(Li Hongzhi, June 22, 2003, in Chicago)
Hello! (Enthusiastic applause)
You could say we really do have a grand occasion here. (Enthusiastic
applause) And there are quite a lot of students here. You've all seen that
when you think back, from July 20, 1999, all the way up till today, we've gone
through a period of time that's not too long but that's felt extremely long, and
during this time you've experienced so much. All kinds of things that had never
happened before have been concentrated here in this little human world,
everything that the old forces arranged in the cosmos to interfere with the Fa-rectification
has been at work here, and all the things that have come for the Fa, formed for
the Fa, and been created for the Fa have manifested during this time. And what's
most notable is that the students in Mainland China have experienced
unprecedented persecution, and in this persecution the evil has used all the
means of persecution there are, from all times and all lands. The evil is out of
tricks.
Looking at the current situation, even though Dafa disciples
and I have experienced this period of history that was forced upon us by the old
forces, it's also been advantageous for Dafa disciples; the many Dafa disciples'
remarkable righteous thoughts and righteous actions are worthy of being
treasured, and are, I have to say, truly exceptional. It was forced upon us by
the old forces, but a lot of the Dafa disciples have, after all, conducted
themselves really well amidst this persecution. While validating the Fa the Dafa
disciples have established the mighty virtue of Enlightened Beings that are
forged by Dafa, and they've established the unprecedented magnificence of Dafa
disciples' validating the Fa during the Fa-rectification. (Enthusiastic
applause)
You've experienced so much in these few years, and all of you
have endured tests in the form of many trials and tribulations in this
persecution. It hasn't ended yet--you're still validating the Fa, you're still
walking the path that a Dafa disciple should walk. Until the evil factors are
completely cleaned out you can't let down your guard, and you should still try
even harder to completely eliminate the evil factors that persecute the Fa-rectification
and Dafa disciples. Actually, the old forces are nothing more than an enormous
tribulation that was set up in the cosmos for my Fa-rectification. Way back
when, no being thought I could overcome it. So with that understanding, a lot of
the cosmos's high-level beings took the stance of watching from the sidelines,
while the beings who've taken part have been using the opportunity of the Fa-rectification
to do what they want, with absolutely no second thoughts about it. But as for
the matter at hand, many of the cosmos's Kings and Lords know that it is
critical to the survival of the firmament; if this Fa-rectification doesn't
succeed everything will be gone. Yet they don't want fundamental changes. So
it's exactly under the effect of this complicated state of mind that the beings
of different levels have demonstrated the true realms deep inside themselves and
their behavior.
Because of this complicated state of the high-level beings,
the impact on the tiny little Three Realms, and especially on the human world
and the sentient beings in the Three Realms, has been just huge. One single
thought up there causes huge differences in the behavior of sentient beings at
different levels; one single thought up there can cause earth-shaking changes
down below. So when that final thing of the old forces is eliminated, that's not
the boundary of the cosmic firmament, and the Fa-rectification isn't finished,
but at that point the old forces cease to exist further on up, and there's no
longer any factor that's related to the old forces; the appearance of the old
forces in the firmament was arranged entirely from that point down. So if back
when that happened I had really followed the path arranged by the old forces,
when I would have reached this point in my Fa-rectification this time it would
have ended without changing the status quo, everything that was done would be no
different from the warped characteristics that the old cosmos had before, and as
a result the Fa-rectification would have been for nothing. Those gigantic Kings
in the firmament thought that no being could overcome such an enormous
tribulation, and that it'd be impossible for Fa-rectification to succeed. A lot
of the cosmos's Gods said to me, "I wish you success." Those words,
you know, they have profound meaning. They thought that it would be absolutely
impossible to overcome it, but I did. (Long, enthusiastic applause)
In the human world, Dafa disciples have come through in
validating the Fa. (Enthusiastic applause) You've been through a lot
during this process. But because you have human thoughts and lots and lots of
attachments that you still haven't been able to let go of, during the process of
Dafa disciples' validating the Fa, lots of people have taken detours on their
path, and they've made mistakes that a Dafa disciple shouldn't make, and in your
cooperation with each other there's often been discord, with people insisting on
their own views. But no matter what, I'm telling you, Dafa disciples, the fact
that you have come through under such difficult circumstances, that's the
greatest mighty virtue, it's unmatched mighty virtue. (Enthusiastic applause)
Everything is inconsequential compared to Dafa disciples validating the Fa, it's
the hugest thing, and you've done it! (Enthusiastic applause)
It's outstanding, truly outstanding! Sometimes I look back at
the path Dafa disciples have traveled, and I think it's outstanding. And why do
I say that? Never in the history of mankind have cultivators validated the Fa,
and in the history of the cosmos nothing like Fa-rectification has ever taken
place, even Gods had never heard of "Fa-rectification" before, and
when it comes to how to validate the Fa in the human world, it is even more true
that there is no example to follow. It has all depended on Dafa disciples making
their way through this Fa-rectification path and blazing the path of validating
the Fa, and they have left--for the future, for the sentient beings of the
future, for the human society of the future, and for all the sentient beings in
various realms of the future--they've left the way and state of cultivation, of
validating the Fa, and of beings' existence at different levels in the future.
