Teaching the Fa at the
Great Lakes Fa Conference in North America
(December 9, 2000 in Ann Arbor)
You’ve been working hard! (Enthusiastic Applause)
I’m delighted to see you. You weren’t like this a year
ago. After having gone through such a severe test, I can tell—although you
might not sense much of it—that you’re completely different persons from
before. All of us have undergone the most severe test, something that’s never
occurred before in history, and it was a vicious one. In the past, in whatever
we were doing you would think: "How can I study the Fa well? How should I
work for Dafa? How can I improve myself? How can I do better?" You always
felt that you were learning Dafa, rather than that you were a part of Dafa.
After this year I find that you’ve completely changed. You no longer think as
you used to. No matter what you do for Dafa and no matter what it is you’re
doing, you are placing yourselves in Dafa instead of thinking about "I want
to do something for Dafa" or "I want to improve myself in this way or
that way" as you did before. No matter what you do, you aren’t thinking
that you’re doing something for Dafa, about how you should do things for Dafa,
or "how can I do things well for this Fa." Instead, you are placing
yourselves in Dafa. Like a particle of Dafa, [you feel that] no matter what it
is, you should just do it. Even though you aren’t conscious of it or
expressing it clearly in words, that is in fact how your actions already are.
This is the biggest change I see in you after this year. In other words, you are
completely in the Fa already. This is most apparent in the conduct of veteran
students, in particular. Before it could be said that you were a student.
Lately, I often use "disciples" instead of "students." You
have indeed gone through tremendous changes. As you are cultivators, Master hasn’t
praised you much in the encouraging manner that everyday people use or told you
how well you’ve been doing. This is because you are cultivators and you should
know what to do.
The things that are happening today were arranged long ago in
history. At no point has anything gone astray. Of course, this arrangement was
made by those high-level beings in the old cosmos. Moreover, it was
systematically arranged by old beings in layers upon layers of the cosmos. Their
purpose was also to save this cosmos. They think that they’ve given their all
in trying to do these things well and consummate this matter—which includes
today’s Dafa and even Dafa disciples. This is what they think. You might
recall what I said last time when I taught the Fa in San Francisco—that no one
is worthy of testing the Great Fa of the cosmos. This is because no matter how
high a being’s realm and level in this cosmos, he is still a being within this
cosmos, and was created by the Fa. In other words, even his existence was
created by this Fa, so how could he turn around and test this Fa? However, as I’ve
also told you many times in previous Fa-lectures, beings in the past couldn’t
know—and weren’t allowed to know—about the Fa of the cosmos. Of course, to
put it in ordinary human terms, for example, if the sentient beings in the
cosmos were to know that there was Fa in the cosmos, it would bring about many,
many problems after the sentient beings in the cosmos deviated from the Fa over
the ages. Some beings might attempt to change this Fa. Since they have the
ability, they could do almost anything. That’s why the form in which the Great
Fa of the cosmos exists isn’t allowed to be known by beings at any level. This
has in turn brought about a problem. They don’t know that there’s a Fa in
this cosmos. They consider the ability of the Great Fa of the cosmos to spread
widely in this cosmos to be my enlightening to this Fa. And they have truly
given their best for the success of this matter and for helping me consummate
all of these things. Yet this brings about another problem. What problem? All
beings in the cosmos have deviated from this Fa. In other words, their realms
and purity, when measured with the standard of the original Great Fa of the
cosmos, are no longer adequate. So all of their arrangements and assistance in
this matter have become the biggest obstacle to my carrying out this
undertaking. This is because no matter how well they do, it won’t surpass
their realms. If things were done according to everything they arranged, think
about it: wouldn’t it be the same as nothing having been done, even after this
was completed? How could it be acceptable if the same realm and standards were
to remain after this is completed? That’s why all these things that they’ve
arranged and done cannot be accepted or considered valid.
