(Clearwisdom.net) I read a fellow practitioner's article, "Let Us End the Persecution Now" (http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2007/7/18/87805.html) and several other related articles. I feel it is indeed a major issue for us to carefully think about. When we shared our understandings, there were still some questions and worries on two issues. One relates to why all Dafa practitioners should increase their righteous thoughts, to "immediately stop the persecution;" the other: are we Dafa practitioners able to "immediately stop the persecution?" Right now, ending the persecution involves every Dafa disciple of the Fa-rectification period. We can't say that it has something to do with other practitioners and not with me, or with us. When all Dafa disciples have raised the intensity of righteous thoughts to immediately end the persecution, our one body will be able to create a new environment for saving people. I will discuss a few personal realizations on the above-mentioned issues.
I. Why should all Dafa disciples increase the intensity of their righteous thoughts to "Immediately Stop the Persecution"?
1. Master has always denied the old forces' arrangements and given us the opportunity to establish our mighty virtue while denying them. Master said in "Teaching the Fa at the 2004 Chicago Conference,"
"We negate even the very emergence of the old forces and everything that they've arranged; we don't even acknowledge their existence. We're fundamentally negating all of their things, and all of, and only, the things you do while negating and getting rid of them is mighty-virtue. It's not that you're cultivating amidst the ordeals they created. Rather, you are to walk your own path well while not acknowledging them, not even acknowledging the elimination of their ordeals' manifestations."
Master taught us this principle many times, and yet I could not understand it deeply enough. I always felt I should deny the old forces when I worked on Fa-validating things. I was actually still doing work from the standpoint of tacitly approving of the persecution environment. I had not completely denied the old forces, nor had we formed one body in this regard.
2. To create a new, harmonious environment to save more people, Dafa practitioners inside China and overseas have put in a lot of effort. When I studied Master's "Fa Teaching at the U.S. Capital," I became acutely aware of Master's words, that high level beings at different levels descended into the utterly vicious human world with great courage because they had firm faith in Dafa and in the Fa-rectification. These lives are too precious not to be rescued. All practitioners are eager to quickly save people. But some of the common people refuse to listen to the truth because they believe the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) propaganda and the CCP's culture has poisoned their minds too profoundly.
The numerous political movements in China have frightened the majority of the Chinese population. "Once bitten by a snake, one shies at a coiled rope for ten years." After speaking out and airing views in a big way, one became a rightist. After pulling out the white flag, one became a deviated rightist. Many people became veterans of a political movement and have been hardened by their experiences. They dare not to show their opinions, even though they know what is good and what is bad. Certain Chinese in foreign countries fear to be on the "black list" and would then run into trouble if they later on return to China. Since the persecution is continuing, many people still live in illusion and refuse to believe the facts, even after we have told them the facts and how things really are several times. As practitioners, we must look inside, and we must immediately end the persecution to enable us to create a new environment for saving people.
3. Master said, "You are Gods, and you are the future rulers of different cosmoses, so who would you count on? All the beings are counting on you!" ("Teaching the Fa at the 2002 Fa Conference in Philadelphia, U.S.A.") Following our successful cultivation, we will be the guardians of the new cosmos. We are assisting Master in this human world and will not always rely on Master and wait for Master. We must do what we can do pro-actively. History has granted us the important responsibility, which is to offer more people salvation by immediately ending the persecution that is against the universe, heavenly laws and humanity, and that shouldn't have happened at all.
4. We can't keep validating the Fa while being persecuted. We can't allow things to go on like this endlessly. The CCP is brutally persecuting Dafa practitioners and profiteering from the sale of harvested organs from living practitioners, while at the same time loudly promoting a so-called "harmonious society." We don't know how many Dafa practitioners are still incarcerated and how many have lost their families and loved ones, and how many have lost their homes and have chosen to go into exile to avoid further persecution. The CCP's actions are atrocious and shameless, even exporting its violence overseas. I cannot stop my tears from flowing whenever I see stories about the peaceful "Small Blue Shelter" in Vancouver, Canada, having stood for over two thousand nights and days, and I cry whenever I think about Master being slandered, despite him looking after us from overseas. The CCP minions' actions are humans attempting to gamble with the gods. It is persecuting the righteous Fa and righteous belief and the gods of the future. It is smearing the Buddha Fa. The duration and vicious means of the persecution and their wickedness have reached the extreme of anyone's tolerance. A thing turns into its opposite if it goes too far. Such a filthy persecution should have ended a long time ago.
