Teaching the Fa at the 2003
(Li Hongzhi,
Hello, everyone! (Students: Hello, Master!)
There are some Fa conferences that I do attend, while some others I might not.
You all know that Dafa disciples have now become more mature. In validating the
Fa, and on this path of gods, you all know what to do. At such a time, it may
be that the less I speak, the more it benefits you all. And why do I say that?
Because this period of time is precisely given to each of you as an opportunity
to temper yourselves, this period of time is precisely given to you as an
opportunity to establish your mighty virtue. So I can't always have you do
things without thinking them over on your own, and I can't have you not blaze
your own path while validating your own Fruition. If you are always led by
Master, if I still tell you what to do when it comes to specific things in
validating the Fa, that doesn't work. Once Dafa disciples reach Consummation,
your Fruition and levels won't be low. In other words, the responsibilities
that you will have for future beings are immense. Then if that's the case, if
you don't possess that kind of mighty virtue, haven't blazed your own path, and
don't know what to do when you need to do things independently, that won't do.
So I have deliberately given you this period of time, so that you can have
opportunities to temper yourselves and become mature.
In fact, I've been quietly observing and
watching. Since you're all in the midst of cultivation, you still have human
attachments. You have human attachments, so you're able to cultivate; you have
human attachments, so they'll show themselves. Then, while doing anything that
has to do with validating the Fa, including doing things as a group and doing
things on your own, you'll think for yourselves and try to come up with ways to
solve tough problems. And when you are thinking things over, whether you use
human notions or the righteous thoughts of a cultivator is going to determine
the different results you get. The same holds true for when you work together
to do things. And when you put your heads together to figure something out,
this is the case, too, and you might even get into arguments over certain
issues. This is due, of course, to the human attachments you have, but there's
also something positive about it. When you argue you can see your attachments
and your shortcomings. If you can put the Fa first, let go of your self, and
deal with your problems with righteous thoughts, you will be able to reach a
decision quickly and do things well in validating the Fa. And actually,
compared to the past few years, things are quite good now. You've all truly
matured. I don't want to say more about this today. I mainly want to talk about
clarifying the truth.
As soon as the subject of clarifying the truth
comes up, a lot of practitioners think, "When we clarify the truth, our
goal is to expose the evil, suppress it, and bare it to the light of day so
that people all over the world can see it for what it is, and then the evil
will have nowhere to hide." This is what you need to do, but that's not
what is most important. The most important goal in clarifying the truth is to
save all beings.
Every Dafa disciple will shoulder immense
responsibilities in the future. There are so many beings that need you to save
them--there are so many lives that need you to save them. During this period of
time, you yourselves need to harmonize and consummate everything that's needed
for your own Fruition and countless beings. Your mighty virtue and everything
of gods are within it. That's why I often say that in validating the Fa, you
should do well the three things Dafa disciples need to do, and everything is
encompassed in them. So I say that the most important goal for you in
clarifying the truth is to save even more beings in the process. This is what's
foremost, and this is the real purpose of clarifying the truth.
During this persecution, no matter how the old
forces have arranged things, no matter how viciously the evil people in the
world have acted, no matter how frantically the evil beings in every dimension
have persecuted Dafa disciples and how many of the world's people they've
poisoned, have you thought about something: can they damage Dafa? Not a chance.
And you've seen that after experiencing the most evil persecution in history,
which has lasted four years, other than Dafa disciples tempering themselves and
becoming more mature, more clearheaded, and more composed during the
persecution--you've become more and more rational, your righteous thoughts have
become stronger and stronger, and the moment when you will return to your
positions is getting closer--other than that, what else is there? Isn't that
all there is to it? Haven't those Dafa disciples who were killed by persecution
reached Consummation? It's true that during the persecution a portion [of our
students] stopped cultivating--if they aren't good enough they will be sifted
out, and what remains will be gold.
Of course, once a being studies my Dafa I will
take care of him and treat him as a Dafa disciple, as a student. If he truly
can't enter [this practice] himself, then that's his own business. So everybody
should be clear on this point. Whether it's the whole persecution or all those
arrangements the old forces made, in reality, I took those things into
consideration when I planned my Fa-rectification long ago. They can't damage
the Fa. I don't acknowledge the persecution. That's for sure. Are they allowed
to control and even beat to death a being that has listened to the Fa and cultivated
in my Dafa? They'll definitely have to pay for it in the future. And of course
there are other factors at work. When it comes to those who genuinely do well,
they truly don't dare to touch them. When it comes to those who oppose the old
forces' arrangements and who have very strong righteous thoughts, they can't
touch them. In other words, during this period of time, no matter how bad the
persecution is, if the Dafa disciples' minds are very upright, they have very
strong righteous thoughts, and understand everything clearheadedly and calmly,
a lot of losses will be averted.
You need to be clear that a Dafa disciple's
cultivation is about stepping out of humanness; it is to step out of the old
colossal firmament that is restrained by all kinds of factors that result from
endless, countless, innumerable beings in this old cosmos; it is to gain a new
life, emerging from an environment that is at the last of the last stage of the
formation-stasis-degeneration-destruction process of the colossal firmament.
Who can step out of all of this? To escape everything and be able to truly
enter the future is indeed very hard. As a matter of fact, the difficulties
you've run into cultivating amidst the persecution are manifestations here
among humans. But in reality, in other dimensions that the world's people can't
see and that are beyond this environment of ordinary people, things are even
more intense. It is the shocking and soul-stirring process of immense
disintegration and reintegration. The entire cosmos's beings are watching this
affair, and countless, measureless gods are also watching. Encompassed in all
of these changes are the factors of Dafa disciples validating the Fa. What are
displayed in the human world are the three things that you're doing at this
time. As for the behavior of the evil, that's it [acting] in an irrational,
crazed state before its disintegration, and it provides Dafa disciples with the
conditions to reach Consummation.
Clarifying the truth during the gigantic
changes has already become the major way of saving all beings and the world's
people, so in doing this, the wisdom that Dafa has given you and the enormous
capability that the Fa has provided you with are manifesting. Your clarifying
the truth inevitably initiates a sort of chain reaction. Once a person knows
the truth, he realizes, "Oh, so that's how it is. Dafa is so great, after
all!" Some people who've learned the truth may think about taking up
cultivation, some may be quite sympathetic, and others might offer support in
the form of concrete actions. These responses that came about through
clarifying the truth spread from person to person, heart to heart. The evil
factors are losing their habitat. Dafa and the righteous factors are covering
and enriching everything, and at the same time, in terms of the persecution,
this will bring about changes in society and on every front, and the wicked
people will thus have no audience and the evil beings nothing to exploit.
That's the inevitable effect. Things look ordinary and uneventful when you
clarify the truth, but the effect is huge.
In fact, you've all seen that in the course of
Dafa disciples clarifying the truth, the people of the world have been
changing. It's completely different now from back when the persecution started
on July 20 of '99. And it's not just that the people of the world are becoming
clearheaded, other living beings and material factors are going through these
changes too. In other words, the situation is totally different. Of course,
it's not that the evil has stopped persecuting, but that those factors the old
forces arranged, in being destroyed, have become less and less, and the evil no
longer has much strength. But even without that much strength, as long as it
still exists it's still very evil, very bad. But the evil no longer has that
much strength and it doesn't have the environmental factors that it needs, so
it can no longer control that many of the world's people or other beings. And
then when the world's people and all other lives aren't controlled by the evil,
it's much easier at that point for you to clarify the truth. If you do it well,
then the people of the world and all beings will wake up. And once the beings
wake up, the evil has no audience at all and it really can't do things
rampantly. People will oppose it and isolate it, and the evil won't be able to
do whatever it wants, since nobody will listen to it. That's what the current
trend is; it is the change that's come about in the course of saving all
beings.
Actually, I used to tell you about how in the
past a cultivator couldn't care less about what the world's people said about
him. If somebody said he was good or he was bad, it was [to him just] something
humans said, not gods. In fact, there have been a lot of people in history who
the world's people said were bad, and it's even been put that way in textbooks
and historical accounts, but it's possible they became gods. And there are
those who the world's people exalted as role models but who went to Hell after
death. That's because when people talk about good and bad it's all based on
human interests. Human principles are reversed: when people think something is
good, it's not necessarily truly good, and when people think something is bad,
it's not necessarily truly bad. In other words, cultivators didn't heed what
people said. But today's Fa-rectification is different, and whether someone
says Dafa and Dafa disciples are good or bad determines that person's future.
In the current campaign of persecution, in particular the persecution of Dafa disciples,
this suppression brought on by the evil, it's interfering with me and the
Fa-rectification itself, so it's different from cultivation in the past. It is
absolutely a sin to persecute Dafa disciples, and everyone involved will pay
for it--none of the lives that participated in it can escape.
The cosmos is going through Fa-rectification,
so think about it everybody, during the Fa-rectification the entire cosmos,
from the microscopic level to the surface, is constantly making breakthroughs.
No matter how big the enormous cosmic body is, no matter how many lives it has,
no matter whether it is a life or not, no matter if it has intention or not, no
matter if it has an existence or not--nothing can escape, because everything in
the future will be completely renewed. It's even more the case for the human
race here in this world and all the lives at the surface--they have no way of
escaping. The Fa-rectification also encompasses all of the higher beings, and
right now no god dares to say that this Fa-rectification has nothing to do with
him. Of course, right now nobody dares to say that, nobody can escape from it.
So during the Fa-rectification, there must be a complete reckoning for what
each life has done. It's not that if some life did something bad it will be
destroyed and that's the end of it. That wouldn't work. It still has to pay,
while undergoing complete destruction, for all of the bad things it did. I
treat all beings with the greatest mercy. No matter how great a sin or how big
a mistake any of the lives in history committed, I could overlook their faults
and sins, and I could remove their sins. The prerequisite is of course that
during Fa-rectification you can't interfere with it; I would save you even if
you didn't do a single thing. But once a being interferes with Fa-rectification
what it faces is elimination. And those who've committed the most egregious
sins have to pay for everything they've done while being eliminated. However
much was done, that's how much has to be paid for; however big the things it
did, that's how much it has to pay for. So this time, when it comes to the evil
beings that interfere with Fa-rectification, no matter how wicked they are,
what they face is a terrifying end that's never been seen before in the cosmos.
And this includes the old forces themselves. Even though they thought they were
making a contribution for Dafa's sake, in reality they were looking at things
based on their own concepts. They never truly looked at themselves or used
Fa-rectification itself to evaluate themselves, or used this Fa to evaluate
themselves. But since the future is this Fa, and the beings of the
future are created by this Fa, what other than this Fa could be used to
evaluate things?