This created a serious problem, then: not only could all
these things that they’ve arranged not play a positive role in the
Fa-rectification, but they also became a serious impediment. This evil drama in
ordinary human society today is also part of what was arranged by the high-level
beings. This is, at the same time, the biggest display of their xinxing
not meeting the requirements of the Fa, and it has fully shown the
different-level participants’ standards for xinxing and beings.
Meanwhile, this also brings about a favorable circumstance for the
Fa-rectification. What circumstance? If during the Fa-rectification none of the
beings were to show themselves for what they are, it would be difficult to
position them according to their different xinxing levels. That is, it
would make the Fa-rectification highly difficult. Then, in other words, all the
things that they have done to test Dafa have become a performance in which their
xinxing positions are fully displayed and observed. At the same time, it
happens that students have bad elements that have accumulated over the long
course of their existences, as well as karma produced in low-level realms. All
of these needed to be eliminated, and so this has resulted in the harsh test for
the students in this affair, and in their using wicked people to make up lies
against me to test students’ determination in Dafa. That’s the situation.
As I just mentioned, I can’t acknowledge any of these. So I
need to eliminate them, including this evil drama. Originally they wanted to
treat us the way religions were treated in the past. Their warped notions have
made them think that the persecution of Gods in history was rightful. Incidents
such as Jesus being nailed to the cross have become the precedent for high-level
beings who come down to save people. How could this be acceptable? This itself
is degenerate! A God comes down to save people, yet humans nail him to a cross—what
a huge sin people have committed! They are still paying for it today. But that
wasn’t done by human beings alone. It was caused by the degeneration of beings
at higher levels. They don’t dare to admit anything wrong on their part in all
of these matters. This is because everything is becoming warped—so warped that
they’ve deviated from the Fa and gradually become how they are. No beings at
any level have ever dared to touch them. Everything is determined by interwoven
elements that have become extremely complicated. All of these impure things have
to be eliminated—completely eliminated!
Even though this evil drama manifests in ordinary human
society and it appears that evil human beings created this severe tribulation
for my Dafa disciples, it has in fact been caused by the participation of warped
beings from various levels—I’m referring to those degenerate beings. The
beings who haven’t participated comprise the majority. But they too are no
longer pure, and they’re all being repositioned during the Fa-rectification.
There’s another very serious problem. I told them as early as when I started
this undertaking that no beings could save today’s people, that no Fa could
save today’s beings, and that no one could change today’s people. What did I
mean by that? I’ll tell you. Today’s people can’t perceive their own
warped thinking because the very nature of people has changed. No matter what
cultivation way is adopted, you can only change what they can be aware of, but
not what’s warped in their very nature. That’s why after this one year plus,
no matter what methods they used and however cruel they were, they were unable
to change the students’ fundamental issues and didn’t achieve their purpose
in the end. In order to have the students meet the standards—to meet their
requirements—they used those evil beings to brutally beat students. When they
exhausted the most vicious means and still couldn’t achieve their goal, they
became flustered and exasperated, and went against our students even more
viciously. In the end, even though they couldn’t achieve their goal, they said
that they’d tried their best. How evil! Yet the layers upon layers of beings
in the immense cosmos can’t perceive the evilness of all these evils taking
place. This is because all beings have been warping.
