A Discussion on the Self-Repair Mechanism of Clearwisdom/Minghui Net: Our Common Cultivation Environment

(Clearwisdom.net)

1. Formation of the Self-Correcting Mechanism and Support from our Master

When I started doing Dafa work I had no experience, and certainly none in being a Dafa Assistant. I have only a high-school-level education, which is not much of a qualification. However, after I began breaking through my own notions and started writing down my experiences and sending them to Clearwisdom/Minghui Net, I found that things started to change. Whether my articles were accepted or not, and if understood what changes or corrections are made to them, has become a special factor in my cultivation.

As the distance between Clearwisdom/Minghui Net and I has become smaller, so has the distance between the world and I. My horizons have gradually widened, I have became more able to view things from Dafa's overall perspective, and my understanding of the progress of Fa-Rectification is becoming increasingly clear.

In fact, ever since Teacher said:

"It is not that [Clearwisdom/Minghui Net] does not make mistakes, however, on important matters, practitioners watch the position of [Clearwisdom/Minghui Net]. The purpose of posting my photo and the article 'The Knowing Heart' on [Clearwisdom/Minghui Net] was to build a trustworthy website for practitioners."

Clearwisdom/Minghui Net has become part of the cultivation environment for all practitioners.

This environment needs us, ourselves, to explore and to protect it.

From a more significant perspective, the existence of Clearwisdom/Minghui Net (and all other Dafa web sites) itself has already formed an automatic self-correcting mechanism for Dafa cultivators as a whole, rectifying all incorrect states.

It was stated in the Clearwisdom/Minghui Net editorial of June 15, 2000, that if there were any unsuitable contents on Clearwisdom/Minghui Net, Teacher would help us by pointing them out (refer to A Second Authentic New Article of Master Li Since July 22, 1999 Will Be Published in a Few Days ). I had been wondering - why did Teacher not point out specific problems that were reflected in the experience-sharing articles posted on Clearwisdom/Minghui Net? Now I understood. Cultivating under these circumstances, we are creating the future.

When our little fellow practitioner Shanshan accepted things from others that he shouldn't have accepted, fellow practitioners pointed it out; when a certain day's News from China exposed a certain group of practitioners' warped notion of superficial "compassion," which was being used by the evil forces, fellow practitioners pointed it out; when fellow practitioners sent forth the righteous thought "do not allow evil to see us" during truth-clarification work, fellow practitioners pointed out the "fear" behind this thought, showing that it displayed a lack of faith in Dafa.

The purpose of Dafa web sites is not just for us to have our pure land, and not just for encouraging us to strive forward; an even more profound reason for the existence of Dafa web sites is for us to have a mechanism to rectify all incorrect states ourselves, as well as to provide an environment in which all of us may cultivate and make progress.

My personal observation is: When we as a group fail to correct our incorrect states in time while the Fa-rectification process progressed into the next step, there seemed always to be a new article from Teacher. When we were able to rectify ourselves from an incorrect state, it must have been a great comfort to Teacher. I've enlightened to the realization, from the appearance of articles with Teacher's remarks, that it is Teacher's benevolent sustenance to this self-correction mechanism of ours.

When I hear fellow practitioners say things like: "I don't like to read others' experiences on Clearwisdom/Minghui Net, however high others have enlightened is their own business," or "'different levels have different Fa,'" "wherever one's enlightenment has reached, one's actions follow accordingly," or "there is no use looking at others," I feel that these practitioners have isolated themselves from the common cultivation environment of all Dafa practitioners as a whole, which is really such a shame!

2. Initiative to Safeguard the Self-Correction Mechanism

Protecting this self-correcting mechanism should be regarded as an important matter by every one of us as cultivators.

There was an article in the past in which the author was calling for every practitioner who writes articles for Clearwisdom/Minghui Net to treat these articles seriously, to check them over several times in order to eliminate errors to the greatest extent possible. This is one aspect of it. Another thing that I'd ask fellow practitioners who write to the sites is to give more consideration to the people who maintain the site, to reduce their burden as much as possible.

3. Perfecting the Self-Correction Mechanism

This would require all cultivators to proactively participate in it.

We should all try our best to distribute the articles from Clearwisdom/Minghui Net, and also we should all try our best to help deliver other people's experience articles to Clearwisdom/Minghui Net (and other Dafa sites).

Problems emerging during the transmission of articles to the web should be resolved through Fa study, sharing, and improving. Lessons and experiences learned from problem resolution should be written up when they happen, in order to provide a reference for others.

Here I have a suggestion, which is also my part of trying to contribute to the perfection of this mechanism:

If fellow practitioners should find, in past Clearwisdom/Minghui Net articles, any spelling or wording mistakes, or any difficult-to-read sentences, please inform Clearwisdom/Minghui Net. In order to reduce the workload of practitioners who work for Clearwisdom/Minghui Net, please use the simple format as suggested below:

MONTH DAY, YEAR Clearwisdom/Minghui Net Article [xxxxxx]

URL(example): http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2001/11/6/18988.html

Original text: ............

Suggested change: ............

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