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| Using the area for being able to meaningfully present the issues that need to be addressed in relation to the Falun Gong article and in particular the need to explain Fa-rectification etc. | |||
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| '''Teaching the Fa at the 2003 Atlanta Fa Conference''' | |||
| WP:AE is still in progress and several people have spoken in your defense ] (]) 16:27, 22 February 2011 (UTC) | |||
| Question: In the process of making phone calls, 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? | |||
| :thx, had meant to respond and explain. I wasn't trying to get out of sanctions (I didn't know it worked like that), just found the process unappealing. --]] 17:05, 22 February 2011 (UTC) | |||
| ::Retiring for a period to wait out and avoid sanctions is a very reasonable approach. I think it came out wrong I did not mean imply any sinister motivation. ] (]) 17:13, 22 February 2011 (UTC) | |||
| == Arbitration enforcement topic ban: Falun Gong == | |||
| 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. | |||
| In application and enforcement of ], per , you are indefinitely topic-banned (as per ]) from ]. I will consider lifting this sanction on appeal after at least a year of unproblematic editing. <small><span style="border:1px solid black;padding:1px;">]</span></small> 23:41, 22 February 2011 (UTC) | |||
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| == Main page appearance: Tiananmen Square self-immolation incident == | |||
| 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? | |||
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| 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) | |||
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| 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. | |||
| The ''']''' took place in ] in central Beijing on 23 January 2001. The incident is disputed: the official Chinese press agency, ], stated that five members of ], a banned spiritual movement, set themselves on fire to protest the unfair treatment of Falun Gong by the Chinese government. The Falun Dafa Information Center stated the incident was a hoax staged by the Chinese government to turn public opinion against the group and to justify the torture and imprisonment of its practitioners. The incident received international news coverage, and video footage was broadcast later in the People's Republic of China by ]. A wide variety of opinions and interpretations of what may have happened emerged: the event may have been set up by the government, it may have been an authentic protest, or the self-immolators "new or unschooled" practitioners, among others. The campaign of state propaganda that followed the event eroded public sympathy for Falun Gong, and the government began sanctioning "systematic use of violence" against the group. (]) | |||
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| ] (]) 23:01, 2 April 2012 (UTC) | |||
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| You’ve experienced so much in these few years, and all of you have endured tests in the form of many trials and tribulations in this persecution. It hasn’t ended yet—you’re still validating the Fa, you’re still walking the path that a Dafa disciple should walk. Until the evil factors are completely cleaned out you can’t let down your guard, and you should still try even harder to completely eliminate the evil factors that persecute the Fa-rectification and Dafa disciples. Actually, the old forces are nothing more than an enormous tribulation that was set up in the cosmos for my Fa-rectification. Way back when, no being thought I could overcome it. So with that understanding, a lot of the cosmos’s high-level beings took the stance of watching from the sidelines, while the beings who’ve taken part have been using the opportunity of the Fa-rectification to do what they want, with absolutely no second thoughts about it. But as for the matter at hand, many of the cosmos’s Kings and Lords know that it is critical to the survival of the firmament; if this Fa-rectification doesn’t succeed everything will be gone. Yet they don’t want fundamental changes. So it’s exactly under the effect of this complicated state of mind that the beings of different levels have demonstrated the true realms deep inside themselves and their behavior. | |||
