(Clearwisdom.net) Greetings, Revered Master! Greetings, fellow practitioners!

During the past year, with the progress of Fa rectification we have encountered many great changes and important projects. This is an indication of changes in the human world that correspond to cosmic changes in the universe. Then in the process of Fa rectification, as Dafa particles have we done what's required of us during the Fa rectification period? Is every thought of ours in the Fa? Do we always set strict standards for ourselves? In asking myself these questions, I feel that I am far from being up to par.

Master said in "Explaining the Fa During the 2003 Lantern Festival at the U.S. West Fa Conference,"

"Of course, personal Consummation is the first priority, since there's nothing more to talk about if you can't reach Consummation. But today's Dafa disciples are doing something different from the cultivation ways in every other period in history, and that's because you are shouldering a greater responsibility that surpasses your personal Consummation. Saving sentient beings and validating the Fa, these far surpass your personal cultivation, they're even greater things."

I gradually realized that doing the three things well is what we must do in our cultivation. When saving sentient beings, our ultimate goal is not to seek our own elevation in personal cultivation. Improving ourselves is preparing to take on the greater task of saving sentient beings.

As the Fa rectification progresses, the three media have been placed at the forefront in saving sentient beings. The Sound of Hope Radio Station has been able to broadcast directly to the people in mainland China about the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party, information about quitting the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and has helped the mainland Chinese, who have been wronged by the CCP, to expose these injustices, something that the mainland media dares not to report. At the same time, as journalists we also have the responsibility to give them information and clarify the truth from overseas during our interviews, thus forming a special channel in spreading the Nine Commentaries and encouraging people to quit the CCP and its affiliated organizations.

Many practitioners are not professional journalists. As a practitioner we should view things on the basis of the Fa, surpassing everyday people's principles. Working for the media is not for showing off practitioners' supernormal abilities to everyday people. Also, we should not get trapped by ordinary people's logic that it is impossible to do if we haven't had formal training. What we need to do is to elevate ourselves from within the Fa. Then our wisdom will come from the Fa. We can then use everyday people's experiences and methods to validate the Fa and save sentient beings. Below are some experiences in clarifying the truth as a journalist.

Master said in "Teaching the Fa at the 2002 Fa Conference in Philadelphia, U.S.A,"

"You are Gods, and you are the future rulers of different cosmoses, so who would you count on? All the beings are counting on you!"

When doing interviews, I've heard many everyday people's stories about how they were wronged. For years, many of them went to appeal to higher authorities in Beijing for help, but no one was willing to listen to their cases. Instead, high pressure violence is used to deal with them. When talking to them, you can feel that although they hate the government for not protecting them, and hate the current social system, they don't know the fundamental causes of their sufferings. So oftentimes, during the interviews, I talk to them about current affairs in China and overseas, recommend the Nine Commentaries to them, and suggest that they quit the CCP and its affiliated organizations. After these talks, many have quit the CCP. As these conversations go on, many of them step out from their narrow-sighted state of seeking justice for their own cases. They have realized the evil nature of the CCP and have taken the path of defending their human rights as groups. One listener told me that he is not afraid of this evil specter. The CCP's nine "genes" are of no use to him. He goes everywhere to distribute the Nine Commentaries, and teaches people how to quit the CCP. Although he was once arrested, when released he asked overseas media to expose his case. I also see that when a person quits the CCP, and wipes out the the beast's mark that he carries, Gods and Buddhas are all protecting him. The CCP cannot really do much about this listener, although the authorities repeatedly arrested him and released him. What he is doing helped me see that he is broadening the channels of helping Chinese people quit the CCP.

In March, two key witnesses who came to the US from China revealed the massive organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners in China. This allegation shocked the entire world and every practitioner.

Practitioners later realized that the Fa rectification has progressed to another stage. We as practitioners must negate all arrangements from the old forces and hurry to save sentient beings. We must awaken western governments and their people by informing them of these cruel and shocking facts.

In April the global Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (CIPFG) was formed. We in Australia passed the first step. Then the report by two Canadian officials was released. In mid-August the vice president of the European Parliament and a former Canadian minister visited Australia, and revealed the CCP's crimes of harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners in China.

During this period, the CIPFG began is operation. Many practitioners participated in the activities of truth clarification about the organ harvesting. It is a big test for all of us from the angle of cultivation and elevation, understanding the Fa, attitude towards Dafa, and overall cooperation. It also touched every practitioner's heart. In the process there has been much friction and many xinxing tests. Practitioners' backgrounds are different from one another and so they have different understandings of the Fa and different ways of handling things.

