(Clearwisdom.net) When I explained to people the facts about Jiang's persecution of Falun Gong, I often heard people say, "After learning Falun Gong, some people did not even want their families, return home for a long time, or work on their farmland. The government then should be doing this or that." I would say these people jumped to extreme conclusions. For example, if a person has ninety-nine merits and one shortcoming, can you claim this person is bad because of this one shortcoming? If ninety-nine people in a group are doing their jobs well and only one person does not, can you claim the group is not good, simply because one person does not do a good job?
Furthermore, in order to pursue something, there are many people who cannot attend to one thing without losing track of another. They are even too busy to think about their daily life for a while. You could claim that he or she did not balance his or her life, and even claim that he or she went slightly overboard. But would this type of slightly extreme behavior be considered a deadly crime? Should it really be suppressed? Judging from the principles of emotions and in the legal system, would it provide sufficient reason to implement this notorious terrorism policy, "Defame their reputations, bankrupt them financially and destroy them physically," to deal with Falun Gong practitioners?
If a student spends all his time studying assiduously for the college entrance examination, and he or she treats his or her family like strangers, could you claim that he or she does not want his or her parents any more because of devotedly preparing for the college entrance examination? In order to win a contest at the Olympic Games, an athlete has to dedicate his or her body and mind for several months, even several years in a row to the intensive training and is too busy to think about parents and leading a comfortable life. Should people hate him or her?
Under the current situation, Falun Gong practitioners are arduously resisting the persecution. Many are forced to lose their normal family lifestyle and their work, simply because they have been persisting in telling the truth. If there were no such persecution, these practitioners would lead a very peaceful and tranquil life - getting up early every day to practice the Falun Gong exercises in a park, going to work during the day, and diligently studying the Fa in the evening. The persecution has deprived these people of all of these rights. The criminal culprit who initiated this persecution is Jiang Zemin!
In my view, I want to present here some reasons for people coming to the wrong conclusion:
1. They do not know what Falun Gong is and are unable to tell good from bad and to tell true from false, because they are temporarily deceived by the lying propaganda;
2. They do not know the details of the persecution and just repeat others' opinions. They attribute things to Falun Gong, even for things that are not related to Falun Gong;
3.They cannot discern between fleeing for personal reasons and fleeing as a result of governmental persecution.
(1) Falun Gong demands practitioners to act according to the principles of "Truth, Compassion and Forbearance.""You can do any normal job of the common people. A practitioner can be a good person in any life situation and doing any type of work. As a practitioner, you have to be an ethical person in any place and environment. As a practitioner, it is definitely your problem if you cannot behave and conduct yourself well. If you cannot do that, then you do not strictly conduct yourself as a practitioner. If your boss hires you and you have not completed the job, or you are a student and you have not completed the assignments and have not attended and listened to the class, then could you insist that you are a good person? A good person should be a good person in any environment. If you are a student you should study diligently, and if you are an employee you should complete your work." ("Teaching the Fa at the Conference in Houston"(October 12, 1996)) [unofficial translation]
According to the requirements of Falun Gong, if you are a farmer, you have to do good work on your farmland. If you have a family, how can you not be responsible for the family? Only when a person truly acts according to the requirements of Falun Gong, can he or she be considered a practitioner who truly studies Falun Gong.
(2) Falun Gong was publicly introduced in 1992. Before the introduction of Falun Gong, many people had learned other schools of practice. To the best of my knowledge, the people who went away and abandoned their home or showed other abnormal behaviors did not learn Falun Gong; instead, they learned other schools of practice. The media propaganda and lies have affected people who do not know the truth. They have mistakenly attributed all kinds of abnormal happenings to Falun Gong and Falun Gong practitioners. This resulted from their insufficient understanding of Falun Gong.(3) After July 20, 1999, Jiang started the persecution against Falun Gong practitioners and tried to force them to give up their belief in "Truth, Compassion and Forbearance." If they do not give up the belief, they will be arrested, be jailed, be sent to a forced labor camp and be convicted. Faced with such conditions, some Falun Gong practitioners chose to leave their home to avoid the persecution. This situation is a result of Jiang's persecution. The person to be blamed and condemned should be Jiang rather than Falun Gong practitioners. It is not wrong to follow the requirements of "Truth, Compassion and Forbearance," to become an ethical person, of good character. When there are more good people in the society, and people develop a good mindset and virtue, society will be stabilized and in order.
It is not Falun Gong who makes Chinese society chaotic. It is the authorities themselves. The persecution begun by Jiang against kind people who believe in "Truth, Compassion and Forbearance" tires the people and squanders national resources. The wrongdoers seem to be able to get away with whatever they want at present, without any misgivings. Public security and order are worsening while natural and man-made disasters are on the rise.
When there is a conflict among national interests, between people's interest and the interest of the individual in power, the individual in power always takes personal interest as the first priority and abandons the nation's and people's interest. Using "labeling" and other measures, the suppressors can always discover a thousand reasons to "justify" their "wise" behavior, all of them lies. People who are deluded by an individual in power are to be pitied, because they still have to shout loudly and demonstrate support for the individual in power.
To all my kindhearted fellow citizens of China and the world: what we should do is to uphold justice and righteousness, uphold and guard virtue and kindness and resist these evildoers! If all the people do this, would dictators dare to act in such self-serving manners?
