(Clearwisdom.net) For many years, I was troubled by family issues that I could not free myself from. One day I read an article in Minghui Weekly. The practitioner in the article talked about how the old forces had used sickness-karma to persecute him. When he realized that the symptoms of the sickness-karma on his body were absolutely interference from the old forces, the symptoms immediately disappeared. Before this, he had always seen it as karma elimination, and he only tried to endure it. He didn't realize that his thinking actually aligned with the old forces' arrangements and persecution.
As I continued to read the article, I gained insights from another of the practitioner's examples. In his article, he mentioned a practitioner who had developed a love/hate relationship between herself and her family. This practitioner thought that she should just endure the situation between her and her family, as there was a karmic debt between them. She finally ending up feeling very sad and pained, unable to free herself from the problems. Because she agreed with the old forces and acknowledged their arrangements, the old forces took the opportunity to stop at nothing to arrange tribulations and obstacles to trap her. So if we think about it, wasn't this agreement and acknowledgement an attachment? Wasn't this brought on by what she sought?
When I read this, I recalled my own cultivation over the past several years. For a long time, because I had not studied the Fa well and harbored strong attachments, I was separated from other Dafa practitioners by the old forces during a four-year period of time. Therefore, I couldn't catch up with the pace of the Fa-rectification. I only read "Zhuan Falun", and did not study Master's new lectures at all. I didn't even ask about what Master had asked Dafa practitioners to do in the Fa-rectification period.
In December 2004, I contacted some local practitioners. I took the time to study some of Master's new lectures in the Fa-rectification period and I came to understand some new principles of the Fa. Before, I had realized that the old forces persecuted Dafa and practitioners, but I was not very clear on this issue, and I did not gain a good understanding until recently, when I read the article from Minghui Weekly. It revealed to me that the old forces persecute practitioners because the practitioners are not clear on the Fa-principles. They think the old forces' persecution against them is caused by their own karma, and it is something they ought to endure. They have then unconsciously accepted the arrangements of the old forces. At the same time, they also tacitly approved of this kind of persecution, and they unwittingly followed the path arranged by the old forces. Therefore, the old forces latch onto this and create endless trouble to interfere with Fa-rectification and with saving sentient beings. The interference and persecution is so evil! As a practitioner in the Fa-rectification period, how can this issue not be clearly understood?
The evil old forces will try anything and take every possible chance to persecute Dafa practitioners. When you are attached to something, it will reinforce that attachment, and then evolve various false visions to indulge you. Their ultimate goal is to destroy you; practitioners should be clear on this.
Practitioners should first realize that we are practitioners in the Fa-rectification period, and remember the important missions which history has bestowed upon Dafa disciples. We should fulfill our prehistoric vows. Assisting Master to rectify the Fa and saving sentient beings are our true goals.
I think the following are the reasons why I was persecuted by the old force during these past years: I did not study the Fa attentively; I did not understand the principles of the Fa; I did not catch up with the pace of the Fa-rectification. Therefore, I unknowingly welcomed the old forces and gave them an opportunity to interfere. This lesson is deeply grieved! From now on in my cultivation, I must study the Fa well, reform myself according to the Fa, and walk well my own path. In fact, all of this is a complete rejection of the old forces.