Soon a number of practitioners who wanted to share their understandings got together, studied the Fa, and put all their different suggestions on the table. Practitioners were able to let go of their egos, and break through the old forces' arrangements, realizing that Dafa practitioners are saving sentient beings, rather than depending on everyday people to do things. Everyday people are often at the front line, but it is practitioners who are actually doing things behind-the-scenes. In an extremely short time everyone was clear about the fundamentals of the Fa and carried out all the detailed arrangements after the sharing. Some practitioners started to exert the advantages of media, and gathered a lot of information and the most recent news to compile a series of booklets. These booklets were used when we visited other media. The team working on government projects found them very convenient to use. They compiled lists of parliamentarians and their current attitudes towards Dafa, indicating what needed to be followed up by using different methods. This way, practitioners were able to break through barriers.

We also organized practitioners to clarify the truth on a large scale, make phone calls, send faxes, and make up for time that was wasted. I understand that these practitioners have elevated in the Fa and have let go of their egos. They are not like everyday people, and take losses and gains lightly. They are trying to rectify things and harmonize what Master requires us to do. This time we heard an affirmative comment from Master about our cooperation.

It was because many practitioners participated and were all sincere in their hearts. However, because we have not laid a good foundation, the Australian government has not moved much overall. The Australian media also didn't do as much as we had expected. Even so, I have felt Master's compassion. We have only had the thought to do well, and have started to cooperate. We have only had a thought, and our Master has given us affirmative comments. I remember that after sending off the two visitors, I almost collapsed in the car. It took me a long time to get back to myself. It was like I had just fought a major battle. Master's teaching in Lecture Seven of Zhuan Falun on eating meat gave me a hint that when we have cultivated to a certain level our gong will be able to help more. Because we are continuously facing big issues, our own cultivation must reach certain levels. However, it often happens that things do not turn out to be as they were expected. Although we know what should be done, we haven't cultivated well enough to elevate, and haven't developed enough capacity and wisdom from cultivation. In the entire process of cultivation we often use human thoughts to handle things, and still use human thoughts to solve problems. That's why we feel so tired. If we haven't cultivated to the standard Master has set for us, in the process of Fa rectification, our human bodies won't be able to catch up.

In the following days I encountered something that was quite a mental test for me. As one of the coordinators, I always thought that after a project was finished, there should be a round-up summary. Whether it is from the Fa or from the overall coordination there should be a round-up summary, which may be useful for future projects. This was the reasoning on the surface. What was hidden was that there were many areas we didn't do well in terms of overall coordination, and so I wanted to point out who did well and who didn't. With this thought there arose the attachment of competitiveness. But I didn't realize this myself, as I only wanted to let everyone know who had done well and who had not. When I spoke about this in the assistants' Fa study, many practitioners expressed different thoughts, and some even expressed dissatisfaction of doing things this way. At that time I was really puzzled. I thought about how in everyday society evaluations are carried out when something is not done well, and as practitioners we should take responsibility for the Fa. The more I thought the more I was puzzled.

After going back home and studying the Fa, it seemed that I still couldn't determine where I needed to break through, although in my mind I was eager to make a change and upgrade myself. In "Teaching the Fa at the Fa Conference at the U.S. Capital," Master says,

"If whenever something happens you instantly jump into who's right, whose problem it is, and how you have done, then while on the surface it looks like you are resolving the conflict or tension, in reality that's not the case at all. On the surface it looks plenty rational, but in reality that's not rational at all. You haven't taken a step back and fully cast off your attachment, and then thought the issue over. Only after a person calmly and peacefully withdraws from a conflict and then looks at it can he truly resolve it."

While I was holding my stance, one practitioner recommended hand copying the Fa. I realized that Master was enlightening me via her words. Therefore, I started trying to calm my mind. In addition to reading two to three lectures every day, I also hand copied the chapters of "Demonic Interference from One's Own Mind" and "Jealousy." The hand copying brought to me a surprising change, making my head remarkably clear. Upon looking at a thing, I could precisely find out its origin. Now looking back at my original mentality wherein I intended to make the summary, was it done in a benevolent way, or in a complaining way? How do I look at the problem currently happening? Why don't people accept what I say? Why do my words induce other people's jealousy?

In "Teaching the Fa at the 2004 International Fa Conference in New York," Master said,

"If you deal with a problem without the attachment to self and calmly put forward ideas about how to tackle the problem well, I don't think others will feel uncomfortable upon hearing it, because you're doing it for the Fa."