Their not achieving their goal doesn’t mean that our
students can no longer make it. Everything can be made to meet the standard
during the Fa-rectification. I told them not to do this a long time ago. For any
being, let alone human beings, no matter how high a being he is, as long as he’s
a being within the cosmos, I can rectify him during the Fa-rectification, from
his fundamental nature, from the origin of his existence, and from all the
elements that constitute his being, eliminating the impure and turning those
things around. I told them not to do this. They didn’t listen, even though I
taught them the Fa, because they didn’t believe all of the truth. Since they’ve
done this, this is their sin. Even now they’re still thinking this way:
"We’ve done everything in our power to help you. Since this is such an
immense Fa and it involves the safety of the future cosmos, it’s unacceptable
if your disciples don’t meet the standards. It won’t do if a Fa this immense
doesn’t go through such a huge test." That is what they’re thinking. So
they would rather destroy everything than not have the necessary standards be
met. That’s why this test that Dafa disciples are facing has never been seen
in history. As you know, when in history have these modern mass media
apparatuses ever existed? They’re everywhere. Have these modern means of
transportation ever existed? They’ve shrunk the scope of the world to
something quite small. So this has been an unprecedented, the most severe,
persecution in history. But in the face of the evil, everything done by the
students is the best for the Fa-rectification and for Master, because you have
truly shown resistance to this evil drama. Besides, they’re doing all these
things by entirely using the most degenerate beings in the cosmos. All beings in
the cosmos are repositioning themselves. Humans aren’t worthy of testing this
Fa, and neither are Gods. Whoever touches it commits a sin. They’ve seen all
of this as well.
Then is it true that if all of these arrangements of theirs
aren’t accepted, those students who haven’t done well should also be on
their way to Consummation? No, it’s not. If this hadn’t happened, I could
give all beings benevolent solutions and enable all of them to meet the standard
for Consummation. But this evil-wrought tribulation has taken place. Most
students have, in various ways, stepped forward to validate Dafa, clarify the
truth, and save the world’s people. Some of them have been arrested, beaten,
or have died from the persecution; even Master is being venomously attacked by
lies. In the face of life and death, students have had the courage to step
forward—step forward as they lose everything possible—and do everything that’s
magnificent, what a Dafa disciple should do. On the other hand, those who haven’t
stepped forward, have hidden themselves, and have sided in their understanding
with the evil beings—how could they still be Dafa disciples? Are those whose
notions have sided with the evil that persecutes Dafa and who are doing bad
things still Dafa disciples? Do they have the mighty virtue necessary for
Consummation as the others do? Moreover, Gods are not like humans. For example,
some students were arrested and imprisoned. When they couldn’t endure the
severe torture, they wrote repentance statements. But in their minds they were
thinking: "This is to fool them. I’ll still practice after I get out. I’ll
still go out to validate the Fa and I’ll still go to Tiananmen." But this
is unacceptable. It’s because this kind of notion is something developed in
the human world after humans have become degenerate. But Gods aren’t like
that. They don’t have thoughts like these. Once they’ve decided on a certain
path they’ll definitely stick with it.
Many things are hard to explain with human language. It’s
just like what many students ask me: "Teacher, why isn’t this being ended
sooner?" Many people think this way in the midst of suffering: "Let’s
reach Consummation sooner; let’s have this finished sooner." In fact,
these are all attachments. As I just said, they were able to achieve their goal
of testing students in this way because students need to improve themselves and
eliminate the last part of their karma. How could it be allowed if during the
course of a being’s progressing towards the surface and gradually becoming a
God, he doesn’t make his own sacrifices, doesn’t continue to improve
himself, and doesn’t establish his own mighty virtue? In all of this, I am on
the other hand using the exhibiting of those beings’ xinxing to allow
students to establish their mighty virtue at the same time. Actually, no matter
what… no matter how much suffering a being endures in ordinary human society,
let me tell you that it isn’t proportionate to his Attainment Status after
reaching Consummation. It’s really disproportionate! Think about it, everyone:
in the past, a person had to go through a lifetime of cultivation or even
several lifetimes, yet today we’re having people reach Consummation in as
little as a few years. The process of enduring is but a brief moment, and
besides, time has been accelerated. In the future when you look back—if you
can reach Consummation, that is—you’ll find that it was nothing and was just
like a dream.
But everything our students have done during this process is
indeed remarkable. What’s most extraordinary about you is that you’re able
to keep up with the Fa-rectification. As I said a moment ago, this display of
evil in ordinary human society has been carried out by the most degenerate
beings in the cosmos, beings who’ve been placed in ordinary human society.
