Touring
March 2002
Li Hongzhi
Hello everyone! (Applause)
I haven’t seen you for a long time. I’d like to
talk to you about several things. When I’m finished, if you have any questions
you can ask them, and I’ll take this opportunity to answer you.
I’ll mainly talk about three things. The first
one is that everyone should make a priority of Fa-study. I’ve said this to you
often. But what I’ll talk about today is different. I’m going to tell you the
larger reasons. It is extremely important for every Dafa disciple to study the
Fa well. This is because you are very different from any cultivation method in
the past and from the cultivators in the past, for your missions are great. The
Fa of the cosmos is being taught here—who would come to listen to the Fa? And
what would those beings who would listen to the Fa do? All these things have
greater significance. I’ve said that Dafa disciples are magnificent. In fact,
the responsibilities you shoulder are quite large. You only know that some
students made pacts with me in the past. When the truth is, there are a lot of
other students who came from other cosmic colossal firmaments that are
extremely distant and extremely vast, and they came to establish a karmic
relationship. And there are also some people who entered while Dafa was being
spread this time, because the door has been wide open and a lot of people with
fairly good inborn quality have entered, too. So, these are the three
categories our Dafa disciples mainly belong to.
Think about it, why did beings from distant
cosmic bodies come here? Because Fa-rectification was going to take place in
the cosmos, and they are representatives of the extremely massive groups of
beings in distant cosmic bodies and colossal firmaments; they came here to
establish a karmic relationship with Master so as to ensure that in
Fa-rectification they wouldn’t be left out amidst
the reconstruction of the entire cosmos; their goal was to allow the sentient
beings there to be saved. Massive, countless groups of beings are over there.
Those people who were able to sign pacts with me don’t have simple backgrounds,
either—they also came from huge cosmic bodies. If their levels were really
high, think about it, don’t they, too, represent gigantic cosmic bodies? There
are also some who are students that entered while the Fa was being spread this
time, and most of them came from really high levels, too.
What I just talked about is who has come to
listen to the Fa. If people like this have come to listen to the Fa, then think
about it, doesn’t every Dafa disciple represent a different gigantic cosmic
body? If that’s the case, doesn’t whether a Dafa disciple cultivates well or
poorly determine whether those gigantic cosmic bodies’ beings get saved or not?
I can tell you, this is definitely the case.
The reason is, that gigantic cosmic body is
below you, it’s almost like your body, because that’s how gigantic you are.
There are countless sentient beings and countless cosmic firmaments inside
there. Your cultivation determines whether those gigantic groups of beings are
good or bad, and whether they can be kept or not! Looked at from a microcosmic
level, your human body that’s manifest in the human world is actually a
gigantic system, too. As you cultivate, first this part of your body gets
healed and stays healthy, and then it gradually transforms into high-energy
matter. The changes at the surface might not be large. During the
Fa-rectification, the cosmos is making breakthroughs from the microcosm toward
the surface; and during their cultivation, Dafa disciples are changing from the
microcosm toward the surface, too. As you cultivate, your bodies in the
microcosm make rapid breakthroughs in levels. And in their cultivation the
bodies of the vast majority of our students don’t have much left at the surface
anymore. The higher your level, the more you’re responsible for. The higher
your level, the more gigantic the cosmic body and the more the sentient beings
you represent, and you will be responsible for that domain. In other words, as
you go on cultivating, your human body keeps improving and becomes better and
better, and at the same time it transforms into the body of a God. If you don’t
cultivate well, as you’ve seen, the changes in the body at the surface are
rather small. In other words, the gigantic cosmic body you represent is the
same as your body—it corresponds to your body. Then perhaps many beings won’t
be saved because you didn’t cultivate well—it’s because you haven’t
cultivated well that they can’t become good. Your not getting rid of a lot of
attachments interferes with them, and they, in turn, are also interfering with
you.
I’ve often said that you need to study the Fa
well. Whenever I’ve met with students at Fa conferences or in other settings,
I’ve always said that you must make Fa-study a priority, and that no matter how
busy you are you have to study the Fa. At that time I couldn’t tell you things
at a level this profound, and I couldn’t reveal this. But after this
tribulation you’re now able to understand the Fa more deeply, and you’ve become
more mature in your cultivation and in validating the Fa. Today I can tell you
this: your cultivation is absolutely not a personal, simple matter of reaching
Consummation—your cultivation is saving the countless sentient beings in the
cosmic body that corresponds to you and who’ve put infinite hope in you. The
cultivation of you all is saving the sentient beings in every single gigantic
cosmic colossal firmament.
Why do I say that Dafa disciples are different
from the cultivators of the past? I say that Dafa disciples are magnificent,
but only if you’ve cultivated really well is your Consummation truly
magnificent. A Dafa disciple’s Consummation isn’t just about an ordinary being
breaking out of the Three Realms. Think about it, when you cultivate well few
beings in the gigantic cosmos turn bad and few of them get weeded out. And when
you return, they will truly regard you as their Lord, their King, and have
boundless reverence for you, because you saved them, you sacrificed for them,
and you gave them everything they have. But if you don’t cultivate well, many
beings will be weeded out since we can’t not weed out beings who are no longer
salvageable. Why is that? During this persecution, beings in different
dimensions are all playing a role, whether they’re good beings or bad beings.
The bad beings are interfering with the Fa-rectification, persecuting our
students, and at the same time they’re interfering with you. So you must
eliminate them with utter seriousness. If you don’t cultivate well, many beings
will be weeded out, and when you reach Consummation, when you return to your
place, you’ll find that an extremely large number of beings who at one time put
infinite hope in you have been weeded out. Then in this cosmic colossal
firmament, it’s very possible that the cosmic bodies you represent will be in a
broken and incomplete state, and countless sentient beings will have been
weeded out.
You know, a lot of students haven’t understood
things clearly during this persecution and have considered it an ordinary human
persecution against human beings. In fact, this persecution is entirely an
unprecedented evil test of Dafa disciples that was arranged by the old forces.
And they don’t let the evil beings that are being used know the true
situation—they are truly doing damage. Although I don’t acknowledge any of
these arrangements, they have done these things, after all. I don’t acknowledge
any of the things they’ve arranged in history, and during the Fa-rectification
I’m completely opposing them. So amidst this persecution of sentient beings we
need to clarify the truth to people, and at the same time cultivate ourselves
well and eliminate the evil with righteous thoughts. Although we don’t
acknowledge anything of theirs, their malicious slander during this persecution
has poisoned the minds of countless sentient beings.
If the vast majority of the people in this
world today have really come from high levels to obtain the Fa, think about
it—they aren’t just some simple beings, then. Even a Tathagata represents a
gigantic group of beings. But they aren’t limited to Tathagatas—those who’ve
come to the human world all have great abilities. Many cosmic bodies’ Kings and
Lords have come here, and they represent gigantic cosmic bodies. But after
coming to the ordinary human society, they became deluded and have even
participated in this persecution of Dafa. Then if someone like that is
eliminated, think about it, not only is he eliminated—what’s eliminated
is also a gigantic cosmic body.
I’ve said that Dafa disciples are remarkable.
In the midst of such a severe persecution, you’re still clarifying the truth to
the world’s people and saving sentient beings. The beings that you’re saving,
think about it, are they just ordinary human beings? If they really correspond
to gigantic cosmic bodies, then when you clarify the truth to one of them
you’re rescuing a gigantic cosmic body, a gigantic group of beings, and you are
rescuing a Lord, or a King. I’d say, aren’t Dafa disciples magnificent? The
things Dafa disciples are met with are all really significant. People in the
past talked about saving sentient beings; those who were being saved were only
trivial human beings, ordinary human beings. They weren’t worthy of being saved
by Dafa disciples—it didn’t need to be done by my Dafa disciples. The things
you do are all pretty significant. During today’s persecution, if an ordinary,
everyday person can say to another person, "Don’t persecute Falun Gong,
Falun Gong is good," and as a result that person doesn’t persecute Dafa
disciples, and in the future he even has the opportunity to remain and obtain
the Fa, if he came down from a high level to obtain the Fa, then his
cultivation will be rapid. Then think about it, his Consummation will be the
Consummation of an enormous group of beings, and the Consummation of a Lord, or
a King. Yet his Consummation was made possible by an everyday person. That
everyday person, an ordinary everyday person, will even become a great God.
Then even more so, what about Dafa disciples doing something so
magnificent—they aren’t just saving one person or several persons, and they’re
constantly taking the initiative to clarify the truth to the world’s people,
constantly doing these things, and saving even more beings—isn’t that
magnificent?
I’ve said before that for a Dafa disciple,
reaching Consummation through personal cultivation isn’t such a big deal—it’s
only a Dafa disciple’s laying a foundation for himself in the cultivation
process to prepare him for bigger things. If someone considers his individual
Consummation the most important thing, I’d say that he’s not worthy of being a
Dafa disciple of the Fa-rectification period. So who can be called a
Fa-rectification period Dafa disciple? I know that there are actually 7 billion
people in the world. Our Dafa students altogether numbered only 100 million
earlier on. What kind of a ratio is that? Can’t those other people obtain the
Fa? In the next stage there will still be people who cultivate, and there will
still be people who reach Consummation, yet that will be nothing but personal
cultivation. The reason is, those who obtain the Fa during the first stage are
called "Fa-rectification period Dafa disciples." You coexist with the
Fa-rectification period, and Dafa has bestowed upon you magnificent
responsibilities and missions; whereas those people who will obtain the Fa
later on will only do personal cultivation. They won’t have this honor, and
they’re not fortunate enough to be part of such a magnificent thing. So isn’t
our saving sentient beings something truly remarkable, something truly
magnificent? Actually, it’s also very urgent.
