(Clearwisdom.net) The following are some experiences of practitioners in our area over the past five years of assimilating to the Fa and saving sentient beings. We wrote this out to share with fellow practitioners.
I. The Issue of the Starting Point
Experience 1
Around April 25th, 2002, eight practitioners from our area were arrested. One practitioner came to my home and told me to pay attention to the security issue and not to answer phone calls or the doorbell. My reaction was I still had to go to work and what if they'd seize me during work hours? I was depressed and didn't view the issue truly from the standpoint of the Fa, denying these old force arrangements. Just a few days later the police came to my workplace and arrested me, taking me to a detention center. Four prisoners immediately started to beat me. Though I had the attachment of fear, I told them from my heart, "You will not be able to repay for your beating me today. What are you going to do with your lives in the future?" Afterwards, they all stopped beating me.
During the three months of detention I filed charges against the political and security section for their illegal arrest and thus they put me into a forced labor camp. I had a thought at that moment that my path had been arranged by Master, and I wouldn't acknowledge any persecution imposed on me. I would walk along the Fa-rectification path arranged by Master.
One day the bureau chief of my workplace came to visit me and attempted to persuade me to give up practice. After I refused him, he angrily said, "If you don't give up then you'll be sent to forced labor!" He walked away angrily. I then looked for the deputy bureau chief and told him about the chief's attitude. I said, "I won't blame him for treating me with such a bad attitude, but he treated Dafa very poorly. What kind of future will he have?" As at that moment I was indeed on the standpoint of being responsible for him, the chief's mind was changed. Soon after that, he bailed me out of detention with three bureau chiefs' CCP memberships and their official titles.
Before getting out of the detention center I had a dream. I dreamed of a "Fa boat" approaching the shore. There were a lot of beings inside the boat and a big chair in the middle. Moreover, it seemed like a voice was telling me, "You are qualified and have reached consummation." And I was allowed to sit on that big chair. After waking up I was very happy and thought I was qualified. But after I came out of the detention center, through continuous Fa study and sharing I realized that my understanding was absolutely wrong. My being put in the detention center was not Master's arrangement at all.
Master said,
"...in actuality the real dung is precisely those old forces and all of the beings that try to force something on the Fa-rectification."
("Teaching the Fa at the 2003 Midwest-U.S. Fa Conference")
Because I didn't assimilate well with Dafa, I didn't completely deny the old forces' arrangements, and jumped into the real dung trying to clean myself. How wouldn't I become even dirtier? What Master has asked us to do are just three things: study the Fa, send forth righteous thoughts and clarify the truth. Further, the tribulation Master arranged is for truly improving one's xinxing, and as long as one's xinxing is improved one would be able to pass that tribulation. But the tribulations arranged by the old forces will destroy all the sentient beings. If the old forces think that I'm qualified and have reached consummation, that is simply the qualification in the old force's arrangement, while their true nature is to destroy me and destroy all the sentient beings.
Previously I thought being detained was because of my depression and fear, but now my understanding has improved to another level and I have a clearer understanding. Our having human notions are not to justify their persecution of us, but to be let go of during our assimilation to Dafa and saving sentient beings. The old forces shouldn't have any excuse to persecute us. Our notions do need to be rectified, but that's for validating Dafa and saving the sentient beings with an even purer mind.
Experience 2
During the "16th National CCP Conference" in 2002, one practitioner from our area was put into a brainwashing class. Two people monitored and tightly followed her 24 hours a day. As she couldn't study the Fa in her own home - her husband opposed her studying Dafa - during the period in the brainwashing class she even felt fairly good, for she could study the Fa there. She found an excuse to come to my home to pick up some Dafa books while she was accompanied by her two monitors. I angrily said to her, "All others are studying the Fa at home, sending forth righteous thoughts and clarifying the truth, doing the three things required by Master. But you even feel that staying in the brainwashing class is fairly good. What are you thinking?" I also shared many of my understandings of the Fa principles. She seemed to understand.
After they left, other practitioners and I sent forth righteous thoughts to destroy all the evil elements in the brainwashing class. However, after two or three days had passed, no result was seen. We went on sharing and looked inward. Firstly, we still had complaints about the practitioner in the brainwashing class, and had them mixed with competitiveness, therefore, so our righteous thoughts were not pure. We realized that we are now in Fa rectification cultivation, not in individual cultivation. All persecution of fellow practitioners is aimed at Dafa, and Master does not acknowledge this. When a fellow practitioner is in trouble, if the rest of us just complain and blame, then what is our standpoint?