So when it comes to the issue of
truth-clarification, since it's so important, you should do it even more calmly
and level-headedly, and you should recognize more clearheadedly the different
kinds of opportunities, ways of handling things, and approaches that we
encounter while clarifying the truth. It's something you all need to pay
attention to. You know that when I disseminate the Fa I don't pay attention to
what group in society a person belongs to or his social status, and I don't
differentiate between rich and poor, the various professions, or a person's status
at his job. I don't look at anything except a person's heart. You should do the
same when you clarify the truth. Don't think about him being some elite figure
and create an extra mental obstacle for yourself, as if you're there to ask for
his help. What's actually happening is that you're saving him, and you're
giving him a chance to choose his future. That's for sure. So you should
consider saving the world's people as the primary objective of clarifying the
truth.
Everything that Dafa disciples are doing today
and everything in society you encounter, I can tell you, you are saving
all beings. So no matter what kind of person you meet, what strata of society
he's from, or what profession he's in, don't think that you're just going to
him to explain the truth merely because evil is persecuting Dafa disciples.
I'll tell you, saving all beings is first and foremost, and clarifying the
truth is the way to save people. When people understand the facts and find out
how wicked the persecution is, people will naturally know what to do. And if
afterwards you ask him to lend support and do something about it, that's him
choosing a future. So with those people who've been deceived in the
persecution, all the more so, how could you not give them a chance? If you don't
tell them the facts they will lose their futures forever.
Also, with those people that you run into by
chance, who you run into in daily life, and the people you run into at work,
you should all clarify the truth to them. Even when in your daily life you pass
by people so quickly that you don't have a chance to talk to them, you should
still leave them with your compassion and kindness. Don't lose those who should
be saved, especially those with predestined connections. Actually, a lot of
Dafa disciples say when they're clarifying the truth, "I'm going to go
clarify the truth now," as if at that moment they're going to clarify the
truth, but they don't clarify the truth normally. Saving beings should permeate
every single aspect of your daily lives at this time. If you can all understand
and really see its importance, I think you'll probably save more beings. Now
the world's people are gradually becoming more clearheaded, and the impact of
clarifying the truth right now is even greater. The audience those evil beings
have is getting smaller and smaller, so you must understand this issue
clearheadedly.
There is a small number of students who are
privately becoming like buddies and pals--"we do things together, we're a
little group"--and they often talk about a bunch of useless things,
wasting large amounts of time. Right now every minute and every second is
crucial. If you miss out during this period of time, you miss out on
everything. History won't recur. The history of the cosmos and the Three Realms
have gone through so many, long, long years--what have all the beings been
waiting for? What are they all here for? For exactly these few years! Yet there
are [Dafa] students who are squandering their lives during these few years, not
seizing the time. And yet you are shouldering such huge responsibilities for
all beings and for history!
Yes, some students aren't clearheaded enough
and feel that obtaining the Fa was quite a coincidence. [They wonder,] "Do
I have such a huge historic responsibility? Am I able to take it
on?" In reality there's no need to even ask that, I've already spelled it
out quite clearly in the Fa. Not everyone can cultivate in this Dafa that I'm
imparting today. Why is it that so many people can't enter? Of course, there
are a lot of new students who are now gradually coming in, and that's due to
your clarifying the truth. It's like a master key, unlocking that old-force
factor that seals the world's people off and prevents them from learning the
Fa. Only your clarifying the truth can do this. To put it another way, not
everyone can obtain it. With things that manifest in the human realm its hard
to tell what's true and what's false, the true state of the cosmos isn't
allowed to show itself, and the special states of Dafa disciples that set them
apart from the world's people cannot be completely displayed. After all, it's
cultivation in the maze--it's about cultivating in that kind of state and
breaking free from it. Don't underestimate yourself. Every Dafa disciple, as
long as you've cultivated according to this Fa, you should do the things Dafa
disciples are supposed to do.
Actually, I've said that for an ordinary person
who has done something good for Dafa during this period, at this critical time,
it's possible for even that person to reach Consummation as a god, let alone
you, who are cultivating in the Dafa, who are doing what Dafa disciples should
do, and doing all of it under tough conditions. You can't see much of a
difference on the surface, but it does manifest in other dimensions--that is
precisely the difference between humans and gods. The changes are gigantic.
This place of humans is enshrouded in delusion, and the real state of things
and what's here in this human place are totally different. Only those Dafa
disciples who fall behind in Fa-study will display a lack of diligence and feel
dejected during this period of time, even to the extent that they don't know
how precious this time is and don't seize the time to do what Dafa disciples
should do.
Even now, in fact, there are some students who
are doing very poorly with Fa-study. Being able to study the Fa well is the
fundamental guarantee that you can head towards Consummation, it's the
fundamental guarantee that you can emerge from here. All beings were forged by
this Fa, as are your futures. As for the cosmos's future beings, because many,
many lives have been weeded out during the Fa-rectification, there are many
places in the cosmos that are empty. But they won't remain empty forever. Dafa
will create from the Fa all of the lives, along with various factors and matter
that are needed by those levels of cosmic bodies. And Dafa is forging all of
the new lives that are needed. The old lives may renew themselves only after
assimilating to this Fa, and in this way enter the future. All lives are
encompassed by this.
Actually right now the overall Fa-rectification
is already coming to the surface more and more. The last factors that remain
can't be called lives anymore, they can't be called anything, there's no
language to express what they are and no concept to describe them, but
everything is in this final process of Fa-rectification. Actually, if we were
to use the concepts of "the cosmos" and "beyond the cosmos"
to describe it, Fa-rectification already fits the concept of "beyond the
cosmos." Meaning, Fa-rectification is now working on those factors that
allow the firmament to exist, and even the factors in the factors.
That being said, right now you still can't feel
it, but from the current situation of Dafa disciples' Fa-validation you can see
that the situation has changed. The evil can't be sustained anymore, and that's
because the evil lives and factors have been destroyed to the point of very
little being left, and there's no comparison with how things were on July 20 of
'99. I've described to you what it was like back then: evil beings from other
dimensions attached to each blade of grass and each tree. As you walked down
the street tree branches would whip you in the face, the grass would trip you,
and the air was filled with evil. It's not that all of that really turned evil,
it was the effect of bad lives and factors that were pushed down into the Three
Realms during Fa-rectification. Everywhere, things were saturated with evil
factors. They attached themselves to everything, doing the worst things in the
Three Realms and among humans. If this Fa-rectification wasn't done in two
parts and instead I did it in one step, then the wave of persecution would have
been global, just like the European prophet said: in 1999 the King of Terror
would descend from the skies, and people the world over would feel the frenzy
of the persecution. This time when the evil arrived, other countries around the
world and other nations didn't experience the evilness of the persecution
against Falun Gong that began in '99, and that's because this was to be done in
two parts; having other nations or more of the world's people cultivate Dafa is
something left for the next step. And you've seen that today it is
Fa-rectification Period Dafa Disciples' cultivation, and things aren't directed
at more people around the world. That's why the kind of persecution that took
place against Dafa disciples in
Right now the situation is no longer like that.
The overall Fa-rectification is destroying evil factors in mass quantities, and
Dafa disciples have clarified the truth while validating the Fa, along with
this sending righteous thoughts to continually cleanse themselves and clear out
the evil in other dimensions, as well as all the other things you've done
validating the Fa. All of that is destroying those evil beings and factors that
the old forces arranged, and it has had a huge effect. When a Dafa disciple's
righteous thoughts are strong his existence in the world has a positive effect.
So take a look, everybody--isn't it true that the amount of evil factors left
now is tiny? It's nowhere close to the situation of July 20 in '99.
However, even though those evil factors aren't
as many, the remaining ones are still pretty wicked. I always told you in the
past: the closer it is to the surface the less power it has, but the closer it
is to the surface the more evil it is. So it's making up for its weaker power
by being more evil on the surface, and the evil still appears quite wicked. But
you've seen that the environment has already changed. The evil can only be
sustained in those places directly controlled by that evil ringleader--those
places where hopeless, evil people are still doing evil. Right now they can't
even be sustained at the surface of Mainland
But in this period you've all seen something,
and that is, how many lives have sinned against Dafa (and that's not including
those who've committed the worst, most wicked sins). Once they understand the
truth, is that the end of it? It's not that simple. But, when you have somebody
understand things by clarifying the truth, that is giving him a chance. If he
truly has an upright thought, it gives him a chance to atone for his sins. A
person has to pay for whatever he has done--that's a law of the cosmos, and all
beings are subject to it. When the persecution first started, how many people
had to pitch in to bring about that evil situation back then? If nobody played
such a role, and nobody did or said anything, could that evil environment back
then have been created? Whether they were in
The gods of the entire cosmos are staring,
wide-eyed. Boundless, countless gods are watching this tiny little Earth,
watching intently every life's every thought. They're afraid even to blink, as
they don't want to miss an instant or let a person's single thought slip by. At
this time, I talk about these things to tell you to calmly, level-headedly, and
more clearly understand what you're currently doing. No matter what you're
doing, Dafa disciples must make validating the Fa the number one priority.
But, you have to clarify the truth rationally
and in line with people's logic and ways of thinking. If you talk about it in a
strange, otherworldly way, not at all based on people's logic and way of
thinking, and not considering whether people can accept it or not, then you're
doing harm and the result is opposite what was intended. Make sure you do it
rationally and clearheadedly. When you clarify the truth to people you have to
consider their level of acceptance. You'll be able to see and observe this, so
you have to do well clarifying the truth. Don't just go to talk for the sake of
formality. Whenever you talk to someone you need to have him understand. Of
course, there are those that absolutely can't be saved, since they've gone all
the way over to the opposite side. That kind of person no longer has anything
righteous, and when you talk to him he can't accept it since whenever he
accepts a little bit, a little bit of him has to be destroyed--whenever he
accepts a little bit, a little bit of him is destroyed. If he completely
accepts it, then he's completely destroyed, because he is evil. So there
are those that can't be saved, but that's an extremely small minority,
ultimately.
There are also some people who, even if you
want to save them, like I said earlier, even if you give those people a chance
and they understand, they still have to repay their debts. That's how it works.
That's speaking from the Fa's principles. But you shouldn't worry about those
things, since as Dafa disciples you cultivate Shan, and you have to be
compassionate to all beings. As for how those lives should pay off those debts,
naturally there's the Fa to determine that. Whether or not they should remain
is determined by the Fa's standards. So as Dafa disciples, just do your best to
save them, that's all.
Why should you save them? I've said before that
the beings in today's world are different from the lives in history, and
they're different from the people in the past. When any life arrives in this
world and enters this world of delusion, it's truly terrifying. For a god, you
know, just a moment ago when you saw him he was a magnificent god, but once he
enters this world, enters a human body, and that brain is washed clean, that's
really scary, and now he can't distinguish things; so based on his actions you
can't tell the origin of his life, and you can't see the essential difference
between him and his life in the past.