That's why it is of utmost importance. If you don't walk your path well during
this Fa-rectification, it will actually result in losses for the future. The
better you walk your path, the more solid and more
all-harmonizing-and-never-failing is the path of life you pave for the future.
That's no ordinary thing. The Earth appears to be so small, but all the beings
in the entire cosmos, all the gigantic cosmic bodies, they've all come down
here, and this place has become the focal point of all beings, this place has
become the focal point of the cosmos. So nothing that's been done here since the
start of the Fa-rectification has been trivial.
Also, the beings you save when you clarify the facts and save
sentient beings aren't ordinary human beings. Behind every person there are
extensive and deeper cosmic ties. So what you're saving isn't that one person,
and it's quite possibly a gigantic group of beings, or even a gigantic group of
beings at very high levels. I've said that none of what's been bestowed upon and
entrusted to Dafa disciples is simple--it's all really magnificent. But under
normal circumstances none of the things we do when we're validating the Fa look
like miracles or divine occurrences. They're all just human in form on the
surface. That's why with lots of things it looks like we're doing ordinary human
things. And especially when it comes to all those people who don't know much
about Dafa, they think that all we're doing is ordinary human stuff. But in fact
it's different, it is fundamentally different. Our starting point, our goals,
and the objective we want to achieve are all different from those of ordinary
people. We aren't trying to achieve some ordinary human things among ordinary
people. We aren't interested in ordinary people's money, or ordinary people's
politics or political power. You are cultivators, and Dafa disciples want to
achieve the Consummation of their cultivation. In this Fa-rectification it's
been fully shown that what Dafa disciples do can't be done or accomplished by
ordinary people. When Dafa disciples validate the Fa, how come one person can do
what it would take ten or a hundred people to do? And, while validating the Fa
you've seen that the kind of cultivators' mighty virtue that the Dafa disciples
in Mainland China have displayed in the face of death is something ordinary
people couldn't achieve--that's not something ordinary people could do. And
what's more, this persecution hasn't just gone on for a day or two, it's lasted
for a few years now. Being able to come through under that kind of long-term,
awful torment--you can't compare that to enduring momentary pain or to something
driven by impulse. That's why I say that Dafa disciples are outstanding. Today I
can tell you this: Dafa disciples are magnificent, and you've established Dafa's
magnificence in validating the Fa in the human world. (Enthusiastic applause)
Looking at the current situation, you can't compare it
anymore to the situation around July 20th of 1999. Around July 20,
1999, when we were most severely persecuted by that evil, we were pretty much on
the defensive; the evil was persecuting us, and we were really laboring to tell
the world's people about it. We were in quite a passive position. Now the
situation is different. We can say that the evil things at low levels have been
destroyed to the point that few remain, and other than the small number of bad
people they control, their ability to control the world's people however they
please has been pretty much eliminated. As a result, the world's people are
waking up and thinking things over, since they've been freed from external
controls. This is your achievement in validating the Fa. Also, this entire
persecution consists of lies, slander, and the most despicable means that can't
bear the light of day. They don't dare to let people know, since the world's
people will be shocked once they learn the facts. That's why Dafa disciples'
clarifying the facts is the most powerful thing. Exposing the evil, exposing
this persecution, that's the most powerful way to eliminate and restrain them.