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| Also, the beings you save when you clarify the facts and save sentient beings aren’t ordinary human beings. Behind every person there are extensive and deeper cosmic ties. So what you’re saving isn’t that one person, and it’s quite possibly a gigantic group of beings, or even a gigantic group of beings at very high levels. I’ve said that none of what’s been bestowed upon and entrusted to Dafa disciples is simple—it’s all really magnificent. But under normal circumstances none of the things we do when we’re validating the Fa look like miracles or divine occurrences. They’re all just human in form on the surface. That’s why with lots of things it looks like we’re doing ordinary human things. And especially when it comes to all those people who don’t know much about Dafa, they think that all we’re doing is ordinary human stuff. But in fact it’s different, it is fundamentally different. Our starting point, our goals, and the objective we want to achieve are all different from those of ordinary people. We aren’t trying to achieve some ordinary human things among ordinary people. We aren’t interested in ordinary people’s money, or ordinary people’s politics or political power. You are cultivators, and Dafa disciples want to achieve the Consummation of their cultivation. In this Fa-rectification it’s been fully shown that what Dafa disciples do can’t be done or accomplished by ordinary people. When Dafa disciples validate the Fa, how come one person can do what it would take ten or a hundred people to do? And, while validating the Fa you’ve seen that the kind of cultivators’ mighty virtue that the Dafa disciples in Mainland China have displayed in the face of death is something ordinary people couldn’t achieve—that’s not something ordinary people could do. And what’s more, this persecution hasn’t just gone on for a day or two, it’s lasted for a few years now. Being able to come through under that kind of long-term, awful torment—you can’t compare that to enduring momentary pain or to something driven by impulse. That’s why I say that Dafa disciples are outstanding. Today I can tell you this: Dafa disciples are magnificent, and you’ve established Dafa’s magnificence in validating the Fa in the human world. (Enthusiastic applause) | |||
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| A lot of students have said that Master is so merciful. Strictly speaking, in fact I’m not amidst mercy. Neither am I amidst evil. If I were amidst mercy, the negative beings would be completely weeded out in the cosmos, in which case the balance would be lost in the cosmos, and as a result all beings would find life meaningless. If I were amidst evil, how would the good beings survive? The cosmos would become a demonic body. I don’t have any of that, and I’m not amidst any of that. But I know about all of it, I’m able to control all of it, and I’m balancing all of it. The Fa’s principles in the cosmos are absolutely just. I came with good thoughts, and I came with the wish to save all beings. (Enthusiastic applause) What’s taken place has proven that this is how I’ve been doing things, and it’s precisely the old forces who have interfered with the Fa-rectification. | |||
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| No matter how long of a historic process the human race has gone through over the course of Earth’s existence, be it thousands or tens of thousands of years, in the eyes of Gods it’s been a quick process. It’s the time here that has created a difference in time for sentient beings. As beings who came into the Three Realms, as Dafa disciples in the Three Realms, you all know that this Three Realms didn’t exist before in the cosmos. As I’ve discussed a number of times while teaching the Fa, the reason it was created was for the Fa-rectification to make use of it here during the final stage of formation-stasis-degeneration-destruction. If it couldn’t truly play a Fa-rectification role during the Fa-rectification, or, in other words, if this Fa-rectification were to fail, or during the Fa-rectification at this human place the human beings didn’t show a positive attitude toward Dafa one bit and Dafa disciples didn’t perform well, if any one facet didn’t go well, then the Three Realms wouldn’t exist in the future cosmos. To put it another way, this place here would disappear in the near future. But Dafa disciples have done really well and accomplished what Dafa disciples were supposed to, humankind has shown its positive side, and I’ve harmonized here what I wanted to have. (Applause). | |||
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| '''Teaching the Fa at the Conference in Vancouver, Canada, in 2003''' | |||
| It’s clear what our starting point is. The essence of what you are doing as a cultivator is improving yourself and cultivating yourself, and, during this persecution, exposing the evil, bringing the persecution to an end, and rejecting the old forces’ arrangements. So a lot of the things you do look like what ordinary people do, but their very nature is different. The fundamental difference is that our ultimate goal and our starting point are different from theirs. We’re only utilizing some ordinary means in the ordinary society. The ordinary society, too, is a level that the Fa has created for humankind, so at this level we validate the Fa by making use of the culture that the Fa created for ordinary people and the various forms in which it can exist. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with these things. | |||
