(Clearwisdom.net)
Teacher's commented in "Also in a Few Words" in Essentials for Further Advancement II:
"Indestructible righteous faith in the cosmos's Truth forms benevolent Dafa disciples' rock-solid, Diamond-Like Bodies, it frightens all evil, and the light of Truth it emanates makes the unrighteous elements in all beings' thoughts disintegrate. However strong the righteous thoughts are, that's how great the power is. Dafa disciples are truly stepping forward out of ordinary humanness."
In today's situation in which the Fa-rectification is advancing rapidly and the reduction of evil elements is immense, what is happening with the continued detentions and persecutions of Dafa practitioners seems to be undoubtedly related to the problems of cooperation among practitioners in the process of their cultivation and doing the three things as a whole. Any practitioners' attachments could be used as excuses for persecution. For all the practitioners who are imprisoned and persecuted, righteous thoughts and righteous actions are of prime importance.
As for those practitioners, including me, who are illegally detained, in the process of self examination and digging out our deeply buried attachments, we have found that in this kind of environment, practitioners' righteous thoughts and xinxingshould directly affect people and the atmosphere we are in. We were arrested by the Chinese Communists in 2007 and were illegally detained. We should have said that we had been practicing Falun Gong for many years--that we were veteran practitioners--and were maturing in the Fa. But while we were being persecuted, we, heartbreakingly, found some practitioners eventually gave up practicing Falun Gong and some gave up sending forth righteous thoughts at the four designated times in order to observe the dungeon's "monitoring procedure" and give in to the non-practitioners' "benevolence." And when other practitioners were trying to do the Falun Gong exercises and send forth righteous thoughts, rejecting guards' interference, those practitioners that had given up tried to stop them by saying that it was "non-benevolence." Teacher had taught us "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance," so is it to safeguard worldly people's "benevolence?" While the universe is in the midst of Fa-rectification, everything must meet the requirements of the Fa--everything must submit to the Fa.
On the other hand, practitioners with strong righteous thoughts are able to resist the persecution in the dungeon. From the very day that they arrived, they have practiced the Falun Gong exercises and sent forth righteous thoughts openly and uprightly. Sometimes the guards did interfere with them, but they weren't able to shake the practitioners' righteous thoughts. Gradually, the guards gave up their monitoring, so the practitioners were able to regain control of Fa study, doing the Falun Gong exercises, and sending forth righteous thoughts. Those are a few examples worth mentioning for our understanding.
One time during broad daylight, when a practitioner was sending forth righteous thoughts in the front row, a guard just happened to come in to retrieve an inmate. Seeing that the practitioner was sending forth righteous thoughts, the guard wanted her to stop, but she ignored him. The guard told another inmate to drag her, but the inmate ignored the guard as well and left. The guard closed the door behind him without saying anything.
Another time, this same practitioner's name was called over the loudspeaker, but she didn't move and kept sending forth her righteous thoughts. The voice over the loudspeaker got louder, telling a girl on duty to get the practitioner. But the girl didn't say a word nor did she budge. The voice over the loudspeaker then started to swear at the girl, waking up everyone in the jail. The girl on duty told the guard, "She does her morning practice every day around this time, so I don't want to stop her. You go do it if you want." The guard got so mad that he took her name down and replaced her with another girl to do the duty.
Later, everybody who got up at 7:00 a.m. talked about the early morning incident. They were all against the guard who intentionally woke up everyone. They all knew that practitioners usually send forth righteous thoughts at that time in the morning. The on-duty girl who quarreled with the guard eventually became a Dafa practitioner and then later got transferred to a different jail. And this practitioner still continued to do the Falun Gong exercises, study the Fa, and send forth righteous thoughts. Nobody wanted to interfere with her. Because of her steadfast cultivation practice, they all respected her.
As I recalled what Teacher said, in the course of the Fa-rectification, the most important thing is how the sentient beings look at Dafa and Dafa practitioners--their thoughts and attitude toward Dafa. The non-practitioners in the dungeons began to have a positive attitude towards Dafa practitioners simply because the practitioners have been telling truth about Dafa along with their upright thoughts. Some of them have even become practitioners, too--to them it is real benevolence.
