Those Dafa disciples who haven't lived in Mainland China find
it hard to understand what goes on under the rule of the CCP. In particular, when the Dafa disciples from Mainland China and Dafa
disciples in Mainland China renounce the various organizations of the CCP, they
see that many Dafa disciples were Communist Party members, and they can't come
to terms with it and think, "How could Dafa disciples be Communist Party
members?" It is especially hard for Dafa disciples in non-Communist
countries to understand. The reality is, in Mainland China, before Dafa
disciples took up cultivation they, too, were educated in the Party's culture.
At that time in Mainland China, the CCP was China, and China's
upper-middle class had to be a class of Party members. It had become the way of
things in society. When under those circumstances many people joined the Party,
it wasn't because they wanted to become a part of it, nor was it because they
actually believed in it. Rather, it was the only way for people to make it in
that society. It seemed as though Chinese people just had to go that route; to
do otherwise would get you branded a heretic and made a target for public
denouncement by the CCP. Of course, the Party's truly evil henchmen are a
different story. And some people didn't join the Party of their own will--many
were pressured to join or joined as their work units collectively joined. Even
though Dafa disciples have issued statements publicly withdrawing from the CCP,
they in fact stopped being members of the Communist Party or the Communist Youth
League long ago, because according to the CCP's regulations, those who don't pay
party dues for six months are automatically considered to have withdrawn from
the Party. When the CCP began to persecute Falun Gong in 1999, didn't they say I
had joined the Communist Youth League in the past? The truth is, back then there
were only two people in my entire work unit who were still not members of the
Communist Party or the Communist Youth League, and I was one of them. At that
time my work unit stipulated that every single person had to join either the
Party or the League. If we still didn't join we would have been considered by
the CCP heretics, so it was more like going through the motions.
In the Fa-rectification, Master is actually saving all
beings, not just the good ones; evil ones are of course included as well. I have
often said that during the Fa-rectification I don't hold the past faults of any
sentient being against him, and that I look only at a sentient being's attitude
toward Dafa during the Fa-rectification. In other words, no matter which beings
they are or how huge the mistakes and sins they committed in history, as long as
they do not play a negative role with regard to the Fa-rectification, I can give
them benevolent solutions and eliminate their sins and karma. That is the
greatest mercy and true salvation. That's because in the universe positive and
negative beings co-exist, and that is the principle of yin and yang and
their mutual generation. It is the CCP itself that chose to make Dafa its enemy.
From the moment it proclaimed that it must defeat Falun Gong, the evil spirit of
the CCP and the CCP's wicked, base group that has been persecuting Dafa
disciples in the human world were condemned to death by all of the cosmos's
gods. Actually, when I spread Dafa it was done in the CCP's society. Had it not
persecuted Dafa disciples, it would have ended up making the greatest
contribution in all of the cosmos. Besides, my teaching the Fa in that society
benefited the society in many, many ways and did not an ounce of harm. When
people's health improved, for whom did that reduce medical expenses? When people
had healthy bodies, to whose society did those people contribute? That Party has
done so many bad things that it is afraid of losing power and thus always
stresses "social stability." When Dafa was being widely spread
people's morality improved, and due to Dafa's overall situation the society
began to truly stabilize. Of course, Dafa wasn't spread for the purpose of
stabilizing human society; that was a result of the improvement in morality.
Many people, ranging from the CCP's central leadership down to the different
classes in society, had recognized that fact. However, the CCP's true nature is,
after all, that of a cult which contains all evilness there is. It couldn't
stand Dafa despite [the benefits it brought]. Its extremely arrogant and twisted
mentality that desires to control heaven, control earth, control people, and
control people's minds, couldn't handle even that little bit of irritant. And
even though it had benefited from the spreading of Dafa, that made no
difference, and it was dead set on eliminating Falun Gong before it could be
satisfied. Furthermore, that wretched one in the human world of course was
driven out of its mind by jealousy, and stubbornly went ahead with its wishes,
refusing to listen to others. It made a perfect partner for the evil spirit of
the Communist Party. They not only made Dafa their enemy, but during the
persecution they have also exhausted all means of persecution and have
persecuted to death or severely injured numerous Dafa disciples who were or are
on the path to godhood and who had been chosen ages and ages ago. Tens of
millions of people have been persecuted through a variety of means, and the
righteous faith of 100 million people has been suppressed. This enormous sin of
the ages, this enormous sin whereby the [perpetrators] are brimming with evil
and guilty of countless crimes throughout the firmament, has enraged all of the
gods in the colossal firmament! Now even the elements of the old forces that had
controlled and manipulated it are hurriedly dissolving it and its evil spirit.
The evil furor is gone. It's not that those bad people have changed, though, but
that the evil spirit that was controlling them has been decimated. In other
words, the CCP's demise is not the result of a decision made at the beginning of
the Fa-rectification that it would be eliminated. Fa-rectification is to rectify
all bad beings, thereby saving all lives. It is the CCP that chose to make Dafa
its enemy. Of course, cultivators have no enemies, and nobody is worthy of being
Dafa's enemy. The purpose of exposing the evil is to stop it from doing evil. In
the past when we clarified the truth we always said that we were not against the
Party, but that absolutely didn't mean [we] loved it or recognized it, and it
didn't mean we repudiated it either. It meant that cultivators have nothing to
do with any organization, political party, or substantive form in human society.
In other words, if the CCP hadn't done evil against Dafa, whether a person is a
Party member or not would be a non-issue. And if we look at it from this
perspective, wasn't my joining the League when I was young giving it an
opportunity? Now, however, not only has the Party committed acts of evil, but
its sins are unforgivable and its nature is no longer the same. And that
naturally imperils CCP members. If a person doesn't withdraw from it, he is a
part of it, one of its particles, and a part of its composition, and he will
become a target for elimination by all gods. When that chapter of mankind's
history starts, there will be no more chances for human beings. Through
clarifying the truth, Dafa disciples have given plenty of chances to human
beings. In today's historic time, human beings must choose a path for the future
of their existence. Whether someone listens [to us] or not is a way in which he
chooses his future. Taking into consideration the above situations, [you will
see that] although some Dafa disciples were members of the Party or the League
at some point, it wasn't their fault, and the fault lies with the Party's head
and the Party's evil spirit that chose to do evil. Dafa disciples do not want to
leave behind any blemishes; their making a renunciation is not "getting
political," and even less is it going through a formality. Rather, it is an
attachment that needs to be removed in cultivation. No one can reach
Consummation if they remain marked by, or if they acknowledge, the most evil
thing in the entire cosmos. In addition, only when Dafa disciples are able to
clearly recognize it for what it is, purge it from their minds and no longer let
it interfere with their thinking, can they have stronger righteous thoughts and
do well what Dafa disciples should do; it is a step in cultivation that you have
to take.
Li Hongzhi
February 15, 2005
Editor's note: The translation is subject to further
improvement so as to be closer to the original text. Last updated: February 18, 2005.
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