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| I make a practice of compassion (cibei). I can disregard the bad things people have done to, or have said about, Dafa disciples and me during this persecution, as well as the things they’ve done to make the situation worse. Of course, that’s not true for those who’ve caused great damage to Dafa, though. Those ones aren’t savable. Yes, the Fa can save anything and everything—you’ve heard Master tell you that I can turn everything into the best thing, no matter how bad it is—I can do all that, the Great Law can do that, but some malicious people have committed such sins against themselves during this persecution that they no longer deserve to hear what Dafa disciples have to say and no longer deserve to be saved by Dafa, in other words, in this persecution they’ve already positioned themselves for their futures and lost the chance to be saved. So these people aren’t included. I’ve said that no matter how bad a being had become throughout history, he’d still have a chance. Whether he’s in the human dimension or another dimension of any level, as long as he hasn’t sinned against Dafa during this persecution, then no matter how huge his sins were during the course of history in the ordinary society or in another dimension of any level, I can save him. And I’ve said this to you: I disregard the past wrongs of any being in history. That’s because even the cosmos is no longer good enough, and beings can no longer be compared to beings of the stage of formation and stasis periods, so when everything is no longer good enough I don’t want to compare and pick which ones are relatively better. I just want to save everyone, and as long as they don’t sin against the Fa-rectification itself, I can save them. I’ve been holding fast to this principle while doing things. (Applause) | |||
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| Of course, if you look back and think about it, you’ll see that I, as your Master, treat sentient beings with the greatest mercy. So if despite all of this I still can’t save you, then there have to be consequences in store for such people. You know, a lot of students want to see me, and a lot of ordinary people want to see me. When some people see me they get excited without knowing why, and when some people see me they feel especially warm and close. Some people get so excited they want to cry. That’s because their knowing sides all know that whoever sees me, I will help him, (applause) and I can reduce the sins and karma he made throughout history. (Applause) So no matter what your job is or what you do, as long as you see me, I’ll have you develop good (shan) thoughts, and as long as you see me I’ll reduce your sins and your karma amidst your good thoughts. (Applause) In fact, everyone in the world has a knowing side, they’re aware. Or to put it another way, it doesn’t matter what you’ve done or what you do, I treat all of you this way. (Applause) Maybe this is the “greatest mercy” that people talk about. Of course, that’s how it manifests among the beings at this level. When I treat people like this, when I treat the world’s people like this, if under this kind of mercy and under this tolerance that completely surpasses how ordinary people treat beings, and still the world’s people, human beings, are harming Dafa and letting down the Dafa disciples who are trying to save them, then Buddha Fa has its dignity, and when they still don’t do well after such mercy there’s absolutely no hope for their existence. | |||
| You know about SARS in China, well, back in the past the old forces decided to to eliminate eight million people in China. Instead of being repentant they’re still hiding the facts there. Out of compassion for human beings, wants to give human beings more chances and doesn’t want to have so many people die. But instead of being repentant, they’re even using SARS to persecute Dafa disciples and they’re covering up the facts. The people in power are ordinary people too, and they too are subject to divine punishment. Gods are warning the world’s people, and yet people still want to cover things up and prevent the world’s people from learning their lessons. Then what they have in store for them is even worse punishment from the heavens! In other words, while I’m treating all beings with the greatest mercy, if some of you beings still can’t come through, then I’ll leave you alone, and there will of course be other ways to deal with you. To put it another way, Buddha Fa is merciful, but it also has the solemn nature of Gods, and people aren’t allowed to just do whatever they want and not take Gods’ mercy seriously. That’s an act of blasphemy toward Gods. | |||
