Teaching the Fa at the 2005 Canada Fa Conference

(Li Hongzhi, May 22, 2005, in Toronto)

(Enthusiastic applause) Good morning! (Applause) (Audience: "Good morning, Master!")

I remember that, before July 20, 1999, our Toronto Fa conference was held here. (Enthusiastic applause) At that time, when the evil CCP's suppression and persecution were about to begin, I said something to you: I said that just by remaining unmoved you could handle all situations. (Enthusiastic applause) Of course, some students grasped what I said, while others took it to mean, don't do anything, don't take any action. (Teacher laughs) (Everyone laughs) Being "unmoved" refers to a person's steadfast righteous thoughts and righteous faith being unmoved. It wasn't about ignoring a Dafa disciple's responsibility of saving beings and not even taking the path of cultivating and improving yourselves through ordeals. How could that work? So however it was people did, it's cultivation, after all, so each person had a different understanding and each had taken up Dafa having differing degrees of human attachment; in the cultivation process there are human thoughts that are hard to remove, and this makes for different understandings and grasps of the Fa. So amidst this ordeal, different students' understandings of Dafa and the amounts of their attachments have been fully shown, and you have seen how differently people have acted during the persecution.

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published June 05, 2005

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