(Clearwisdom.net) After reading an article regarding the relationship between rescuing imprisoned practitioners and saving those who were responsible for persecuting them, I would like to share my understanding on this topic.

Most practitioners said that the people working in the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) public security, court and Procuratorate systems are sentient beings that need saving. But these people are different from the general public. During the CCP's persecution of Falun Gong, almost every one of these people is more or less involved in the persecution and has committed dire crimes. Some of them are driven by greed and actively carry out the CCP's persecution policies, while some others are reluctantly participating in the persecution. Regardless, these people's participation in the persecution has not stopped. When they arrest practitioners, they claim that they have no choice but to follow the orders they are given. The CCP told them to arrest and beat practitioners, and they did. It seems as if they have no responsibility for the criminal deeds, yet in fact what they said was just an excuse to cover their crimes.

When dealing with a particular matter, there are several different options. How a person chooses to handle this particular matter determines a person's stance on the most important thing. I work in one of the biggest work units in China. In 1999, when the CCP began persecuting Falun Gong, the Public Security Department asked every workplace to submit a list of practitioners working there. The leaders of my workplace immediately sent a person to the Public Security Department to find out the names of employees who were already on the police's records. Then the leaders just copied those registered names and reported them to the public security department. Other practitioners who were not on the police records were thus not reported to the police. The leaders of the workplace used many ways to keep the persecutors outside the door and protect the practitioners. No practitioner has been sent to a brainwashing center from our workplace.

Except for very remote areas, most people have received truth clarification materials, and people know that Falun Gong is being unjustly persecuted. People working for the government and law enforcement agencies have the choice of not doing things against their conscience.

Certainly there are always people so deeply absorbed in greed that they can't be saved. Such people exist in the general public, and in government and administration organs. What shall we do, then? We must use righteous thoughts to stop them from persecuting practitioners, for example not allowing them to arrest practitioners by freezing them in place. By doing so, the persecutors will be given a warning, and it can also reduce the interference to practitioners. So many sentient beings are unable to be saved because these people follow the CCP policies in persecuting Dafa, and what they're doing amounts to taking away the futures of those sentient beings.

It is better to clarify the truth to the persecutors early on. If they refuse to listen, then let's use righteous thoughts to give them the warnings and karmic retribution. Under the CCP, instead of being punished, the persecutors are rewarded and get promoted. This certainly contributes to the severity of the persecution.

Dafa practitioners should be compassionate towards sentient beings, and it is also a compassionate act to stop the persecutors' crimes. If a person doesn't persecute Dafa, he has a chance to learn the facts, withdraw from the CCP and its affiliated organizations, and a chance to be saved. It is Heaven's law that good is rewarded with good, and evil meets with retribution. No matter who the person is, he has to pay for doing wrong deeds.

During self-cultivation, you should let a person slap the right side of your face after he has slapped the left side. Right now, we are following Teacher to validate the Fa and save sentient beings. It is true that while doing truth clarification, we must cultivate ourselves and relinquish our attachments, but we are not cultivating ourselves as dictated to by the persecution. We are Dafa particles. The persecution of practitioners targets Dafa, and it is not a test meant for our cultivation.

Whether or not we have loopholes in our cultivation, the evil should not use them as excuses to interfere with our truth clarification. When we are persecuted, we might think that it is because the evil knows our attachments. But we are not gods, but humans walking on a cultivation path. We do have human notions or loopholes. If we were gods, saving sentient beings would not be cultivation to us.

During our everyday lives, when there is a conflict, we should look inside and be compassionate to sentient beings. But when clarifying the truth, saving sentient beings and facing the persecution, if we acknowledge the interference and persecution, it is the same as giving them reasons for more persecution.