Clarifying the Truth Well Can Solve Problems at the Source By Yu Yu (Clearwisdom.net) Looking back on my Fa-rectification
journey over the last three years, I find that the reason I do well in doing
many Dafa tasks is that I put Dafa first and at the same time let the standards
for Dafa disciples in the Fa-rectification period be my guide. Being able to
think and handle issues under these two conditions, I find that clarifying the
truth with righteous thoughts is fundamental and that, I would say, can solve
all the issues that we come across during Fa-rectification, but this absolutely
does not mean that I object to using other, auxiliary ways available in human
society.
In retrospect, I find that whenever my effort to tell people
the true facts about Dafa failed to achieve the desired effect, my human
mentalities had certainly come into play. I group these human mentalities into
the following several types:
1) Out of various concerns or worries, I did not have the courage to
unequivocally tell the facts. I hesitated and skipped the important parts.
As a result, although I tried, I failed to fully clarify the most basic
facts and left some gaps for the evil to take advantage of.
2) Because of interference from my human sentiments, I failed to proceed
calmly and compassionately, and truly for the benefit of the audience, which
made the audience unwilling to listen or object to our clarification
These two kinds of situations seem to occur more frequently
when we are telling the facts of Dafa to friends and relatives. Master told us a
long time ago, when we let go of our human sentiments, our benevolence will
appear. So, this is a xinxing (mind nature) issue.
3) To a greater or lesser extent, I treated the persecution
against Dafa and Dafa disciples as if it were one group of ordinary people
persecuting another group of ordinary people, and thus felt that I did not have
enough power to do what I wanted to do. I forgot that Dafa disciples have divine
powers. After Dafa disciples eliminated those evil factors by explaining the
facts and sending forth righteous thoughts, how could everyday people, who
supposedly are no longer controlled by these evil factors, still cause any harm
to Dafa practitioners?
4) I used to think of or handle issues in an oversimplified
way, taking the means that are often used by everyday people as the formula to
solve the issues I encountered, and overlooking what these issues really
represent from the viewpoint of Fa-rectification. As a result, I did not put
much energy into the Dafa work I was doing. If I had not corrected this attitude
in time, my mentality of thinking that doing Dafa works is the same as doing
everyday people's work would have become stronger and stronger, which would make
me fail to meet the requirements of Fa-rectification.
5) To be alert to new opportunities for clarifying the truth, we must not
slack off and must get rid of the mentality of fear. Actually, while we can
continue to use the several means or ways that we have successfully utilized, we
also need to continuously open our minds and be open to new ideas. There are
still many ways in the human society that we have not utilized. But our slacking
off and the conservative mentality have sometimes limited us and made us miss
some opportunities of clarifying the truth. Various ways can be used for telling
the facts to different people. For instance, we can let people know the facts in
airports or scenic spots, where we come into contact with Chinese people from
different regions and from all segments of society. In some other situations we
may have to seek out individuals and tell them the truth one by one in order to
widely spread the truth to that specific segment of the population and area. For
example, the U.S. Dafa practitioners' lawsuit against Zhao Zhifei during his
visit in the United States [He is the head of the Public Security Bureau for
the Hubei Province in China. He was charged with crimes against humanity,
including murder, torture and falsely imprisoning Falun Gong practitioner.
Please see http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2001/12/24/17104.html
for more details] and the Hong Kong's political trial [where
sixteen Dafa practitioners were falsely accused by orders of Jiang's minions of
"obstructing traffic" and "attacking police officers" by the
Hong Kong authorities because of their peaceful appeal to end Jiang's
persecution of Falun Dafa practitioners in Mainland China] have opened up
the doors for us to clarify the truth to the individuals, using specific
methods. Only by making the best use of all known ways can we come into contact
with people from all walks of life in the society and all individuals who have a
predestined relationship with Dafa, and make our efforts of clarifying the truth
more successful.
6) We should quickly put into effect whatever good ideas we
come across. While we know that during a peaceful time in our environment we
should make solid progress in our cultivation, it is my opinion that it is also
very important that every Dafa practitioner does Fa-rectification work, solidly
and steadily during the present time. Many factors may interfere with our
Fa-rectification work. What can really hinder us is the lack of powerful,
righteous thoughts and our minds not being very pure. As long as we maintain our
strong, righteous thoughts and promptly communicate with other Dafa
practitioners, it is not that difficult to break through those interferences and
hindrances.
Posting date: 9/6/2002 |