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| Actually, the ones who’ve been interfering with the Fa-rectification are the gang of old forces. Relatively more beings in the gigantic cosmos haven’t taken part in it, and their state is one of watching things. But, once the overall, immense current of Fa-rectification arrives, whether they’ve been observing it or taking part in it, they will all be resolved in the Fa-rectification; those who should be assimilated will be assimilated, those who should be benevolently resolved will be benevolently resolved, and with those who can’t be assimilated or benevolently resolved, if their levels should be lowered their levels will be lowered, and those who’ve committed crimes and should be cast down will be cast down. I’d say it’s not easy for a being to enter the future, it’s no easy thing, and that’s because the future doesn’t belong to the beings of this cycle. If you look at it from the perspective of the old understandings, for beings of this cycle to enter the future, for them to enter the next cycle of cosmic bodies that don’t belong to them, that’s absolutely impossible. During this Fa-rectification have been treating everything and all beings with the greatest mercy, and that’s the reason wanted to assimilate these beings and get them over there from this old cosmos, and that’s why I set out to do Fa-rectification of the cosmos. If this weren’t the case, there wouldn’t be any opportunities at all for the beings of this cycle to go to the future. The future doesn’t belong to them, it doesn’t belong to these beings of the present. So if someone wants to go to the future he has to meet the requirements of the future. | |||
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| I’ll have everything of the future go down the most righteous path. So, the people of the future will be blessed. This human society will remain in the future, so it’s a blessing for the beings in the future, for the sentient beings at different levels in the future, because it’s an opportunity, and it’s a part of Dafa’s harmonizing and perfecting beings. So in comparison, the human society of the future will have great changes and differences from today’s human society. Haven’t a lot of people said that the people of the future would be blessed? For the cultivators of the past, cultivating was hard. Many people who wanted to cultivate thought of a way: to suffer and cultivate through suffering. Cultivating through suffering can indeed reduce karma, because you’re cultivating, after all, so you can elevate. But even when they gave it all they had, their levels were still limited, and most of them couldn’t go beyond the Three Realms. The reason was, there wasn’t Fa to guide their cultivation, and they didn’t know the Fa’s standards and requirements at different levels. And the beings at different levels had a hard time being responsible for them. It’s not that Gods weren’t merciful to them, it’s the law of mutual-generation and mutual-inhibition at work in the cosmos. Whenever somebody has a thought, it produces different elements that are from both the positive and the negative sides. When you have a thought of goodness, evil emerges as well, and when you have an evil thought, it too has an effect. That’s why many cultivators have said that “both good and evil emerge out of one thought.” But who really knows the truth behind those words? Gods can’t act rashly. Saving people isn’t a trivial thing. Why was it that when Jesus saved people and was doing such a huge good deed, the beings in the Heavens controlled things like that? And why’d they even have him crucified? It appeared that he was suffering for humans’ sins, but why would a God have to suffer for mankind’s sins? Why didn’t higher Gods intervene? Why couldn’t Gods directly reduce humans’ sins? In the past, these were laws in the cosmos—everything was like that. From my perspective it’s because the old cosmos’s Fa lacks wisdom in this regard, so next time it won’t be like this. In the future a lot of huge changes will take place, so for sentient beings it will be wonderful all around, and such wickedness won’t exist. | |||
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| Mankind will be given the greatest blessing, that means the future mankind won’t have standards as low as the present mankind, and that is the greatest mercy. (Applause) When everything’s no longer so wicked the environment will be elevated, relatively speaking. The suffering won’t be so low, and everything will be maintained at a foundation that has a higher standard than the current mankind, and where everything will be evaluated by the Fa at this level. So as for the future people, those who are able to step into the future are blessed. And why is that? It’s because Dafa was spread here, this place was created for Dafa, the beings here made sacrifices, and they are credited for history’s progression to this point today. So blessings will be given to the future beings and to the future mankind. | |||
| '''Teaching and Explaining the Fa at the Metropolitan New York Fa Conference''' | |||