They were allowed to burrow into the Three Realms in order for them to be used.
Those high-level beings wouldn’t personally do these bad things that ordinary
humans do. They use the evil beings and evil humans down below to do these
things. So all of this is extremely evil.
Some of our students outside of China wonder: "Being
overseas, we don’t suffer as much as the students in China do. Does this mean
that we won’t be as good as the students in China when we reach
Consummation?" That isn’t so. This is because the students inside and
outside of China are one body. When this thing takes place, there have to be
some persons who do this and some who do that. Since it’s a test aimed at the
Fa, no matter where you are or what you’re doing, you are improving yourself
in the midst of the things you’re supposed to do. There are reasons behind
what everyone does. There’s no difference in terms of the realm of
Consummation and the progress towards Consummation—wherever you’re supposed
to reach Consummation, you’re sure to go there. Here’s one case. The display
of evil in Mainland China is so malicious, without students overseas revealing
the truth and supporting students in China—think
about it—wouldn’t the evil be doing bad things
even more recklessly and without restraint? Isn’t that true? This is why
everything our students have done in validating the Fa has effectively exposed
the evil and restrained the evil, and at the same time supported our students in
Mainland China. Everything that’s been done—whether it’s your going to Tiananmen, your clarifying the truth to people in
other environments, or your spreading the Fa and exposing the truth about the
evil to people outside China—it’s all
magnificent, because you are one body. Of course, some students went to China
and to Tiananmen: you are remarkable, and Master is telling you that you’re
remarkable. But, speaking from another perspective, Master would like to tell
you that overseas students should try not to go to Mainland China, because you
are needed in exposing the evil. Many people used to ask me this, and they also
wrote it in their question slips to me: "Teacher, why are we obtaining the
Fa in the U.S.? Why are we obtaining the Fa outside of China?" Now it’s
clear to you, right? Without you doing these things here, wouldn’t these
things be incomplete during the Fa-rectification period? You should just do well
over here with what you’re supposed to do. This is why you obtained the Fa
outside of China. If all of you were to go back to China, who’d be doing
things to rectify the Fa, to expose the evil, and to reduce the persecution of
students in Mainland China? Our students are remarkable—truly remarkable! You’ve
tried your best to do what you’re supposed to do. Whether you’re in China or
outside of China, how you perform is the same; there’s the same difference in
whether you step forward or aren’t able to step forward, and in how much you
put your heart into this matter of Fa-rectification. It’s only that the
environments are different. As to some of our students having suffered
tremendously or even having lost their lives, I’ll tell you about these things
at a later time. When the truth of it is revealed you will realize, "Oh, so
that’s how it was." As I just said—there’s
an arrangement for everything.
You’ve done very well in clarifying the truth to the people
of the world. At the same time, I can tell you that this is also magnificent and
merciful. It looks like we’re giving a flyer to an everyday person, and it
appears that we’re telling everyday people what the truth is. Let me tell you,
when this Fa-rectification matter is over, humankind will enter the next stage,
and those people and beings who in their minds think that the Great Fa of the
cosmos isn’t good will be the first weeded out. It’s because no matter how
bad some beings in the cosmos are, they are even worse, for what they’re
against is the Fa of the cosmos. So when we clarify the truth, we’re
eliminating some people’s evil thoughts towards Dafa. Haven’t we rescued
them, at least when it comes to this? Since in the process of your clarifying
the truth there are people who obtain the Fa, not only are their sins
eliminated, but at the same time you will have also saved them. Doesn’t this
show that you’ve done something that’s more merciful, something even better?
In extremely difficult situations and when the most evil beings act most
savagely, we’re still able to be so merciful—this
is the performance of the most magnificent Gods. When we’re in the midst of
the worst suffering, we’re still saving others. (Applause) This isn’t
getting ourselves involved in politics—much less getting involved in ordinary
human affairs—because it isn’t wrong for us to use ordinary human forms to
expose the evil. Nothing we do is for self-interest, much less is it for some
everyday people’s organization. It’s for validating Dafa. Exposing the evil
is to stop its persecution of Dafa and our students.
