Using Different Ways to Bring Jiang to Justice in the Court of Morality and People’s Hearts

Regarding the trial against Jiang, I have some ideas and would like to write them down, so as to share my view with everyone. If there is anything inappropriate, you are welcome to point it out.

I remember a story from Christianity: One time, Solomon offered about 2,000 sacrifices of sheep to God. As he was so sincere, God appeared in a dream and asked what he would like to have. He answered that he did not want either money or reputation. Instead, he said that he would like to have wisdom so that he could settle lawsuits with justice. God found he was such a good man that Solomon was given not only wisdom but also fortune and honour.

When Solomon came back from the ceremony of the sacrifice, he was presented with two women who could not strop fighting each other over a child. Solomon began to hold trial. Originally each of the two women had looked after their own babies, but all of them had shared a bed together. When they had woken up, they found that one of the children had been crushed to death and they both argued that the child alive was their own child. As there was no witness, there was no resolution, and it had come to a deadlock. With the wisdom imparted to him by God, Solomon made a prompt decision, “It is easy. Come, someone chop this child into two with a knife.” After he said this, one of the women was so glad to have the situation resolved that she agreed right away and flattered Solomon on being very fair about the case. The other woman, however, became very anxious and stopped Solomon immediately from chopping the child. She said, “Please give the child to her. I do not want to fight anymore.” At this moment, Solomon knew the answer right away. This second woman must be the child’s real mother and the child should be hers. The other woman had crushed her own child to death and fought for other’s child; she deserved to be punished for her immoral thoughts and agreeing to chop the child.

In a piece of ancient Chinese literature, Houshin Engi, it talks of drawing a circle as a prison; the punishment for a man who committed a crime was to draw a circle on the ground to serve as a prison, which the man was not allowed to step outside of. We can see from this that the moral standard was so very high at that time that even criminals were so self-conscious and kept their word.

In ancient society, there was only one sentence in the legal system of a country, “the killer is to pay back his life while the robber is to compensate his belongings”. There was no complex system of litigation. In the trial of a case, it was judged based upon the decision of morality and justice by a local government official. Whatever the punishment, it was determined by how beneficial it was in maintaining morality and how beneficial it was in enabling a person to abandon evil ways and to follow what is righteousness.

From the perspective of a modern person, for a case to be judged by a local government official without a clear set of rules and litigations wouldn’t seem to guarantee justice. As a consequence, litigation in modern society has become more and more broad and complex for any kind of specific illegal behaviour - to avoid man-made injustice. However, for a legal system to develop to such a complex degree is not completely beneficial or without any negative effects. There are now some cases in which regulations are cited rigidly in order to escape punishment. Some lawyers cite regulations unfairly so that a criminal can avoid punishment. Besides, the rules and regulations are set up by humans. When those with power are not fair, they can even manipulate the process to set up an article, such as the evil Hong Kong Article 23, which is against human rights and persecutes the innocent in the name of the law.

In a sound legal system, it requires people, judges, jury, and lawyers to physically implement the legal system. In a trial case, which regulation to cite and whether it is fair all depends on those people who physically implement the system, which is the way it will always be. Whether it is a case judged by a local government official in ancient times, or a case judged based upon a modern legal system, society, morality and justice are maintained by people with the authority to punish wrongdoings. If the morality of all those people with authority becomes corrupt, then nothing is workable, not even for a sound legal system. A legal system with too many details make people’s lives like a prison. Everyone has to worry about whether each single act violates the law, which completely goes against the objective of setting up the laws in the first place.

So the law itself has a lot of limitations. The fundamental solution to solve problems is not to set up complex litigation, but to maintain people’s morality. Tracing back to the origin of law, it is found that laws, at the very beginning, were to summarize those typical cases to serve as references for similar cases in the future. They gradually become systematic and authoritative and finally turned into laws. Laws are methods to maintain morality. The laws and statutes are not objectives in themselves but are for the purpose of maintaining the principles of morality and justice. When people put too much emphasis on obeying the rules, they find that laws can only regulate people’s behavior and exclude any factors in people’s hearts, which often does little to maintain justice.

In modern society, the overall moral standard is at a very low level. In each field of the society, there are conflicts among people at each level, including among judges and lawyers. The way people apply laws has become more and more varied. People are getting more and more trapped in the issues and procedures themselves and are far from the ultimate objective of maintaining morality. Due to the lack of a mutual-respected standard, many international laws are created or set up but are not being used. The fundamental cause of all the problems lies in the loss of the human moral standard.

Let’s go back to the trial against Jiang. The trials in ancient times take us beyond the form of laws to see the true nature of morality and justice, free of being attached to the legal form of the various modern societies. Many ordinary people object to our charges against Jiang when they hear the news. They do not think it is not achievable and that it will not succeed. I think there are two reasons for this. One is that this person does not know the truth. If they knew the truth, they would at least think that Jiang should be punished. The 2nd reason is variation and limitation of today’s modern legal system. However, people do not know we Dafa practitioners are serious. We all believe that Jiang, sooner or later, will be punished; and the way how it is punished is to be left as a deep lesson to people in the future.

Now we are in the process. Each trial against Jiang may itself result in a verdict or may not. Whatever the case, the submission process of the trial is a medium for us to explain the facts to the general public. When we enable people to realize the truth, when people in their hearts all consider Jiang is guilty, we have already reached the goal of saving sentient beings. On the other hand, the establishment and implementation of laws are forms of morality and justice in one’s heart. If we can wake the sense of justice in people’s hearts by clarifying the truth, when people all consider Jiang guilty, the form of the trial in the surface of human being can naturally happen.

At the very beginning when I started to prepare material on the trial against Jiang, there was a lot of information about legal procedure and the procedure of lawsuits. Later on, I found that none of these are important. What is important is to get people to understand Jiang’s crimes, and they will be saved accordingly. Right now, the court in the human world has not yet passed judgement in the trial against Jiang. However, we can bring Jiang to justice in the court of morality and people’s hearts. So the simulated court for the trial against Jiang is a very good form in some of the local events. It is in fact a trial in the court of morality and people’s hearts.

So we can use different ways to bring Jiang to justice in the court of morality and people’s hearts. Depending on the situation, we can take actions that suit local circumstances; it can be rich or simple. In the street, we can simply list its’ criminal acts with supporting pictures, and finally pronounce judgment. In a large event, we can provide real indictment, suffers’ testimonies, and then have it judged by a jury composed of representatives from various fields in the society; and finally, have the sentence announced by the judge.

When more and more people from different areas and countries consider it guilty, when more and more government authorities consider it guilty, when more and more Chinese people consider it guilty, and when more and more Chinese government officials controlled by it consider it guilty, there are fewer and fewer places for the evil to hide, which is already the progression of the Fa-rectification into the human world.

Translated from Chinese at http://www.yuanming.net/articles/200307/22213.html