(Li Hongzhi, June 26, 2005)
Good afternoon, everyone! (Disciples, "Good afternoon, Master!")
You've been working hard!
Recently I have made it to just about every Fa conference. As
you know, there are constant changes in the situation during Fa-rectification.
For instance, right now in saving sentient beings, it is necessary to resolve
the issue of how people understand the CCP, so you
have been working on things related to the Nine Commentaries. If I were
to talk too much about other things right now, it might distract from what you
are doing, and that is why I don't plan on talking too much. Since arriving in
Chicago, I had been considering whether I should come to the conference. (Master
smiles) Then, after I thought it over, I decided to come, because at each of
these recent conferences there have been some students who have just stepped
forward and students who have just come here from Mainland China. And of course,
the students want to see Master, so I thought I would come see you in person. (Enthusiastic
applause)
Let me take this opportunity to mention something. You know,
as Dafa cultivators in the Fa-rectification period, the historic mission that
you have--this great responsibility--is indeed enormous. What lies before you is
not merely personal cultivation or saving a few people. The entire human race is
before you, and the Chinese people, in particular. The situation will change
later on, and it won't be as hard to [save people then]. But with things as they
now stand, it is extremely hard to save Chinese people, enormously difficult. So
you have come up with all kinds of ways to do it--which shocks the wicked people
and strikes fear into them--and this is having a great effect in clarifying the
truth and saving sentient beings. You have done well in these things, but
sometimes you are too hasty and overly eager.
You might have heard recently that the matter of putting the
CCP on trial would be postponed. Here is a thought on the subject. I told you a
long time ago that a Dafa disciple, or a cultivator, has no enemies. The only
thing you have a role in is saving people, and you have nothing to do with using
human means and human principles to punish or pronounce judgment on people. This
is a fundamental issue!
But in order to stop the evil, the people who are no longer
salvageable, and the diehard followers of the CCP, it has been necessary for you
to organize some activities and do some things. Certain things are to be done by
non-practitioners, however. Specifically, in society many people are
participating in the [China] democracy movement and have formed various
political organizations. They have political aspirations and they want to have a
certain political system put in place in China. Whatever they do, those are
human affairs. But in terms of exposing the CCP's evil nature, they have indeed
had a big impact. In this vein, the media outlets Dafa disciples have set up are
part of society's media, and can, in order to expose the CCP's evilness, provide
extensive coverage of those activities and support what they do. It helps the
Chinese people see the wicked CCP's evil nature and, to an extent, it has the
effect of rescuing Chinese people. So that's not a problem. But if we do things
exactly as non-practitioners do, or if we do these things directly as Dafa
disciples, then it's not so appropriate. Still, Master does affirm the ideas you
have come up with and the formats you have adopted--they are not wrong.
In a time to come, not only will mankind need to put these
extremely bad people on trial and have them dealt with accordingly, it will also
be necessary to establish a correct means of deciding things by law, and at that
point it will be fine to do these things. Dafa disciples can help
non-practitioners coordinate some of the correct human things that they are
doing, there's no problem with that. The process of doing that can serve to
expose and stop the evil. People who are to be saved, however, should not be
brought to trial. Think about this, everyone: before you began to cultivate Dafa,
many of you present here were also once fooled by that wicked Party into
becoming members of it, so do you really want to bring to trial the CCP members
who have been fooled by the evil? You should understand that they, too, have
been deceived by the wicked CCP, and they are all sentient beings for you to
save. You must make a clear distinction here. You can only do that [bringing
them to trial] with a very small number of people, that is, the extremely bad
ones. As I said earlier, it's not wrong to do that, as it ends up shocking and
frightening the evil, and the future mankind definitely will not let those
wicked people off [anyway], but that said, don't get too eager. You can't go and
actually do that yourselves. Are you all clear on what I just talked about? (Applause)
I was saying that there is nothing wrong with your using
legal means to stop the evil's persecution, but you should be clearheaded when
it comes to how to carry that out and how to look at the matter. So I have
addressed it, and that is how you should look at it. The various ways that you
have thought up to dismantle the evil are excellent, as they simultaneously
expose the persecution and save sentient beings, leading more people to break
from the evil and causing the evil to disintegrate as it carries out the
persecution. Having been ruled by the CCP for decades, today's Chinese people
have been thoroughly brainwashed. The words that Mainland Chinese people use,
the way they think, and how they look at things are all brimming with what the
CCP has instilled in them. Only after Mainland Chinese people come to Western
societies and stay for a while do they realize what the CCP has turned them
into. At this point in time you all understand and know what a tragic state the
Chinese people are in, and looking back [you can now see that] the CCP is truly
wicked. Right now, though, a lot of Chinese people in Mainland China don't
understand or see any of this, for they have grown accustomed to it. That's what
they grow up on, starting from day one, and they think that is how normal
societies really are, and that maybe that is just the human condition. So when
the wicked CCP says something, they basically don't even think about it, [saying
to themselves,] "Whatever it says is good must be good, and whatever it
says is bad must be bad, so when it says that Falun Gong is bad, then you Falun
Gong people most likely really are that way." They don't listen when you
try to clarify the facts to them. Given this situation, what should we do? Dafa
disciples have a mission to save them. So we will expose the wicked Party's
ignoble nature, from past to present, and thereby help the world's people see it
for what it is and decide if they still want to believe what it says. Experience
has shown that once people come to know these things, upon our telling them the
facts again they understand everything, and they are willing to listen. That is
what the Nine Commentaries is doing.