That is what I wanted to talk about,
actually--to just talk with you about the subject of clarifying the truth. You
still want to talk with me about some things, so I think I'll use the time that
follows to answer some questions for you. If you have a question you can write
it down on a slip of paper. (Applause) Let's not take too long since in
the experience sharing conference there are still people who need to give their
speeches.
Explaining the Fa
Question:
Teacher: Aren't you seeing me right here and now? (Everyone
laughs) You want to see my True Image. (Teacher laughs) Cultivate
yourself well. Every Dafa disciple will be able to see it as long as he can
reach Consummation. (Applause) Dafa disciples not only have the kind of
predestined relationship that you have today, one that countless beings don't
have, but in fact, I have prepared for you a being's eternal and everlasting
glory in the future. (Applause)
Question: Dafa disciples in
Teacher: Thank you! (Applause)
Question: Some people say that Falun Gong is
good, but they aren't willing to help practitioners, for example, when we try
to place our newspapers [in those places], or when they don't announce Dafa's
name during activities. If these people aren't able to change, how will they
end up?
Teacher: Actually, some people aren't clear about Dafa
at this time. And that's especially so for those who've been too deeply
deceived during this persecution that's so evil. If Dafa disciples aren't able
to untie the knots in those people's minds when they clarify the truth, it's
possible they are still in the process of coming to understand Dafa, and for
the time being they can't be judged conclusively. At this time it can't be said
that they are good and it can't be said that they are bad. It's possible you
haven't done enough in clarifying the truth.
Question: How should we understand "The
great disclosure of the truth will leave the world in amazement"?
Teacher: As a matter of fact, I used a gods' word,
"amazement." Think about the immense changes of the entire cosmos,
everyone. Just here among humans, in the next stage a lot of evil people will
be weeded out, and the number who will be weeded out is large and terrifying.
At the beginning people will still feel shocked, while by the end they'll be
numb to it. What kind of state will a person be in when he sees dead people
strewn everywhere on the street? The things that people don't believe in and
historically have taken to be "superstition" will all unfold. People
understand this material world through modern scientific concepts. When they
discover that's not how it is at all, what will they think? Once the things
that people don't believe in all appear, when they're faced with huge changes
in this so-called material dimension, what kind of state are they going to be
in? People will see that it turns out gods really do exist. "Whoa! It
turns out Dafa disciples are all gods! It turns out everything Dafa disciples
have been saying is true!" At the beginning they'll still have those kinds
of thoughts, and then, while enduring suffering to pay for their sins, people
will gradually become as if they don't have any thoughts. It will truly be
"leaving the world in amazement."
Question: I want to write a historical
chronicle of Falun Dafa and record all kinds of feats that have been
accomplished since Master began to spread the Fa.
Teacher: I think it'd be remarkable if Dafa disciples
could accomplish something like that. You may do it, but the effort will take a
lot of time and energy. The Dafa disciples' three things are all major ones.
Balance your time well.
Question: Please advise me as to whether I can
write at a slightly higher level about righteous thoughts and righteous
actions? Would it transcend Dafa?
Teacher: No matter how high a level you write at, you
can't transcend Dafa, (everyone laughs) because it is just too enormous.
The things that you can know are only what can be shown in the ordinary human
society and those things that our Dafa disciples have done while using human
actions to validate the Fa. There shouldn't be any problems with using those.
After it is completed you can solicit feedback from other people, and that way
certain things will be done even better.
Question: I used to write martial arts fiction
that had to do with cultivation. Is it OK to use the form of martial arts
fiction to expound higher principles? How can I do a more intricate and
detailed job in terms of artistic expression so that people of the world will
accept correct cultivation concepts without realizing it?
Teacher: I think if you want to write a historical
chronicle, that would be something more serious. Writing fiction is fine, but
if you turn this whole matter of Dafa into fiction, it seems like the fictional
aspect isn't all that appropriate. I think that with a historical chronicle it
wouldn't hurt to cover more specific details and put more into bringing
characters to life. With a fictional work, if it focuses on a certain disciple,
a certain region, or a certain event, as it's just picking a subject matter,
then that's fine.
Question: I would like to send greetings to
Master on behalf of Dafa disciples in Mainland
Teacher: Thank you! (Applause)
Question: Secret agents use the gaps that we
Dafa disciples have in Internet security to persecute us. But a portion of
overseas Dafa disciples and those who are in positions of responsibility don't
pay much attention to it, which has caused interference and damage to
Fa-validating tasks and Dafa disciples. Master, please give us some guidance.
Teacher: I think everybody should pay attention to
this point. Even though we don't have anything to hide, we can't let the secret
agents interfere.
Speaking of secret agents, this occupation,
which in the eyes of gods is the dirtiest human profession, causes people to
become mentally twisted after leading lives that can't bear to see the light of
day and that consist of doing things in a shadowy, secretive manner for long
periods of time. It's actually a very tough life. And don't think they are all
that capable. Not too long ago, a Taiwanese practitioner went to
Don't be afraid of them making trouble. You
shouldn't be overly concerned with every little thing, but you should all keep
alert. You need to think about whether the evil can do harm to what you plan to
do. You need to think about this. We don't have anything to hide, we don't have
anything we're afraid of letting the world know, and we haven't done anything
illegal. But as for the evil, we shouldn't give them any opportunity to do evil
things. When it comes to the evil, the things Dafa disciples plan to do must
not be made known to the evil. So, many times you all really must pay attention
to this matter. We can't let the evil people move first and do bad things
before you have a chance to do something. That causes trouble and makes it
harder for you to clarify the truth and bring salvation to people. So you must
take these things seriously.
Question: Five hundred thousand
Teacher: That evil Article 23 legislation, which has
been rejected by all of
Question: When inviting some big companies to
participate in the Gala, if we don't clarify the truth and just invite them to
celebrate the New Year with the Chinese people, it isn't enough, is it?
Teacher: Of course it isn't enough. Everything that
Dafa disciples are doing today is for the sake of saving people. Otherwise what
are you doing it for? Clarifying the truth in an upright and open manner are
the very things Dafa disciples should do. I'm also telling you that all beings
in today's world came for the sake of the Fa. If you want a being to clearly
understand this point, you should go and clarify the truth to him. It is a
master key, the key that can unlock that thing all beings have had sealed off
for a long time and been awaiting for ages. (Applause)
Actually, I'm thinking that with everything
you, the Dafa disciples, are doing today, you aren't doing them for Dafa, and
you aren't doing them for me, your master, either. You are doing them for
yourselves. You are harmonizing your own worlds and establishing your own
mighty virtue. You are collecting and saving beings that you need. You are all
doing things for you, yourselves. From my perspective, as your master, I certainly
have to tell you to do these things, because I want to harmonize everything of
yours and I want to lead you to success. Only when you need things in certain
regards do I tell you to go and do them.
Also, from the perspective of cultivating
goodness and compassion, you should do these things. I'm just giving an example
here. It doesn't stop at the Gala. It applies to all kinds of other things that
you encounter and need to do. It applies to all those things. Saving all beings
is what's most important. You shouldn't think [you are doing things] in order
to add more programs to the Gala, and even less so are these things done to
bring people some momentary happiness. I am asking you to save all beings. (Applause)
If you're able to stage a high-quality gala that's filled with Dafa's positive
energy, that in and of itself can have the effect of saving all beings.
Wouldn't you be only too happy to do it? Isn't it an opportunity? (Applause)
Question: Some practitioners respect Dafa from
the bottom of their hearts. They also are very diligent when clarifying the
truth. But they just can't meet the standard when it comes to their own
individual cultivation and they make mistakes frequently. They are bothered by
it too.
Teacher: That's apt to happen. The reason is, you all
understand the broader principles of the Fa, but when it comes to individual
issues, those factors of ordinary people that remain on an individual basis
will in fact lead to attachments, and can manifest themselves. It might seem
quite inconsistent but it actually isn't inconsistent, and when attachments get
too big, bad cultivation states are going to emerge. When big problems arise
you must pay attention to them. That's the most dangerous.
Having said that, another thing occurred to me,
and that is, you shouldn't look at things in absolute terms. And that's
especially true when it comes to those crooked principles that the evil in
As you know, Jesus said that all human beings
have sins. So just because you have sins, you shouldn't tell your own children
to behave well? Because you have sins, you shouldn't tell others not to commit
crimes? That's definitely a ridiculous theory, isn't it? In reality, who among
humans hasn't made a mistake? As soon as a person is born he creates karma.
Everyone has made mistakes. Just because you have made mistakes it doesn't mean
you can't tell others to do well. By the same token, just because someone has
made mistakes, it doesn't mean that he can't tell you to do well. It depends on
if what he says is right or wrong. That's how gods look at things. And in fact,
that's how humans should look at things, too. That's the right principle.
The evil regime's propaganda has twisted that
principle into this: if you want others to behave well, you have to behave well
yourself. It's a very evil saying. On the surface it looks like, "Oh, it's
true. That saying makes a lot of sense." But it doesn't make one bit of
sense, and it can only play a negative role. Who can behave so well? Where can
you find a perfect human being? Even with a cultivator who's reached the last
step in his cultivation and not yet completely shed his human body, he still
has sins and karma, and he still has attachments. But, when he reaches that
step in cultivation he has far surpassed ordinary human beings. If we go by
that saying, nobody can tell anybody else to behave well. Wouldn't society be
done for?
Dafa disciples have attachments, ordinary human
attachments that they have yet to eliminate by cultivating, and they have areas
in which they fall short. But that doesn't mean a Dafa disciple is completely
no good, it doesn't mean this being isn't up to par, and it doesn't mean this
Dafa disciple hasn't cultivated himself well. In many, many areas he has
cultivated very well. He makes mistakes because he still has attachments that
need to be revealed so that he can realize his own shortcomings, and that's why
they manifest. It's only possible to cultivate them when they show themselves.
If things stay hidden and aren't displayed it's rather hard to remove them with
cultivation, and if even he himself doesn't realize they exist, then it's
really hard to cultivate.
Question: Master, please talk about how the
media outlets operated by Dafa disciples should clarify the truth, especially
the future outlook for cooperation in clarifying the truth inside Mainland
Teacher: Our current situation is basically like this:
out of considerations for safety, conditions aren't yet ripe for Dafa disciples
in Mainland
Question: I could never completely eliminate my
own attachments. I'm really worried about this, but I'm never able to do well.
Teacher: Study the Fa more, study the Fa more. (Teacher
laughs) There's no magic pill. "Let's take a pill and the attachments
will go away." (Everyone laughs) Actually, Dafa's mighty power is
even more effective than some cure-all magic pill. Of course, you're all busy
right now and have to do all kinds of things, there are a lot of things to do,
and there are household chores, jobs, and other responsibilities to attend to.
But you have to always cultivate yourself, so you still need to study the Fa.
