(Clearwisdom.net) The evil recently took advantage of my attachments, and I was therefore arrested while discussing the facts about Falun Dafa. By looking inward as a result of this incident, I have come to a deeper understanding on the cultivation of speech.
During my detention, the police mentioned detailed information about practitioners who interacted with me, hoping I would tell them about local material production sites. All the information that was disclosed came from discussions at our group Fa-study site, and they should not have been known to others except for me and that practitioner. Apparently, the evil took advantage of our loopholes, as we did not pay much attention to minding speech, especially when using cell phones.
Security on the telephone and cultivation of speech have been serious issues in my area. In the past 10 years, many practitioners have been arrested as a result of tapped phones. Some practitioners, however, still neglect this issue, thinking that everything will be all right as long as their thoughts are righteous. Some of them became aware that their phones had been tapped as they had been consequently harassed. The authorities knew the exact time of group Fa-study, along with other information from those practitioners who attended the Fa-study.
Some practitioners, especially certain elderly ones, are more careless when talking over the phone. They casually mention planned activities and directly say other practitioners’ names. This leads to further tribulations for practitioners, making their cultivation paths even harder. Not paying attention to our speech amounts to helping the evil to some extent and interfering with local practitioners’ efforts to validate the Fa. In my understanding, we are practitioners that cultivate openly and above board. There is no secret that we cannot share with others; however, this does not mean we need to allow the evil to know about everything. In addition, even if some practitioners assume that it is all right due to their righteous thoughts, there is no guarantee that other practitioners also possess sufficiently strong righteous thoughts. Therefore, please be mindful of this security issue, since every one of us is part of the group as one body.
Here I hope that all practitioners can look within. By improving our cultivation of speech and eliminating related human notions, we will be more mature and do better in validating the Fa during the remaining days.
