(Clearwisdom.net)
Upon returning home after listening to Teacher expound on the Fa in Los Angeles, I felt that time had once again accelerated since it would be at least midnight before I could finish even a few tasks. This was making me feel pressured in carrying out the task of saving everyday people. In addition to this, some critical situations have recently been coming up overseas that required urgent attention and caused me to give them some deeper thought. I felt that on the one hand, it is the old forces that are in their final frenzied struggles and are giving their all to persecute and interfere with practitioners. They do this because they are driven by their attachments to their own arrangements and are taking advantage of the omissions of practitioners as a whole. On the other hand, the situation reflects that we haven't done well enough in our work to clarify the truth and we need to do better in progressing and harmonizing things as a whole. In urgent situations, we do need to make great efforts to complement and support each other, and send forth righteous thoughts more frequently. However, we are, after all, playing the main role in saving sentient beings during this period of time and we should not be influenced by the urgent situations that are arranged by the old forces. On the contrary, we should, as Dafa practitioners, keep ourselves coolheaded, utilize our reasonable and rational thinking, and send forth strong righteous thoughts so that we can take advantage of the troubles created by the evil. Then, we can clarify the truth in a more detailed and broader way, save the people of the world, and make better progress in our cultivation as a whole.
Regarding clarifying the truth, I think we can make full use of our present resources as well as the human labor and working arrangements to clarify the truth in a more systematic, detailed, and broader way. Every case in the persecution is not simply "another case" or a "similar experience of cruelty." Each case has the ability to touch a specific group of everyday people. Also, if those practitioners, who died in the persecution, were still alive, each of them would be contributing his or her effort and power to validating the Fa, eliminating the evil, and saving the people of the world. They were forced to reluctantly leave the world when they were needed the most. We should help them by continuing the jobs they planned to do but could not finish, and let their stories be brought into play during the Fa-Rectification. Because of our limited time, as well as other factors, there is no time to do detailed editing. However, the materials that we have handy can be brought into play more thoroughly as long as they are used with wisdom. For example, there is the story of a Dafa practitioner from China named, Hu Qingyun (a judge who had his leukemia cured after practicing Falun Gong and later tortured to death by the Jiang's regime. See http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2001/11/8/15562.html). Besides being used as a death case caused by the persecution, it can especially be used to clarify the truth among people in the judiciary and legal circles, or among any groups of people who are engaged in research to cure leukemia. Cases of practitioners illegally jailed in the forced labor camps can be used to demonstrate the crimes of the Chinese Ruling Party's system of forced labor re-education and cruel torturing of practitioners. In addition, they can also be sorted into cases regarding women, especially old women, who are cruelly tortured in the forced labor camps. These cases can be used to clarify the truth to women's rights groups. In addition to using it for the originally intended readers or audience, already edited material can be enlarged or reduced for similar groups of people, to fit a new objective. For example, after recent "urgent rescue actions" overseas, I felt that the US government, the US official organizations abroad, the foreign affairs and judiciary circles, immigration offices of many countries, and refugee offices all need careful and persistent truth-clarification. With our minds opened and without the influence of everyday people's mentalities and attachments blocking us, many doors will be opened. In today's requirements of validating the Fa, it has become an urgent issue in the whole situation that we do well both quantitatively and qualitatively in clarifying the truth. Especially as Jiang Zemin's gang of political scoundrels have already systematically spread many poisonous rumors, we need to remove the lies from people's minds. Otherwise, the future of those deceived sentient beings will be a concern for us.
The above are some of my personal thoughts, which are still not mature. I wrote them out in the hope that they will inspire some thoughts in everyone. Guided by Teacher and the Fa, we should be able to do a detailed, deep, and well encompassed job in clarifying the truth in the USA and other free societies, while at the same time some practitioners continue their solid efforts in clarifying the truth to the Chinese people as well as supporting the practitioners in Mainland China directly. As a matter of fact, this is not only our practitioners' wish, but also our requirements for progression in validating the Fa.
Before the end, I hope to share with everyone one of Teacher's poems as well as a piece of a new lecture.
Being Calm in Tribulation
The righteous Fa is being spread,
Difficulties on top of difficulties.
Tens of thousands of demons in the way,
Dangers within dangers.
December 22, 1996 (HongYin)
Question: Recently there's been a lot of pressure while doing Fa-rectification work. It feels like a formless pressure. I don't know if this feeling is related to the overall Fa-rectification situation.
Teacher: I think that the old forces which haven't been rectified by the Fa have indeed felt the pressure becoming greater and greater, and the closer it gets to the end, the more pressure there is on the side that it works on. So sometimes this creates a complicated situation for us, and that's all it is. Just send more righteous thoughts to drive away the interference, and don't see it as something important. In fact right now I see something very clearly, and you see it clearly too, and that is, nobody can damage Dafa. All hopes of damaging it are in vain, and nobody could touch it even if I, Li Hongzhi, weren't around. Everyone is like an Assistant, everyone is a particle of Dafa, everyone is immersed in and being tempered in the Fa, and everyone knows what to do. The Dafa disciples in Mainland China have already verified, in their actions and without the benefit of Master's presence, that Dafa is indestructible. As long as you do what Dafa disciples should do, everything can be resolved.
("Explaining the Fa During the 2003 Lantern Festival at the U.S. West Fa Conference" -- Draft Version)