I said earlier that if we don’t cultivate well,
for our Dafa disciples it won’t just be a matter of painful regret when they
reach Consummation later on. Those who have cultivated well will truly have a
grand Consummation when they return—all the sentient beings who put infinite
hope in them will be saved by them. But when some of those who don’t cultivate
well return, they’ll find their universes in a broken and incomplete state. As
for those who’ve gone to the opposite side during this persecution or even done
awful things, let me tell you that Master still doesn’t want to abandon them. (Applause)
Nothing of theirs at the surface can be brought back anymore. Because they
haven’t cultivated well and haven’t done well, those enormous and numerous
beings are all beyond saving. Since I don’t acknowledge the old forces’
arrangements and I don’t acknowledge this persecution, and since the old forces
have separated the surface and Dafa disciples’ original natures, there are a
lot of things Dafa disciples can’t do anything about, and their surfaces are
manipulated by evil beings and have been driven to do some bad things—which is
because they have attachments that have been taken advantage of by the evil
beings—so I will extract Dafa disciples’ original natures. Meanwhile, both the
old forces who arranged that Dafa disciples’ surfaces would be manipulated to
do bad things, and those evil beings who’ve been used by the old forces to
directly persecute Dafa, will be stripped of their Attainment Statuses and be
stripped of all their abilities. They’ll be thrust into the parts of the human
bodies of those Dafa disciples, who were persecuted by them, which are made up
of karma and all kinds of postnatally-acquired notions, and that part of the
human body will be eliminated in the metabolic process—that is, the part that
was taken advantage of by them—and after they are thrust into it, they will go
down to hell together. This is because the bad things are really done by the
old forces using the evil beings and manipulating people’s karma and notions.
They cause such disciples of mine to return the same way they came, but to not
bring anything back; meanwhile, when they return, the gigantic cosmic bodies
they represent will be empty and will no longer have all the beings that used
to be there. Since they didn’t cultivate well, everything will have turned bad
and been weeded out, and it can only be re-created. That’s why I say that in
your personal cultivation it’s extremely important that you keep persevering
with Fa-study. If you don’t study the Fa well, when you do Dafa work there will
be a lot of things that are hard for you to handle correctly or do well. But if
you do study the Fa well, you’ll find many things a lot easier to do, and at
the same time, problems will be less apt to occur. That’s why I’ve said that no
matter how busy you are, you must study the Fa.
What I just talked about was the first thing.
The second thing is that we need to make a priority of clarifying the truth.
You need to know that clarifying the truth is extremely important for Dafa
disciples. You aren’t just doing personal cultivation—your own cultivation is
saving the beings in the gigantic cosmic bodies that you represent. When you
clarify the truth you are saving even more and even larger additional cosmic
bodies and the beings in those cosmic bodies, because this is the
responsibility Dafa and history have bestowed upon you. Earlier I said that if
a lot of beings in the world came with extraordinary backgrounds—if they are
Kings, Lords, and Gods of huge cosmic bodies—then what they represent are huge
cosmic bodies and numerous groups of beings. When you save such a person, think
about it, aren’t you saving a God? He’s probably an extremely high-level God,
and he corresponds to even larger cosmic bodies and numerous sentient beings.
What kind of mighty virtue are we talking about, then? Is this a simple thing?
Only Dafa disciples can have such great missions bestowed upon them.
So for you, personal Consummation is minor. You
have cultivated multiple times in history, and have gone through journeys like
this in many time periods. The current test of your reaching the standard for
personal Consummation isn’t a big deal at all. That’s the standard for
measuring how much of Dafa you grasp. Your process of personal cultivation and
Consummation was actually laying a foundation for your safeguarding the Fa and
validating the Fa later on. This is because you have to have certain qualities,
and you have to have a deep understanding and grasp of the Fa; at the same
time, in your own cultivation process you have to fully meet the personal
standard that you are able to reach. Only then can you truly validate the Fa
and do what a Dafa disciple should do at critical moments. So a Dafa disciple’s
responsibilities aren’t for the sake of personal Consummation, but to save
sentient beings while validating the Fa—that is a Dafa disciple’s
historic mission, and that is why Dafa disciples are truly magnificent.
I’d like to tell you, actually, that the people
in this world… the Primordial Spirit of the person inside that human skin, back
when Gods first created man, has gradually been left in other dimensions during
recent time periods, and they haven’t been allowed to reincarnate over. The
vast majority of human skins are now occupied by high-level beings. In other
words, they wanted to come and obtain the Fa, and they needed to use human
skins; Dafa disciples are included among them. That’s why your clarifying the
truth is extremely important.
Of course, many students have been quietly
doing large amounts of truth-clarifying work—passing out flyers, making phone
calls, using the Internet, going to the consulates, and using all different
forms of media to tell the world’s people the truth about Dafa and to expose
the evil’s persecution. The students inside
Just now I discussed two things. The third
thing is your sending forth righteous thoughts. These are the three things that
Dafa disciples need to do at present. Sending forth righteous thoughts is
another really magnificent thing for our Dafa disciples. This overwhelming
persecution of Dafa, of Dafa students, and of the world’s people that has
happened since July 20th of 1999 is unprecedented. In history, the
persecutions of Christianity, Buddhism, and other religions were never this
evil. Back then there weren’t massive media apparatuses like these,
transportation means weren’t advanced, either, and persecutions were limited to
small regions. Today,
Dafa disciples are remarkable. When the
persecution first started, you had never come across anything like this, you
weren’t mentally prepared, and you didn’t really know what to do. Then you
gradually collected yourselves, and gradually you stepped forward to validate
the Fa. Now you are more rationally exposing the evil and saving sentient
beings. At this point we’ve basically allowed all governments and the vast
majority of people around the entire world to know that our Falun Dafa is good.
They all know that we’re being wrongfully persecuted, they all know the ugly
nature of the evil head scoundrel in
Remember back when you first started to send
forth righteous thoughts? Those evil beings that were persecuting Dafa
disciples came over immediately, lining up in formation and beating their
drums. Through sending forth righteous thoughts for a period of time, you have
cleaned out large quantities of those evil factors. Now when you send forth
righteous thoughts, your gong has to search all over for those evil
things. As soon as Dafa disciples hold their palms erect they flee. Dafa
disciples are able to righteously look the evil people straight in the eyes,
and the evil people immediately try to avoid eye contact. That’s because the
righteous thoughts scare off the evil beings that manipulate the evil people,
since they know that if they flee just a bit too slowly they’ll be instantly eliminated
by Dafa disciples’ righteous thoughts. That’s why the evil is now constantly
contracting itself around where the evil is concentrated in
I remember that when this had just started on
July 20th of 1999, in many parts of the world nobody knew what Dafa
was about—"Such a large-scale suppression is suddenly happening in
At that time, when the evil factors in the
cosmos that are slated for elimination pressed down from above, they were
extremely huge. They packed the entire Three Realms and the dimensions made up
of layers upon layers of particles. The evil of the entire cosmos was pressing
down—something that enormous was pressing down toward mankind and toward the
Three Realms. You saw that the photograph of Earth published back then by the
media looked like the face of a demon. But that was only the manifestation at
Earth’s surface-layer dimension. If it weren’t for the Fa-rectification, not a
single being in the Three Realms would have survived, because that thing was
powerful enough to destroy a considerably large cosmic body. When the force of
Fa-rectification destroyed all the things that were pressed down, the factors
that had restrained people’s thoughts were eliminated as a whole, and the
situation changed a lot after that. When you tried to clarify the truth before,
a lot of people wouldn’t listen at all, and their behavior was foul. When you
tried to clarify the truth again after those things were destroyed, people
became willing to accept it, and they were able to listen to you. But they
still weren’t rational enough, because those evil beings that had made their
way into the Three Realms were still manipulating people—they were still
manipulating people who had bad thoughts about Dafa. As a result of the
slanderous propaganda, there were quite a few people like that, and that’s why
the pressure on us was still pretty big. Also, many evil beings were really
base. It was under those circumstances that I told you to send forth righteous
thoughts. After the evil factors that were manipulating human beings were
eliminated in the course of our sending righteous thoughts, only then did the
world’s people fundamentally become clearheaded.
Throughout the entire process of
Fa-rectification, my gong has been coming from the microcosm toward the
surface. The speed is in fact extremely fast. I’ll talk about the speed of
Fa-rectification in a minute. Before the force of Fa-rectification arrives at
the surface level of human beings, or in other words, as Fa-rectification keeps
progressing towards this surface, during this small gap of time before the
surface goes through Fa-rectification, the evil old forces are displaying
everything of theirs, and using the most evil and lowest-level, horribly messed
up, odd-shaped beings to persecute Dafa and Dafa disciples. Dafa disciples, by
contrast, are validating the Fa and saving sentient beings during this time
before Fa-rectification arrives. Everything is being displayed during this
period of time.