5. My aware, cultivated original nature has understood that every single Dafa disciple must raise the righteous thought to "immediately stop the persecution." Some said, "How come Master has not told us so directly?" We cannot wait until Master spells it out for us! If Master told us everything too clearly, it would not be good for our cultivation. It is then not something our original nature has comprehended.
"The path a Dafa disciple takes is a glorious history, and this history has to be created by his own enlightening." ("Path" in Essentials for Further Advancement II) Master also said,
"In fact, Dafa is not only to save human beings--it is also taught to all beings in the various dimensions. Your enlightened, original nature will automatically know what to do. Cherishing your human side enables you to enlighten to and ascend in the Fa. Dafa is harmonizing all sentient beings, and all sentient beings are also harmonizing Dafa. I have told you the solemnity and sacredness of the Fa in order to eliminate your confusion about and misunderstanding of the Fa." ("Expounding on the Fa" in Essentials for Further Advancement)
We are not attached to time during Fa-rectification, but mature Dafa disciples must not waste time. My aware, original nature believes that this persecution that has lasted for eight years should not go on for a single minute or second longer.
6. We cannot let the CCP intensify its persecution of human rights in China (especially the human rights of Falun Gong practitioners) under cover of the Olympic Games. When the CCP applied to host the Olympics, people voted in favor of it after the CCP promised to improve China's human rights, and yet, human rights violations are getting worse. The countdown to the Olympic Games and the lighting of the sacred fire of the Human Rights Torch relay have begun at the same time. The CCP's promotional effort to welcome the Olympics is getting louder. On the one hand, the CCP sugars up a so-called "harmonious scene" and covers up its criminal acts of the brutal persecution of Falun Gong. On the other hand, it shouts loudly that there are "hostile forces" attempting to damage the Olympics, and tries to find a pretext for its hidden, yet intensified, persecution. Put simply, the CCP's "harmony" logic is based on bloody suppression, and only by intensifying ruthless suppression can it gain "harmony." Many regions are experiencing new rounds of persecution. The Party staged another round of persecution in many regions in the form of "city-wide residence surveys," and by renewing "the second generation residential IDs."
II. Can we Dafa disciples "immediately stop the persecution?"
1. Master has granted us the mighty Buddha's divine powers. In "Teaching the Fa on Easter, 2004, at the New York Fa Conference" Master told us, " Today is Easter, the day of a god's resurrection! (Enthusiastic applause) This is all I'll say today. On this special, glorious day, may Dafa disciples' divine sides also be resurrected!" Many practitioners questioned, "Has our divine side really been resurrected? I haven't felt this!" One reason for their doubt is the shallow belief in Master and the Fa and lacking strong enough righteous thoughts. Another reason: the divine side can only be used for validating Dafa. How can we feel it in everyday life? A deep belief in Master will result in a thought that shakes Heaven and Earth. Master has our divine sides be resurrected. We must believe that we have indeed achieved such power, that we have sufficient divine power. We are as tall as the sky, and we have boundless powers! How can our divine power be displayed when we are still in doubt?
2. Dafa disciples' mindset can make the ordinary society change. In "Teaching the Fa at the 2002 Fa Conference in Philadelphia, U.S.A." Master said, "As I've said, everything that happens today in the ordinary society is the result of Dafa disciples' thoughts." We don't need to put on a special performance of any kind. As long as every Dafa disciple raises the intensity of the righteous thought, "immediately stop the persecution," and keeps to this thought, we will then be able to save more sentient beings. If one, two, ... and tens of millions of Dafa disciples have such a strong righteous thought, then the cosmic climate will surely change accordingly.
3. "Mercy can melt heaven and earth into spring, Righteous thought can save people of the world" ("Fa Rectifies the Cosmos," Hong Yin Volume II) Saving more sentient beings is pure compassion. When a Dafa disciple wants to save more people out of pure compassion, it will make the Buddha light illuminate everything and will shock Heaven and Earth. When the whole body of Dafa disciples expresses the desire to compassionately save more people, all levels in the universe will form a strong field of righteous thoughts and display boundless power. Master and the righteous gods will help us, too.
