Thoughts on “The Ordeals Our Spiritual Discipline Faces” and Related Sharing Articles

(Minghui.org) I’m a new practitioner who obtained the Fa in 2020. Before that, I was fooled by the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) propaganda against Falun Dafa and made some mistakes.

When Master Li published the article “The Ordeals Our Spiritual Discipline Faces” last year, I learned that Master and Shen Yun were being slandered by the CCP. I was very anxious. But I thought that I lived too far away and could not help much. I believed that, with Master’s strengthening, fellow practitioners would definitely do a good job. I thought that I just needed to do the three things well every day. In fact, this mindset was already putting me outside of Dafa.

Over the past few days, I’ve downloaded articles about fellow practitioners’ sharing on the “The Ordeals Our Spiritual Discipline Faces” from the Minghui website. They were able to understand and actively respond by regularly sending forth righteous thoughts in a targeted manner to resist the persecution.

When I first listened to the sharings, my thought karma interfered. I was indifferent. As I listened more, I gradually felt something was wrong with me: “I’m also Master’s disciple. Why am I so indifferent when he and practitioners are being slandered? Isn’t this being selfish? I only want to take from Dafa and don’t want to stand up when Dafa is attacked. I only want Master to bear it for me, and I don’t want to give. Am I still worthy of being Master’s disciple?”

Dafa practitioners are all particles of Dafa. Isn’t this an attack on every practitioner? How could I still be indifferent?

Master says,

“The truth is, we shouldn’t expect to not face ordeals as a spiritual discipline just because we are in a certain location; it’s just that they assume different forms. And during these ordeals, lives are being chosen to either remain or be sifted out in the end, and just as much is at stake for our Dafa practitioners.” (“The Ordeals Our Spiritual Discipline Faces”)

What I realized is the latest manifestation of these ordeals is not just aimed at Shen Yun and Dafa, but at all sentient beings. The old forces are harming people. I recently heard from my son that his teacher had been slandering Dafa over the past two weeks. I was poisoned that way when I was in school, too. These attacks seemed to have calmed down for a few years, but now the CCP has revived them, which seems to correspond with the current climate.

The old forces’ goal is to eliminate people! Dafa disciples are tempering themselves while fighting against the old forces to save people. At this critical moment, every Dafa disciple should pay more attention.

This is my personal understanding. Please point out anything inappropriate.