After becoming clearer on the Fa, we sent forth strong righteous thoughts to eliminate all the elements in the brainwashing center, and those targeting our fellow practitioner. Half an hour later, the relative (also a practitioner) of that fellow practitioner came to my home and said, "The sign in front of the brainwashing class is gone. I don't know where the practitioners and the staff of the 610 Office have gone." She was wondering whether they had been sent to the detention center. We said, "No, that's impossible. She must already be at home, as we have found our attachment and have sent forth strong righteous thoughts to eliminate all evil elements.
20 minutes later, the fellow practitioner phoned and told us that she was already back home. The brainwashing class in our area had completely collapsed.
Experience 3
In August 2004, four practitioners from the local village were arrested and taken to the detention center. We immediately notified fellow practitioners to send forth righteous thoughts and in the meantime exposed the evildoers on the Internet. We also did lots of truth clarification work to publicly expose them locally. However after a period of time, none of them were rescued. One of them was even sent to a forced labor camp.
So we had an experience sharing session. I said, "What do they stand for? How are they worthy of playing any role in the Fa rectification? We are beings formed during the Fa rectification of the cosmos. We have the ability to resolve all these issues in denying and eliminating their arrangements."
The next day, the husband of an arrested practitioner (and himself a practitioner) came to my home. He had lots of complaints about his wife. I asked him, "What was she doing? Didn't she go to save sentient beings? What did they do wrong? That's completely the evil's fault! We should clearly distinguish this!"
This practitioner suddenly became clear. I then asked him to call their local coordinator to inform everyone to send forth righteous thoughts. But the coordinator said that it could not be done as there were practitioners being tailed. I took the phone and told him, "Our family members are suffering persecution in the detention center right now, and another one is in critical condition in the hospital after being on a hunger strike. How can we just think about our own safety? Who arranged the tails? Should we acknowledge this? As I understand it, as a life in the universe increases its selfishness, it drops downward. Please, immediately inform local practitioners to send forth righteous thoughts!"
Afterwards, some practitioners went to the hospital to closely send forth righteous thoughts, some made phone calls, some posted and handed out truth-clarifying fliers. Finally, two practitioners were rescued, yet there was still another one imprisoned whose cultivation wasn't very solid.
We continued our experience sharing among three or five practitioners. Even though a practitioner had some attachment or shortcoming, it would be rectified during the process of assimilating to Dafa. It shouldn't be an excuse for them to be persecuted. So we continued sending forth strong righteous thoughts to rescue the practitioner. It was not too long afterwards that the coordinator of that area called us to advise us that the other practitioner had also been released. All practitioners from our area who were being detained have now been rescued.
Through further experience sharing and looking inward, we found that every one of us had a common attachment. That was, we all thought it was easier to rescue someone from a local detention center than from a forced labor camp. Also, many practitioners thought that it was rather evil there. During every day's sending forth righteous thoughts, we all claimed our willingness to rescue the fellow practitioners, but didn't know that our righteous thoughts had been blocked by our own notions. They didn't play the role they should have. In the meantime, through sharing we noticed that as one body, we had elements of numbness and passivity, and a lack of strong confidence in the power of Dafa. The key is that we must understand that everything is determined by us! We are definitely able to rescue our fellow practitioners and get them out.
A practitioner's husband was due to be released from a forced labor camp. However, when the practitioner went to the camp to process the release, no one would sign off and each person said they were not responsible for it. I said, "Whose family member is he? Isn't he our family member? How can we not help?" I immediately informed fellow practitioners to send forth righteous thoughts and told her, "Tomorrow, you go there to get the paper work stamped. You will certainly get it!" The next afternoon, the practitioner got the stamp smoothly and finally got her husband released. Then we also rescued six practitioners from another two forced labor camps. One of them was due to be released in another year and a-half but was suddenly released without any process. My understanding is as long as we are clear-minded on the Fa, determined in the Fa, and send forth righteous thoughts with a true mind, everything can be resolved.
(To be continued)