Judging by the withdrawals from the CCP and the change in the
situation in Mainland China, you can see that everything you are doing has
brought about tremendous changes in the state of the world. The evil may appear
very powerful, but at one time, back when there were two major opposing forces
in the world, the wicked Party's bloc was so strong that the Western world was
helpless in dealing with it. And yet, when gods wanted it dissolved, it fell
apart instantly. It will cease to exist once it is no longer needed.
The main part of Dafa disciples is cultivating and being
tempered in China. So, could the political situation in China and the existence
of the CCP be accidental? The entirety of the wicked Party's so-called socialist
front has been dismantled, but why hasn't [the CCP] been dismantled? Isn't it
because the old forces planned it that way for Dafa disciples? So, none of this
is coincidental. Even though we oppose the old forces and don't accept or
acknowledge this persecution or any of the things that they have forced on us,
these things are having a destructive effect. As we negate them, we are
walking a straight path while at the same time thinking of every possible way to
save all beings, save the people of the world, and save the Chinese people.
Many of today's people, especially Chinese people, don't have
simple backgrounds. As I have mentioned before, many Chinese people were once
kings of different nations throughout the world in different eras who later
reincarnated in China. And of course it's not limited to kings--practically
entire royal courts reincarnated in China. Of course, not only does a person
have his past in the human world, he also has a place where his being ultimately
comes from, which are both extraordinary. And this is why the people that Dafa
disciples need to save are certainly not just ordinary beings.
The cultivators of old used to talk about saving sentient
beings, but did anyone really save sentient beings? Other than the great
enlightened beings with True Enlightenment such as Shakyamuni and Jesus, who has
saved sentient beings? Nobody has. The beings Shakyamuni and Jesus saved were
intentionally placed there for them, and that laid cultural groundwork in
history for Dafa. At the same time, [what they went through was] an indication
of the problems divine beings would come across and encounter on their path,
played out in history for today's people to see. And they of course wanted me to
see it. That's what it was all about. What [those enlightened beings] were
dealing with at the time was a purely human race in its early stages, with
early-stage human bodies; whereas the human beings you are dealing with have
human appearances and human bodies, while in reality the beings inside are no
longer so simple.
Then what kind of people does Dafa save? What kind of people
do Dafa disciples set out to rescue? It's no simple matter, for sure. Why is it
that we, who are being persecuted so severely, still want to save sentient
beings? Why is it that we, while experiencing such ruthless persecution, are
still thinking of others? [Because] it is something that history has entrusted
you with, for these people [you are to save] represent immense groups of beings.
So this isn't just about people, but is about the hope that the beings of the
cosmos have placed in you, and placed in the fact that Dafa is spreading broadly
throughout the world today. It is a predestined opportunity for them. So if any
being misses this predestined opportunity, it might well be that he has lost it
forever.