You've done very well, and you've had that effect. So, as far
as this whole persecution goes, today the situation is already pretty different
from before. And especially outside of Mainland China, we've now gone from being
on the defensive to being on the offensive; those evil beings are on the
defensive now, because there are really few evil factors now. And those people
in the evil gang who were being used are changing, too. You could say that the
evil's attempt to persecute Falun Gong beyond Mainland China has been a complete
failure. (Enthusiastic applause)
And in Mainland China, too, the evil's persecution is
failing. As you've seen, since the evil factors really are few now, the evil
beings can only use the media that they still control to make up lies, but
people don't believe them anymore. By clarifying the facts inside and outside of
China together, Dafa disciples have already made it possible for a huge group of
people to learn the facts of the persecution, and even those people who fell
behind at one time because they didn't study the Fa diligently, or weren't
steadfast, or had just started studying the Fa when the persecution began, even
they have stepped forward again. Before, there really were 100 million people
learning Dafa in China, and those people have a lot of family and good friends.
Everybody is clarifying the facts, and it's already made a huge group of people
aware of how evil the persecution is. So what this means is, there are less and
less chances for the evil to control people, there are fewer and fewer people
who they can control, and people are believing in the evil's slanderous
propaganda less and less, and this has made people more and more disgusted with
it, and the evil beings themselves are shrinking in number. This is more than
terrifying to the evil beings!
The *** Party has never admitted any of its faults to the
people. No matter what awful things they do, no matter how awful it is, they
always turn around and say, "Our party has always been right," (audience
laughs) and no matter how much of a crisis its regime is in, they always
say, "The situation is totally great." (Audience laughs) I'm
not trying to start something with the *** Party's regime here. I brought this
up because the head of the evil beings that have persecuted us claimed that,
"The *** Party has to defeat Falun Gong." But I don't want to defeat
you, *** Party, you're not worth it. It's you, *** Party, that has caused your
collapse while you have persecuted the people and the masses, and during your
persecution you've been encouraging deceit, evil, strife, and corruption, and
you've lost the people's hearts. A lot of people have learned the facts and are
thinking things over: "The government would even do something that vicious,
it will make up anything. Isn't the government awful?" And especially now
that the world's people have learned the facts about the Tiananmen Square
[self-immolation], people are reflecting on things, they're thinking everything
over, like, "Has the *** Party been doing this all along in all of its
political campaigns?"
Half of the Chinese people have been persecuted by the ***
Party. Before the *** Party's political power was established, as you know, a
lot of wealthy people had their homes ransacked and their property divided up,
and they were even executed or sent off to prison. The "Campaign to
Suppress Counterrevolutionaries," the "Three Oppositions and Five
Oppositions," the "Campaign to Eliminate Counterrevolutionaries,"
the "Cultural Revolution"--it persecuted a great number of Chinese
people in these many many movements. So when it's all added up, more than half
of the Chinese people have been subject to various forms of persecution. The ***
Party's deliberate, deviated, soul-twisting propaganda truly caused a sort of
deviation in the minds of the Chinese people, whereby the Party and the nation
of China were mixed together into being one concept, and that's why in many
instances, no matter how bad of a thing the *** Party did, the people always
thought the government was right. Yet this time it's different. People are
thinking it over.
