(Clearwisdom.net) Clearwisdom.net has published many stories describing how people were rewarded with good fortune after practitioners told them to repeat, "Falun Dafa is good". My purpose in writing this article is to share my thoughts about an article posted on Clearwisdom regarding a practitioner who worried about clarifying the truth in this way. There are four aspects I want to discuss:
1. A New Means of Clarifying the Truth: One Can Be Rewarded With Good Fortune By Repeating "Falun Dafa Is Good"
Teacher said:
"Even when an ordinary person shouts out ¡®Falun Dafa is good' today, Master will protect him."
(Teaching and Explaining the Fa at the Metropolitan New York Fa Conference)
There is also a broad connotation behind Teacher's words. Not only can illnesses and conditions be miraculously cured, but it has an incredible effect in validating Dafa and saving many beings. I think it is a new aspect of clarifying the truth and validating Dafa in the Fa-rectification period. Dafa practitioners should rid themselves of all attachments, and use this opportunity to harmonize Teacher's choice, validate Dafa and save more beings.
Example 1: A miracle in a sea of fire.
A large fire occurred in Xianghuangshan Village, Yongan Township, Suihua City, Heilongjiang Province, on May 18, 2004. More than ten houses caught fire. An older woman was very anxious when she saw her house was in this sea of fire. She then recalled a story from a Falun Gong flyer that had earlier been placed under the door of her house. It explained how a ship suddenly encountered a grade 12 typhoon and was on the verge of sinking. The captain asked everyone to prepare to abandon the ship. At that time, one of the crew shouted with great sincerity: "Falun Dafa is good!" His shout was totally unexpected and the wind gradually stopped thereafter. After she remembered this, she knelt down on the ground and shouted: "Falun Dafa is good!" Later on, all of her family joined her. After the firefighters put out the fire, everyone could see that her neighbors' houses were all burned down, but her house did not have any fire damage, except that the woodpile and fence were burned. All the people in the village said it was a miracle and together expressed that Falun Dafa is good. (This event was originally published in the 185th issue of the "Heaven, Earth and All Beings" magazine [a Chinese-language publication] on June 10, 2004)
Example 2: Restoring the dying to life.
A month ago, my wife and I traveled over one hundred miles to my hometown to clarify the truth. We went to my uncle's home. His daughter-in-law was suffering from lung and heart disease and was dying. They had already made arrangements for her funeral. We clarified the truth to her and also told her the stories of patients suffering from serious diseases that rose up from their deathbeds after repeating, "Falun Dafa is good." At that time, she opened her eyes and said: "I believe what you have said. Can Dafa save me?" We told her: "Teacher is merciful to all beings. Teacher once said: ¡®Even when an ordinary person shouts out ¡®Falun Dafa is good' today, Master will protect him'." The patient said: "I believe, I believe!" I wrote "Falun Dafa is good!" on two slips of paper and pasted them on the two walls to assist her. Just before we left, the patient's daughter-in-law asked us to give her a copy of Zhuan Falun so she could read it to her. A week later, the patient was able to sit up and read Zhuan Falun on her own. Two weeks later, she was able to walk and half a month later, she was fully recovered when I went to see her. Her experience created a great stir in the village. Her family worried that the government would persecute her and cause trouble for the entire family. The patient (i.e. my sister-in-law) said: "I don't fear them. I was a dead person, but I have come back to life. I will speak the truth." There are many other miraculous experiences recorded. All of the beneficiaries of these miraculous events walk the path of obtaining the Fa and cultivate sooner or later. Some people were deceived by the lies before these events, but later came to respect Dafa and agree that Falun Dafa is good.
Teacher said in the Fa-Lecture During the 2003 Lantern Festival at the U.S. West Fa Conference:
"At even higher levels the concept of wanting to achieve something doesn't exist, either. It's just a matter of the cosmos's choice. Everything I've been doing during the Fa-rectification and everything I want, to spell it out, are the choice of the future cosmos and the needs of the future cosmos."
