(Clearwisdom.net) It has been over nine years since this vicious, destructive persecution of Falun Gong practitioners started. During the Fa rectification, Master does not acknowledge the old forces' arrangements, including this persecution. So why is the persecution still going on? In this regard, we practitioners should examine ourselves and look inward.

My understanding is that the end of this persecution is based on whether practitioners have met the standard of the Fa rectification and become mature in various aspects. This standard is of course set by Master. When practitioners have done the three things well, fulfilled their prehistoric vows, and reached the standard of Consummation, then won't this evil persecution end?

We feel that currently in our region, there are a number of practitioners who still have great gaps in doing the three things well. This is especially the case in terms of looking inward and cultivating ourselves.

Although some practitioners study the Fa every day, attend the group Fa study, and read one or two lectures of Zhuan Falun, once they close the book and get in become involved with everyday people's things, they forget that they are cultivators. So they study the Fa as if they are trying to finish a task, and they just consider our group Fa study a formality that should be kept up.

These practitioners haven't integrated their Fa study with their personal cultivation. It is my understanding that Fa study should guide our cultivation. It doesn't work if we just read Dafa books and don't solidly cultivate ourselves. Taking myself as an example, I have been involved in group Fa study, sending forth righteous thoughts in a group, and helping people to withdraw from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its related organizations. So I have been doing the three things. However, I have paid more attention to the formality and the results than to the process of doing these things. In particular, I have not given enough attention to the aspect of looking inward and my xinxing cultivation. My xinxing seems to be not as good as it was in 1999, when the persecution first started.

Because my Fa study wasn't solid, and I just went through the motions and followed superficial formalities, I did not understand the deeper meanings of the Fa when I studied Master's new articles and lectures. Each of Master's new articles and lectures is to guide the cultivation of all practitioners as a whole, as well as the Fa-rectification process. However, after I read Master's new lectures many times, I still behaved similarly as I did before, unable to understand the meaning of the new lectures. In the end, I fell behind in the progress of Fa rectification.

I also slacked off in sending righteous thoughts, which was reflected in my failing to hold my hand gesture steady, becoming drowsy, and being unable to calm my mind. I had simply taken the four times of sending righteous thoughts as a task that I should finish. Sending forth righteous thoughts with this kind of mindset will not succeed in disintegrating the evil in other dimensions and clearing up my own dimensional fields.

Sending forth righteous thoughts is a divine power that Master has given Dafa disciples. I believe that the strength of one's divine power and whether one can use it depends on one's gong potency, which is closely related to xinxing.

"One's gong level is as high as one's xinxing level, and this is an absolute truth." ("Lecture One," Zhuan Falun)

Master has unlocked our divine powers, but without strengthening gong potency, we cannot fully utilize it.

I would also like to discuss my shortcomings in clarifying the facts and offering people salvation. The Fa rectification has come to the present stage, but I still have a strong attachment to fear, which is the biggest obstacle in my doing well when clarifying the facts and saving people.

In our region, there is also another prominent issue that has greatly undermined our efforts of validating the Fa. That is, we fail to cooperate well in our Fa-validation undertakings. It is a xinxing issue if Dafa practitioners work against each other, are divided, and do things without considering the impact on the whole. If we continue to be unable to coordinate well, we won't be able to reach the requirements of Consummation. So I believe that the cooperation with and harmonization of the whole body of practitioners is not something that we can do without. It is a requirement of Fa rectification, a cultivation principle that Fa-rectification period Dafa disciples should follow, and even more importantly, it is required by Master.

The main cause for this phenomenon is that we don't look inward and cultivate ourselves when encountering conflicts. We always keep our eyes on external things, and we focus on the faults and shortcomings of others, even as we fail to see our own attachments. This phenomenon is contrary to Dafa's cultivation principles of directly targeting our minds, looking inward, and cultivating ourselves. Our failing to look inward and searching within ourselves has caused us to be unable to cooperate well. We said and did some things Dafa cultivators should not say and do. As a result, we have caused damage to the projects in our region.

When Master initially spread the Fa, Master told us that we can progress quickly in our school of cultivation and that our school directly tells people the essence of cultivation, which involves looking inward and directly targeting the mind. Master has endured greatly for us, done so much for us, and taught us so many Fa principles. If we don't hurry and cultivate away our attachments, how can we live up to Master's expectations?

Fellow practitioners, let's cultivate well as Master requires of us. When we have improved our xinxing and raised our levels and realms, we will naturally do well in clarifying the facts to people and saving people. And at that time, won't this persecution end?

Because of my limited level, what I mentioned here is just for fellow practitioners' reference.