(Clearwisdom.net) Lately, the evil forces have been trying to kidnap me. While meditating one day, I thought about Teacher's words, "I only teach people to be good. At the same time, I unconditionally help people get rid of their diseases and health problems, and I enable them to reach higher realms of mind. I don't charge any money or ask for material things as reward. All of this has had a positive impact on the society and its people, and it has, on a large scale, turned people's hearts towards goodness and made their moral level high. I wonder if that is why they seek to extradite me. Do they want me to return to China so that more people can obtain the Fa and cultivate their hearts?"("Some Thoughts of Mine" in Essentials for Further Advancement II)
In my own situation, I wondered why the evil would try to kidnap me. Do they want me to work for the promotion of the universal law of "Truth, Compassion, and Tolerance?" Is it because I exposed wrongdoers' lies by telling people the truth? Is it because I didn't give up my belief? The truth is I've done nothing wrong. I have been doing everything very righteously. I am righteous according to both the rules of the old cosmos and that of the new cosmos. Is there any reason for the evil to kidnap me? No. The murderers who persecute Dafa disciples are the ones who should be arrested and sentenced.
I wholeheartedly communicated these words to the evils that were persecuting Dafa and Dafa disciples. At that moment, I felt something break through in my heart. I entered a free world that did not have the evil's persecution. I could work in the Fa rectification freely. The evil was not able to enter this new world at all, nor was there any persecution. I felt extremely at ease.
Meanwhile, I realized that many fellow practitioners and I have been studying the Fa, sending-forth righteous thoughts, keeping our minds righteous, and so on. When we do that, we also have so many goals, such as not being kidnapped away, keeping our safety, having no troubles, being efficient, and not letting the evil take any advantage, etc. Aren't these pursuits? Can we improve when we study the Fa like this? It seems that we have taken studying the Fa and sending-forth righteous thoughts as a weapon and tool. Looking into this even further, we have not completely opposed the old forces' principles, nor have we totally started from the point of opposing the old forces. We have been studying the Fa and sending-forth righteous thoughts with pursuits. Have we wanted to make ourselves strong? When we are strong, we shall have enough righteous thoughts and strong energy potencies, so the evil could not get close to us. Isn't this our mentality? Should we have to challenge the old forces on these aspects? I believe the thought that we should strengthen is, "The evil is not qualified to persecute us even if we have attachments."
Is it right that we endure the tremendous persecution and never give in? Why should we have to endure? Do we need to show our refusing to yield to the old forces' persecution? Even if we passed the old forces' test, would we be qualified? Whose test have we passed? Whose standard have we reached? Doing hunger strikes or striving with our lives is to resist the evil's persecution, to eradicate the evil in other dimensions, and to demand our release without any charges. The evils want to lock us up and we want to break their arrangement. Are we very clear on this objective? Have we fulfilled this objective thoroughly? Have we had any reservations or hesitation?
In the Clearwisdom.net article series "The Path of Returning," the following paragraph appears where the practitioner from Beijing decides to get out of the forced labor camp through a hunger strike, "In the past month, I studied Teacher's new articles. I realized that I should not passively endure anymore. I should not agree with old forces' arrangement. Teacher has told us in Dafa is Indestructible that 'A Dafa disciple completely opposes everything arranged by the evil old forces.' It's time for me to get out of here with my righteous thoughts! I know that I have poor enlightenment quality. I have wasted a lot a time, and have missed many opportunities. The evil is spreading rumors and has poisoned so many people. Those who don't know the truth are waiting for me to go out to clarify the truth to them. There are other practitioners who are forced to give in and are waiting for my help. How can I keep passively enduring it? At the beginning, I believed that it would be hard for me to get out since I have been sentenced to a forced labor camp. Yet this notion is accepting the old forces' arrangement. Yet how can we fulfill our vows of assisting Teacher to rectify the Fa while inside a forced labor camp? In the forced labor camp, I never gave in to the evil. I have not given a single word of written record, signature, or photograph. I have not participated in a single day of labor. But I have only succeeded halfway. Ultimately, I am not supposed to stay in the forced labor camp. I should completely oppose the evil old forces' arrangement. When my understanding was upgraded, I realized that I was sure to get out of the evil den!" From this, we can see how strong the power of our righteous thoughts become after we correct ourselves. Can there be anything that could stop us?
Our mighty virtue is not established through accepting the evil's persecution, but through the process of eliminating the evil's persecution.
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