(Clearwisdom.net) Falun Gong practitioners have been persecuted for eight years. Ever since the first day of the persecution, agents from the Chinese Communist regime have unlawfully arrested practitioners in succession. Many practitioners have been killed, wounded or maimed. Many others have been sent to prisons or forced labor camps. Although a lot of practitioners have escaped from captivity in various ways, a large number are still being detained inside the prisons and labor camps throughout China. Moreover, the evildoers in different places are still trying to arrest more practitioners, in an attempt to send them to prisons and labor camps.
In the present time, when the Fa-rectification is moving forward very rapidly, the high-level old forces have all been eliminated, and the evil beings in the Three Realms have also become fewer and fewer. However, many practitioners are still detained in the prisons and labor camps that the CCP controls and are still enduring persecution. What does this mean? This can only show that we have not done well in rescuing the detained practitioners and ending the persecution, and the evildoers are still committing their vile deeds in some regions.
Master does not acknowledge the old forces' persecution, and neither should Dafa practitioners. It is time to end this evil persecution. All Dafa practitioners have already realized this point. Regarding this, many practitioners have published their views on Minghui Weekly. I share their views. At the same time, I also believe that to end this persecution as early as possible and save more sentient beings, we have a lot of work to do, and one very important task is to rescue the detained practitioners, something that can no longer be postponed. We have to do it!
Of course, ending the persecution is something that is inevitable, and it is only a matter of time. In fact, Master has already given us a hint. On October 24, 2006, that is, one day prior to the date when the head of the evildoers had seven years before privately declared that "Falun Gong is an x religion," Master published the article, "Thoroughly Dissolve the Evil." On October 25, 1999, Jiang Zemin made the above accusation when interviewed by a Le Figaro reporter in France.
One year has almost passed since Master's publication of that article. Under Master's protection, through continuous sending forth of righteous thoughts, many practitioners who were detained in numerous prisons and labor camps have already escaped from or have been released from those evil places. I left because of "sickness." After I left, all my symptoms disappeared.
At that time, the news about Master's new article quickly spread into the forced labor camp. The evildoers had erected a tight information blockade, and the inmates who were instructed to monitor the practitioners had done so very closely. The practitioners could not even greet each other when they met, much less be permitted to share their views. However, the detained practitioners understood each other through simple eye contact. Very quickly, all the practitioners in the labor camp learned this very good news. We then intensified our sending forth of righteous thoughts. At the same time, the practitioners also exposed the evildoers and clarified the facts about the persecution by writing statements, letters, and materials for appeal. We initiated different activities to suffocate the evildoers and negate their various persecution methods. They retaliated relentlessly. They extended practitioners' sentences, put the practitioners in solitary cells, or otherwise isolated them for strict control. They also made formal accusations against the practitioners. The practitioners always maintained their determination, and their righteous thoughts never wavered. As a result, the perpetrators did not succeed in their retaliation and had to give up without achieving their goals. Before long, the situation in the labor camp changed; many practitioners showed severe symptoms of "sickness." These practitioners all had the opportunity to walk out of the labor camp because of those symptoms.
The currently detained practitioners throughout China are still suffering from brutal persecution. Practitioners living in relative freedom need to rescue these detained practitioners. This is also an inevitable requirement to ending the persecution as early as possible and saving more sentient beings. Merely ending the persecution in our minds and on the surface is not enough. We have to make serious efforts and genuinely work hard toward this goal. So I suggest the following:
1. Increase the intensity of sending forth righteous thoughts. Besides the globally preset times, is it possible for the practitioners in China who have time to also send forth righteous thoughts at 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m.? The evildoers are relatively more concentrated at these two times, and our sending forth righteous thoughts at these two times can effectively eliminate the evil. I have done this, and so have many fellow practitioners. Some practitioners have done even better; except when they need to work, they basically send forth righteous thoughts at the beginning of every hour from 6:00 a.m. to midnight. They have quietly done their best to rescue the practitioners and end the evil persecution as soon as possible.
2. Cooperate with each other in the rescue effort. If the family members of the detained practitioners go to the prisons or labor camps to ask for the release of the detained practitioners, the local practitioners should actively cooperate with them. The practitioners can help by making useful suggestions or come up with useful ideas, and they can also participate in the actual work so as to expose the evildoers and save the sentient beings through their righteous thoughts and actions. There are many successful examples in this regard. Especially in the present time when the dark hands and rotten demons have become fewer and fewer in number, it will be more effective if Dafa practitioners can cooperate with the detained practitioners' family members in the rescue.
3. Use various methods including ordinary people's laws to rescue the detained practitioners. To make use of the ordinary people's laws, the practitioners have to abandon the human notions of "this is troublesome," "useless," and so on. We need to remind ourselves of Master's words, that everything in the human world came for the Fa and was formed for Dafa. The nation's laws are no exception. The CCP has never followed the law when it arrests Dafa practitioners. It has also used the pretext of law to persecute practitioners. Dafa practitioners who are amidst persecution can of course use the law to protect their own rights and benefits as justified by law. It is only that Dafa practitioners are cultivators; they are compassionate and forgiving, and they use Dafa to measure everything they do. We can make use of the people's laws, but we cannot rely on them. Furthermore, we need to keep righteous thoughts when using them, no matter whether or not we can succeed. As long as we can simply hold onto the belief: "We only want to rescue the detained practitioners and end the persecution as early as possible," some unimaginable results may happen.
We are not attached to our personal Consummation, nor are we attached to our personal gains or losses, or any blessings from society. We do things to assimilate ourselves into the Fa and save more people. By doing things this way we will certainly meet the requirements of the Fa.
This is my personal understanding. Please kindly point out any incorrect understandings.