Teaching the Fa at
the Great Lakes Fa Conference in
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You’ve been working hard! (Enthusiastic
Applause)
I’m delighted to see you. You
weren’t like this a year ago. After having gone through such a severe test, I can
tell—although you might not sense much of it—that you’re completely different
persons from before. All of us have undergone the most severe test, something
that’s never occurred before in history, and it was a vicious one. In the past,
in whatever we were doing you would think: "How can I study the Fa well?
How should I work for Dafa? How can I improve myself? How can I do
better?" You always felt that you were learning Dafa, rather than that you
were a part of Dafa. After this year I find that you’ve completely changed. You
no longer think as you used to. No matter what you do for Dafa and no matter
what it is you’re doing, you are placing yourselves in Dafa instead of thinking
about "I want to do something for Dafa" or "I want to improve
myself in this way or that way" as you did before. No matter what you do,
you aren’t thinking that you’re doing something for Dafa, about how you should
do things for Dafa, or "how can I do things well for this Fa."
Instead, you are placing yourselves in Dafa. Like a particle of Dafa, [you feel
that] no matter what it is, you should just do it. Even though you aren’t
conscious of it or expressing it clearly in words, that is in fact how your
actions already are. This is the biggest change I see in you after this year. In
other words, you are completely in the Fa already. This is most apparent in the
conduct of veteran students, in particular. Before it could be said that you
were a student. Lately, I often use "disciples" instead of
"students." You have indeed gone through tremendous changes. As you
are cultivators, Master hasn’t praised you much in the encouraging manner that
everyday people use or told you how well you’ve been doing. This is because you
are cultivators and you should know what to do.
The things that are happening today
were arranged long ago in history. At no point has anything gone astray. Of
course, this arrangement was made by those high-level beings in the old cosmos.
Moreover, it was systematically arranged by old beings in layers upon layers of
the cosmos. Their purpose was also to save this cosmos. They think that they’ve
given their all in trying to do these things well and consummate this
matter—which includes today’s Dafa and even Dafa disciples. This is what they
think. You might recall what I said last time when I taught the Fa in San
Francisco—that no one is worthy of testing the Great Fa of the cosmos. This is
because no matter how high a being’s realm and level in this cosmos, he is
still a being within this cosmos, and was created by the Fa. In other words,
even his existence was created by this Fa, so how could he turn around and test
this Fa? However, as I’ve also told you many times in previous Fa-lectures,
beings in the past couldn’t know—and weren’t allowed to know—about the Fa of
the cosmos. Of course, to put it in ordinary human terms, for example, if the
sentient beings in the cosmos were to know that there was Fa in the cosmos, it
would bring about many, many problems after the sentient beings in the cosmos
deviated from the Fa over the ages. Some beings might attempt to change this
Fa. Since they have the ability, they could do almost anything. That’s why the
form in which the Great Fa of the cosmos exists isn’t allowed to be known by
beings at any level. This has in turn brought about a problem. They don’t know
that there’s a Fa in this cosmos. They consider the ability of the Great Fa of
the cosmos to spread widely in this cosmos to be my enlightening to this Fa.
And they have truly given their best for the success of this matter and for
helping me consummate all of these things. Yet this brings about another
problem. What problem? All beings in the cosmos have deviated from this Fa. In
other words, their realms and purity, when measured with the standard of the
original Great Fa of the cosmos, are no longer adequate. So all of their
arrangements and assistance in this matter have become the biggest obstacle to
my carrying out this undertaking. This is because no matter how well they do,
it won’t surpass their realms. If things were done according to everything they
arranged, think about it: wouldn’t it be the same as nothing having been done,
even after this was completed? How could it be acceptable if the same realm and
standards were to remain after this is completed? That’s why all these things
that they’ve arranged and done cannot be accepted or considered valid.
