(Minghui.org) One of our local practitioners was arrested and taken to the brainwashing center two months ago and has yet to be released. Two other practitioners were harassed by the police a week ago. The police ransacked their houses, taking a computer and a printer from one practitioner and several thousand yuan from the other.
When I went to work yesterday, two police officers were waiting to talk to me. There was no way for me to avoid them, so I had to take them to my office. I sent forth righteous thoughts the entire time they talked to me. Before they left, they told me to write a report and said they would then decide what to do with me based on my “understandings.”
I sat there in my office feeling somewhat nervous. Before they came to my office, they'd already talked to several directors in the company. I didn't want people where I worked to know much about my practicing Falun Gong. I was at the management level and also in the process of being promoted. Now, since the evildoers came to plague me, the best thing for me to do was to send forth righteous thoughts.
I calmed down and sent forth righteous thoughts to eliminate all the evil factors that were persecuting me. I also cleansed myself of fear and the attachment of pride. Feeling much better, an hour later I started working.
After the incident, I wanted to avoid my supervisor, but the work that I do needed his approval. I told myself, “I am doing the most righteous thing in the universe, why should I be afraid?” So I stopped being anxious and went to talk to him as usual.
When I returned home that afternoon, I sent forth righteous thoughts for another hour. Afterward, I turned on the computer and read some sharing articles on the Minghui website. Encouraged by the stories of righteous thoughts and actions of fellow practitioners, my righteous thoughts gradually became stronger.
Then I started to search for sharing articles on how to negate the old forces: I wanted to see how other practitioners dealt with this issue. In one article, a practitioner suggested reading Master's lecture “Teaching the Fa at the 2004 Chicago Conference.” There is one paragraph that specifically talks about how we should deal with the old forces:
“Of course, we don't acknowledge any of the things that the old forces arranged--I as your master don't acknowledge them, and Dafa disciples of course don't acknowledge them either. (Applause) But after all, they did do what they wanted to do, so there's all the more reason for Dafa disciples to do even better and cultivate themselves well in the course of saving all beings. When you encounter ordeals during your cultivation, you have got to cultivate yourself and look at yourself--that doesn't mean acknowledging the ordeals arranged by the old forces and trying to do well amidst the ordeals they've arranged, that's not the case. 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”)
Master made it very clear in the lecture how to negate the old forces. To have a better understanding of the Fa, I decided to memorize this paragraph. I recited it sentence by sentence. Although it wasn't very long, I still couldn't repeat it fluently even after an hour. I thought it must be the old forces interfering with me. In that case, I needed to memorize it even better. Not until the next morning was I able to completely memorize every word of this paragraph.
Now I truly have a deeper understanding of this issue. I shouldn't acknowledge the authorities' telling me to write a "thought report." Having the police come and talk to me shouldn't have happened, either. Our paths have been arranged by Master and the evil isn't allowed to interfere with us. Through memorizing and studying the Fa, looking within, and sending forth righteous thoughts, the fear, anxiety, attachment of lust, showing off, jealousy, competitive mentality, suspicion, complaint about the practitioner who provided my information to the police, etc., have all become weaker. Now the evil is nothing to me.
When the police returned asking for my report, I calmly told them, “I didn't write it--I don't know what to write” and I continued with my work. I didn't even think about whether they would do anything to me if I didn't cooperate with them, or whether this would affect my promotion. I have fully eliminated all these bad thoughts in the past two days.
Although this was just a very small incident, I now have a much deeper understanding that the best way to eliminate the evil is to study the Fa. If we say we want to “negate the evil” or “not acknowledge them,” it won't work just by doing lip service. Only when we truly understand the issue from the Fa's perspective will all the trouble, interference, or even persecution completely dissolve.