So looking at it from the current situation, a lot of people
in Mainland China are calmly and objectively considering these questions. To the
evil, that in itself is plenty enough to pose the biggest threat. The evil
elements in various dimensions want to ensure that the wicked head scoundrel in
Beijing can do evil, so they sealed Beijing off the tightest. The fact that SARS
managed to appear in Beijing, and even managed to break into Zhongnanhai and
topple a few of the Politburo Standing Committee members, I'll tell you, this is
not a simple matter of an infectious disease like the world's people
think it is. That's where the evil seals things off the tightest. The evil has
been annihilated to this degree, to the point that it can't even guard its home
nest, so Gods have been able to penetrate the center of its evil. (Enthusiastic
applause) That head scoundrel took a look and saw that it was all over, so
it ran away to Shanghai. It asked people to defend Shanghai with their lives,
but what's it talking about? Even ordinary people thought it was irrational--how
do you "defend it with your life"? The disease is precisely going
after your lives. It won't work even if you use a gun to shoot it, (Audience
laughs) and even atomic bombs are useless. (Audience laughs)
Actually, those words were said with an awareness. That's because it's not
human, and inside its human skin are wicked rotten spirits, it was those spirits
talking--the home nest has been lost, so it wants people to defend Shanghai to
the death. Could it be defended successfully? Even the home nest that you sealed
off the tightest was penetrated, could Shanghai be defended? Immediately SARS
sprung up all over Shanghai. "Cover it up!" But what it's covering up
now aren't the figures that were collected. It doesn't collect the numbers
anymore. It told the subordinate officials, "Wherever SARS pops up, the
official in charge there will be immediately dismissed." So no officials
dare to report it. Just like that, SARS "disappeared." It doesn't
matter in the least to the head scoundrel how many people die, all that matters
is sustaining its own self. So now the evil doesn't dare to stay in Shanghai
either, and it's scurrying around from place to place. (Audience laughs)
Then looking at it from this situation, those evil factors can't hold up
anymore, and their situation is hopeless.
Never mind that the evil beings are so rampant, they're all
quaking with fear and trepidation, they're afraid. Of course, before being
completely cleaned out the wicked beings will still direct evil people to do bad
things. The evil people lose all rationality when they're being controlled by
the evil, but once they calm down they're afraid. Every phone call from our
students shocks them to the point that they can't sleep at night, they're that
afraid. And that evil head scoundrel has realized its fate, "Nothing
can be done about flowers falling away"--there's nothing it can do.
The constant escalation of the persecution of Falun Gong has left them with no
way out. Step by step they escalated things, and they've been anxious to
suppress it and beat it down in one shot, so they never left a way out for
themselves. The deceitful propaganda is still constantly being cranked out, and
they have no way to explain themselves to the Chinese people, they have no way
to explain themselves to people around the world, and the Chinese government has
always been spreading lies to deceive the public, fabricating rumors, making up
false news, and causing the deaths of so many common, mainstream people through
persecution. How wicked--could this regime still be allowed to exist? Faced with
a future society that has a complete system of law, those people can't escape
justice! (Enthusiastic applause) Could they not be afraid? They're
afraid.
Of course, all of this, whether you're talking about the
persecution or the evil going towards its demise, this thing isn't finished. So
as Dafa disciples you can't let down your guard in validating the Fa, and we
should do it even more diligently. And for those of you who haven't done well or
who stepped forward late, for you especially, you must seize the final chance to
do well, because when there's really no more evil this affair will come to an
end.
If this thing hadn't happened, then as far as Dafa disciples
are concerned, I would have completely settled through positive means all of the
past favors and old scores that Dafa disciples would have met with during their
cultivation, as well as the various troubles, and longstanding past
relationships and old scores, of the sentient beings of every variety that I
have encountered during the Fa-rectification. Yet this persecution did happen,
and it's true that some people did poorly and acted unacceptably, so since you
didn't do well, you should seize the day and make up for the losses caused by
your not doing well. You're Dafa disciples, so if you want to do well going
forward you need to focus on cultivation more.
Each one of the three things that Dafa disciples should do is
very important. Everything of your Consummation in individual cultivation is
intertwined with your validating the Fa, so you have to do well, and you have to
find and overcome your shortcomings in the course of Fa-rectification. Why is it
that the students who live in some areas cooperate well, while the students in
some other areas don't cooperate so well? You can't say that it's because we
have special agents there causing interference or blame it on this or on that.
Actually, I talked about this long ago: When your minds are very righteous, a
special agent wouldn't dare to stay where you are. He only has two options. One
is to be assimilated by the righteous field, since the pure and righteous field
that Dafa disciples give off purges everything that's bad in a person's mind.