This created a serious problem,
then: not only could all these things that they’ve arranged not play a positive
role in the Fa-rectification, but they also became a serious impediment. This
evil drama in ordinary human society today is also part of what was arranged by
the high-level beings. This is, at the same time, the biggest display of their xinxing
not meeting the requirements of the Fa, and it has fully shown the different-level
participants’ standards for xinxing and beings. Meanwhile,
this also brings about a favorable circumstance for the Fa-rectification. What
circumstance? If during the Fa-rectification none of the beings were to show
themselves for what they are, it would be difficult to position them according
to their different xinxing levels. That is, it would make the
Fa-rectification highly difficult. Then, in other words, all the things that
they have done to test Dafa have become a performance in which their xinxing
positions are fully displayed and observed. At the same time, it happens that
students have bad elements that have accumulated over the long course of their
existences, as well as karma produced in low-level realms. All of these needed
to be eliminated, and so this has resulted in the harsh test for the students
in this affair, and in their using wicked people to make up lies against me to
test students’ determination in Dafa. That’s the situation.
As I just mentioned, I can’t
acknowledge any of these. So I need to eliminate them, including this evil
drama. Originally they wanted to treat us the way religions were treated in the
past. Their warped notions have made them think that the persecution of Gods in
history was rightful. Incidents such as Jesus being nailed to the cross have
become the precedent for high-level beings who come down to save people. How
could this be acceptable? This itself is degenerate! A God comes down to save
people, yet humans nail him to a cross—what a huge sin people have committed!
They are still paying for it today. But that wasn’t done by human beings alone.
It was caused by the degeneration of beings at higher levels. They don’t dare
to admit anything wrong on their part in all of these matters. This is because
everything is becoming warped—so warped that they’ve deviated from the Fa and
gradually become how they are. No beings at any level have ever dared to touch
them. Everything is determined by interwoven elements that have become
extremely complicated. All of these impure things have to be
eliminated—completely eliminated!
Even though this evil drama
manifests in ordinary human society and it appears that evil human beings
created this severe tribulation for my Dafa disciples, it has in fact been
caused by the participation of warped beings from various levels—I’m referring
to those degenerate beings. The beings who haven’t participated comprise the
majority. But they too are no longer pure, and they’re all being repositioned
during the Fa-rectification. There’s another very serious problem. I told them
as early as when I started this undertaking that no beings could save today’s
people, that no Fa could save today’s beings, and that no one could change
today’s people. What did I mean by that? I’ll tell you. Today’s people can’t
perceive their own warped thinking because the very nature of people has
changed. No matter what cultivation way is adopted, you can only change what
they can be aware of, but not what’s warped in their very nature. That’s why
after this one year plus, no matter what methods they used and however cruel
they were, they were unable to change the students’ fundamental issues and
didn’t achieve their purpose in the end. In order to have the students meet the
standards—to meet their requirements—they used those evil beings to brutally
beat students. When they exhausted the most vicious means and still couldn’t
achieve their goal, they became flustered and exasperated, and went against our
students even more viciously. In the end, even though they couldn’t achieve
their goal, they said that they’d tried their best. How evil! Yet the layers
upon layers of beings in the immense cosmos can’t perceive the evilness of all
these evils taking place. This is because all beings have been warping.
Their not achieving their goal
doesn’t mean that our students can no longer make it. Everything can be made to
meet the standard during the Fa-rectification. I told them not to do this a
long time ago. For any being, let alone human beings, no matter how high a
being he is, as long as he’s a being within the cosmos, I can rectify him
during the Fa-rectification, from his fundamental nature, from the origin of
his existence, and from all the elements that constitute his being, eliminating
the impure and turning those things around. I told them not to do this. They
didn’t listen, even though I taught them the Fa, because they didn’t believe
all of the truth. Since they’ve done this, this is their sin. Even now they’re
still thinking this way: "We’ve done everything in our power to help you.
