(Clearwisdom.net)
Practitioners Exchange Insights
Here I want to talk about the relationship between enlightening in the Fa during my cultivation and stubbornly clinging onto one's self. During cultivation, I tried to enlighten to everything by myself. I wouldn't listen or be moved even when others gave very persuasive arguments. However, in cultivation, we should always take the middle path in order to "often stay in the Dao." ["In the Dao," Hong Yin, unofficial translation] For a long time, I didn't realize that to a certain extent, this characteristic reflected attachments to my own notions. Because of my strong attachment to myself, I didn't have a harmonious relationship with other practitioners. In the end, conflicts accumulated in my dimensional field and I could not get rid of them. I was so upset that I thought of giving up the work at the material site and going home. One morning when I was doing the exercises, I saw Master's Fashen [law body] standing beside me. From the exercise tape I heard Master's benevolent voice, "Chong Guan." Immediately I felt the heavy substance lying on my chest was dissolved. I burst into tears and said in my heart, "Master, I have become so bad and yet you still save me." Through this incident I finally realized what I should discard through cultivation. At the same time, I also realized that stubbornly clinging to one's self is selfishness, and it is the fundamental reason why beings walk from birth toward degeneration and destruction.
News from China
In April 2002, I was transferred to another division of the labor camp. Because I refused to wear a uniform, I was locked in a solitary compartment for 20 days and I forced to sit on an ice-cold iron chair for nine days and nights. Other practitioners were brutally beaten and shocked with electric batons by the vicious guards, yet the practitioners had powerful righteous thoughts and firmly resisted the evil's persecution.
It was September 23rd, midday, when we heard the grievous news. The evil force had taken away the life of Guo Xiumei, a Huaiyang County Dafa practitioner. During the past three years of Fa-Rectification, Guo Xiumei had done a lot of Dafa work. Her righteous thoughts and deeds encouraged many fellow practitioners in the surrounding area. She treated others warmly and she enjoyed helping people. She worked hard at her job and never complained about anything. All her colleagues, from the heads of her work unit to ordinary co-workers, respected her.
The Facts of Persecution
Unlawful officials and policemen in Suizhong County, Huludao City, Liaoning Province have been persecuting Dafa practitioners. Not long ago, they hired some young men off the street in their 20s to be their spies wandering around on big roads and small avenues. After practitioner Su Juzhen had been maltreated and suffered a mental breakdown, the vicious policemen still frequently went to her home to harass her and her family. During May and June of 2002, the unlawful gang kidnapped 18 practitioners into a brainwashing center and extorted more than 100,000 Yuan from them.