The pure, righteous field would disintegrate it, disintegrate everything that's
unrighteous in the person's consciousness, and that's another manifestation of
salvation and a reflection of compassion. When everything bad in a person's
consciousness has been disintegrated and he's only left with a simple, pure
mind, then that person will recognize and appreciate what's upright and good. So
hasn't he been assimilated? Then the other option is to run away as quickly as
he can, because the bad person's thought karma and bad concepts are afraid of
being disintegrated.
So why is it that some people are able to pry their way into
where we are? Of course, there really aren't many of them. And why is it that
during those times some people still provide the evil with information? It's
because our field isn't pure and righteous in those places, and it's not able to
have the effect of saving sentient beings and rescuing lives. It can't shock the
evil. Isn't that our own problem?! Still, though, some people go on and on about
it, talking about which ones are special agents and about this person or that
person. But isn't it a problem on our part? It is. So from now on you should do
better in studying the Fa, and that way your righteous thoughts will be stronger
and you'll have a greater ability for saving sentient beings.
Also, we often have some students who talk irresponsibly.
When there are different opinions, instead of looking at things positively and
calmly, they throw out a few cold words and just shove aside what other people
have to offer. Bringing out good ideas and cooperating with each other with care
is the right thing to do. And especially when it comes to doing certain things
as a whole you should cooperate with each other even better. It's just like
bringing that evil, head scoundrel to court this time, it requires everyone's
cooperation, and you have voices echoing from all around the world. So looking
at it that way, your cooperation has been quite powerful. I think it's been
pretty good recently, but there are still areas to improve on.
What do I mean by "areas to improve on"? Yesterday
a student asked me, "Master, why has the United Nations Human Rights
Commission turned into what it has? The U.S. brought up China's human rights
problems several times but each time its efforts were voted down, and in the end
nobody would even bring up the topic. Later on, even the chair position was
assumed by a government that seriously violates human rights." We should
think things over calmly, and sometimes we really can end up seeing
things clearly. It's not that the righteous elements have stopped working. It's
that sometimes it's easy for the old forces to take advantage of the gaps in
what we do. For example, when we do things a lot of us use human thinking to
come up with ideas, and you've been trying everything you can to end this
persecution and you want to have ordinary people end it. Some people think,
"Why doesn't the U.S. use force to get rid of the evil scoundrel regime?
Why doesn't it go to war?" And some think, "There are so many
democratic countries in the world. Why don't they raise their voices? What's the
United Nations doing now?" And that's how things look on the surface. But
actually, I can tell you what that reflects: We're too dependent on human
beings. If human beings were to end the persecution, what a disgrace that would
be to Dafa disciples! We wouldn't have validated the Fa, we wouldn't have
established mighty virtue in the persecution, and our Dafa disciples wouldn't
have blazed their own path. I've said that this path is to be left for the
future. Then isn't this matter critical? That's how the old forces have been
able to take advantage of the gaps. You placed your hopes in ordinary people, so
the old forces had the resolution that they sponsored voted down. And as you
kept putting your hopes in ordinary people they made it so that your resolution
couldn't even be raised and so that the U.S. was kicked out of the Human Rights
Commission. You still placed your hopes in ordinary people, so they made a
country that violates human rights the chair. We should become more rational by
learning from these lessons. We've gone through so much, and through these
lessons we should gradually get clearheaded.
So as for your suing the head scoundrel this time, I've been
observing and watching you. When I discovered certain problems I told some
individual Dafa disciples, "We can't be too attached to ordinary
people." If we truly bring it to court, if we truly manage to sue it
successfully, if we're truly able to push this thing forward, then it will have
been done by our Dafa disciples. Wherever there's a problem, that is where we
should go clarify the facts--judges, lawyers, and the various people involved in
the suit are all people we should clarify the facts to. Once the human minds are
rectified, the court will stand on the side of justice. Then won't it be our
Dafa disciples doing that? Won't it result from Dafa disciples validating the Fa?
Won't it be the accomplishment of Dafa disciples? You can't call it ordinary
people validating the Fa, it's Dafa disciples walking their own path. That's the
little bit that makes things different. (Teacher laughs) I've been
watching this. Don't let the old forces take advantage of any gaps.
