Cultivate and Look Within

From March 1, 2010, police from the public security bureau and domestic security division in my area harassed and arrested quite a few practitioners under the pre-tense of security for the "Two Congress Meetings" (an annual high-level national Communist Party meeting).

I found that these practitioners have been repeatedly harassed or arrested on so-called "politically sensitive" days in recent years, though they acted well while being held in detention. Some walked free from brainwashing centres with righteous thoughts and disintegrated the centres. Then why were they harassed or arrested again the same year or next year? I believe this is because the CCP (Chinese communist party) and the evil old forces took advantage of the loopholes in the practitioners' cultivation to persecute them. All of our Dafa practitioners have to coordinate well to dissolve and eliminate the arrangements of the old forces with righteous thoughts. We should be in the Fa at all times and use the tool that Master has given us, which is looking inwards and cultivating ourselves well. I'd like to share my understandings. Practitioners please consider my points from the perspective of the Fa.

1. Doing Dafa work doesn't mean cultivation. So we should look back and review whether we still have attachments that were formed a long time ago. We should examine what we haven't cultivate away and what the old forces (negative forces in the universe) have take advantage of. It is imperative that we look within and completely negate the arrangements of the old forces. If we don't look within, that means we are countering persecution within the arrangements of the old forces. Thus we acknowledge the persecution and suffer hardships that we shouldn't.

2. Check to see if we go to extremes and if we only want to do "big" things and ignore our behaviours. Check to see if we often have conflicts with family members and if we forget to validate the Fa at home or to the people around us. Master warned us a long time ago that going to extremes would not have good effect. Master also gave a detailed account of how we should balance the relationships with other people in family, society and in work place. We should do well in this regard. We should know that we are Dafa disciples and should play a positive and good role using our actions. We shouldn't discredit Dafa. That is validating the Fa. As long as our family members and people we come across know that Falun Dafa is good, they will be saved.

Master's words are more valuable than gold. Cultivation is serious and has a standard. We cannot afford to have even the slightest mistakes. If each of us can measure our behaviours using the Fa, then we would have a harmonious family and the environment around us would change for the better. Practitioners' compassion has power.

3. Some practitioners lost their jobs due to the persecution. This was the arrangement of the old forces and we have to completely deny them. We have to think whether we are clear on the Fa principles of "loss and gain," whether we had used bribery once or twice so as to get free from the illegal detention and whether we still have the attachment to money and personal interests. The old forces get hold of these attachments and won't let go. Many practitioners have realized that on the issue of jobs they will not acknowledge or co-operate with the arrangements of old forces. Some practitioners strongly denied these arrangements and go to work as usual. As a result nothing happened to them. Some who had lost their jobs are now clarifying the facts to their previous work places and related departments, while finding jobs during the course of saving sentient beings. They walked their own paths in getting their previous jobs back.

We should not passively accept tribulations or passively send forth righteous thoughts. We should not passively rescue or help practitioners when tribulations come. Of course when tribulations come, we should co-ordinate well to rescue practitioners. We should be responsible to fellow practitioners' cultivation. When we see practitioners' problems, we should sincerely tell them and together we can look within and cultivate out those black substances. Only when every practitioner has cultivated himself/herself well, can we say that we completely negate the old forces, can we have more time and have more practitioners to save sentient beings.