The force of Fa-rectification will continue to
dash through the remaining dimensions right up until Fa-rectification is
completely finished. But, until the force of Fa-rectification reaches the
surface dimensions, the old Fa, the degenerated Fa of the cosmos, will still
exist in the surface dimensions. Therefore, this old Fa will continue to govern
all the beings in the old dimensions until Fa-rectification arrives. If this
old Fa were destroyed too early, that is, if the old Fa were destroyed before
Fa-rectification arrives, think about it, serious problems would occur: from
the top of the cosmos to its bottom, the horizontal dimensions, the vertical
dimensions, all dimensions would be thrown into disorder, all times in the
cosmos would cease to exist, it would become the largest dimension, the fastest
time, all of the beings in the old dimensions would turn rotten at the fastest
speed in the fastest time, all matter would immediately go bad, and everything
that remains at the surface of the old cosmos and that hasn’t gone through Fa-rectification
would be done for and instantly disintegrate. This small bit of the old
cosmos’s surface that hasn’t gone through Fa-rectification is also made up of
countless gigantic dimensions, countless sentient beings, and countless Gods,
so before it has gone through Fa-rectification it can’t yet be destroyed, or
else the sentient beings there would disintegrate before the Fa-rectification
arrives and they wouldn’t be saved. Master isn’t saving just you and the people
of the world—I’m also saving those high-level beings. The old beings aren’t
able to see what the new cosmos is like, and they aren’t allowed to see it,
either. So they’re following the old Fa-principles and upholding everything of
the old cosmos. That’s why when I hold them to the requirements of the new
cosmos they aren’t willing to comply—they can’t see it. Then, during the
Fa-rectification, the old Fa is actually playing the role of interfering with
me and the Dafa disciples. I have the ability to destroy it. But as I just
said, to save sentient beings I can’t destroy it. If it were destroyed, these
beings couldn’t be saved, and all the sentient beings in these cosmic bodies
would be completely done for. Besides, the main body of our Dafa disciples is
still here, and it would be even more difficult to offer salvation.
So, many things can’t be looked at
simplistically. If this old Fa isn’t done away with, it will make
Fa-rectification difficult; but if this Fa is done away with, it will
seriously impact the saving of sentient beings. When Dafa disciples send forth
righteous thoughts, pure and righteous thoughts, to clean out the evil’s
persecution of them, that’s allowed—the old Fa-principles include principles
like that as well. This is the same idea as approaching cultivation with righteous
thoughts, or as saving sentient beings with righteous thoughts. That’s why you
can do this. If Master were to do it for you, the old Fa-principles and the old
Gods wouldn’t stand for it. I’ve already done many things for you, so if I
overdid it, doing too much, or if I completely took over everything and did it
all, the old Fa-principles and the beings in the old cosmos would see this and
they absolutely would not stand for it. They would think that I had taken over
everything of yours, and that Dafa disciples hadn’t done their own cultivation.
So they would rise up to block it.
Of course, if they block things I can eliminate
them. But would that work? A lot of things aren’t that simple. For example,
I’ll give you an illustration. Some students in
That’s why sometimes Master was really left
with nothing to say. But, since the cosmos is going through Fa-rectification, I
don’t acknowledge this persecution one bit. I can completely clean out the Gods
who manipulate and utilize the evil beings, as well as the evil beings
themselves. No matter how high their levels are, no matter who did the beating,
who did the manipulating, who used others, or who arranged it, I can grab them
with one swipe of my hand and destroy them. As I sit here, Master is just an
ordinary person—just regard me as an ordinary person. But Master’s bodies in
all other dimensions are immense beyond compare, with each one larger than the
next; no matter how large the cosmos is, it’s still not as large as I am. (Applause)
But think about it, everyone, if I were to destroy those beings, the old
principles and the beings in the gigantic surface dimensions of the cosmos that
haven’t gone through Fa-rectification would all see it and say, "What are
you doing?" So they would gang up and attack, and form a force that
opposes me. Even so, I would still be able to destroy them—no matter how many
of them came, I could clean them out, strip them of their Attainment Statuses,
and cast them down into hell. But think about it everyone, I came to save all
beings. Aren’t those Gods beings, too? They are beings of even higher levels,
beings who are even more worthy of being saved. This Dafa disciple, on the
other hand, doesn’t act like a Dafa disciple, yet for him I destroy countless,
countless Gods—think about it, is that right? No, it’s not. That’s why I’m
telling you that it’s awfully hard for Master to take care of certain things.
It’s not that Master doesn’t have the ability; it’s to allow all sentient
beings to be saved. When you conduct yourselves righteously Master can do
anything for you. If your righteous thoughts are truly strong, if you’re able
to put aside the thought of life and death, and if you’re solid and unshakable
like diamond, then those evil beings won’t dare to touch you, because they know
that other than killing you any type of persecution will be useless. The evil
will have no choice but to leave you alone. If in this scenario the evil still
persecutes you, then Master will show no leniency. Master has countless Law
Bodies, and on top of this, there are countless righteous Gods helping me do
things, and they will directly eliminate the evil, too. Didn’t I tell you
before that each of you Dafa disciples has eight types of Heavenly
Law-Guardians protecting you? It’s all because you haven’t done well enough
that all these Gods are being restrained by the old cosmos’s Fa-principles and
can’t do anything, despite their really wanting to help.
What exactly, then, is the relationship between
me and the old forces? Let me talk about this. The fact is, these old forces,
strictly speaking, aren’t trying to destroy this Fa-rectification, and they
don’t dare to destroy it. Their purpose, although it’s impure, is also to have this
Fa-rectification succeed, it’s just that they want all of this to follow their
requirements—they want Fa-rectification to follow their requirements—which is
absolutely prohibited. That’s because all beings in the cosmos have
degenerated, and even the original elements that make up their beings are no
longer pure—even the elements of the elements are no longer pure. They can’t
detect this themselves, and no matter what they do, they won’t be able to make
themselves truly pure again. They can’t even meet the requirements of
Fa-rectification and of the new cosmos—how could they rectify the Fa? How could
the Fa-rectification follow their requirements? If after the Fa-rectification
the new cosmos were created according to the standards and requirements of the old
cosmos’s beings, then wouldn’t it still be the old cosmos? Wouldn’t that be
changing the form of things without addressing the underlying issue? None of
the sentient beings in the old cosmos have any idea what the cosmos was like in
its original, purest, and most righteous state, so how could this be done their
way? That’s why I can’t acknowledge them. But they don’t want to be
disintegrated amidst the old Fa-principles of formation, stasis, degeneration,
and destruction, so, out of instinct they want to save themselves. The beings
from the highest level to the lowest level of the cosmos have taken part in
this, in this complete system that runs all the way down; at each level twenty
percent of the beings have taken part, and each level is arranging specifically
how to help me do Fa-rectification. But the layers upon layers of beings have
become impure, and even the last being has become impure. When they’re helping
me, at the same time they hide their selfish intention of protecting
themselves. They all want to change others but not themselves—no one wants to
change himself—and they even try to preserve as much as possible the things
they’re attached to and won’t let go of. They’ve done a lot of things very
poorly throughout the process; they did some of the things intentionally, while
with some other things, they couldn’t even realize that those were bad things.
So none of what they’ve done can meet the standard of the new cosmos, and it
couldn’t even meet the standard of the initial stage of the old cosmos, so it’s
far from the requirements of the new cosmos—it’s totally different. These
beings have no way of knowing what the new cosmos is like. At this critical
moment, the behavior of sentient beings toward Fa-rectification is determining
their future. In other words, amidst the Fa-rectification, all beings are being
tested and repositioned, including being weeded out. That’s why they’re not at
all allowed to know what the new cosmos is like. Everything that’s gone through
Fa-rectification is completely different from everything they arranged.
While we’re on this subject, let me first talk
a little about time. Actually, the Fa-rectification is moving very fast.
Outside the cosmic body, everything of the new cosmos can be created as quickly
as the wave of a hand. Although that’s just an analogy, it’s really as if it’s
just done with a wave of the hand—it’s that fast. Then why has it taken me more
than ten years to carry this out? The fact is, there are different dimensions
in the cosmos, and each dimension has a different time. In the cosmos, from the
largest to the smallest, from the infinitely microcosmic to the infinitely
macrocosmic, there are countless particles, on each particle there’s an
independent time, and each time has a different length. Then inside the
different-sized worlds that are composed of particles, there are times; inside
the even more gigantic cosmic bodies that are composed of countless particles,
there are times as well; and then the gigantic groups of particles that are at
the same levels, existing as a whole, also have even more gigantic times. In
the cosmos there are so many different times that they’re as countless as the
beings in the cosmos. And the cosmos as a whole has another time, which
contains countless, countless times that have their specific effects in all the
different dimensions; all these times were created for the ways of existence of
the sentient beings in the different dimensions. So some dimensions’ times are
very fast, while some dimensions’ times are very slow. The sentence that I just
uttered about the different speeds in different dimensions, for example, from
the beginning of it up to now, some dimensions’ times have proceeded at the
same speed as mine here, while in some dimensions several days have already passed,
in some dimensions ten of thousands of years have already passed, and in some
dimensions hundreds of millions of years, or thousands of billions of years
have already passed, that fast. This is because the cosmos is incredibly
gigantic, the particles inside it are infinitely microcosmic and infinitely
macrocosmic, and they all have their own times. Think about it, no matter how
large the entire cosmos is, if Fa-rectification is done beyond all concepts of
time that are in the cosmos, beyond everything, if it’s done outside of the
cosmos’s time and not restricted by any certain time, then no matter how large
the cosmos is and how many different times there are, outside the cosmic body
it’s completed with a wave of the hand. And that speed is faster than even the
fastest time in the cosmos. But, have you thought about something? In some
places hundreds of millions of years have already passed while this wave takes
place.