| For Dafa disciples there are just three things right now. One is clarifying the facts. One is sending righteous thoughts—sending righteous thoughts has an effect on your own bodies and things outside of your body. And the other is cultivating yourselves and studying the Fa well. These three things are of utmost importance. Now you’re all clear on the purpose of clarifying the facts, which is to expose the evil persecution and to let the world’s people know and to let the beings in the cosmos know. While you’re clarifying here, layers upon layers of your bodies that have completed cultivation are also clarifying at cosmic bodies of different levels. You have to expose the persecution and the evil drama, and you have to let the world’s people see it clearly, and this too suppresses it and eliminates it. Clarifying the facts is most powerful, and it’s an act of grand compassion since this persecution is completely based on lies and deception. So you’re all clear on the purpose of Dafa disciples’ sending righteous thoughts, which is mainly done to clean out the evil beings that control the human race and make it do evil against Dafa and persecute Dafa disciples and the world’s people, and it’s to save the human race and sentient beings, and to clear out the obstacles to Fa-rectification that were set up. So it’s of utmost importance. No Dafa disciple can neglect this. Nor can you use any excuse to neglect sending righteous thoughts. That’s because if you don’t cleanse yourself well you won’t be able to do well yourself, and if you don’t cleanse yourself well you’ll also interfere with others. The third thing is studying the Fa well. If you don’t study this Great Law well your own Consummation won’t be secured. What’s more, all the important Dafa things you should do will be like ordinary people going about their business, with ordinary-person thoughts and with an ordinary person’s basis, and then that’s just ordinary people, at best that’s just ordinary people doing good deeds for Dafa. Since you’re Dafa disciples you can’t dissociate yourselves from the Fa when you do things. You’re still continually changing this most surface part that hasn’t changed. That’s why you can’t go without studying the Fa. You must study the Fa well. In the process of studying the Fa you’ll be able to keep clearing away bad elements in yourself, changing the last bit of stuff you have that hasn’t yet been changed. Why did I always use to tell you so emphatically to study the Fa, study the Fa, and study the Fa well? Because it’s of utmost importance. | |||
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| What I’m saying is, during your cultivation you have to seize the day and cultivate yourselves well. No matter how busy you are or how many things you have to do, you can’t neglect your own Fa study and cultivation. It’s the fundamental guarantee that you’ll do well in validating the Fa, and it’s also a guarantee that you’ll be able to make it to the last step. Many, many things appear ordinary, but infinitely wonderful and magnificent special honors are contained in them. If you can do the three things well then everything is covered, everything is encompassed. There isn’t much time left to validate the Fa. Just take a look—the evil is about to fall apart. You folks in the audience have come through from July 20, 1999. You’ve seen how things were then and now. It doesn’t matter how rampant the evil is in some parts of China, it’s not the same anymore. And this is true around the world. People are more and more clear about this evil persecution. The world’s people are awakening. Changes like this only come about when the evil has been eliminated to that extent. Only when the evil is purged can people awaken. To put it another way, the evil persecution can’t hold up anymore, and the time that was given to the evil is running out. If before the enormous force of Fa-rectification arrives the old forces think that they can no longer test the Dafa disciples and establish mighty virtue for this Fa, then the old forces will make them get off the stage of history and enter the gate of no life, and this thing will be over. So you’ve got to seize the day. During this last period of time before it ends you really don’t want to let yourselves down, and you should do the last things well. Now, Master isn’t leading you to revolt like those revolutionaries (people laugh), Master isn’t leading you to take away somebody’s political power. Master is leading you to cultivate. (Applause) What you expose is the evil, the evilness of that scoundrel regime, and the purpose is to restrain the evil, to eliminate the evil, and to eliminate the persecution of Dafa disciples and Dafa (Applause). It isn’t about getting some ordinary people’s things out in the ordinary world. So when you do things you have to do them from the standpoint of a Dafa disciple. You need to have ordinary people understand the things you do, and you don’t want to make ordinary people think we’re after some ordinary thing—absolutely not! Of course, as of today that which doesn’t understand is just the human surface—the people of the world actually do know. And why do I say they do know? Because every being has a side that knows; he knows what Dafa is all about. Things were how they were a while ago because evil elements separated the human surface from the side of people that knows, and they manipulated the human surface that doesn’t know. Now those elements are being gradually cleared away, more and more of them are being eliminated, what’s left is becoming less and less, and the world’s people are becoming ever more awake. | |||
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| Question: Would you please tell us, in the Fa-rectification what state are the factors in the cosmos that surpass the last being of the old forces in? Did they not think of saving themselves before the Fa-rectification of the cosmos, or are there other reasons? | |||
