(Clearwisdom.net) Master has taught us that Dafa practitioners are "those who are on their way to divinity." ("Teaching the Fa in the City of Chicago") I have some understandings about this sentence from my own cultivation experience.
The path that we Dafa practitioners are walking is one of cultivation, and it is a path towards divinity. On this path, when we look at things and handle matters from the divine beings' perspective, we are divine beings and miracles will manifest. In contrast, if we treat people and handle things from a human perspective, then we are human and will bring in humans' troubles. I had quite a deep experience with this.
On the night of July 22, 1999, the anti-Falun Gong programs were shown on the TV. I stood there and watched for a while, and I became aware that they were fabrications aimed to attack Falun Gong. I had a thought, "Falun Dafa is to help people walk towards divinity. You, the officials in the central government, are still human, despite how senior your role is in the government. How can the human persecute the divine?" My mind was not interfered with at all.
Since the very beginning of the persecution, the evil has been extremely rampant. All the various media exhausted all efforts to create rumors and spread fabrications throughout the country. The evil Party at all levels searched and filed all practitioners one by one, and they held practitioners in brainwashing classes. The pressure was so intense that many practitioners felt that is was almost difficult to breathe. The practitioners in the area where our factory was located were all forced into brainwashing sessions, and those who refused to give up practicing were illegally detained. Because of our perseverance, our factory was a pure land. Master's lectures and the music "Pudu" and "Jishi" were still played through the loud speakers, and the poster "brief introduction of Falun Gong" still hung in the middle of the wall in the workshop. Master's articles that had been hand-copied by the workers were still there untouched, and all the practitioners still studied the Fa and practiced the exercises every day. For nine months, our cultivation was not interfered with at all.
My spouse and I went to Beijing to validate the Fa three days before the Tiananmen self-immolation was staged. At that time the situation was critical, and it was extremely difficult to get to Beijing smoothly. We had a thought at that time that we must arrive at Tiananmen Square smoothly to restore justice for Falun Gong. The whole journey was surprisingly smooth. When we woke up from a night's sleep on the train, we were already in Beijing. We walked from the Beijing Train Station to Tiananmen Square and no one stopped us to ask anything. The square was so full of armed police that every three or five steps there was a policemen on duty, and on every street there were two rows of policemen lined up along the curbside face to face. We were determined to get to the best position to shout our voices from our hearts and to unfurl the banners. When I led my spouse and walked to the middle of the exquisite table and Jinshui Bridge, two armed policemen suspected that we came to validate Dafa, so they came and surrounded us. I quickly pulled the banner out of my sleeves. However, even before I unfurled it, the police rushed over and attempted to take it away from me. Two of them held my arms and held my head, but they failed to stop me. I still raised the banner high above my head and shouted loudly, "Falun Dafa is good!" "Restore the good name of Falun Dafa!" Many tourists surrounded and watched us, and they took photos and videos. We were arrested and taken to the Tiananmen Police Department. We were then taken to the Changping Prison.
The things that happened afterwards, as we treated the situation with human notions, turned out to be trouble. We always had in mind that we should validate the Fa in an upright and dignified manner and remain steadfast while in prison. Even if our heads were chopped off, we would not blink our eyes. We would exhibit Dafa practitioners' magnificent image and not lose face for Master. This was purely a human idea of heroism. During the detention we had two chances to escape, but we just wouldn't go. As a result, we were illegally detained for several months and wasted precious time.
Our experience shows that as long as we maintain divine thoughts, the evil dares not persecute us. Can a human persecute a divine being? Impossible! Of course, Master has also pointed out that since we are humans walking on the way to divinity, we still have human thoughts. As soon as the human thought comes out, there is going to be a problem. Hence in order to maintain divine thought at every moment, we need to study the Fa well and assimilate to the Fa. Once the original matter that our body is composed of is all assimilated to the Fa, we will truly become divine and will no longer have human thoughts.
