Terrorism and the Human Rights Commission

On the morning of March 15th we arrived early at the airport in order to get on the earliest outbound flight to Geneva as we did not want to miss the parade there. However, while we were checking in, we were told that our flight had just received a terrorism alert and the plane needed to be fully searched. We sat down and started to send righteous thoughts. Three hours later, we boarded the plane and took off.

Then we thought: why were all other flights all right but just ours had received a bomb alert? Why do terrorist attacks always occur during each year’s UN Human Rights meeting to distract people’s attention? Last time it was the Iraqi War, this time it is the Spanish train bomb, the old forces always use this kind of deceit to draw people’s attention away from Dafa and the persecution. So let’s send our righteous thoughts to eliminate the evil behind the manipulation.

In the past, I would stop thinking further as soon as I reached this point. It may seem that terrorist activities are far away from our Dafa practitioners, at this human level, we always hold the view that terrorism is none of our business or I wouldn’t be bothered. From the perspective of the Fa*, we haven’t reached a clear understanding of how terrorism can have a bad effect on wat we are doing today. Instead of using our righteous thoughts to clean away the interference of terrorism, we just ignored it. While I was sitting in the airport and waiting for the all clear of the bomb alert, I suddenly realised that being a practitioner the attitude of treating terrorism as none of my business is just indulging the evil, to take it seriously. Why shouldn’t we eliminate the evil from this human dimension as well as other dimensions? Why shouldn’t we clean out those bad deeds? The mind and body is one thing, thus when we in our mind firmly deny any terrorist attacks, our powerful energy and all kinds of beings will really destroy the bad things.

Especially after studying Master’s new article ‘Eliminating the Dark Minions with Righteous Thoughts’, I then began to realise I had made a mistake. In teaching the Fa at the 2003 Midwest-U.S. Fa Conference, Master told us: “What I just told you is very important. From now on when we send righteous thoughts, the most important thing is targeting them and the remaining rotten spirits that disrupt the Fa. Of course, just keep sending righteous thoughts like you did before. Now that I've talked about it, you know about it, and having a clear objective when you send righteous thoughts will do. There's no need to think about things that are too specific. Have this objective in mind: Completely end the old forces' involvement.”

At that time, my understanding was: when we did send righteous thoughts we were already thinking ‘eliminate all evil that tries to destroy Dafa’, and I simply believed that ‘all evil’ already included those dark minions. Therefore, every time when I sent forth righteous thoughts, I didn't follow Master’s requirement of aiming directly at those dark minions and completely eliminate them. When I read Master’s new article, I then realised in fact I had not followed Master’s words for more than ten months since Master first mentioned this, so this time Master had to send out a new article to correct us.

Now I have come to understand the essence of how the evil uses terrorism to distract people’s attention so as to impede practitioners doing Fa-rectification work and saving sentient beings, therefore, we should use our righteous thoughts to eliminate the evil arrangements and those ‘dark minions’.

*Fa can be translated as law or principles in the Buddha School