In 2002, the supervisor at my work unit increased my workload because I had taken the opportunity to explain the true situation about Falun Dafa within my work unit. I was made responsible for the workload of five to six employees every day and became so busy that I started to make some mistakes.
Since last Chinese New Year, I learned that three of my fellow practitioners were also too busy with work to have enough time to study the Fa or do truth-clarification work and made trivial mistakes at work. Since we shared similar experiences, I decided to write down my understanding about this situation in order to discuss it with fellow practitioners. Feel free to kindly point out any misunderstandings.
1. We have adopted the misguided notion, which is common amongst the general public that our supervisors at work think most highly of those with the highest workload. Although we realized that our boss had been deceived into persecuting us by increasing our workload, we still swelled with pride when we caught sight of someone else's jealous gaze. We unwittingly acknowledged the persecution in this manner.
2. We regard the common pursuits and abilities of the general public too highly. After we manage to overcome difficulties, we mistakenly think that the tougher our environment, the stronger our abilities. We did not realize that our outstanding abilities stemmed from the wisdom bestowed by the Fa, which is the understanding we need to achieve during anti-persecution period. Our purpose is to save sentient beings and to completely eliminate all the traps and obstacles put in our way.
3. Our righteous thoughts are not sufficiently strong and we focus too much on trivial instead of important things. Currently in Mainland China, people will do whatever their boss' orders them to do because they are afraid of losing their jobs. They do not even want to offer their opinions to their supervisors because they are afraid of damaging their position.
4. We cannot clearly distinguish between our status as Falun Dafa practitioners, the general public and the old forces. After making mistakes at work, we simply regret that we failed to live up to our supervisor's trust and blame ourselves instead of the old forces who are manipulating people to do bad things. Consequently, we fail to ferret out the evil and eliminate it completely.
5. We accepted the misguided idea that the victims rather than the perpetrators should be accused. Even the victim accepted that it was his own fault that he was persecuted. It is similar to someone's wallet being stolen, and instead of condemning the thief, everybody blames the victim of the victim for not keeping an eye on his wallet.
6. During the Fa-rectification period our goal should be to assist Teacher, explain the facts about Falun Dafa and save sentient beings. Instead, we were entrapped by the old force's diversionary tactics. We were guided by our acquired ideas, harassed and perplexed by appearances of the common world, and failed to see through the old force's ploy of hindering us from saving sentient beings.