The Three Realms look to be small, and human society seems to
be minuscule when set in contrast to high-level beings, yet this place has in
fact become the focal point of Fa-rectification. I have spoken before about why
I spread the Fa here. Then when the Fa is being spread here, could things such
as the surrounding environment, the beings that come here, or any of the things
you face just be simple matters? Absolutely not, though these things do come
across as being no different than things that happen in society or previous
human states of affairs. A human being is just that, a human being, and he
definitely can't just become divine. From antiquity to the present, it has been
[a process of] creating a form of being such as this and of molding what humans
are like now, including people's thoughts, overall state, and the way of life
that characterize today's people. That is the process that has taken place. And
it is here in this setting that we spread the Fa, save people, and rescue
sentient beings. Even though many elements that were part of that process were
forced upon me and the Dafa disciples--that is, by factors in the old cosmos--it
is still hard for you to distinguish those things since they were mixed together
[with other things]. We reject all of the old arrangements, and the path
we take is our own. So that problems won't arise for you, Dafa disciples, I have
often told you to study the Fa a lot and keep up your righteous thoughts. When
you do these things, it is then possible for you to walk correctly on your own
path and to do well at what a Dafa disciple is supposed to do. No matter how
busy you get, you need to study the Fa, no matter what.
As for what lies ahead, things might change more and more
quickly. But, as I brought up when teaching the Fa to you before, whether the
change in the state of society is negative or positive, or, put another way,
whether what comes about is bad or good, it is a test for our Dafa disciples all
the same, and not a reason to become content. If things really do change for the
better, it will be a different sort of test for you, and you still shouldn't
become content. By all means you need to do what a Dafa disciple should do,
maintaining your righteous thoughts.
I'll stop here for now. As Dafa disciples do things for Dafa
today, some of you are responsible for working on many projects simultaneously.
And there are things at home to handle, Dafa things, work-related things, and
social or other things, all of which puts quite a strain on you. I see this. But
no matter what, you have managed to think of Dafa's things as most important,
and at critical times you have remembered that you are a Dafa disciple and need
to handle things well. From that perspective, you are really terrific. In any
event, Master sees and knows this. So many years have passed over the course of
history, the Three Realms have existed for so long, and so many sentient beings
have come here over time, but all hopes are being placed in this one moment out
of all the ages. This instant is precious beyond measure. Completing the last
leg of this journey well is what's most magnificent. So for this reason, though
during this stage your time is tight, and you are very tired and have little
time to rest, when Master sees how many of you have managed to do well he can't
help but feel gratified. And it is on this account that I thank you all. (Long,
roaring applause)
A lot of people have said we are involving ourselves in
political affairs, and some students of ours who haven't studied the Fa
diligently are confused, saying, "Isn't the Nine Commentaries
getting us involved in political things?" It is for the sake of Dafa that
human society exists, and history was arranged accordingly. You know, we can
consult the example of the sages from antiquity, the great enlightened beings of
True Enlightenment. Take for instance the five thousand words Lao Zi imparted:
if we just consider the superficial, most obvious things he talked about, they
are mostly about how to rule as a king, how to administer the country, and so
on. If we look at it from a human perspective, isn't it political? But, it is
not political. We could of course draw upon many historical examples. Have you
thought about this: what the wicked CCP is doing are the actions of an evil
religion that unifies church and state, and it thereby drags China's entire
populace into political affairs. When we help people break from and see through
the wicked CCP, aren't we in fact helping people break from politics? (Applause)
The reality is that our fundamental goal is not to overthrow the wicked CCP, and
I'm not fighting against it--it's not worthy! (Applause) How could those
who are on their way to divinity get caught up in fighting with people? Even if
the wicked CCP is an evil spirit and vicious fiend, it's still not
worthy. Fa-rectification is Fa-rectification, and as Dafa disciples go about
saving beings, they must dissolve all evil things that obstruct people's
salvation.
It is for the purpose of saving all beings and saving the
people in the world today that we help people to see the wicked CCP for what it
is. Of course, no matter how the CCP tries to hide the evil face of its wicked
gangster regime, once the world's people come to know it for what it is, they
will realize that it is evil, and they will not cooperate with it anymore,
choosing instead to withdraw from the Party. And that is when it ceases to
exist. But that is not what we are trying to do--our goal is to save sentient
beings. Many things here in the human world, here in the delusion, are hard to
see for what they are, so it's a matter of how people look at and understand
things.
Of course, being Dafa disciples--and this especially goes for
the many students who have studied the Fa solidly--you can grasp this. In the
course of clarifying the facts, you have come up with many examples to
illustrate this and explained things well. So the path we have taken has not
been wrong, and it is just a matter of how to do even better. I'll stop here for
today. I thank you all. (Long, roaring applause)
Master continues to hear about and see the good things you
are doing. (Warm applause)
Last updated: October 22, 2005.
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