(Clearwisdom.net) After supper, I sat down and took out my electronic book, preparing to study the Fa tranquilly. Switching on my electronic gadget, the page display contained only one sentence: "But now everything will be different."(Zhuan Falun) Since I could not understand what this referred to, I flipped to the previous page:
"By this time it can be called his own world, and he only has two tenths of his gong left to be perfected, to attain the Dao. Even though he only has two tenths of his gong left, his body isn't locked, or he doesn't have a body, or even if he does it's already been transformed by high-energy matter. His divine powers will then be displayed in full, and they are unmatched in their might. While he's cultivating around ordinary people his body is usually locked and he doesn't have such great skills, and no matter how high his gong is, he's restrained. But now everything will be different."(Zhuan Falun)
I understood Master's intention because all this time I had been thinking about the unending discussions among fellow practitioners on the subject of putting an immediate end to the persecution. When fellow practitioners shared experiences a few days earlier, I asked them their understandings of what Master said about before "July 20," when a group of practitioners were at a level of gradual enlightenment high enough that together they could jointly end this persecution. Fellow practitioners responded by saying, "It looks like most practitioners did not reach that cultivation realm." I then followed up with the question, "Where does our problem lie?" Everyone remained reticent.
I said, "There are definitely some things in the Fa that we did not comprehend well." Another practitioner responded, "Saving sentient beings in the midst of countering the persecution is also not right, because this persecution should have ended." The question remains as to how? Many fellow practitioners, including many veteran practitioners who have been in the forefront of saving sentient beings during this persecution, have thought that Master is responsible for ending this persecution, and all that Dafa disciples needed to do was to do their best to save the sentient beings. There are many others placing their hopes of ending the persecution on the human rights torch relay, on hoping that the 2008 Olympic games will fail, or hoping that Jiang's gang will be booted out of power by the upcoming Seventeenth National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. Typically, they do not place their hopes on Dafa disciples having the capability to end this persecution.
In the lecture "Fa Teaching at the 2007 New York Fa Conference"
Master said:
"Looking at the overall situation, there is no longer a question of whether Dafa disciples can achieve Consummation during the maturation process. The biggest thing that needs to be done at present is to figure out how to save even more of the world's people! Save all beings! This has become a monumental effort for Dafa disciples."
The process of Fa rectification requires that Dafa disciples use their great abilities to solve the issue of saving more sentient beings. If our abilities fail to manifest, this is certainly unacceptable. Thinking that Dafa disciples do not have the ability to end this persecution is not in conformity with current Fa rectification requirements, as well as the requirements of the future cosmos and sentient beings. Since the issue of whether Dafa disciples can achieve consummation or not is not the question, in order to harmonize what Master requires as well as what the Fa rectification requirement, Dafa disciples being unable to jointly step forward and use their abilities together to end this persecution is definitely not the problem. Dafa disciples have the ability to end this persecution and it is the requirement at this time of the Fa rectification process. It requires our righteous understanding and realization. Its because "Cultivation is up to you, gong is up to the master," (Zhuan Falun, 2003 Translation Version)
Its not that we are not capable. Its also not because Master didn't advance our levels to this state. It is because we have thought that we were not capable.
In reality, we all have the ability and capability to end this persecution. Its mainly because we are limited by our own human attachments, unable to come out of our own humanness. This root cause stems from our doubt in Master as well as insufficient righteous belief in the Fa!
Due to my limitations in level, please kindly point out anything inappropriate.
October 6, 2006
