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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!