(Clearwisdom.net) Dozens of fellow practitioners in our city were arrested awhile ago. This resulted in huge losses to manpower in addition to significantly damaging the local environment. Some of these practitioners were veteran practitioners who had cultivated for many years, and several had been persecuted multiple times. In today’s situation where the evil is being destroyed in massive amounts, the occurrence of this loss again was really damaging. I would like to again share some of my basic understandings about why Dafa practitioners are still being persecuted. I hope this sharing can help minimize future losses.
The Clearwisdom website has published many sharing articles on the topics of negating the evils’ persecution and interference. I think that today, every veteran practitioner has developed his or her understandings, and studies the Fa more, sends righteous thought more, doesn't acknowledge the old force’s arrangements, and so on. I would like to share my understanding only from the aspect of studying the Fa. Although there could be many reasons why a practitioner is persecuted and interfered with, in my understanding, it is likely because the practitioner did not study the Fa well, thus the practitioner did not obtain the Fa (I do not acknowledge the persecution and interference, I will just discuss with fellow practitioners the aspect of individual cultivation).
We know that when we do Dafa work, as long as we have enough righteous thoughts, the persecution and interference will not happen. Then, how can we have enough righteous thoughts? In my understanding there is only one answer... that is to study the Fa. Master said,
“A Dafa disciple’s righteous thoughts stem from the Fa, and your cultivation is not a matter of how good, as a human being, your ideas are or how brilliant your approach is. Rather, your cultivation is a matter of whether you manage to have righteous thoughts in the face of challenges.” (“Be More Diligent”)
Some practitioners may say that many practitioners who are now being persecuted had spent a lot of time studying the Fa and some of them even memorized Zhuan Falun. This is indeed true. I even know some of these practitioners. However, when measured with Master’s requirements for how we should study the Fa, we will find that some of these practitioners did not meet the requirements. Master asked us to "study the Fa well and abundantly--and do so frequently" (“To the First Fa Conference in India”). I do believe that most practitioners spend a lot of time studying the Fa. However, we should really think about how we study the Fa. Did we study the Fa well and truly obtain the Fa? Did we study the Fa with a pure and concentrated mind? Did we absorb each phrase of the Fa into our minds?
Master has told us, “I have pressed into this Fa everything you are supposed to obtain.” (“Teaching the Fa at the Western U.S. Fa Conference”) We should understand how much power the Fa has. If we truly study the Fa well and obtain what we should obtain while studying, we would have adequate righteous thoughts and could not be interfered due to any strong attachments. How can we still be seriously persecuted by the evil? If all we have in mind is the Fa and righteous thoughts, our deeds will be naturally righteous and we will naturally meet the requirements of the Fa at different levels. Through my cultivation path I have come to realize that as soon as I understand the principles of the Fa, I feel my attachment suddenly weakened, and whenever I feel disturbed by my attachments, as long as I can study the Fa well, the interference will be weakened. It has been this way for many years.
Moreover, I often hear advice spread among practitioners, such as, “Let go of your attachment quickly and don’t do such things any longer, you should cultivate more diligently,” and so on. Actually, many practitioners who were being advised knew their problems and they were also worried. It was their weakness in learning the Fa that resulted in their feeling of “having more desire than energy.” (Actually it was because they did not study the Fa well and did not know how to cultivate which resulted in their inability to deal with the situation using pure righteous thoughts).
When we study the Fa, we should focus our minds and pay attention to absorbing each of the words into our minds. The results are then very obvious. This resolves the situation of not being able to study the Fa well. We all have experiences where every phrase is familiar, since we have been studying the Fa and memorizing the Fa for a long time. Often during Fa study a phase is freely spoken but is not really absorbed into our minds, or our minds wander and think about something else while we study. All these situations can hinder our studying and obtaining the Fa.
The above is some of my shallow understandings about how to study the Fa at my current state. It is only for sharing with fellow practitioners and for fellow practitioners' reference.