If we summarize the righteous side that presents the mighty power of Dafa, displaying the righteousness to practitioners, they will all correct themselves according to Dafa. This is also what practitioners are required to do. However, in the process of Fa-rectification, there are so many times that we didn't achieve the state of purity required by Dafa, leading to imperfect outcomes of truth-clarifying projects and damage to Dafa's image. This also provides a chance for the old forces to create inconsistency between practitioners. This is because, according to the old forces, practitioners' minds are not pure, so they are not qualified to summarize a substantial project, making it difficult for practitioners to share with each other on time and upgrade xinxing together. One thing that we should be alert about and should further look into is that the old forces are watching us closely, using their ways to keep a distance between practitioners who look at things in different ways. We should all clearly and fundamentally deny this method used by the old forces to hamper practitioners' effects of truth-clarification.

After communicating with the practitioner who recommended hand copying the Fa, I immediately implemented her suggestion. One day, after viewing my hand copy of the chapter "Demonic Interference from One's Own Mind" in Lecture Six of Zhuan Falun, one practitioner said that it seemed that my hand-written words all came from a battle field. I took a look at those words myself, and found that they were all like waiving big knifes or spears. So I realized that there was a need to rectify myself again. One sentence from Master popped up in my head, my understanding of it being "although you just made a simple horizontal line, I can tell the full meaning of it." In appearance my hand writing was in the cursive style of calligraphy. From the perspective of a practitioner, however, it is a vivid manifestation of human notions on paper, and those notions are waiving big knifes and spears that impact our body as a small universe. No wonder numerous human notions are exposed in our daily conversations. They cannot be covered up and will be exposed in front of other people, no matter how delightful the tone used. I then realized that I should keep an eye on every one of my thoughts and notions. In the First Talk of Zhuan Falun, Master said,

"We human beings have a body in each of many, many dimensions. The largest component of the human body, as people today see it, is the cell. And that's the case for our flesh and blood, at least. But when you go in between cells and molecules, or in between molecules and molecules, you'll experience what it's like to enter other dimensions." (Zhuan Falun, translation version 2003)

After repeatedly reading this part of the lecture, I understand one more bit of the Fa, and this enhanced my own confidence in cultivating every one of my thoughts and notions. When we develop a thought, the thought will also be developed in each body of different dimensions at the same time. If a righteous thought is developed, through the bodies in various dimensions the volume of the righteous thought will be enlarged unboundedly, and it will turn into a thought of God. However, in the same way a bad or an evil thought will also develop to become as big as a mountain, making it difficult to eliminate the bad thought.

After hand copying Zhuan Falun for a period of time, I found that all words are gradually transformed into the official script style. In Master's article "Teaching the Fa at the Discussion on Creating Fine Art," Master said,

"Speaking of the cursive styles of calligraphy, strictly speaking, they are a reflection of mental states in which people are indulging their negative side. When Gods helped people create Chinese characters, there were no such things as cursive styles."

"It's not that I have a preference for the official script style; it's because when you write in the official script style you can't possibly do it cursively. If it's written in cursive, it's no longer the official script style. So it's hard for people to write in that style cursively when they are indulging their notions or thought karma. From this perspective, I like writing in the official script style."

While I was hand writing the Fa, I was continuously abandoning my own thought karma and human notions which encouraged self-indulgance. Also, the negative substance in my body has been continuously eliminated, my body has become lighter, and my thoughts have become clearer.

Before hand copying Master's Fa about "Demonic Interference from One's Own Mind," I thought that it was a kind of interference that can easily happen to people with supernormal abilities. After the transcription, however, I gained more understandings. I realized that following the human mindset instead of following the Fa, making judgments based on sentiments, being attached to supernormal abilities, and developing good feelings about oneself after finishing some work for Dafa can all be categorized into "Demonic Interference from One's Own Mind." After the transcription, I obviously felt that the space of my mind had enlarged, and my intention to always think of others first had been enhanced. Only when we study the Fa more deeply, and upgrade ourselves according to understandings from the Fa, can we walk down the right path of cultivation. Any deviation will lead us to a path arranged by the old forces.

In Master's most updated article entitled "Thoroughly Dissolve the Evil," Master asks us to,

"...thoroughly dissolving all evil beings and elements that persecute Dafa disciples, clearing away the evil circumstances under which Dafa disciples are persecuted in mainland China..."

This new development of Fa-rectification is driving us to be more diligent in cultivation, and to hurry in saving sentient beings, as mentioned in Master's lecture "Teaching the Fa at the Fa Conference at the U.S. Capital,"

"Having cultivated as Dafa disciples up through today, you have become increasingly clearer on what this Dafa is that you cultivate, clearer on the responsibilities of Dafa disciples, and clearer on the importance of everything that Dafa disciples are doing today. "

Thank you Master, Thank you all!