| Teacher: The ultimate factor of the old forces is evil toward the Fa-rectification itself, is selfish, and is an enormous tribulation for the cosmos that was planted for the Fa-rectification itself. The Gods of the old forces that are all throughout have their own specific arrangements for what they want at different specific levels. So at each level they arranged for the success of the Fa-rectification. But from the perspective of the Fa’s mighty virtue, the old forces at higher levels are eliminating the ones at the next level down, because they know that whoever takes part in the Fa-rectification will have to be eliminated—this is the Great Law of the cosmos after all, so no being at any level is worthy of influencing it. The reason I say that the ultimate old forces are evil is that when the Fa-rectification proceeds to the end it’s found that they are no more than an enormous tribulation planted for the Fa-rectification, and they’re nothing more than that. | |||
| Before the Fa-rectification of the cosmos began they had their plans, which were self-serving. I find that once I start talking about certain things it gets really involved and will take a long time. If I were to answer any of your questions in detail it could take days, because when it comes to the process that’s involved, the higher the level, the more the Fa that I teach elevate from the truths below, and so it becomes hard to understand if I don’t talk about the process in the middle. Even though it’s all-encompassing and all-harmonizing… you know, there are small Faluns, large Faluns, and larger Faluns, and like the cosmos, Faluns are all-encompassing and all-harmonizing, but in larger cosmic bodies there are Faluns as well, and in larger and larger cosmic bodies there still are, and in larger and larger and larger cosmic bodies there still are. However large a cosmic body is, there are Faluns that large. When it gets to the upper-level cosmic bodies there are greater truths there. But overall the truths in the colossal firmament are connected, all-encompassing, and all-harmonizing, so as changes occur from level to level the Fa’s truths in the cosmic bodies change significantly. | |||
| Question: Will the mankind of post Fa-rectification of the human world have any memory of today’s mankind? | |||
| Teacher: Mankind, the mankind of the future, they’ll eulogize today’s Fa-rectification for generation after generation. (Applause) The truth about this persecution hasn’t yet been fully revealed for mankind to see. Mankind will be shocked. The Consummation of Dafa disciples, the occurrence of everything that mankind doesn’t believe in, and the process of all of mankind’s deviated things being rectified—these will be soul stirring, and not just shocking but terrifying. All of those things will happen. So this segment of history will be passed down by mankind for all eternity. | |||
| '''Explaining the Fa During the 2003 Lantern Festival at the U.S. West Fa Conference''' | |||
| ''Question: Greetings, revered Master! When you taught the Fa this morning, you mentioned that the old forces are taking advantage of a small number of practitioners who display certain states. Is it the same as the qigong psychosis mentioned in lecture six of Zhuan Falun?'' | |||
| Teacher: Actually, they’re causing interference in a variety of areas. What I said in the morning was encompassed by and supplementing Zhuan Falun. Zhuan Falun talks about things in a general sense but it contains very deep inner meanings. If you don’t study the Fa often, then the Fa I’m teaching right now will seem hard to understand. The profoundness of the Fa-truths of the Dafa of the cosmos isn’t something that can be fully grasped at low levels. The Fa can manifest itself at different levels, and it can manifest itself in broad ways and specific ways at the same level—it’s all-encompassing. | |||
| ''Question: Because of attachments, I’ve been in a poor state for a long time. I want to do Dafa work well, yet I’m afraid that my poor state will affect other practitioners. Should I set the work aside and really put a lot into cultivating myself for a period of time?'' | |||
| Teacher: It won’t affect anything if you study the Fa while you do Dafa work. Master doesn’t have any objection to that. Also, those of you here, whether you’re a student or you have a job, none of you can neglect the role that you play in the ordinary people’s society. You all have to do well in everything that you should do, and at the same time it makes things easier in your work of validating Dafa and clarifying the truth. Otherwise, if you can’t even be financially stable, if on a daily basis you have to worry about shelter and food, if the most basic needs of life can’t be assured, how can you have extra energy to validate the Fa? Isn’t that interference? Don’t make unnecessary troubles for yourself, and don’t just follow along without much thought. If you have a better source of income and want to change your way of living, I’m not against it. What I’m saying is, if all of you go and stop working that’s just totally unacceptable. | |||
