Some Thoughts on the Geneva International Human Rights Meeting

In the time when the 60th session of the UN Human Rights Commission was approaching, thoughts on whether we should go to Geneva or not and what is the purpose for going appeared in practitioners’ minds. At the same time, practitioners noticed a lot of interference and tests in the days leading up to this event. Some were from oneself whilst some were external interference or resulted from even bigger circumstances. For example, a few European countries received a very unusual heavy snowfall last week; a practitioner who decided to leave for Geneva early suddenly got a problem with his car. What’s more, some practitioners were on their way to Geneva to participate in some important meetings when they were told their flight was cancelled due to heavy snow. A few practitioners also felt very numb and tired in recent days, so they paid less attention to this activity; others thought, “We are very busy here. The activity is in Europe, so just leave it to them.”

In fact, there are always enormous cosmic changes when we hold big events. And each time we hold an activity, the evil will go further into its final struggle. Going back to the events of April 2002, it was spring in Germany. However, as soon as the head of the evil regime arrived for a visit, the weather suddenly turned very bad with heavy rains and chilly winds. The same thing also happened in other countries that he visited. In January this year, when Dafa practitioners gathered in New York to take part in the Chinese New Year Gala, the temperature there dramatically plummeted to thirty or even forty degrees below zero. As a result, the local people were not able to go to work for the sake of avoiding accidents. The evil fears the success of Falun Gong practitioners’ activities and the awakening of other people so much, and it is afraid of facing its demise.

Therefore, the evil uses every opportunity to try to interfere and cause damage to us. Having a look at the present, aren’t we facing another big challenge and test? Then how should we react to it? We must keep our righteous thoughts - the powerful thoughts that originate from Dafa! Whatever little loophole we have left will become an excuse for the evil to persecute us. In Mainland China, they ask those evil policemen to beat practitioners using the excuse of beating them in order to get their righteous thoughts to come out. Outside China, where the atmosphere is more comfortable and harmonious, they cannot beat us; instead, they play all sorts of tricks in order to interfere with practitioners by making us feeling tired and numb, leaving us unable to concentrate on Fa-study and sending forth righteous thoughts. Their tricks are attempts to control practitioners and interfere with us.

Moreover, the evil utilises practitioners’ attachments to make us develop incorrect understandings of the Fa and stifle our righteous thoughts in order to weaken the whole-body power of practitioners. Through sharing amongst practitioners, we have all more or less realised some of these points. Such is the case that after listening to Master telling us that practitioners should not rely on everyday people to change the atmosphere, some practitioners thus wrongly understood that we should no longer attend any activities during the UN Human Rights Commission. It seems that being involved in those activities can be seen as pursuing an outcome in everyday people’s society. However, such an understanding is very narrow; it is everyday people’s logic. What Dafa practitioners should do is to assist Master with Fa-Rectification work and save sentient beings. Changes in the surface form do not result in changes of our heart or advances in our level. Also when we hold a parade, what Dafa practitioners do is certainly different from what other people are doing; we do not have any pursuit for personal gain. By appealing in Geneva, what we are doing is calling on the kindness and justice of non-practitioners’ hearts and letting them have a good future.

If the whole body of Dafa disciples can send their purest righteous thoughts, which have enormous effects, then whatever we do we can do it well. Besides, the evil field will be eliminated to the highest degree. The United Nations consists of 53 countries in the world, so it is the international commissary in this human dimension. Each country is facing the issue of positioning themselves well and having a good future, so the responsibilities of each Dafa practitioner are immense.

Wherever we are, let us be together and send our most powerful righteous thoughts. The better we cooperate with each other, the more frightened the evil beings get, since all our power derives from Dafa.