Question: On this holiday, please accept all
Dafa disciples' respect and gratitude. We will definitely do well and make
Master happier and less worried.
Teacher: Thank you! (Applause) Dafa disciples are
all still being persecuted. You want me to be happy, but I can't be. How many
Dafa disciples are being persecuted in those evil labor camps in
Question: I've been thinking about the
following: is it OK for those Dafa disciples who are well-known in society, for
example the contact people of certain regions or disciples who've written many
articles to clarify the truth about Dafa, to talk about their own thoughts,
understandings, and analysis of certain issues in the human world, for example
the issue of the [Chinese] territory, as members of society while participating
in local activities, Chinese community activities, and activities of the
"Bring Jiang to Justice Coalition"? What's the best way to do it so
as to avoid misunderstandings from ordinary people?
Teacher: For Dafa disciples, cultivating and
validating the Fa today are first and foremost. Dafa disciples must validate
the Fa. For you, clarifying the truth and saving all beings are first and
foremost.
In society certain democracy activists, and
this includes some individuals who were involved in [the massacre on] June 4th,
have been constantly assaulting the evil, brutal regime. They too promote
things like human rights and freedom of belief, and their sharp criticism along
those lines has had a positive effect in terms of exposing the persecution of
Falun Gong. So from this perspective, they share common ground with us on this
point. So then some of our practitioners want to speak from those angles, too.
Actually, you need to remain level-headed and calmly analyze whether the thing
you're doing has anything to do with Dafa and validating the Fa. If the answer
is yes, you should go ahead and do it. If the answer is no, you shouldn't. You
should never lose your way.
Do you know about your master? This cosmos is
so immense. There are countless and immeasurable beings and countless and
immeasurable cosmic bodies. So many beings are capable of dramatically
affecting the human world with just one thought! There are so many beings, so many
factors of the old forces and old beings, all of whom want to control this
Fa-rectification and interfere with this Fa-rectification. None of them can
change me. The path I've walked is straight. (Applause) They aren't able
to interfere with me in any way. They can exhaust their ways and nothing will
work. Here among humans there are all kinds of things that interfere, but none
of that has any effect.
Isn't there a saying among people that,
"You have your thousand brilliant ideas, but I have my own way"? In
other words, Dafa disciples need to realize what they're doing. [You] must keep
clearheaded about whether something is related to validating the Fa or not. We
expose evil for the sake of saving all beings. As long as it has to do with the
things Dafa disciples are doing today, you should go ahead and do it. And if it
doesn't, you shouldn't. If a person goes in the wrong direction doing things
and develops attachments as a result, those things will hurt the practitioner.
If a task has to do with Dafa, and has to do with your validating the Fa or
saving beings, then you should go ahead with it. In that case, the more you do
the more wide-open the road becomes. That's the case for sure. You absolutely
must not get mixed up in the political struggles of ordinary people.
Question: Dafa disciples in
Teacher: Thank you! (Applause)
Question: When I have a lot of thought karma,
can I send righteous thoughts at any given time and place?
Teacher: Do it based on your own situation. Some
thoughts that you develop are actually interference, which can be eliminated by
sending righteous thoughts. Some are the product of your own attachments, and
some are concepts that you've formed in the human world; those things can't be
eliminated by sending righteous thoughts just once. So they surface from time
to time, and it seems that after you send righteous thoughts they still appear.
That kind of thing happens. But it's not that you haven't done anything and
it's not that what you did was not effective. It's just that each time only a
portion of it can be eliminated. Those things that were arranged by the old
forces have been divided into countless, countless portions by the factors of
lives that come from higher levels. So, each time you send righteous thoughts
you are only able to eliminate one or two portions, but more still remain.
It's not limited just to this. Within the Three
Realms they have done many bad things and made arrangements for many things
that they wanted. What's more, many of those things have become warped. During
the passage of such a long period of time, even the so-called gods of the old
forces who originally did those things cannot resolve them. If there were no
Fa-rectification they couldn't be resolved. There are a lot of things in the
cosmos like that, and it's hard to resolve them without the arrival of the
whole immense force of Fa-rectification. But as for thought karma, it can be
completely eliminated through sending righteous thoughts.
Question: How should we deal with
truth-clarification pamphlets that contain photos and stories of former
practitioners who have "enlightened" along a wicked path?
Teacher: They "enlightened" along a wicked
path because of coercion during the persecution. When they are released they
will come to their senses after some time. But it's a different matter for
those who have caused irreparable harm to Dafa and Dafa disciples.
Question: Recently new students have come to do
the exercises. How should we guide them to study the Fa and encourage them to
attend our group Fa-study?
Teacher: It's fine to encourage them to join group
exercises and group Fa-study. But don't be overly anxious and tell new students
to immediately do Dafa disciples' things, since many of the new students belong
to the next group. But at this time there are some who've gradually entered and
belong to this group. Owing to the effect of your clarifying the truth, that
lock has already been opened, and the future cultivators have begun to emerge.
Both situations exist.
Question: In our media work we have published
many reports that expose the XX Party's attempts to fake domestic peace and
prosperity and that expose its evil nature. But revered Master, please let us
know the relationship between these reports and directly saving all beings and
validating Dafa.
Teacher: The truth is, its goal in faking peace and
prosperity nowadays is to cover up the substance of its persecution of Falun
Gong, giving people the false impression that there's no persecution going on.
Behind the scenes they are carrying out the largest, worst, filthiest, and most
evil persecution in history. You can directly expose this. As for other facets
of it, you need to see if they're related to validating the Fa. If they are, go
ahead and do it. When Dafa disciples outside Mainland
Question: When clarifying the truth to the
Chinese people on a large scale, in order to communicate more easily with
ordinary people, we make use of things that align with their interests that
inevitably have deviated factors, since everything of humankind has deviated.
But, everything that Dafa disciples do will be left for the future. How do we
reconcile these two things?
Teacher: When you are wisely clarifying the truth to
save all beings, there's no such problem--what's left for the future people is
the spirit of Dafa disciples rectifying the Fa and their path of returning to
what is right. No matter what approach you take to clarify the truth, the goal
is to have the world's people truly understand this persecution. Freedom of
belief and human rights being trampled on are things people can understand. As
for referencing some examples, that too is done to save people. When you make
use of the different aspects of humankind's deviated culture today to clarify
the truth, you have to be careful, because you don't know what this person is
attached to. Perhaps what you use is exactly what he's attached to, and yet you
can't spend a lot of effort thoroughly explaining what he's attached to, so it
may have a bad effect. Try your best not to get involved with ordinary people's
other issues.
Speaking from another angle, this is how
everything of human beings is now--everything has deviated. And not only have
things deviated, there's also a great deal of demon nature. Everything of human
society has degenerated. If it weren't for Fa-rectification human history
wouldn't have made it this far. So many catastrophes in the cosmos have been avoided
because of it. What did people invent the atomic bomb for? Everything on Earth
is the result of gods' making human beings do things, and everything has a
purpose. Even though those things have passed, nothing of humankind exists by
chance. When it comes to those things that aren't related to Fa-rectification,
try not to discuss them when you clarify the truth. Also, don't talk about the
truth at too high a level--the effect isn't good. Nothing of humankind is good
anymore, that's the reality.
Question: Do new disciples who have just begun
cultivation have the power to intimidate the evil when they clarify the truth?
Teacher: Yes. That's because while I clean out the evil
factors as a whole, all dimensions of humankind and of the colossal firmament,
and all dimensions in the Three Realms, are saturated with Dafa's factors. And
I'm not just talking about the new cosmos. When a being plays a positive role,
Dafa's factors will empower him, and that being will have good fortune in
return from then on. Don't we already know of many cases of this? In other
words, when a new student clarifies the truth, the factors of Dafa, Master's
Law-bodies, and those righteous gods who fully cooperate will all help him and
play positive roles. That's for sure. But the pre-requisite is that the new
student has to do it himself first.
Question: During this urgent time in
Fa-rectification, how do I balance Fa-rectification things and guiding children
to cultivate?
Teacher: It's up to you to handle these specific things
well.
Question: How should we understand conforming
to the way of ordinary people?
Teacher: In your daily life, just try your best to
conform to the way of ordinary people while cultivating. Dafa cultivation has
no precepts, so in your daily life you basically keep the same ways as ordinary
people as much as possible. On the surface, you basically conform to the way of
ordinary human society. That's how it is, and at the same time you're a
cultivator. I've already talked about this many, many times; in a lot of lectures
I've talked about how to do things.
Question: Many people haven't heard about Dafa
or the facts about the persecution, nor have they participated in the
persecution. Master, please enlighten us on the need for clarifying the truth
to them.
Teacher: Some people haven't heard about Dafa, nor have
they heard about the persecution, but clarifying the truth to them is still
very important. People in this world have been sealed off for an extended
period of time, and it has caused these beings to not understand for the time
being this event which they've been waiting for over ages of reincarnations.
When you clarify the truth to them you're not just telling them about this
event that's been unfolding in this world, you are also telling them about Dafa
and what Dafa is, and doing so will unlock the predestined opportunity they
were sealed off from but had been waiting for, and it will help them realize
that what they've been waiting for has arrived.
Question: I haven't done well for a while. If I
start doing well now, will there still be enough time?
Teacher: As long as the Fa-rectification hasn't entered
the human world you still have a chance. Whether you'll have enough time is up
to you yourselves. Some people seize the time well, some don't. Some people
have made huge mistakes and yet they don't want to pay for them, and they're
still like they were before, leisurely spending their time. In that case, then
it's hard to say. So, as long as this thing hasn't ended there is still a
chance.
Question: Recently, many students who have
shouldered a lot of work have felt very tired. Their energy level and state
aren't as good as before. How do they break through it?
Teacher: This has to be addressed from two angles.
First, the students have been working hard, truly hard, and they've volunteered
to shoulder a lot. So perhaps we could find more people to help out, or think
of a way to solve the problem. That's one point. Another is, a lot of our Dafa
disciples are indeed quite tired, but on the other hand, they haven't taken Fa
study and cultivation seriously. They've done lots and lots of things, but they
haven't cultivated themselves, and so they'll feel fatigue, feel tired, and
feel that it's hard. Actually, I've always told you that doing cultivation
doesn't compromise your Dafa work, for sure. That's because doing the exercises
is the most effective way to get rid of fatigue, it's the best way to quickly
make your body recover.
Question: Does Dafa have ways to resurrect all
the beings that were weeded out by the old forces and have them return alive to
the new cosmos?