| Do you know how important this form of cultivation of today’s Dafa disciples is? In the time to come, here at this place of humans, a human becoming a God will no longer be a myth. Previously in this place of humans, when people talked about cultivation of this or cultivation of that, it was all just cultivating the assistant spirit—humans weren’t cultivating at all. In the future, the future that you’re forging, you’ll have left behind in this place the path for humans to become Gods! Everything you’re doing today is the actual practice that will be used as examples in the future, of being able to cultivate while doing ordinary people’s work. If you go to extremes you’ll wreck this path, so you cannot go to extremes. You should just openly and nobly do well in what you should do in society, and then cultivate. Then you’ll definitely be able to meet the standard that cultivators should meet, the standard for Consummation, because this is the path that the people of the future will take. | |||
| '''The human society of the future is one without religion, and everyone will be a part of society, people will be participating in everything of that society, and perhaps the Fa-truths at this level of human beings and their inner meanings at higher levels will be integrated throughout the textbooks that students study. So in this Fa-rectification it’s being made possible for man to become Gods. It’s not a change at this level of human beings—it involves a systematic harmonizing and perfecting of the entire cosmic system, it’s the harmonizing and perfecting of the Fa. This type of event where people persecute Gods who are here to save people won’t exist again. Situations like Jesus being crucified will absolutely never be allowed to happen again. So how we walk the path of cultivation well in this place of ordinary people has become of utmost importance.''' | |||
| ''Question: Not acknowledging the old forces is very important, so could we ask revered Master to talk about how to do well in this? Thank you.'' | |||
| Teacher: Well, what I just talked about was all about these things. Don’t acknowledge the old forces’ arrangements, and negate this entire persecution they arranged. They want to have the Dafa disciples become mature through this persecution—that’s the aspect of it that has unfolded before people’s eyes. The aspect of it that hasn’t shown itself is that if everything they want to do succeeded, then that’d be something the future couldn’t acknowledge. What’s manifest here on this human side is very simple. The side of you that has completed cultivation knows what’s going on, and I don’t acknowledge any of the old forces’ arrangements or this current persecution. | |||
| Let’s take an extremely microcosmic, enormous being in the cosmos, one that no Gods can know, it saw that the cosmic celestial bodies would head towards disintegration during a certain period, and because of a being’s one instinctive thought of not wanting to head towards destruction, it set in motion the layers and layers of firmaments as well as the layers and layers of cosmic bodies inside those layers and layers of firmaments, all the way down to the layers and layers of universes inside the multitude of cosmic bodies and layers and layers of beings inside the multitude of universes, and it caused the gigantic Gods in the various firmaments to arrange ways to save themselves. From top to bottom there were more Gods participating at level after level, making even more detailed arrangements, all the way down to the Three Realms. Because that one thought came from an extremely high level, the cosmos’s sentient beings all thought it was the Will of Heaven, and that there was no question they’d meet with complete success, rescuing this grand firmament and cosmic body from destruction. Because of the meticulousness of the arrangements made by the Gods at many levels of cosmic bodies, the arrangements looked so perfect that they excited the multitude of Gods, gave their confidence a big boost and made them believe that they finally had a chance to be saved. At the time, twenty percent of the Gods out of the levels upon levels of beings participated in the affair, and that’s how the old forces came about. | |||
| The sentient beings don’t want to be destroyed, and that’s only natural. But the layers upon layers of beings are all contained within the grand firmament, and over the long course of history everything had been progressing toward the end according to the Fa’s law of the process of formation-stasis-degeneration-destruction, and no being or element could escape it. For sentient beings, when everything disintegrates and there are no conditions for life to exist, then not a single thing can exist. That’s much more terrifying than the re-formation of the cosmos’s cosmic bodies. The Fa’s law of formation-stasis-degeneration-destruction created all of the elements, matter, and life in the old cosmos, and at the same time established the Fa’s law that everything would degenerate. That’s the deterioration from within of all of