Actually, speaking from another angle, being able to bring
the evil to court and being able to sue it, I can tell you, that's because the
evil has decreased to such an extent. It no longer has the ability to deal with
things. It's too occupied to take care of anything beyond ensuring its own life.
You've seen how one after another the cases you filed have been accepted and
successfully litigated. That's telling. But some of you are still thinking,
"What's going on?" It isn't about something going on. It's just that
the evil is on its way down. July 20th of 1999 was when the evil was
starting to peak, and it peaked sometime around 2000 and 2001, and now it's
falling back down, falling down toward the bottom.
Eradicating Falun Gong around the world is something the evil
no longer dares to even dream about. They already know it's impossible to
eradicate Falun Gong in Mainland China, and what's more, people are waking up.
But they've backed themselves into a corner and there's no way they can turn
back now. They keep escalating things and keep piling on more and more
accusations. They've placed themselves up so high and their tactics are so
outrageous that they couldn't climb down even if a ladder was set up for them.
They can't climb down, but they can't keep standing either, so they're going to
fall. Before this persecution Dafa was spread by word of mouth, and it didn't
have too much of an impact in the international community. But as this
persecution takes place it's constantly enhancing the reputation and name
recognition of Dafa, and constantly pushing it onto the international stage and
toward the summit of the human world. This, too, was one of the old forces'
objectives in arranging the persecution. Isn't that what's been happening?
Humankind is paying more and more attention. People still have a side that is
being restrained, but if the restraining elements were eliminated then the
attitude the world's people have toward Falun Gong wouldn't be like it is today.
It would be similar to the state of mind you had when you first obtained the Fa,
where as soon as you opened up this Fa you knew what it was. Right now the inner
meaning of the Fa isn't displayed to more of the world's people, so people can't
see it. That is because that's something reserved for the next stage. If the
future people were to obtain the Fa, and blend and mix in with our Dafa
disciples today, a lot of things would be hard to handle. So I haven't made too
much of an effort to push that forward. But a lot of people are studying the Fa,
are cultivating, and are entering Dafa. That's in fact establishing a foundation
for the future. They are the future cultivators, and for that reason, that too
is an aspect of Dafa disciples' saving sentient beings.
Looking at the overall situation, that's in fact how things
are at present. Don't overlook any of the things that Dafa disciples do. Your
every word, every flyer, every keystroke, every telephone call, and every letter
is having a huge impact. Beings that have come to understand the facts become
mobile media, and they too clarify the facts. It's had a big impact on society.
You, too, have seen the accomplishments and the side of yours that's powerful.
So going forward, Dafa disciples should still do these three things: Cultivate
yourselves well, clarify the facts, and send righteous thoughts to eliminate the
evil.
There's another thing. As I just said, right now the evil
elements have been destroyed to the point that very few are left. The evil
elements I'm talking about are those messed up and strange beings in other
dimensions. They're all really low-level, yet they come from different colossal
firmament systems and have piled up here. They're there when you open up one
dimension, and they're there when you open up another, so purging them is done
in one level after another. Sometimes you wonder, "Why's there more after I
clear them away, and why's there still more after I clear those away?"
That's how it is. Also, they're being destroyed as a whole, so their total
number is decreasing, and they're decreasing in different dimensional levels and
planes.
There's another thing that I've never told you before, and
that's because I couldn't talk about it too early on, and Master does these
things in order. When I tell you to eliminate and oppose the old forces, I mean
you should completely oppose the persecution and destroy those elements. We have
in fact done that, and we've been destroying them. We've also annihilated in
large quantities those evil beings that were used by the old forces, and the
overall Fa-rectification has gotten nearer and nearer, it's annihilating the
evil from top to bottom on a large scale, and you're also annihilating the evil
at different levels and planes by sending righteous thoughts. And then there's a
final type of element. What type of element is it? You know, I give you
automatic mechanisms for increasing gong and other elements such as the
Falun. Also, my Law Bodies are personally looking after Dafa disciples, and my
Law Bodies appointed some Gods who can truly assist with Fa-rectification to
help. But, the old forces have systematically arranged their elements, too, and
in that way they specifically arranged everything they wanted. So this has put
every student under the influence of specific arrangements by the old forces,
and under the influence of those old force beings. Those beings that the old
forces arranged to do specific things aren't those messed up, low-level spirit
or rotten ghost kind of beings that I've talked about. There are Buddhas, Daos
and Gods among them, though they're all of low levels, and here at this lowest
level that is the human world they're doing things given to them by the old
forces. They manifest in tiny sizes, and sometimes you see them as a shiny
little flash of light that darts across. The old forces arranged even more of
them around me. But I've been eliminating them in large quantities.
