3/2/2003
(Clearwisdom.net) Having read Master Li's "Teaching the Fa at the 2002 Fa Conference in Philadelphia, U.S.A.," I have a better understanding of the arrangements of the old forces.
"It appears that they're using those evil beings to do evil to Dafa disciples and Dafa in order to have Dafa disciples be supposedly 'matured through tempering' and to weed out those who don't deserve to be Dafa disciples, and along with this to use the sins that the evil beings have committed against Dafa disciples to destroy them and purify the cosmos. That's what the old forces have arranged. Sounds so noble, doesn't it? But it's not! Their real goal is to get what they want out of this."
("Teaching the Fa at the 2002 Fa Conference in Philadelphia, U.S.A.")
Having thought over the arrangements of the old forces, I suddenly realized that since the start of the persecution, many practitioners in China, including those who are imprisoned and remain steadfast, are still following the arrangements of the old forces.
I am a practitioner in China and have witnessed many practitioners around me being imprisoned. Some of them have been reformed; some made some mistakes, and some are still very steadfast. It was my thinking before that only those who made mistakes fell under the arrangements of the old forces. Now I realize that even those who remain firm fall under the arrangements of the old forces, including those who are still imprisoned and those who have come out as a result of righteous actions such as hunger strikes. They have all been persecuted and the whole process is, to use the old forces' words, "to have Dafa disciples be supposedly matured through tempering."
Those that were reformed belong are part of the old force plan "to weed out those who don't deserve to be Dafa disciples." Many of those that are firm belong to those that have been matured through tempering, and many more are still being "tempered." When I looked back at when the persecution started, many practitioners felt that they would not be able to consummate or establish their mighty virtue without going to the prisons to be "tempered". This type of thinking fit exactly the arrangements of the old forces. To negate their arrangements means that we cannot accept the "tempering" they arranged. Even though a practitioner remained very firm and resisted all persecution, and was released because the old forces thought he/she had matured, it was still following the path arranged by the old forces. Imagine how much time and energy, and resources that have been wasted. Didn't that impact on the Fa-rectification negatively?
The key to the arrangements of the old forces is persecution. All the tempering, weeding out and the destroying started with the persecution. If we negate the persecution, we essentially negate their arrangements. How can we do that? There have been many articles on Minghui (and Clearwisdom, in English) concerning this. The following are my personal understandings.
- Spend more time studying the Fa, cultivating ourselves and improving Xinxing
- Spend more time sending forth righteous thoughts, and pay more attention to the quality of the righteous thoughts
- Pay more attention to security. Make sure every detail is done properly
- Use wisdom to clarify the truth. It makes a huge difference to do it with wisdom, without going to extremes.
The above is my personal, limited understanding. Fellow practitioners, kindly point out anything inappropriate.
