It All Comes Through Studying Dafa

(Clearwisdom.net) There was a meeting for me to attend this week concerning an activity planned for next summer. With this in mind and me planning to attend, another meeting was called for the same evening, at the same time. The second meeting was concerning Article 23. I chose to attend the first meeting about the event planned for the summer, instead of placing my focus and energies on the proposed Article 23 that is currently trying to spread the evil's persecution, lies and deceit into Hong Kong.

As a practitioner in the Fa-Rectification period, how could I accept this arrangement? How could we together as one body, accept such an arrangement from the old evil forces? Through experience sharing and stories amongst fellow practitioners, I came to realize that it is not the political aspects of Article 23 that are the concern. Rather, Article 23 gives us yet another chance to clarify the truth to sentient beings. Soon after realizing this, I began to look for things that I could do. I sent e-mails, letters and petitions, letting people around me know about the proposed law. These kinds of realizations always seem to come to me at the very last moment, only a few days, a week, or sometimes even just several minutes before the deadline. By viewing things from the perspective of units of time, I found this to be an attachment that would often cause unnecessary pressure, and affect the quality of my truth clarifying to the people I spoke to. So I just began to do things whenever I found time. Even if it meant sending one e-mail or one hundred e-mails, it was still having the effect of clarifying the truth to people. Even if I could only send one letter, then that was one letter sent from within our body, to expose the truth to one more human being. So deadlines, timelines, and all the pressure could not stop the heart to clarify the truth to sentient beings. Even though we may have come to realize this a few days before December 24^th or a few years after, the fact is that we have come to realize it, and this means there is still time left to act on clarifying the truth.

Manning an information table at the university for the past few days has brought new enlightenment to this particle of the one body. At the university, we are a registered not-for-profit group, which allows us free access to display and clarify the truth to students and visitors in the student union building. I had an attachment to having every passerby sign a petition and come to know Dafa, and this was exposed and brought to the surface. My desire, my attachment to having every single person in sight learn about the truth, finally led me to find myself in a "sales pitch" approach that would leave me talking endlessly. A university staffer came up to me and exposed my actions. I was told that soliciting was not allowed in the University. I explained with all my heart that I did not intend to solicit or to cause any trouble or to make people feel uncomfortable in any way. I was told that I could only sit by my table, and that if people wanted to approach the table, then they would have to do so on their own free will. I then came to look inside and understand why. Although my heart seemed to be in the right place, it was in fact a deeply hidden attachment that needed to be left behind.

After being told that there was no soliciting to the individuals passing by, I sent forth righteous thoughts. I was then faced with having to find an alternative to attract those passing by. I decided to create a poster. On the poster I wrote: "If This Won't Stop You, Then Nothing Will -- A Signature To Save Lives" With righteous thoughts, I then began to sit patiently. Without having to move, without having to speak, the people began to come one after another. I realized through clarifying the truth in regards to Article 23, that it was not about collecting signatures. I explained to the people that their signatures were not the reason I came. I told them that the most important thing was to learn the truth about an event that history books shall never forget. I fully explained how the last ray of light in China is under pressure from darkness, by a proposed law called Article 23. I let them know how under such a law, our fellow practitioners in Hong Kong could be subject to the same evil persecution that has been occurring in Mainland China. I let them know that they had the opportunity to have a voice in history, and to help save the millions in Hong Kong and the over one billion in China. Inside I knew that it was really their chance to come to know the truth about the evil persecution itself.

After taking a step back, the situation transformed miraculously. I was not worrying about talking to as many people as I could and thinking that time was running out. I was truly able to experience the serenity and peace in clarifying the truth in a more dignified and refined way. I witnessed talking with individuals in a way that far surpassed the human level. It was if our hearts could speak and understand one another. Some individual's eyes would begin to fill with tears. Without this Dafa, I would not be here. Only through cultivating and studying Dafa have I been able to come to this understanding and witness what I have. Master says,

"Throughout the ages, only 'the Buddha Fa' has been able to perfectly provide a clear exposition of humanity, every dimension of material existence, life, and the entire universe." (Lunyu)

So in this light, let us all continue to study the Fa more diligently.

Master says in the following at Teachxing the Fa at the 2002 Fa Conference in Philadelphia, U.S.A. (Translation updated on 12/15):

"A little while back a lot of students were thinking: 'The Chinese Communist Party is going to hold its 16^th Congress soon. If that head demon in China, that wretch of the earth, steps down, then won't our Dafa's good name be restored? Who'd want to inherit that burden, and who'd be as stupid as it is?' That kind of thinking isn't wrong in the ordinary society, but it's not right for a cultivator. With a Dafa like this, how could so many magnificent future Gods, magnificent Dafa disciples, who've been forged through Dafa cultivation put their hope in some ordinary person? Aren't we insulting ourselves? Could human beings control Gods? But a lot of our Dafa disciples were thinking that way. It's not a big deal if one person thinks that way, and it's not a big deal if two people think that way--that's just their personal cultivation issue. But if everybody thinks that way, then what kind of situation will there be among the larger group of Dafa disciples? It'll be a major disruption, a strong attachment, and that can't be allowed. I saw it, and the old forces saw it, too. The old forces thought, 'Wait a minute, what's this?' So they made the outcome of the Chinese Communist Party's 16^th Congress worse.

"As I've said, everything that happens today in the ordinary society is the result of Dafa disciples' thoughts. Even though the old forces do exist, if you don't have those thoughts they can't do anything. When your righteous thoughts are strong enough the old forces can't do a thing. If someone in ordinary society really did restore our Dafa's name, think about it, maybe human beings will do this, but have you thought about this: how high would I have to position that person? Isn't that right? You're cultivators, and all changes come from your cultivation and the Fa-rectification; everything that you yourselves validate and enlighten to, and everything that you'll receive, all this comes from what you have done on your path. Absolutely don't think about any favors the old forces might do for us, or about how the ordinary society might help us. You are the ones saving the ordinary people's society, and you are the ones saving sentient beings!"