Teacher: Beings that have been weeded out by the old
forces...This question gets big if I talk about it. If the old forces hadn't
interfered I could have eliminated the sins and karma of all beings, no matter
how much they sinned throughout history. Among the vast beings, the complicated
gratitude and resentment harbored toward one another throughout history, no
matter which level they are at, even the jumbled, deep resentment and intricate
relationships that are interwoven and crisscrossing from top to bottom--I could
balance all of them. I can do everything and anything. In other words, I could
save all the beings in the cosmos. But the old forces insisted on weeding out a
bunch.
Of course, I still have ways that the old
forces cannot imagine. When beings have been totally destroyed and have
disappeared without a trace, and even when they've been turned into other
creatures or plants and later gone through various changes over the long course
of time, I can still locate them and bring them back. Since I can transcend the
utmost microcosm of all beings, I can find them. (Applause) I can even
bring back beings' original matter and factors that would never exist again,
bring back the factors that originally made up their beings, and bring back all
the factors that made them up, in the way they were, and I can eliminate the
part, the process, and the history in which a being sinned against Dafa--I can
have a being re-born as if he'd never gone through that part of history. I can
do anything, but I don't do things casually. I need to look at the cause.
Master has to consider things for the sake of the future cosmos, the
wonderfulness of the future, and the beings of the future. (Applause)
Question: Did the old forces have a contract
with Master that specifically restricts Master's Fa-rectification? If they did,
all contracts should be abolished, and everything should follow the arrangement
of the Lord Buddha.
Teacher: I can tell you, the fact is that the old
forces managed to do many things in history by taking advantage of my split
bodies reincarnating among ordinary people. When I was reincarnating lifetime
after lifetime in this world, they took advantage of the opportunities and
manipulated things. Since during those times [I] wasn't spreading the Fa, and
was entirely in the state of a human being perfecting humans, they forcefully
added some of the things they wanted. Those things weren't at all what I wanted
to do, yet they happened in this world. There were a lot of such things in each
period. As my split bodies reincarnated in the world, they would come and
influence things. That's why they shift the blame to me for a lot of things
that happened in history. They would say, "You did all that." Of course
I can't accept that. History has been so long, and over this long passage of
time they constantly did those things. Those things got too complicated and
could no longer be resolved, so they would have to wait to be resolved in
Fa-rectification. That's why once I started Fa-rectification, they realized
that it wasn't at all what they wanted, so the old forces started to resist,
and its manifestation became more and more pronounced.
During the ten-plus years of spreading the Fa,
what you've seen is just the interference at the surface, while in fact, in
other dimensions it's incredibly shocking and evil to the extreme. Of course,
for you, Dafa disciples, these things have nothing to do with your personal
cultivation. Cultivating, improving, and getting rid of your attachments are
what you need to attend to. Their interfering with me is geared towards the
process and the future of history. With the old-force beings, in order to save
them I constantly explained the Fa's truths to them. Some listened, and some
knew those things were wrong but were unable to resolve them because those
things had already taken place in history; the specific things they planned had
deviated, which made it even less possible for them to resolve things.
Many people are reflecting on the issue I just
discussed (Master smiles). What I said was just about some major events
in history itself, and it doesn't involve Dafa disciples.
Question: When we do Dafa work we need to study
the Fa, but there is work that just needs to be done, too. During Fa-study
there are often phone calls coming in, and I feel torn. If I only take care of
myself and study the Fa, is that being selfish?
Teacher: I think when you study the Fa you should just
study the Fa, and no one should interfere. That's because if you don't
cultivate yourself well, you won't have mighty virtue in anything you do. If
you called an ordinary person over and gave him something or gave him some
money and asked him to do Dafa work, would he do it? He would, but then that
would be an ordinary person doing Dafa work, wouldn't it? But what would be the
point of that? What would be the ultimate goal of that? So Dafa disciples need
to cultivate themselves well, and validate Dafa while establishing their mighty
virtue. That is what Dafa disciples do, and you know how to do it and how you
can do it well.
But the condition is, it has to be when there
aren't major things at hand and it won't cause major problems for others--then
it's right to set everything else aside and study the Fa. For example, to avoid
interference while you study the Fa, you can switch your phone to "voice
mail" mode. (People laugh)
Question: With truth-clarification there's a
lot we should do, and no matter what we do we can never cover everything. I
can't finish the things I'm supposed to do. What should I do about this?
Teacher: I think you all realize now that time is
pressing. There are a lot of things that need to be done. Just do your best to
arrange your time well. Everyone is doing these things. Work together with each
other and coordinate your efforts, and maybe you can get things done faster.
Question: All disciples from World Falun Dafa
Radio send greetings to Master.
Teacher: Thank you. (Applause)
Question: Often we get requests from disciples
to record Master's new articles so they can can use them for Fa study. Since it doesn't contain
Master's voice, would you please tell us if it could still achieve the effect
of listening to the Fa?
Teacher: In the past, when my taped lectures on the Fa
were being translated, I talked about this issue, and that it's okay if
Master's voice is there. Yet my writings don't have my voice to go with them. I
think that during this special period of Dafa disciples validating the Fa it's
fine to do it this way, but the humans of the future can't do so.
I've made many things easy for Dafa disciples
as they validate the Fa. There are a lot of things that actually can't be done
in cultivation but I have allowed you to do them under special circumstances.
And that includes some of the approaches you use to clarify the truth. Since
they are done to save all beings, you're doing it like that, and it's not
wrong. If they were associated with personal cultivation, though, many of them
wouldn't be allowed and couldn't be done.
Question: I obtained the Fa after July 20th.
Recently I met with a big ordeal. I can't tell whether it's a test given by
Esteemed Master, or caused by my own attachments. I feel unworthy of Esteemed
Master's merciful and arduous salvation.
Teacher: For sure some things in cultivation can't be
figured out very quickly. Many attachments or causes can't be detected so
quickly, and that's why you might feel it's hard sometimes. But from a
different angle, if a cultivator could figure everything out right away and
pass whatever tests instantly, wouldn't that be too easy? (Laughing) It
would be a little too easy. I'm referring to personal cultivation.
Of course, in some cases what's at work is the
old forces interfering. They imposed certain things that the disciples should
not have to overcome at all, and even problems that are very hard to resolve,
and what's more, those things and problems have the effect of interfering with
this historic process of validating the Fa and saving all beings--there have
indeed been things like that. So what should Dafa disciples do then? I think
you should try your best to do well, study the Fa a lot, and do more of what a
Dafa disciple should do. A lot of things will be settled effortlessly if you
walk an upright path and do things well. You can't solve a problem for the sake
of solving that problem, as that might easily generate new attachments.
Question: How do we handle things well when
clarifying the truth from the angles of ancient Chinese science, culture, and
history?
Teacher: There are a lot of things from history that you
can draw upon, and you can cite facts from various fields of study. That should
be fine, but it has to be done in an appropriate way. If the examples you use
aren't appropriate then they won't be convincing. [It should be done] just right.
Question: My brother and I are English writers.
We'd like to know whether we could select certain people from history as
examples of traditional work. Shakespeare had quite an influence, as did the
ancient Greek writers. Can we write in styles similar to theirs? Are we setting
our standards too high by doing so?
Teacher: You're setting it too low. (People laugh)
You are Dafa disciples, and there's never been anyone like you. You are what
all other beings want to be but can't. You are creating new styles for the
beings of the future--isn't that something "high"? You may draw on
the positive aspects of some historical figures, but I think Dafa disciples
still need to walk their own path, right? Only then is it pioneering something.
(Applause)
Question: May I ask that Master talk again
about the stance of non-involvement Dafa disciples assume with politics, for
example, putting that chief wretch on trial?
Teacher: That evil being is the primary culprit in the
persecution of Dafa disciples. Our suing it isn't getting involved in politics.
It has persecuted so many Dafa disciples to death, shouldn't it pay for it?
Shouldn't we expose it? Shouldn't this evil persecution be stopped?
All beings in the Three Realms came for the Fa
and were created for the Fa. In other words, this includes all forms in the
Three Realms, including all the various forms that exist in human society,
among which, of course, are today's laws, as well as the other forms belonging
to mankind. Since all these were created by the Fa, why can't they be used by
Dafa in validating the Fa? They can. But we choose those that are upright and
good, and serve a positive role. We're using them selectively. That's looking
at it from a broader perspective.
Looking at it more narrowly, we haven't gotten
involved in politics. Whether mankind is good or bad, and what kind of social
system the Chinese people choose, those are all human affairs. My Dafa
disciples and I have never said what kind of system or way of life should be
adopted. For instance, many democracy activists advocate for a democratic
society, and I've never let Dafa disciples get involved in that. Dafa disciples
only aim at exposing the persecution. We're only trying to stop the
persecution. Shouldn't that be done? When your family members have been killed
by persecution, wouldn't you reason things out with [those perpetrators]? But
when you reason with them they say you've involved yourself in politics--is
that reasonable? No, it's not!
Since the day I, Li Hongzhi, started teaching
this Dafa, neither my students nor I have gotten involved in politics. We have
no interest at all in it. But our Dafa is beneficial to society. It's
beneficial to all people and nations that are under different social
systems--no matter what social system you're in. Only that most irrational,
most evil, most stupid thing in the whole world and of all time would do
something this dumb, persecuting the kindest group of people who are the most
beneficial to society. That's because in their eyes there is nothing but power,
and they couldn't care less about whether something benefits the people.
Whenever anything happens in society they immediately think about whether it
threatens their power. What a tiring way to live, and what a tiring way to
sustain that power! They've done evil for that reason. I'd say it's about time
their power was over. (Applause)
While you clarify the truth some people who've
been deceived by the propaganda's lies say that you're involved in politics.
They only say that because they've been poisoned by the evil. We'll explain
things to them, and help them see things clearly and become aware. Otherwise
those people will sever their future. Of course, what a person chooses is his
own business.
Question: Recently there have been isolated
cases in which the lives of Dafa disciples were taken away by the old forces in
the form of the sickness demon. Please tell us, could they achieve
Consummation?
Teacher: I've talked about this issue many times, and a
number of our students have in fact come to understand what it's all about.
From the perspective of cultivation, for a person to rise above ordinary
people, he has to get rid of all human attachments, and that's how the old
forces took advantage of this and arranged all those things. For instance, they
arranged for certain students to appear sick at certain times, and for certain
students to depart first at a certain time. The old forces arranged for some
people they picked to come in [to Dafa]. Those people seem to be cultivating
Dafa, and some even appear very diligent, but in fact they came in under the
old forces' arrangements to enable those things to happen when the time came.
It was the old forces' intention all along to weed out those beings. So, they
made them commit sins by doing things that would interfere with Dafa--that's
the role they wanted them to play. Of course, they only did that with the
beings they'd selected for elimination. Among my Dafa disciples there are some
who were used and deceived by them in the past, for example, [they might have said]
"for you to reach Consummation you'll have to do such and such at such and
such time." There are cases like that. That's why the true and fake ones
are mixed together, and it's difficult to tell right away which ones have come
to stir up trouble and which ones are Dafa disciples.