Actually, a cultivator in the past wouldn’t care at all
about whatever those everyday people thought: "Whether you think I’m good
or bad is all everyday people’s thinking, and it doesn’t matter to a
cultivator. Who cares how you everyday people are? What I cultivate is
myself." One would depart after reaching Consummation, and wouldn’t care
at all about what happens to everyday people: "When people have committed
sins, they’ll have to pay for them; and when they’re no longer good enough,
let history weed them out." That’s how it was in the past. The mercy
exhibited by our Dafa disciples today has never been achieved by any beings
before in their cultivation. A Dafa disciple—a most magnificent, merciful
being—is the most remarkable and most merciful in every environment of human
society, and is beneficial to other beings. Isn’t this how you should be when
you clarify the truth? This is how you’re doing it. This is the mercy of a
Dafa cultivator—not some ordinary human activity.
Another thing is that you’ve heard me mention alien beings
before. Some reporters who didn’t understand or who even harbored ill
intentions made stories out of it. I don’t care about what the reporters might
say—I just do whatever I should. People in the future will understand. I can
tell you here, because you are Dafa disciples, that those alien beings are in
fact the true, proper inhabitants of this earth. Beings at this position of
Earth, regardless of the time period, were all like them. You might have heard
that in the Bible, Yahweh said that he created man in his image; people of the
yellow race have also heard that Nü Wa created man [in her image]. Why did they
do it this way? This had never occurred before in history. Why did they create
human beings in the image of Gods? I can tell you that in the past, if humans
were created in Gods’ images, it would have been the biggest insult to Gods—the
biggest blasphemy of Gods. Then why were the humans in this period made in the
image of Gods? It was because Dafa was to be widely spread in this particular
period of history, and the beings of this time would have to be worthy of
listening to this Dafa. It would be absolutely prohibited if a bunch of animals
were to listen to the Dafa here. That’s why Gods created today’s humans in
their own image. (Applause) Yet, when human beings were initially made,
they weren’t you, nor were they today’s humankind. Now, only this human skin
is still like it was before. The humans at that time were just humans. So, all
of those humans are in the dimension of a layer of smaller particles—what
people call the netherworld. In other words, they’re in the dimension that’s
lower than the dimension of the layer of the largest particles. As for this
skin, although it’s still human skin on the surface, in essence it’s
actually no longer human. The human skin that Gods refer to isn’t the human
skin that humans talk about, but is the entirety of a human composed of the
layer of the largest particles, including the internal organs of humans.
Human beings of the past have become ever fewer on Earth, for
more and more of these human skins have been occupied by high-level beings. This
is because high-level beings have seen that Dafa is being spread here and that
this is the opportunity for beings to be saved, which is the greatest assurance
that they’ll enter the future. Yet this matter has also been arranged by those
old beings. They divided these beings who’ve come to this world into those who
would obtain the Fa and those who would cause tribulations for Dafa. They
thought that those who would cause tribulations would also achieve Consummation
in the future, because if they didn’t create tribulations, those who
cultivated wouldn’t be able to reach Consummation. But this reasoning doesn’t
work for me here. It might work in any period in the cosmos when any given being
comes to save people, but not during the Fa-rectification period. (Applause)
Why won’t it work? Think about it: all beings in the entire cosmos are being
repositioned according to their xinxing. Where should those evil beings
who persecute Dafa be positioned? Could they be positioned the same as the
beings who are achieving Consummation? Could they be positioned together with
magnificent Gods? That’s absolutely impossible.