Since this is such an immense Fa and it involves the safety of the future
cosmos, it’s unacceptable if your disciples don’t meet the standards. It won’t
do if a Fa this immense doesn’t go through such a huge test." That is what
they’re thinking. So they would rather destroy everything than not have the
necessary standards be met. That’s why this test that Dafa disciples are facing
has never been seen in history. As you know, when in history have these modern
mass media apparatuses ever existed? They’re everywhere. Have these modern
means of transportation ever existed? They’ve shrunk the scope of the world to
something quite small. So this has been an unprecedented, the most severe,
persecution in history. But in the face of the evil, everything done by the
students is the best for the Fa-rectification and for Master, because you have
truly shown resistance to this evil drama. Besides, they’re doing all these
things by entirely using the most degenerate beings in the cosmos. All beings
in the cosmos are repositioning themselves. Humans aren’t worthy of testing
this Fa, and neither are Gods. Whoever touches it commits a sin. They’ve seen
all of this as well.
Then is it true that if all of these
arrangements of theirs aren’t accepted, those students who haven’t done well
should also be on their way to Consummation? No, it’s not. If this hadn’t
happened, I could give all beings benevolent solutions and enable all of them
to meet the standard for Consummation. But this evil-wrought tribulation has
taken place. Most students have, in various ways, stepped forward to validate
Dafa, clarify the truth, and save the world’s people. Some of them have been
arrested, beaten, or have died from the persecution; even Master is being
venomously attacked by lies. In the face of life and death, students have had
the courage to step forward—step forward as they lose everything possible—and
do everything that’s magnificent, what a Dafa disciple should do. On the other
hand, those who haven’t stepped forward, have hidden themselves, and have sided
in their understanding with the evil beings—how could they still be Dafa
disciples? Are those whose notions have sided with the evil that persecutes
Dafa and who are doing bad things still Dafa disciples? Do they have the mighty
virtue necessary for Consummation as the others do? Moreover, Gods are not like
humans. For example, some students were arrested and imprisoned. When they
couldn’t endure the severe torture, they wrote repentance statements. But in
their minds they were thinking: "This is to fool them. I’ll still practice
after I get out. I’ll still go out to validate the Fa and I’ll still go to
Tiananmen." But this is unacceptable. It’s because this kind of notion is
something developed in the human world after humans have become degenerate. But
Gods aren’t like that. They don’t have thoughts like these. Once they’ve
decided on a certain path they’ll definitely stick with it.
Many things are hard to explain with
human language. It’s just like what many students ask me: "Teacher, why
isn’t this being ended sooner?" Many people think this way in the midst of
suffering: "Let’s reach Consummation sooner; let’s have this finished
sooner." In fact, these are all attachments. As I just said, they were able
to achieve their goal of testing students in this way because students need to
improve themselves and eliminate the last part of their karma. How could it be
allowed if during the course of a being’s progressing towards the surface and
gradually becoming a God, he doesn’t make his own sacrifices, doesn’t continue
to improve himself, and doesn’t establish his own mighty virtue? In all of
this, I am on the other hand using the exhibiting of those beings’ xinxing
to allow students to establish their mighty virtue at the same time. Actually,
no matter what… no matter how much suffering a being endures in ordinary human
society, let me tell you that it isn’t proportionate to his Attainment Status
after reaching Consummation. It’s really disproportionate! Think about it,
everyone: in the past, a person had to go through a lifetime of cultivation or
even several lifetimes, yet today we’re having people reach Consummation in as
little as a few years. The process of enduring is but a brief moment, and
besides, time has been accelerated. In the future when you look back—if you can
reach Consummation, that is—you’ll find that it was nothing and was just like a
dream.
But everything our students have
done during this process is indeed remarkable. What’s most extraordinary about
you is that you’re able to keep up with the Fa-rectification. As I said a
moment ago, this display of evil in ordinary human society has been carried out
by the most degenerate beings in the cosmos, beings who’ve been placed in
ordinary human society. They were allowed to burrow into the Three Realms in
order for them to be used. Those high-level beings wouldn’t personally do these
bad things that ordinary humans do. They use the evil beings and evil humans
down below to do these things. So all of this is extremely evil.
