In the fifth paragraph of "Towards Consummation", Master Li said:

Do you know that one of the biggest excuses the old evil forces use at present to attack Dafa is that your fundamental attachments remain buried? So in order to identify those people, the tribulations have been made more severe. If you are attached to Dafa's consistency with humans' science, they manipulate wicked human beings to spread rumors that Dafa is superstitious; if you are attached to Dafa's power to heal illness, they manipulate the wicked human beings to spread rumors that Dafa forbids people to take medicine and that this has led to 1,400 deaths; even if you say that Dafa isn't involved in politics, they have wicked human beings spread rumors that Dafa and Li Hongzhi have foreign political forces behind them, and so forth; if you say that Dafa collects no fees, they say that Master has sought to accumulate wealth through corrupt means. Whatever you are attached to, they have evil elements concoct rumors in that regard. Even if you are afraid that Dafa is being undermined, they fabricate articles allegedly written by Master. Think about it, everyone: The enormous test at present is to see how Dafa fares and how students conduct themselves in Master's absence. How could Master speak out? How could I again tell you what to do? Furthermore, they manipulate wicked human beings to examine Dafa and its disciples in every detail, giving them a comprehensive and thorough test that targets all human intentions and attachments. Were you truly able to discard those fundamental human attachments in your cultivation practice, these last trials and tribulations wouldn't have been so vicious.
My understanding of these words is that it is precisely because we have these attachments that there are these groundless accusations to disintegrate our pure conviction in the Dafa. Because these attachments are the weak points in our hearts, the groundless allegations aim directly at these weak points. Haven't some practitioners believed that because we went to Zhongnanhai and the Congress of the United States to reveal the truth about how practitioners were persecuted in China, we were involved in politics and deviating from Dafa? Think about it carefully; in Zhuan Falun, Master Li said, "It is a Xinxing issue if you do not help stop a murder or a fire when you see it. How will you otherwise demonstrate that you are a good person? If you do not help stop a murder or arson, in what else will you get involved?" Isn't slandering Dafa more serious than murder or arson? Didn't those practitioners, whose illnesses could not be cured because of their attachments to curing diseases, stop practicing because of these groundless accusations? Some practitioners, attached to the fact that Dafa is free of charge, stopped practicing because of the groundless accusations that Master Li has collected money through corrupt means. Think about it in another way: which book in the world has touched our souls like this? Which book has led us to discover the path to return to our original true selves? What if all the wealth and rank in the world were given to Master Li? Is he interested in such things? Some practitioners are attached to science. If scientific methods were not able to prove Dafa's supernormal principles, would that also cause you to leave Dafa? Because some practitioners were attached to the fear that Dafa will be sabotaged, fake articles were produced. However, in "Forgone Conclusion", Master Li said, " Dafa can rectify the universe, so it naturally has the power to repress evil, put right disorder, perfect and harmonize all things, and remain invincible." In "Fixity of the Fa", Master Li wrote: "I tell you that, with the exception of those several books of mine that have been formally published, plus my signed and dated short articles which have been distributed to different parts of the country by the Research Society, all that has been rearranged without permission is disrupting the Fa."

I feel Master Li's benevolent compassion from this article. He has once again given us an opportunity to find our fundamental attachments, and to step forward from the midst of our attachments. The faster we eliminate our attachments, the quicker we can step forward from these trials and tribulations together. At the same time, I also realized the importance of reading Master Li's books. Only by understanding the Fa from within Fa can we step out of the confusion and distinguish between good and evil.

Category: Journeys of Cultivation