(Clearwisdom.net) Vocal artists Jiang Min, Yang Jiansheng, and Bai Xue's heartfelt and compassionate songs moved many people to tears at Radio City Music Hall in New York City during the performance of this year's New Tang Dynasty Chinese New Year Spectacular. When people cry, something must have touched them - but do we really understand these songs?
It is easy to feel touched by Falun Gong practitioners' compassionate aspiration and actions, but it's not that easy to truly understand the thought connotation the singers are trying to convey. It took me six years to progress from "hearing" to "understanding" the music. Just as someone commented, "These songs are beautiful and touching. I feel the songs' inner meaning are full of compassion." Attorney Mr. Johnson said, "Truth is truth. No government has the right to cover up the truth. For a nation, there is always a way to address any issue as long as it is real. However, if people are not allowed to know the truth, there is a big problem with that nation." "I feel the programs of the Spectacular are all transmitting the truth, not only the truth of Falun Gong practitioners being persecuted, but also the truth of humans' origin, the truth of about life." The compassionate connotation in the songs, and the truth about the persecution, the human origin and life should perhaps all inspire us to learn and thus truly comprehend them. Being touched from listening the songs is only the beginning. Let us not refuse any longer.
Falun Gong came to save us, so why do we refuse it? Soprano Jiang Min sang, "Why Refuse,"
"My friend, do you remember?
We came as guests here, from above
Over so many lives, for whom was it we waited?
And for what have we sought amidst this haze?
Is the vow from before still inscribed in your heart?
Then why refuse, when the facts are before you?
It's true what Falun Gong has been saying
Higher lives are fulfilling their vows
What people have eagerly awaited now unfolds
The state of the divine is eternal compassion
Yet time will pass in a twinkling"
We all came from a high realm. Do we still remember our vow after thousands of years of reincarnation? Falun Gong spreading far and wide is the gods fulfilling their promise. After we have listened the songs, the deep meaning of the words in the songs could be understood only after reflecting on them again and again.
Of course, Jiang Min could touch our hearts by calling out through poignant lyrics and a personable style, but later on, if we don't let ourselves feel the gods' eternal compassion and further seek and learn the truth, perhaps we would soon again become lost in the maze of this world. Alto Yang Jiansheng sang "Compassion,"
"Do you know why I speak out the truth?
It's not to have you become like me
Much less to convert you to something
I wish only that you may see
The deception of that wicked entity
Compassion compels me to intervene
I can't bear to see you share in its fate
For the heavens have ordained the red dragon's end
I feel called to ensure your well-being"
Why are Falun Gong practitioners compassionate? Because "the heavens have ordained the red dragon's end / I feel called to ensure your well-being." If Ms. Yang Jiansheng is telling the truth, shouldn't people who have felt such compassion take quick action and find the truth?
Falun Gong practitioners have been bringing us the truth for a long time, but many have always passively refused to listen to them. "The state of the divine is eternal compassion / Yet time will pass in a twinkling." Time waits for no one. We can no longer passively listen to the truth. It is time for us to find the truth. Bai Xue compassionately urged us to do so in "Finding Truth,"
"So vast are heaven and earth;
Whither do people go?
Lost, the way is obscured;
Let truth be the compass.
When disaster descends,
It favors neither rich nor poor.
But there is a way out -
Quickly find what is true!"
The connotation of this song might be very broad and profound, but the compassion is quite obvious, which is why so many people in the audience quietly concentrated on listening to this song. Gods are compassionate, so how can we not take action?
How do we take action, then? There are principles in the songs, but they are hidden, and we need to uncover the principles through our own efforts. Why do Falun Gong practitioners persistently clarify the truth? Are they truly wronged? Why and how are they wronged? Why do they clarify the truth? Does the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners truly have to do with us? If so, how does it affect us? We must find the solutions to these questions through our efforts. We must make clear the truth why millions of Falun Gong practitioners are persecuted, the truth on the origin of human life, and the truth on the state of human life. It's our right and responsibility to find the truth.
"It's true what Falun Gong has been saying
Higher lives are fulfilling their vows
What people have eagerly awaited now unfolds"
"It's not to have you become like me
Much less to convert you to something
I wish only that you may see
The deception of that wicked entity"
"Let truth be the compass.
When disaster descends,
It favors neither rich nor poor.
But there is a way out -
Quickly find what is true!"
Dear friend! Do we really understand the sincerity, compassion and deep meaning of these lyrics?