But, I don't look at any of that. Whether you
are arranged by the old forces or a Dafa disciple who was deceived by the old
forces, once you've read my Fa and become my disciple, you are a Dafa disciple,
and you don't acknowledge any of the arrangements the old forces made. Then I
will be responsible for you. However, the occurrence of those things has indeed
interfered some with Dafa disciples. Those students all knew not to acknowledge
the old forces' arrangements, but they had no way of escaping them. I save such
beings as well. (Applause) Of course, as for deceived Dafa disciples,
there's no doubt about it, Consummation is for sure. But with those who truly
played a bad role and were irrational, it's a different story.
Actually, during this time period the majority,
including both people arranged by the old forces and deceived Dafa disciples,
have done quite well, and they haven't caused additional losses for Dafa. And
their family members have done pretty well in different respects.
In fact, out of those killed by the persecution
in Mainland China, many were Dafa disciples deceived by them, while some were
arranged by them; they all agreed to it at some point in history, and that is
why it's hard to handle. Also, while being persecuted, they weren't clearheaded
or rational, and didn't remember that they were Dafa disciples, nor could they
remember Master, as if it were all just human beings persecuting other human
beings. Plus, they were arranged that way by the old forces back in history, so
they couldn't reject it. You tell me, how do you handle that? So, a lot of
things aren't as easy as you'd imagine. Cultivation is a serious thing, and the
Fa-rectification is by no means something trivial.
Question: The Chinese consulates threaten and
entice overseas Chinese groups with the promises of profit and gains. They take
advantage of overseas Chinese people's patriotic sentiment to incite hatred
against Falun Gong. What should we do?
Teacher: Clarifying the truth is the master key. They
win people over with money and incentives, which are all ordinary people's
things, and they only last temporarily. Yet what you give them are things that
have to do with their eternal existence, and the beings on Earth all exist for
this event. Don't undervalue what you're doing. When you've really clarified
the truth to the world's people in-depth, it will be different. If that still
doesn't work, then it's a matter of people choosing their future.
In the time between when I asked you to clarify
the truth and today, although this passage of history hasn't been long, the
changes are already tremendous. When I asked you to clarify the truth at the
beginning, there were still many factors obstructing things. Now there are
still some, but they have become very few. So in other words, as you clarify
the truth, there are fewer and fewer interfering factors, and there are more
and more factors that allow the world's people to understand what is going on.
Before, your truth-clarification didn't have good results sometimes. That was
foreign, evil factors interfering. Now it's different. Since you're
compassionate, let's think of ways to save the world's people, and have more
people know the truth.
All the things Dafa disciples do are
magnificent, and very important. As you clarify the truth, the words you speak
and the energy you emit have the effect of intimidating and eliminating the
evil. You are crucial in determining whether the beings in this world stay or
get eliminated. If your words are pure and righteous they will really go right
into the innermost part of people's thoughts, and instantly make people
understand.
Question: When we were making cartoons for
truth-clarification we found that there were bad factors behind some of the 3D
cartoon software. Some students felt unwell after using them for a while.
Should we stop using those software?
Teacher: It's true some things are bad. Actually, when
you use something you're selecting those beings and saving them. Some of what's
contained in there will be benevolently resolved, and some will be weeded out,
or changed and replaced. From a different perspective, your using it is being
compassionate toward it. Some deviated things need to be rectified or weeded
out, and that's the same as saving a life. But some things are extremely bad,
so you need to use them selectively.
Question: Only after having cultivated this
long have I realized what my fundamental attachment is, which is the attachment
to my self.
Teacher: Yes. To put it plainly, that's the fundamental
factor of beings of the past. In the past, when it came to this, you all had
it, and many people really couldn't realize it. With all of you improving as a
whole, it isn't that pronounced anymore.
Question: When we were validating Dafa before,
although things were done to validate Dafa, looking at them today they were
done on a selfish, self-validating basis. Our question is: why did we become
aware of this so late?
Teacher: Validating the Fa is also cultivation. The
cultivation process is one of continually recognizing your own shortcomings and
then disposing of them. It's only that the earlier a lot of fundamental
attachments are recognized the better. Recognizing them is, in itself,
improvement. Being able to eliminate them, or overcome them, weaken them, and
in the end completely eliminate them--that process is one of continually
improving yourself, and it's the fundamental transformation of a being.
Question: I'm the Assistant in a region in
Teacher: Being able to recognize it is itself a big
improvement. That's how cultivation is--when you constantly recognize your
shortcomings you are improving yourselves, but how to strengthen your resolve
is the most crucial thing for you to walk well the path that's ahead of you.
In passing I'll talk about something. In
Mainland
Actually, when I select people to be Assistants
I don't go by whose level is highest. In my eyes the beings are the same. I
don't see beings as you being better than him or him being better than her. I
only look at whether the person has the experience and enthusiasm of working
for a group. That's the only thought I have. I don't have thoughts like,
"This person is able to cultivate himself well and is better than others,
so I'll make him the Assistant." From the start of an ordinary person's
cultivation until he reaches Consummation, how he cultivates himself in the
process and whether he can achieve Consummation, everything depends on whether
this cultivator himself can do it.
In fact, many regular Dafa disciples who are
quiet and you don't hear much from have cultivated very well. Some have built
an excellent foundation, some have excellent bases, and some are great in every
regard. But if you ask them to do administrative work they might not be able to
do it. So, I select those students who are able to pull things together, do
things, and who are willing to put in for others, and have them be Assistants.
I've talked about these things a number of times. But, some Dafa disciples'
Assistants have performed truly well while some have performed a bit poorly. At
the outset of the persecution there were Assistants who compromised with the
evil since they hadn't studied the Fa for a long time, and that had an awful
effect. So when some of those students who had all along been watching and
following how others did things saw the Assistant do that, they would think,
"Oh no, how come he can't handle it anymore? Since he stopped practicing,
I will too." It's precisely those attachments that I want to eliminate
from our students. I want students to cultivate themselves and bring out their
own righteous thoughts. I don't want the goal of your cultivation to be helping
the head of the practice site, an Assistant, or the head of an Association to
cultivate. What everybody has to cultivate is himself.
During the persecution many of these students
have matured, become clearheaded, and grown rational. They finally understand,
after such painful lessons! In fact, I talked about it many times in the past,
but they just wouldn't take seriously cultivating themselves. There are no role
models in cultivation. You can't watch how others cultivate, and you can't just
fix your eyes on others--"If you do well, I'll do well. If you don't do
well, then I'll forget about it, too"--having no independent thoughts of
your own at all. Tell me, when it comes to those students, how am I supposed to
guide your cultivation? Are you the one cultivating? You're always foggy
headed, and your words aren't genuine. In cultivation you can't watch others,
you can only cultivate solidly on your own. How do you cultivate? Just study
the Fa a lot, and don't watch others. If you want to watch gods, that's okay of
course, but gods don't cultivate here. So, those who are cultivating here are
all human beings. Only with this human body can you cultivate yourself out of
here. As long as you haven't gotten rid of all human things you're still a
cultivator. Only when everything on the surface has finally transformed will
you be completely separated from human beings. But while cultivating you should
have clear awareness, cultivate away your deficiencies, restrain your
shortcomings, and eliminate your shortcomings. You must have a sense of
constantly climbing up. That's cultivating.
Question: After Master taught the Fa on
creating fine art, some disciples went to learn the basic skills of drawing and
painting. Does this affect their truth-clarification work?
Teacher: It does. I'll tell you, the basic skills of
painting and drawing are not something that can be trained and learned in one
or two years. Many people began their training at a young age, and it takes a
long time. All those highly accomplished painters have honed their skill for
over ten years or even decades. You might say, "I want to paint a painting
now, I want to paint a work of art," but we can't exhibit yours! (People
laugh) What I talked about was mainly for those Dafa disciples who'd
acquired the basic skills of painting or drawing or who specialized in that, or
in other words, those who are specialized and accomplished in that area. My
words were directed at them, telling them to change those notions of theirs
that have been influenced by modern ideas, and to have them present upright
things to humankind. If you try to learn [those skills] now it won't work,
because that's not something that can be accomplished in a short time. And
besides, I want them to present a high level of artistry. Be it sculptures or
paintings, mastering the basic skills is one of the most basic issues. Creating
a work of art is a painter's biggest challenge, it's really hard. Depicting
what's taking place in the subjects' minds and their expressions through
painting or sculpture, really bringing them to life, is not something that's
achieved just by mastering the basic skills. Upright, true art is a major skill
passed down to human beings by gods!
Question: How can we help more students step
forward and do the Fa-rectification work well together?
Teacher: Just do it with a lot of care and thought,
like when you clarify the truth.
Question: What are the three souls and seven
spirits, and how are they related to cultivation?
Teacher: Those are human things, and it's better that I
don't talk about them right now. Of course, I've talked about some things
regarding mankind to small groups in isolated situations, and that didn't
impact mankind. In the next phase, when human affairs are involved, I'll talk
about things within the Three Realms, including mankind's true history, the
purpose of the Three Realms' existence, the roots of the ethnic groups and the
origin of the human race and life, the true factors that compose the human
body, and why everything in the world exists.
The master soul (zhu yuanshen) and
subordinate soul (fu yuanshen) that I've told you about before were
discussed while I was imparting the Great Law. As for truly discussing the Fa
of mankind within the Three Realms, I haven't done that yet. So, all those
things are to be discussed in the future. Since it's divided into two
stages--Fa-rectification and the Fa's rectification of the human world--the
future stage is to handle the human place here, and [I will] comprehensively
explain the Three Realms, mankind, the relationship between the planets and
earth and between life and the human body, the reason for each stage of
development in human society--which is mankind's true history--gods creating
human beings, and so on. All human affairs will be discussed, and everything
that human beings don't believe in will manifest.
Question: Is there any overlap between the old
Fa-principles and the new Fa-principles?
Teacher: They're very different, and there is no overlap
on fundamental issues. The basis before was self-serving, whereas everything
forged by Dafa is not attached to self. When it comes to some specific issues
the understanding is the same. The concrete manifestations of good and evil are
basically the same. But many things have undergone some changes, and life will
be more wonderful in the future.
Question: Can we charge for the newspaper run
by our students?
Teacher: Of course you can. If a lot of people read the
newspapers you run, you can try it out by charging for a portion of them first.
Actually, the newspaper you've created has already truly become the groundwork
for the largest Chinese newspaper in the world. (Applause) It's
available even in small towns in the
Question: As a media form for clarifying the
truth, how can a radio station do better in assisting and coordinating with the
overall Fa-rectification situation and play a better role informing people of
the facts?
