My Understanding of "A Dafa Disciple Completely Opposes Everything Arranged By The Evil Old Forces"

(Clearwisdom.net)

A few days ago we had some disagreements among practitioners. We were all very concerned about the others because each believed that he or she was right to begin with, and that it must be the others who had problems in their thinking. Since I could see the problems existing in other practitioners, then there must be areas requiring my own improvement as well. I sensed that I had not been diligently probing from within, but often times only finding the problems in others. Why did I experience such problems? I found out why after I looked within myself. I would like to share my experience of doing so.

Teacher has told us that the evil would exploit our attachments, further reinforcing them so that they could achieve their objective of undermining Dafa. Due to inadequate study of the Fa, I formed a particular perception about this in the back of my mind. I felt that whenever we have an attachment, there would undoubtedly be danger or even becoming detained as a result. This actually showed that I had acknowledged and accepted the arrangement established by the old evil forces, which set up tribulations to test and transform Dafa practitioners because of their attachments.

In fact, even though practitioners have attachments, it must never be used as an excuse for the evil old forces to carry out their persecution of Dafa. We should absolutely oppose their every arrangement. During the peaceful period of cultivation before the persecution began, we would patiently point out each other's attachments whenever we saw them, and we would all rise to a new and higher level through Fa study together. Today, upon identifying the shortcomings of other practitioners, if behind this is our real goal of only trying to evade the danger brought about by the evil's exploitations of our attachments, then we will easily play into the evil's hands. This is because it amounts to giving our unspoken consent to the evil logic of "attachments will bring persecution," and overlooking the factors that would help us to make true progress together. This is precisely what the evil wants us to do. Through Fa study we became more aware of this as well as that our own thoughts and wishes are very critical. If we keep on perceiving that something may happen, then we were indeed asking for it. The evil old forces would then take advantage of this to further deepen our fears of what we think might happen.

Teacher has arranged our path of cultivation. The evil old forces should never have intervened with our cultivation because we already had Teacher looking after us. But under the name of "helping Teacher," the evil old forces made systematic arrangements for everything, even including the tests for us. But Teacher turned the tables on them, making use of all of their evil arrangements to see their true xinxing positions and position them accordingly. The arrangement by the evil old forces was based on jealousy and zealotry. Their goal of applying tribulations was not for us to elevate our levels, but to instead destroy us. This is indeed a blatant undermining of the path of our cultivation arranged by Teacher, and it is no different than the evil interference that we encountered during our peaceful period of cultivation before the persecution began. I believe understanding this helps strengthen our absolute rejection and opposition of the evil old forces arrangement.

Making use of their arrangement, Teacher guided us to get rid of it and achieve real elevation. It is critical that we resolutely follow the path laid down by Teacher, and continuously resist, reject, and dispel the interference from the evil old forces. Otherwise, their interventions will become more influential. Once we accept their arrangements, our tribulations will surely increase and intensify among practitioners. I sense that some practitioners could not endure the long period of tribulations because their righteous thoughts and convictions were not strong enough, while other practitioners could safely sail through the tribulations because of their immutable faith in Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance and Teacher.

Indeed, so long as we steadfastly believe in Teacher, truly follow Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance taught by Teacher in everything we do, establish powerful righteous thoughts and at all times send forth righteous thoughts to eliminate the evil, we would surely be able to avoid the tribulations forced upon us by the evil. We would be safe and sound even amidst the apparent danger.

Teacher stated in Zhuan Falun: "As a practitioner, if you believe that you have an illness, you are, in fact, asking for it. If you ask for it, the illness will visit you."

As for the conflicts arising amongst us while dealing with projects of spreading Dafa and exposing the evil, I sensed it was just a manifestation of our uncultivated and impure side in the human realm. As long as we maintain our pure, righteous thoughts, eliminate external interference, and rectify deviated substances in other realms, the apparent conflicts will be resolved in our realm.

As a single entity of Dafa, all of us practitioners must constantly keep our own realms pure and untainted. Furthermore, we must exercise our righteous thoughts to constantly patch up the deficiencies originating from other practitioners so that the evil will not infiltrate the whole. Even when problems show up in others, the evil will cower back if we can face the problems with a rational and calm attitude and send forward powerful righteous thoughts to eradicate its evil interferences. If we can always be alert that the evil is always looking for opportunities to cause damage and interfere with us, then we will be able to maintain our righteous thoughts and rationality at all times. This is exactly what the evil dreads most. They absolutely would not dare to approach us since doing so would mean utter destruction.