Some of our students outside of
You’ve done very well in clarifying
the truth to the people of the world. At the same time, I can tell you that
this is also magnificent and merciful. It looks like we’re giving a flyer to an
everyday person, and it appears that we’re telling everyday people what the
truth is. Let me tell you, when this Fa-rectification matter is over, humankind
will enter the next stage, and those people and beings who in their minds think
that the Great Fa of the cosmos isn’t good will be the first weeded out. It’s
because no matter how bad some beings in the cosmos are, they are even worse,
for what they’re against is the Fa of the cosmos. So when we clarify the truth,
we’re eliminating some people’s evil thoughts towards Dafa. Haven’t we rescued
them, at least when it comes to this? Since in the process of your clarifying
the truth there are people who obtain the Fa, not only are their sins
eliminated, but at the same time you will have also saved them. Doesn’t this
show that you’ve done something that’s more merciful, something even better? In
extremely difficult situations and when the most evil beings act most savagely,
we’re still able to be so merciful¾ this is the performance of the most
magnificent Gods. When we’re in the midst of the worst suffering, we’re still
saving others. (Applause) This isn’t getting ourselves involved in
politics—much less getting involved in ordinary human affairs—because it isn’t
wrong for us to use ordinary human forms to expose the evil. Nothing we do is
for self-interest, much less is it for some everyday people’s organization.
It’s for validating Dafa. Exposing the evil is to stop its persecution of Dafa
and our students.
Actually, a cultivator in the past
wouldn’t care at all about whatever those everyday people thought:
"Whether you think I’m good or bad is all everyday people’s thinking, and
it doesn’t matter to a cultivator. Who cares how you everyday people are? What I
cultivate is myself." One would depart after reaching Consummation, and
wouldn’t care at all about what happens to everyday people: "When people
have committed sins, they’ll have to pay for them; and when they’re no longer
good enough, let history weed them out." That’s how it was in the past.
The mercy exhibited by our Dafa disciples today has never been achieved by any
beings before in their cultivation. A Dafa disciple—a most magnificent,
merciful being—is the most remarkable and most merciful in every environment of
human society, and is beneficial to other beings. Isn’t this how you should be
when you clarify the truth? This is how you’re doing it. This is the mercy of a
Dafa cultivator—not some ordinary human activity.
Another thing is that you’ve heard
me mention alien beings before. Some reporters who didn’t understand or who
even harbored ill intentions made stories out of it. I don’t care about what
the reporters might say—I just do whatever I should. People in the future will
understand. I can tell you here, because you are Dafa disciples, that those
alien beings are in fact the true, proper inhabitants of this earth. Beings at
this position of Earth, regardless of the time period, were all like them. You
might have heard that in the Bible, Yahweh said that he created man in his
image; people of the yellow race have also heard that Nü Wa created man
[in her image]. Why did they do it this way? This had never occurred before in
history. Why did they create human beings in the image of Gods? I can tell you
that in the past, if humans were created in Gods’ images, it would have been
the biggest insult to Gods—the biggest blasphemy of Gods. Then why were the
humans in this period made in the image of Gods? It was because Dafa was to be
widely spread in this particular period of history, and the beings of this time
would have to be worthy of listening to this Dafa. It would be absolutely
prohibited if a bunch of animals were to listen to the Dafa here. That’s why
Gods created today’s humans in their own image. (Applause) Yet, when
human beings were initially made, they weren’t you, nor were they today’s
humankind. Now, only this human skin is still like it was before. The humans at
that time were just humans. So, all of those humans are in the dimension of a
layer of smaller particles—what people call the netherworld. In other words,
they’re in the dimension that’s lower than the dimension of the layer of the
largest particles. As for this skin, although it’s still human skin on the
surface, in essence it’s actually no longer human. The human skin that Gods
refer to isn’t the human skin that humans talk about, but is the entirety of a
human composed of the layer of the largest particles, including the internal
organs of humans.