Teacher: It's the same as the other media forms
created by Dafa disciples. Learn from each other, draw from each other's
strengths and supplement the weaknesses, and you can all do well. At the very
least you can share news information and a lot of other resources, and that is
something other media don't have. You can give it a try. So to have people know
the truth, expose the evil's persecution, and save more beings, try to make the
radio station known to more people--even the Chinese people in Mainland
Question: My husband doesn't cultivate. He has
attended many Fa conferences and has done some things for Dafa, but he did bad
things. He wanted to correct himself, but there was a force that tormented him
mentally and he could no longer stay at home. We divorced. Does someone like
this still have hope of being saved?
Teacher: During this persecution, I can tell you that
strictly speaking, a lot of Chinese people have sinned against Dafa. So if you
don't save them as you clarify the truth, they really have no hope of
salvation. When you clarify the truth, aren't you giving them a chance? Aren't
you saving them? Of course, many of those people were your family before. Give
it a try. If they really prove to be hopeless, then it's different, and in that
case you won't need to ask me--you'll know whether he is savable.
Question: When we write scripts for a film,
should we directly write a script about the true situation, or use an everyday
person's approach though mixing in some content that clarifies the truth? Which
is better?
Teacher: You're just talking about different angles.
Both ways are fine. But no matter which form you use to write it, you are a
Dafa disciple, so you know how to validate Dafa and you are able to handle it
well. So I'd say however you write it is fine.
Question: Is it appropriate to teach modern
science on our TV station?
Teacher: I'll tell you that when Master discusses
science, actually I'm not negating it. It is a product of the cosmos. Actually,
I treasure everything that is forged by beings over a drawn-out period of time,
so long as it's not by nature damaging to the cosmos and it helps the cosmos
flourish. The course of life is not simple. I was only saying that science is
unsuitable for mankind. Haven't its deficiencies now been exposed?
You've seen how under the influence of science
human beings believe in gods less and less. And yet human beings were created
by gods. Not only were they created by gods, the purpose of creating human
beings was to allow lives that come from high levels to be saved when
Fa-rectification takes place. What's more, mankind will become a level that is
truly indispensable to the future cosmos, and will thus be connected to the
overall cosmos. It has such a huge purpose, and there's such a grand
background, and yet this science thing is damaging human beings' basic proper
thoughts.
When beings use science on a large scale, it
indeed has a very bad effect in the cosmos. The cosmos is a cycling entity, and
all factors of matter are cycling. In the process of being eliminated, the
beings that have sinned rid themselves of those sins. They are eliminated,
eliminated, and eliminated, until in that elimination process they are reduced
to only death matter with no life whatsoever, and then they will gradually rise
one level after another and be utilized. The cosmos is a cycling entity, and if
a substance is warped that will be a bad situation. The warped substance will
be absorbed by lower-level beings, the high-level beings can't go to the low
levels to resolve it, and when the substance that can't be resolved by
lower-level beings is used again, it sublimates during the cycling, and after
the initial warpedness sublimates, higher-level beings can't completely resolve
it, either. As it sublimates it can't be completely resolved at any of the
levels, and when this happens to numerous substances it causes a large part of
the cosmos to become warped.
You know, the steel and iron we have today,
most are composites of many different metals. When they are re-smelted you
cannot again make the metal pure, and no technology can completely separate
them anymore. You know, once chemical fertilizers are applied to soil, you
can't grow anything out of that soil if you stop chemically fertilizing it; it
won't grow anything anymore. The seeds that were chemically fertilized require
the chemical fertilization each time around. The warped seeds can't sustain
themselves without chemical fertilization. The chemical fertilizers, you know,
they're composites of chemical things.
There are many ways in which substances cycle.
I'll just talk about the simplest way in which substances cycle: the substances
of plants, animals, and the human body are all composed of particles, and there
are gaps among particles. When you magnify and look at the gaps, you'll see
that the gaps are huge. From those gaps smells are emitted, and those smells
themselves, from the vantage point of a microcosmic level, are in fact fields
that are composed of particles as well, so all animals and plants are emitting
microcosmic substances. Those things are continually used by the level above
them, and when all kinds of factors that compose water, air, and
substances--which are needed in composing human beings and other living
organisms--have warped due to the initial pollution, then what's used by the
dimension one level above is now fundamentally warped.
I've told you before that because of alien
science and technology, one layer of the human body, one of the human body's
layers of particles, has been placed fully under the control of aliens. It
consists entirely of alien planets' elements, including numbers, mechanical
structures, electronic components, and so on. It consists of that stuff. And
those things are continually creating a warped effect. The large-scale modern
industries brought about by science have impacted many low-level dimensions in
the cosmos. In my Fa-rectification I've found that quite a large layer of the
cosmos has been contaminated by those things. And those warped things have had
a considerably large resisting effect in the Fa-rectification.
Think about it, those things are warped, and
yet they've elevated to such microcosmic levels, so if gods then absorb them,
wouldn't those gods become warped too? And wouldn't the gods' worlds become
warped? That's what has happened, in fact. Think about how horrifying that is!
That's why I said that those things aren't suitable for mankind and can only be
used by beings within appropriate, extremely small parameters and in an orderly
fashion.
I'll tell you, the air has become so polluted
that no one can restore it back to the degree of purity it had before. We don't
need to go too far back: it can't even be compared to the air one thousand
years ago. Human beings have warped too, and they've gotten used to it. And
water has been so contaminated that there's no way to purify it to the purest
degree, since water cycles, as well.
I've told you before that water is water, and
ocean water is a different substance and not the same substance as freshwater.
Freshwater can be extracted from ocean water, and it's the same as how metal
can be extracted from rocks. It's extracted. Freshwater usually flows to a
lower point, and when it gets even lower it's the ocean, as the ocean is
certainly lower than land. So it flows into the ocean. But after it flows into
the ocean, the freshwater doesn't disperse. Particles of water are smaller than
the particles of the substances in ocean water, so the water flows through
those particles and flows away, it works like the network of energy channels in
the human body, and so the water then circulates back. That's why some rivers
continually flow for tens of thousands of years or hundreds of thousands of
years. Some people say that rivers flow due to the flow of underground water
and due to ice melting. But as you can see, how could those rivers be so huge?
And they've been flowing robustly for tens of thousands of years. For instance,
the Yangtze River and the major rivers in the
Some people erect dams to block major rivers or
minor ones in order to generate electricity and change and accommodate people's
electricity usage, and resolve energy problems. Actually, it's as if they are
cleaving the body of the river right in the middle, just as if it were done to
a human being or another life, because rivers are lives, too--isn't every
object alive? If you sawed off a person at his waist, what would that do to
him? Since a river is so large and since its time is different from that of
human beings, you can't see its changes right away, but it is dying, dying
slowly. Its dying process is longer than that of humans, taking decades or even
more than a hundred years. Don't people push for changing and re-creating
mountains and rivers, and changing and remaking nature? To change and remake
nature is to damage nature, and to change and re-create mountains and rivers is
to damage mountains and rivers. There's an underlying order to everything that
gods create. Gods view heaven and earth differently from how human beings do,
and they've arranged the equilibrium of all things very well. Human beings
should only utilize things in a friendly way and not damage them. Many of
mankind's natural disasters were caused by the fundamental damage science has
done. In its effort to "develop" science mankind has excessively and
wantonly harnessed energy and resources, and everything is being damaged.
You know, during the last century industry was
flourishing in Europe and the
Did you know this? Science's development in the
microcosmic realm is even more terrifying. In its study of the more microcosmic
particles, it makes the more microcosmic particles undergo fission, which
causes the microcosmic particles to have continuous, chain-reaction fissions,
which explode and split nonstop. The scientists have become aware of this and
now they're afraid of it. If the explosions continue on like that, it won't
take long before the entire earth disintegrates and is gone. At present none of
the scientists who did those things are able to stop this type of explosion,
and the fission and disintegration keeps on going. Those Chinese folks who knit
sweaters know what this constant unraveling is like, with one link after
another. And what science has brought upon mankind doesn't stop at that--isn't
it terrifying?
Mankind thinks computers are great--they make
things so easy! I'm not against computers, and I'm not against science. What
I'm saying is that they're not suitable for mankind. Other beings can use it
within a certain limited scope, since it is a product of the cosmos. Nowadays
some people are so dim-witted that without computers they don't know how to do
simple arithmetic, and without computers they don't know how to think things
over--they rely solely on what's stored in computers. And when you reason with
them they won't listen--"Let me see what the computer says." When you
explain things to them they refuse to listen. Mankind is heavily dependent on
computers now and can't do without them. What's more, the commands computers
send out, whatever they say goes, and all the users have to obey the computers.
Some people follow what computers say so closely. Aren't computers controlling
people? If computers are developed further, people's dependency will grow
greater, and computers' commanding nature will get stronger. That's when human
beings will really be controlled by computers. If robots are made almost
flawlessly and are just like the human body, and when robots are able to make
robots, mankind will be destroyed, because they will continually make robots
that will eliminate human beings. This sounds horrifying, and if it weren't for
Fa-rectification, which has curbed the unbridled development of man's science,
we would have already reached that point today. You can see how nowadays when a
lot of government staff handle a person's affairs, they don't listen to him and
just go by whatever the computer says. That's how bad it's gotten. Isn't that
horrifying? They go by computers--human beings have to go by computers and the
information stored in computers, since they're supposed to be accurate. But
human beings are complex, dynamic, and ever-changing; their thinking changes
too. And human beings are unstable and changing between being kind and wicked,
good and bad. Also, the things in the human world aren't stable, and human
beings aren't some static substance that can be summarized with a conclusion.
These are the negative things science has brought upon mankind.
Of course, nowadays that's what everybody is
learning, so if you don't teach it what else are you going to teach? So there's
nothing you can do about it. That's what you have to do during this period of
history, and it's not considered wrong, since the rectification of all things
is what's to be done in the future.
Question: Some Filipinos would like to
translate Zhuan
Falun into Filipino. If someone is going through the book and reading it but
hasn't become a cultivator, can he help to translate it?
Teacher: He can help to translate it, but Dafa
disciples need to take the leading role. That's because everyday people can't
understand the Fa, that's for sure, so you really have to be careful about
this.
Question: We have been working hard on
clarifying the truth to everyday people, and we have been clarifying to them
why this persecution of Dafa is the most evil in history. We tell them that
this persecution is worldwide and is a persecution of humanity, kindness, and
conscience, and that it's not limited to killing people physically. Could
Master please give us more guidance on this?
Teacher: That's true. What they're damaging is the
last bit of conscience that's left after the degeneration of mankind's
morality. And it's not limited to just those things [you mentioned]. If this Fa
couldn't save people, mankind would have no hope.
Question: Clarifying the truth is crucial for
solving all problems, and we need to do it comprehensively and in depth, so we
plan to set up museum(s) that document the facts of the genocide that has
befallen Falun Gong students, helping government officials, those who invest in
China, students, and media to understand the truth in depth, thereby saving
beings on a broad scale.
