(Clearwisdom.net) Recently I read many articles regarding breaking through the old forces' arrangements, and these articles greatly inspired me. However I also feel that some articles were not good enough. That is, when we are analyzing the old forces, do we fall into the human way of thinking to varying degrees?
I will start with the issue of going to send forth righteous thoughts to eliminate the evil beings that control the head of the evil. We had many discussions and we had some disagreements too. The disagreement lies in the analysis of the purpose of the old forces -- "Has the old forces made the arrangements this way? Are we breaking through their arrangements or complying with them?" When we are analyzing them in depth, do we end up using human notions? Actually we know that many occurrences are not simply exposing a certain human notion. Many human notions are not just revealed at one specific time. It is a complete process to cultivate and to give up every attachment. During this process, we have Master compassionately saving us, so the evil interference will only be shown in certain behaviors. The evil interference is persecuting the whole body of Dafa disciples. In our cultivation process, the principles at any level can hardly be analyzed clearly. They are usually enlightened to in one moment. During this short period of time, undoubtedly practitioners have reached that very level from the Fa's perspective. Otherwise, it is nothing but the human perspective. No matter how we analyze and experience, we can hardly reach the state of being godly in our thinking and understanding.
The relationship between the old forces and us was once very ambiguous to me. On Minghui net [Clearwisdom net], fellow practitioners also mentioned that when we are sending forth righteous thoughts, we are directly eradicating the arrangements of the old forces. I feel that is really good, and also necessary. But since I am not so clear-minded about our relationship with the old forces, I had some doubts, such as even though the old forces are not pure, they are still gods. They are also part of the lives that Master tries every effort to save in the Fa-rectification. If we try to completely break through their arrangements, should we eradicate them completely? To what extent should we eradicate them? etc. Since we have our human bodies in the human world, we have limitations in understanding our own levels and abilities. Sometimes, we cannot help doubting whether we have the ability to directly eliminate the impure high-level beings.
However I was enlightened to the principle recently that we came from high-levels of the universe or from remote celestial bodies. Our Master is rectifying us from our microcosmic bodies. That is to say our true beings have already reached our corresponding status. The residual human part is to be assimilated to the Fa. That is to say when we are sending forth our righteous thoughts, if we are doing it from the Fa-perspective, all the old living beings in any dimension will agree. They themselves will choose either to go with the Fa-rectification or to die out completely. What is more, since we are complying with the Fa-rectification, when we are doing it with our purest heart, even when our abilities are inadequate, the numerous gods who are supposed to protect the Fa and the higher gods will do it very actively.
A practitioner mentioned that there was one fellow practitioner in China, who faced the danger of being arrested on a bus, it reminded him immediately of the exact same scene, which he had seen in a dream. He was enlightened that it was a typical arrangement by the old forces. After he asked Master to strengthen him, he completely broke through the tribulation. However we still have many fellow practitioners who cultivate themselves very well but are still enduring similar "arranged tribulations." My personal understanding is that this is the easiest way to display one's human notions in the most dangerous situation. It is almost an instinctive response for human beings, and also the mechanism arranged by the old forces for thousands of years. It is very difficult to break through without solid righteous belief and understanding of the Fa. When I myself am doing Dafa work, many times, even when I understand the Fa principle, I have human notions influencing me without my own awareness, not to mention in emergency situations caused by sudden occurrences. For example, last year when I tried to understand the meaning of "complete sacrifice," I came to the wrong understanding; I thought of "sacrificing all I have as a human being." And now I have come to understand that the real meaning of "complete sacrifice" refers to giving up every human concept and attachment, and to understanding the present Fa from a god's perspective. It is easy to mention this principle. It is however a long and arduous cultivation process to be assimilated to this principle. Today is the right time for us to position ourselves.
So regarding how to break through the old forces' arrangements, the real breaking through of the old forces' arrangements is to break through human notions from the Fa-perspective. In the Fa-rectification process, we should not be influenced by any human sentiments, and we should try to use the purest side that is divine to face the Fa-rectification. We should not use the fact that we are still cultivating in the human world as an excuse to refuse to give up our human notions.
Besides, in individual cultivation, the purpose of studying the Fa is to give up all our individual attachments. In the Fa-rectification cultivation process, to study the Fa is not just to give up our attachments so that the old forces can find no loopholes to make use of. Instead it is also for the purpose of getting completely assimilated to the new Fa of the universe, and therefore step forward from our human concepts. We should use our righteous enlightenment as great-enlightened beings to face everything and help Master to save the sentient beings. Based on this, Dafa practitioners will assimilate themselves to the Fa in the Fa-study process. That is to follow up with Master's arrangements, and also to completely break through the old forces. The moment when we are treating our cultivation from the Fa-perspective, that is the moment we are breaking through the arrangements by the old forces. The Fa-rectification period Dafa practitioners have the purest of everything that is bestowed by the Fa. That means that any god in the old universe is not entitled to persecute the righteous gods of the new universe. Of course the precondition is that Dafa practitioners treat themselves as diamond-like, indestructible Dafa disciples, standing from the Fa-perspective. So it is undoubtedly effective to send forth righteous thoughts to deny the arrangements of the old forces. However it does not mean that we are directly eradicating all the old forces. After all, they are living beings that are worthy of being saved. We will not take them as enemies. Dafa practitioners have no enemies. By eradicating the hopeless evil, we are also creating and protecting a positive living environment for the living beings of the universe. This is safeguarding the righteous Fa of the universe. It is the rectification of the Fa in an open and aboveboard manner. No matter where we are placed, we are always absolutely pure and compassionate. It is also building the mighty virtue of the gods of the new universe, and not just simply sending forth righteous thoughts to eradicate or fight against the old forces' arrangements. After all, it is still different from eradicating evil demons.
In the final stage of our cultivation, we should stay away from the logical way of human thinking. As the Fa-rectification unfolds, we should cultivate a divine way of thinking which is free from humans mentality of making assumptions that something will be like this or like that. We will then have a direct way of understanding and responding from the Fa-perspective. If we cannot break through the old forces' arrangements, that is because our human notions are following us just like our own shadows. Before we cultivate ourselves well enough, we do not realize we are using human notions in our thinking. That is why Master says "the raising of levels is what's fundamental."