It’s not too bad in this human dimension—it’s
only been ten-plus years since Fa-rectification began, and it’s only been
two-plus years since July 20th of 1999, spanning four calendar
years, and my Fa-rectification has only been ten-plus years. Think about it,
isn’t that fast? It’s actually very fast—all of this is done in the time it
takes for a wave of the hand, and the difference in time manifest in the human
dimension is more than ten years. What’s more, the overall time of the cosmos
has been pushed faster since Fa-rectification began. Before July of 1999, what
used to be one second was one whole day. Even now it’s still speeding up. What
used to be about one second is one whole year now—and this is only an average
figure, and it’s still accelerating.
Think about it, everyone, at this fast speed it
amounts to nothing in light of the entire history of your existence, or the
eternity of your existence. In the future, when you look back on this period of
time [you’ll find that] it was only an instant, that it was nothing. At the
beginning of this persecution, each day felt like a year to you all. Even
during this recent period of time, many students have been wondering,
"When will it end? When is this persecution going to end?" Some
people are thus thinking about Master having written in his poems that spring
is coming, (everyone laughs) and think, "Oh, so it’ll end in
the spring?" I also mentioned autumn in my poems, (everyone laughs)
so some students said, "It must mean it’s going to end in autumn."
Then when autumn was over and it didn’t end, they seemed to be somewhat
disappointed. Think about it, isn’t that using ordinary human thinking to look
at these things?
If one person thinks this way, or two people
think this way, or maybe three people think this way, it’s not a big deal. But
if Dafa disciples as a whole or if more people are thinking this way, then
isn’t that a strong attachment, a strong obstacle? Instead of truly using this
period of time well, you’re hoping that it will end soon. Think about it, if we
ended it today, how many people in
Don’t worry that it will take a long time. I
can tell you that Christianity rose after three hundred years of persecution.
Is a Dafa disciple, with his important mission, not as good as an ordinary
cultivator? What’s crucial is how we understand things. Let me ask you, if it
would take another ten years to save all sentient beings, would you still do
it? (The students reply together, "Yes!") (Applause)
That’s how a Dafa disciple should be. (Applause) Of course, there won’t
be another ten years. It’s not allowed to take that long, and they don’t have
that much time left in their lives.
But what’s crucial is how Dafa disciples look
at things. If one or two people think this way it’s not a problem. But if all
Dafa disciples think this way, then that’s a problem. Do you remember how
before April 25th of 1999 that Premier of China said positive things
about Dafa? When our students went to appeal on April 25th, he met
with some Dafa disciples and said good things. After the persecution started,
this caused some of our students to develop a lot of ordinary human thoughts,
thinking: "I hope the chief of the evil in Mainland
If the Fa-rectification really were damaged,
the cosmos would truly cease to exist, and the old forces would be gone, too;
not a single being would exist, and everything would disintegrate. Although the
old forces want to renew the cosmos, in reality they can’t accomplish that. So
their being attached to what they want to do and the role they play trying to
control the Fa-rectification is one hundred percent bad. All the interference
with Fa-rectification was arranged by them, so when things aren’t done
according to their arrangements and wishes, they do bad things. In the
Fa-rectification these beings are to be weeded out. While clarifying the truth,
you’ve seen that some people are really hard to save now. Actually, I can tell
you that a lot of people in the world are already completely beyond saving. Do
you remember that line I wrote, "How many can be saved by mercy?"
Dafa disciples, no matter how much you sacrifice when you clarify the truth,
I’ve got to tell you, in the end there will still be many beings that can’t be
saved—they’re doomed to be weeded out. I know how many people in Mainland
Let me go back to where I was. I was talking
about the relationship between the old forces and me. The old forces saw that
according to the Fa-principles of formation, stasis, degeneration, and
destruction, the cosmos would head toward its final stage. In order to save
themselves, they started to arrange this as early as a very remote age. No one
knows who I am. I do not know who I am, either. No being has ever seen me, and
no being has ever called me by any name. I have neither form nor name, and I am
different from anything that composes any being in the cosmos. To the sentient
beings in the cosmos, I have nothing. Perhaps when the cosmos is no more, only
I am there. I have nothing. No being knows who I am. Yet without me, the cosmos
wouldn’t exist. The reason I have come here is to save all sentient beings
amidst the Fa-rectification at a time when the colossal firmament of the cosmos
is disintegrating.
Actually, everything that the old forces have
done is out of a natural instinct that the cosmos’s beings have to try to save
themselves. But it’s useless. Every time before the colossal firmament was
about to end, the beings in those times all did this too, but they actually
accelerated the disintegration. In other words, during the Fa-rectification,
all that the behavior of the sentient beings shows is their attitude towards
the Fa-rectification, and this determines whether they are kept or not—how good
their attitudes are toward Fa-rectification is evaluated and used to reposition
them. In other words, these are nothing more than the sentient beings’
performances at the final stage of formation, stasis, degeneration, and
destruction.
When I directly appeared at the lower-middle
level of the colossal firmament, the high-level beings in the colossal
firmament saw it. From having nothing, I amassed myself into something—but not
a composition of particles, since I have no particles. You know, I couldn’t
come here, to where humans are, in just one step; if the composition of
someone’s body is very microcosmic it affects everything in the universe. In
other words, regardless of a being’s level, if he enters a universe at a lower
level that universe will be destroyed, because the more microcosmic the matter,
the more energy it has, and the more its radiation. Although a God’s energy has
intelligence and is merciful, it will still change everything. So he has to
reincarnate level by level, and only when he has a surface of that level of
particles can he stay at that level. But think about it, everyone, this takes
an extremely long time, then. So that’s how I entered step by step.
I’m not the only one—a lot of Gods in the
colossal firmament have come down to the human world, and they, too, had to
come down step by step like this. Many Gods from different levels have come
from the cosmos, and they came with the purpose of saving the colossal
firmament. To humans, they are beings at extremely high levels. They vowed to
save all this, and indeed a lot of them came down. Their original intention was
good, but they were unable to carry it out. Not only couldn’t they do it, but
they also couldn’t return anymore. Actually, it doesn’t matter who it is, once
someone enters the Three Realms it’s impossible for him to ever return. But no
matter how many came, the beings at the highest level of the colossal firmament
saw that none of them could carry it out. They, too, were watching me all
along, and they saw it very clearly from up there—"Ahh, this one can do
it." They thought that the composition of my being was different from that
of all other beings in the cosmos, and that nothing could change my essential
nature. So they decided to choose me. In fact, many Gods have come to the
Earth.
Although they chose me, they didn’t know who I
really was. So why did I still go along with some of the arrangements they made
in history? Because this involves an important issue. You know, I just talked
about how there are three categories of people among Dafa disciples, and one of
them came to establish a karmic relationship. The number of Dafa disciples in
this group is quite large. They came from distant cosmic bodies to establish a
karmic relationship, and they represent numerous sentient beings in very
distant and gigantic cosmic bodies; as representatives sent by sentient beings,
they came to Earth to establish a karmic relationship since Fa-rectification
was going to be done here. If I hadn’t taken part in this, think about it, then
those beings at the highest level of the cosmos would have chosen someone else
to establish a karmic relationship with, and the numerous Gods from distant
cosmic bodies would have chosen someone else to establish a karmic relationship
with. This is no minor thing. If the old forces had meticulously
arranged for another being things at each level that were for renewing the
colossal firmament, it would have led to a terrible situation. Wouldn’t they
have established a karmic relationship with the wrong person? Of course, even
if that did happen, they still wouldn’t have been able to block my
Fa-rectification. But a serious problem would have occurred: when it reached
the time when salvation would start, the person they chose would start to do
it, even though he wouldn’t have been able to do it; meanwhile I would start to
do true Fa-rectification; then they would definitely think that I was
interfering with them, and they’d deploy all the beings in this entire old
cosmos to annihilate me—they would definitely think I was someone who was
disrupting their affairs, and try to annihilate me. But no one would be able to
annihilate me, and no one would be able to block my Fa-rectification. So think
about it, what would happen? The speed of Fa-rectification absolutely cannot be
affected, so if they impeded it I would eliminate them. They’d be destroyed
instantly, and no matter how many of them took part, they’d all be destroyed.
Then think for a moment—didn’t I come to save all sentient beings? If they were
all destroyed, who would I be saving? That’s why back in history when they
chose me, I considered it from the perspective of saving them, and didn’t
object to it, but I couldn’t let them know who I was, either. So that’s how
they arranged everything in the colossal firmament, including everything that
has taken place in the history of mankind. My thinking was that when the
Fa-rectification began, it would be a test for them, as well. And since nothing
they would do could meet the standard of the new cosmos, I would just regard
everything they do as a game. "If you want to play, I’ll play along."
And that’s all. As for what the Fa-rectification is truly like, that’s a
different matter. They are absolutely not allowed to know what the new cosmos
is like. No being is to be left out of the Fa-rectification. They think that
they chose me, that it’s equivalent to saving me, and that they’ve made great
contributions. As for what the cosmos would be like and what they themselves
would be like after Fa-rectification, they wanted to have what they wanted
and to keep what they wanted to keep. Let’s think about this. Say that
the new cosmos is one of pure gold: if one impure being got in, wouldn’t it become
impure? How could that be allowed? No being can escape the Fa-rectification—no
one can. Everything in the cosmic body, in the colossal firmament, is part of
it. So in other words, no matter how the old forces went about arranging
things, I let them arrange them, but in the end this undertaking absolutely
can’t be done according to their requirements. So that’s why all of these
impediments have come about today; they’re the result of the old forces
insisting on having me follow their arrangements. No matter how big these
impediments are, it actually hasn’t affected the essence of my
Fa-rectification. And the speed is just as fast. It’s being done according to
my requirements all the same—the new cosmos is establishing everything
completely according to Dafa’s standards. In fact, the old forces are just
acting up during this gap of time before the Fa-rectification arrives; and Dafa
disciples are also upholding the Fa and saving sentient beings during this
time; the evil, base beings that are being used by the old forces, meanwhile,
are doing things here that persecute Dafa disciples and sentient beings; and
the wicked people who are being manipulated by the base, evil beings are, also
during this time, doing evil.
