(Clearwisdom.net) I had quite an awakening after reading the article "My Understandings of 'Immediate Retribution in This Lifetime'" on Clearwisdom. (http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2007/8/1/88223.html)
The article talked about the saying, "When it's time, all good and evil will be rewarded respectively" and how this was a warped notion of the old cosmos. Following this principle, although a person will receive retribution, it is not immediate. When will the retribution happen? Maybe in the person's next life or maybe two or more lifetimes later. In these cases, when a person is reincarnated, his memories from the previous life are erased, and he does not know his misfortunes are a result of evil deeds from before. This does not have the effect of shocking and suffocating the evil, awaking the world's people, and restraining people's bad thoughts and behavior at all. The Chinese Community Party's atheist theories has led people to not believe in retribution, which is why people dare to do evil to no end. Mankind has slipped to the brink of destruction. This is also one reason why Falun Dafa disciples have been persecuted so severely today.
"Fa rectifies heaven and earth; Immediate retribution in this lifetime." I understood that this is a principle of Master's new cosmos. Only with immediate retribution can people's bad thoughts be restrained and rectified. However, because we have not been clear on the Fa principles and have accepted the principles of the old cosmos in our minds, the old forced have used it to brutally persecute us until today. This is a lesson stemming from our lack of depth in Fa study and our inability to merge into the Fa.
We have always said that we would not accept the evil arrangements by the old forces. However, we have followed the old forces' principles even until today. If we continue like this, how can we end the old forces' persecution?
In "Teaching the Fa at the Conference in Vancouver, Canada, in 2003," Master said,
"Why was it that when Jesus saved people and was doing such a huge good deed, the beings in the Heavens controlled things like that? And why'd they even have him crucified? It appeared that he was suffering for humans' sins, but why would a God have to suffer for mankind's sins? Why didn't higher Gods intervene? Why couldn't Gods directly reduce humans' sins? In the past, these were laws in the cosmos--everything was like that. From my perspective it's because the old cosmos's Fa lacks wisdom in this regard, so next time it won't be like this."
After studying Master's Fa, I thought I understood: In the future, the gods who offer salvation to people will not suffer as we did. Master has changed the principle. Yet I have not connected Master's Fa with our Fa-rectification cultivation. Instead, I thought what Master taught was something that was only related to things after the Fa-rectification.
In "Teaching the Fa at the Western U.S. International Fa Conference," Master said:
"In fact, what I want to establish and the problems that I intend to resolve during the Fa-rectification include no longer having divine beings who come down to save people be persecuted by the sentient beings in the Three Realms."
Again, my understanding was incorrect. I thought Master was only saying that after the Fa rectifies the cosmos, gods who come down to save people will not be persecuted. In my mind, I still accepted the principles of the old cosmos. This was actually a passive acceptance of the persecution by the old forces against Dafa disciples. I was following the principles of the old cosmos to cultivate.
Every situation in the human world is a result of Dafa practitioners' thoughts and actions. Why is the persecution able to last until today? Why haven't we realized the need to end the persecution until today? Our lack of diligence has caused unmeasurable damage for the Fa-rectification and sentient beings, and has exacerbated the Master's suffering. As Dafa disciples, our enlightenment quality has been too poor. We should be ashamed to face Master.
As Dafa disciples who are establishing a path for future cultivation, shouldn't we walk a path free of persecution? In the arrangement by Master for the Fa-rectification, Dafa disciples should not be persecuted. Why do we accept the persecution, then? Dafa disciples must completely deny the persecution, which was forced upon us by the old forces, and disintegrate the evil CCP. We need to give sentient beings an opportunity to choose, without external pressure, whether they want a bright future and eternal life, or whether they want to be eliminated.
How do we end this evil persecution?
First of all, Dafa disciples must completely deny this persecution and recognize the urgency of the matter. The presence of the CCP impedes and negatively affects the salvation of sentient beings. If we give it one more day to live, then more beings will lose their opportunity to be saved. We must completely eliminate all factors of the CCP's evil spirit.
We must also send forth righteous thoughts well and eliminate all evil beings and factors in other dimensions. Our righteous thoughts should not stop until the evil is disintegrated. We should recognize this: this persecution, regardless of its form, is conducted by those controlled by evil beings and factors in other dimensions. Dafa disciples should use the Buddha Fa's supernormal capabilities bestowed by Master to end this illegal persecution. We should truly demonstrate the power of "The Fa rectifies the cosmos; the evil is completely eliminated. The Fa rectifies heaven and earth; immediate retribution in this lifetime." The perpetrators of the crimes and the world's people should see the heavenly principle of retribution. Then those who do evil will not dare to do more evil, and this persecution will not be able to be sustained. The evil will soon lose.
We should use all possible means to spread the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party and to clarify the facts about the persecution of Falun Gong, so that they will withdraw from the CCP. When the world's people are awaken, the evil specter of the CCP will not be able to possess people. It will lose every space in which to survive and will naturally disintegrate. Therefore, clarifying the facts is a sharp tool for ending this persecution.
Let us break through the principles of the old cosmos with every thought of ours, rectify everything, and establish a path that meets Master's requirement.