the elements that make up the cosmos, manifesting itself among the beings as the degeneration of the standard of thoughts and conduct, and once they decline to a certain point they’re unsalvageable, and from there they head towards the final stage of destruction. The old forces pushed to the very limit the Gods’ power and wisdom in arranging what they thought to be the most perfect future, and got so excited that they completely forgot about a key point: That is, when the cosmos progresses to the stage of degeneration, all of the sentient beings and elements in the cosmos are, without exception, in the process of degeneration—the beings, the ways of thinking, the elements, and standards are all impure—and the point at which the standards and everything of beings became no good was arrived at gradually over the gigantic course of history. The Fa’s laws and standards have, over the long course of history, all lost their original magnificence and righteous purity, and so the sentient beings are even more powerless to detect this type of change. That’s because those Gods who are at very high levels never cared about the conduct of the beings below them, much less did they heed my warnings during Fa-rectification. In other words, when the cosmos has reached that point, no matter how good those ideas are that the beings in the cosmos come up with to save themselves, that’s still the conduct of beings in the stage of degeneration and destruction, and falls short of the standard during “formation-stasis” at the cosmos’s beginning and middle stages; and that falls even shorter of the standard of the new cosmos, which is countless times higher than that of the old cosmos. So none of the things the multitude of Gods have done are acknowledged by any of what’s outside of the cosmos. During Fa-rectification I traversed all of the firmaments and saw that those ultimate arrangements of theirs all have omissions and can’t be made complete or harmonized. During Fa-rectification I also traversed every final part of what’s related to the old forces, yet I discovered that the enormous being who had the one thought that led to gigantic disruptions of the true Fa-rectification is not the final being, and there are lots and lots of elements that are higher than it. There, all of the old forces’ arrangements were suddenly gone—all of their arrangements were without foundation, they couldn’t resolve anything, and they disappeared without a conclusion. Yet all of those arrangements by the old forces formed true disruptions and demonic obstacles to the Fa-rectification, and they’ve become enormous tribulations in Fa-rectification. In Fa-rectification it misled all of the Lords, Kings, and sentient beings, and the pressure during Fa-rectification also came from the direct manipulation by all of those sentient beings and old forces. When all of this came to pass, when the sentient beings saw all of this, suddenly it was like they couldn’t think. They saw that what I had said originally and my warnings during Fa-rectification were all true, and they were shocked and speechless—they immediately realized that the sentient beings had all committed crimes against Fa-rectification. They had always thought of me as doing cultivation, or even that they were bringing me along as a cultivator. I think that at this point they’ll never dare to think like that again. | |||
| This tribulation that the old forces arranged in the human world, on the surface it’s being responsible to cultivators, to Fa-rectification, and to me, but in reality the goal of what they arranged was being responsible to what they wanted to do, and all of this that they arranged is not at all what the new cosmos of the future would want, and at the same time it has done a huge amount of damage to the true Fa-rectification. A great deal of what I’d wanted was forcibly destroyed by them. History has passed, and what was lost is hard to recover. How could they possibly bear the responsibility for all of that?! | |||
| Now as practitioners, if in this tribulation you can manage not to acknowledge the old forces’ arrangements, then you can make it through. And those who haven’t done well, the bottom line is, aren’t you acknowledging the old forces’ arrangements? Once you acknowledge them isn’t it like you’re one of them? Because you haven’t done well amidst the persecution it’s caused instability among the practitioners and aggravated the persecution, so aren’t you, too, adding fuel to the fire and helping the evil? Negate them, completely negate everything of the old forces! | |||
| '''Teaching the Fa at the Conference in Singapore''' | |||
| uestion: With Master’s infinite wisdom, can the cosmos’ law of “formation, stasis, degeneration” be further perfected in the cosmos? | |||
| Teacher: This question involves something at a very high level. The characteristic of our Falun is that it can automatically repair everything that falls short of the standard. In other words, it’s continually perfecting everything. The purpose of Fa-rectification is to make things more wonderful. | |||
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