So how do they act? They have no views of their own. It's as
if their sole purpose is to complete their missions. Whatever the old forces
arranged for them to do back then, they do that to the end. They can hear
whatever Fa I teach but they refuse to change. They won't rest until they finish
what they want to do. That's because they think just like the old forces do,
they think that they are doing Fa-rectification, that they're Gods, and
that they need to complete the old forces' decrees, and they want to keep doing
that. At present, even though the old forces have been eliminated and the
remaining rotten spirits at the lowest levels can no longer have that much of an
effect, many forms of interference, many elements of persecution, the
persecution that's manifesting in different regions in Mainland China, and the
deceitful propaganda, those are all the result of their controlling wicked
people's minds. As your Master, I don't acknowledge them at all. They can't see
anything that I truly want to do, so they mess around and mess around inside
before my Fa-rectification arrives, and they've come up with a set of things.
Once the Fa-rectification arrives I'll completely purge them and everything
they've done, instantly re-creating things that are truly of the future. The old
beings can't see the process that's after the Fa-rectification, and that's
because they belong to the past, so they can't see the future. They can't see
the things of the future cosmos, so they're stubbornly attached to what they
want, and they've been doing those things all along. So, for us to not
acknowledge anything that the old forces are doing, to not acknowledge the
persecution and interference with the Fa-rectification, to have the persecution
end sooner, and to walk our own paths, we can't do that without purging this
form of interference of theirs, for they want to complete the tasks given to
them by the old forces.
From the perspective of the overall Fa-rectification, they've
committed extremely grievous sins and done great evil. Even though the old
forces have been fundamentally eliminated, those that do specific things also
have to be eliminated. They're the old forces' real behind-the-scenes helpers,
and they're attached to everything they're doing. I've said many times that the
evil beings and the old forces have taken advantage of the time before the Fa-rectification
arrives and the gaps created by high-level cosmic bodies coming down, and have
thrust upon me karma and the rotten matter in the cosmos and the human world,
and they've wanted to have me endure all of it and eliminate it. I tell them,
"You will be held accountable for everything you're doing." They don't
pay it any heed, and say, "You jumped into the dung pit, so how could your
body be free of dung?" What they mean is: This place is filthy, so how
could you come here and not have those things happen to you? This is the extent
of the highest understanding of the old forces' wisdom, and it reflects the
state of this era's cosmos--that's how they all see things. But what they
couldn't anticipate was, whatever I encounter in Fa-rectification--and this
includes everything in Fa-rectification that's not what I wanted but was forced--that's
the real obstacle to Fa-rectification and the final manifestation of the
cosmos's formation-stasis-degeneration. They say that this material dimension is
filthy, but, this dimension's filthiness is caused by the differences among the
levels of the cosmos's structure. That doesn't truly count as being filthy. So
when a God comes here and can't go back, it's not because that filth can't be
washed off, but because the realm of his being has been lowered. It's because of
the influence of various different concepts and different beings in the cosmos
that they can't go back. So what's really polluting me, creating trouble for me,
bringing the Fa-rectification trouble, and persecuting Dafa disciples is
actually not those filthy elements here but is the cosmos's beings' warped
concepts manipulating those elements. Those low-level elements are resistance
that the old forces specifically produced, and they have brought about those
cases of persecution and different forms of trouble. That's the real pollution.