Human beings of the past have become
ever fewer on Earth, for more and more of these human skins have been occupied
by high-level beings. This is because high-level beings have seen that Dafa is
being spread here and that this is the opportunity for beings to be saved,
which is the greatest assurance that they’ll enter the future. Yet this matter
has also been arranged by those old beings. They divided these beings who’ve
come to this world into those who would obtain the Fa and those who would cause
tribulations for Dafa. They thought that those who would cause tribulations
would also achieve Consummation in the future, because if they didn’t create
tribulations, those who cultivated wouldn’t be able to reach Consummation. But
this reasoning doesn’t work for me here. It might work in any period in the
cosmos when any given being comes to save people, but not during the
Fa-rectification period. (Applause) Why won’t it work? Think about it:
all beings in the entire cosmos are being repositioned according to their xinxing.
Where should those evil beings who persecute Dafa be positioned? Could they be
positioned the same as the beings who are achieving Consummation? Could they be
positioned together with magnificent Gods? That’s absolutely impossible.
They didn’t believe this at the
beginning. Now they see it clearly. So this has brought about an issue. What
issue? Fifty percent of humankind is supposed to obtain the Fa—that’s a few
billion people. Yet they aren’t so lucky—they aren’t able to be Dafa disciples
during the Fa-rectification period. In other words, they’ll study and obtain
the Fa in humankind’s next era. But it won’t be easy to obtain the Fa in that
era: everyone will have a book, but a person won’t be able to obtain the Fa if
his mind is even a little bit off. This is something of the next era. Since
many beings have realized the real situation of this Fa-rectification, many
beings, as well as many human beings—for humans also have a side that’s
aware—no longer want to do bad things, and they also want to obtain the Fa in a
positive way. About twenty to thirty percent of people are like this. That is,
seventy to eighty percent of humankind will obtain the Fa—obtain the Fa in a
positive way—and not create tribulations for the Fa. This is how the future
people will obtain the Fa. So quite a lot of people will obtain the Fa. Of
course, as for what I’m doing now, if there are new students who obtain the Fa,
they’re very likely to become the mainstay, the elite, of the next group of
people who’ll obtain the Fa. Some students might have also noticed that some
people go back home to practice after obtaining the Fa and they stop coming,
and apparently you don’t hear from them again. Perhaps the seeds have been
planted, perhaps there are other reasons—both are possible. So the things
everyone is doing are magnificent, remarkable. Humankind’s situation is very
complicated—you can’t just look at the surface of a person. All those who act
evilly in the Fa-rectification period will get what they deserve. This is for
sure, because all beings are repositioning themselves. You can guess where the
beings who damage Dafa will be placed. During today’s Fa-rectification the
requirements for everything have to be absolutely strict and absolutely
upright. This is how it’s different from everything that was done in the past.
In some specific respects, the minds
of some students initially fluctuated a lot amidst what happened from the April
25th event of last year through the July 20th event.
That’s normal, too, because only when you have ordinary human thoughts can you
cultivate; only when you have ordinary human thoughts can you waver; and only
when you have ordinary human thoughts can you determine the right path you
should take amidst the wavering. This is cultivation. That’s why at that time
many of you were thinking: "Is this Fa I’m studying correct and righteous?