For how long have the old forces been arranging
such things here where humans are? For two Earths’ time. I said before that
Dafa was taught in the human world back in the past. A lot of students then
asked me when it was taught. It was taught on the previous Earth. Why? The
previous Earth was an experiment conducted for this Earth. The old forces
experimented with the last Earth so as to make sure there wouldn’t be problems
at the end with their arrangements for the renewal. It was to make sure that no
problems would come up, and to prevent it from going awry. So why did they need
to do such a long-term experiment? Because there had never before been any
beings like man here at this Earth’s location. Why do I always talk about alien
beings? It’s because no matter how many Earths were renewed in the past, the
main beings here at this Earth’s location were like alien life-forms. There
were differences in each time period, but none of them had the image of man.
Why did the Gods in history create man in their
own image? This has been a mystery to the cultivation world, too. I’ll tell
you, it’s because the Fa was to be taught here, and sentient beings who listen
to the Fa need to have an appearance that’s worthy of listening to the Fa.
Bringing a bunch of animals here to listen to the Fa would be an insult to the
Great Fa, and that’s just not allowed. If it weren’t for Dafa’s being taught,
were a God to create beings here with man’s image, all the Gods would eliminate
him, since that would be the same as insulting Gods. It was for
Fa-rectification that Gods created human beings on Earth in their own image.
Asians were created by Gods who resemble Asians, Westerners were created by
Gods who resemble Westerners, and Gods who resemble black people created black
people, and other races of people were created by other Gods. At that time all
humans called those Gods who created them Lords. But now ninety percent of the
human race are beings from high levels, and most of them are from very high
levels. They are merely using the human skins that Gods created back then; they
don’t really have a direct relationship with the Gods who created man’s being.
Back when I taught the Fa on the first Earth, I didn’t teach a Fa of this
magnitude, because that was only for experimental purposes. The Fa that was
taught only saved sentient beings to the Falun Paradise, so the sentient beings
that were saved during that period are all in the Falun Paradise. That Earth
was allowed to exist until the final stage. The technology at that time was
quite advanced; that was when the moon was sent up there. Yet the
highly-developed industrial sector made the air, the water, the soil, the
plants, and the food of humans—everything at that time—become deformed. In the
end, even humans became deformed, Earth’s energy was completely depleted, and the
humans of that period came to an end.
So this period of Earth began 100 million years
ago. Some of you present here might be thinking, "But what I learned from
textbooks is that it’s been 3.5 billion to 4.5 billion years." I can tell
you that the period of each Earth has lasted 100 million years, and the
previous Earth also lasted 100 million years. But in Zhuan Falun I also
told you that the artifacts on Earth date back hundreds of millions of years,
and that some of them go back more than 2 billion years. I was only trying to
tell people that prehistoric civilizations existed. People are only allowed to
know that much; that is, that within the history of this 100 million years
mankind also created many prehistoric cultures. The planets that were previously
at Earth’s location also went through disintegration and re-creation many
times. In the cosmos many planets disintegrate and their remnants float about,
forming dust and small star-like objects. In the gigantic cosmic body, planets
are continually disintegrating and continually re-forming, and they are
disintegrated by explosions. Earth was also re-formed from previous Earths
consecutively exploding and then re-forming into the next Earth—one explodes,
the next one re-forms. There’s a lot of dust in space. Some of it is huge, some
of it’s like large rocks, some of it is as large as several square kilometers,
and some is even as large as 100 square kilometers. There have been
civilizations on every planet, and previous Earths also had civilizations. So, on
many big pieces of things that weren’t completely destroyed by the explosions,
there are remnants of the previous creatures’ civilizations. When Earth was
re-created it was done by putting together this cosmic dust, and this is why
there are remnants of artifacts and of civilizations from previous Earths and
other planets. So if I didn’t reveal this today, geologists and historians
wouldn’t be able to figure out which periods the materials on this Earth are
from, regardless of the methods they use. This Earth, as I just said, has a
history of 100 million years; counting up to the present it’s exactly 100
million years, and it has reached the age of the previous Earth that was here.
Of course, during these 100 million years mankind has gone through several
civilizations, and been destroyed by Gods many times for its moral decay. The
so-called civilization mankind has right now was purposefully arranged by the
old forces—it’s not a true human culture.
Then why not directly create human skins at the
time when the Fa is taught and have Gods come down here to listen to the Fa?
Why instead create man so much earlier in history? You need to know that when
Gods create humans, they can’t include in them Gods’ thoughts and ways of
thinking, since that would make them complete Gods, not human beings. And
that’s not allowed. Although humans have the appearance of Gods, Gods can’t
regard humans as their kin, for humans behave completely differently from Gods.
So, what were humans like initially? The body structure of humans was created
by Gods, so it is the most perfect human body system in this dimension. All the
alien beings sigh in admiration when they see it! Of course, it also includes
humans’ three souls and seven spirits, and together this forms a complete human
body. Without the three souls and seven spirits it would only be a human body’s
surface, or a "human skin." The concept of the "human skin"
is different from the skin that human beings know. Gods consider everything of
the human body at the outermost surface that’s made up of molecular particles,
including its bones, blood, internal organs, and so on, the entire human body
structure at the surface, or to put it another way, looking at it from the
microcosm, the human that’s made up of molecular cells at the surface,
everything that’s visible to the human eye when the body is dissected, Gods
refer to this whole structure at the surface as a "human skin." They
aren’t referring to the skin of human beings.
But a human who lacks the ability to understand
the cosmos and all the things in the human world, or to understand how life
manifests, and who lacks the ability to endure the changes in the kaleidoscopic
world, who doesn’t have any formed ideas, and who can’t understand or adapt to
the cosmos, the earth, or the natural world—how would he act? I’ll tell you,
when happy things came about, he would run up a tree and roar with endless
laughter, laughing so hysterically it’s scary. When something sad and painful
happened to him he would burrow into the ground, and he wouldn’t be able to get
over it for days. When he came across something that angered him, he would vent
his anger without any thought of the consequences. And he would die of
happiness, anger, sadness, or joy. Think about it, could this type of person listen
to the Fa? Yet when humans were first created they were like that; they didn’t
have any substance to them, they didn’t have any endurance, and their concept
and understanding of the things in this dimension were incomplete. So people
had to go through a long period of time to gradually enrich the human mind and
give them substance and endurance. This wasn’t something that could be done in
a short time, so these 100 million years were spent doing this. The way people
act today is such that they don’t panic when something happens to them, they
stay composed and calm, they think rationally, and they even have creativity.
The fact that human beings have such minds and think normally as they do is a
result of Gods purposefully creating this for humans over an incredibly long
period of time in history. And this process, I can tell you, continued until
five thousand years ago.
When it arrived at this time period of the last
five thousand years of
Then how was man’s thinking to be shaped and
normalized in a way that would allow him to understand the Fa when he hears It?
However I was going to teach the Fa, that’s how mankind’s culture and the human
mind would have to be shaped. People around the world all know what virtue is,
what faith is, what goodness is, what evil is, and what good and bad are—these
are the most basic. In
You know about Romance of the Three Kingdoms,
right? Romance of the Three Kingdoms demonstrated "yi."
Through a dynasty and a contest of strength among three powers, the inner
meaning of yi was fully demonstrated. Also, it was over a period of time
as long as a dynasty that the deep meaning of yi was demonstrated, and
only after that does mankind, when the Fa is taught today, have a deep understanding
of yi, and know what yi is, the extended relationship between its
surface and its inner meaning, or how it manifests at deeper levels. People
can’t just know this word’s surface meaning—they need to understand all of its
inner meaning. Of course, Romance of the Three Kingdoms also
demonstrated the resourcefulness of man and other qualities.
Yue Fei from the Southern Song dynasty
demonstrated what "loyalty" is. What is "loyalty"? You
can’t just say it and give an explanation. Only after an entire dynasty were
people able to really know its true inner meaning, what it’s related to at
deeper levels, and how it’s demonstrated in action.
In history, there were also different schools
of thought, and there were also the concepts of benevolence, yi, propriety,
learning, trustworthiness, and so on, that Confucius set forth with his
teaching of the golden mean. Only after Sakyamuni, Lao Zi, and Jesus came could
people today truly know what righteous faith is and cultivation is, what a
Buddha, a Dao, and a God is, and so on—these kinds of things. Throughout
history the thinking of today’s mankind was being enriched, and this has
allowed people to recognize and understand the Fa, and to obtain the Fa. The
entire course of mankind’s history was laying this foundation. In other words,
it was for teaching Dafa that human beings and human culture were created—it’s
not that the Fa is being taught in keeping with mankind’s culture, and even
less is it the product of mankind’s culture. So this is what we’ve done in these
five thousand years.
