(Minghui.org) One of the practitioners in our local Fa study group, Ailin, wrote an article regarding the importance of issuing a solemn statement. We discussed the topic and reviewed a few related articles and summarized our thoughts, which we would like to share with everyone here.
1. We must take the solemn statement seriously and not take Master's mercy for granted. We should avoid making the same mistake of renouncing our faith under pressure again and again.
2. If there are fellow practitioners who need to issue solemn statements, be sure to remind them to write promptly so Master can take care of them.
3. Fellow practitioners must carefully check whether their solemn statements have been published on Minghui.org and if not, they can take remedial measures to ensure timely publication.
4. Try to avoid burdening one single practitioner with the task of submitting everyone’s solemn statements to Minghui.org. It’s better to have several people help with the task.
Ailin’s article read,
“I had a strange dream one morning in September of 2015. In the dream, Mei was lying on the ground, and someone was scolding her. As soon as she saw me, she jumped up onto a platform and sat on a chair. I woke up not sure what to make of it. When I went to the Fa study group, someone told me that Mei had passed away yesterday. I suddenly realized what the dream was about.
When Mei first began practicing Falun Dafa, I taught her the exercises and studied the Fa with her. She was a factory secretary. After the persecution began in 1999, she got scared and gave up her belief. When she was in critical condition, I went to visit her and asked whether she had ever written anything to give up her belief due to pressure from the authorities. She thought a little and told me that someone wrote a statement for her to give up practicing Falun Dafa, and she agreed. I told her that she needed to write a solemn statement to nullify the document she’d agreed to under pressure and against her will. We wrote her the solemn statement and read it to her. She agreed and signed her name. We then submitted it for her.
The dream revealed that because Mei published a solemn statement, Master took care of her again. She was raised from the abyss and even had a position of her own. How much one has cultivated is however much one obtains. The solemn statement is so important!”
Bin, another practitioner in our Fa-study group, shared an article she’d read on Minghui.org. The author of that article talked about a dream in which Master asked her where her solemn statement was. When she woke up, she remembered that she had issued one and asked a fellow practitioner to submit it to Minghui.org for her. She went to ask the fellow practitioner and learned that the latter was swamped with numerous things and had forgotten to send out her solemn statement. The practitioner submitted her solemn statement right then and there.
Cai, a third practitioner in our Fa-study group, brought up an article she read. The author of the article was quite diligent in her cultivation and was doing the three things well. She was arrested one day but was released the same day. Nobody felt that anything was wrong. But she developed sickness karma shortly after and passed away.
Her local practitioners learned from her family that she’d written some statements before she was released, but that she was too concerned about her reputation to reveal that to fellow practitioners. It was a big loophole that was taken advantage of by the old forces. If fellow practitioners had paid attention to her situation and reminded her to issue a solemn statement, the outcome might have been different.
Cai also mentioned another article, which was written by a fellow practitioner whose third eye was open. He saw in other dimensions the situation of practitioners who did not issue solemn statements. Those practitioners were tied up from head to toe with thorns, and whenever they moved, the thorns penetrated deeply into their body. Blood gushed out, rendering the practitioners unable to move at all. But when they issued the solemn statement, the thorns would break and they would be free again! That is the power of a solemn statement!
No other discipline of cultivation since ancient times has ever given its students a second chance. As soon as a student betrayed his master, he would lose the opportunity to cultivate forever. Only our Master has such great compassion to allow us to return to cultivation, and only our Master has such enormous Fa power to use the “Solemn Statement” to negate the old force's evil purpose to ruin Dafa disciples because they faltered once due to unbearable torture.
This is our understanding at our level; please kindly point out anything inappropriate.
Editor’s note: This article only represents the author’s current understanding meant for sharing among practitioners so that we can “Compare with one another in study, in cultivation.” (“Solid Cultivation,” Hong Yin)