(Clearwidsom.net) Recently many fellow practitioners shared their experiences on Clearwisdom.net regarding how the dark minions of the old forces exerted persecution against their physical bodies and how they finally managed to eliminate them with strong righteous thoughts. Lately similar incidents also happened to some people around me. The practitioners involved were in their thirties and forties. Unfortunately they did not have the same clear-minded understanding as the practitioners mentioned above. Three of the practitioners died and the others continue to deteriorate in their health without proper enlightenment.
Practitioner A was in his forties. The authorities persecuted him in early 2000 by sending him to a forced labor camp for two years. He was later released on the basis of medical parole soon after he had symptoms of a stroke. One month after he returned home, his health became abnormal and his symptoms of sickness were intermittent. Since then, the police officers and security forces have no longer bothered to come over. Many of the local practitioners including he thought that this was the way Master protects him. Only a few practitioners were clearheaded and realized there were problems in this. His situation had an extremely negative effect on validating the Fa. When he was suffering physically, he took it as reducing karma. He could not handle the tremendous conflicts in his family, either. In the end he passed away.
Another fellow practitioner of mine, practitioner B, 37 years of age, was also released on the basis of medical parole when he was diagnosed for pulmonary tuberculosis during his detention in a forced labor camp. Since then, he had been working at a Dafa literature site to validate the Fa. However, the dark minions of the old forces had been interfering with and controlling him. First he had a lot of dreams …quot; almost every day he had dreams. Other than doing the first four exercises, he spent most of the time between dinnertime and the time for sending forth righteous thoughts at midnight talking about his dreams. After some experience sharing with another practitioner, this practitioner finally became clearheaded on this issue. However, he was unable to move a step further to uncover his own fundamental attachments and to truly understand the Fa. Instead, he immediately threw himself into his work for producing the Dafa literature. Then the dark minions of the old forces started to persecute him in various ways …quot; first making his voice husky, and now he has difficulty speaking. At this time he has even lost his voice almost completely and can't swallow any food. To some degree he still takes it as a process of reducing karma and he fails to entirely eliminate the persecution.
Perhaps there are a lot more such scenarios that I am not aware of.
The old forces used to instruct the dark minions to control the rotten demons who then persecuted Dafa disciples by means of wicked people. Now the old forces have been destroyed; the rotten demons have been mostly eliminated; the wicked people have gotten their retribution; sentient beings are awakening to the facts of the persecution and are seeking the facts about Dafa; the dark minions of the old forces are seeing themselves come to a very sad and dreadful end. However, poison is always poisonous. The dark minions of the old forces will not retreat from this historic drama by themselves.
My personal understanding is that the physical persecution against the Dafa disciples is a form of the final struggle by the dark minions of the old forces that directly persecute Dafa disciples under the vague appearance of the human world. Exploiting Dafa practitioners' blurred understandings of the Fa, the dark minions exert this persecution against the physical bodies of Dafa disciples in an unnoticeable form to interfere with the Fa-rectification and the salvation of the sentient beings. They exploit the abnormal situations among Dafa disciples to damage the Fa, to impact the understanding of many people, to interfere with and hinder the public from learning the facts, and to maintain the material field for their own presence. That is the reason why there are relatively more such cases lately.
In spite of the many stages we Dafa disciples have been through since the historic day, July 20, 1999, this new form of interference and persecution seems to offset the effect of the truth-clarification efforts by Dafa disciples. Isn't it a new stage in the process of Fa-rectification that requires us to cultivate to a higher level?
We must be clearheaded in recognizing persecution by the dark minions of the old forces. We must use our powerful righteous thoughts in the process of widely saving sentient beings to thoroughly eradicate their sabotage and interference. In the meantime, we must, in my opinion, be introspective as to the responsibility and mission we have as Dafa disciples, maintaining our starting point in the Fa-rectification, and making sure that we are truly validating the Fa from the Fa.
Of course, since the very first day of the persecution, the old forces have been persecuting Dafa disciples not only in the form of detention, forced labor camps, and jail sentences, but with whatever means they can use. Compared to the widespread persecution of detention, forced labor camps, and jail sentences, other forms of persecution are relatively not as obvious. Examples are troubles that are not supposed to occur in the workplace, unreasonable harm from the conflicts of everyday life, and the physical sufferings that are different from the regular karma-reduction process of "illness karma." We must be clearheaded that these are cases when the dark minions of the old forces are exploiting our loopholes when we don't have clear understanding of the Fa. Only by closely following the course of Fa-rectification and elevating ourselves through rational and clear minded understanding of the Fa can we get rid of them with our powerful righteous thoughts.
