(Clearwisdom.net)
The persecution of Falun Gong has been going on in China for a few years now. Overseas, there have been ongoing cases of Dafa practitioners who are involuntarily losing their jobs or having to drop out of schools (this does not include those who have secure financial resources for their daily basic needs and like to contribute a significant amount of their time to helping end the persecution of Falun Dafa).
When a Dafa practitioner validates the Fa overseas, if he has the proper skills to work but is forced to lose his job with no obvious reason, and if it is not because of his xinxing or his problematic conducts, then that is definitely the evil using the practitioner's existing human mindset or the attachments that he has not yet gotten rid of to persecute the Dafa practitioner.
It is the most fundamental right of Dafa practitioners to be able to go to work or to school normally in this human dimension. If a practitioners loses this most fundamental right and can not even meet their most basic needs, this is a reflection of how crazy the evil is and how far it is willing to go to persecute Dafa practitioners.
Some practitioners are still baring the tribulations pessimistically and think this is the way things are. So what does Dafa say about this? Teacher has said in the article "Expounding on the Fa":
"Whenever a tribulation comes, you do not see it with the side of your original nature but view it completely with your human side. Evil demons then capitalize on this point and inflict endless interference and damage, leaving students in long-term tribulations."; "If it continues endlessly and if there do not exist other problems in your xinxing or conduct, it must be that the evil demons are capitalizing on the weak spots caused by your lack of control. After all, a cultivator is not an ordinary human. So why doesn't the side of you that is your original nature rectify the Fa?"; "You should also be clear that 'natural' does not exist, and 'the inevitable' has reasons behind it. In fact, 'natural' is irresponsibly used by everyday people to make excuses for themselves when they are unable to explain the phenomena of the universe, life, and matter. They cannot imagine what 'nature' itself is. Under the influence of this kind of notion you think that all these tribulations are inevitable and that this is just the way it is, thereby developing a passive and pessimistic attitude. So your human side must stay aware. More importantly, your side that has attained the Fa must be clear."; "In fact, Dafa is not only to save human beings--it is also taught to all beings in the various dimensions. Your enlightened, original nature will automatically know what to do. Cherishing your human side enables you to enlighten to and ascend in the Fa."
Because Dafa practitioners have the human mindset, the weak spot was then penetrated and the practitioners are persecuted. The evils in other dimensions are the genuine manipulator. When you encounter problems, you should look at them on the basis of the Fa, solve the problems face-to-face, and constantly send forth righteous thoughts to clean up the part inside of you that doesn't conform completely to Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance and eliminate the interference in other dimensions. To solve a problem in a timely manner like this instead of avoiding it or to bear it pessimistically will cut down on the instances of taking unnecessary detours. We bear some responsibility for the problems occurring around us. We also need to immediately shed some light on our fellow practitioners on the basis of the Fa and help them clean out all non-righteous factors. We should absolutely not allow or acknowledge this type of persecution to happen overseas. We need to do our best to clean out these rotten evils in all aspects. If we can really do this, every related matter reflected onto the human dimension will be taken care of and those who lost their jobs or had to withdraw from school will have a chance to go back.
To rectify all that is not rectified is our responsibility as Fa-rectification period practitioners. Only human beings stick to a certain fixed way of thinking. In god's eyes, everything can be changed. Learn the Fa well, and have a deeper understanding of the Fa and a better feeling of its meaning will immediately break the hindrance from the evil and persecution. Everybody should work together to rectify all that is not rectified. It will not only set up a good Dafa practitioner's image during the Fa-rectification period, but will also serve the purpose of being a practitioner in the Fa-rectification period.
If we have a qualitative break through tomorrow, that is because we can stand on the basis of the Fa and can break those stubborn ideas in the human mindset and rigid ways of thinking.
2003-9-12
