The Calamity Dafa Faces

Dafa disciples are following Master to save sentient beings. This is inevitable in history, and this is your prehistoric vow. Even more so, it is an honor of magnificence and sacredness that is unprecedented since the creation of the universe. But the process is arduous and perilous. It's hard for people in the world to fully comprehend the vast compassion Dafa disciples have for mankind. When Dafa disciples counter the persecution and save people, evil spirits behind the scenes will instigate people to suppress and persecute Dafa disciples and me with certain reasons of mankind.

Since the calamity facing Dafa started in China in 1999, through today, it has never ended, whether in the United States or throughout the world. Saving people will involve the karma they have created throughout history, and demons will interfere and cause damage at any time in any place using people’s karma. While following Master to save people, Dafa disciples are also saving themselves and eliminating their own karma. But demons will use Dafa disciples’ own karma to block Dafa disciples from saving people. Meanwhile, the world’s people who are being saved have no way to repay all the sins and karma they left throughout history, so divine beings have to help them resolve some of the karma with benevolent solutions and also have people eliminate a portion themselves. I, Master, also have to endure a portion for people. Therefore, the more sentient beings are saved, the more Master has to endure. When Dafa disciples are working to counter the persecution, even the slightest carelessness will lead to tribulations.

The problem that practitioner-run media are facing is mainly caused by practitioners not doing well, but there are also factors in other dimensions behind mankind. You think it is difficult to counter the persecution without money, so you want to get some money to oppose the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s persecution and think the American government would be understanding if there were something improper. This is what you, yourselves, thought. Facing forced organ harvesting and people dying every day from the persecution, you think it is justifiable to use this money to oppose the persecution and nothing else. But you cannot forget that, as Dafa disciples, only when you walk your path righteously at all times can you avoid problems.

In fact, I know that as we are saving people, there is still fifteen percent of karma that has not been eliminated. This is what is left after saving sentient beings for more than twenty years, and it is enormous. I am aware of this. As a result, the enormous pressure and endurance I am facing will come one by one. Saving people is difficult, and it is easier said than done. Therefore, the saints who are saving people–Shen Yun Performing Arts–are also being schemed against.

As for our Dafa disciples, facing the CCP’s vicious, powerful propaganda machine and its use of the entire nation’s resources to persecute Dafa disciples, the number of Dafa disciples outside mainland China is very limited. As a result, parents have also led their children to participate in countering the persecution. To be more effective in countering the persecution, the Fei Tian school began to not only teach students culture but also help them become artists and oppose the persecution in a non-violent way. By displaying how China was before the CCP, they help people to see through the CCP, expose the persecution at the same time, and relay the message that divine beings are saving people in the final days. During the performances, positive energy dissolves the disasters facing the world’s people, benefiting Americans and the entire world. That is to say, every member of Dafa is opposing the persecution.

In China, both adults and children are in the midst of calamity. Children are also being jailed, and they are also being persecuted to death. A portion of Shen Yun artists are student performers in training because their parents want their children to study while participating in efforts to counter the persecution. This is why parents send their children to Fei Tian. When they came to Fei Tian, all the students were asked why they came. They all said it was to assist Master in saving people. They are eager to participate in Shen Yun performances to expose the CCP’s persecution and rescue practitioners in mainland China. For us, both adults and children have a role in saving people and countering the persecution. Some children are very determined! In fact, countering the persecution is something internal to our cultivation community. No one is helping us! This includes governments and large businesses. Even so, some people are instigating the world’s people behind the scenes to attack Shen Yun, saying underage students are used as performers. In fact, it is the students’ practicum. Facing this unprecedented persecution, the only way is for all of us to participate in countering the persecution. If someone uses this as an excuse to attack Shen Yun, is America still America?

In fact, the calamity faced by Dafa will not end depending on regional differences; it is only that the manifestations vary. During the calamity, the beings who will stay and those who will be eliminated in the end are also being chosen. This includes those among Dafa disciples who can make it and those who cannot.

Master Li Hongzhi
June 5, 2024

(Translation by English Minghui. Translation updated June 6, 2024.)