(Clearwisdom.net) We have been thinking about what the old forces have arranged for us and how we should deny them. However, I realize that we must change our thinking because we are in the Fa-rectification period. We need to do what is required of us, rather than deny what the old forces have arranged. Our actions have to be according to the mission of validating the Fa, and no lives, including the old forces, can interfere with this. This is what I understand about truly validating the Fa.
Teacher had pushed us to our predestined positions before July 20, 1999, when the persecution began. The primary task for Falun Dafa practitioners in the Fa-rectification period is to validate the Fa and save sentient beings, instead of eliminating the arrangements of the old forces. This way of thinking is not to deny the importance of eliminating the old forces' arrangements, but to realize that a better way of eliminating the old forces' arrangements is to save more sentient beings by following Teacher's request. The old forces, because of their principle of mutual-generation and mutual-inhibition, are trying to save themselves by sacrificing some sentient beings. But this goes against Falun Dafa and Teacher, and is the opposite of Falun Dafa's principle of saving all sentient beings.
Two types of thinking will lead to two ways of dealing with problems. The first type may cause insufficient confidence in those practitioners with unclear goals about validating the Fa and saving sentient beings by eliminating the old forces' arrangements. This in turn affects their work in saving sentient beings. For those practitioners who have stepped forward to validate the Fa, also due to this type of thinking, they have been up and down in the old forces' arrangements. On this, Teacher has said in "Expounding on the Fa": "Having humanly fostered the evil demons, you allow them to capitalize on the loopholes in the Fa." (Essentials for Further Advancement) We restrict ourselves by being in a state that severely affects our work of saving sentient beings because we treat the old forces' arrangements as normal tribulations in our cultivation.
I think that breaking through the old forces' arrangements is like Grade One in elementary school for practitioners in the Fa-rectification period. We are cultivating and validating Falun Dafa, and the interference of the old forces is merely a small obstacle in our way. We should switch our thinking from how to deny the old forces' arrangements to accomplishing our primary goal in the Fa-rectification period. The old forces must not interfere with what we are doing, otherwise, they need to be be completely eliminated.
We validate the Fa by saving sentient beings. This is what Falun Dafa needs us to do and it is our primary task. Denying the old forces' arrangements is merely what we do when they interfere with us. This is part of our work, but not the real purpose of our validating the Fa.
We should validate the Fa according to what Teacher requests us to do, and the Fa is the foundation of our Dafa work. Teacher has asked us to use godly righteous thoughts to walk the final path well. Gods are not average lives in the universe, rather, they are beings who can apply the divine powers given by Falun Dafa. Moreover, divine powers can only be generated by the practitioners' righteous thoughts. Applying Dafa completely to guide our lives, getting rid of all attachments, fully assimilating into the Fa, and saving more sentient beings are the things that all Falun Dafa practitioners should do. This is truly validating the Fa!
May 28, 2007