While we’re on this subject, let me put it most
vividly: human society is like a play—dynasty after dynasty, it’s just like the
curtain opens and a dynasty begins to play out, and as one dynasty ends, the
big curtain closes; then it opens again, and a different dynasty replaces the
old one. Dynasty after dynasty, one after another, they paraded through in this
way, formed karmic relationships, left behind history, and created the cultures
needed by mankind, performing one scene after another. Why are these called
"dynasties" in
Dynasty after dynasty, the people in each
dynasty were a dynasty of people from the heavens. They are representatives
from distant cosmic bodies, representing the countless sentient beings there
and having come here to form a karmic relationship so that those sentient
beings wouldn’t be left out during the Fa-rectification. While forming a karmic
relationship during their dynasty, they left behind the culture that they
brought with them. And after they formed their karmic relationship, in the next
life they reincarnated in other regions and waited for the day when Dafa would
be taught. Every dynasty was like this, and all ethnicities in the world
incarnated in
"But now it exists, right? Because
it, too, is now called a country, and there are no longer dynasties."
Actually, it still doesn’t exist, because when the last scene was to be
performed, when the Fa was to be taught, the sentient beings all over the world
who had formed a karmic relationship with me, the people who were most likely
to obtain the Fa and those who would play a negative role when Dafa spread
widely, all reincarnated back in China. Whether it’s the ones who came to
obtain the Fa or those who came to do damage, they all came for this Fa, were
born for the Fa, and were formed for the Fa—everyone is in place. That’s why
the people in
Having talked about these things, I’ll talk
about something else. I just mentioned that this Earth’s history has only been
100 million years long. Basically, the 100 million years on this Earth is
divided into two major periods, with 50 million years in each period. The first
50 million years was the period in which giants, dwarves, and medium-sized
people coexisted. The giants had an average height of five meters; the medium-sized
people were the same as us modern people, with an average height of less than
two meters; and dwarves were only a few inches tall. When Gods created people,
why did they simultaneously create these three types? It was to test out which
of these three types of people would be suited to live on Earth until the final
stage and be suited to obtain the Fa. During those 50 million years, man’s
ability to understand the world was constantly being shaped, while at the same
time it was being determined which type of person would be kept. At the end it
was found that the giants weren’t suitable. Since they had large bodies,
distances were shortened for them, in terms of their relation to the Earth.
They also shortened time, relatively speaking, because giants’ consumption of
material resources was not proportionate to the Earth. Later on it was found
that dwarves also weren’t proportionate—forests were everywhere on the Earth,
and it was hard for them to clear trees. At that time there was no cleared
land, and it would have been hard for them to establish a civilization such as
today’s. Meanwhile, time on Earth seemed to be too long for dwarves, and
distances were too great; crossing oceans would have proved far too difficult
for dwarves. So they weren’t suitable. The giants and dwarves were then weeded
out. They weren’t weeded out right away—50 million years passed before they
started to be gradually weeded out from history. It was two centuries ago that
giants finally disappeared from our sight; in other words, it was just over two
hundred years ago that giants finally vanished from sight. Dwarves, meanwhile,
were still sighted just seventy or eighty years ago. Only in recent times did
they become extinct, and it’s not that they’re completely gone—some went to other
dimensions, and some went into the earth. They know that they are people who’ve
been weeded out, so they don’t make contact with modern people.
Now that we’re on this topic, I’ll unveil two
mysteries of the past. Mankind can’t explain how the pyramids were built. How
did people transport such huge stones? For several human beings who are
five meters tall, moving them is no different from today’s man moving a big
rock. Constructing those pyramids, for the five-meter-tall people, was the same
as us constructing a building today. Another mystery is, why were there large
animals like dinosaurs? The truth is, they were prepared for the giants.
There’s no difference between the way a five-meter-tall person looks at large
animals like dinosaurs and the way our people today look at cows. Different
species needed to be prepared for different humans. Everything on the Earth was
created for man, formed for man. I can also tell you, while I’m at it, that
animals absolutely cannot be equated with humans—you absolutely cannot think of
them as the same. You can have mercy for them and you can care for them, but
you absolutely cannot treat them like human beings. Man was created by Gods; to
compare animals to humans is the same as insulting man and blaspheming Gods. The
truth of history will soon be shown to people, and at that time mankind will
have the true, right concepts of the cosmos, life, and matter. Today when some
people do archaeological work they go and stick human bones onto dinosaurs, and
with regard to the building of the pyramids, people also use the existing,
narrow understandings to think about it and make deductions. The truth is, many
understandings science has about this immediate physical world are wrong, and
even their starting point is wrong. Even the theory of gravity is wrong. I’ll
tell people about these things when there’s an opportunity.
I just lifted the veil covering man’s history.
(Applause) It wasn’t to discuss history, because mankind was created and
formed for Dafa. So I was teaching you the Fa while telling you this history,
as all of this is related to the Fa. Many things are really important for Dafa
disciples, especially since these things and everything that you’re now doing
are all interwoven with your responsibilities to Dafa, and since they include
Dafa disciples’ own profound and critical factors. I’m explaining this in hopes
that from this point on you’ll do even better in the Fa-rectification. You’ve
got to try hard, and you’ve got to do well, because what you want is to consummate
everything, and you have responsibilities—you have come with the mission and
responsibility of saving sentient beings. Throughout history people have
declared that they would save sentient beings. But who knew the true meaning of
saving sentient beings? You are truly saving sentient beings, and only
you are worthy of doing something this magnificent. Make sure you don’t lose
this opportunity!
I think I won’t say much more. Next, if any of
you still have questions that you need to ask, that you think are important,
you can ask them, and I’ll use the time we have to answer them for you. As for
the specific things in your work, your life, or your cultivation, those are
factors and conditions that allow you to improve in your personal cultivation,
they are what you need to enlighten to and tests that you need to pass
yourself. I think I should let you get the mighty virtue you’ll have
from enlightening on your own. If I answer them for you it won’t be yours.
Question: When sending forth righteous
thoughts, do the formulas and the hand positions correspond to one another in a
specific way?
Teacher: No, it’s up to you which of the two
hand positions you use with which of the two formulas.
Question: During the Fa-rectification
[some people] listen to what’s said by the students whose Third Eyes are open,
instead of using the Fa to evaluate everything.
Teacher: At all times, whether you are doing
things as a group or are validating the Fa as an individual, everything has to
be centered on Dafa, everything has to be evaluated using the Fa, and you
absolutely cannot go by whatever someone can see with his Third Eye. This is
because although most of what disciples see is true, it’s only one piece of the
whole picture, and at the same time, it’s limited to their levels, and
occasionally it’s a false vision that results from their attachments. Let me
tell you that in this cosmos, no matter how high a God is, this cosmos is still
a mystery to him, and he’s still a being that needs to be saved during the
Fa-rectification of the cosmos. What he can see and know are only the things at
the levels he is at, rather than the true situation of the entire cosmos, and
even less is it the real, final and true picture of what Dafa disciples need to
do in the Fa-rectification. Regardless of what you see those Gods doing or what
you hear them saying, don’t believe it. Just do things according to Dafa and
Master’s requirements. You must do everything righteously—this is extremely
important, and extremely magnificent! You can’t take what someone sees as your
guide.
When you are doing things with other Dafa
disciples, it’s inevitable that you have arguments, and it’s inevitable that
you have differences of opinion. Why? Your attachments have to somehow be
displayed so that you can get rid of them. But if you refuse to give ground
after arguing for a long time, then it’s a problem, and it’s because you didn’t
look within and you didn’t look at your own problem. You all want to be
responsible to Dafa, and your intentions are good. But often you don’t mind
yourselves, and it’s very possible you have some ordinary human attachments.
Make sure you pay attention to these things.
Having reached this stage in Fa-rectification
today, Dafa disciples, Master affirms everything you’ve been doing during the
Fa-rectification. By July 20th of 1999 I had already pushed all of
the pre-July 20 students to their positions—I pushed you to your highest
positions. I’ve told you before that your changes start from the utmost
microcosm and original nature. Some students felt, "I’m cultivating so
rapidly." You all felt like that back then. The process of your
Consummation and your final elevation in cultivation were both for the purpose
of your validating the Fa later on. So if you are someone who studied the Fa
well in the period of personal cultivation, you will be doing well validating
the Fa and saving sentient beings amidst the persecution; and your body at the
surface will be continually assimilating to high levels in the
Fa-rectification, and what’s left at your human surface will become less and
less. But as for those who haven’t done well, who have gone to the opposite
side, or who don’t step forward, we can see that their bodies on their
godly-side are dissolving down layer by layer. Of course, this undertaking
hasn’t been completed yet, Fa-rectification hasn’t been concluded, so there’s
still a chance for you to do well again. Indeed, as long as there’s still one
day when the persecution hasn’t ended, that day is an opportunity. Use it well,
do better, come back sooner, and don’t miss any more opportunities. Don’t dwell
on your past mistakes—if you’ve made mistakes, then do well from now on. Don’t
think about the things that have happened. Think about how to do well from now
on, and become truly responsible to yourself and to sentient beings.
I’d like to mention another thing. When some of
our students have differences of opinion in their work, they like to call my
family members and ask their opinions. Let me tell you that my family members
are cultivators, too, and they, too, can’t necessarily judge things correctly
all the time. They, too, might do the wrong thing or say the wrong thing—what
they say isn’t Fa. Don’t do that kind of thing anymore. Don’t push away your
opportunities to establish your own mighty virtue and to improve yourselves in
cultivation. During the Fa-rectification each person is walking his own path,
and this is the history each Dafa disciple creates.
That’s all I’ll say. Next, if you have more
questions, you can ask them.
Question: Why does Master often have little
disciples do things in the heavens?
Teacher: It’s because they don’t have the
postnatally formed notions that adults have, their nature is purer, and the
energy they send out isn’t affected by everyday people’s thoughts. From another
perspective, the extent of a person’s abilities isn’t restricted by his age as
an everyday person.