So when they say, "You jumped into the dung pit, so how could your body be
free of dung?" the dung is not the difficulty or the obstacle, in actuality
the real dung is precisely those old forces and all of the beings that try to
force something on the Fa-rectification. So the real impediment to the Fa-rectification
is them. It's precisely those so-called beings of high realms that have
manipulated low-level beings to do their bidding, regarded beings inside the
Three Realms as completely worthless, and are the cause of the many elements of
difficulty for the beings that came down in the past and couldn't return.
So as I told you in the past, I've said that I knew I was
bound to encounter difficulties in the Fa-rectification, and I knew to what
extent that would happen. I was actually telling you that everything was under
control. In fact I was saying that I knew they would do these things and that
the old forces would show up. The cosmos is no longer good enough, so they were
going to do those things. Everything that they're attached to, everything that
they've arranged, and everything that they want--all these things were
inevitable. Righteous Gods of course wouldn't behave like the low-level, bad
beings that recklessly do evil things. They of course all act in a good way. But
that goodness is warped, and there are attachments behind the goodness. Also,
precisely because of their good behavior, the obstacles they've created are the
most effective at deceiving both themselves and others. If it weren't for Fa-rectification
it really would be hard to break through those things.
So to thoroughly eliminate all the evil elements, from now on
when Dafa disciples send righteous thoughts they should completely clean out
those old forces' behind-the-scenes helpers, meaning, eliminate them. They're
specifically carrying out everything that the old forces want to have done. Only
after they're eliminated can more sentient beings be saved, and my Law Bodies
and the righteous Gods who truly uphold Dafa will be able to look after
things comprehensively. Start to completely eliminate them. The majority of them
are at a low level and directly control rotten spirits. It's very easy to
eliminate them since their levels are rather low, but they are hiding inside the
most surface dimension.
What I just told you is very important. From now on when we
send righteous thoughts, the most important thing is targeting them and the
remaining rotten spirits that disrupt the Fa. Of course, just keep sending
righteous thoughts like you did before. Now that I've talked about it, you know
about it, and having a clear objective when you send righteous thoughts will do.
There's no need to think about things that are too specific. Have this objective
in mind: Completely end the old forces' involvement. (Enthusiastic applause)
The reason I didn't tell you this too early on is that
previously the old forces' whole system and the low-level beings had created
very complicated elements, and if they were cleaned out along with all kinds of
messed up beings these things would get really chaotic. Now is the right time.
I've also arranged righteous Gods and my Law Bodies to completely take over,
watch them fully, prevent them from disrupting things and make sure that no
problems come up.
Another thing is, a lot of people in the audience are from
other countries, and a lot of people have positions of responsibility. When Dafa
disciples validate the Fa, it doesn't matter which country or region you're in,
or which ethnic group you belong to--there are no such distinctions among Dafa
disciples. You're all one body. For those of you in the audience who are of the
yellow race, your soul might not be that type of being. If you're a Caucasian,
you might not truly be a Caucasian. In other words, during cultivation you
shouldn't be attached to those things, those things don't matter. So you should
cooperate well with each other. Right now Dafa disciples are becoming more and
more clearheaded because they've experienced so much and they're becoming more
and more rational, so when you work together you're much more in harmony than
before. The better you cooperate with each other as a whole the more powerful
you are, and the more powerful you are the greater your impact. As a matter of
fact, during the persecution and as you validate the Fa, what you see in the
human world is pretty calm. But in other dimensions the influence is huge, and
the impact is huge. Every time you have an event there's a big battle between
good and evil in the heavens. Of course, the evil has become less and less now,
and it's as if they're being swept away. But of course, as long as the evil
still exists it's going to cause harm. We cannot let our guard down, and we
still need to cooperate even better and communicate with each other often.
Walk the last leg of the Dafa disciples' journey well! More
will be said in the future. I don't want to say too many things just for the
sake of complimenting you, and I don't want to praise you too much. You're all
Dafa disciples so Master gets straight to the point in talking about anything.
I'm not going to say more at this conference since you need to eat lunch in a
bit. (Long, enthusiastic applause)
Future Great Enlightened Beings, (Master smiles) in
this final phase of validating the Fa establish your greatest mighty virtue! (Long,
enthusiastic applause)
Editor's note: The translation is subject to further
improvement so as to be closer to the original text. Last updated: July 19,
2003.
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