(Minghui.org) Teacher told us:

“I was also told: 'You’ve made their cultivation too easy. People only have that little bit of hardship of their own. There is only that little bit of trouble among them. They have a lot of attachments that they still can’t give up! It remains a question of whether they can understand your Dafa itself while they are in the midst of confusion and tribulations.' It involves such an issue, so there will be interference and tests.” (Zhuan Falun)

Trying to preserve what they want, the old forces exhausted their knowledge and made use of every evil method in the world, both ancient and modern. The old forces also established an evil cult called the Chinese Communist Party (CCP); which has a culture based on violence, blood lust, deception, and brutality. The party culture grew and dominated China. The CCP turned almost all of China's citizens into its followers through continual brainwashing, and it destroyed the traditional culture of the country, causing a rapid moral decline.

Through brute force and manipulation, the CCP turned China into an enormous penal system, to test whether Falun Dafa cultivators can be the protectors of the future cosmos, and to see if they can let go of all selfish attachments. To say it another way, if a cultivator has any thoughts or deeds that do not meet the standard of the universe, the old forces will their methods to “help” the cultivator reach the standard, and those methods are built on violence and deception.

The old forces arranged for tests tailored to each of us, and they test us separately. Their purpose in testing Dafa disciples is not to destroy Dafa, but to use their degenerated Fa to help Teacher save the cosmos. Since their wisdom is so limited, they are an enormous impediment to Fa rectification.

For example, I have a short temper, yearn for marital harmony, and I also want to accomplish something in the human world. However, Dafa requires us to give up desires and sentimentality. The old forces saw my attachments and arranged for a narrow-minded and extremely stubborn person to be my wife. Fighting was part of my life for years, and I almost died many times. According to the old force's mentality, those arrangements were to help rid me of my attachments. If I did not meet their standard, they would rather kill me. One day, I used my celestial eye to look at my wife in other dimensions. I understood immediately; there was an armored toad in her brain manipulating her. After I eliminated the toad, my wife changed into a completely different person who is kind and gentle.

This happened because I eliminated my sentimentality and met the standard of the Fa. The old forces wanted to help me rid myself of the human heart, but in ways totally deviated from the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. I had fought with my wife for a dozen years, and was not able to let go of sentimentality. It was Dafa that let me see my attachments, Dafa that changed me. The old forces had not helped me at all.

There are also tests in daily life to check our level of awareness of the Fa. No matter how major or trivial, occurrences happen to test if our thinking is based on the Fa, and the Fa does not allow for any ambiguity. The standard is high: it requires us to completely let go of attachments, not to just modify some of our actions. One can achieve this only when one can completely let go of fame, self-interest and sentimentality.

I learned that a fellow practitioner was taken to a police station. The policeman screamed at her to take off her clothes. Her heart was not moved, and she said, “I have Teacher, and I am not afraid.” The policeman picked up an electric baton and tried to shock her, but much to his surprise, he received the shock instead. A second policeman entered the room, cursed the first one, thinking that he did know how to use the electric baton. The second officer tried to shock the practitioner, and he shocked himself as well.

The director of the police station was furious and said, “You scumbags don't even know how to use the electric baton!” Much to his terror, he also shocked himself. He was embarrassed and scared, and he told the practitioner to hurry up and leave. She went home safe and sound. What is it to negate an old force arrangement? This is negating the old forces! When you negate its arrangement, you are walking on the path of cultivation that Teacher arranged for you; when you give into fear, you are walking on the path the old forces arranged for you, and it is a dead end.

Because the old forces want to test Dafa, they victimize the people of China by forcing substances on them, causing them have no righteous thoughts, and cutting them off from the characteristic of the universe, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. If we do not clarify the truth to those people, they will head toward elimination. The current natural disasters and man-made catastrophes are caused by these factors. Teacher has told us numerous times that today's people all have significant backgrounds. We should not let them be eliminated; we should help them return to their original realms.

When we clarify the truth, we have to have upright and pure thoughts. If we have any deficits in understanding or attachments that the old forces can seize upon, we will be blocked from saving people, and the old forces might be able to turn people against us and have us arrested.

The old forces act out of self-interest, fearing the cosmos would not be saved if they did not interfere. The old forces refused to listen to Teacher, insisting on their own arrangements. If they had the capability or wisdom to renew the cosmos, it wouldn't have degenerated to this extent.

Teacher arranged a perfect cultivation path for every one of us. We all know that Teacher let us cultivate on a high level from the very beginning. Teacher gave us the best, and of course our xinxing has to reach high levels. We have to let go of our human hearts and truly study Fa; only then can we understand the Fa from the core of our being.

Teacher said:

“If every one of you can understand the Fa from the depths of your mind, that will truly be the manifestation of the Fa whose power knows no boundary—the reappearance of the mighty Buddha Fa in the human world!” (“Cautionary Advice” from Essentials for Further Advancement)

When practitioners face tests from the old forces and ask Teacher for help, the results vary according to the depth of understanding of Dafa, the amount of faith in Teacher, and the degree to which attachments have been released.

Teacher has the ability to completely eliminate old forces with one wave of his hand, but here are still numerous sentient beings among them who can be saved. We need to save those that can be saved. Otherwise, what is the point of Fa rectification? If everything is eliminated, that equates to recreating the cosmos. No matter what kind of tribulation, as long as we have firm righteous thoughts and ask Teacher to reinforce us, our thoughts will shake the world of ten directions. Teacher and righteous gods in the cosmos will be able to help us.

I am a mainland Dafa practitioner, and my understanding is limited due to my cultivation level. Please point out concerns and shortcomings.

Heshi.