What kind of person is Li Hongzhi? Is there truth to what’s said by this evil
force that lies to hurt the reputation of others?" Every student thought
about these questions—you were thinking about them more or less. This was also
to give you an opportunity for reflection. So it wasn’t wrong. After you calmed
down, you took the path you were supposed to. There’s no need for a person to
express and tell people in words how he understands things—your actions have
already proven everything. Being able to come to this point today in Dafa, your
actions have already proven which path you want, one that a cultivator should
take. All the disciples who’ve been able to come through are
magnificent—they’re all remarkable. (Applause)
During this process, the students
encountered numerous specific problems and many difficulties. At first they
didn’t know how to deal with them. Later on, they gradually came to understand,
and through trial and error they figured out what to do. I didn’t say anything,
especially during that time period, because the test wouldn’t count if I were
to speak. If the test were to not count, two problems would follow. The old
forces would do all in their power to cause damage. They would regard this as a
crooked Fa, and this would cause a great deal of trouble for this
Fa-rectification undertaking of mine and would cause great chaos for the entire
cosmos. That couldn’t be allowed. Another problem would be that since the
evilness that was overwhelmingly pressing down at that time was extremely
enormous… In the picture posted on the Clearwisdom Website, we saw that the
Earth resembled the image of Satan. That was only a manifestation of the karma
on Earth. Since every karma particle has its own distinctive karmic image,
collectively, they also have an overall image, which is the image of karma. But
at that time that evilness far exceeded this karma by many times. It was
extremely frightening to beings at many levels—Earth wasn’t the only thing covered
by the evil. They thought that without undergoing a test this huge, a Fa this
enormous couldn’t be established. Yet they were also aware that with such a
huge tribulation pressing down, human beings wouldn’t be able to endure it and
they’d be destroyed. They also knew that it would be very difficult for Dafa
disciples to come through a tribulation like that. Still, they thought,
"Then let them be destroyed." They even regarded me as a cultivator.
They believed that enlightening to a Fa this immense would require a test this
huge. Think about it, everyone: it’s easy to talk about this, but in truth, it
was extremely frightening. The environment at that time was so extremely
horrible that it was beyond description. But our students in
Of course, there were other reasons
for my silence. One was that I also wanted to see how my disciples—those
magnificent Gods who will reach Consummation in the future—would act in the
midst of this catastrophic tribulation. There were certainly other reasons as
well. But every step you’ve taken amidst the tribulation has been done on your
own. I didn’t say a word. Overall, you were able to take a really righteous
path. Although not everyone’s thoughts have been one hundred percent correct,
what’s displayed in all that you’ve ultimately done is magnificent, for Master
wasn’t around then. Those beings who’ve caused this tribulation for us—those
old beings—are in admiration, speechless, when it comes to this. Whether it’s
what’s supposed to be done or what’s supposed to be endured, you have come
through nobly, righteously, and remarkably.
Of course, even though the situation
is still improving, the evil has yet to be finally eliminated and is still
playing out. You can’t lower your guard. You still need to continue to further
your efforts and do well with what you’re supposed to do, and truly take every
one of your steps well on the way to Consummation. Don’t consider this merely a
simple test. It’s actually incomparably magnificent, because you are validating
the Fa and because you’re doing it during the most difficult time. Certain
things appear to be the same as what everyday people do. Yet they do those
things for self-interest and for ordinary human purposes, whereas you do them
for Dafa—the basis is different. You are cultivators, and in the future you
will see the magnificence of these things. There’s sacredness in them that you
know now and sacredness in them that you don’t know. You can’t sense how
magnificent they are from the way they manifest among ordinary humans, because
I can’t let you feel conceited or complacent. As your master, I can only have
you try harder and take every step well. During this one year, in your
clarifying the truth, in the process of your cultivation, and in the process of
your safeguarding the Fa, there have been all kinds of tribulations and you’ve
encountered all kinds of difficulties. Relying on your own thinking and
decisions, you’ve made it through. Master hasn’t done all this in vain.
Whatever Master has done for you was worth it! (Long applause) You’re
truly remarkable! (Applause)
In regards to specific issues, I
think that when the opportunity arises I’ll find some time to talk to you about
them. I’m not going to attend every Fa conference. Each time I come out it’s
for a reason, and not for casually telling you something—especially under the
current circumstances. So in the future I’ll find some time to talk to you in
detail. Today I won’t say too much. I hope that everyone will do an even better
job in Fa-rectification and in exposing the evil. This is also part of your
cultivation.
That’s all I’ll say. Thank you. (Applause)