said that they were so fortunately to have met someone who is kind-hearted.
Another time, after calling China, I rushed to the subway. The moment I was pushing the button to take the elevator, I saw a Chinese couple, with their son standing beside the elevator. They looked like they were not sure what to do. I asked them how I could help. They told me they landed in Toronto as new immigrants just two days ago, and they did not know how to get to downtown. I told them that I was on my way to work downtown, and I could help them. In this way, we talked as we traveled together. I clarified the truth in depth to them, and they were both happily agreed to withdraw from the CCP.
There are many such examples. Every time we go to the airport to clarify the truth to Chinese people, we spend over two hours taking public transit. Master never allows us to waste time on our way. No matter whether we are on the way to the airport or on our way home, every time, Master compassionately arranges Chinese people to sit beside us; not just one or two, sometimes it is a big family of eight. Fellow practitioners and I cooperate very well in talking to all of them, and the people are always so thankful to us after we help them withdraw from the CCP.
Sometimes we meet some precious Chinese people for less than 50 seconds, but we still end up in helping them withdraw the CCP. We all understand that it was compassionately arranged by our Master, and Master also strengthens and encourages us to seize every single minute and second to save sentient beings.
For some time early in the morning when I was doing the sitting meditation, I felt sleepy. I was very anxious and a fellow practitioner also asked me whether it was because I wasn't getting enough sleep. Looking inside, I understood it was because I had a xinxing problem. I observed that some practitioners were very lazy, looked apathetic in whatever they did, and failed to do it consistently. It looked like it was just a lack of perseverance. I was worried for them. Then my feelings changed from worry, to not understanding and starting to complain, to eventually looking down upon others.
In fact, each time Master allowed me to see how some fellow practitioners behaved, it was for me to take it as a mirror to look inside. However, I kept missing the opportunities. Looking down upon others is a very bad attachment, and it is another form of jealousy. Since I was not enlightened to it for quite some time, these attachments accumulated in my dimensional field, resulting in interference and making me sleepy during the sitting meditation.
I learned to see my fellow practitioners' strengths, and I also now cherish the opportunity to cultivate with them. When I dug out the attachment, I improved in doing the sitting meditation. However, the sleepiness did not disappear completely. I looked deeper inside. I understood that even if I found my attachment, it did not mean that I have completely eliminated it. When sending forth righteous thoughts, I strengthened my main consciousness to eliminate these human attachments. When I'm in a good state of cultivation, I can truly feel the tranquil and beautiful state of the sitting meditation.
Master said,
“Of course, you need to do well at personal cultivation if you’re to do well at those things. So this means cultivation is fundamental for each of you. With any project to save people, if you stray from cultivation you will find that you become more and more like a non-cultivator and tend to think about matters and do things in an increasingly ordinary way. But if you can stay on the Fa all the way through, and not let up in your personal cultivation at any point, you will find that everything you do is truly befitting a cultivator. That is simply essential if a Dafa disciple is to complete his mission, and what ensures it on a fundamental level. So you cannot stray from the Fa, and at no point can you let up in your own cultivation. ” ("Fa Teaching Given at the 2015 New York Fa Conference")
With the current significant cosmic changes in suing the evil head, we as Dafa disciples should definitely cultivate ourselves well to keep up with the progress of Fa-rectification, seizing every single minute and every second to save more sentient beings.
The above is only my personal understanding. Please correct me if there is anything improper!
Heshi!
(Presented at the 2015 Canada Falun Dafa Cultivation Experience Sharing Conference)