(Minghui.org) Yu Ming is a man in his 50s from Shenyang City, Liaoning Province. He immigrated to the United States after the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began to persecute Falun Gong in 1999.
Yu started to practice Falun Gong in 1997. After the persecution started, he was arrested multiple times, held in a labor camp, and sentenced to prison. Even in China, he did not cultivate solidly for a long time. Instead, he was attached to doing “big things” that drew widespread attention. Because of serious problems in his cultivation state, however, the things he involved himself in often went astray and brought losses to practitioners.
Yu presents himself among practitioners as a “hero” with a “glorious” image. He promotes stories of his supposed achievements that came from righteous thoughts and righteous actions. But according to a practitioner familiar with Yu, after being shocked with electric batons by the police in China, Yu told the officers everything they asked for, including information that a practitioner–or any person with moral principles–should not provide.
For years, Yu has also engaged in improper relationships with female practitioners in Shenyang, Beijing, Hebei Province, and other places. They include two women who were imprisoned at the same time as him. Some of these women developed jealousy as a result of these relationships. These occurrences followed Yu wherever he went. For example, there were several such women in Shenyang, three in Beijing, a few in Hebei Province, and at least one in Jiamusi City, Heilongjiang Province. This behavior does not meet the moral standard of a practitioner at all, but Yu was proud of what he had managed to do.
During the persecution, Yu chose to live away from home. For a long time, he asked for money from other practitioners and spent it lavishly.
After arriving in the United States, Yu claimed that he was from a family of a senior official in China and had many connections there. In fact, he grew up in an ordinary working family. Nonetheless, Yu said he could help practitioners’ overseas projects make big money. Some overseas practitioners who have obvious problems in their cultivation state (including some veteran practitioners and project leaders) have developed close ties with him.
What roles has Yu played recently in forming chat groups among overseas practitioners, stirring up issues in media organizations, and interfering with practitioners in both Middletown and mainland China in doing the three things? If Yu still wants to practice cultivation, he would need to calmly look within, correct his own words and actions, and recover the losses he has caused. Cultivation practice is serious. The scheming of an ordinary person can deceive human beings but not the divine.
At the same time, overseas practitioners who have been affected should calmly reflect on why they were fooled so easily. When they heard something, why did they get excited and follow along blindly? Cultivation practice means we need to regard the Fa as our teacher. Were we to fall into every trap as they come along, how could we succeed in cultivation practice?
For Yu and practitioners in mainland China who are similarly attached to doing “big things” (names omitted out of safety concerns), please remember that cultivation practice focuses on improving xinxing, not political struggle; we help save people without pursuing fame and gain in society. Those involved should stop fooling others and harming themselves. We should make the best use of the final opportunity and genuinely cultivate ourselves. Time is short, and it would be too late for regret if one is left empty-handed in the end.
Minghui Editorial Board
February 6, 2025