(Clearwisdom.net) Practitioners are arrested, sentenced to forced labor, and imprisoned. They are detained in detention centers, forced labor camps and prisons, where they are subjected to various kinds of persecution and torture. As practitioners, we do not accept any of these forms of persecution. In these places where evil beings congregate, the methods of persecution and torture are more vicious. It shows that the evil is on the verge of total defeat and is making its last-ditch effort. We practitioners should not just sit there, passively awaiting the persecution.
Then, what should we do to manifest our denial of the persecution? What should we do to walk the path arranged by Teacher? Practitioners who are detained sometimes go on hunger strikes. Some of the practitioners on hunger strikes in the past were released, and some of them lost their lives. More recently, most practitioners on hunger strikes have not been released. Moreover, they suffer even more in the force-feeding. Now that the evil is nearly extinguished, it is retreating and concentrating in detention centers, forced labor camps and prisons in order to sustain the already hard-to-maintain persecution. Facing such a situation, if the detained practitioners go on hunger strikes once they are detained, doesn't doing that fall into the arrangements of the old forces? Facing the tribulation, how can we entirely deny such arrangements?
It requires practitioners' rational thinking to answer the question. We should use the supernormal abilities endowed upon us by Teacher and righteous thoughts to stop the evil instead of going on hunger strikes and letting the persecution go on. I think that having enough food and drink, sending forth righteous thoughts, doing truth clarification, reciting the Fa and conducting ourselves according to the Fa is more in line with the requirements of the Fa.
In the article "My Understanding about Hunger Strikes" published on Clearwisdom, the author wrote, "In my opinion, going on a hunger strike is a way of cultivation by practitioners that remains within the form of persecution arranged by the old forces, and it is not in accordance with the Fa." The author was sentenced to three years of forced labor but he did not go on hunger strikes. He ate and drank as appropriate and kept a high spirit and healthy mental status to clarify the truth to others. He told others how the CCP used lies and slander to poison ordinary people and how the CCP persecutes practitioners with inhuman methods. He did not care a bit about the length of the sentence and let go of his attachments. He kept doing what he was supposed to do as a practitioner in the place where he was detained. In the end, he was released on bail for medical treatment after four months of detention.
Based on his enlightenment and personal experiences, the author reminded us to rethink it: Is going on hunger strikes in detention centers, forced labor camps and prisons where the evil is concentrated, the only way that practitioners can deny the persecution? The places where evil congregates is also the dimension where sentient beings are blocked off from being saved and where practitioners' righteous thoughts are needed. Just as emphasized in the Clearwisdom editorial of June 26, 2006, "Asking Practitioners in Each Region to Look Inward, Learn from Previous Failures, Cultivate Diligently, and Follow the Fa-Rectification Process": "To those regions where severe persecution has already taken place, let's work together to turn the persecution into opportunities that break the old force's arrangements, expose the evil, and save sentient beings. Let the evil's destructive test never reach us, and let us diligently advance together in the Fa!"
Then how can fellow practitioners who are suffering the tribulation achieve it?
Since Teacher published the scripture "Thoroughly Dissolve the Evil", practitioners have been going to these places every day to send forth righteous thoughts at a close range. Now, as the evil is detaining practitioners in these places (of course we do not acknowledge the persecution and should entirely deny it), we practitioners should utilize the situation and use our strong righteous thoughts to stop the persecution and completely eliminate the evil in the detention places. This way, the evil will not have any place to hide. Will it still have any reason to persecute practitioners, then?
If the detained practitioners deny the slave labor and keep on sending forth righteous thoughts, clarifying the truth, and reciting the Fa all the time, except while sleeping; if the detained practitioners can realize that in the last period of Fa-rectification hunger strikes are not the only form of denying the persecution; if the detained practitioners can eliminate the evil with righteous thoughts rationally so as to better save sentient beings; would the evil dare to continue to detain practitioners?
When all the evil has been eliminated by practitioners' righteous thoughts, would the evil still be able to detain practitioners? Isn't this our way of stopping the persecution with righteous thoughts? Isn't this walking the path arranged by Teacher?
"Disciples' righteous thoughts are strong
Master has the power to turn the tide."(Hong Yin Volume II, "Master-Disciple Grace")
The safest way is to walk the path arranged by Teacher.
At the same time, practitioners from outside can coordinate with practitioners inside and participate in the 24-hour relay of sending forth righteous thoughts to eliminate the evil. By doing this, we will form a solid and unconquerable, whole body and transform the evil places where practitioners are persecuted and tortured into a Fa rectification field where our supernormal abilities defeat the evil beings. When all the evil beings in prisons, detention centers and forced labor camps are completely eliminated, would they still dare to detain practitioners there?
The above is my personal understanding. Fellow practitioners, please point out anything that is not right.
