(Minghui.org) After reading the article “Over 400 Million People in China Have Died of COVID Since the Pandemic Broke Out Three Years Ago,” some fellow practitioners were shocked and couldn’t make sense of the total death toll pointed out by Master.

Some recalled that Master once said the old forces planned to claim 8 million lives during the SARS outbreak, and they wondered why the death toll turned out to be 200 million. Others said they couldn’t believe the 400 million COVID deaths because they didn’t see one out of three people they knew in China losing their lives to COVID infection. (Translator’s note: if the total population in China is 1.4 billion as reported by the Communist Party, the 400 million death toll is about one-third of the population.)

One of the main reasons I was not shocked is because all the ancient prophecies predicted that “only one out of ten households would be left,” which means that 90 percent of the population would be wiped out. But based on the figures Master revealed to us, the total combined SARS and COVID deaths were less than 50 percent of the total population in China.

As Dafa disciples, we should negate the old forces and work to break their arrangements. Have we been able to achieve that in reality? A considerable part of fellow practitioners are pursuing a leisurely and comfortable life just like non-practitioners, and have never considered saving people as the most important mission in this life. When it comes to breaking the old forces’ arrangement, how much can we achieve that in such a cultivation state?

We can do some simple math to see how many practitioners have remained diligent. Suppose that we have managed to save a total of 600 million Chinese people since the persecution began on July 20, 2022, that’d mean an average of 71,471 people saved every day in the past 23 years [600 million /23/365=71,471]. If one practitioner can save one person every day, then it would take 71,471 practitioners to do the job. It would be about 0.07% of the 100 million practitioners before the persecution, which would mean the vast majority of practitioners were not diligent enough to save people. Of course, we do not know the exact number of people saved thus far, and it may not even be 600 million as I assumed, which would mean even fewer people had been fulfilling their mission to save people.

Of course, due to the persecution, some practitioners stopped practicing, some were persecuted to death and some succumbed to sickness karma. In this case, their responsibility of saving people would fall on the shoulders of other practitioners.

On the other hand, how many people we can save is determined by our cultivation state as a group. Some practitioners have been diligently carrying out their mission on a daily basis, seizing every moment to save people. Many participated in various projects or even initiated projects on their own. They are making the best use of their skills and devoted their time and energy to carrying out their tasks.

But there are also some who are unable to break through their fear or step forward to raise awareness of the persecution; some only want to practice Dafa for the benefit of fitness and health; and others only go through the motions when they do Dafa projects.

No matter how much responsibility each of us shoulders to save people, the overall result is out there. Everything we do is recorded in other dimensions. Maybe it’s meaningless to do the above-mentioned math exercise, but I do hope that more practitioners can seize the moment and devote more effort to saving people.

Editor’s note: This article only represents the author’s understanding in their current cultivation state meant for sharing among practitioners so that we can “Compare in studying, compare in cultivating.” (“Solid Cultivation,” Hong Yin)