How Remaining Kind When Facing Suffering Can Save You

(Minghui.org) Over the past 18 years of Shen Yun's performances, feedback from audiences around the world has ranged from praise for its superb artistic expression, to extolling the value of traditional Chinese culture, admiration for spiritual perseverance, and experiencing positive energy and inspiration. Shen Yun has also brought hope in the divine and conveyed a message of having gratitude for the Creator's salvation. 

Master told us:

“Since it’s divided into two stages—Fa-rectification and the Fa’s rectification of the human world—the future stage is to handle the human place here, and [I will] comprehensively explain the Three Realms, mankind, the relationship between the planets and earth and between life and the human body, the reason for each stage of development in human society—which is mankind’s true history—gods creating human beings, and so on. All human affairs will be discussed, and everything that human beings don’t believe in will manifest.” (“Fa Teaching Given at the 2003 Atlanta Fa Conference,” Collected Teachings Given Around the World Volume IV)

Last year, Master published “How Humankind Came To Be” and “Why Save Sentient Beings.” This year, he published “Why This World Is a Realm of Unknowing.” We know the process will begin with the Fa rectifying the human world!

Master mentioned in his recent article,

“When the final cosmic phase arrived, the Creator gave his approval for the greater universe’s multitude of divine beings, sovereigns, lords—and the still more massive divine and enlightened beings overseeing each of the greater universe’s different domains—to descend to the world and incarnate in human form. Here, however, all of their higher wisdom, powers of insight, and divine abilities would be sealed off. And in this most trying of places, without their powers or wisdom, closed off completely in a human body, they would have to go through adversity to work off their karma while relying on positive and virtuous thoughts and keeping alive the goodness within. Only then would they be acknowledged by the legions of divine ones above as well as the Creator, and earn a place in the future.” (“Why This World Is a Realm of Unknowing”) 

I understand that this is Master’s compassionate words to all people, responding to the impending global disaster, telling the world that “if you maintain kindness amid suffering, you will be saved.” But how?

The Shen Yun dance drama “The Power of Kindness” tells the story of Falun Dafa practitioners who risked their lives to rescue the police who persecuted them. Under the influence of kindness, the police gradually gave up their evil ways, began to believe in God, and finally received salvation from gods and Buddhas. The Falun Dafa practitioners’ behavior of “repaying evil with kindness” shocked and moved many audiences worldwide!

“A Tale of Two Restaurants” originally featured two competing restaurants. One of them suddenly caught fire. Instead of gloating over the misfortune, the other restaurant did its best to help extinguish the fire, demonstrating the spirit of “when someone is in trouble, so are we”- their kindness shines through. Ultimately, the two restaurants let go of their past grievances and coexisted together peacefully and harmoniously.

Over the years, in the dance drama that depicts resisting the persecution, the families of Falun Dafa practitioners who died as a result of the persecution all refrained from retaliating against the police officers. However, the surviving practitioners are grief-stricken at the loss of their loved ones. Most of the time, the perpetrators are scared off by the power of the Divine.

In the end, the cultivator’s firm belief is blessed by the gods and Buddhas, and he ascends to heaven or is resurrected after death. Many viewers said that they felt the compassion of the Creator and saw light and hope in their pain and despair.

The stories are performed in the highest quality artistic form, using the essence of 5,000 years of Chinese culture to teach the audience how to remain kind despite suffering. Belief in the Divine, self-sacrifice, and repaying evil with kindness is the essence of traditional Chinese culture.

The world situation is changing rapidly; plagues are constantly occurring, and a major war is predicted. Hard times are inevitable. Many social media platforms enthusiastically discuss the prophecies of doomsday disasters.

Master also mentioned:

“Yet it is of course hard to pay for one’s karma. Karma makes people contend and fight with one another, and it causes war, disease, toil, hunger, poverty—and thus pain and suffering. Some have more karma and some less. And this is why there are both rich and poor in this world. If one can stay good and kind even in this state of unknowing, one will create less karma! And life will be easier!” (“Why This World Is a Realm of Unknowing”)

After watching Shen Yun, some audience members said that they want to improve and be a better person. I realized that Shen Yun is conveying an important message, that is, in the midst of suffering and confusion, hold on to kindness, believe in God, and one will ultimately be saved by the Creator.