Teacher also said he would protect people who repeated, "Falun Dafa is good." I realize that this is just another choice that Teacher makes. Choice is just a celestial phenomena. Our Dafa practitioners would harmonize it according to Teacher's choice. It is also a part of validating Dafa to collect, sort out and distribute the miraculous experiences of people who were rewarded with good fortune after they repeated ¡®Falun Dafa is good'.
2. At First Said Insincerely, Later Spoken From the Heart
I worried whether those people really had sincere hearts when they recited the words to save themselves from the pains of their illness. This is similar to the situation at the beginning of our own cultivation. Teacher said:
"At that time when many students said ¡®Dafa is good', they were not sincere."(Teaching the Fa on Easter, 2004, at the New York Fa Conference)
Teacher allowed us
"a period of time to understand the Fa, so some people come with various intentions" (A Dialogue with Time).
Through cultivation, most of us gave up our original intentions very quickly. Practitioners give up all their personal belongings to go to Tiananmen Square, talk to people and go everywhere in the world to validate that Falun Dafa is good. We also went through a period before we realized the universal principle of "Falun Dafa is good." Currently, ordinary people may be insincere when they repeat, "Falun Dafa is good" in a drowning accident or in suffering the pain of illness. However, they are sincere when they repeat, "Falun Dafa is good!" after they receive protection or relief from their situation. I think it is noteworthy that these people at least think of Falun Dafa, when in peril. It is because everything originates from Dafa. For example, the patient in the second example above said: "I don't fear them. I was a dead person, but I have come back to life. I will speak the truth." At first when she said, "Falun Dafa is good," she may not have truly felt it from her heart, being somewhat insincere. But later, she repeated it with true sincerity. I personally think that it is not necessary to worry whether people are sincere or not, as long as we explain the basic points correctly and do things according to a practitioner's criteria.
3. This is Saving Sentient Beings, Not Healing Illness
A fellow practitioner asked after reading the article mentioned above, "Could practitioners clarifying the truth in such a way be exhibiting the intention of healing others' illnesses?" He thought this was against the principles of Dafa. This point of view should also be discussed.
First of all, we should clearly understand that Teacher said He would protect people who repeat, "Falun Dafa is good!" Dafa disciples only play the role of validating Dafa and clarifying the truth. Also, not only sick people are rewarded with good fortune, but others who sincerely say "Dafa is good" benefit as well. This is the mighty virtue of Dafa, Teacher's mercy. People who receive good rewards will tell their family members, as well as friends "Falun Dafa is good." With our kind hearts, we tell people that they will be rewarded if they say, "Falun Dafa is good," which is validating Dafa and saving all sentient beings. We don't do it with the intent of healing illness, so I understand that it is not against Dafa's principles. The precondition is whether we do things with pure hearts. This is very important, because there are still some things inside that we need to cultivate.
4. Letting Go Of All Worries And Receiving The Arrival Of The Wonderful Moment Of Fa-Rectification In The Human World
The practitioner writing the article mentioned above had another concern: "I'm really afraid of letting down the expectations carried by these words." Isn't this an attachment? Teacher said:
"Get rid of any attachment you have, and don't think about anything. Just do everything a Dafa disciple should do and everything will be covered."
(Teaching the Fa at the Washington,D.C. International Fa Conference)
My fellow practitioner, any human attachment will interfere with us in completing the significant task we shoulder. Let it go. As long as it is favorable to validate Dafa and save all beings, we should do it.
When clarifying the truth, we tell each person we meet "Falun Dafa is good." With compassion, wisdom and a clear mind, we take up the important task that Teacher endows us with, the arrival of the wonderful moment in which Fa- rectification arrives in the human world. Teacher said:
"In validating the Fa, you are the ones who've come up with many of the ideas ... and Dafa disciples the world over are thinking about their shared tasks. You're all cooperating together, discussing, debating and analyzing things with each other to come up with the best approaches."
(Teaching the Fa on Easter, 2004, at the New York Fa Conference)
Since I am limited by my level, kindly correct me if there are any improper words in the above.