(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Gao Rongrong went into hiding after exposing the police's heinous crime of burning and disfiguring her face. But she was found and re-arrested by the police and tortured to death. Ms. Liu Jizhi was forced to leave her home and make a living at a laundromat after she revealed that the police had raped her. She, too, was arrested again. These cases should occupy practitioners' attention and thoughts, especially the practitioners in China.
Of course, the Chinese Communist Party officials torture, insult, and use dirty tricks against practitioners. Furthermore, they do not allow practitioners to expose their heinous behavior. If anyone exposes their crimes, the authorities accuse them of committing a new crime on top of another and then issue arrest warrants and post rewards to apprehend them. If the CCP is able to arrest them, they torture them, sometimes even to death, and then cremate their bodies to destroy the evidence. In the whole world, only the CCP can get away with this. Since the Party indeed does this, I think every practitioner needs to be very careful about his or her safety, especially those for whom there are outstanding "warrants" or who are being traced. They need to be highly alert and always have righteous thoughts and actions, never giving the evildoers any chance and or the evil forces any excuse for persecution. No matter what the circumstances are, practitioners must do well the three things that our Master asks us to do. This is the ultimate protection for a practitioner's further advancement and solid cultivation and the removal of all attachments and loopholes.
I also want to share a personal thought that our practitioners must cooperate well. Especially for those practitioners who have left their homes and are under the CCP's warrants or for whom there are rewards for their apprehension, we must extend our unselfish hands. That way they will not be trapped in hardships, fighting the evil on their own, and they will not have to leave the group to keep hiding. Practitioners who stay at home or have the ability should arrange shelter, food, and jobs for them, so that they can use more time and energy to do the three things. Then they can form one body with those practitioners who have stable lives. All of them can harmonize and support each other to better validate the Fa and save sentient beings. All Dafa disciples in the whole world are one group. We should not separate ourselves by regions, cities, or provinces. Wherever it is convenient and wherever it is safe, those practitioners who have left their homes should stay there to validate the Fa.
Here I also want to remind everyone that some practitioners who are able to help others have a strong fear of being implicated and therefore do not want to help the practitioners who have left their homes, let alone cultivate and advance together with them. Also, when some practitioners helped some other practitioners, they kept showing off. Who are our fellow practitioners? They are practitioners following the same cultivation method and disciples following the same Master. We should feel a more sacred responsibility to each other than ordinary people's feelings between parents and children or brothers. Shouldn't we extend our hands to help? Should we show off if we do something to help others? From ancient times to the present, any just person would try his best to help those "loyal minsters or loyal sons," even sacrificing his own life. When disciples following the same Master are in trouble, helping them is our undeniable responsibility. If we put our hearts in the Fa, everything becomes so natural that we just do it without striving for anything.
From a small area we can see the whole picture. Practitioners should not accept other people's money or material, even among practitioners. "Minghui Weekly" has had several articles about this. Therefore, there are some practitioners who see other fellow practitioners in difficulty but will not offer help, and there are practitioners who really need help but will not ask for it. Then things can become more severe. I saw an article on the Minghui/Clearwisdom website, talking about a practitioner who spent almost all of his money in producing truth-clarification materials. A lot of other practitioners read his materials but none offered to share the cost. This practitioner had no money for himself, and he could only eat rice soup on Chinese New Year's Day. The practitioner who discovered this wrote an article and cried. I cried when I read it, and I saw that other practitioners cried when they heard this story at a Fa conference. Every time I think about it, I still feel moved. I do not produce truth-clarification materials--at least not yet. I ask myself, "Can I do as well as this practitioner? Compared to him, am I a true practitioner?" This is the Dafa disciple's mighty virtue and its benevolent influence on people around him. At the same time, we can also see that there are areas where many practitioners should have done better.
A coordinator once mentioned to me that it was very difficult to produce truth-clarification materials. Without financial support, Minghui Weekly was almost unable to be continued. I discussed with a few nearby practitioners about our contributing some money to the truth-clarification production center. Without any consideration, one practitioner said, "Didn't Master told us not to donate?" I was speechless. Maybe I should not have discussed this issue with this practitioner. At the last moment, the most critical moment, there are still practitioners having these kinds of thoughts! Of course I don't think there are that many, but there still are some no matter how long they have been cultivating. Because we are all in the cultivation environment, we can only tell ourselves to be more benevolent, be more benevolent, and be even more benevolent! Use benevolence and compassion to dissolve everything. Here I want to say sincerely to that practitioner, "Master's Fa leads us to cultivate and give up all ordinary people's attachments. It is not for us to make exceptions so as to find something to protect our own attachments."
When the whole group has a loophole, the evil becomes wild. When the whole group advances intensely, the evil automatically collapses. If all practitioners can put themselves into others' shoes and always think of others first, I believe our group will be so harmonized that the evil will never break our group, because pulling a single thread of hair may move the whole body. The large scale persecution against practitioners will never succeed. We will be able to save more people before the Fa rectifies the human world.
