(Clearwisdom.net) The old forces have not handled their relationship with Dafa and Dafa disciples well, and they have not handled well the relationship between personal cultivation and Fa-rectification cultivation and the relationship between the old cosmos' rules and the new cosmos' righteous rules. They have interrupted Master's Fa-rectification with their own degenerated and warped notions that were formed during the last period of the old cosmos's formation-stasis-degeneration-destruction process. They wanted to keep what they wanted in order to achieve their selfish purposes. It is the old cosmos's basic character of selfishness that is responsible for these lives choosing to commit sins against Fa-rectification and thus choosing the fate of being eliminated.
As Dafa practitioners, we are all lives generated in the old cosmos. We signed contracts or formed karmic connections with Master ages and ages ago. We came in order to assimilate to and validate the great Fa of "Truth, Compassion, and Forbearance." Our greatest Master is benevolent to all lives in the old cosmos, saving them from being destroyed by the old rules of the process of formation-stasis-degeneration-destruction-emptiness. As Dafa practitioners, we should treasure such a precious opportunity to gradually assimilate to Dafa through studying the Fa and improving our xinxing, becoming a true Dafa disciple. We should correct any of our unrighteous thoughts, notions and karma, in order to fulfill our responsibilities of validating Dafa and saving sentient beings while resisting the persecution.
However, some practitioners do not handle their relationship with Dafa well. They cultivate with conditions and for personal reasons, and they cannot eliminate the attachments of suspicion and fear. Any disrespect to Dafa by old cosmos beings could be the reason for the elimination of such lives. During Fa-rectification cultivation, thoughts disrespectful of Dafa are indicators of degenerated lives in the old cosmos. The Fa is the only standard by which to measure whether something is good or bad, righteous or evil. If we do not study the Fa well and assimilate to the Fa, it is very difficult for us to pass through the ordeals imposed on us by the old forces. Assimilating to Dafa unconditionally and without any personal agenda is the only way to become a being in the new cosmos, worthy of being a Dafa disciple, truly unshakeable and indestructible like diamond.
What should the relationships among Dafa practitioners be? If we cannot handle them well, the old forces will find excuses to persecute us. For example, in some areas practitioners do not follow the Fa. Instead they follow certain practitioners as role models. The old forces have used this as an excuse and "transformed" these model practitioners. Some elderly practitioners cannot eliminate human attachments. The old forces have used this opportunity to let certain practitioners pass away due to "sickness." When practitioners have personal feelings for each other, the old forces use these emotions as an excuse to persecute them. When practitioners do not trust each other, the old forces create conflicts among us. When practitioners do not care about, support or help each other, or do not pay attention to security issues, the old forces intensify the persecution. All Dafa practitioners are disciples of Dafa. The old forces will take advantage of our omissions if there are any misunderstandings among us. No matter what projects we are working on, whether it is clarifying the truth, saving fellow practitioners or any other projects, the better we coordinate with each other, the more powerful we will be. Dafa practitioners will become more mature, rational and clearheaded in this process.
Dafa practitioners are great beings on the path to godhood. We are coming out of humanness, so we do not seek any fame, power or personal interests in this human world. Dafa practitioners are saving people, not waiting for non-practicing people to overturn the CCP's verdict on Dafa. Our advice to withdraw from the Chinese Communist Party and its related organizations is to show our benevolence toward people, to save them from being eliminated.
May 28, 2005
