(Minghui.org) For years, prison authorities in China have coerced the inmates to persecute practitioners who are incarcerated because they refuse to renounce the practice. As the Fa-rectification is approaching the end and people’s knowing sides are waking up, some of the inmates do not want to harm the practitioners. To make them do so, the prison guards intimidate, manipulate, bribe, or even threaten to kill them. Those who do not work to transform the practitioners to the guards’ satisfaction would be subjected to severe punishment.
In this article, I would like to share some thoughts on how we should handle such situations.
In a closed environment such as a prison, the guards have more power than one could imagine. For example, inside the 12th ward of Liaoning Province Women’s Prison, to make sure that the inmates actively participate in the persecution and show no mercy to the practitioners, the guards promise the inmates reduced sentences and benefits for doing well. If they do not cooperate, the guards subject them to solitary confinement, humiliation, and other physical abuse, similar to what the practitioners face. The punishments include squatting for hours, cleaning the toilets and floors in front of others, publicly criticizing herself in public and calling herself an animal, repeatedly writing “repentance reports,” and being put under intensive training and re-education.
After being put through repeated misery, some inmates eventually become the guards’ powerful tools in the persecution. They abuse the practitioners in order to reduce the mistreatment they suffer themselves. What’s more, when a practitioner refuses to renounce her faith, the guards would direct their anger at the inmates and torture them even more viciously, resulting in the inmates escalating the torture against the practitioner.
The practitioners naturally feel sorry for the inmates’ predicament. But should a practitioner’s heart be moved when the inmates ask them to cooperate with the guards in renouncing Dafa? The old forces will spot any human notion, attachment, or emotion, magnify it infinitely, and eventually use the omission to control the practitioner.
The practitioners should not allow the evil to manipulate them through their compassion or sympathy. Unfortunately, some practitioners could not hold their ground and did things against Dafa in order to help the inmates, which eventually ruined their own cultivation.
Master said,
“It is extremely dangerous to add anything human to cultivation practice.” (“Digging Out the Roots,” Essentials for Further Advancement)
The Soft Trap
In some cases, the inmates pretended to be kind, considerate, helpful, and on the practitioner’s side to earn their trust. But under the table, they worked closely with the guards to persecute the practitioners, out of their desire to survive in prison. Their superficial kind acts hide their evil intentions and degenerate nature.
My understanding is that if we only see the surface and are taken in by the inmates’ false friendliness, we will be trapped in complicated human emotions. The practitioners who judge reality based on notions, attachments, and emotions will not see the truth or transcend the human realm.
Let’s look at things from the Fa-rectification point of view. The inmates’ actions toward the practitioners are not just about people persecuting people, but a battle between good and evil in the universe. Those who become puppets of the evil are pitiful, as they are doing the most evil thing in the universe. If we truly want to save people, it would be wrong for us to comply with the inmates. It might save them from being abused by the guards, but their sins against Dafa would leave them in the most dangerous situation. The best way to help them is to let them understand the evilness of the Communist Party and the persecution, and awaken their conscience, so that they don’t work for the evil to persecute the good.
We are particles of the Fa and should act righteously to safeguard the Fa, fight against persecution, and not let people commit crimes against the Fa. We should eliminate the evil behind the inmates instead of protecting what they want.
Master said:
“I have long noticed that a few individuals do not have the heart to safeguard Dafa, but instead intend to safeguard certain things in human society. If you were an everyday person I would have no objections—it is certainly a good thing to be a good person who safeguards human society. But now you are a cultivator. From what standpoint you view Dafa is fundamental—this is also what I want to point out to you. During your cultivation practice, I will use every means to expose all of your attachments and dig them out at their roots.” (“Digging Out the Roots,” Essentials for Further Advancement)
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