In Fa-rectification all of the cosmos's final, remaining
things will be born anew as they are disintegrated and re-created, and the
moment when the Fa rectifies the human world draws ever nearer. Over the past
five years, as Dafa disciples have validated the Fa they have established the
mighty virtue of gods, in the human dimension they have saved great numbers of
sentient beings and people through their righteous thoughts and righteous
actions, and they have destroyed great quantities of rotten demons and old-force
factors. And judging by the way things look in the human world, they have
lessened the evil's persecution, as well as freed sentient beings and the people
of the world from the control of the evil beings in other dimensions and from
the factors that interfere with Dafa. People are starting to take clear note of
and think about the persecution of Dafa disciples and the world's people. And
this has started to make the wicked people in this world who've had a hand in
persecuting Dafa disciples tremble with fear, and now they keep their evil
nature nearly at bay; some evildoers have even stopped persecuting Dafa
disciples. All of this has made for a much improved situation. This is what Dafa
disciples have accomplished with righteous thoughts and righteous actions before
the Fa rectifies the human world. Dafa disciples are now seen by the gods in a
new light, having become beings forged by Dafa amidst the Fa-rectification--the
Disciples of Dafa. The path that Dafa disciples have walked in validating the Fa--where
as they cultivate themselves they also save sentient beings, accommodate the
needs of the cosmos's Fa-rectification, and disintegrate and clear away the dark
minions and rotten demons that are negatively impacting the Fa-rectification and
doing evil against Dafa disciples, as well as all the elements of interference
and persecution arranged by the old forces--such is the complete path of
cultivation, Consummation, and becoming a magnificent god that Disciples of Dafa
walk.
By contrast, when it comes to those who hide in their homes
and "study the Fa," no matter the excuse, it's actually due to the
attachments they can't let go of. Those people even form little cliques,
complain together and make off-base comments to one another, adopt a negative
attitude about Dafa disciples' validating the Fa and everything that Dafa
disciples are doing, constantly nitpick about other students' faults and
shortcomings in cultivation, and even spread rumors both in China and beyond.
What they do pleases the evil and helps the evil in the persecution. Some people
say, "I only read Zhuan Falun, I don't read the new
scriptures." Are you still my disciple? Let me make this clear to you: the
period before July 20, 1999, was one of personal cultivation and comprehending
the Fa, and in the process of comprehending it one could arrive at Consummation,
but that is not the end of a Dafa disciple's cultivation; in the ensuing five
years, the situation has been reversed, who can truly make it and who cannot
needs to be seen, those who are not truly cultivating are weeded out, and the
five years have been a time when those Dafa disciples who truly cultivate
establish their mighty virtue and save beings. Why is it that a being needs to
be saved by Dafa and me personally? Or, to put it plainly, [think about] what
kind of a being is worthy of salvation by the Great Law of the cosmos? For a
being who is saved, could it just be about personal Consummation? So what kind
of being deserves to be a Disciple of Dafa? Would you say those people who hide
in their homes and "study the Fa" do? Or those who only want to gain
from Dafa but don't want to give for Dafa? Furthermore, what about those who,
while Dafa disciples are being persecuted, don't want to speak up for Dafa and
yet still "read the book" at home and try to get things from Dafa--what
kind of people are they? You be the judge.
Master sees that danger is already approaching you. I don't
acknowledge the old forces' arrangements, and that includes this persecution,
but I knew that the old factors who would be impacted by Fa-rectification would
do this, and that it was just a matter of time and of which ones. In other
words, it would have been best if the persecution hadn't happened, and if it
hadn't happened, I would have had you take [different] paths in that scenario.
Now that the persecution has happened, I've made use of it so as to have Dafa
disciples nullify the persecution while validating the Fa, thus establishing the
mighty virtue of Dafa disciples. Do you think a Dafa disciple's cultivation path
is supposed to accommodate your fear, your pursuit of comfort and ease, and all
your desires? Do you think that the religious cultivation methods and beliefs of
long ago are the only forms of cultivation? If the Three Realms and everything
throughout the history of man was planned for the Fa-rectification of the
cosmos, then the sole purpose of history was to enable Dafa to create,
throughout the course of history, sentient beings and mankind, along with the
human mind and culture, so that when Dafa would be spread widely people's
thinking would allow them to comprehend the Fa and understand what the Fa is,
what cultivation is, what it means to save sentient beings, and so on, as well
as understand the variety of cultivation forms. If that's the case, then weren't
all the cultivation ways and beliefs in history establishing a culture in this
world for the later Fa-rectification of the cosmos? What course is needed for a
human being to become divine? The gods on high all say that I have given human
beings a ladder to heaven.
And there are some people who think that Master, like the
people of the world, can't do anything about the persecution. Did you know that
the world's big monster is, other than the fact that the old forces are ensuring
it lives until the so-called "tests" come to an end so that they can
use it, acting under my command? Haven't some people said that when I tell it to
jump, it jumps, when I tell it to go mad, it goes mad, and when I tell it to go
wild, it goes wild? Don't you all know that whenever I say or write something,
it leads just about its whole hoodlum gang that persecutes Dafa disciples to
"study" it right away, day or night? Right now, it looks like it has
been cast out amidst political rivalry--isn't that because the wicked rotten
demons that controlled it stopped functioning? That's the only reason people
could do, and dared to do, that to it. How could you deny that, the impact of Fa-rectification
aside, it's the result of Dafa disciples' thinking and acting righteously,
exposing the persecution, and nullifying the old forces' arrangements as they
validate the Fa, take action against the persecution, and save beings?
Some people have family members who have been imprisoned in
the persecution and are being persecuted, and yet instead of hurrying up and
working along with everyone else to resist the persecution, stop the
persecution, and lessen the persecution of your family members, you're talking
about things like "studying the Fa at home" and you're still full of
complaints about everything that [Dafa] students are doing. Did you know that
when the persecution of your family members who have been imprisoned is lessened
or stopped, it's the result of Dafa disciples exposing and shocking the evil
beings while braving evil and danger to take action against the persecution?
When they get out, how will you bear to face them? What have you done for them?
A cultivating human being is not a cultivating god, and everyone makes mistakes
in the cultivation process; the key is how you deal with them. Some people are
able to recognize them and some aren't, and then there are people who don't want
to recognize them because of their attachment of fear and some other factors.
Cultivation is not about taking part in ordinary people's political struggles,
and even less is it about fighting for power or gain. The notions, bad habits,
and tendencies that you've formed in ordinary society and in political circles
and the like are looked down on even among ordinary people, so even more so
should they be disposed of in cultivation.
Cultivation is the process that enables a human being to
ascend to heaven and become a god, so how could it not be hard? The Buddhist
religion used to talk about "stick wake-ups," so let me give my
version of a stick wake-up to those who don't measure up and have put themselves
on the brink of danger.
Li Hongzhi
October 11, 2004
Editor's note: The translation is subject to further
improvement so as to be closer to the original text. Last updated: October 15, 2004.
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