Teacher: That's an excellent idea. Those places can
display exhibits that chronicle Dafa disciples being persecuted and their
validating the Fa, and serve as a place to save beings and clarify the truth.
Question: Compassion arises after emotion is
removed. So how is mighty virtue cultivated?
Teacher: You walk this path of Fa-rectification well,
you manage to overcome your limitations in cultivation, you let go of your
attachments, you save all beings with righteous thoughts in your mind, and you
handle everything you face with righteous thoughts--that is mighty virtue. (Applause)
Question: In the Fa-rectification process I did
pretty well at the beginning, but later on I didn't do well and my righteous
thoughts faded.
Teacher: Then do things well. You live in ordinary
society, so all kinds of practical temptations in society appeal to the
attachments you haven't eliminated in cultivation. When you can't handle them
well problems will come up. Now that you've recognized it, just do things well
again.
Question: During truth-clarification, some
people ask, "Why would Dafa disciples bear so much torture and refuse to
give in?" It's not easy to answer this question at the level of everyday
people. How can we answer this question better?
Teacher: You can ask him back, "Why didn't the
Christians change their faith even though they were persecuted for over three
hundred years?" Actually, answering this question for everyday people
isn't a big deal really. Haven't there been a lot of people in Chinese history
who preferred death over giving in? Actually [the question comes up] because
the morality of today's people is no longer up to par, and they don't even
understand the essence of being human. There were many people in ancient
Question: There are some Chinese people
overseas who basically understand the truth about the persecution in
Teacher: Then don't talk to them about how Master saves
people. You can just stop at talking about the persecution. Don't talk about
things at such high levels. If people ask about it and they can understand,
then you can talk to them about it, but don't talk at a high level.
People can't understand cultivators, and you
can't explain things clearly in a few words, so the result will be the opposite
of what was intended. Don't talk at a high level. If in one shot you want to
tell him all the Fa-principles you've understood while cultivating you'll scare
him. You've come to this stage of understanding only after so many years of
cultivation, and you want him to instantly reach a level as high as yours? How
could that be possible? Even for you, you cultivated up step by step, so you
can imagine what it's like for him, an everyday person listening to the truth.
And what's more, he's somebody who was poisoned. So really make sure you don't
rush things.
Question: There is an adult class teaching the
Chinese language to Westerners at our
Teacher: You can teach them using Falun Gong. In
the beginning you can use Falun Gong. I've talked about how to discuss
things. You can discuss them based on your understanding and say, "This is
just my understanding." Or you can say, "This is how much I
understand right now, but it has many more, higher inner meanings, and what I
say isn't absolute." You can say those things and talk with the students.
Actually, a lot of people are studying the
revised edition of Falun Gong, and you don't need to explain things. The
person will understand if you will just read it to him, because the Fa is at
work. If there are isolated cases where they don't understand certain words per
se, and you want to explain those words, you need to add, "That's how it's
understood based on the modern language's grammar, but there are other meanings
in Dafa." There won't be any problem if you explain it that way. As for
learning the vocabulary, just explain the Chinese characters themselves [and it
should work out].
Question: How can we have kids participate
better in clarifying the truth? Are the people who'll obtain the Fa in the next
stage doing so during or after the Fa-rectification of the human world?
Teacher: The people who'll attain the Fa in the next
stage are already beginning to come. That's actually something for the next
step, when the Fa rectifies the human world. But now they're already coming,
because it's so close, and when Dafa disciples have a really good effect
clarifying the truth, the cultivators of the future will come. Kids can clarify
the truth based on the circumstances. They shouldn't be held to the same
standards as adults.
Question: Some disciples have realized that
it's also important to clarify the truth in the economic sphere, because right
now the evil...
Teacher: Yes, I thought of this long ago. Of the people
in the world, there are a lot of heads of big corporations, and I can tell you,
they had a wish in their previous lives to make money to use for Dafa. They've
now become lost, and not only have they not used it for Dafa, they're using it
for evil.
This time the old forces won't let those people
come and attain the Fa, and that's because they think: if you had too much
money the persecution wouldn't exist; if you had a few extremely rich people
supporting you behind the scenes, could that evil in
You can do what you mentioned, just do the best
you can. Sometimes it's not that easy to get through to those people.
Question: When there are disagreements over the
coordination and harmonization of the whole body, should we always look for our
own problems first no matter what?
Teacher: When there's a heated disagreement, think about
whether or not you have an attachment. If everyone kept righteous thoughts the
coordination would definitely be harmonious, and any problem would be resolved
quickly. When you're having a heated disagreement and nobody is willing to give
ground, you need to remember to look at yourself. Some students believe that
the argument is for Dafa's sake after all, and they use this to cover up their
attachments. When doing things for Dafa, your competitiveness, desire to show
off, clinging to your own emotions, feeling like your reputation is being
challenged, and other attachments might be mixed in.
Question: For those who have never heard of
Falun Gong, is there a need to mention the persecution in
Teacher: Of course you should, because sooner or later
he will hear about it.
Question: Master, you've said before that when
we cooperate well and do things together we're powerful. Is it correct to say
that Dafa disciples as a whole haven't shown cohesiveness?
Teacher: The whole body of Dafa isn't cohesive? That's
not accurate, it's wrong to say that. The truth is, nobody can damage the Fa.
Living beings, with the exception of myself, no life and no god knows my Fa.
And with the exception of a few gods at the beginning who saw the form of an
extremely small part of this Fa, no other life in this entire cosmos really
knows Dafa's true manifestation. The Falun that you can see is the
manifestation on the gong-side, but as for the Falun that truly
stabilizes the Fa, other than myself no being can see it--and it's boundlessly
powerful. (Applause)
This Fa is found in everything in the new
cosmos, and everything is permeated with Zhen-Shan-Ren. As for how well Dafa
disciples cooperate with each other, that's a matter of understanding of Dafa
and personal cultivation. The Fa is complete, it's something that nobody can
touch or see, and no life can budge it. While bringing with me Dafa and
everything that was created by it, I am advancing quickly and forcefully,
advancing towards the entire cosmos, towards the most microcosmic, towards the
greatest gods, and towards everything there is, continually advancing towards
the most surface, the lowest level and the world. Nobody can block it, it's an
unstoppable force. (Applause) I am working on everything in the cosmos
with tremendous speed and force.
Question: Your disciple has sinned, but I wish
to atone for my fault by doing good. May I?
Teacher: Yes, you may.
Question: Guangzhou Dafa disciples, Changchun,
Beijing, Hubei, Tianjin, Australia, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Hangzhou, Shandong,
Yantai, Xingtai, Handan, Jilin City, Zhanjiang city of Guangdong, Lanzhou,
students in England, the whole body of Dafa disciples in Toronto, the whole
body of young Minghui School disciples, Kansas, Pingxiang City of Jiangxi,
Shanghai, Kai'an, Dafa disciples in Japan, disciples in New Hampshire, Dafa
disciples in Fengcheng City of Liaoning, Guangxi, the whole body of Dafa
disciples in Scotland, Shihezi in Xinjiang, North America's Dafa disciples,
Yichang Dafa disciples, Dafa disciples in Vancouver of Canada, Weifang,
Mudanjiang, Dafa disciples of Mt. Emei, the whole body of Hengyang Dafa
disciples, Shanxi, and Dafa disciples of Russia all send their regards to
Master.
Teacher: Thank you all. (Applause)
Question: Recently in our activities, we often
interview ordinary people and various political parties and groups. Since they
show support for Dafa, this is going to lead a lot of people to think we have
political inclinations.
Teacher: What I think is, it's not a problem no matter
what political party it is that supports us, because they're people first of
all, they're beings to be saved, and you don't need to worry about what people
with bad motives are going to say. What Dafa aims at is people's hearts, we
don't aim at organizations, and it's fine for anybody to support Dafa. Whoever
plays a positive role in regards to Dafa, that's good, that's them choosing
their future. (Applause) We don't have political goals, and we don't
look at organizations per se. We only look at people's hearts.
Question: In the process of making phone calls,
[we've found that] the Mainland has a small number of veteran students who seem
to harbor some fears of persecution, and they don't want to say anything or
they change the topic. And there's one veteran student that came to the U.S.,
who, owing to his attachments to reputation and gain, of late appears to have quit
cultivation and often gets together with ordinary people of his own initiative,
and very seldom does he participate in Dafa activities. I'd like to ask Master,
can these people still cultivate?
Teacher: Whether to cultivate or not is up to the person
himself, it's all up to the person to decide for himself. If a person wants to
cultivate then he can cultivate, and if he doesn't want to cultivate then he
doesn't. You can only offer him some good advice. I have taught this Fa to him,
and I can save him when he cultivates, but whether or not he wants to be saved,
that's something a person decides for himself. I'd never force anybody, and
Dafa disciples wouldn't force anybody either. What I'm doing stems completely
from compassion, and it's totally for the good of all beings.
Originally I didn't want to speak for so long
today, but all the same I've spoken as long as I have. (Long applause)
There's a lot, in fact, that I don't need to state in detail. Dafa disciples
are all fairly mature now, and there's a lot you understand. Sometimes when I
see the articles you've written I'm really in admiration, and I feel proud of
you. I feel that the Dafa disciples truly have matured, and you really are able
to grasp the Fa I've taught, to really grasp it at a deep level. This
understanding is based on the Fa's truths and it arises out of righteous
thoughts. When clarifying the truth now a lot of Dafa disciples are doing a
really great job and doing it solidly. They're doing things quietly, with
resolute righteous thoughts and rationality, and they are not afraid of
hardship. Everything of the Dafa disciples' futures is born of your doing the
three things, especially clarifying the truth. When I see everything you're
doing I am thinking: truly amazing, you've truly, truly matured.
At present I don't say anything or say very
little for a reason. It's to let you truly walk your own paths in validating
the Fa, to let you correctly realize everything of your own and your mighty
virtue. In fact the most important thing I've talked about today is the matter
of saving all beings. I've centered on this topic, and I want you to become
even clearer on it. There are a lot of things you know how to handle, and if I
were to speak further in too much detail I'd be depriving you of your opportunities
to create the future, of your opportunities to walk your own paths, so
oftentimes I don't want to talk more and I'm just quietly watching you. I know
that you've really become more and more mature.
And the same goes for the Dafa disciples in Mainland
So, seeing these things I really feel gratified (applause), I feel that my Dafa disciples haven't let me down. Before when I used to speak, I'd say that I didn't do things in vain. But now I can't put it that way, because now it's not just a matter of not doing things in vain: I feel that the Dafa disciples have truly matured amidst the tempering, that they are truly validating the Fa, and that they are truly walking the final leg of the path to godhood. (Roaring applause)
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