(Clearwisdom.net) A fellow practitioner was recently released from a forced labor camp. This practitioner has been persecuted on many occasions, and I could see that she did not have a clear understanding of the Fa, and was not always rational when she went about her tasks. After her release, she also realized that she had this problem. I was determined to help her. The best way to resolve such issues is with Fa study. We now study the Fa for as long as three hours every night, and then share cultivation experiences. We examine our cultivation issues from the standpoint of the Fa and look inward for our attachments.
After this practitioner studied the Fa and improved her cultivation state, one day she visited another practitioner. On her way home she met a police officer who had previously arrested her. The officer stopped her and searched her bag. When he found truth clarification materials, he intended to harm her again. Fortunately the practitioner had strong righteous thoughts, and she managed to slip away while the policeman was talking to someone he knew. When she returned she told me about her encounter. At that time, my human attachments were strong, and I blamed her for not being diligent with her Fa study, and being too eager to do truth clarification tasks. I suggested that she quickly find a place to hide herself.
When I reached home, I calmed down and realized that my thoughts were not correct. I understood that Master did not acknowledge this persecution, “Negate them, completely negate everything of the old forces!” (“Explaining the Fa During the 2003 Lantern Festival at the U.S. West Fa Conference”)
Although I realized that the part of myself that has finished cultivation denies the old forces' arrangements, deep in my heart I acknowledged the saying that “if one is not diligent with cultivation, one will be persecuted by the old forces.” Master said,
“We negate even the very emergence of the old forces and everything that they've arranged; we don't even acknowledge their existence. We're fundamentally negating all of their things, and all of, and only, the things you do while negating and getting rid of them is mighty-virtue. It's not that you're cultivating amidst the ordeals they created. Rather, you are to walk your own path well while not acknowledging them, not even acknowledging the elimination of their ordeals' manifestations. (Applause) So looking at it from this angle, what we need to do is completely negate the old forces. Dafa disciples and I don't even acknowledge the manifestations of their last-ditch efforts.” (“Teaching the Fa at the 2004 Chicago Conference”)
I suddenly understood my problem. On a fundamental level I had not denied the old forces' arrangements. For a long time I had been resisting the persecution within the framework that the old forces arranged. I also realized that when I was clarifying the truth or giving out truth clarifying materials, as I first adjusted my state of mind, I did this out of selfishness, in order to protect myself, because I was afraid of being persecuted. When fellow practitioners were persecuted and everyone gathered to send righteous thoughts, although on the surface I was also sending righteous thoughts, in my heart I was complaining, “This practitioner didn't do well in his cultivation. Even the old forces looked down on him. Can our righteous thoughts really be effective?” Sometimes I felt that my thoughts were wrong, but I didn't know the fundamental reason why.
The problem that was embedded in my heart for a long time was finally resolved. I needed to fundamentally deny the evil arrangements made by the old forces. So, I knew I must immediately send out strong righteous thoughts for my fellow practitioner, “Negate all the old forces' arrangements for the fellow practitioners.” In a moment, my whole body was surrounded by a strong energy field.