Question: How can we help people
obtain Dafa in the environment of
Teacher: You are Dafa disciples, and you are
saving the sentient beings poisoned by the evil’s lies. As long as a person
isn’t against Dafa, he can make it through the danger of being weeded out when
the Fa rectifies the human world. As for those beings who haven’t tried to
damage the Fa but that aren’t good, or not so good, right now we don’t do
anything about them. The reason is, in the next stage there will still be
people who do cultivation practice, and the sentient beings in the next stage
will still need to position themselves while the Fa rectifies the human world.
Right now the focus of our salvation is on those people whose minds have been
poisoned by the evil’s lies. Those extremely evil beings that are eliminated as
we save sentient beings are only targeted because they damage the Fa. There are
many other beings who are at the same level as them but who haven’t tried to
damage the Fa, and who haven’t taken part in this affair—do nothing about them.
Why? The next stage of Fa-rectification is also going to be an opportunity for
those who haven’t tried to damage the Fa. And at the same time, the people of
the next stage will still need to cultivate themselves. These things are part
of the next stage.
What Dafa disciples are to do today is be
responsible to Dafa. Don’t touch the things in everyday people’s society. When
you clarify the truth don’t say high-level things; the main thing isn’t to have
people understand what the high-level, profound Fa is. Well, people who are
particularly good are an exception, and you can tell them about it. But when
you clarify the truth to an average person, just tell him that we’re being
persecuted and that we’re only doing exercises and trying to be good people,
and they’ll be able to understand. After they learn about the truth, people
will see all the propaganda for what it is, lies, and they’ll naturally see how
despicable and evil it is. After people become aware they will be indignant:
"How can a government act like a bunch of hoodlums? You’ve been persecuted
so badly, and you’re persecuted just for trying to be good people." Just
use the simplest ideas when you talk to people. Not only will they be able to
accept it and understand it, but they’ll also be less apt to misunderstand.
You’ve cultivated for such a long time now, and your understanding of the Fa is
quite deep. If you talk about your high-level understanding of the Fa, it will
be hard for everyday people to understand, and it’s likely they will
misunderstand; you have come to the high-level understanding you have today only
after a long process of cultivation. You want people to immediately understand
things at a level that high, but they won’t be able to, so don’t talk to them
at too high a level. Even when you clarify the truth to religious people you
shouldn’t talk at a high level. Just talk about the persecution we’ve suffered.
If they don’t want to hear about other spiritual beliefs, we don’t talk to them
about spiritual beliefs; tell them that we’re just doing exercises. It’s hard
to save people nowadays. You have to explain things to them by following the
logic of their attachments. For the sake of saving them, don’t create any
obstacles for them.
Question: I’m a disciple who only obtained the
Fa several months ago. How am I different from those disciples who obtained the
Fa before July 20th of 1999?
Teacher: The old forces also arranged it
that some Dafa disciples would enter Dafa during the persecution. They think
that if someone enters while the persecution is so severe, his mighty virtue
shoots right up. But there are also some people who are part of the next group
to reach Consummation and who aren’t included in this, so right now it’s hard
to say exactly who is in which situation. No matter what, though, to have
obtained Dafa is the most fortunate of the most fortunate things, so you have
to make good use of this period of time, bring yourself to truly cultivate and
truly obtain the Fa, and ascend in cultivation. Not everybody can obtain the
Fa, and not everybody can enter, because this is the Great Fa of the cosmos.
Back when I was teaching Dafa, why were the old forces dead set on limiting the
number of people who would obtain the Fa during the first round to 100 million?
Even these 100 million people are the result of my insistence. At the time, the
number they limited it to was 70 million, while I wanted 200 million people.
They knew that if 200 million people were to obtain the Fa during the first
round they wouldn’t be able to make this evil so-called "test"
happen, so they were dead set on limiting it to 100 million. A large group of
these people had just obtained the Fa when they couldn’t wait anymore to begin
the so-called tribulation. That was unfair to those people. Those of you who
obtained the Fa recently, I haven’t told you which category you belong to. You
shouldn’t think about this, either. Just do what you’re supposed to do.
Question: Hello, Master. I’d like to ask a
question, namely, in one of your new articles you talk about "renewing the
three domains." Your disciple doesn’t understand it. Would Master please
explain.
Teacher: Actually, people your age should
know. Those who were educated by private tutoring in the past or who went to
school before 1950 all studied the Three Character Classic in their
schooling. In the Three Character Classic, and in Chinese culture, there
has always been the concept of the three domains. It’s also mentioned in Daoist
thought a lot. The "three domains" actually refers to the Heavens,
Earth, and
Question: Hello, Master. I’d like to
ask a question. Confucian thinking runs through each of
Teacher: Confucianism, as I just talked
about, was merely laying a foundation for man’s thinking—that’s all. It has
allowed people to know what the golden mean is and the specific things that
human beings should believe in and follow, such as benevolence, yi,
propriety, learning, and trustworthiness, and that’s pretty much the extent of
it. The culture in each of mankind’s periods was laying a foundation for the
thinking that humans should have when they obtain the Fa, allowing them, in the
end, to comprehend the Fa and understand the Fa when they obtain the Fa.
Question: Nowadays we’re doing a lot
of Dafa work and our time is very tight. I find it hard to guarantee two hours
of exercise each day. I wonder if it’s alright to exercise less?
Teacher: Dafa disciples, Master has said
that you’ve been working hard—you have truly been working hard. I don’t have
the heart to specifically tell you anymore to do something. I know that many
people are taking the initiative to shoulder a lot of things, are even sleeping
little every day, and they also have to go to work—it really is hard. But no
matter how hard it is, I think you should still find time to study the Fa and
do the exercises. I think that a cultivator can’t go without doing the
exercises. Although doing the exercises is only supplemental to your
improvement, it, too, is part of the Fa, and it’s connected to all the changes
in your body. Of course, if you have too many things to do and you’re too busy,
and you exercise less, or you don’t exercise at all for a few days, it’s
alright to make it up later on. If you’re truly very busy and you truly have
very little time to do the exercises, Master has ways to do that for you, too.
But I would think that your being a little busy and your enduring a little
hardship is your Dafa disciple’s mighty virtue. In the future when you look
back, you’ll find it remarkable!
Question: How were the highest beings
in the cosmos created?
Teacher: In the future I’ll teach you the
highest Fa. I’ll talk about how the cosmos came into being, and this question
will then be discussed. It’s still a bit early now to talk about it.
Question: When I studied the Fa, I read about
how the people in the heavens go through transmigration every five hundred
years and those on Earth go through transmigration every one hundred years.
What’s this about?
Teacher: The Three Realms is the lowest
realm in the cosmos. The Three Realms is divided into three major levels, so
it’s called the Three Realms. Within each level there are three levels of great
heavens, so there are a total of nine levels of heavens. And these nine levels
of heavens are divided into many smaller heavens, so some people call them the
thirty-three levels of heavens, but actually there are more. All beings in this
scope go through transmigration, whereas beings outside of the Three Realms
don’t. The beings in the Three Realms have a relatively short lifespan in each
life: the people on Earth only live for several decades; the beings at one
level higher can live for one to two hundred years; the ones at one more level
higher can live for two to three hundred years; the ones at another level
higher can live for three to four hundred years; and those at the highest level
can live for around a thousand years. But no matter how many years it is, they
eventually have to drop down and go through transmigration again. Once a being
goes beyond the Three Realms he no longer goes through transmigration.
Question: When there are revisions to
Dafa books, which version should we go by?
Teacher: When we find incorrect words it’s
necessary to make revisions. With Master here, the Fa cannot be sabotaged. For
the Chinese books, go by what was recently published in
Question: I think the current school
system is deviating more and more from Zhen, Shan, Ren. It’s as if they’re
teaching children to be robots, indulging them, not teaching them the
principles and ideas of how to conduct oneself, not stressing virtue, and they
don’t teach goodness (shan) or forbearance (ren). So I don’t want to send my child
to school. I want to keep him at home and teach him myself. Am I being too
extreme? I hope that in the future there will be Dafa schools.
Teacher: At present, when I teach the Fa I
also incorporate today’s science, since mankind is already how it is. Although
nowadays the education given in schools can’t teach children to be good and it
indulges children’s thinking, the knowledge that’s available can still help
them in understanding the Fa later on. Of course, it’s better to have schools
run by Dafa disciples, but until we have them I think it’s better to let him
acquire some knowledge. And then when he comes home you can read Zhuan Falun
to him and teach him how to conduct himself. This is all you can do at present.
The transition period will be short.
Question: Why is it that there have
been many revisions to the words in the new articles?
Teacher: I informed them over the phone of
the six articles that were recently published; I dictated and had the Minghui
Website transcribe them, so there were errors. Usually, after I tell Minghui to
publish an article I don’t check it again, and only when some people notice
something and ask me about it do I then take a look. This mainly happened
because I was busy and didn’t have time to check.
Question: I’m from
Teacher: Actually, when Zhuan Falun
is translated into different languages it doesn’t affect your understanding of
the Fa at the surface level. During the course of cultivation, in particular,
the inner meaning of the Fa doesn’t manifest in the surface words. As you
continually read the book you’ll find that you continually have new
understandings of the Fa-principles, and you’ll see ever more Fa-principles.
This is in fact the Fa bringing out your wisdom. So, your improvement isn’t
affected. In Mainland
Question: Some new students have cultural
barriers and are unable to understand the Fa.
Teacher: New students can come to understand
a little bit at a time. Don’t tell them things that are too high-level. Just
talk about what’s on the surface, like how to improve your xinxing and
how to get well and stay healthy. Over time they’ll come to their own
realizations by reading the book more.
