Understandings and Discussion on Ways of Clarifying the Facts

While recently sharing experiences with fellow practitioners, we talked about the methods of clarifying the facts and I had a different opinion from the others. I wrote down my opinions here for reference and invite you to express yours.

1. Teacher Li has said that people should not oppose Falun Dafa, which has led some practitioners to think that the purpose of clarifying the facts is only to make people not oppose the Dafa and does not include letting the people around the world express their support for Falun Dafa.

With regard to this, my opinion is that the more people express their support the better. What they are doing now is crucial to their future. The more they express their support, the better positions they will attain. While clarifying the facts, we should let them place themselves in good positions as much as possible. I realized that Teacher Li didn’t restrict the purpose of clarifying the facts.

The view that the principles of the Fa [This is refers to the universal principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance] require us to fulfill a limited objective is only one individual opinion. If a person thinks that the Fa should be as he or she understands and that other people’s views do not conform to the Fa, that is self-limiting. The fact that others’ views do not conform to his or her own views does not necessarily mean they do not conform to the Fa principles.

2. In past activities of clarifying the facts, some organizations had a strong aversion to receiving too many of our letters. Consequently, some practitioners were opposed to practitioners in various places simultaneously sending letters to people or organizations.

With respect to this, I think at present, clarifying the facts is the method employed to offer salvation to people and to overcome the obstacles during this special period. Teacher Li has repeated it time and time again. Therefore, since it is one of the one of the fundamental ways of clarifying the truth, we should consider how to do well in clarifying the facts through letters, rather than considering whether we should do it or not in the first place. Certainly we should avoid sending many similar materials to an identical area. This requires some coordination in advance. The letters could be written from one’s own point of view, in the name of one’s local area or in the name of one’s country, so that the recipients can hear voices from various areas worldwide.

It is alright for people to receive many letters, because the persecution of Falun Dafa is very serious and human rights have been violated on such a large scale and because it has also involved great amount of practitioners in various countries. For people to have a strong aversion to receiving too many letters is incorrect. This aversion mostly originates from the evil suppression and should be rectified. Dafa practitioners should not take it as the criteria to decide whether tasks should be done or not.

On the other hand, when you disagree with the approach adopted by other practitioners, it is not right to remain overly reserved. If you think that what you have understood is correct, why you didn’t point out what is wrong, in your view, with the approach other practitioners have adopted? On the contrary, if what you have understood is wrong, and you don’t make your understanding public, nobody can know your view and can’t help you correct it, and at the same time you still haven’t offered your support to the right approach. As Dafa practitioners we should not have an ordinary human inclination towards superficial unity; even if we make our opinions public, we will not necessarily reach a consensus. But it doesn’t matter. Publicly expressing our opinions is being responsible and offers us chances for our improvement. What is important is that we should not be attached to ourselves. With the progress of time and as we upgrade to higher levels, things will become clearer.