They didn’t believe this at the beginning. Now they see it
clearly. So this has brought about an issue. What issue? Fifty percent of
humankind is supposed to obtain the Fa—that’s a few billion people. Yet they
aren’t so lucky—they aren’t able to be Dafa disciples during the
Fa-rectification period. In other words, they’ll study and obtain the Fa in
humankind’s next era. But it won’t be easy to obtain the Fa in that era:
everyone will have a book, but a person won’t be able to obtain the Fa if his
mind is even a little bit off. This is something of the next era. Since many
beings have realized the real situation of this Fa-rectification, many beings,
as well as many human beings—for humans also have a side that’s aware—no
longer want to do bad things, and they also want to obtain the Fa in a positive
way. About twenty to thirty percent of people are like this. That is, seventy to
eighty percent of humankind will obtain the Fa—obtain the Fa in a positive way—and
not create tribulations for the Fa. This is how the future people will obtain
the Fa. So quite a lot of people will obtain the Fa. Of course, as for what I’m
doing now, if there are new students who obtain the Fa, they’re very likely to
become the mainstay, the elite, of the next group of people who’ll obtain the
Fa. Some students might have also noticed that some people go back home to
practice after obtaining the Fa and they stop coming, and apparently you don’t
hear from them again. Perhaps the seeds have been planted, perhaps there are
other reasons—both are possible. So the things everyone is doing are
magnificent, remarkable. Humankind’s situation is very complicated—you can’t
just look at the surface of a person. All those who act evilly in the
Fa-rectification period will get what they deserve. This is for sure, because
all beings are repositioning themselves. You can guess where the beings who
damage Dafa will be placed. During today’s Fa-rectification the requirements
for everything have to be absolutely strict and absolutely upright. This is how
it’s different from everything that was done in the past.
In some specific respects, the minds of some students
initially fluctuated a lot amidst what happened from the April 25th
event of last year through the July 20th event. That’s normal, too,
because only when you have ordinary human thoughts can you cultivate; only when
you have ordinary human thoughts can you waver; and only when you have ordinary
human thoughts can you determine the right path you should take amidst the
wavering. This is cultivation. That’s why at that time many of you were
thinking: "Is this Fa I’m studying correct and righteous? What kind of
person is Li Hongzhi? Is there truth to what’s said by this evil force that
lies to hurt the reputation of others?" Every student thought about these
questions—you were thinking about them more or less. This was also to give you
an opportunity for reflection. So it wasn’t wrong. After you calmed down, you
took the path you were supposed to. There’s no need for a person to express
and tell people in words how he understands things—your actions have already
proven everything. Being able to come to this point today in Dafa, your actions
have already proven which path you want, one that a cultivator should take. All
the disciples who’ve been able to come through are magnificent—they’re all
remarkable. (Applause)
During this process, the students encountered numerous
specific problems and many difficulties. At first they didn’t know how to deal
with them. Later on, they gradually came to understand, and through trial and
error they figured out what to do. I didn’t say anything, especially during
that time period, because the test wouldn’t count if I were to speak. If the
test were to not count, two problems would follow. The old forces would do all
in their power to cause damage. They would regard this as a crooked Fa, and this
would cause a great deal of trouble for this Fa-rectification undertaking of
mine and would cause great chaos for the entire cosmos. That couldn’t be
allowed. Another problem would be that since the evilness that was
overwhelmingly pressing down at that time was extremely enormous… In the
picture posted on the Clearwisdom Website, we saw that the Earth resembled the
image of Satan. That was only a manifestation of the karma on Earth. Since every
karma particle has its own distinctive karmic image, collectively, they also
have an overall image, which is the image of karma. But at that time that
evilness far exceeded this karma by many times. It was extremely frightening to
beings at many levels—Earth wasn’t the only thing covered by the evil. They
thought that without undergoing a test this huge, a Fa this enormous couldn’t
be established. Yet they were also aware that with such a huge tribulation
pressing down, human beings wouldn’t be able to endure it and they’d be