Question: Many Westerners have come to
learn the exercises from us, including people of different age groups. Can we
make a set of exercise music tapes that are similar to the Fa-lecture tapes, in
that they keep Master’s instructions but add English translation?
Teacher: Yes, you may. But don’t translate
the formulas. Formulas are what everyday people refer to as incantations. The
sound and manifestation of each character has a corresponding effect in
specific cosmic bodies. Once it’s translated the correct sounds and internal
factors are lost.
Question: I want to ask about
something. I think it’s a fairly common thing, namely, I think that many Dafa
disciples feel quite good when they go out to spread the Fa and find it very
easy to communicate with other people. But their tribulations at home seem to
be pretty big. For example, some persons’ spouses don’t really understand them.
Take my parents for example: they have a certain amount of social status in
Teacher: This attachment has to be let go
of. The Fa is evaluating the actions of all sentient beings at this time. If
someone hasn’t done damage to the Fa then there’s no problem. But if someone
has bad thoughts about Dafa, then from the perspective of saving all sentient beings,
you should first explain things to your family members; you should try your
best to explain things to them and help them get rid of those thoughts.
Question: After this Fa conference
there will be a performance and some everyday people will attend. Can we sing
songs from the human society that are fairly righteous?
Teacher: Everyday people can come to listen
to our performances—we’re saving all beings. They’re allowed to come listen to
even our Fa conferences. The talks given by students during the Fa conferences
are beneficial to them. So this isn’t a problem. As to whether everyday
people’s songs can be sung in our Dafa’s grand halls, the answer is no. (Applause)
Why not? If you’re participating in a performance in the ordinary society—that
is, if it’s Dafa disciples participating in an everyday-people sort of
performance—as long as the song isn’t in bad taste and it’s not at all
political, then it doesn’t matter. But if it’s entirely our own Dafa concert, I
think we should make it more pure and righteous. When it’s not organized by our
Dafa it doesn’t matter. You must make a clear distinction. You asked if it’s
okay when the song is righteous. Right now it’s hard for you to know whether
the song’s composer has taken part in persecuting Dafa. How do you know he
hasn’t written songs that persecute Dafa in
Question: If students in Mainland
Teacher: Neither of these two kinds of
thinking is right. If a person doesn’t go out to spread the Fa, he’s afraid
that it will affect his level, he’s afraid that it will affect his improvement,
and he’s afraid that it will affect his Consummation. He’s afraid of this, he’s
afraid of that—instead of truly looking at things as a Dafa disciple. Dafa
disciples absolutely should validate the Fa, and they should save sentient
beings. It’s precisely because of these ordinary human attachments that
problems are apt to occur—that’s why a lot of problems have occurred.
I’m fully aware of the situation in
There are two circumstances in which they can’t
touch a Dafa disciple. One is that he is rock-solid. They don’t dare touch him,
because they know at that time that if this disciple has taken a righteous path
and conducted himself well and someone still dares to persecute him, it doesn’t
matter that they’re the old forces or what the old principles are—I absolutely
won’t spare them. There are countless righteous Gods by my side, too! And I
also have countless Law Bodies who do Fa-rectification. My only concern is that
Dafa disciples themselves won’t be firm inside; when there’s some kind of
attachment, some kind of fear, or what not, then the old forces see it and take
advantage of the omissions and persecute them. And if a person’s righteous
thoughts aren’t sufficient while he’s being persecuted, he will be persecuted
even worse. This is always the case. Also, the vast majority of these students
are ones who hadn’t directly established a karmic relationship with me in
history. This time while the Fa is being spread the door is wide open, and the
old forces weren’t able to stop them from entering. But the vast majority of
these students have conducted themselves well. They don’t dare to
persecute too badly those who established a karmic relationship in history,
because those students have suffered like this before in history. If every Dafa
disciple—regardless of which category he belongs to—had been able to do well,
this persecution would have ended long ago. Speaking of being able to do well,
it’s easier said than done—it’s not like I tell everybody that they have to do
so and then they’re able to do so. It comes from having built a solid
foundation in cultivation, and it’s built through studying the Fa for a long
time. Actually, the vast majority of us have conducted ourselves really well.
Those who haven’t done well are from the third group of students. And because
they haven’t done well, the persecution has become even more severe, making
Dafa’s situation seem as if it’s being persecuted extremely dangerously and
viciously. Actually, no matter which group a person belongs to, Master treats
everybody the same. When we talk about putting aside the thought of life and
death outside of Mainland
Question: I have two questions to ask. One is
that the family and friends of some Dafa disciples outside of
Teacher: As for the first question, what
they want to do is up to them—it really depends on them. As for the second
question, when you encounter something look at yourself first—this is the
greatest trait that sets Dafa disciples apart from everyday people. If we truly
don’t have any problems on our part, then it must be the evil’s persecution of
Dafa disciples. During this Fa-rectification period, in particular, Dafa
disciples’ karma is no longer an issue. You must consciously and clearly
recognize the evil beings’ persecution. They’re truly doing bad things. It’s
best that Dafa disciples walk their own paths righteously and not allow the
evil to seize any excuse to persecute you.
Question: May I imagine a little bit what the
new cosmos is like?
Teacher: Mankind will undergo changes, too.
So the cosmos is undergoing changes, all the way down to mankind. The new
cosmos is perfecting all kinds of elements where the old cosmos is imperfect.
The new cosmos is more complete, and this is something that couldn’t be
resolved at all in the past without using the form of Fa-rectification. In the
past, whenever a cycle of the cosmos was no longer good enough, it would
disintegrate, be re-created, and start to develop again; and when it became bad
it would just be re-created. Fa-rectification is happening for the first time
ever in the colossal firmament since the beginning of time. So I’ve used the
opportunity of this Fa-rectification to change many things. I can’t talk about
these things. But I can tell you that since mankind is a part of the cosmos and
since Dafa has been spread here… In the past there was no human race here; no
matter how many Earths have been re-constructed after disintegrating, the main
beings here always had the appearance of alien beings. Their outward
appearances were very different each time, but none of them had the outward
appearance and the internal systems of human beings, let alone the human mind.
But today’s human beings were created for the spreading of Dafa. So after those
people who have sinned against Dafa are eliminated, the people who remain will
have blessings. So in the future the people on Earth will really have the
appearance of humans. In other words, the future human race will truly begin in
the next stage. The life-form this time was created for spreading Dafa. In the
future there will still be Buddhas, Daos, and Gods coming down to the earth to
save people, sentient beings will still be able to listen to the Fa, and
sentient beings will again be saved. But things like a God coming to save
people and getting crucified will never happen again.
Question: I want to ask about this:
sometimes when we clarify the truth some historical figures come up. Because we
don’t know about the many karmic relationships, should we be more careful with
certain things?
Teacher: During the Fa-rectification, you’re
just validating the Fa with the human languages and with the points that can be
commonly understood by mankind. Just do it according to what mankind can
recognize these days as good and bad, or right and wrong. Whoever in history
you mention isn’t a problem.
Question: I’d just like to give a few
examples of what you just said about the situation of the Mainland students
being quite good. From what I gather, almost all of my relatives and friends
who I’ve come into contact with are really steadfast. Some of them went to
Tiananmen in an open and dignified manner. They left in the morning and came
back in the evening; they got on a plane in the morning and took a plane back
in the evening. They not only shouted "Falun Dafa is good!" but also
held up banners, and nothing happened to them. Also, there’s an elderly person
who is ninety-some years old and goes out to spread the Fa every day, and
nothing has happened to him. Anyway, they’re all very steadfast. Only one
person I know has been arrested, but he’s conducted himself quite well. Through
talking with them I can sense that the situation is excellent. They told me,
"It’s good, we’re doing great." After I heard that I felt good.
Teacher: That’s the situation now. It’s
because there are no longer that many evil beings for the old forces to use.
And the second they see Dafa disciples sending righteous thoughts they flee.
When you go to the Chinese consulates to make appeals, the consulates seem
really scared. It’s not actually the human beings who are afraid, but those
evil ones that manipulate human beings. When it manifests over here in this
human dimension, they appear to be really scared, when in fact it’s the evil
factors that are afraid. If the evil is completely eliminated, and if at that
time even the people in the consulates come out to learn Falun Gong from us, it
would be just too terrifying for that chief political scoundrel in
Question: I have two questions. We
work on the FGM television programs. A while back, we received feedback from
some viewers saying that our news program seemed too stiff.
Teacher: Actually, I think that the tone of
your program is quite good. (Applause) It doesn’t have the feel of class
struggles, it’s fairly neutral. If the tone is
too soft, though, that isn’t good either. In fact, I’ve told the TV and radio
stations in many regions that the tone of the
Question: I have another question. In
addition to making Dafa programs, we’re also making some everyday-people type
programs that don’t have any Dafa content in them. How do we properly balance
this? How much time should we use to produce Dafa programs? And how many
non-Dafa programs should we air?
Teacher: It’s up to you how you arrange
this, it’s up to you how you handle the specifics. Just do whatever you feel is
appropriate after you discuss with each other. The truth is, in your validating
the Fa today, in the process of Dafa disciples’ clarifying the truth, the forms
you have adopted, the different methods you’ve used, and all the different
things you’ve done have all been handled very well. Don’t underestimate your
sending even one flyer or one booklet to
Question: Greetings to Master from the
disciples in Master’s hometown,
Teacher: I don’t think it will be long now.
Dynasty after dynasty in