destroyed. They also knew that it would be very difficult for Dafa disciples to
come through a tribulation like that. Still, they thought, "Then let them
be destroyed." They even regarded me as a cultivator. They believed that
enlightening to a Fa this immense would require a test this huge. Think about
it, everyone: it’s easy to talk about this, but in truth, it was extremely
frightening. The environment at that time was so extremely horrible that it was
beyond description. But our students in China and abroad all sensed it at the
time and saw the degree of evilness manifest in this world by the evil. On the
surface, it only appeared to be a manifestation among humans. In essence, those
evil factors were manipulating humans. From the outset I tried my best to
destroy them, but they were extremely huge. No matter how fast you destroy them,
it requires a process. It took me as long as nine months to destroy them. This
had never happened before… so enormous. At that time, since this evil was
incredibly enormous, it would have been impossible for students to bear it; and
then if it weren’t borne, their test wouldn’t count. You can’t just
annihilate it, so you have to bear it. But I knew that if the students were to
bear it, it would be very hard for them to make it through. So I could only let
the students bear the evilness played out by human beings, whereas I bore the
real things. (Applause) This isn’t to tell you how great Master is; I
didn’t mean that. I’m telling you what went on. The situation changed after
these things were destroyed. The situation has gradually changed since March of
this year. Without the manipulation of those evil factors, the evil humans have
lost what reinforced their minds. They now think that Dafa has passed the test.
These matters are in the process of being concluded; it’s only that there’s
still a group of people who haven’t stepped forward.
Of course, there were other reasons for my silence. One was
that I also wanted to see how my disciples—those magnificent Gods who will
reach Consummation in the future—would act in the midst of this catastrophic
tribulation. There were certainly other reasons as well. But every step you’ve
taken amidst the tribulation has been done on your own. I didn’t say a word.
Overall, you were able to take a really righteous path. Although not everyone’s
thoughts have been one hundred percent correct, what’s displayed in all that
you’ve ultimately done is magnificent, for Master wasn’t around then. Those
beings who’ve caused this tribulation for us—those old beings—are in
admiration, speechless, when it comes to this. Whether it’s what’s supposed
to be done or what’s supposed to be endured, you have come through nobly,
righteously, and remarkably.
Of course, even though the situation is still improving, the
evil has yet to be finally eliminated and is still playing out. You can’t
lower your guard. You still need to continue to further your efforts and do well
with what you’re supposed to do, and truly take every one of your steps well
on the way to Consummation. Don’t consider this merely a simple test. It’s
actually incomparably magnificent, because you are validating the Fa and because
you’re doing it during the most difficult time. Certain things appear to be
the same as what everyday people do. Yet they do those things for self-interest
and for ordinary human purposes, whereas you do them for Dafa—the basis is
different. You are cultivators, and in the future you will see the magnificence
of these things. There’s sacredness in them that you know now and sacredness
in them that you don’t know. You can’t sense how magnificent they are from
the way they manifest among ordinary humans, because I can’t let you feel
conceited or complacent. As your master, I can only have you try harder and take
every step well. During this one year, in your clarifying the truth, in the
process of your cultivation, and in the process of your safeguarding the Fa,
there have been all kinds of tribulations and you’ve encountered all kinds of
difficulties. Relying on your own thinking and decisions, you’ve made it
through. Master hasn’t done all this in vain. Whatever Master has done for you
was worth it! (Long applause) You’re truly remarkable! (Applause)
In regards to specific issues, I think that when the
opportunity arises I’ll find some time to talk to you about them. I’m not
going to attend every Fa conference. Each time I come out it’s for a reason,
and not for casually telling you something—especially under the current
circumstances. So in the future I’ll find some time to talk to you in detail.
Today I won’t say too much. I hope that everyone will do an even better job in
Fa-rectification and in exposing the evil. This is also part of your
cultivation.
That’s all I’ll say. Thank you. (Applause)
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